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  10. Posted

    @Leo Gura 

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    The ego experiences some mystical stuff and then clings to it to create a spiritual ego. Ego then seeks to monopolize God for itself, going as far as proclaiming itself to be the only source of truth in the world and necessary for the world's salvation. This is how many cults leaders operate. It's a kind of spiritual narccisism. God is corrupted by conflating it with the ego's survival agenda. 

    How can we avoid it on our own spiritual path?

    How did you avoid it? If you did.

  12. Posted

    @Staples

    28 minutes ago, Staples said:

    You need to make it your job to get good, simple as that. Do something else as a hobby or go all in.

    But I can't just change jobs at the moment. In your experience, how much progress can be made in Blender for example by investing a couple of hours every week, in a year?

    I might consider changing my career from software development to this, or somehow integrate the two, or keep the software career and develop 3D skills on my free time, and maybe create some kind of YouTube videos as part of that. 

  14. Posted

    @Leo Gura Yes, the same in software development.

    Check this out, GitHub just made a tool that can create and deploy some simple apps out of sentences. And this is the trend that the industry seems to be going towards. But the stuff I work at my job, it's impossible to make serious software like that out of a mere sentence typing to some AI model. But these models surely help us to build more quality stuff more quickly.

    But now the issue is for the beginners in this industry. When I was a beginner and applying for a junior developer job (7-8 years ago), the situation was much simpler, and the bar was not as high as it is today. You have to know a lot more stuff as a junior software developer today than you needed to know 8 years ago (due to AI and also the advancement of technologies, more nuanced differences have been made in the industry and technologies).

    But as I said, I always wanted to build 3D movies with music beautiful visuals, and storytelling. However, I hesitate because the time I need to spend on learning all the technologies required to do that is the time that I won't spend on my current career and industry, which is also changing very rapidly. 

  15. Posted

    @Leo Gura

    4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

     

    • Delusions and fantasies, mental unhingement
    • A psychological addiction to escapism
    • Physical injury
    • Ruining your relationships, saying things to people you shouldn't say
    • Disillusionment with material life

    If you are in a more genuine state from which you do those things (if you are), doesn't that make them more true in some sense?

    So the situation here is that we don't want to do these things because we care about survival, and the survival force is so great that it just doesn't disappear after a trip, but during tripping you lose care for survival (temporarily).

  16. Posted

    @Leo Gura Have you seen image / text-to-video AI models, like Sora?

    How do you think video AI models will change the animation and visual arts industry? I am a software developer who wanted to also learn 3D and animation and music, to make movies like this:

    This is done mostly by a single person (script, animation, modeling, music). 

    When I imagine making something like this, I get very excited. The same excitement doesn't come from imagining building software, as I do now.

    But I hesitate to start seriously learning the technologies required to do short movies like this because I'm not certain if investing my time in this will be competitive with AI stuff.

    However, I think the correct way of thinking is how we should integrate AI models into our workflow. 

  18. Posted

    @Leo Gura 

    8 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Deep tripping will unleash energies within you which you never even knew you had. All self-restraint and common sense will fly out the window. You won't be able to confine yourself to your bed or a room. You can get dangerous ideas and then act on them without your normal sober caution and better judgment. For example, you might get the idea to stab yourself in the eye with a pencil, just because.

    Have you done something like that? Not stabbing yourself, but something that you would never do sober.

  22. Posted

    @Leo Gura

    6 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    It's hard for me to tell whether people find the blog useful or even know it exists.

    Doesn't software have insights on statistics? Like visits, clicks, engagement, etc. 

    For me it's very useful and interesting, it's been like that for years. I have a habit of checking it a couple of times a week and most of the time find the content really interesting.

    Keep it going.