Happy Lizard

Genuine question: Is getting familier and understanding dark aspects of society a part of this work now? With Leo’s recent blog posts and the recent booklist update, I feel like there is a turn towards this direction, which wasn’t very much the focus in the past. I just wonder what you have to use for search terms to get these results.

Showing off with high end Luxury brands, Gucci, Louis Vuitton Versace etc Some of the designs themselves are good, way overpriced but good. Its the showing off thats the source of conformity. Edit: overpricing is conformity conformity feedback loop.

Sure but then you end up like telling a kid that sex exist, which is not the right way either. I think people will get hooked if you say you experienced what buddha experienced and beyond, or that it helped you be peaceful and made you make sense of many things in the life, I have no doubt that this is the case for you but you seldom talk about these things that you might think are minor or talk in this fashion in general. You could be just wrong that people will crave the intellectual stuff you say on its own. I think people will be more moved by how they would feel about your work and they could stick to do the work then afterwards.

@Leo Gura if you know that people would not compute the ultimate realizations you’ve had why not just talk about what makes it beautiful for you? Wouldn’t that be a more direct way to talk about these realizations?

Knowing Leo he will probably start with the corruption of video games, which is nice, but I hope he also does the corruptions of some type of thing that we rarely think about. Because the bad qualities of some of these on the list show very fast after a while. Its the hidden and the unknowns that blind sides us.

@Leo Gura he has tried 5-meo though and he often in his books do interview as many diverse opinions as possible. I don’t think he will have the depth you have but its a very good effort as an intro to your kind of topics, especially given how consciousness is often not talked about from a psychedelic lens.

@Leo Gura about the Art blog post, are you pointing out the fame-cult aspect of the art-world? Because that is different form the art itself and it’s value. Even though people blindly worship some of these artists and the price tags on these paintings are overblown, they were actually very skilled and original for there time.

@Leo Gura Regarding your blog post about Islam, I wonder if you know of a good source to learn about Islam form a high perspective view.

Saying or typing “lol”

Cant we get semi-frequent success and dating content on the blog for the us who follow actualized content for personal success? I enjoy the philosophy and see it’s value as years pass, and if I’m motivated to understand these complex topics now, then I think my general appreciation of it will sky rocket if I can only meet some personal success criteria. I think a lot who follow actualized will agree with with me on this.

Wedding rings. Dedication at the beginning of books.

Currently on ep 45 of AFTMC, almost done with part one of metarationalism.com and wont watch the new episode until I finish it. You are too pessimistic with these percentages @Leo Gura Life is uncertain. probabilities don’t work!

“Coffee is conformity, bitch!”

I think English is a bad choice in the context of this argument. I meant to say I learned English as a second language and realized that I could have learned any other language and would have probably been able to see the world from a totally different perspective. But still there is a good case for why learning English is a great thing after all. Same as visiting some trendy places or buying some kind of shoes based on an expert recommendation, plus other things that you can temporarily confirm to until you realize another alternative. The problem with conformity is when it turns to blind conformity that is unquestionable and also because it weakens one's ability to think freely and discover a better alternative or even the possibility of that existing. What I'm ultimately saying is that if not enough context is given you sacrifice shifting the focus form the middle of the road way of thinking about these things, which is probably at the end what you meant to begin with.

@Leo Gura My idea is that there has to be a middle of the road kind of position to some of what can be labeled as conformity, for example using English as the most common language to communicate is conformity, but then you have to start somewhere to solve the problem before you can chose not to conform. Thats why I said what I think you are pointing at is more abstractly the function of how each thing in the list becomes a buzz that people follow blindly and then it becomes a given, not the validity of the thing itself.

@Leo Gura I can see where each of the example you gave about green health kinda makes sense, except for demonization of sugar, do you mean to point at the function of just how everything on the list became a buzz thing that people started to accept without any thinking? Because thats the common denominator between all the things you list that I can see. conformity is thinking or taking action blindly based on buzz without reflecting on the belief in solitude, away form outside influences. That’s my contemplation of what conformity is.

When you say attractive you mean just physically attractive or personality charisma attractive etc as well? Because this is confusing me when thinking about your content on dating and developing one’s game if it just boils down to “women sleep with hot men”. I don’t mean to say you were confusing, I just mean its not clear to me where the intersection is between what you say about dating and my experience and observation of women that you mentioned in this post. I do agree that no woman choose a monk over a celebrity or good looking dude btw that’s obvious to me.

@integral how likely is it that the military will rebel against the president in case Trump violated the constitution and wanted to remain for a 3rd term? Under which type of event can the military show loyalty to the constitution vs Trump?

I haven’t been able to find the urine test that Leo shows in the video. All I can find on amazon is hair test, which is not vey reliable.

I've been trying to get into understanding business (how to think, find ideas and start a business) however I can find no straightforward business books that teach you about starting and generating business ideas, most books assume you already have an idea or are half way through process. What about a book that educate about business or how to start ? I have some of the books on Leo's booklist and have read the E myth book, yet these books assume you have at least tried your hands with one or two businesses already, are there any books you know of that talk about the fundamentals ?

“The cult of the flying Nigerian prince”

@Leo Gura Great last quote about AI! I just feel like it’s so obvious but they keep throwing fuel to that fire hoping it will somehow become eternal. Even Matt Kahn out of all people is now thinking AI is conscious in his last book; It just came out, didn’t read it yet, but just the fact that they put an image of an AI model as an avatar on the book and called it one of the authors weirds me out

I’m not a Marc Gaffni fan but I have listened to some of his talks about meaning and value, and I think it struck me as truth. However I will say that when Oct 7 happened and I saw how he dismissed Palestinian lives as if it’s not equal in value to Israelis I could tell that he was full of shit, at least when push comes to shove. The issue with seeing the corruption of people is that it sortof start to become hard to listen to their better ideas. Still we all have to keep are wits about us and be careful to not fall for fakes.

@Leo Gura I don’t have enough knowledge on this topic to put a strong argument for it, but what if reaching the truth for women is different form men? For example I heard a spiritual teacher say that a male sits in a cave and can reach enlightenment while a women connects deeply with the world and thats what her path to enlightenment is, which is very hard and requires much more freedom than sitting in cave.

@Rafael Thundercat @Leo Gura isn’t that like saying defending your own country is unconscious behavior? Sure not loosening your defense of your worldview when there are better informations can be unconscious but the quote doesn’t seem to allow for that nuance.