Natasha Tori Maru

Are you still as satisfied with your work without the problem solving aspect (or it taking a lesser role)? I ask because this would kill my work ethic (if I didn't have to perform creative problem solving with tight sets of constraints). I am lucky that in construction - every single project is totally different. And there are many ways to skin a cat, as they say. So I constantly learn and really stretch my ability to the limit - challenging myself to lower costs, shorten time, find better, safer methods etc. I sort of turn into a self-sabotaging malcontent when I am not challenged.

@AION Sweet, then I consider the statement disinformation and not grounded in any sort of fact, evidence or reality (maybe just your own). Cheers for clarifying.

Snap snap then! Give us a long video - degustation menu style. The users need a new spiritual thirst trap

I consider this you taking back the original statement.

?????? You did say it - it's fine to take it back or simply reply it wasn't what you meant.

@bazera Cheers for your thoughts! I think it is about how the tool is used, and less about AI itself. But it makes me reflect on how the mind needs to be used regularly as skill we learn do degrade without use. Similar to what pervasive AI use is revealing about our education system - critical thinking was fucked to begin with, to a large extent. AI use in the education system just revealed the cracks, issues and weaknesses already present; it was never about understanding, and always about a "pass".

Anything will do, other than you making up stuff randomly to try to push disinformation narratives. A study, some research, some sort of consensus that illustrates psychedelics always causing damage to good structures of of the brain.

You are making shit up to support your argument. Present some evidence that psychedelics always destroy good structures of the brain, please.

@bazera Do you think it is necessary to learn coding from scratch prior to being able to check and understand what AI generates? Do you feel there is use to still practicing coding in this way, as a method of retaining the skill? Interested in the redundancy factor and how that effects cognition, skill and ability. And if these can atrophy with disuse.

When I ask myself the question, I like to push it into a reframe. I invert it to "What did I gain?" It allows me to connect to the negativity around loss. Grief comes up - and the negative charge I felt is discovered to have wallpapered over the true feeling. Grieving is then allowed, and processed. Connected with. The feeling then abates naturally. And I feel peace. I suppose the connection to the feeling is the same Goodness as the Goodness that flourishes from the connection to God. The connection to Self. The Knowing of Self. The Loving of Self. Connection is the ultimate Goodness!!

The Cost of Understanding Why was there a cost for you? If one has nothing to prove, true listening, true understanding, naturally happens. Don't you think? Do you feel you had to give something up that was unwillingly given? Why is there pain / fear here for you? After all, this is where the "negativity" arises from. Where did you first feel the pain of this cost? And has this been connected with, so it is not echoing through the work again and again?

I think you would need telepathy for that! (in the context of knowing what you or I believe, as it applied to this dialogue) But I would add it to the brainstorm list, indeed. I can brainstorm some problematic methods of knowing... confabulating, hallucinating, overclaiming, rationalising, self-deception, projection... mind-reading. I often think about which version of 'knowing' a user might be invoking in their comments or arguments.

@AerisVahnEphelia Exactly. Are you: Inferring? Deducting? Inducting? Extrapolating? Estimating? Predicting? Maybe it is less rigorous. Guessing, speculating, assuming, presuming, intuiting, believing, expecting. Or maybe you are using a cognitive shortcut? A heuristic. Maybe pattern matching. Analogy reasoning. Or you could simply be confabulating. Regardless - you don't know. So I wouldn't make the claim, if I were you. But only because it stands on the spindly legs of a foal newly born

You think you are knowing?

@AerisVahnEphelia You don't know what I believe.

Men also carry the energy women seek

Deriving a substantial portion of your identity from anything outside yourself is a good recipe for low self esteem. And looksmaxxing can easily slide down this path. It can (and does, often) play into the powerlessness one can feel in a chaotic, uncertain, unpredictable external world (largely the state of society) - and attempts to find a mechanism of control to alleviate the anxiety (excessive preening and weird metrics for attractiveness). It can also be another form of obsessive status hierarchy one can try to master when they do not have any other value skillset. There is nuance in what users are saying here; no one is saying looks don't matter. The critique is toward looksmaxxing as a psychological framework, not the act of improving ones appearance.

I don't see a problem with it. Sometimes we need to realise we are, were, or can be, simply friends. I enjoy reconnecting with my exes to explore my own emotional responses through a previous connection. My own responses often surprise me - and are a good indicator for my own growth, and what I want going forward. The change in emotional response to a familiar situation can often be great feedback indicators for growth. Negative responses aren't bad. Bad feelings aren't bad. They pass. Fearing them or avoiding them IS bad. So even if there is some consternation, you learn something. Even if it is simply "I don't want that person in my life anymore, and I have no regrets". Most times I simply have warm feelings, well wishes, and no real incentive to maintain connection.

Yes - but my comment is more to do with the excessive and diverting emotionally charged language, intonation and tone. I find it difficult to receive the message.

@Butters The current expansion? I am pretty much retired from the game now. I get more pleasure & satisfaction from work, fitness and banal life tasks now. Funnily enough. I make it fun

I wish there was a full on breakdown in-depth interview that went into Blizzards history (and the Activision merge). Jeff Kaplan goes into how turd operations and marketing people eat the soul of good game designers and creators, and guts out a business. I really enjoy interviews with the guys behind Blizzard (I am a huge Chris Metzen fangirl huehue). NGL I hate Lex Friedman

@MarkKol Maybe I'm thinking of contraindications - and nothing I can quote or supply as to build a case. Just some literature I recall. I am naturally hesitant to use drugs for pleasure, or wantonly. Especially when they are not designed for what they are being used for.

I think Red Pill is negative in that it presents disempowerment through loss of agency - "It is what it is, I have no control" are some foregone conclusions many reach. If a worldview repeatedly attributes outcomes mostly to forces outside our control IE biology, female hypergamy, genetics, height, race, social media, feminism, modern culture... it can shift attention away from what you can influence. At the end of the say - what is one REALLY getting from the ideology? How useful is it to the individual? I think this is why some aspects of PUA are overall more empowering, in general (some parts are not so good though). 'Tis like NLP reframing that one HAS control to influence outcomes.

I confess I have not enjoyed, and even actively disliked, Leo's posts and video's regarding science (especially as of late). The repeated rhetoric, the absence of substantially new arguments, and the consistent way the subject punctuates his work, suggests an emotional core / motivation rather than any attempt at true education. I get the impression there is affront, slight and offence taken that science does not take Leo's work seriously, and I feel this is the true impulse behind statements like "I am not done with science". Well, science appears to be done with Leo - which may be the problem. The tone is sour. The passion reads as inciting emotional contagion in the listener, rather than appealing to logic. Just how it comes across to me. Emotions are fine. Great even. But they can corrupt logic and critical thinking if we are not truly connected to ourselves. Connected in understanding. And wisdom. Emotional connection / integration is a huge gap in the body of Leo's work - and I see this in his followers. Whether the above inference is correct or not, I find myself perceiving less a sustained, logically structured critique and more a series of emotionally charged rants . Even intonation and expression when Leo records himself on this subject act to steer me to my conclusion.

What I wrote has nothing to do with whether I understood your point or not.