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I reflected on what you said since yesterday, and I realized that even through the most materialistic paradigm I can say that I'm the universe including whatever substrate it may be originating from, and the universe has to be equally causeless and infinite. I say this from the perspective of trying to look both ways in this street. Did I create reality or did reality create me? It's so obvious that it's all equally the same everywhere we look. I'm existence itself. Existence has to be infinite, because my consciousness is infinite. This sounds ridiculous to a materialist, but they don't get... We are talking about existence itself, the very fact of anything existing at all is the most ridiculous and bat shit crazy thing to begin with. Reducing the importance of something existing at all, it has to be causeless infinity. If I trace my origins even within this universe we reach the big bang or another theory, and behind that we can have yet more and more... Doesn't it seem familiar? THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE ITSELF MIRRORS MY OWN MONKEY BRAIN CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ITS ABILITY TO BE INFINITE, or the other way around, the universe imbues into me that ability, either way it's the same exact existence, any distinctions are byproducts of minds like ours trying to make sense of things, the universe is not made by little discreet pieces and every attempt at finding indivisible units failed towards fuzzy unmeasurable quantum properties that propagates up the ladder of scale. We look at the beginning cause, we see infinity. We look at our consciousness and it's infinite in it's capabilities of taking in any object in, only limited by our physical brain not letting it in. The brain is just limiting infinity and constraining it. Sense making is just constraining this infinity into specific stories, narratives, streams of more mental events. Even the role of this physical universe, it's to create the shared constraints that we have as humans, so we can have distinctions inside of it so we have something to talk about, something to create with, something to seek, something and someone to be. Crazy enough, I keep arriving at those same answers no matter where I look. Inside of myself, on physics, on philosophy, on religion, in "spirituality", in logic, in the core premises of mathematics, in my animal desires, in the limits of my consciousness and how I can't perceive beyond the literal walls of my room and I have to imagine beyond it based on my world knowledge, and how those are just small mind moments happening at a given millisecond and vanishes until I think of something else. But I haven't seen yet that it's all actually infinite, my mind can only see distinctions, it can't see infinite because it's just nothing and nothing is always replaced by something the moment you try to catch it. Therefore it's all just the same no matter what direction we look from the confines of consciousness, it's all infinity everywhere we look, even if it required us to go higher and higher to some unknown substrate, that substrate has to be at least equally infinite. "The Cosmos is within us. We are made of start-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." - Carl Sagan

She's doing Leo Gura-level analysis here: s-tier spiritual content. Her point: consciousness and the story-building overlay on top of it are separate. It doesn't matter what metaphysics you hold, as long as you're not the materialist criticizing the finger pointing at the moon, or the blind believer staring at the finger thinking it's the moon. Personally, I'm agnostic about "mind over matter" vs. "matter over mind," as well as Leo's "you're God dreaming yourself." I see the physical universe generating my consciousness, and my consciousness generating the idea of a physical universe, as equally valid co-arising aspects. I don't know if they co-arise, if one is primary, or if the question is malformed. This is close to Pyrrhonian epoché or Kant's phenomenon/noumenon split; I'm not claiming novelty. And does holding any position here actually change moment-to-moment experience or ethics? If not, why do idealists and materialists fight so hard? The stakes seem mostly tribal. It's impossible to ascertain the nature of consciousness *from within* consciousness, because it can generate infinite layers of stories. The substrate, whatever it is, can never pierce through to prove itself as the absolute bottom, because any such "proof" would only arise as more thoughts, objects, and experiences. These are simply more figments of consciousness. Any attempt to perceive outside is mediated by the very same mind doing the looking. So I don't take Leo's word on faith that I'm God imagining the universe. The mind/brain is stuck inside whatever this universe or substrate is, and my view of that universe/substrate is stuck inside this mind/brain. (I use "mind," "brain," "universe," and "substrate" flippantly; they're concepts arising within the very field I'm trying to describe. The whole argument is built with tools that can't escape the problem. That's a hard limit of language, not a defect of the argument.) By the same logic, a hardcore materialist can't bend my words toward the primacy of the physical universe either. The mind is stuck in itself and can't perceive outside itself. By "physical universe" I mean the whole bundle: theories, brains, common sense, all of it. The situation might as well be: 1) A computer simulation 2) A Boltzmann brain, which is a mind that popped out of quantum vacuum fluctuations in an empty timeless universe 3) A dog struck by lightning, in whose mind arose the exact thoughts I'm having this millisecond, including the sense of time and self 4) A boundless, all-permissive god carving distinctions 5) An empty void where everything is built from axiomatic truths upward into a cohesive cosmos with emergent phenomena: the big bang, the multiverse, or whichever fad theory is current Even these skeptical hypotheses are made of concepts arising in consciousness. Anticipated objection: "But you look both ways before crossing the street; therefore, you functionally believe in physical reality." Sure. Functional engagement with appearances isn't a metaphysical commitment about their substrate. You can navigate the dream without claiming to know what generates it. What remains after all this uncertainty? The bare fact of experiencing-now, without commitment to what it is or what produces it. That's the floor. The materialist-vs-spiritualist problem gets dissolved by people who see the spiritual point without collapsing into blind belief. The moment it turns into dogma, even for "intellectually advanced" Christians who claim they don't hold blind belief because of some technicality (Jesus existed, resurrection is historical) but then in the same breath push specific doctrine, that is the failure mode. Same shape, different flag.

I see marketing as a tool just like looking at financial market charts. It's just part of business, can't get around that shit. Who the hell says the love looking at charts? It's an acquired technical taste. But think about this, even if you're a saint, you want to have effective marketing to run a non-profit business and do the biggest impact if you need cash to run it. Even the pope needs good marketing, specially him with all of the scandals... Well, that was a bad example. 😂 Good marketing is an extension of selling people a vision. I think what makes marketing so trashy is that to get the most effective responses from most people they react to trash. If it was possible to get billions of people to become more spiritually aware that would be god-levels of marketing. Major religions tried to do it, or at least tell they us that they did, take the challenge yourself if you wish lol.

Bonjour! J'espère que ça va s'améliorer! 😊 lol. I'm a guy and dating is basically just talking to new people. I'm thinking of charging to teach English to some chicks that I've been talking to, actually, trying to teach English to them was a way of them getting to know me... But I don't want necessarily to be making my money like that, it's just that I wanted to do in my area that I'm self-taught, but unfortunately those two things are unrelated, the best work I can get would be online and to american/european markets because it pays better, and dating has to be people that at least lives in my own country, obviously right now because I'm broke, it has to literally be in my city. So it's not exactly optimized. For context, I'm a heterosexual male lol. For dating her looks and personality matter the most and her personal interests or industry is not my concern, for making money it could be an old dude and I'd gladly network with him if it's the direction I want to go. Funnily enough, one chick once used to help me financially several years ago, and she was from asia, I'm from latin america. But she did more harm than good, because she behaved bipolar... So if you mix dating with monetary necessity, you could end up putting up with some shitty people, and breaking up with them might cause you problems if you don't navigate this well. I don't like mixing the two, unless we are coming in as equals and we are both getting a goal deal and I could break up without being a burden to me. I think it's useful when you're dating somebody that can share similar goals and mindset together. I'm currently talking to somebody that we have been having some great conversations about professional life, spirituality and emotional stuff. It's nice, I think she would be a good gf that would be positive to my professional life, even if she can't directly help me.

Let this video serve as a proof of concept, of course, the first I ever seen right now had to be some idiot youtuber. He genuinely could have gotten fucked by that machete, or the broken glass. And thankfully, the weapon was fake or unloaded. Can you see how that thing can't even stand on its own if it spilled some food, and how it could easily pick up a baby and swing her around? Even if this was tele-operated by a human and not running an AI model beyond just the chat, it's very concerning, can you see the robot is actually able to run after an adult person with a fucking machete on its hands, and point a gun to somebody and pull a trigger if it had a mechanism for it?

😆😆😆 This guy is roasting how AI won't shut up and keep giving generic answers.

Yes. Marx would be horrified of what happened in his name if he was alive today. He had his blind spots that he later criticized himself, like the 10-Point Plan (from the Manifesto). But I think what we try to critiquize Marx for is merely what was done with his ideas by power hungry pigs, like usual. Max Weber did later do analysis on his blind spots, how Marx deconstruction left a power vacuum, and how he didn't speak enough about people's development, and the role of the state that is above the capitalists at all times and tries to milk from him. Somehow up to this day it's not part of the public knowledge or the memes this kind of nuanced view of what the solutions to society are, and that's also part of the reason why things are shitty. But somehow Marx also knew that we he couldn't just write some simple recipe for the problems, but the little that he did about it, specially about abolition of private property was just a silly solution. (which I don't understand exactly how he intended) Somehow he also knew the problems that we would face alongside his ideas, and perhaps he would backtrack on many of his ideas or clarify things further if he knew what happened. The legitimacy over the use of physical force is mostly solved in modern democracies (it's the govt), but when it comes to capital things are still evolving... To deconstruct it perfectly, it means to rebuild something better, it's not just the material condition conditions, but it's the political, intellectual, social conditions of that society as well, such as Switzerland vs USA. That`s obvious, that's what Max Weber goes deep into. Not that deep or special, obviously. That's the work that Leo Gura is teaching. Marx just seemed too caught up with capitalism, because when he saw it it was at the peak of that brutal early industrialization of society where people were worked like semi-slaves, and didn't give much voice to the other parts of power dynamics, but that's not excuse for the atrocities and modern day ignorance of his works, it's not like we didn't have equally insightful people writing on the solutions based on history that happened in real time after his death. Progressive taxation, including the billionaires is definitely in one of his old lists of things to do, and we didn't get to that part yet. Modern govts changed to the better because of his works to adapt to him, but specially in the fear of communist takeover. The major risk is when people are given good compromises by the govt and the capital elites, and the elites are given good compromises by the govt, but the govt and mega corporations are still taking too much... Marx thought that there would be some kind of orgasmic moment of revolution, but that only happens if we are backed on the corner too hard, and even then, dictatorships can decide to just butcher people militarily, but that is bad for the capital elites, they don't want govt created instability. So in some way, the capitalists, paradoxically, are some kind of stabilizing force, but just because of this centuries long dialectic between the govt, the people and the capital elites.

Yeah. That was one of the major contributions of Marx. He was a great analysist of capitalism like this, but shitty at giving advice of good alternatives. All things considered he died in 1883, he didn't get to see his influence on society.

I've been also questioning if I need to necessary be the one providing the service or owning a product, if finding the clients and closing sales is already hard, might as well just focus on that, because flow state is definitely not cheap and I'm sure if it's so easy to me mentally switching between client acquisition and delivery of the service, and even choosing what service to provide and not getting stuck with essentially just a glorified job. My goal is to eventually actually scale things. But right now what I need is at least some 100-200 dollars per month so I don't have to get some minimum wage job at something generic that is not even related to those areas. I'm in a low living cost country living with my parents. If somebody paid me 200 bucks per month to code for them all month, I'd do it. Because even though the pay wouldn't be that great just basically a minimum wage job around here, at least I'm getting paid to improve a skills that I can use career-wise. Or maybe getting paid to getting trained on doing that kind of guerrilha sales, specially for selling software/services along the lines of what I said above. Because then I can get paid to improve those on skills.

Is doing generic WordPress-like web service setups for professionals and small businesses still worth it? What about setting up LLM chatbots? But what if the client is stupid, and he has less than 10 page visits per month, and what they actually need the most are more leads? What I mean specifically... Is the combination of the marketing/client acquisition process alongside what kind of specific service you provide. Obviously, there are somethings that are very hard and complex to do and naturally demand a premium, but I suppose it's hard to find clients to sell it to, like very custom full stack or mobile/desktop apps with native code. I don't have a design/programming portfolio yet, but I did many automation projects for myself, and other ideas that I didn't execute to completion because of being concerned that project would be unnecessarily complicated. I don't feel much passion for wanting to do basic website setups, but that's at least something that can be done in a reasonable amount of time and with no crazy unknowns. I'm open to hearing your experience on it. I didn't do any freelancing in those areas yet, and I'm open to hearing how you did it, what portfolio pieces, or the testimonials you collected, or how you built some proof of work or excellence of any kind, and how you got yourself your clients. I want something that I can that would allow me to get paid as I improve my skills, I'm too perfectionist, and I get stuck when I'm not seeing money coming about the feasibility or necessity of that skill that I might not even be relevant for a real project. I don't have a degree per say in computer science, but I know my way around, and I'd know what I need to learn. Like I can identify what design patterns or algorithms, the different performance and pricing and complexity considerations, that I might need for something but I don't have real world experience with getting paid yet in that area. I'm also open to getting into just marketing/sales if that is more profitable than coding. I prefer a complete project execution than just the UI/UX design aspect because I'm a wannabe entrepreneur and I like at least imagining how a whole well-polished software product should behave and how it would be executed. I'm just kinda lost about how the real world markets operate right now and that is stifling my skills, because I'm very pragmatic-minded when I'm learning. Obviously, I'm proficient in english, and I know how to communicate well. I have a good acumen in software, design and marketing lingo. But I have no real-world experience yet.

Damn. I clicked on the link now, I misread it. 😂 I saw the the Discourse GUI right now. It looks like stack overflow. It seems alright. But migration will be a pain unless it handles it out of the box without issues. Like post formatting and permissions (i.e. users like deleting their old posts sometimes). This has to be tested properly. And features like bookmarking other user's comments, I use that often. Another useful feature would be when someone is quoted, it doesn't simply copy the text like it does here, but the user still has permission to delete the content even after quoted on it. It's important specially because we speak about sensitive topics, sometimes people want to delete old content for privacy purposes.

I feel like the Discord UI is so mindless, it's not this post-based paradigm, but huge chat dumps and at best channels. It will destroy the post-based way we communicate, it will become just a huge dump even if creating multiple channels. Also the forum would be under the rules of discord. Unless Leo Gura self-hosts some discord GUI.

But yeah, the formatting sucks, it's this internal Microsoft Word-style formatting but somehow when I paste rich text content it just stripes it away and I have to use the internal tool to reformat, and I wish it had markdown formatting. So strange. Somehow I never had those bugs on google chrome and firefox on windows. I never used it on mobile. It always saves my typing progress, even right now when answering to your comment I tried to refresh the page to see if it kept it, I just had to re-click replay on your comment and my draft comment was still there saved. But the global database bug taking down the whole forum I guess is something that everyone connecting faces when it happens. I noticed that Leo Gura enabled image compression for upload recently, I remember a post of people posting huge uncompressed PNG files, I thought it was strange it had no compression, I compress my images before uploading just in case. Or maybe I'm mistaken and that was always there.