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I don't know what his agenda is. I haven't read through the entire thread. He doesn't seem to be so interested in pursuing truth, seems mostly interested in denigrating other people or maybe trolling others on the forum. I am not sure what I would do with this kind of speech if I were running this forum. It possesses at least some element of hate and it is harmful, but it is mostly off point. At best, OP is an above average IQ nerd because a person with character wouldn't want to say these things.

In my opinion it is better to label people's discrete actions or attitudes as something undesirable rather than the entire person. All, or nearly all, people are capable of change and improvement. I need to give up swearing too but it's not on the top of my priority list. I am still too frustrated and it provides stress relief and satisfaction!

I think a more interesting discussion is in which ways IQ is not a good measurement of human potential or more holistic intelligence. It tells us something but it really isn't nearly as important as many people belief. It is very important for some technical fields (I guess StEM - science, tech, engineering, math) but Richard Feynmann was a groundbreaking physicist that won the Nobel Prize and only measured at about 125 IQ.

Yes I do consider him to be a musical genius but he has been behaving in a very monstrous way and this isn't his first embarrassing episode. Many geniuses, but certainly not all, have mental instability. I don't think I would put him anywhere near Beethoven though. Beethoven's music is still very highly regarded 250 years after his passing. Do you think Kanye's music will be popular or resonate in the year 2300?

I think eventually, and it may take a really long time, there will be enough wealth on this planet to support all humans to live minimalist lives with basic social services and not have to work. Over time the 'poverty line' will be raised though so poorer people in the future will be living much better than many today. Poverty is a social construct although suffering caused by deficiency is not.

Kanye is very high consciousness in some regards but has a ton of things about him that are unintegrated, basic aspects of his ego. His instability often results in him wildly swinging from high to low aspects of consciousness. Racism and egomania and even attachment to religious dogma are clearly first tier qualities but a lot of his music is very transcendent.

What is the point that you are trying to make here exactly and why do you feel it is important to make it?

this conversation is similar to whether or not men and women are biologically identical. obviously not. the issue is whether you are highlighting those differences to heal and empower, exploit and abuse, or just try to understand the nature of things from a more objective framework.

Who cares? If you compare any two groups of people, however arbitrarily defined, you will find group A has a genetic/cultural edge in some ways over group B and a relative weakness in others having good or bad genes doesn't make any human life intrinsically more valuable than another the reason why any person might want to label themselves as superior to another or another as inferior to them would stem from insecurity and one's own deficient self esteem

this is great. i previously requested a video on special and general relativity. time of course is a huge aspect of that.

I think it is useful but has a lot of problems and limitations to it A lot of it seems like BS. It is supposedly based on measured galvanic skin resistance levels in humans to determine where you are on the scale - i have no idea how that truly works - but then you can somehow apply it to non-physical things like text on a page or meditation techniques or people that you have never met in person i've learned from the concept and map and model but there are a lot of problems with it which i find to be totally unnecessary

What I meant was what kind of developmental forces shape and create a person like Andrew tate? What would it take for somebody like him to evolve and care about more than just getting women and fame and money? Is he a psychopath? Was this all from maladaptive parenting that he experienced? there's a real deficit of male role models in today's culture that people like Jordan Peterson and Andrew tate are filling the vacuum. as imperfect as both of them are, they are very imperfectly filling an desperately unmet need.

How does somebody become like Andrew tate? Both of the brothers lionize their father even though he cheated on their mother and got a divorce and he supposedly never had much money to financially support them. i guess he doesn't have so much respect for women if his father was kind of a degenerate but i wouldn't have expected this outcome from that.

Do any of these videos have transcripts anywhere? Youtube has built in transcript function but the formatting is so bad that it isn't particularly useful. Some of the topics I would prefer to read/skim through in 30 min to an hour in case I am interested but would like to find highlights.

i think the OP's criticism is valid and i generally respect and admire leo's self awareness and commitment to continual improvement while i am not at this point yet myself, i think as i progress along my journey, there may be a point where i am impartial to both the intelligent and stupid, the wise and the foolish, sinners and saints, and the conscious and unconscious leo seems to have a preference for the former and his ability to assess the difference is far stronger than it is for the vast majority of humans, but the latter exist in an imperfect world i am not at the point where i think the world or universe is 'perfect' bc there is so much that i don't like in it and would like to change, but i'm looking to very precisely figure out what i can and can't change and in what order it must be done i also sense a bit of a recurring bias in favor of elites in leo's work which is a bit simplistic bc many elites are really fucking crooked while many poor ppl can be quite virtuous and noble and a true victim of their circumstances - really depends on a case by case basis, I'm not sure if i feel that one group tends to be better than the other

there is an optimal amount of govt interference and handouts and it is neither too large nor zero if you have too many safety regulations and procedures, you can actually undermine safety having too large of a government might make it less efficient, effective, and more vulnerable to corruption i am somewhat of a govt minimalist, certainly not a libertarian or anarchist, and believe that government should be made as small as possible but no smaller, and have built in mechanisms to prune natural overgrowth that will inevitably occur over time - like a self maintaining bonsai tree

Business can be corrupting and oppressive, esp for artistic and creative pursuits I worked for other ppl's businesses for abt a decade to learn the skills i needed to go out and do my own thing and reduce risk for me

You can reprocess old painful memories by learning a lesson abt them and what you would do differently you experienced the same challenge in the future. Once you consciously have a better adaptation to the same problem, the unconscious and emotional pain tends to dissipate. Easier to do for some memories versus others.

I would be interested in this too but would maybe be fine w 30 min on each one

I thought the two part series on quantum mechanics was a great look at the world beneath the veneer of materialism. Would love to see a similar thing about relativistic nature of energy, mass, space, and time. there was some brief discussion in the series on relativism but I'm especially interested in the physics and not the sociological or psychological or moral forms of relativism

What's easy or hard is a personal thing But far fewer ppl can successfully run a 100k person corporation than can successfully bail hay

How do you observe thoughts to create space between them and yourself? For the past two years, I have been observing and seeking to understand my emotions and it is easier to recognize them because you can physically feel them? How do you know when you are thinking? What is a thought and what forms can it come in? I am always thinking and I enjoy thinking but I am a bit curious to better understand the structure of how thoughts work now to get to that observer-witness state.

How do these two irreconcilable concepts exist at the base of both Buddhist and Hindu thought respectively? What is so great abt the concept of the non-self? Is it the same as unitive consciousness? Regardless of whatever cosmic realization you have where you feel unified with everything. I am and presumably will always have a localized sensory experience of qualia nested in my bodymind. Everything is connected and causally dependent on one another but that seems like just a perspective and has nothing to do with living a good life or freeing yourself from suffering IMO.

Why do people say that your body doesn't exist if your sense organs (eyes, skin, nose, tongue) are perceiving and translating stimuli in your environment into a subjective phenomenal experience?

How does this realization differ from what most people consider to be enlightenment? Is it the same thing?