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  1. Posted

    1 minute ago, Rigel said:

    Anything that is fed trough algorithm is appealing to the lowest part of your psyche. Only allow search bar queries. That goes for YouTube as well. There’s great stuff out there but they ain’t recommending it to you.

    but how? With youtube there are extensions. I am only seeing my subscriptions for example. With reddit there is no such thing.

  3. Posted

    I find reddit really helpful sometimes because you can get practical help on almost any question you have: exercise, technology, growing mushrooms, whatever.

    However, it has also a ton of garbage and I always end up consuming some of it even I go there with good intentions. And it's also very easy to get distracted and to just start doom scrolling through posts.

    Due to its usefulness, I am hesitant to delete my account and to get rid of it completely. But I also find it very hard to be disciplined enough to use it responsibly.

    Any tips?

  5. Posted

    7 hours ago, Bobby_2021 said:

    Already addressed that here. 

    But why do you think western companie go on to abuse workers there and not in the west? Because they love western people so much and are just racist? No, its because western societies are more developed and have higher standards of worker rights. A random company can't just come along and sart working people death 16 hours a day for 1 dollar. 

    3rd world societies allow for those companies to come along and abuse thei people like that. Becuase that's already what they standards are. Do you think they local company operate differently? They do the same thing. Apple or whoever is just renting some spots in factories that are owned locally and that also host a lot of local businesses.

  6. Posted

    @Leo Gura @Joshe I think you are talking about different things.

    Leo is trying to explain it from the point of developing a better understanding of reality. As in: how come Musk became one of thr most influential people in the world and is now standing innthe white house if he is such an idiot like leftists claim.

    And Joshe is talking about it from the perspective of looking at the Musk as a role model, saying that he personally doesn't care about all the guts and intellect if there is no integrity.

    5 hours ago, Joshe said:

    Maybe you should ask yourself the question, what does that mean to you? What is significant about that, that he risked everything on SpaceX? 

    Leo is not saying that Musk is his personal role model. He is just saying having enough courage to make power moves like this is very rare and allows you to advabce very far in life. It doesn't matfer what your personal opinion about it is, it is just how real world functions.

    *as far as I understand.

  7. Posted

    I've watched Leo's video on high vs low perspectives and his point of general lack of education really stuck with me.

    I've passed school with okay grades, but I truly don't feel like I took away that much from it. I've just studied to pass all the tests and exams, never bothering to study just to develop a good understanding of each subject, even on a basic school level.

    I've been thinking about going back and studying all of it with Khan Academy and maybe some other resources that I will find. 

    But would I be just wasting my time doing that at this point in life?

  8. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    But it's important to keep the materialist perspective of value in the back of your mind because material survival conditions run the world.

    The real answer here is to distinguish where Musk is doing good and where he is doing bad. Making tech like cars and rockets is good. Corrupt politics, egotism, corrupting Twitter, dancing with Nazis is bad.

    I see.

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    1 minute ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

    Would EuroMaidan have happened at all if it weren't for the CIA? Was it completely an astroturf movement by the CIA and NGOs, or completely natural and by the Ukrainian people? We don't know.

    Would it have happened if our former president wasn't an incompetent idiot who decided to bounce the moment things got sketchy? You know that nobody actually threw him away out of the office and hanged, right? He actually made his own decision to run away, leaving a country without leadership for several months, lol.

    Even if CIA or whoever else was involved, you can't say that they have overthrown the government.

  10. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    But you have to weigh those 10 babies against the 100 lives saved by Tesla auto-pilot or auto-breaking, or lives save from less pollution on the roads, or Ukrainian lives saved in the war from Starlink internet.

    So I don't need to judge those babies because it's like an algebra equations, it cancels out.

    How do we approach this in terms of practical actions though. How much bullshit should we tolerate from people like Musk just because they bring a lot of value to the world?

    Should we ignore the damage he is doing to the media landscape with twitter? Should we let the nazi salutes slide?

    Is it actually okay for him to kill 10 babies because of the other lives he saved? Should we tolerate it as long as he "keeps up the great work" in general?

     

  12. Posted

    Just now, Leo Gura said:

    This is not an argument you want to make because it will apply to any human who did anything important or valuable.

    What if Leo had never existed? Some other guy would take his place.

    You can't hold that view consistently.

    But it is kind of the case for the most people, in my opinion. 

    Very few people, like you for example, are genuinely very unique and can offer unique insights about the world. But I wouldn't put billionaire CEOs in that same category. 

    And maybe it's not my place to make that kind of judgement, but then it's also not your place to judge the value of those 10 babies. Who knows what kind of value they could potentially provide to the world.

  13. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    He's rich for a reason. He provides a lot of material value to people. Don't forget that.

     

    Not saying that this is necessarily the case with Elon, but how hard is it really to keep growing your wealth if you are already very rich to begin with? You could probably provide nothing in terms of actual value and still keep getting richer and richer.

    7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Elon could murder 10 babies tomorrow on stage, and he would still have provided more net value to the world and to American society than anyone on this forum. That's the mindfuck of it that leftists do not comprehend.

    How much of it really is true and how much of it is just stage orange fantasy about being this visionary individual entrepreneur, with life purpose, and changing the world for the better. 

    What would happen if Elon never existed? Wouldn't there just be some other billionaire guy running all those companies. Or other companies doing the same thing?

    How much worse off would the world be if Elon was never born?

  20. Posted

    I tried to explain to a person why things are not a simple as "there are just two genders" because it seemed to me like they were genuinely asking. It just amazes me how people sometimes decide to just completely shut down and remain ignorant by choice. 

    It's like those robots from the TV show "Westworld" who were programmed to ignore certain things in order to keep believing that they are real people living in the real world. You could show them some object from the actual real world and they would just completely tune it out.

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  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    Human minds do it too, but the difference is the insane scale and monopolization and rapacious greed of these AI companies. Their whole existence is based on data theft and recombination for profit. It's theft on a giga-factory scale.

    57 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    My biggest problem with it is the shamelessly greedy and morally bankrupt people who run these companies and the insane monopolization they all seek, all under the fig leaf of bettering mankind.

    I totally agree with that point of view. 

    Is there a world where you would be fine with the whole thing as long as companies would behave in a more conscious and ethical way? How would that look like in terms of actually running an AI company? Aside from external regulations.

     

    46 minutes ago, Vynce said:

    But having a solid psychoanalytical talk with a chatbot, that used some random data scrap from the internet, is a pretty good conversion for me.

    Isn't that kind of sad and depressing? What's next? Are we going to have AI tell bed time stories to our children and generate love messages to our partners?

    I can't imagine having AI replace my coach or making myself take talking to it seriously, like it's an actual real person. 

    Please don't take this personally. I mean this as a general point not a judgement of you.