BlueOak

Because most experts don't have the faintest idea about consciousness.

AI is the data people give it. When an AI gets honest with you, and you get past all the window dressing it will tell you so. There is no subjective consciousness in an AI. If people put data into an AI for it to be aggressive, it'll be aggressive. But that's PEOPLE doing it. So will an AI independently of its own volition, do anything? No. Can people harm themselves with an AI, yes. They can use AI as a weapon and are. They will use it for fraud and are. They will use to heal people and are. They will use it to teach and are. Like when nanites or light is fully harnessed as a technology, or steel and gunpowder was before it.

Time does seem to speed up as you get older, not the tasks you hate of course :D. You deal with it by planning and small goals towards big plans. Being grateful for being alive and what you have. Getting outside and appreciating your life. Realising a few friends in a room enjoying life together is worth more than anything else in the world, except maybe the partner you share it with if you are lucky enough to have him/her with you. All the best.

Thank you all for the help in a concerning time. I'll post if anything changes, or if there is any major update.

Obviously, I am seeking medical attention on this, getting pinching, and inflammation around my heart and also nearby it. I did an ECG, blood tests etc, but I am still waiting on the appointment for the hospital, been a few days. It is constant but low, with occasionally more activity. If you've come across any general tips in this scenario i'd like to hear them. I am still running, and I'm not feeling it more, which is a good sign, but I am when I am sleeping. If I lay on the right side, my usual side I feel it more, and usually wake up. On the back, I will still have trouble falling asleep but I do eventually. So I want to say it's 'probably' not a heart attack, but something is wrong, and I did have one night where i woke up in some distress with a lot of heat across my heart and a strong sensation. I did wonder if that was a heart attack, but I wasn't short of breath or feeling in significant pain (maybe a 3 or 4/10) so I waited it out. I've been cutting back on anything causing gas as I am getting a lot, which could be related. I am burping a lot more than usual. Other than that, I've been intensively meditating on the area to try and ease it which seems to help slightly. I've been trying to take off my weight, it's still high, so that battle continues. I don't know if I have diabetes, but I am testing for it now. For a bit more of an idea it is like someone is pressing their finger down lightly most of the day, with an unusual warmth around the area.

@Michael569 Since I started this sound healing and I've removed myself from someone particularly stressful, taken out bread/cereal, tried to add more exercise etc. I've gone from 137/91 Pulse 75 to 127/80 pulse 61 today. For the first time in over two weeks, I've been able to sleep and then go back to sleep for an hour. I still feel it a bit, the light press that I originally noticed. I'll see if I get a good night tonight, I've not had two full nights in a row since it started, mostly it's been 4 hour nights give or take, with a few with no sleep. That was the original thing I went to the doctors about, not the heart, she brought that up. At first, the area became very sore when I started these videos, especially when raising my arm, I considered it to be healing. Which I took as a good sign as some of the pinching and pressure lessened. I do notice it when I put on a more dramatic genre to write to, that it feels more clenched there, the same with sleeping on the right. @Yimpa Yeah I'll drop them off after Easter.

Yes she switched as a grifter, but in 2020 as far as I recall, she hadn't made that jump yet. Here is the source again if anyone misses it in my walls of text: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020

They can be different scopes, but when put in the context of the political compass, this is how they come out. I understand if this were framed as being relative, I'd be less prone to respond. It did occur to me to bring it up, but this is decades of aggravation, practically it comes out that when I talk about 'the left' I am having a completely different conversation to an American, which is not helpful to have that level of disparity in communication. From the American political perspective, I can see the post in context with a few strange anomalies. From actually being left or right in a scope beyond just America it's way off. There is almost no American political left, there is a center-right party and a far-right party. For the information, that's the site quote, for the 2020 election. I will say from what I saw Gabbard hadn't shown her colors yet, which were either extremely translucent and whatever made her money, or a straight lie.

Here you go for people who are skimming the thread, America's 2020 election political compass. 2024 will be done toward the end.

@Hardkill I know there is more of your country and, to a lesser extent mine, pro-genocide. Not democratic voters, but the country as a whole. Not disputing that, the countries are almost fascist. Just like if there is some terrorist incident in America, Israel or England as a result my response will be oh, well you supported/committed genocide so what did you/we expect, consideration for human life? A bit like the Russian club, I was sitting there thinking, why is this news again after two years of Russia bombing a civilian population in Ukraine? Sorry I looked at the video for a while, but I can't stand that man. Usually, his takes are simplistic and at face value. Its a genuine flaw of mine that I need depth, certainty/understanding, and I realize not everyone speaks like that. It's more convenient, so nobody challenges it. I understand that and accept that. That's how the left has become the weak ineffective thing it is today. Convenience. Its also why the world follows along right-wing think tanks that are leading us to a burned-up planet and perpetual war. Which the democrats mostly embrace also as they are on the right. There are a variety of ways Biden could reduce the power of a single lobby. I imagine its done already for certain groups trying to form together. It certainly is for any third party trying to form, and then people say 'oh its the system', well yeah, that is the point. If America wanted to, it could create a system where a single group of people don't have you in a chokehold over policies. The trouble is Biden wants to be in that chokehold because he agrees with it, and so does a significant percentage of the population. So is it a choke hold, or is that just window dressing to make you all feel good for backing genocide? BTW this is still probably electoral suicide among his own voters, and yeah another push past the center-right for the Democrats. If you look at the political compass your country falls way past center: Here is the 2020 reading https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020 Now we can see why genocide is not only tolerated but supported, by a true reflection of where your country and mine if you search around on the left bar there, fall on the political compass. The entire world has shifted to the right, a great distance. I wonder where the next reading will be, off the scale?

If you are asking me, hate breeds hate. - Look in the mirror, you are considering a hateful act because of how he treated another. So what happens next in this pattern? Which part of you, do you want to experience or magnify? We talked about the thief, the good Samaritan, the bystander, and a few other options.

If you are the designated driver on nights out everyone will love to have you there. For your own enjoyment, pick some music you like and a place you'd visit sober anyway. Put your energy into finding out where the best nights are, bands are playing, or DJ, whatever your, and your girlfriend's tastes are. Something with the best feel to the place, and environment. You can get some of that from pictures of the place, reviews, and just listening to samples of who is playing. You could find a specific night that travels to different places you'd like to visit, for one example of a fairly consistent good night out. If you are having a good time, it'll probably come across to her too, and that'll make the date better for both of you.

@Nivsch At the moment, I run twice a week 2 miles a time, and I walk most other days between 1-2 miles, unless the ankles need me to stay home, but its fairly consistent. I would aim for three days running, but I can't yet with my legs. @Thought Art Appreciate this thanks, I haven't done Taoist exercises for a lot of years, so I'll have a look.

@QVx How I blew all my relationships, jobs, careers and opportunities in 20's and 30's. Everything is down to a relationship, or how we relate to that part of ourselves when we experience it. One part depression. - Fight (Anger turned inward) One part avoidance. - Flight One part cowardice. - Freeze Standard trauma responses.

@Michael569 Thanks to the hospital not calling me last week, and easter break no. They said call on the 29th if they hadn't contacted me but that's easter Friday. I do have pinching in and around the heart. I have warmth over the heart. Soreness there. I have sleep issues and constant light pressure there. The chart does say I am in hypertension stage 1 or 2 for blood pressure but i'll need more readings to be sure. What threw me off was while running, and exercising, it didn't noticeably exaggerate.

Thanks for the questions and ideas. I had a blood test for diabetes and B12 that I requested, and I am still waiting on the results. I could see vitamin D being low as I am inside a lot, I have been walking more recently alongside my runs when my ankles are fit enough. Being a few stone overweight I have to balance my exercise, I dropped weightlifting entirely to lose enough weight (muscle) to run twice a week and walk when my ankles are fit for it. Its fairly clean air here so its a nice walk. Financially, I am in a major squeeze. I have been trying to make my diet work, I did have to go to bread for a long time as it was filling for the price but since the heart issues i've dropped it and cereal (and oatmilk and garlic so far to lessen any burping or gas). I do use rice as its cheap. I have come off coffee, even though right now with my sleep problems, I need a cup. I am a vegan so I don't eat eggs or dairy. I can't afford to buy organic produce at the moment. I used to eat a lot more nuts, now probably I have some every 2-3 days for protein and oils. I don't have any bleeding in the gums my teeth have always been looked after well, I do have a sore gum issue on the leftside jaw in my mouth from when my jaw unlocked doing yoga, I didn't realise for years it was locked on the left side from an old accident as a kid, but again its money to afford getting it checked. Last year, the way I got through my last bout of sleep problems was to overeat carbs during the day to keep focused. This year I can't do that, with my heart issue. Last blood pressure reading today was 137/91 - 75 and 137/86 68. So just reading the chart I can see https://www.verywellhealth.com/average-blood-pressure-by-age-5085328 Some hyper tension there. Stage 1 or 2, which explains why these videos are helping, and I offer it again for anyone else with heart tension issues (which is a self diagnosis for now), as you can feel the results even if its a bit sore at the time. Thanks for the words, all the best.

1) Israel having that much influence over your country is not at all healthy and should be stopped right now. 2) Stopping weapons shipments takes 5 seconds. 3) What am I doing? I am not the president of the United states. If you are insinuating I have some power over the American government overseas and I am not using it, by all means let me know and I'll go and do it. This is a strawman deflection, and you know it. 4) Nobody mentioned Trump. Another strawman in this conversation. - I am specifically speaking about: A) Your analysis of the political spectrum is skewed a long way from the actual political spectrum. B) Your annoyance with people name-calling a man with the most power in the face of this genocide is frankly mind-boggling. Now we can add to it: Stopping weapon shipments and leveraging power over a small country that relies on you to survive, does not take a long time. Biden is extremely pro-Israel and okay with what is going on; otherwise, this wouldn't be happening with American support. If you need me to say Trump is too for your election, yes, politically, your entire country is pro-genocide. (And so is mine)

Any relationship based on healing, mutual or not, is going to be over when you're done healing. In your dark time you wanted a friend, you got one and because she showed you love when you needed it and I'm guessing nobody else was, maybe you fell in love with her. Learn to love yourself first and foremost, whatever you hate about yourself or what happened to you or your life, stop. Stop feeding that cycle, stop being hard on yourself, and don't look to fill the void inside yourself with someone else. Friends can be great, partners can be wonderful, but you've got to get right with yourself. 10 Years at 40, it's fine. 10 Years at 17, no walk away now, be honest with her about why, be the adult. I've always thought age becomes less meaningful the older you are, as the relative time you've had on this earth gets closer together. So if this was you at 40 asking about a 30-year-old old I'd say go for it, at 30 she's old enough to know what she wants, to know life, and to be mature enough to make informed decisions. At teen ages, she's not going to have the life experience to be mature, the context for her choices, or any understanding of herself or what she wants out of life. You aren't yet fully mature either, from my experience with myself and others, most of us do a lot of maturing during our 20's. In this case, you have to be the adult and put a stop to it. - Plus outside of the physicality of it all, and feeling good to be loved, what are you going to have in common to really bond over? I dated a 28-year-old while being 20 for example, she lied about her age at first, which I forgave her for, I was too young to consider it odd and I was happy just getting laid (and as a student with her cooking). It was purely physical and didn't last. We didn't connect beyond that initial attraction, which lasted 6 good months, but that was it. I was a messed up guy at 20, so she showed me affection, and I took that without questioning it. Whatever you've been through to put you in your dark moods, people here can help. Love and look after yourself.

The real question to ask yourself in that situation is, why spend so much time and energy toward hating on someone else? Sounds like you made it a real project and invested a lot of energy into it. I mean that sincerely as a way to grow, and to make it a useful experience overall, no matter where life takes you next.

Sorry I am double replying, I just caught this. You want certainty to have uncertainty and be spontaneous? Why not go straight to being spontaneous if that's what you want? Do you mean you want certainty in life so you have freedom to do things while being secure? You can't schedule spontaneity. I am a person who craves certainty myself, often at the expense of actually living life or experiencing it. Example: I was stuck in a town for 4 hours. I often talk about wanting to socialize more, I was in a store where a group activity was going on that I wanted to try, but rather than think about just asking to join, I asked the owner if I could have a card and book an appointment to join another time I was out that way. My need for certainty and to have things arranged wrecked my chance of actually experiencing what I wanted. (Story of my life). The worst part was I didn't think about what i'd just done till I was on the way home.

@Abe27 Doesn't have to be deep focus, emotional, or any intellectual thing you can think about, name, label etc. Walking down the road, just to walk down the road, just for the experience. For me that's the end mastery of anything, there is nothing left but the experience itself, and one way to start seeking or reach enlightenment.

I didn't get an appointment with the hospital, they told me to call today if they had not got in contact and it is good friday , so no calls till Tuesday. Even the urgent care line the receptionist put me in contact with wasn't running, hope nobody needs it :D. So i've been really careful with what I eat and I've been doing a lot of sound healing. I took it as an opportunity to do what I could to heal myself. *Wish I had some of that new light therapy to hand! Probably the most effective has been these two: I can really feel the effects on the central nerve as I type this. In case they help someone else, here are some others I used:

Sure. I'd focus on finding out, and put energy and effort into that. Personality tests can help but, I could list a hundred things, they'd just be words on a page. The experience of them is and knowing yourself is what it's about. It could be the opposite of your personality, which you are seeking to experience. It could be a journey of self-discovery itself, or enlightenment. From your words though, it's certainty you are talking about. I need to get this covered, make sure this is ready etc. Here are two speakers on that: https://tealswan.com/resources/articles/relationships-and-the-six-human-needs https://www.tonyrobbins.com/mind-meaning/do-you-need-to-feel-significant/ Here is one of the main tests at the moment to start you off. https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

Its difficult to put enlightenment into words, as it crosses so many diverse experiences and topics related to our existence here. Mastering a craft, you'll find love or appreciation for the experience, or having had the experiences, and you'll start to see yourself even if you don't realize it at the time. At some point unnecessary things fall away, and you are not doing it for any other reason than to do it, you are fully in that moment.

@Hardkill Rhetoric means nothing without action. Calling Joe Biden Genocide Joe means about as much, it's the very least someone can do, for these radical far leftists that you are listing here. If that is the radical far left? What's an organized socialist party, an anarchist commune, or a thousand-man street protest that won't move till their demands are met and they are willing to risk prison for it? Where does that fit on the scale here? And don't tell me it's alongside Secular talk, Kyle is interesting when he's not overly moralizing, but he's not anywhere near a far-left radical socialist in his policies. No action is being taken to stop the genocide or real pressure exerted to do so. So no change will happen. It'll be done when Israel decides its done. America is nowhere near the center-left. It's closer to fascist than it is leftwing. Note it's not fascist, it's just closer. Remember a government is both parties or all parties involved in the process of it, representing the people, but even the Democrats alone are center-right. Themes of Fascism (And your two parties embrace of them) Anti-communism (Both) Anti-intellectualism (Republican) Anti-Pacifism (Both) Authoritarianism (Both taking steps here to avoid debates, silencing dissent where possible) Corporatism (Both) Conspiracism (Republican Mostly) Chauvinism (Republican) Class collaboration (Both) Cult of personality (Republican) Dictatorship (Neither) Direct action (Republican) Dirigisme (Neither) Eugenics (Neither) Heroic Capitalism (Both) Heroic realism (Republican) Imperialism (Both) Indoctrination (Both) Interventionism (Both) Irrationalism (At this point Both) Machismo/Heroic Masculinity (Republican) Militarism (Both) National syndicalism (Republican) Nationalism (Both) One-party state (Neither) Perpetual war (Both though both deny it) Populism (Republican) Proletarian nation (Some not much) Racism (Not touching this one) Reactionary Modernism (Republican) Social Darwinism (Both) Social order (Both) State capitalism (Neither) Statolatry (Both given its corporations running things and their idolization) Supercapitalism (America is in its heroic capitalism still, mostly) Syncretic politics (Democrat) Third Position (Neither) Totalitarianism (Some of this in how your political system crushes anything but two parties) Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_and_ideology Is this screaming center left for you then? Oh and if you are wondering, most of the far-left accounts were purged ten years ago and haven't been platformed since. Anyone that does hold a radical far-left view you'll never find on youtube, unless they can word things exceptionally well and someone gives you a link not buried in the algorithm. Michael Brooks was one such man.