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Check out Jamie Wheal, he's basically doing exactly that, and he's a pretty cool and intelligent guy as well. This guy is also doing a similar thing.

I agree, and I love what John Vervaeke has done to that end, but to study western philosophy in such depths (actually reading Heidegger, Hegel, Wittgenstein etc.) you have to be at least slightly masochistic and psychopathic. Just read Bertrand Russells "History of Western Philosophy" and you will get the gist of it (unironically).

I get not wanting to rank bands, but that is a meaningless argument.

That's not at all what I was saying. The strawman is acting like veganism will save the world. I respect people that consciously choose to reduce animal harm and I was a vegan myself at one point, but I think it's a pretty big red hering at the end of the day.

Good shit. I really have to do a deep dive into Zappa's discography, I've barely scratched the surface so far. That sounds pretty fucking sweet

I kinda agree, but I find relying on others interpretations highly problematic for obvious reasons. If you really want to understand these guys, you basically have to understand all of philosophy and it's history; so go do that, or don't even bother wasting your time on this. Understanding Heidegger will not add anything to your life other than the intrinsic joy you get out of it.

This is such a big can of worms. The biggest problem is framing it in such a narrow way ("eating animals is cruel"). Basically our whole modern lifestyle is exploiting the environment. If you really care, think about how buying new clothes, ordering a book, agriculture, building giant city's etc. etc. impact the environment. Even a walk through the forest will mean death to uncountable insects and simple multicellular organisms etc. Surviving is killing - do it with dignity and redeem the dead by living a great life (as a vegan or omnivore or whatever is most in service of your highest values).

@Carl-Richard One of my all time favorites, in case you don't know that one yet.

"Sex, Ecology, Spirituality" should drive the point home quite well.

You really know your guitarists, huh? Thanks for the insights

Interesting. So improvisation and developing ideas on the fly is important it seems. I had thought of Zappa as a virtuoso, but he's a huge nerd and carefully writes all his music, so that's probably why he's not on your list. But Hendrix is pretty much improvising all his stuff, as far as I'm aware. What's your take on him?

Yeah, same, but my own taste is mostly congruent with that I would say (which is kinda sad actually, but also probably inevitable if you go meta enough).

Yeah, that's a tricky one. I think to me it's what's most closely approaching "Creativity," but that doesn't really define much I'm afraid. It's somehow self-evident, but I have no idea how to really define it.

I have no idea about technical abilities, but as far as most enjoyable guitar players go, mine would be Jimi Hendrix Frank Zappa David Gilmour Jimmy Page Eric Clapton

Nice. Not the biggest Metallica fan, but I also had them in mind.

Yeah, I feel you. If someone was holding a gun to my head though, this would be my top 5.

I don't think becoming like David Goggins is living up to your potential, but I also don't know you and your story, so take it for what it's worth.

I respect your hustle, but I don't think this is a healthy attitude. If you go down that road long enough you will become David Goggins and if you take it even further, you will become like that monk that set himself on fire, just to prove that suffering is an illusion. Why do you feel the need to torture yourself so much? I ask that genuinely.

Ok, I see, I was just wondering where you know those German words from.

I see your point, but I don't see why it shouldn't be able to infer and fake things like emotions from sufficient training data. You can get some pretty insane complexity from the simplest algorithms. Just look at the Mandelbrot set for example.

What you are seeing is not the cutting-edge of AI, I hope you realise this.

This one is pure bliss. I will have to disagree that AI could never create this. I think it easily could and it probably can already.

How did you come up with that name lol? (Freiheit Werden= Freedom Becoming)

He's really cool. I just watched his TOE interview yesterday, and I have gained a lot of admiration for him. He might be the only person on earth to have read Carl Jung's Works three times - absolute mad lad.