Sincerity

Very nice. Great work! Looking forward to hearing more from you. I don't think much about pride but I'm very content with life overall, so I could say I'm proud of the journey that's been taking place and of myself. Grateful too.

To me, it’s a brilliant character study. That’s what I love it for. The slow 5-season arc Walter goes through is believable. It doesn’t appear out of nowhere either, there’s good context for Breaking Bad events - Walter’s history with Gretchen and Gray Matter, for example, or Jimmy’s story with Better Call Saul. In a cliche way, you could say there was always a bit of Heisenberg in Walter, just not actualized. Heisenberg is egotism.

Yup!

A new game "Mewgenics" by Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glale released last month. It's a turn-based tactical RPG and breeding simulation roguelike. Anyone's been playing it? It's such an amazingly creative and well thought out game. I've played it a lot since it released. Danger: it's addicting. The soundtrack is very catchy and absolutely ridiculous. After playing this game you'll be humming to yourself about eating rats.

Damn. You mac users must have it rough in terms of gaming. 😅 I’m on Linux (Mint) and thanks to Proton, most games I want to play run smoothly on Steam.

Yup. You need to be really strategic in this game.

Incredible.

Journal for posting random sources / insights that aren’t big enough to put in any of my main journals. Still, this is stuff I want to express.

You are God.

Videos, graphics, books, quotes and other stuff. Things that resonated with me and inspired greater wisdom and understanding.

I can and I do 😈

Tangible changes are approaching. Moving elsewhere at the end of April. Will no longer have a daily companion in the form of my ex. Going on a 1-day trip to another city on Sunday. Rent prices are low there. I've been expressing my views more on the forum lately. I'm happy with that. I had a surge of energy in the last days to do things in my life. I did quite a lot. Now I feel lower energy since yesterday evening. I'm fine either way.

Hey y'all This is going to be my new journal on my new account. I left the old acc because I didn't like my username. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Sincerity and I'm from Poland. [image removed] ^ This is me! I'm currently ??? years old. I'm admittedly young but I hope you can see me beyond my age, for what I am I've been on this forum for more than 3 years and until now I've (kinda) held my identity a secret. But lately I've had some realizations in regard to expressing myself more honestly and yeah. Here I am, being more open with you. Now you have a slightly better idea of who's behind the account. (Edit: Ironic haha. But it has to be this way. Everything ends.) I've been on the spiritual path for roughly 4-5 years now and I feel like I've had much progress. I definitely have many insights to share. But I'm still pretty much a beginner and I'm on the journey along with you. Try to keep up, because I feel like I'm growing pretty fast (this year has been insane for me so far, seriously!) I've been mulling over my important values for years and this is where I stand right now: I am primarily about goodness. I am about love. I am about bliss, wisdom, appreciation, responsibility, sincerity, curiosity, discipline and humility. I also really value humor and laughter. You might notice I'm often tongue-in-cheek in my posts I don't like posting very frequently and I'm still not sure what I will even be posting here but tell you what, it's going to come from a place of sincerity Love and have a great day ❤️

Lol. 😆 Maybe. Or maybe not. We don’t know. His students could be reached out to and asked.

I think he has too much baggage with politics now. He’s not that popular or liked anymore.

I think these fools like Mr. Beast or Jake Paul might try to run sometime, but they’d never get past the primary. I hope so. I really have a disgust reaction when thinking about them.

Here's another AI-related idea. Leo mentioned in his Traps for Online Content Creators blog post how reading all the positive and negative feedback corrupts the mind, and that the feedback you get is extremely noisy, biased, and low quality. Youtube creators should have the option to get an AI summary of feedback from comments under a video. This would make it so that if a creator wanted, they could only read the impersonal summarized feedback, instead of having to read through every biased personal comment, positive or negative, to get a sense of how they're doing. It'd be nice if the creator could also query the AI deeper about some aspects of the feedback, whatever is of interest to them. @Leo Gura What do you think?

I think moderation of social media platforms (and eg. a forum) is something AI would easily cover. A level of human oversight would still be needed, of course. But basically 80% of moderation work could be handed over to AI and perhaps it'd do its job even better. For those familiar with agentic AI: an AI agent "Social Media Moderator" could be created with detailed instructions and attached guideline documents on what to moderate and to what degree. A trigger event for this agent could be a post report, for example. How it could work on this forum: when someone reports another user's post, that post is run through the AI agent that determines whether there is any action needed. If there is, then the AI agent can perform the appropriate actions - hide the post, shoot the user a message, warn the user, perhaps give them a posting restriction. This is all doable with the right tools and software. But then there would still be a level of human oversight that could override AI decisions. This would all require iterative feedback, of course. The agent would have to be adjusted across a span of time to finally find the golden middle and moderate the space in a desirable way. Also, there's a lot of technicalities that would need adjusting - since agent calls could be abused and be costly, there'd have to be rules like "posts older than 1 week can't be reported" or "if an user reports a few posts in a row that weren't guideline-breaking, the user can't report posts for a given time". I'm just presenting it as an interesting idea. Just another thing that can reasonably be delegated to AI. LMK your thoughts, I think this could be an interesting discussion.

@Scholar Might respond to you later. I have a few points in my head but I'm too tired to lay them out. Haha. Possibly

@Carl-Richard Okay. I’m done with the topic - thanks again.

Thanks! Well, I think in the majority of true emergencies the rescued would be aligned in will with the rescuer, so still unimposing. Let’s say that someone starts jaywalking on a red light while I’m next to them waiting for the light to switch, and suddenly I grab them by their shirt and pull them back forcefully because a car would run them over in a second which they didn’t see. That’s still „unimposing” love to me, because we’re assuming that the person’s deepest will is to live. So we’re aligned in will. On the other hand, there’s also the possibility that eg. an overprotective parent will see a choice his teenager wants to make in their life as a „grave danger” to them („an emergency”), and forcefully try to stop the teenager from making it. In this case, there’s high chance that the love would be imposing. Judgement is tricky, isn’t it? I think challenging is still done best from an unimposing love. When there’s imposing, the other side is more likely to close off even more. Yeah, it’s all complex. Love matters are not for the faint of mind!

I think I agree. A powerful thing for (some) parents to realize - that they never really loved their child, they just „cared” about it. That is, loved them only in the limited way they could. I guess with love, I have a standard of it embedded in my definition. Which I acknowledge might be not correct on one hand. But on the other hand, there’s something true about that. Keep in mind, everything I was saying was mostly in reference to your statement „My wish for Leo to go to therapy is out of love”. In my replies, I was pointing to my belief that this is „imposing love” - meaning that you think you know what’s best for someone. Also, since the word „imposing” can be understood in different ways (and I should have cleared this up earlier), I’d like to propose a distinction between soft vs hard imposing. In short, hard imposing would be you applying pressure on someone to do the thing you think is best. And soft imposing is even thinking that you know what’s best. All this to say, I’m not saying you were hard imposing. But when you say „my wish for him to do the thing is out of love”, I see that as soft imposing. So still imposing. In my honest feedback with my friend, after he described his situation and I felt like I more or less understand it, I’d say something like: „Given the circumstances that you have, personally I’d go to therapy. But I acknowledge that I don’t have the full picture, and also this is your path, so the „advice” might not be valid”. I mean, first and foremost, notice that you don’t really know Leo, you don’t know his circumstances. Also, in the exchange with the friend, the assumption is that the friend is interested in advice. But okay, you’re already saying you don’t know what’s best. So nevermind. This whole thing might be about minutiae at this point. 😆 I was just saying that I think „imposing love” fundamentally lacks respect in general. Even if it’s soft imposing. But again, nevermind. I think we basically cleared up everything. Thanks for the discussion - we went on a tangent, but it was interesting.

Hahahahaha. Brilliant exchanges. I’m Jar Jar Binks. 💀

@Leo Gura You’re on fire with these essay-like blog posts these last days! Thanks for them