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Leftists may feel strongly about their ideals but many of their ideas tend to not be organically derived, but derived via osmosis and group think. Which is even more true for conservatives. Coming off as authentic doesn't mean your not being influenced by one's relative zeitgeist in an unconscious fashion. Or another way of phrasing, their diagnosis may be derived organically, but their solutions tend to be less original because politics is hard and very complicated and they may not be interested in questioning their beliefs. Centrists on the other hand tend to be more pragmatic and think in terms of cold hard facts.

They look like raiders from Fallout.

It's much more fun and mentally challenging to go dipping in a lake than cold showers. Jumping into a lake with friends can be a load of fun. I prefer exercise for creating a good rush myself, but that can get a little routine at times.

This is blatantly false. Access to porn correlates with a measurable decrease in sex crime.

Such a system is fundamentally capitalist and not the other way around, which is the point.

@Molaric What are your strengths?

Genuinely. I'm exhausted by the discourse surrounding Russia's actions. It's baffling the positions people hold. I'm not sure if they are genuinely pro Russia or just really anti-western.

I find AI effective at phrasing things in a succinct way. That is so far it's most useful aspect to me. I give it an idea and it'll phrase it much better. You can't really trust it to be truthful, so that's what ends up being it's prime use in my opinion. It's also pretty good for funnies.

Why? AI needs you and other people's content to work. It can't make original or high quality work.

What are your thoughts on truffles? I've taken truffles a couple of times, but I was too immature at the time to really use them to their true potential at the time. I don't experience with a breath of different psychedelics, but truffles feel like a simple psychedelic that enhances your ability to contemplate deeply with little faff.

Isn't there a danger of people hurting themselves or getting into legal trouble when you put that info out there like that? People are dumb.

Can you get hearing aids?

-as opposed to being still by default? It also seems like the mind wanders more, daydreams more, when physically fatigued, which is strange because even though you have less energy, the mind becomes busier, but in a more thoughtless and automatic manner. When you are tired, you don't want to be present. You want to watch slop on TV and do nothing instead of literally doing nothing and taking in the space. I guess a better question would be, why is the mind so attached to "noise"? I wonder how human minds compare to animal minds in this regard. Animal minds seem to be less busy, less conceptual and more present compared to us, but it is hard to tell, right? Animals having less complex minds counter-intuitively simplifies happiness for them, assuming their needs are met.

You shouldn't just believe people, especially if they make huge claims like that. I think it is interesting, but I'm not going to believe them outright. Especially since Sadghuru seems to treat this notions as a given.

I'm not as optimistic. It is in general extremely hard to replicate natural processes. Artificial cell production requires expensive machinery and skilled experts to work whereas a cow just needs a patch of grass and doesn't care if it gets dirty. Dumb cows effortlessly convert grassland into meat.

Religion is a social game. You can't practice spirituality effectively while being locked into an ideology that presupposes that it has all the answer, especially when that religion is rooted in the middle-ages. Like, not eating pork makes no sense in the modern age. It's fine to play that game I think. It is a form of community. I've myself gone to church a couple of times for the experience. Just don't get lost in the sauce. Though I don't think you really need it. Personally, it is impossible for me to subscribe to any one religion as "the truth". I'm too aware of how religion is a product of collective imagination. There might be aspects of that imagination that are rooted in something wise and spiritual, but those ideas are treated as dogma, making them effectively noise. Which is why you have to think for yourself. Most people are religious primarily because they where raised as such. They programmed/brainwashed depending on how you want to interpret that. That is huge when you consider the epistemic quality of religion. Which also explains why religion is intertwined with culture. Islam is culturally Arabic and vice versa, just like western culture is Christian and India Hindu. You cannot subscribe to religion without also subscribing to culture, which is to a large extent unavoidable. Western culture is rooted in christian beliefs and values. Though those beliefs and values have been watered down and lost their religious edge over time, those values where originally christian, like seeing nudity as shameful.

What are your goals? Why are you studying CS?

I wonder if his estimates of the actual effect of AI is overblown, but his proposals for regulating AI are sound. It's pretty clear that AI is being used to consolidate resources. Little to none of the dividends of technological advancement is being shared with the common public. For example. work hours are the same as they where almost a hundred years ago despite productivity being up over 400% since then. There's definitely room for regulation to negotiate better conditions.

I actually thought about this exact question a bunch. I think the biggest factor would be how material our society is despite being as technologically advanced as it is. How exploitative society is run in all of its facets are consequences of this materialism. I also think a lack of care for social cohesion will be seen as self-destructive and short-sighted. Politically, a lack of long-term strategizing will likely be seen as primitive. One of the reason China is doing so well currently is because they can plan for the long-term, as it's a one-state party which doesn't have to compete for power. In general, modern society is a bit too short-term in it's approach. It's more like immaturity than straight up barbarism though, I think.

The only reason people drink coffee for work is because they can't afford cocaine.

Your addicted obviously. That be like quitting heroin after 5-10+ years.

Coffee is a luxury. Kind of illustrates the luxury trap of modern life. What we consider "basic" objectively is a very good standard of living.

Good point. I didn't think of it like that. Have you had experience with this?

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If he was right he wouldn't need to argue in bad faith.