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This thread makes me think back to the purpose of actualized.org ”Actualized.org is a catalog of the most powerful concepts that Leo Gura has pursued, studied, and discovered in his own life in order to make sense of what life and reailty is and how to live the best life possible. It’s focused specifically on the biggest picture perspective. It deals with important principles and concepts on how to live the good life and how to understand how to live the good life. It has a broad range of subtopics and picks nuggets from all fields that are useful: - Basic self improvement advice - Relationship advice - Health advice - Psychological work - Developmental psychology - Positive psychology - Psychoanalysis - Philosophy - Epistemology - Metaphysics - Science - History - Sociology - Systems theory / thinking An instruction manual for life and reality that you were never given A catalogue of concepts and principles that you can use to guide your life, insights that you can yourself have and validated by you You’re not gonna find this level of depth and quality of wisdom and life advice anywhere in mainstream media nor in most books. Most books don’t give the big picture, they silo knowledge within science, medicine, philosophy, spirituality, etc. Everybody is becoming a narrow specialist that is good at one thing, and they’re not getting a holistic understanding of reailty. It is the closest thing that you’ll find in society that is trying to spoon feed you the information to live the good life.” ^^^notes from my commonplace book on “What is Actualized.org?”

Sounds like hedonism to me

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Mother nature is brutal in terms of predation because the balance of the whole ecosystem hinges upon predation, with some animals eating plants and some animals eating other animals. The animals that eat plants don't have the cognitive ability to regulate their own consumption and reproduction, and thereby their carrying capacity would far exceed the balance of their environment. This eventually leads to a scarcity of resources, and then these animals prey on each other because there's not enough resources. This is the evolutionary niche that predatory animals filled. The reason why nature is so fucking brutal - it is because herbivorous animals lacked the ability to be self-sustaining. It's not a good thing, it's a necessary thing. The reptilian brain is characterized by an on / off modulation response to pain and pleasure. The mammalian brain is characterized by the ability for emotion, and for certain species of apes and dolphins, the ability for cognition. The human brain is characterized by the capacity for abstract thinking. We can look at our environment and determine the carrying capacity and change what and how we consume. We can moderate our reproduction so as to not exceed the carrying capacity, so thereby the violence isn't needed. This hinges upon our prefrontal cortex and our capacity for abstraction. However, most humans are irresponsible with this ability and still over consume resources and over breed and this is one of the reasons why humans are still violent to each other.

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??? Any claim that is made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, by the way. Peter Attia MD once said nutrition is asymmetric in it’s effects on health. Getting it wrong will have far more downside as compared to upside if you get it right. It isn’t the be-all-end-all. Getting nutrition right at the exclusion of exercise still has downside. Getting exercise right yields enormous upside, as does getting it wrong yielding enormous downside, so it’s effects on health are symmetrical. The notion that there is one perfect diet that works for everybody is incorrect. Everyone has their own individual metabolism, genetics, and risk factors. There’s a lot of gray areas, too. Aside from ultra-processed foods and processed meats (which evidentially show continuous red flags), things like carbs are never really “good” or “bad.” It comes down to dose, tolerance, and demand. Some can get away with more than others. Protein depends on weight, lean body mass, age, sex, how much physical activity you get, and other factors, for example. Nutrition science is actually a really nuanced field that we don’t have absolute certainty about with what little we know. I don’t subscribe to the idea that we should eat like our ancestors for a multitude of reasons. One of which being the biological phenomenon known as “antagonistic pleiotropy.” Our evolution has favored for genes that help us survive, reproduce, and raise our offspring. After our reproductive years pass, evolution doesn’t really care if we live long. The genes that are harmful long-term aren’t weeded out because they’re already passed on. Humans have been omnivorous for most of our history on this planet, and that is precisely the reason why ancestral diets aren’t healthy for us in the long term. Our ancestors ate what was available to them and what got them to the next day, which I don’t think is a good basis for determining a decision that could yield tremendous downsides if done wrong. Just my two cents

This made me laugh in real life

It's a chrome extension called mr beastify

To school, I bring an apple, a little container of nuts/seeds, a spring mix salad with peeled carrots, pepper, and sprouted greens on top, and a thermos full of either chickpeas or lentils (that I put on top of my salad).

This community & this forum is one of the most unique corners of the internet - by far.

Found this interesting. And to think that infinity doesn’t even come close to this? That’s fucking amazing.

I think Leo is skilled with the cognitive and mental aspects of nonduality, but he doesn’t seem to have anything to say about actual embodiment. His content is so cognitive-centric that it can spin some people out.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220929203659/https://yourbrainrebalanced.com/forum/index.php?threads/my-thoughts-on-rebooting-extremely-long-post.15558/ check this out, very useful.

Leo said that he doesn’t care what order you watch his videos in, how it really depends on where you are in life and what videos are best fitted for you to watch at the moment.

Also made a huge mod for TES IV: Oblivion

@Leo Gura I actually enjoy the clips channel quite a bit. I listen to it in the mornings and it’s a great way to get my mind-space ready for the day. Two or three hour long videos are quite a commitment to sit through in their entirety for a lot of people I absolutely agree with you not pandering to stupid or lazy people. Your clips channel is just fine how it is. It just won’t cater for a much larger market, and that’s fine. @D2sage last time I checked he was on apple podcasts.

Couldn't have said it better myself. What do you mean by this? Are you asking if there's beneficial health outcomes from consuming natural foods, or something that's natural rewarding in the short-term, but detrimental in the long term? My family is in a bit of a financial situation and we've been unable to purchase all the necessary test kits (and my primary care provider doesn't seem to care when I bring this up). The first thing I plan on doing when I get a disposable income is going to a licensed naturopathic doctor and working with them on the foods I eat. I'd assume simply knowing lab results can be fruitful but the implementation of those results to everyday life is much more beneficial in terms of health outcomes - that's why I'm going to see an ND. Aside from that, my BMI is in the healthy range and I haven't consumed cholesterol in years, so I'd assume it's pretty low

Made by an MD Ph.D., very well-rounded and evidence based approach to nutrition as a whole without entrepreneurship, bias, and with a great degree of nuance and truthfulness. 1. https://www.redpenreviews.org 2. https://peterattiamd.com/ 3. https://drguess.substack.com/ 4. https://twitter.com/Drlipid?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author 5. https://m.youtube.com/@biolayne1 6. https://m.youtube.com/@DrBradStanfield 7. https://twitter.com/KevinH_PhD?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author 8. https://twitter.com/deirdre_tobias?lang=en 9. https://theproof.com/podcast/ 10. https://sigmanutrition.com/podcast-welcome/

Agreed

Absolutely. Our firsthand experience with the food we eat can be very beneficial if we have an immediate reaction to it because of an allergy, for example. But subjective experience can only take us so far. We should take advantage of the documented long-term health outcomes to gauge our own decisions. You don’t feel the plaque growing in your arteries until it’s too late. Personal experience and scientific data are complementary. There are lots of things that make us feel good in the short-term that are terrible for us in the long-term. Take smoking, for example. Someone who quits smoking may report that they are easily aggravated, restless, having trouble sleeping, and putting on weight - does that mean that their entire belief system around cigarettes should be based on the fact that these symptoms go away when they smoke? Of course not. Subjective experience only takes us so far and can have negative outcomes if you ignore evidence that points in the contrary. Completing ignoring subjective experience and only focusing on the evidence is also just as short-sighted. Try to go for a balance between the two. The modern healthcare system is designed for the management of symptoms without treating the underlying cause. This superficial approach is problematic for a multitude of reasons, but the same can be said for how many people treat diet. If you have fiber intolerance, instead of completely avoiding fibrous foods for the rest of your life you can work on healing the cause of your intolerance naturally. Point is: go straight to the root of the issue without putting band aids over it.

Absolutely. But this is also a double edged sword.

@Cireeric Maybe this will help Might as well rename this thread to the top ten Gil Carvalho videos

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