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@bambi I feel like it's a critique of the whole recurring subscription model when there's the alternative possibility of a one-time payment. Software (Adobe, Microsoft, SaaS companies, Spotify, YouTube Premium) and courses are typical, where you pay monthly or yearly. In the long run a recurring subscription is probably just more profitable in those cases. It's a subtle way of making people pay more. I don't think it was referring to amazon recurring purchases for example.
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@Jayson G True, he did give examples. "AI" is an example, but it would help to clarify how AI is theft, or "marketing", how is exactly theft? How am I supposed to make my offer known, in a sea of sharks? I can do my best to make it honest and valuable, but am I forced to steal to survive or is there an alternative I'm not seeing? Is actualized.org theft in some ways? So I meant more examples of the dynamic of theft: what is stolen, why it's stolen, what even is theft in this subtler sense... Also, what's the solution? And each example is quite different in nature and level of corruption. If I hide research on UFOs, am I committing theft? What if I am a hacker and give that all out for free, am I committing theft because I stole and divulged the information without those people's consent? I mean I'm asking about Robin Hood here lol. Is it possible that Robin Hood like behavior is a net positive in corrupt societies, but compared to super mature societies it's still a net negative? Like Spiral Dynamics, where lower levels of development are necessary for the survival in societies at those stages? Maybe Leo isn't even saying to not be a thief at all (because it would mean not surviving), and we're misinterpreting it.
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@Jayson G Yes I agree that some examples would really help here, and with corruption as well. It's quite abstract and subject to one's interpretation of the words "theft" and "corruption", which I'm sure have a lot more depth in Leo's mind after reading all those books.
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Is the main symptom of corruption the self-justification of despicable behavior? And are corrupt industries (like Leo mentioned, pickup, or wall street) identifiable as culture that makes it even easier or even encourage self-justification of despicable behavior? Is this a decent definition? I'm trying to corner this concept of corruption and how it looks like in practice.
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@Yimpa lol just put some heavy ass weights on your back
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@Jacob Morres Yes he watches Leo, he doesn't hide it either. He said explicitly he thinks it's the most valuable channel on YouTube. He often mentioned the video "65 principles for living the good life" and recommended watching it once a year. He has endorsed actualized.org multiple times publicly, both recently and years ago.
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Quote from Leo's last blog post The Melian Dialogue & Zionism, it's incredibly deep:
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The Renaissance Man replied to thenondualtankie's topic in Intellectual Stuff: Philosophy, Science, Technology
@Carl-Richard Yes I'm not saying the problem is that the game becomes easier and easier, I'm saying why progress in the game will probably not translate to other areas. -
Great one. Also "how to do research". There was an old episode on this but it wasn't practical enough IMO, it didn't touch on finding sources for example, and then evaluating them. Even just practical tips and tricks gathered over years of studying and finding sources, that may seem obvious until you aren't aware of them.
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@Ninja_pig Thank you. What kind of meditation? Also, can you help me understand it better? Even though it's super popular, I never quite understood the practical connection. For example, let's say I have social anxiety, and consciousness over its false nature could solve it. How would meditation help? Or maybe I lack motivation because I'm not conscious enough of my goal, the process, or I distort the unpleasantness of the action. How does meditation help?
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@Majed It's an issue with quotes in general. They're brief, they don't provide context, and for this reason they can be interpreted in many ways. Plus, Leo loves being dramatic lol
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The Renaissance Man replied to Rafael Thundercat's topic in Life Purpose, Career, Entrepreneurship, Finance
@Rafael Thundercat Are you looking for ways to filter out and recognize those people? Or is it more of a societal question, to "punish" these scammers? -
The Renaissance Man replied to thenondualtankie's topic in Intellectual Stuff: Philosophy, Science, Technology
Are ya'll familiar with mnemonics and their competitions? There are people and techniques that help you excel at this kind of stuff extremely. Is their working memory really improving? Debatable. They'd all be Tesla right now. And even if you don't use any technique, the brain over time just becomes able to develop specific pattern recognition and chunking abilities, so it's not really the working memory that's expanding, but it's the "slots" occupied by each bit of information that "shrinks", or becomes more manageable. As soon as you change field radically enough to make the patterns useless, you're back at zero. This is what goes on if you train for IQ tests for example. This to say that progress in this kind of exercises doesn't necessarily mean progress in your working memory, it's just that your brain has developed better and better specific chunking and pattern recognition abilities. -
I found out about Holosync from Leo's book list, but last time Leo has mentioned Holosync on the forum was 7 years ago. In 2020 he said the word "LifeFlow" when asked for recommendations on Binaural Beats, but that was without further context or explanation, and that's the only time that name has ever popped up in the forum. Since Holosync implies a time commitment of an hour every day for months and years (that's no joke), and since "low effort" tools like this one have a history of never working, I want to be careful about making such an investment. So @Leo Gura do you still recommend Holosync, or this "LifeFlow" that wasn't mentioned anymore after that one time? Or are there better ways of going about emotional mastery, aka Binaural Beats are not worth the time? I'm not expecting it to do all the work for me by the way, but we can agree that an hour every day is not a joke, especially if there's a high risk of being totally useless (that's why I'm asking you folks who have experience with the program). I did my research on the forum before making this post, and honestly for such a commitment there wasn't enough volume of experiences to make a judgment, and all of Leo's mentions were either very old or vague. If this tool really is a powerful one, then it should be mentioned more, and the fact that it hasn't adds to my added carefulness in embarking in something similar. Thanks to everyone who replies
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Do you have any techniques to raise consciousness that can be systematically applied. It's clear to me how practice, repetition, and lots of it is a requirement for serious change, and so I'm looking for ideas for "consciousness/self-dev practices" one can do, and create a sort of training program to follow 1-2 hours every day. Some practices: I recently learned about Nathaniel Branden (six pillars of self esteem) and his sentence completion exercises, where you complete a sentence with 6-10 endings rapid fire, without thinking. For example: If I bring 5 percent more awareness to my impulses to avoid unpleasant facts... I haven't done this practice yet. Tracking my time and all activities I do during the day Keeping a list and noticing what activities made me happier or unhappier