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I came across this thing called qching.ai from a follow up video about summoning demons through LLMs, you might have seen it, Jordan McKinney or something. I got curious and used it. But quickly realized we hit a wall when we try to ask the ai about itself. Also don't wanna comment too much on his claims/search to summon demons. That's not gonna happen with how LLMs are currently. If there's a medium which is totally uncontrollable by humans and is continuous and every token is a quantum event with inherent unpredictability, his claim could be "tested". --- I wanna know what people here think about that qching.ai itself. It have it's limitations since it's being read by an LLM. But if you keep things light, I think it's pretty interesting. It could all just be Barnum Effect.

You're suffering a version of them you instanced inside yourself. You don't really care for them as an entity/individual, but rather as a concept. The deeper truth is it's more so a response to an inefficient system. Holistic Thinking is alien to the world, still. You can't stand what's the status quo. And it's generating suffering in you. I've seen young people say this with a lot of heart. What's the proposed solution? You focus on your own now, engage with people, engage with your obsessions. Effectively forget the whole, atleast temporarily. And over time, the reward mechanisms linked to it, will assign a lesser importance to whatever is generating this suffering. All suggesting you to fall back into something which isn't whole. Some even suggest voicing it into the open, and discuss it with others. Like your doing now. This is also a trap. You'll start feeling fine once this feeling of yours is validated by the crowd. If you want my truth, you're just asking for a borrowed truth. But here's some pointers. How can you be sure, they're suffering? And how can you be absolutely sure their felt experience is any worse than yours? You're imagining yourself in their position and assuming the suffering. But you'd be surprised the more you look into it. Another tangent to contemplate on: why does human society have fiction at all? Why do movies exist? Why do stories exist at all? Why are actors and performers valued at all? There's something about this which is so eerie and disturbing.

The good doctors have a compulsion to "fix you". Beleive it or not. That's their form of care. It's often coming from a genuine place. The bad ones? I don't even wanna mention.

This is to be expected. Doctors aren't all obsessed humans with a thirst to know. They are mostly interested in living a chill life with the limited rules they've learnt throughout their academia. I haven't come across anyone who's truly open minded and a doctor at the same time.

What are your thoughts on these perspectives? Don't comment without engaging with the material. In general, I love how arrogant and radical his views are when it comes to what's possible to do with society. He sees people and values as an engineering problem. That in itself is a tempting way to exist, as an engineer. But also a huge blindspot. I like him as an individual. He's got many original ideas.

I don't believe in democracy. (Don't assume I support anarchy. Anarchy is just a more unmoderated version of democracy)

Hahaha. How bout we build a syntegrity here instead?

I don't think tranaformers itself is doing any damage at all. Transformers by themselves are just humble tech. They just exposed the underlying instability. Stop calling them AI companies. There's no AI. We don't even have real AI or RL in the world yet.

No such thing as OpSec? Why'd y'all keep falling for honeypots?

The question of free sex often leads me into dark places. On the one hand it's hippie-ish and open minded, while on the other it's just mentally taxing and a gateway for shallow connections. It's neither optimistic nor pessimistic. It's complicated, quite frankly. Unless you're in a cult which keeps you afloat while you're in it. Also, yeah. Ooga Booga Monkey Logic. You'll find everywhere.

Ehh.. it's just natural. also people have limits my guy. We're not living inside a cult. **Blink twice if you need help**

Was that supposed to be a joke? Well, if one scenario pissed off more. It's just an excuse to not face the other situations' weight. I guess. If the behaviour itself is like so, better approach would be to talk about the compulsion openly and frankly let the other do what they want. While you negotiate commitment. Because the problem with cheating is not cheating itself, it's the why behind it and the how it affects the significant other.

What are you guys whining about 20s. There's no peak higher than yours 20s. Take all the risks you can.

No wonder this is such a stressful choice. I don't think one can choose the path within a conventional education paradigm while staying vital. Either numb yourself down. Or become unconventional and get out. I'm not being judgemental when I say numb down. It's just how people survive. Passion is a myth without the flexibility for evolution.

If you wanna survive better in this era, stay deluded. It's easier on the mind. --- The dynamics of this era. Or every era so far: ooga booga monkey logic.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/hold-off-on-psychedelics-if-youre-young Just came across this post. Heavily Agree. I had mystical experiences at young ages, it was enough destabilization on it's own. Then, I was watching Leo's videos like it's my curriculum, for a good while. Those were also the best things that's happened to me despite all of the destabilization. Because it gave me something to integrate towards, and even grow out of. It just makes your life so difficult. Like imagine, losing grip on the world around you in your early 20s. hahaha. Also imagine total desensitization to death. For a long time, I was totally paralyzed at the idea of ever being part of this world. And it made me paralyzed from ever doing anything compromised. Body knows best. It forced me to find what I really wanna do, to the point I don't need to care about survival or the need to make money. I'm grateful it pushed me into this, even though it was a rough realization, and the journey ahead is rougher still.

Don't know the context, but same here, never touched a substance. I'm 24 BTW. I find Leo getting stupid day by day. There's two possibilities. One is Leo's losing it. Another would be: It's just extremely anomalous and difficult to naturally induce these experiences. But, if that's your calling, stick with it.

More like AI induced psychedelics

What if you'd rather do nothing? Any "doing" is work.

Get crazy good at something. It's quite irrelevant whether or not you go to school. It's more like, does getting good at your thing mean going to school, then go. There's some things which schools will just utterly destroy and give it to you more broken than before. Depends on what you're trying to get good at, and what kind of a person you are, your temperament, goals etc. If your goal is money, follow the paths well troden. Playing the social game gets inevitable then. Just know that either path is not void of learning.

@Leo GuraI'd say you've spoiled an entire generation of youth with the idea of life purpose. Top misleading ideas of the century. Especially when spirituality comes into the mix and life is not something you "do", but life is what you are. The semantics of it is so baked into me, I simply can't relate to the very concept.

The fact that you're not sure of it points to undone work. Also, a lot of it is just maturity to see what's right for you need not be right for others, this is mostly systems thinking and understanding the mechanisms of various everyday things. You'll develop it over time if you make that a goal and work towards it. P.S - Just because you're so damn sure of something with no grounding for it doesn't necessarily mean it's right for anyone, even yourself. Most people had never gone through the work of questioning the status quo and arriving at the answers themselves. And sometimes they do end up back where they began, but this time with the realisation that some of the common views we so rejected were right all along. I find myself in a place where, I simply can't accept most things which are status quo, and I can only be at ease with some notion once I've thoroughly done the work of going through it myself and finding the answer. This doesn't make my life any easier, it just makes it more harder, but the reward is a more nuanced understanding. Sometimes I feel like most people have it so easy, they can easily accept the general consensus with no problem and go along with it with such ease. It honestly makes me jealous sometimes, how easy life would be. But then again, I'd be pretty conflicted if I tried to force group think. There's a purpose to fiction, it often facilities certain actions. In fact, I'd go as far as to say, all actions are rooted from a shared fictional consensus. The whole mechanism of believing in a fiction is, you're not self aware enough to see it's a fiction. Once you see the fiction, you can't go back to how you were even if you want to. You've broken the illusion.