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@Verg0 Sounds like the substance is not particularly high quality, or maybe its mixed with something else. A 16mg dose should be pretty intense, and a 36mg dose is unspeakably profound. Either something is wrong with the substance or you just have a naturally high resistance/tolerance to it. No need for apple vinegar to dissolve the substance, just use water.

Leo has vanished into Alien God Mind, never to return.

Do not just flippantly diagnose people like this. Partly because the OP did not ask for a diagnosis in any way, but also because you don't know anything about the OP beyond this post. It's a dangerous and irresponsible thing to do when someone is clearly going through an intense transformation.

Leo mentioned a while back that he was considering (maybe half-jokingly) sprinkling in a bunch of false claims and ideas into his teachings in order to make sure we don't just believe everything he says. I feel like Alien God is one of those - or maybe not.

Some interesting developments:

Who are you talking about specifically?

Musk is not stupid. He obviously understands moderation. You just think he doesn't because he's doing things that go against your values and who you think should and shouldn't be allowed access. Twitter's moderation will basically remain unchanged.

I think the fear-mongering around this whole thing is so rediculously overblown. Unbanning a few questionable people? So what. We can't just ban people because of their slightly offensive or toxic views. Online moderation has taken a step too far IMO. $8 a month for a blue badge? Big deal. People will forget about this in 3 months time and it'll just become the norm. I'm almost certain it will be a successful strategy. Musk isn't stupid. He's literally done impossible things. I think he knows a few things about how to run a successful company. But it's very clear the company was a sinking ship. Musk is just doing everything he can to save it.

@Tyler Robinson Stop believing random articles from 5 days ago. Journalists will go off literally any fucking random rumor. Elon has literally said $8 a dozen times in the past 24 hours. If they increase it to $19.99 and Musk confirms that then fine, but currently I see absolutely no indication of that being true.

It's very obviously $8 p/month, not $19.99.

Some useful information from Security Head at Twitter:

Please stop just making stuff up.

Kanye officially unbanned from Twitter.

@How to be wise Can you please put some more effort into your posts rather just posting random videos. Explain why we should watch this and what useful information it can provide. Otherwise this will be locked for low quality.

@ValiantSalvatore This is fairly old news. As someone who has looked at a lot of AI art at this point, this image is very average to me. I've seen way better AI art than this. I think it won the competition because this Midjourney style was very new at the time and no one had ever seen it before. So it was quite unique and special. As far as I understand the judges didn't know it was created by an AI. I strongly suspect that future competitions will be explicitly banning AI-generated images. Seems like a logical next step. Or maybe they'll allow AI images and that's fine. But competitions will definitely need to be explicit about what is allowed, what isn't.

@Danioover9000 Nah definitely not. They don't hate each other, they're on very good terms. Lex has been speaking with Destiny for quite a while, as far as I understand.

Destiny and Lex Fridman podcast incoming this week. 90% sure its not a meme this time as lex posted in the subreddit. Now Lex is interviewing people within the streaming/youtube space, there's definitely a higher chance he might consider doing one with Leo. Would be a great match imo.

I'm not necessarily a fan of Mr Girl but don't you think there's a need for healthy discussion around this topic? There's so much stigma around it it just ends up being brushed under the rug and ignored. Yet it's a pretty serious societal issue that needs addressing. Of course on Youtube its always packaged as 'content' and Mr Girl has to entertain people to some degree, but I think there's room for discussion around it.

This might be the most compelling account of UFOs I've ever heard. Definitely recommend checking out the full episode on Spotify as he goes into a lot more detail beyond this clip:

Just seen this clip from a few years ago. Not sure if it's been posted here before or debunked but I thought it would be cool to share. What are people's thoughts?

The way I view it is that its only accessible in certain states of consciousness. The standard horoscopes and astrology you see most people talking about are completely imaginary and made up. But there is a kernel of truth to it all which can be accessed in certain states. I have a sense that true astrology is much more intuitive, non linear and non logical, as opposed to the standard astrology discussion which has a very rigid, rational, structured feel to it. Jan Essman wrote a whole book on astrology but he was basically born enlightened so I feel his ideas are worth reading/listening to.

Yea i've been watching a lot of Destiny recently so I saw these two videos. He definitely has a unique ability to view topics from multiple perspectives. He's said before that if you can't genuinely argue for the opposing side then you don't fully understand them, which I think is partly true. He was intentionally copying Steven Crowder's videos, that was part of the whole thing. He was trying to do what Crowder did without being so dogmatic and ideological. This conversation below was quite good as well. Definitely ties in with what Leo talked about in his recent left-wing videos, how right-wingers are very strongly attached to the survival of their culture:

@Leo Gura Ever considered chatting to Angelo from the 'Simply Always Awake' YT channel? I feel like he's super open-minded and often does informal interview-style videos with people.

I'm playing Factorio atm. Good fun but can get a little repetitive.

I've been thinking a lot about it, and my perspective has shifted quite significantly since making the original post. I'm not personally using the AI in conjunction with my own work because most of the time I find it hinders my process and detracts from my style and voice. However I am keeping up to date with everything that's going on, new developments etc. I actually don't see this technology having a significant impact on professional artists' jobs any time soon. Although it's not that simple because some jobs will be impacted and replaced, some sooner rather than later and some not at all. Each sub-field of art & design needs to be looked at separately because each one will be impacted in different ways. So anyone giving a quick simple answer response to this technology is just factually wrong. AI will be able to do basic graphic design work way before its able to create professional work for big-budget games or animations. But then even within 'basic graphic design' you have more sub-fields, like logo design or leaflet design. Each one will be impacted differently. It's much more realistic to imagine the AI creating a bunch of new logo designs compared to creating a finished frame for a big-budget animation or final character design for a game. But my general view is that Ai-images are, to put it simply, just pretty pictures. They are exceptionally good and arguably 'human-level' pretty pictures, but aesthetic and technical proficiency is not enough to replace a human artist. There is far too much implicit understanding that is required in order to create useful professional artwork that can be used in actual professional contexts. Much of being an artist is about implicitly understanding an art director's or a client's needs, vision, specifications, requirements, personal creative ideas and combining all of that into a finished piece of work. So much subtly and nuance even the most simple projects. No AI can do this, let alone the current AI image generators, and arguably never will be able to because they can only understand explicit communication and prompts. Anyway, there's way too much to say, I could go on forever about this.