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Yet another video talking about AI as being a hype (sort of). Very interesting:

I asked Dall-E 3 to draw a picture of life on Kepler-442b; one of the most likely planets to have life on it. Kepler-442b is a nearly Earth-sized planet orbiting within the habitable zone of its star, which is a type K dwarf star. This planet is thought to have good conditions for liquid water, a critical ingredient for life as we know it. I asked why everything is red and it says: I asked for another picture and got this: I think it's pretty cool. There's a few other planets that could inhabit life: Kepler-442b is one of the top candidates. It's a nearly Earth-sized planet orbiting within the habitable zone of its star, which is a type K dwarf star. This planet is thought to have good conditions for liquid water, a critical ingredient for life as we know it. Proxima Centauri b is another intriguing candidate, orbiting the closest star to the Sun. It's also within its star's habitable zone, but its star, an M-dwarf, is very active, often emitting flares that could affect the planet's atmosphere and potential for life. TRAPPIST-1 system is also notable with several Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of an ultra-cool dwarf star. This system's unique configuration of multiple potentially habitable planets makes it a prime target for future studies concerning exoplanetary atmospheres and potential biosignatures. Leo should know which planet aliens actually come from.

I'm going to make a case that you should be proud of the work you do. After running a successful Etsy shop for the past 3.5 years it all came crashing down and I realized: I should just focus on what I'm passionate about, period. Why is that? Because let's say you work on your business 8 hours a day. Every thought, feeling, emotion, every Youtube video, every article you read, it all goes into your subconscious mind. When you do something you're passionate about, those 8 hours will turn into positive energy and feeling good about yourself. Else, those 8 hours turn into stress and discomfort. The worst thing that can happen is you actually become successful in something you're not passionate about, because now you have cords tying you to this business (income, staff, social pressure). Then it can be like you're living someone else's passion. So it's almost worst being a miserable lawyer working 80 hours a week than being a slightly dissatisfied toilet cleaner working 40. At least there you have more spare time. You can actually never be actually successful doing something you're not passionate about, here's why: Most people are employed. ChatGPT 4 says 85% - 90%, that means that around 10% are business owners, a very small percentage. Of those people, most aren't creatives. Most self-employed people are painting houses, running a corner store, finance, health, very useful contributions to society, their economic value is easily measured and you could say represents their value. So of this 10%, perhaps 1% are creatives. From that tiny tiny pool, the only way to stand out and create art / value is to create with passion. So the only thing to do is the thing you want to do. Don't give any thought to where the money is going to come from. The highest paid skill in our society for any creative is the ability to focus on one thing for an extended period of time. True creativity is highly valuable. And if you are currently not proud of your work that's fine, I was never proud of my dayjob work, this advice is meant for those starting a business. Don't go where the money is, do what you're passionate about.

I watched the video that Leo shared on his blog last night: And although I'm excited about the future of AI, it also makes me sad and hopeless for these reasons: 1. To think that in the near future people will just be able to manifest anything directly into form, while I have to go through suffering and be patient when manifesting my dream reality. This seems unfair. 2. To think of all the lost jobs of creatives, to think that there is no real future for human creativity just saddens me. 3. To realize that AI will get so clever you have no idea what's real anymore. Even with safeguards in place, the AI could technically fool us, I guess. 4. Learning new digital skills seems a waste of time. I'm learning video editing right now but that will be obsolete. Any creative endeavor will be obsolete in the near future it seems. The only thing I think will go up in value is human-to-human contact; seminars, social gatherings, 1-on-1 coaching etc. And perhaps in the short run manual skilled labor. I believed that there will always be a role for some human to bring their expertise, but this video makes it seem like in the future people will go "make me a movie about XYZ" and AI will literally create that movie with human-like creativity. I picture this as some VR, AR, AI pleasure dome of instant gratification and instant manifestation, but maybe I'm wrong here.

If anyone is interested in reading the Bible without reading anything, you might enjoy this: Sidenote; if anyone knows how to generate THAT many images + voice over without spending weeks or months, let me know 😂

That sounds fantastic, nice to hear. Whenever I get sick and sleep the whole day I realize how busy I usually am. So ironically for me it's almost always nice to get sick, as long as I get better.

I would not want to rob anyone of this new wizard I have discovered. These healings are absolutely fantastic for me and I never thought Reiki healing could be done on Youtube but I feel it so strongly, it's amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_0OSTHs9pg Channel @healingandbeyond on YouTube

I think it is fundamental to understand these principles or you'll suffer. Some will call this "Red Pill" but being stoic, masculine and on-purpose are just life fundamentals for guys, and understanding how this ties into dating is important. Thoughts?

Makes absolutely no sense. If I do the hokey-pokey method to get me bliss and someone else does the bee-bop method to get them there, who cares? We are truth seekers but why even bother with "relative truths"? This forum is like one delusional person trying to convince the other delusional person that their delusion is the best. I feel like this forum is polluting my worldview. My experiences are true to me and you will never know what that is like. Trying to convince you of the legitimacy of my experiences or you trying to convince me my experiences weren't legit is ludicrous. Also the way Leo is revered bothers me to no end. Sure he can give advice, but if you think what Leo says is and isn't possible you're limiting yourself for no good reason. Comparison truly is the thief of all joy. Life if like my own painting. If anything I think this forum is taking me AWAY from bliss, not to it.

I currently only use ChatGPT and sometimes Gemini although it annoys me. I also use ElevenLabs for AI voice generation, it's pretty cool. What tools do you use and what do they do?

I'm unable to renew my Plus for some reason, but 3.5 is surprisingly good now. The only downside is no image generation OR uploading. Sometimes I upload images to ask what's in it or to describe things in detail so I can use that for prompt to generate images. I'm not surprised these are the kind of questions you'd ask AI all day 😜 Sarcasm I pressume?

I don't think of it as relapse so no idea. I watch porn sometimes, it doesn't affect me, doesn't come with the emotional baggage anymore.

Do you watch ASMR? If so, what benefits have you found? I tried some videos for sleep and it calms me down but doesn't make me fall asleep.

I already do this but sometimes I still can't fall asleep at night after the reset day. But important note is I do take modafinil, especially on short sleep (reset) days. Hmm. I wanna do low carb cause I'm trying to lose some fat that I gained over the winter. I've also had consistent energy on low carb in the past. What I eat is full fat yoghurt, blueberries, some supermarket mixed veggies, lots of eggs, some meat and fish. Sometimes a sanwich on the go, I don't always stick to my low carb. Thank you. btw, this is the one thing that's helped me most when trying to fall asleep:

Option 1: You are a millionaire You can get any romantic partner you want and they will stick with you You're healthy But you can only be medium happy at most Option 2: You'll always be broke You can never get laid You always have a cold But you're extremely happy