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@Davino If the tour ever materialized Leo also needs to come to Europe, Lisbon or Porto in Portugal would be great, but any place in the EU with good flights to will do.

Technically speaking, @Leo Gura's teachings create self-aware arrogant nerds who argue hippie fools on spiritual topics day and night. Hi, it's me.

Don't hide your own human decisions of the personal self under the guise of them coming from the impersonal self. I will tell you how it looks from the third perspective. Your ego got obliterated and now you are scared shitless to dive in again, so the ego being ego starts to make grandiose claims and decisions to legitimatize its fear-based decision. I advise a dose of self-skepticism towards thoughts such as the ones described in the opening post.

@forestfog Still as insane as always, with all this suing talk. Have they informed their customers about the presence of illegal Psilocybin still present in those mushrooms? It's good that they finally got the reference standard. I am still staying skeptical of all their claims. They have proven to be unserious people. Need extraordinary evidence to change my opinion.

At this point the benchmarks posted are bullshit, I tell you. Correct answers are all included in the training data set and the Claude Opus thing is only better at recalling the answers it already knows. It's real reasoning skills are still utter shit. GPT-4 is still unbeaten in many ways. Neither system is really intelligent.

Leo, you make the typo all the time. ChatGPT. Also, I think if you have Windows then opening the Edge browser and using the Copilot is better than the free version of ChatGPT. Copilot is the blue-green icon in the top-right corner of the window.

Not really. You make LOTS of assumptions that aren't true. New big corporations start as venture capital investments and not garage projects. Old are often by products of old money or financed by governements. Just because there's Apple and Amazon it doesn't mean it's the default story.

Not necessarily. I think you are making many assumptions that are not grounded in data. But they could be. With some examples, some scientific papers. I am just not convinced by your way of arguing by assertively and repeatedly stating your opinion. Without the empirical grounding, you know.

@Bobby_2021 I have no problem with your argument, just with the jump you do at the end. "All problems with corporations come from the government." It sounds like an ideological positition. And I am not even sure what ideology you are arguing for. Do you wamt less regulation, more regulation, or different regulations than the ones currently enacted?

Completely change the type of questions you ask. Stuff like "Do you like pierogi?" and not her bank account info. You ran out of questions the moment you started asking what her major is. You need to learn how to be a conversationalist and learn some social games. Like why would you ever ask someone's major? Guess and make it fun. "You look like someone who loves flowers and working outside, so I guess you study... Computer Science! No?" Whatever stupid shit you come up with. You are forbidden to ask a question you have asked in the past the next time you talk to a girl. FORBIDDEN! You are even forbidden to ask what's her name. Get more creative with what you ask, that's a challange for you.

The hell? The only thing this response says is that she is a normal human and OP is a creep. And a weirdo. @sda My man, tell us first how did you get the idea to text her that? Maybe that would explain a few things and allow to give an advice. Till then, enjoy anthem made just for us, guys hanging out at the weird bald guy's forum in their free time.

You might enjoy a book called "Let My People Go Surfing" by Yvon Chouinard, who actually is an intelligent billionaire. A pretty honest at that, admitting that overall the existence of his company (Patagonia) is detrimental to the environment and not helpful, even though they do many things that hurt potential profit. They can do that only thanks to that Chouinard keeps the company in his family private hands, if he didn't the company would need to maximize the value for shareholders as all publicly traded companies have to do. Another interesting book to read that is partially on the topic of billionaires is Peter Joseph's "The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression" Or Anand Giridharadas' "Winners Take All.

Company towns existed before the rise of modern social liberal democracies and I can tell you they were not pleasant places to live. https://medium.com/@elliotmashhadi/the-dark-history-of-company-towns-abandoned-ghost-towns-0ebe11deeae1 Companies operating in the capitalist system are pretty much expected to cut corners without regulations. Why would they do that? To have more capital, so they can invest and gain more capital without being productive. Being a rentier, the wet dream of every capitalist.

Read their biographies. Interesting reads and plenty of examples. Gates, Jobs and Musk biographies are all worthwhile. Even you living somewhere is harming some living beings elsewhere. It's a question of how far can you see the consequences of your actions. And the bigger your actions, the bigger the possibilities for harmful consequences. You should bring an example to this discussion, to make the point less abstract. because in theory, the chances of billionaire making others suffer on their way to riches is too probable to assume they didn't.

This is the closest approximation of what personal bias is that I’ve seen in thread, by a long shot.

@Danioover9000 How is Leo mentioning something an argument for the worthiness of analyzing someone's presentation when judging quality of their arguments? Don't answer, I am just pointing out a lack of logic in your post. I see no value in purely discussing the messenger.

I think this is an issue with insufficient non-dual/spiritual education/contemplation. I personally haven't seen my mind to have a tendency to go in that direction, I think because I don't have the false concepts you do. My mind can't leave my body as there was never something like "my body", it has always been the forever-morphing Godhead. The same goes for going to "another dimension" it's always the same dimension, the infinite, singular point from which all creation flows and to which it is contained at the same time in a paradoxical manner. It must be so. It's always the same fractal, but sometimes (that is when you trip) you watch it from a perspective that makes it look very intensive. I have been blessed with a strong conviction of the reality shaping back more or less to it's current form if it's meant to be. It doesn't make embarking on a trip any less scary, I just don't get much paranoia during it. If I get scared it's more because of just the sheer intensity of Beauty I see (Beauty with a capital B can be scary as hell) or if it's the long-acting psychedelics, then while in the less intense states I might get scared of hurting someone or myself physically in an unconscious set of moves. My point is, I think there are thought patterns that you can enforce through enough contemplation to help lessen the "never coming back from a trip" paranoia.

@Danioover9000 I think the way someone presents his thoughts has little to do with their merit. I bring to the table the case of Slavoj Zizek, he has the charisma of an arrogant homeless guy, but his books are very good. I think what you have done is an exercise in projection. That kind of analysis should be done only to assess the performance for reasons of learning to perform yourself. To analyze what was the goal of the performance and if it's has been achieved. And not to judge merit or truthfulness of content inside the performance. I am not a fan of what you have done by posting it here and I think the opening post belongs in the Life Purpose or General Self-actualization sections in a thread about personal presence and is not to be framed as "systemic view" in the Politics section.

I am getting strong "but it's you who is calling" vibes. To make your point you need to say what you mean by woke. How else are we going to have a discussion? Contemplate the "What is woke?" question by yourself and then share your thoughts. I will be eager to read them.

Yes, I agree, there aren't any levels. It's all just one infinitely smooth scale of consciousness, which can seem like having levels if you arbitrarily slide around it and stop at certain points.

If you want an answer to that then you really need to define what you mean by woke first. Stage Green is already well-defined, even if that distinction doesn't make that much sense for professional scientists in the fields of culture evolution or values research. On the other hand, I have no idea what your idea of woke encompasses, thus it's impossible to tell where they are different and where they overlap as concepts. A high quality question is half the answer.

What if it's because 70-90% of dicks are insufficient for that or their users very bad at using them? That's an exercise in recontextualisation for ya. If a man is somehow lacking in that regard, then obviously it's time to put one's shoulder to the wheel and learn how to use fingers or toys. Being great at dirty talk can also compensate for things. No need to make oneself a victim for having a less than average dick.

And I feel and say it's the other way. Without data we just have two opinions. What lines of development are you thinking about in particular?

Disagree. Through all the Woodstock festivals and Vietnam war protests, the atendees were mostly stage Red, Blue and Orange folk who liked to party and didn't want to get sent to a war. Really developed hippies have been a drop in the water, as they still are today. To argue that they were more developed on other lines of development than values underlying their decisions, you would need data that I am unsure of even existing. I haven't researched the topic of counterculture deeply.

Something as stupid as the natural smell of your body can make a girl fawn over you. There are many biological mechanisms like that which unconsciously screen for mating compatibility and can make a certain hot girl fall for a not-so-pretty boy. Add to it being a certain kind of weirdo like Leo and the girl being curious and in the mood for something she never had before, and ka-ching you can find yourself even in a relationship with a stunner. Weird can be a kind of cool.