Carl-Richard

I was thinking interview them to figure out what they really believe, not preach to them like you usually do But wait, if they would show so much resistance to what you're preaching, what are you really saying when you say "they're doing their best to learn love"? Would they not welcome your message with open arms?

But will you interview these people?

Solution: practice more mindfulness and practice more playing the game. Accept that it will taper off. It will taper off less over time if you pratice enough. If you're practicing mindfulness during the game, you're not really playing the game. I have a term for this: "spiritual OCD"; intrusive thoughts about things like mindfulness or not being spiritual enough which actually impedes those things in a given activity. It's a big trap in spirituality which only robs you from the real fruits of the practice: being here, fully present in what you're doing.

Flow doesn't only depend on optimal challenge. It also depends on things like energy levels and fast action-response rates. Also, the challenge doesn't only come from the opponents. It comes from the way you generally interact with the game (the controls, etc.). For example, if you choose to do 5 operations per second vs. 0.5, that will greatly impact your ability to enter flow, and that also depends on your absolute skill level. You simply don't enter flow if you're a complete newbie at something. The energy levels, the familiarity with the basics, the processing speeds, just aren't there. You need some base level skill to get there.

Do mindfulness before playing, then play. Be fully immersed in whatever you're doing. That is how you become good.

When your skill level becomes very high, you'll be in a flow state regardless.

Over the summer, I made a few adjustments to my lifestyle that made me lose 2-3kg basically on accident. In the winter/early-spring, I started taking a 10-minute walk after dinner. I did so because I had started running some weeks earlier for the cardiovascular benefits, but I gave up because it made me feel like shit (as if my testosterone had been drained out of my body). The walk decreases the blood sugar spike from the meal, gets the circulation going and even boosts the immune system (I've only been sick once after that). Whether it improves my cardiovascular health to any significant degree is questionable, but it's better than nothing, and I like it (and it's a way to unwind). Over the summer, I started adding a 10-minute walk after my evening meal as well. Next, I started removing the crusts from my already limited amount of bread in the morning (lol, bear with me). I did this because I thought that the nasty chemicals from the baking process are concentrated in the crusts (evident by the darker color and more aromatic taste). This might not seem like a lot, but when I take the crusts and compare them to the overall amount of bread, it could be anything from 1/5th to 1/4th of the weight being removed. Over the course of days, weeks and months, this adds up. Slightly tweaking parts of your daily routine in a systematic fashion like this seems to be an easy way to get results. And finally, only in the last week or so, I started eating... pears ? Apparently, pears are a good source of chromium, and chromium is involved in maintaining the proper functioning of insulin. I'm used to eating some fruit at the end of the day anyway, so I started having one half to one whole pear along with my evening meal. I think it was after this that I started feeling a bit lighter (but it was probably not a huge change and maybe learning about the role of chromium just drew my attention to my already existing progress). It might be that the scale I used to weigh myself could be tricking me somewhat, as you tend to wear heavier clothes in the winter than in the summer, but I swear that I was hovering around 80-82kg in the winter/spring, while now I'm down to 77-79kg (the highest estimate was when I tried wearing my usual winter clothes). So yeah, this was just a fun story about how my summer has been going. Maybe you can take some inspiration from it if you want (but don't take inspiration from how late at night I wrote this ?).

I know, but I didn't really use to weigh myself that often, and I can't go back in time and change that ?

I sometimes imagine myself living out in the woods outside of all civilization, away from everything and everyone. Well, it looks like that might be a real possibility soon if you care about thinking clearly. Or at least get your literal tinfoil hats on. 13:15

What do you mean by Christianity?

That's true, but it depends on the person doing it (and what else they're doing).

Sure. I was mostly just mocking the current state of ChatGPT. If you manage to bypass the fact that it spews complete bullshit in a non-zero percent of answers, sure, it's a great learning tool. But for me personally? No thanks.

Opeth isn't the only band from the 90s and early 00s that mixed progressive metal and extreme metal influences. Dan Swanö of Edge Of Sanity could be considered the progenitor of the style. But of course, Dan Swanö has a lot of ties to Opeth, as he is Swedish as well. He mixed some of their albums, collaborated with Mikael Akerfeldt on a few songs, and also plays in Bloodbath (oldschool death metal band) where Mikael also played.

So it's still just a chatbot? I think a specialized bot actually needs general ChatGPT training as a support beam, or else it will be nothing like teacher. A teacher has general knowledge and special knowledge. The student also has some general knowledge, which determines which questions and concepts the student feeds the bot, and if the bot doesn't have any training in that general knowledge, it won't be able to unpack those questions (if it's even able to be coherent at all). So with a ChatGPT support beam, it will probably have just as many flaws as ChatGPT if not more.

The territory of the spiritual process looks something like this: Discovering spirituality -> doing some practices -> seeing smaller changes -> more practice -> glimpses of the truth but returning to egoic identification ("awakening experiences") -> even more practice -> bigger glimpses of truth and shattering of preconceived notions of enlightenment -> alternative 1. letting go into the truth, alt. 2. run into a wall of resistance or fear, alt. 3. getting attached to the practices and creating an identification around that -> become enlightened, or get stuck in a "dark night of the soul" for a while, or get stuck in a spiritual ego -> more practice or shattering of preconceived notions, etc. I think OP took the alternative 2. route like me and is stuck in the dark night of the soul territory. There is the person doing things that is associated with spirituality (meditation and such) which has a certain progression to it, and that is what I refer to as a process. However, the realization of direct consciousness itself is not something that you can easily map as a process, as it's too individual and complex.

What does the teaching involve which ChatGPT cannot already do and which doesn't require generalized AI?

Please, no, just no. I would rather let a kid teach me than ShitGPT.

What do you mean by kids exactly? Regardless, if I had to listen to a kid lecture me about something, I would never go to class.

Haha he is also very picky about things like texture and oiliness. I think people with a higher disgust response tend to be skinnier. He is also a bit ADHD, and he used to stand up and walk around the dinner table when we were smaller, and even today, he tends to forget about the food if he's talking a lot.

My brother is just like you. He has a hard time eating enough. I've always been a big eater. It's mostly just genetics. We're wired differently.

I know pretty well when I've lost or gained fat by how I feel and look. The weight measurements are just to give a clue of how much we're talking. I know that it fluctuates throughout the day. Regardless, I'm very certain that the scale never showed below 80kg in the winter/spring, while today, I sometimes see 76kg and something. That has never happened in 4-5 years, and I'm using the same scale every time. And if you need more proof, I had to drop down my deadlift weight because I've gotten slightly weaker (as lower calorie intake also means smaller muscles if you work out regularly).

Enlightenment definitely has a clear positive effect, but awakening experiences (and the general territory leading up to enlightenment) are riddled with egoic projections and distortions. Feeling like you're dying I wouldn't merely classify as a "change in state". It's the ego realizing it's coming to an end and singing its final death song before giving up its illusory existence.

You might think it's negative now and that your suffering at this moment was predestined, but do you think it will be negative forever?

It sounds like an awakening experience with the ego resisting it and retrospectively trying to make sense of it through his intellect.

Consciousness is ruthless and unforgiving.