Carl-Richard

How a stage red conversation takes place in the 21st century 13:33 It starts 14:27 It takes off

I sometimes can't bring myself to think about memories even if I wanted to. The present moment has a tendency to suck you in.

I think Cenk is hiding a complex of his own with his tendency to call out people for being stupid

Have you met my buddy Brahman?

Surely there must be some obscure and inconsequent example out there that invalidates your statement, but that is just a hunch I have as a contrarian at 4:45 am Actually, when I think about it, white skin increases vitamin D absorption and historically lead to the advancement of people living in colder areas. Of course this alone isn't an advancement relative to some other race, but if the movement of people into colder areas did actually confer some relative advantage to advancement, then maybe race has something to say after all? Now, what I am NOT saying is that this matters to anyone alive today haha

For me, lifting heavy weights in a proper gym is so much more fun and exciting than doing say 200 reps of push ups in your basement. The adrenaline rush that I get from doing the last rep of deadlifts is the highlight of my entire week: it's such an intense experience, there is nothing quite like it. The feeling of pushing your body to the limit fills such a primal need in the human psyche: you realize that this is what you're really made for. You're also building up a skill, and the feeling of being totally immersed in something you're proficient at is innately nourishing. In my opinion, a gym membership makes lifting 100x more enjoyable. It has become a hobby for me at this point, and it makes going to the gym everything but a chore.

Don't trick yourself into thinking that these things don't make your life easier: they do make it easier, but only marginally so. Then again, lots of small things do add up in the end. It's your choice what you want to spend your money on and what levels of convenience you want to allow for yourself, but also be skeptical of skepticism

So you're not a fan of non-duality?

Don't confuse median age with average life span. I'm showing you that the places where most babies are made (not where most people die at a young age) are also the places with the lowest rates of cancer. You were talking about a cure for cancer, not a cure for all diseases or old age. I just gave you some reasons for why the cure for cancer will probably not lead to human overpopulation. Sure, if we cure everything that makes people die from natural causes, then the population will increase exponentially, but cancer? Not so much.

The people who reproduce are mostly young people, people with a low likelihood of getting cancer. Most people who will be cured will soon die from old age anyway, and these people will not reproduce after being cured. The countries with the highest reproduction rates also have the lowest median age, and therefore their population will not be much impacted by cancer rates as it's an age-related disease. With this taken into consideration, the population growth from a cure for cancer will most likely be minimal, certainly not exponential. Cure for old age is another story.

I appreciate your nonsense

What does curing cancer accomplish? Survival. As far as I understand, Leo doesn't claim he has reached omniscience in human form. He is saying that he has reached "states" of omniscience, and such a state is not compatible with functional human states of awareness. You can't keep the entire knowledge of the universe inside the human operative system and expect to be able to solve human problems. It's like expecting your PC to be able to run with a 1 trillion terabyte file on it. Your PC will crash.

You can reach a state of omniscience, but the state fades once your return to your human form. Also when you're in that state, to use that omniscience to fulfill desires of survival will also make that state collapse. Omniscience is unlimited and survival is limited: they are incompatible.

I'm not putting him on a pedestal by simply characterizing his mission as being grounded in turquiose values

I'll give you 3 years. If not that, then 80

This belongs to the Stage Red Examples thread. Stay on topic

My most challenging experience was when I realized that life is a trip, and that I'm constantly tripping and there is no way out.

You have to express your energy and exhaust it, not repress it. Whatever you do, do it all the way with your full heart and soul. That is the only way you'll grow. You're young. It's only natural. Go indulge in your urges so much to the point where you're so repulsed by them that you cannot stand them anymore. Then the next time when you're enticed by them, you'll remember where it leads, and then staying on course will be much easier.

What does "stopping seeking" really entail? It entails the cessation of grasping on to anything in particular. However, the problem is that many people can't stop themselves from grasping. If you're in that boat, you have to keep practicing. If you're in the boat of having practiced for years and years, then the problem can arise that you trick yourself into thinking that you'll never be able to stop grasping, but really what you're only grasping on to is the practice itself or the idea of having to practice. Only then does the pointer of "there is nothing to obtain, everything is perfect" make sense.

This forum isn't unanimously yellow.

Considering how spiral development and poverty are inversely correlated and how the most affluent parts of the world aren't even fully green yet, then for the entire world to get to yellow will probably only happen when generalized AI has eliminated all poverty. Is that even possible? We don't know. Anyways, given that world-wide yellow requires global eradictation of poverty and that the power-asymmetry issues of generalized AI have already been solved, then we'll already be in a world government type situation anyway. Any potential internal ideological issues will be overseen by an united monopoly of force, and therefore it would be more easily resolved than in the current world environment. Will these ideological issues even happen at global yellow in a post-scarcity economy? Who knows? To summarize, yellow will necessarily arise in tandem with the technological solutions that will allow for a global spread of yellow, and this will produce a positive feedback loop. Yellow will start to spread rapidly once it passes an extremely tight evolutionary bottleneck in terms of worldy affairs, so tight infact that it might not even happen. The fact that this type of united world is not just post-scarcity but also fully postmodern will probably lead to a level of homogeneity that doesn't leave much room for disagreements at all, atleast relative to today's standards.

It's actually not surprising. It takes time to develop a self-consistent worldview and eliminate contradictory opinions. Jordan Peterson one time talked about how common it is for college freshmen to write something in an essay and then contradict themselves in the next sentence. It's not "ageism", It's facts. I'm only 3 years older than you, and I'm not immune to this either. It's something to have in mind, but also don't let it discourage you too much.

Well, let's recap: I was talking about Dr. K's motivation for joining Twitch (his mission), and I see similarities between that and what Leo is doing on YouTube and Actualized.org, which is spreading consciousness to as many people as possible (a turquiose value). I then asked you to tell me the difference between Dr. K's and Leo's mission, and then you responded with listing up Leo's personal qualities: That made me think that you thought I was comparing their personal qualities, but instead I was comparing the core value behind their mission. If not this, what exactly am I supposed to get from that?