Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Rafael Thundercat]

13 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

That is your true nature. You feel it is selfishness, and you're right. But it is an all-encompasing selfishness wich ends up in selflessness. Yeah, a paradox... Welcome to paradoxes.

Do you want to feel profundity in your life? That's up to you. But I would say, why not?

Other day I realised I am just a rat making my best to survive another day. Is hard to admit it but this is the truth. A rat trying to not die soon. 

[Human Mint]

7 minutes ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

Other day I realised I am just a rat making my best to survive another day. Is hard to admit it but this is the truth. A rat trying to not die soon. 

One day at work in a supermarket my boss made me kill a rat.

[- Adam -]

16 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

One day at work in a supermarket my boss made me kill a rat.

Ratatouille but Remy's not fast enough 

That's my dad's name btw. My dad is a rat.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

There is no way to not be a rat. Nothing wrong with it - best to embrace it. Working a regular job is the rattest of the rattest moments you'll ever experience in your life

[Human Mint]

2 hours ago, - Adam - said:

Ratatouille but Remy's not fast enough 

He was stuck in a glue trap. I sill remember it's helpless look.

2 hours ago, - Adam - said:

That's my dad's name btw. My dad is a rat.

I bet he makes you cook 

[Leo Gura]

8 hours ago, Joshe said:

Conjuring profundity IS the feel-good magic trick. 

No.

Profound will not make a hole in your foot feel good. The pain will be the same.

[Leo Gura]

15 hours ago, Rishabh R said:

So which is better acceptance or observation of your negative emotions and reminding yourself that it's hallucination ?

You can do both, but observation is the key thing. Forcing acceptance is not sustainable. You need to observe things deeply so it changes how you see things.

Edited Wednesday at 04:54 PM by Leo Gura

[Rishabh R]

@Leo Gura Thanks but I have realized since doing it from 2 years that acceptance is like a muscle which can be trained just like observation. By the way do you create word documents or PDFs from Ai ? For example this was which I created and there are others too .Can you all provide a feedback on it ? 

socratic_method_guide.docx

[- Adam -]

4 hours ago, Human Mint said:

He was stuck in a glue trap. I sill remember it's helpless look.

Yeah that moment must've sucked 

4 hours ago, Human Mint said:

I bet he makes you cook 

I can't stand it, he keeps pulling my hair out!! You can see on my profile pic I only have 2 left 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

https://isaiprofitable.com/

We are the product. Our data. Our words. Our art. Stolen. 

[thenondualtankie]

LLMs aren't intelligence, but they can solve more math problems than 99.9% of humans...

What if LLMs are collapsing the boundary between intelligence and non-intelligence?

[Vynce]

On 25/06/2026 at 2:54 PM, thenondualtankie said:

LLMs aren't intelligence, but they can solve more math problems than 99.9% of humans...

What if LLMs are collapsing the boundary between intelligence and non-intelligence?

pattern recognition on the basis of all written out math is not pure intelligence. even if its more successful than your ordinary mathematician. 

edit: someone like Srinivasa Ramanujan was intelligent. because he sourced directly from spirit/nature/god

Edited 18 hours ago by Vynce

[Nemra]

Loved the "Start With Everything, Not With Nothing" blog post.

Also, the concept of nothing must reside in infinity. Infinity must be the case for a finity to exist, e.g., the number 94713 exists because numbers can be infinitely enumerated. Infinity is a necessity for things to exist.

Edited 18 hours ago by Nemra

[Joseph Maynor]

 

[Yimpa]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/turtles-are-their-shells

 

[AtmanIsBrahman]

Leo is finally teaching us the squirrely alien consciousness space kangaroo spider queen crocodile 😁

[Natasha Tori Maru]

The Best Way To Learn Critical Thinking

Yes - AND - I wish to add...

It is not like we just learn critical thinking. Oh, I have mastered that! No need to revisit this concept illustrated in the blog post!

Use it or lose it. Critical thinking is like a muscle that needs to be exercised regularly with all concepts, ideas and decisions we run into. It can be eroded just as it can be built up. I think we should all be practicing questioning from first principles regularly. And deeply probing into all concepts we run into - ESPECIALLY those from social media, YouTube and online spheres. Often with online rhetoric, there is a slow cognitive drift that occurs as ones algorithm becomes more tailored to their watch history. Never take a concept or idea presented at face value. Always ask questions. What assumptions are being made? What can be inferred? What data or studies is this based on? What other factors could explain this phenomena?

Unfortunately, the proliferation of LLM use is not doing much to exercise the muscles of critical thinking. People just shove a question in looking for answers. 

It is the process of arriving at the answer that is fostering the true skills in gaining wisdom - or, in other words - information can be delivered instantly, but wisdom is developed through the disciplined practice of thinking. Not the answer itself (although the answer can be quite delicious! More so when we have earned it!). 

Critical Thinking cheat sheet

As a side thought, I laugh when I read all the 'hacks' people try to apply to cognition through supplements, little cheats etc. The most obvious cognitive hack to me us just actually USING the brain! If you can't think from first principles, consider purging all short form content and social media until you have retrained your brain to perform in a focused manner.

Edited 8 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Davino]

On 664, what cracks the nut of synesthesia for me is the fact that there are no frontiers between sight, sound, taste, touch and smell; there's only one all encompassing sense door and it's consciousness.

The classic 5 senses are fragmentations of a unified awareness field due to the solidification of a particular state of consciousness.

[Davino]

@Rishabh R If you wanna practice acceptance go to the true source and practice Love.

Practicing observation means to be conscious.

Consciousness+Truth+Love= The solution to everything