Science Podcast Appearance Coming Soon

[UnbornTao]

12 hours ago, LoneWonderer said:

Dude what an absolute butchering of Leo's Face 😂 He looking super smug in that first image, judging us all mere mortals!

Jason Statham's unknown solipsistic brother haha

Edited 4 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Leo Gura]

Pretty soon I won't even need to bother doing interviews, they will just be generated by AI of me.

[Vali2003]

@Leo Gura They could never give me as good existential crises as real Leo. 

[Davino]

9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I cannot be as bold in interviews as I am in my normal videos. This would freak normies out. I need to be more chill and gentle, otherwise people will just dismiss me as a crackpot.

The tone is crucial. People judge interviews by tone, not logical content. An unhinged tone is suicide. So I worked a lot on softening my tone.

In your first interviews content was brilliant but form was uncalibrated. Really looking forward to seeing you talk in an interview now, let's see if you can navigate them towards a genuine insight or moment of clarity.

I also feel you should talk on the interview structure with them, as you said, many of this topics are too elusive to be presented casually, maybe some type of unfolding structure should be in place like. Truth-seeking, epistemological, metaphysics, Awakening,... Then flowi without that overall structure 

[Rilles]

13 hours ago, LoneWonderer said:

Dude what an absolute butchering of Leo's Face 😂 He looking super smug in that first image, judging us all mere mortals!

Swedish Leo.

[Rigel]

9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The tone is crucial. People judge interviews by tone, not logical content. An unhinged tone is suicide. So I worked a lot on softening my tone.

This will be interesting to see. Your ruthless tone & attitude is what got me into your work many years ago. 

[Miguel1]

49 minutes ago, Rilles said:

Swedish Leo.

Viking. Someone needs to ask AI to give those faces a viking hat

[MuadDib]

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The tone is crucial. People judge interviews by tone, not logical content. An unhinged tone is suicide. So I worked a lot on softening my tone.

The tone and logical content in your disclaimer is already fucked.

 

For example, in bullet point 2. "The human mind cannot stomach Absolute Truth."

 

Bullshit.

Humans in every generation have been able to stomach it for thousands of years.

[Carl-Richard]

@MuadDib Yup. The disclaimer is already a vibe killer (it already was for the Curt Jaimungal appearance). It is highly unusual (nobody does a 4-minute pre-written disclaimer before an interview) and creates a rift between the viewer and the interviewee. The disclaimer can be revealed step-wise for each question when required. In an interview you're supposed to reveal information in a sequential fashion in the rhythm with the questions. Or else you break with the format and it comes off as forced and unnatural. If it's really necessary, I would just give a one-sentence disclaimer at the top of your head before you begin answering the first question, like "just as a quick disclaimer: we're going to use a few words today that might be loaded for some people, like God, Absolute Truth, but if you keep an open mind, you will maybe still appreciate what I have to say". And perhaps "also, questioning reality might be destabilizing for some people so be aware of this when deciding whether to watch the video or not".

[Davino]

@Carl-Richard I agree there's something that doesn't sit right about the disclaimer. I can't pinpoint it nor have the time to contemplate it analytically, but I feel something is a bit off imo.

[Miguel1]

I just read the blogpost and yes, I agree with others here.

Makes one think: what is the point of a normal human being (everyone in the audience) to consume / study this?

Even if they do, they just close off and become defensive, which will definitely not lead anywhere good.

Finally, you can come across very arrogant ’Mr. Above Everyone Else’, which is not good either for the same reasons.

Every year I am more and more convinced this is a work you don’t intentionally go out to spread and teach others. If they want to learn, they come to you.

As you said, this is too hardcore.

I suggest toning the disclaimer down. I understand why you think it is so important, but at the same time, you are setting quite the impossible frame to begin with.

As someone with a personality type where its core thrive is social harmony, and an absolute natural at it, and who has struggled their whole life to spread these more hardcore stuff to others.. you gotta be more subtle with it. If you want others to learn that is, which I assume is your goal, otherwise what’s the point?

It’s a subtle skill to go into someone’s world and jujutsu them to open up to the possibility of something completely outside their paradigm. This is very different to having people intentionally entering your world to learn from you, where you can then be much more direct (Youtube), and even then you have to hold back (Solipsism video).

Edited 12 minutes ago by Miguel1

[Ulax]

Nice

[Ulax]

2 hours ago, MuadDib said:

 

Bullshit.

Humans in every generation have been able to stomach it for thousands of years.

This is untrue.

If people were able to stomach truth, you wouldn't have so many people at tier 1 levels of the spiral.

For example, look how widespread religion is.

Many people use fantasy notions of reality just to get through the day.