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Read the following article from one of the world's top AI researchers:

We Need To Shut It All Down

The first time I heard this I idea I thought it was overblown. But the more I started thinking about it, the more my mind opened up to it. Maybe we are moving ahead too fast. I don't know. I'm just sharing this to make you think for yourself.

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This is very good:

I wish Jordan Peterson stuck to teaching psychology rather than politics. He's really good at psychology. But hey... I'm sure many people would say the same thing about me.

Has my work been made worse by my forays into political topics? I would say no. But then again, I'm biased. I'm sure JP would say the same about himself. Why do we both feel a need to talk about politics when it turns people off? We both believe we're saving the world. Everyone believes his work is saving the world. Isn't that funny? And yet, I would feel negligent if I didn't speak about politics. Which is exactly what I'm sure JP would say. So here we are. The only question is, Which one of us is more self-deceived?

For most of my life I've been a relatively agreeable person. I've always hated conflict with people. But in order to attain my recent insane awakenings I've had to become much more disagreeable with people, especially online, where interactions are asymmetrically anonymous. People know me so deeply from my work, but I don't know them at all. Which is why I've been acting a bit strange lately. It was a necessary part of my process to achieve the sovereignty of mind necessary to transcend all human understanding. You're not gonna cut through all the human spiritual bullshit that's out there by being agreeable.

I don't enjoy being disagreeable. It's painful to me. But I would rather be disagreeable and have Truth than be agreeable and full of human shit. So I endure the pain. This work ain't easy. You have to be very careful with agreeableness, niceness, and politeness. People will abuse it. Ignorant and selfish people will takes advantage of your generosity. And the devil will use it against you to flood your mind with bullshit and group-think. The devil LOVES spineless people with no boundaries because they are ripe for seduction and corruption. Being too nice can ruin your whole life if you're not careful. That's how serious this issue is. I have to keep myself isolated from humans and their activities in order to avoid getting corrupted and distracted. One of the most important parts of my work is making sure that it doesn't get co-opted by human games, as that is the default.

Then again, this is not license to be a stingy, bitter, isolated, jerk. You need to find a balance where you are firm yet kind, generous, and loving. It's not easy to strike that balance. It takes a lot of practice and experience in dealing with people and their games, and a serious commitment to your own values. By being too agreeable you let others trample on your values. Sometimes a bit of conflict is necessary for a higher purpose. But you have to be careful not to abuse this tool. It's not worth being disagreeable unless something crucial is at stake. For me, that's Understanding.

So, I used AI to create this image of Trump stealing candy from a baby:

This technology is simply amazing.

This is some beautiful footage of Bernie Sanders putting the CEO of Starbucks to shame.

This asshole owns a $100 million yacht. Yet he still works his damnedest to illegally prevent workers from unionizing and getting higher wages. Well, that's how he earns his yacht. Where does he think that yacht came from? The pockets of employees.

Howard Shultz is completely full of shit. And I don't necessarily mean that he's lying. I mean he's so self-deceived with corporate culture and self-bias that he actually believes his own bullshit.

If you truly care about curbing the toxic excesses of corporate power, this is how it's done, by the left wing, NOT the right! This is how you know that right-wing populism is bullshit. No right-wing politician would ever stand up to the CEO of Starbucks like this and defend worker's rights. Someone like Trump or his ilk would NEVER do this. They don't have enough integrity to do it!

Right-wing populism is bullshit. It solves nothing. It's just a distraction from the real issues. Which is why they run around crying about pedophiles, Jews, trans, and CRT. All that is just a red herring from dealing with economic corruption.

The union-busting that corporations like Starbucks and Amazon engage in is not just illegal but utterly shameless. The one thing all these CEOs do is try to fuck over every worker they can. And then they sit there with a straight face and try to deny it. It's their job to squeeze their workers of every penny. This is what's so toxic about current business practices. This needs to change.

This is the real problem of "elites". They have bullshitted themselves so deeply that they do not comprehend the damage their actions have on society at large. It's not that they're evil or lazy, they are just blinded by self-bias, corporate group-think, and Wall Street pressure.

In-depth explanation of the mechanics of how ChatGPT works:
(Warning: this one is pretty technical)

Some AI art I created:

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Here's a great interview:

Chris Langan's politics are problematic (he is a Trump supporter), but his understanding of metaphysics is really good. This guy understands reality better than any MIT scientist, and he didn't even go to university. Really puts scientists and academics to shame.

Regarding his politics, I will say this: He's not wrong in his critiques of our current system. What he's describing is basically the problems with late-stage capitalism. However, he's wrong on three key points:

1) The so-called "elites" are actually hardworking people in many cases. Of course some of them are parasites on the system and don't do hard work. But the idea that anyone working in management or at a computer doesn't do hard work is absurd. And these positions are highly necessary to civilization. Moreover, Langan's claim that billionaires don't work hard and don't generate genuine value is absurd. Most billionaires work very hard and generate enormous value. Of course there are some exceptions. But all the CEOs of multi-national corporations like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Tesla, Exxon Mobile, Disney, Walmart, Amazon, etc. are very hardworking people. You can criticize Elon Musk for many things, but you cannot say he doesn't work hard or doesn't generate massive value for the world. It is true that these CEOs and billionaire are over-compensated. But that will not be fixed by voting for right-wingers. And seriously, who are you gonna replace these CEOs with? You can't put some New Age hippie in charge of running Microsoft. That would be disastrous. I promise you that the CEO of Microsoft is an extremely competent person, not some lazy fat-cat who just collects money, drives fast cars, and has orgies. Should we tax him more and reduce his salary? Yes! But is he some evil, lazy, corrupt elite? No. This is a cartoon level of understanding of how society operates.

2) Just increasing individualism and personal freedom is not a solution to our social problems. Decentralization plays a role, but our society needs strong top-down Federal controls and regulations in order to prevent individual capitalists from dominating and exploiting the rest of the people. If you reduce Federal control then you will create an anarcho-capitalist dystopia. So this will actually make the problems Langan gripes about worse. Wall Street capitalist types would love nothing more than the gutting of Federal power and regulations. Then they could run hog-wild and amass way more money and power.

3) Trump is fundamentally incapable of solving any of these problems. Trump is the epitome of a guy who doesn't work hard and is a parasite on the system. It's amazing how much Langan complains about "elites" and Wall Street fat-cat types who don't work hard for their wealth, when in fact Trump is the posterboy parasite fat-cat who has not done a single day of serious work in his life. The idea that Trump will somehow equalize wealth inequality, help working people, and limit the power of elite capitalists is utterly absurd. By any objective metrics Joe Biden and the Democrat party have done way more for working-class people than the Republicans. What Chris Langan is basically talking about is wealth inequality. But the right-wing in America have no interest in serious reforms that would equalize wealth inequality. Nor are they interested in removing money from politics. They want unlimited private money in political campaigns, which is the very mechanism by which elite capitalists corrupt and undermine representative democracy. So if you agree with Langan's critique — and I mostly do — you should not vote for right-wingers because they are not serious about solving those problems. If Langan was serious, he would be a Bernie Sanders supporter. So while he diagnoses the problems of our government mostly correctly, his solutions are exactly wrong. There is no way that electing a Republican will correct the problems of excessive capitalism.

The real solutions are things like:

• Raising the minimum wage
• Regulating banks and Wall Street speculators
• Raising capital gains taxes
• Taxing the rich. Higher income taxes on top earners, and a wealth tax on millionaires & billionaires.
• Taxing corporations
• Removing all private money from political campaigns
• Placing more regulations on large corporations
• Breaking up monopolies with strong anti-trust enforcement
• Increasing consumer protections
• Cracking down on fraud and white-collar crime
• Protecting worker's rights to unionize
• Better legal protections for minorities and LGBTQ people
• Limiting aggressive foreign policy and wars
• A well-funded education system
• A public healthcare system that cuts out the parasitic insurance middlemen
• Better paid time off, maternity and paternity leave, and free access to childcare
• More investment in scientific research
• More investment in pandemic prevention (Trump cut the pandemic prevention budget)
• More investment FEMA and disaster relief
• Housing for the homeless
• Food for children in poverty
• Addressing pollution and climate change. More investment in green energy
• A government job guarantee, like during the Depression era
• Huge investments in improving national infrastructure

Right-wingers are not for any of these things. Yet all of the above policies would most benefit working-class people, not elites. How can Langan be so smart on metaphysics but so backwards on basic public policy? It doesn't take a genius to see that right-wingers do not support policy that actually helps the working class economically. Trump does not give a damn about helping the working class, he's just a demagogue, con-artist, and criminal who used a veneer of populism to gain power and act out his ego. What Langan completely fails to recognize is that solving these problems requires a leader with serious integrity and maturity. But Trump is one of the most low-integrity, low-maturity leaders on this planet.

The fundamental issue Langan identifies is corruption. But you cannot solve the issue of corruption by electing a leader who is utterly corrupt in spirit and mind. Trump's narcissism and sociopathy is exactly the corruption that these so-called bad "elites" have. Except Trump has an even more severe case of it. Trump is more corrupt than any CEO of any Fortune 500 company. And on top of all that he's utterly incompetent. Trump hasn't read a single serious book in his life! The notion that Trump can solve any deep social problems is laughable. His ignorance and egotism creates more problems than it solves. Corruption comes from ego, and Trump has one of the biggest, most toxic egos on the planet. How does Langan not understand this?

Forum user (@esotag) shared the follow video with me as a good visualization of Consciousness.

That's sort of what Awakening can feel like. It can fee like you take a few steps back from your entire field of perception and see it from a meta, nowhere perspective. The bubble itself is floating in nothingness. This is what makes it feel solipsistic. Reality IS this bubble of Consciousness. That's what the "universe" is.

You are not a human or a biological organism. You are this bubble of Consciousness. This bubble does not exist within time nor space. It does not exist on planet Earth. It is not inside of anything. It is not subordinate to anything. It is not made of atoms or anything. It is not happening in a brain. It has no age. It has no mechanical causes. It is not governed by any physical laws. It has no parents. It isn't born and it doesn't die. It has no beginning nor end. This bubble does not exist within a universe, the universe exists within the bubble. And there is only this one bubble.

That is the ultimate nature of reality. It's pretty fucking weird. It doesn't make human sense. It is absolutely magic. It is God.

Very Important: Please keep in mind that this is just one way to experience Awakening. There are many other very radically different ways. Do not take this too literally!