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  2. I would also include an instruction to to have it run OCR on all the scraped images so you could search the image posts as well.

  3. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Someone here replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    “There is not one person on Earth who can argue against life being a hallucination. Because, of course, it is. What else would life be?“ That’s a poetic line because it’s doing more emotional heavy lifting than logical work. Saying that life is a hallucination sounds profound until you ask what evidence distinguishes it from reality. A statement isn’t true just because it’s impossible to disprove. If that’s the standard..then we’re equally justified in saying life is a simulation or a dream or a giant cosmic nightmare ..Beautiful metaphor? Maybe. Solid argument? No.
  4. Just have Claude Code do it for you. Here's a prompt that should get you an app to fetch the blog daily and let you search it, all hosted locally: # Build prompt: Actualized.org blog reader Build me a GUI app that lets me read and search every blog post from https://actualized.org/insights — a local, offline archive with full-text search that stays current on its own. Start with the backend: getting all the posts off the site, stored durably, and kept up to date via a daily automated check. The GUI comes after. You own the architecture. Everything below is reconnaissance and constraints, not instructions — make your own engineering calls, and tell me if you disagree with any framing here. I'm not a developer, so flag tradeoffs in plain terms. ## What I already checked (verified 2026-07-16 — don't repeat these dead ends) The site runs WordPress, but every convenient structured-data route is closed: - **WordPress REST API: unavailable.** `/wp-json/wp/v2/posts` returns 404 at the root. The WP install actually lives in a `/wordpress/` subdirectory, but `/wordpress/wp-json/wp/v2/posts` also 404s. - **RSS: useless.** `https://actualized.org/rss` is a valid feed but only carries 10 items, description excerpts only — no `pubDate`, no `content:encoded`, no post bodies. - **No sitemap anywhere.** `/sitemap.xml`, `/sitemap_index.xml`, `/wp-sitemap.xml`, and `/sitemap-index.xml` all 404. `robots.txt` contains no `Sitemap:` directive. So HTML scraping is genuinely the only path. Post URLs must be enumerated by walking the pagination at `/insights`, which runs to roughly 274 pages. ## Site structure - Index with numbered pagination at `/insights`, ~274 pages. - Individual posts at `/insights/[slug]`. - Each post has a title, a publication date, body content, and social share buttons (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Email) that are chrome, not content. **The site's age matters.** `robots.txt` disallows `/includes/`, `/Templates/` (capital T), `/flash/`, `/downloads/`, `/wordpress/`, and several hand-listed `.php` files under `/pages/misc/`. That's not a WordPress robots.txt — this is an old hand-built PHP site with WordPress grafted into a subdirectory years later to run the blog. Assume post markup varies across eras and verify that assumption early rather than trusting page 1 to represent page 274. ## Content characteristics - Posts are short and structurally simple: usually a single headline followed by rich text. - YouTube embeds appear throughout, sometimes several per post. These need to survive into the archive and be playable/visible in the app. - Some posts are essentially just an image, with little or no body text. - Images are hosted under `/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/`. ## Constraints - **Respect `robots.txt`.** `/insights` and `/insights/[slug]` are not disallowed — that's the content, and it's fair game. `/wordpress/` is disallowed; don't crawl it. (Image assets referenced by posts are a judgment call — raise it with me rather than deciding silently.) - **Be a good citizen.** Personal-use archive of one site I read. Throttle politely; there's no reason to hit the server hard. A slow crawl is fine — run it in the background. - **Fetch each post once.** The initial crawl should be a one-time cost. See "Keeping it current" below. - **Fail loudly, not silently.** A post that doesn't parse should be recorded as a failure with its URL, not written as an empty or half-empty record. I'd rather see a list of 40 problems than discover hollow posts in six months. - Windows. Assume nothing else about the stack — recommend what fits. ## Keeping it current The archive needs to check for new posts **daily**, unattended, and pull anything it finds into the archive without me doing anything. Constraints that make this harder than it looks: - **The machine is a personal Windows desktop.** It sleeps, it gets shut down, it won't be on at any predictable hour. A schedule that silently skips its window and waits for tomorrow is not acceptable — missed runs need to catch up on the next opportunity. Days may pass between runs, and the archive still needs to be complete afterward. - **The daily check must be cheap.** Re-walking all ~274 pagination pages every day to find the zero-to-two posts that are new is wasteful and rude to the server. The daily path should cost far less than the initial crawl. - **Silent failure is the main risk.** This runs unattended, so the realistic bad outcome isn't a crash — it's the site changing its markup, the scraper quietly finding nothing, and me not noticing for months while believing the archive is current. I need to be able to tell at a glance whether the sync is actually working. Surfacing "last successful sync" and "last error" somewhere I'll see matters more than clever recovery logic. - Don't let a failed or interrupted run corrupt the existing archive. A bad sync should leave yesterday's good data intact. ## Things I don't know - Whether I want to be **notified** when new posts arrive, or just have them appear silently in the app next time I open it. Raise this with me — don't assume either way. - Whether the daily check should also catch **edits to existing posts**, or only genuinely new ones. Same — ask me, and tell me what it costs to do both. - The real post count. ~274 pagination pages; posts-per-page unconfirmed. - How many distinct markup variants exist across the site's history. - Whether publication dates are reliably present and parseable on every post. - Whether pagination is stable enough to enumerate cleanly (new posts shift it). ## What I want from you first Before writing the full scraper, show me what you actually found: what the markup looks like at both ends of the archive's date range, how many variants you're dealing with, and what your storage plan is. Then build it once we agree.
  5. No one likes to be exploited by the same thing that threatens their livelihood and at the same time kills the incentive. AI bros need to chill. Sounds about right that AI bros are always drop out "entrepreneurs". It's easy accessible low effort shit. But if AI can do it it's pretty much worthless. You're not going to get rich of AI. Even the AI companies haven't made a profit. There's no replacing having a valuable skillset.
  6. No - maybe I wasn't clear. I am talking about his health related works. I am explicitly speaking about his impacts (changes) to the medical system and how the average person has benefit through usage of said system. He hasn't done anything to impact that space yet. He isn't doing science. There isn't anything heroic about making what he does public. His experiment is flawed because we won't know if fertilizing his farts with eucalyptus was what caused a result, or ripping up his astroturf because it is plastic poison. Fundamentally I suspect I have different definition of what a hero is, and mine is probably more tight than yours. I don't appreciate this condescending, sarcastic tone. Why do you always do that? Do you not comprehend it just makes the receipt of your words more difficult? This is interaction 101. I actually cannot believe you just defaulted back to that, like some sort of weird instinct. You do it to almost all others who disagree with you. Multiple topics. Multiple posts. All users. And others express this isn't appreciated. I don't have time for it, have a good one.
  7. I can parrot some theory to you regarding this. But i only have one date where I've tried this so far. Went well though. But was just being more 'I love' 'i hate' when talking about my hobbies. Essentially, this is a third-party topic. (Isn't connected to you or the girl), and that isn't great. But you can connect it to you by talking about your emotions in relation to it. Firstly, can engage her by making strong emotional statements that use with words like 'love' 'hate'. For example, "I love thinking about how the world really works", or "I hate the idea of living my life without satisfying my curiosity about how the world works". (This i reckon could definitely be an upgrade for you, where you both get a better experience). Secondly, you can convey your views on the topic through a story. The basics of a good story are situation, interruption, change, and you want to include the character's inner experiences. - For example, When i was a kid I was always fascinated by how reality worked. I loved watching films with my dad about sci films where people would be teleporting or time travelling, and i would always ask why that happened. As I grew up those films didn't scratch that same itch anymore. And I found my interests moved more towards philosophy. I hated the idea of not knowing how the reality around me functioned, and my curiosity about what reality is and the nature of why we are here, were on my mind all the time. And still now, philosophy is a real love of mine.
  8. @Jirh For me there have been multiple enlightenments, however the most recent one (yesterday) felt ultimate. That said I believe I can attain more ultimate enlightenments in the future.
  9. @Staples It stops being a fantasy when getting far enough. All of this is pretty hardcore and transforms one's life beyond regular work life. Regular perception and materialism is the true fantasy.
  10. @Carl-Richard Hello fellow Norwegian! (I think) Non-doership is a state I can activate whenever I want. It's freeing and fascinating. I never think about time. I basically never watch the clock. It has lead to a great timeless flow state. At rest there are few thoughts. However souls and Gods communicate with me. Letting go of attachments and shedding identification was necessary to comprehend deep truths. Disollution of the self was partially a part of it.
  11. There are advanced tools to search the blog here:
  12. Is enlightenment a single event that happens once?
  13. Better search functionality for the blog would be nice. It's impossible to find anything specific without just scrolling through. There should be categories or keywords.
  14. Maybe you don’t need it, but maybe you want it? (I’m the teacher now)
  15. Delulu. Enjoy the fantasy, I'll see you back at work on monday.
  16. How is the state of non-doership? Experience of time. Experience of thoughts (are they active when at rest, are you thinking about stuff when at rest, and if so, what are you thinking about?). Was there a process of letting go of attachments, of shedding identification? Was there a point of dissolution of self and/or cessation of sensory phenomena? How would you describe your experience of objects in your visual sensory field before and after the enlightenment?
  17. His work would be much more appealing and people would want to see where it could go if he wasn't so weird. Point is, it's not primarily about the work. The work is not what people are repulsed by, at least not most. You have the whole anti-transhumanist crowd, but that's not most people.
  18. @Natasha Tori Maru You're moving the goalposts, Natasha. First you asked what he's done, then you said his multi-million-dollar entrepreneurship track record doesn't count, and now you're claiming clinical lab tests aren't 'empirical proof.' Empirical diagnostic data: His biological age reversal isn't a guess; it's measured by TruDiagnostic DNA methylation kits, which use the DunedinPACE algorith; the gold standard developed by Duke University and Columbia University to empirically track the pace of human aging. His protocol has achieved a verified 5-year biological age reversal, an absolute reduction of systemic chronic inflammation (hsCRP levels below detectable limits), and a 2.6% extension in telomere length. If a pharmaceutical drug achieved those exact biomarker results in a clinical trial, it would be a multi-billion-dollar medical breakthrough. You keep asking who he has impacted right now outside of himself. He co-founded the Rejuvenation Olympics global leaderboard. Because of this, everyday people who don't have his money are using his open-source power-law framework to radically slow their aging. From what I looked up here's one case: a 55-year-old single mom named Julie Gibson Clark used these exact principles to take the #2 spot on the global leaderboard, verified by independent lab testing. He isn't just 'spinning words.' He built the infrastructure that pulled longevity science out of closed-door academic labs and turned it into an open-source, measurable data game for the public. When we end up literally BIOLOGICALLY IMMORTAL it will be due to his work and other scientists and visionaries like him. Which other quests do you think is more heroic? Perhaps ending world hunger but his quest is right along the line of curing cancer. What do you mean random shit? Like playing in the park with a dog or baking a strawberry pie? You aren't intellectually honest in a lot of your arguments. It's not random its very expensive and precise medical testing and diagnosis that he is sharing with the world. @Joshe Sure he could be more calibrated but nobody is perfect.
  19. He wrote a grievance post about why people don't like him and got it completely wrong. The main reason people mock him and want to see him fail is because the things I mentioned. Not because the world wants him to die or because he's shattering paradigms. You seem to have some good sense. Do you really buy his reasoning in that post? I'm actually not bothered by him and have enjoyed watching some of his stuff. His experiments are interesting IMO, and I find him benign for the most part, so I don't personally have a problem with him. That said, he's a weird mf.
  20. I know it’s hard (almost impossible) for most people to wrap their minds around the notion that the ego itself doesn’t actually exist in physical reality . We can speak loosely about overcoming or weakening the ego by spiritual practice like meditation or fasting but in the ultimate Analysis it should be clear there is no ego in the most literal sense possible. The “I” is a thought instead of a physical entity . Whenever the thought “I” arises it comes delayed after the act happens and it claims ownership of thoughts and deeds . The body eats and breathes and sleeps and then the i-thought arises and claims dowership “I slept or I dreamt or I ate etc “
  21. Hes just doing random shit and people act like he's curing the world. He's spreading his death anxiety all over the planet. Getting your hopes up for immortality is going to make you suffer.
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  24. Thank you for this perspective cause I had a discussion with a girl at a festival this summer and she was into surface level, feeling/body based spirituality but I hadn't made that distinction yet in my mind so I dove in head first and she never text back! I was confused AF but I probably scared her off now that I look back on it (said my life's motto is that everything is my own mind, even when I'm interacting with others)
  25. The same pointless confused conversations again lol . Before deciding “we should eliminate the ego “ or “we should align the ego “ ..do you even know what the ego actually is ? the ego is your sense of “I” . Full stop . the sense of I is real . The I itself is not real . so what are you going to align or deny ?
  26. @LordFall I mean for health - not his braintree etc stuff. I am across his history of entrepreneurship. Notice this also doesn't qualify for hero status, does it? What actual health results? Real impacts? Other than spinning words and marketing on already known tenets. None of what he is doing can easily be empirically proven as his methods are not scientific. Again - what has he ACTUALLY done to be considered a hero, right now? Not "maybe in 10 years he will be a hero" Maybe in 10 years I will shit out rainbows with a pot of gold at the end, when I become a fully turbocharged transhuman I want to avoid all the fantastical thinking.

  27. Attachment Styles

    Rafael Thundercat replied to Rafael Thundercat's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    True. I may not be fully Secure but my last relationship that ended recently was for me the proof that sometimes even secure people can lose their shit because they are humans anyway. This is a text I found in my research and I kind of did this process to end it. Not perfectly but the best gracefull way I could. Is hard to see someone sabotage the relationship but for sake of self-worth needing to let the person go. Knowing that she will repeat it again and again. How a secure person ends a relationship with an avoidant. Why secure people leave Secure people don't leave because: the avoidant needed space they struggled with independence they took things personally they need a tactic to pull the avoidant closer They leave when they're noticing that: the same patterns keep repeating their needs aren't being met communication never leads to real change the effort starts coming from only one side The warning signs they start noticing A secure person begins reconsidering the relationship when: promises never lead to real change the hot-and-cold dynamic keeps repeating plans regularly get cancelled emotional availability never actually increases At some point it stops feeling like a rough phase and starts looking like a pattern. What secure people don't do Even when they care deeply, secure people won't: keep having the same conversation over and over beg for basic respect or effort accept promises without real follow-through shrink their needs to keep the relationship going wait indefinitely for someone to become "ready" The decision point Eventually a moment comes where they realize: "I've communicated clearly. I've been patient. I've given this relationship a real chance." But despite all of that, the dynamic hasn't changed. That's when the realization sets in: this is who this person is right now, and that doesn't work for me. How a secure person ends it When a secure person ends the relationship, it usually sounds something like this: "I care about you, but this relationship isn't meeting my needs. I've communicated what I need and things haven't changed, so I'm choosing to move on." There's no dramatic scene, no blame game. Just a clear boundary and the willingness to stand by it. After the breakup After the breakup, a secure person typically: goes no contact to create real space doesn't check their ex's social media doesn't send late-night "I miss you" messages allows themselves to grieve and slowly move forward They don't keep the door half-open in case the other person changes. Why they usually don't come back Secure people rarely return because by the time they leave: they have already communicated their needs several times they have reflected carefully on the decision they trust their judgment they know their needs and boundaries matter they trust that the right relationship exists In most cases, the emotional processing happened before the breakup itself. What the avoidant often loses When a secure person finally walks away, the avoidant often loses someone who: gave them space without creating drama communicated openly and clearly set healthy boundaries instead of controlling them stayed calm and consistent even during conflict And many avoidants only begin to understand the value of that kind of partner much later, once the relationship is already long gone.
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