Leo Gura

AI is not a scam, but it is overhyped. Using AI to make music is not a scam, but it is problematic and limited in many ways. A CEO's job is to run a profitable company. So he is doing his job. His job is not to make good music or good musicians.

To some degree. But its more about the density and depth of the insights. My writing style is pretty causal and simple. Some verbal wit, but I'm not trying to impress people with fancy language.

The ego might tell itself that, but when the rubber meets the road the ego will not be able to stomach that much self-sacrfice. Socialism would work is we were all Awakened, egoless saints.

Some people have permanent state changes. Martin Ball claims to be one. The baseline state returns to normal, however your mind is permanently changed, so you don't see reality the same way even when you aren't high. There are permanent changes, but they are not to state per se. State is important but it's not the only important factor in this work. I am not high right now, but I relate to my present experience as God. I don't need to be high to recognize God all around me.

Because the book needs to be much more potent and cohesive. It is not a random asortment of things I say.

Even their skill is overrated. Of course they have skill, but there are so many skilled artists whose names you'll never hear. It is not skill that made Picasso a household name. Was he skilled? Of course.

You can be highly social without caring about stutus or money. This is like what hippies are. However, you are right that people who chase money also tend to chase status and they tend to socialize a lot.

Whoooosh! Over your head.

Marxism fails because it fundamentally misunderstands human nature. It fails to take survival seriously. The ego will not surrender its survival for the benefit of a collective good. The Marxist's own ego will not do it.

Yes, this requires lots of intuition and skill, which is developed through trial and error. After a decade+ of doing this work and pushing truth on people, I have developed a very good intuition for when to back off and not push. But I'm still sometimes wrong because I don't know how much truth any particular person can stomach. I tend to overestimate it because I am a glutton for truth. But most people aren't like me.

Psychedelics do not raise baseline, with rare exceptions.

Interesting point, but he still ended up a pawn in that whole game, riding it to fame and wealth. Becoming famous for telling the establishment to fuck themselves is still the same sort of game. Warhol's "art" still ended up highly overrated and overvalued.

Yes, but why does that happen? It's a marketing effect. In order to become famous and build a hype movement requires that you do something outrageous and controversial. That's why fine art has this toxic obsession with being avant-garde. This is actually a sneaky form of survival. You have to be avant-garde to make it big in the fine art world. Otherwise there's no hype behind your work. Fine art is a social contagion. It's the old school social media. You gotta go viral to be a somebody. In order to create a really popular video game or movie, you also have to pioneer some new style. Something that makes people stop and look. It doesn't have to be good per se, it just has to make people stop and look. Connor McGregor mastered this self-promotion self-hype cycle in the UFC. That's why he became the most famous and highest paid UFC fighter. Is Connor McGregor the best fighter? No! He's totally over-hyped. But he created a social contagion around himself. He created that fantasy and enough people believe it that it starts to look real.

It is not necessary. Taking a dump is good enough. Plugging only uses the last few inches of your rectum. There should be shit in there unless you are doing something weird.

It is bullshit in the sense of being overrated. There are some nice classical pieces. Van Gogh's Starry Night is lovely, but it is not $100 million dollars lovely. People have blown these artists like Van Gogh way out of proportion. Was he a decent artist? Sure. Was he some art God? No. That part is the bullshit. There are many artists alive today who are better than Van Gogh, Dali, Picasso, and so on. But none of them will ever be revered as art gods because they don't have the group-think behind them.