Leo Gura

The higher the dose the higher the risk, obviously. But it's not just high dose. It can also be re-dosing or how long or often you trip. I've had times were I tripped for 12-24hrs in a row. That increases the danger. I've had times where I tripped for a month in row. The danger gets exponential if you trip frequently and re-dose often.

1) I doubt even that. He would certainly vote with Trump vs a Dem. 2) There is no room for anything else right now in the Republican party. The pressure to side with Trump couldn't be greater. He will be forced to side with Trump even if he doesn't want to. That's just the survival situation within that party. 3) But I am quite sure he will support Trump/Musk with a passion since their aim is to gut the government of all regulations and balances. This is a libertarian's wet dream.

That's exactly what I expect of him, since they are all stage Orange.

Just keep in mind that that hesitation could be the biggest mistake. Success requires making bold decisions, bold investments, and strategic risk. Sitting around doing nothing is also a risk.

I've never seen a good libertarian. They are all fools in some sense. It's just a question of to what degree. And that degree is usually quite high. Anyone associated with the current Republican party is a corrupt pervert.

Obviously AI can be trained to lie if it's given the right incentives.

Delusions and fantasies are not more true. They can be very false. Reckless behavior is also not necessarily aligned with truth or goodness. Yeah, but you always have to care about survival to some degree or you will enter a living hell. You have to be very careful about how to go about transcending survival, as you could easily trap yourself. It's easy to fool yourself into thinking you are above survival when you really aren't. That's one of the biggest traps of psychedelics. They can make you feel invincible -- for a while. But then material reality catches up with you.

Of course. For sure. But it's unclear how exactly. That is a clear sign of LP. I understand your fear. It's unclear how good AI will actually get. There's a lot of hype right now. I've used art AI a lot and right now it's totally insufficient to replace human artists and probably will be that way for a long time to come. Just because it can produce a few nice looking pictures or videos doesn't mean it's usable for serious commercial projects. All the art made by AI is very derivative and limited, even though it can be beautiful. Realistically there will be many new AI tools for artists made within the next 10 years which will speed up workflows significantly. But technical artists will still be required. This notion that you will be able to just type a sentence into an AI and get a commercial quality of art is a childish fantasy at this point. But there will be powerful tools. It will take a decade just to develop those tools. But this field will evolve rapidly so you'll have to stay on the cutting edge by using all the latest tools. - - - - - You have to keep in perspective that AI will change many industries. Especially anything related to tech/software/art/music/media. So this is just par for the course now. You still gotta build some kind of career for yourself. Pretty much any field you choose could be disrupted by AI in the future: teacher, writer, waiter, actor, musician, soldier, pilot, even CEO. What job is really safe at this point? But you still need to plan for a job.

It can be any substance at high dose. High dose is relative to whatever is high for you. Yes. If you trip deep enough, even basic precautions will not be enough to keep you safe. Delusions and fantasies, mental unhingement A psychological addiction to escapism Physical injury Ruining your relationships, saying things to people you shouldn't say Disillusionment with material life

It's a very cool LP and it can pay very well. You can definitely learn 3D visual arts a lot on your own. Don't use free YT videos, you must buy higher quality courses. Don't wait for school. Get started making stuff immediately. I taught myself a lot of 3D modeling when I was a teen. And the tools and learning resources available today are 100x better. Yes, it's very technical and takes a lot of effort and struggle to learn. But once you've have the basic skills it's quite fun and rewarding. Don't compare your early work with the work of professionals. It take a lot of training to make pro-level stuff.

Yes

This is a dangerous and false idea. The substance is irrelevant.

Plot twist: AI will do all the fun creative jobs while you end up doing grueling soulless labor for a giant soulless corporation.

The problem is that kids only have so much time to learn. So it's about prioritizing the most important domains. Ideally law would be taught, but in practice it's not a high priority domain. I would rather have kids learn about psychology, personal development, epistemology, health, geography, government, relationships, business, marketing, dating.

You have to be extremely careful with this or you will turn into a deluded fool like Whatifalthist. You have to be very careful about using history to reinforce your own biases and ideology. When you read history it's not so clear why certain things unfolded as they did. Epistemic humility is crucial. A libertarian will distort history as he reads it, and then corrupt you with his twisted understanding.

Suffering by itself is not enough to improve a system. You must also have the resources and infrastructure to make the improvements. Underdeveloped places are mired in profound corruption which has no quick solution. It's like a drug addict -- he suffers a lot but doesn't have the resources to help himself. Suffering is just his way of life. There's not even an option. The more dysfunctional a system is, the harder it is to fix. And some systems are so dysfunctional they cannot be fixed.

The deluded fantasies of an egomaniac. Abundance for him, wage slavery and capitalist dystopia for everyone else.

She's not insane, just disgruntled and radicalized. I don't see a problem with what I said. It's not a joke. Bullying creates violent people. This is obvious. I have considered it more than you know.

Deep tripping will unleash energies within you which you never even knew you had. All self-restraint and common sense will fly out the window. You won't be able to confine yourself to your bed or a room. You can get dangerous ideas and then act on them without your normal sober caution and better judgment. For example, you might get the idea to stab yourself in the eye with a pencil, just because.

Just as long as he applies that logic to his own family. Gotta watch those double standards.

Impossible things are cool and important, but still not the same as Awakening proper. Awakening is self-validating, obvious to itself. The most obvious thing about it is that you will say to yourself, "OMG! I'm Awake!" There won't be any doubt about that. It will be shockingly clear and obvious. However, keep in mind that this clarity and obviousness does not mean that an Awakening has to be crazy radical or intense. It can still be mild. There are mild awakenings and very extreme intense awakenings. And both are obvious, clear, and self-validating. You could still be confused about an awakening you had. But generally speaking it will be obvious enough to you that you won't need to ask us. Yes, there is such a distinction. A small awakening would be very clear but your visual field won't change much. You'd be awake but everything would look pretty much like normal. Nothing otherworldly would be going on. It would feel like your visual field became crystal clear. A very intense awakening would not only be very clear but so radical that your visual field should start to do impossible things and you would have such profound insight into the nature of consciousness that it would terrify you. It would be so intense that it would be deeply uncomfortable and you would experience it as physical reality melting before your eyes. It would feel like drowning in Infinity. Infinity would beat you over the head mercilessly, to the point of a traumatic experience. You might feel like you've lost your mind and gone insane. The key aspect of Awakening is clarity. It's like the clarity of your perception got cranked up by 1000x. This pure clarity is distinct from seeing weird mystical shit. You can see weird mystical shit without this clarity, or with it. And when this clarity reaches a high enough degree it starts to warp your visual field and spawn weird mystical shit too. Awakening feels sorta like having all the air sucked out of the room. It's like you're seeing through reality and reality feels hollow. You can look at a coffee table and its just feels like nothing/infinity.

Again, it's wrong to call it socialism. It's a softer form of capitalism. Sure, that works. Why would any system work 100%?

I'm not even sure. I don't know enough about the business culture of Scandinavia.

You can't know everything you are capable of creating. But you can mostly distinguish between things which are within your control and which are not. Creating money is within your control. Contacting aliens is mostly not. Of course there's a lot of things you don't know and won't ever know about reality and even yourself. What you know is a tiny fraction of what could be known.

1) Scandinavia is not socialist. It is capitalist. 2) Well-regulated capitalism seems to be the best system at this time. 3) I don't see trust of government as a big issue. If we invest resources into making government function well then it will be trusted. Clearly creating a well-functioning government is possible. It just requires eliminating corruption and hiring/electing high quality people with integrity and good character. This can be done in America and Europe. It's just that people aren't serious about doing it.