Leo Gura

Hasan is a prime example of Green. You don't get more politically Green than Hasan. Don't forget Green can be hypocritical. That doesn't mean it's not Green. Hating the West is exactly what Green loves to do. Because it is so anti bullying of minorities. Hasan is a perfect example of what it's like to get stuck in Green, and the limitations of that. Hasan suffers exactly from the excesses of Green. And that's what rubs Sam Harris the wrong way.

This year I am experimenting with new formats and ways. Maybe I will find some new format. I already found the couch Instagram shorts format, and it works well for me. I recorded 338 shorts in 5 days without even trying.

I know you'd love to see it. But that is not my forte or focus. My focus is on serious intellectual work. I am not an social media entertainer. I have a book to write and courses to make. I don't want to be distracted chasing toads in the jungle for your amusement.

For sure. JP is a clever devil. At the end of the day, all these right-wingers are doing unconscious survival first and foremost. Everything else they do is tertiary to that. All their ideology is just a facade for unconscious survival. Right-wingers are not conscious enough to see that their own ideology is just a front for unconscious survival. They rake in tens of millions with it. That's why they believe it so strongly. Imagine if I paid you $10M/yr to believe in Christianity and MAGA. You would gladly do it.

YouTube doesn't care. They just do whatever maximizes their profits. If my video makes them less money, they will show another video instead. And obviously my videos make them way less money than most videos.

I did the math on how much money they make: 72,000 members x $450/yr = $32 million/yr Not too shabby. It is definitely a nice grift to line JP's pockets. It is the perfect scheme to monetize his enormous casual audience who will never go to university but want to feel intelligent.

Toad lives in a dry ass desert. Traveling around the world is costly and would likely not add much viewership. My content is just too serious and heavy to be mainstream popular. Which means I can't invest $1000s into making a video. Traveling to a jungle is a couple thousand dollars of expenses.

I have no plans to change the current pricing. Perhaps if I over-deliver on content that might warrant a higher price for the Vault. I want to strike a fair balance between quantity of content and price. So the amount of new content you get easily feels worth the price.

I actually don't know. I have never used OF and I don't know their marketing strategies. I guess maybe if you put it like that. YouTube algorithm has changed a lot in the last 10 years. Any day YT can change its algorithm and kill 50% of your traffic and profits overnight. That happened to be me multiple times. YT is competing with TikTok on Shorts. This killed much of my traffic because all my videos are super long and deep. YT does not show my videos to anyone but my existing subscribers. And even not to all my subscribers. That's why I am forced to experiment with alternative ways and platforms.

More like Actualized Premium/Prime. But it isn't a subscription. I basically can't afford to run Actualized on free videos alone. I need a Premium paid portion because YouTube cut about 90% of my business over the last 10 years. YouTube ain't what it used to be in the good ol' day before AI slop and clip farmers.

I plan to post about half of the 3-minute videos to Instagram slowly over the next year. I can't just dump hundreds of videos on Instagram. That's why I created the Vault. So you guys could access them all right now. There was no other way to give you access to 338 videos. And posting that many videos is a major pain in my ass. My hands are sore just from assembling them all into the Vault.

I am curious how many lectures/classes does Peterson Academy have in total? Do they even have enough classes to equal a 4-year major? For even a single major? I doubt it. Even one major requires a lot of classes that JP's buddies would not do the work to cover.

By life I mean this experience you have of being a human -- all of your memories. After the human experience ends that is no longer life. There is still consciousness but it is no longer life. Death is Infinite Consciousness.

@Natasha Tori Maru That seems like fair criticism. "Paid premium lecture service" is exactly what it is. I see Peterson Academy more like The Teaching Company than a university. That's how JP should have framed it. Framing it as an alternative to university is silly because it cannot be anywhere close to that. These are lectures for casual self-study, not a serious major in a field.

I never promised content for Patreon. Not sure where you got this idea. Patreon was a donation thing. That money goes into supporting my general YT channel. All the content that I might post to Patreon I just release for free on my blog. So I don't feel any empty promises were made there. There will be at least 500 clips in this vault. Plus other longer videos. So at least 25 hours of content. At least 50% of it will be exclusive. Everything in the vault is 100% new recorded content. There are zero clips taken from my YouTube videos. Everything in the Vault was recorded in the last month. After I fill this Vault up to 500 clips / 25 hours, I might create a paid Vault Part 2 with another 500 clips / 25 hours. These vaults are sold for a one-time fee. This is not an annual subscription. I will record at least 1000 clips/shorts in the next year. How exactly it will be organized and monetized is still to be determined. My basic idea is to package 500 clips per Vault part plus some longer videos too.

To clarify my position: 1) I am not saying 100% that he was killed. But it is reasonable to suspect foul play. 2) If he was killed, he was not killed for arms dealing but for knowing too much dirt on powerful people. The kind of dirt and blackmail material he definitely had was severe enough that killing him feels reasonable and warranted.

Hasan is problematic in that he radicalizes leftists to be even more dogmatic in their far left views. This makes leftists feel like they are superior to everyone else in an unhealthy way. Youngsters who go down the Hasan rabbit hole will fall into leftists dogma, arrogance, and closedmindedness. Hasan's community is a far left Marxist echo-chamber.

There wouldn't be a life left if you were fully conscious of Infinity. Life requires finite consciousness. That's what life is.

I spoke to Connor because he emailed me saying he was going to kill himself. I tried to help him but he just used it to get clicks. I have done more to educate people about how actual cults work than anyone calling me a cult leader. Such is the absurdity and ignorance of mankind. Cults are antithetical to everything I teach and stand for. Actualized is not even remotely a cult. And it never will be as long as I am alive. We are less of a cult than the comment sections of the YouTuber trolls who try to call us a cult. Have you seen the comment sections of YouTubers like Professor Dave? They exhibit more conformity and cult behavior than anything found on this forum. They act like mindless zombies.

@Natasha Tori Maru What did they get banned for?

We have to be a bit careful because leftists can have an axe to grind against JP. So I am leery of fake students who join his Academy just to trash it.

Classic example of self-bias.

If you surrendered to it entirely you'd be dead.

Sam's denial of the obvious ethnic cleansing of Gaza by focusing on Hasan is the real issue. Right wing Israelis are certainly genocidal. And they run Israeli policy. Sam refuses to take responsiblity for how the West causes terrorism.