Leo Gura

@Natasha Tori Maru Sorry to disappoint a fan. But I can't just release a video for the sake of releasing a video. It has to be worthwhile topic.

The YouTube recommendations algorithm keeps getting worse and worse, suggesting shallow crap. We need to crowd-source this problem. Let's begin keeping a list of the best, unknown YouTube channels. I'm always looking for high-quality channels related to philosophy, psychology, political science, sociology, history, documentaries, geography, travel, etc. I'm looking for serious channels with mature people who talk about mature subjects. Not drama, not culture wars, not clickbait, not entertainment. Channels with interesting, high-quality content. Channels that are educational and add to our understanding of the world. These channels usually have fewer subscribers, less popular. If you know of such channels, if you find new channels of this kind, please share them here. When you share the link, please write a few words about what the channel is about and why it's worth watching. I will share the best of these suggestions on my blog as well. Thank you. Examples of the kind of channels I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDissenterRL/videos https://www.youtube.com/@WHATISPOLITICS69/videos https://www.youtube.com/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly/videos https://www.youtube.com/@thestoa/videos https://www.youtube.com/@IntegralNaked/videos https://www.youtube.com/@LetsTalkReligion/videos

The mind/self needs some way to explain why it exists and how it should survive. Rather than doing the work to discover that through truth-seeking, the mind/self just adopts beliefs that are useful for its survival. Once that is done, the mind/self is in a constant adversarial relationship to Truth, because no ideology is true and dropping the ideology is too threatening to the self's survival. Philosophy is the mind/self's grasping at making sense of itself, but constantly failing because the mind/self's true nature is God, which is incomprehensible to a finite mind/self.

@UnbornTao I'm sure it's a good game. The issue is whether the prospect of playing it excites me. To me the feeling is missing. I have the same problem with Avatar 3. I just don't feel excited to watch it because it seems too predictable and known, regardless of how technically excellent it is. Games and films need to bring something exciting to the table. To me, riding a horse and shooting cowboys isn't exciting. But hey, that's just a matter of taste.

I just don't see much connection between these different things. Seems like you are trying to shoehorn them together. How is pyrrhonism related to herding cattle?

Usually when we say "direct experience" we exclude the conceptual domain. Math is in the conceptual domain. But of course you do directly experience the conceptual domain and you do directly experience mathematical truths, which is why you are able to do math at all. The problem is that you also directly experience conceptual falsehoods too. You can do your logic wrong and think you are right.

When you are sick you can not do it. You will still get benefits. But if you are not sick you should do it every day. It is an issue of priorities. You have the wrong priorities in life.

I'm not sure how to answer that. That's a strange juxtaposition.

It may for some, but it won't work for most. Modern life is too busy for that to work.

For meditation you are better off doing retreats than daily practice. Meditation is too weak.

How do porcupines mate? Very carefully.

It permanently quiets the monkey mind. But very subtly, very slowly. It raise baseline consciousness, but very subtly, very slowly.

That is tough. You have to somehow convince yourself it is the most important thing in the world. What will convince you of that, I don't know. A major Awakening to God would help. Via a psychedelic. That's what convinces me the most.

Death has never been demonstrated. Scientists do believe in death. Improperly defining death is half the problem. You have zero scientific evidence that Charlie Kirk is not alive in heaven with God.

Christmas is gone.

It depends how deep you want the understanding to be. You can't understand that the point of all politics is Love unless you realize that Love is what drives all conscious beings. How you gonna realize that without some meditation? Most people are happy with shallow explanations, for which meditation is not needed.

Obviously you can still do good narrow intellectual work, like writing a biography of Hitler, but as far as sense-making of reality as a whole, that will fail.

I updated the blog post to add a few alternative docs, but they are not the same. Use a VPN.

Hot yoga

It's not conformity, it is done because 80% of people never watch more than 30% of a video. Chasing after subs count is conformity though.

It is a profound mistake to want things to be easy.

Haha, yes. But also rewarding. If it was easy it wouldn't mean anything. Climbing mount Everest means nothing if you can just helicopter to the top.

As I said, luxury is conformity. When rubes get ahold of easy wealth, they waste it in cringe and tasteless ways. That describes wealthy Arabs.

There is always a way. The question isn't whether you can but whether you will. You tell us. Will you? If you don't lead the way, it won't happen but by luck.