Leo Gura

Memes celebrating psychedelics. Post 'em if you got 'em.

That is a good point. They are very openminded and still the conversation is challenging. But with most scientists this conversation would simply be impossible.

He has never responded to me. Having him ask deep questions would be even more challenging. The bigger the platform the more shallow the questions will be. That's why I prefer to look for smaller, more academic people.

Musk is too utilitarian to live those values. He does not understand the sacrfices necessary to embody truth, love, and so on. He does not understand how serious these values are and what it takes to actualize them. He thinks he can just use business-BS to attain them. That cannot work. But it feels good to his ego to believe he is living those values. He wants the glory of those values without the sacrifice.

@kavaris People are lost in survival. Including scientists. That's why caring about truth is the #1 issue. You will never understand reality without insanely caring about truth -- which nobody does. See, if these scientists actually cared about truth they would be calling me every day asking questions. But they don't have that attitude. It all boils down to attitude. Less than one in a million people has the right attitude for this work. There is nothing that can be done or said when the right attitude is absent.

Of course that requires 3 hours of explanation which we never got to.

Of course I don't expect them to change their worldview for me.

Of course. But you can't sit around waiting for that.

@OBEler Yes, I know exactly how it looks. That's how it is meant to look.

What? The quote font has always been the same. I have never changed font size on the blog.

What you do it is, approach many more girls. You should be approaching so many girls that you never even think about how a single approach went. When you are doing 100s of approaches, no one approach matters. Your problem is that you are doing way too few approaches in general.

Yes, if they are part of the videos you make. Obviously not your regular groceries but the special groceries you buy for making the video. These are just considered business expenses. You just deduct them from your profits. But if you have no profits then it's pointless.

That's not possible. Gaming involves multi-hour sessions. And that's fine. It is okay to spend a few weeks a year hardcore gaming. Just limit it to a few weeks per year, not 365. If you are very selective about what you play, then you shouldn't need more than a few weeks per year gaming since there aren't that many good new games each year. The problem is that gamers play shit compulsively just because they need something, anything, to play. A few times a year you can just get lost in 12 hours of gameplay. It's okay. It's like a vacation.

Yes, dance classes are a great way to meet girls. My ex was into Bachata. She kept inviting me but I never went. But if I went there on my own, I could have met her there.

I would explain all the methods to them. Psychedelics are part of that, but it's not limited to psychedelics. I'm also pretty sure they've done some kind of psychedelics. Maybe they don't want to admit it publicly. The key is telling them that the truths we are speaking about are not just trips, as that's too easy for a scientific mind to discount as hallucinations.

Yes, that's fine. Folks have done it in the past. Just don't start to organize official meetup groups.

Well, to be fair to her, I don't know what she knows. Perhaps she is a closet hippie. But of course, in my opinion, she is underestimating the depth of the stuff we were speaking of. Of course the ego-mind underestimates Reality/God/Truth/Love/Infinity. That's the whole problem with science. Scientists act like they are humble but in fact they are extremely arrogant when it comes to serious existential questions. That's what it means to be stuck in a paradigm. The paradigm cannot see its own limits. If she understood what I understand, she wouldn't be a scientist. So it's a Catch-22 situation. She can't admit to her entire worldview being wrong. No ego can admit that. Especially in public, but even in private it is too painful. Every scientist grossly underestimates Reality. They think they have Reality almost figured out.

That was the whole point of that post.

I think we can do another podcast with them in the future and go deeper into metaphysics, epistemology, science, and consciousness. Maybe next year. I will propose that to them after some time passes. I like talking with them. We just need to get into deeper questions. Hopefully I can build a nice long-term relationship with them, so we can cover many topics in the future.

Thanks! Thanks!

Yes, this is basically the solution. This doesn't mean you don't have sex with real people. You still can and should. But it's not essential. It's a bonus when it is available, but you're not going to chase after it desperately. Masturbation can be more satisfying than real sex. It often is, as long as you have the proper mindset. But if you buy into the mindset that masturbation is always inferior to sex, that's the key mistake.

It really isn't up to me. They are the hosts and they are the ones leading the conversation. If I try to control it then it looks bad on me. I did try to prep them for a deeper conversation over emails, but they insist on doing things their way. That's just the nature of the format. If I'm on someone else's show I can't control it and structure it properly like I do on my own channel. So you cannot expect the level of depth you get on my channel when I appear on other channels. My channel is deep because I put a lot of thought into structuring it that way, but no interviewer knows how to do that or even has the interest to do that. This is actually a nice demonstration of the difficulties of discussing these topics with scientists. The scientists don't even know the depth of what is being discussed so they can't know the right questions to ask. This is a structural issue. The shallowness of science doesn't even allow for the depth necessary to understand Truth/God/Consciousness/Love. Just getting the discussion off the ground is a challenge. When you are on my channel all of those issues are bypassed, which is what makes Actualized.org uniquely powerful. But if I am talking to a normal academic, hours would be wasted just getting them into the right territory because they would keep getting distracted by tangents. My attitude for podcasts is to just keep it chill and go with the flow. Not to over-think it or try to control it. I have given up on that idea. I am satisfied with how I answered all their questions. If their questions were not deep, that's on them. I am not going to fret over it because that kind of depth is only possible on my channel -- which is why my channel exists.

Podcast appearance discussion move to new topic:

I will be appearing on a technical science podcast soon. It is run by academics. Probably within a month. We are still scheduling. Should be interesting. I already had a friendly chat with them and it went well. They ask good skeptical questions. They are materialists but openminded. I plan to be doing more interview appearances this year across various channels and platforms.

It certainly wasn't my doing. Those are just the questions they asked. I would not have talked about morality at all if it was up to me. I was there to talk about science, metaphsysics, epistemology, and consciousness. But they don't know what questions to ask me.