Leo Gura

@Hardkill Both factors are true.

He's not just an ass, he is rigging policy to serve himself and his oligarch friends. They are creating a techno oligarchy. That is the issue. I don't care about his personal antics but the corruption of the government.

It all depends on the complexity and quality of the effects. A 90 minute Hollywood quality VFX movie can cost $100 million and requires a team of 100 people working for 2 years. In your first year you should not be expecting to make pro-level things. It takes years to build skill up to that level. Some solo guy making awesome clips probably has 10-15 years of experience and insane talent on top of that. Learning such skills is very deep work. You don't learn it in 6 months.

The only reason I succeeded was because the marketplace was not monopolized and saturated when I started. The environment has gotten much more monopolized since then. It's not just that there are large corporations, they have been turned into digital serfdoms over the last 15 years. This is a thread about the health of the ecosystem as a whole, of course a few individuals can always find success in any system.

It could be oxalate. But I don't know for sure.

Hard to create your own biz when everything is monopolized by a handful of giant corporations

You could turn a large closet into a tripping room.

Adobe AfterEffects is huge.

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.