Leo Gura

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.

Locking this because there is already ongoing discussion here:

Happy Halloween

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I figured out why the site has been loading so slow. The site has been overrun by Facebook bots who wasted all the server resources. We are starting to block them now which should speed things up.

We are migrating this site and forum to a brand new server and host in an attempt to finally fix all of the slowness and loading problems. There will be some minor data loss with this forum. So don't post anything too important over the next day or two. I will update you when the migration has been completed. Thanks for your patience. I am looking forward to putting all of the site slowness forever behind us.

What?? Lol

From who? No author is obligated to release an audiobook.

Ralston is autistic. Lol

No. Look at David Duchovney. He was a famous sex addict who had a miserable life.

Nah. Smoke cloud to escape is not a violation of truth.

He can say those words but those are not the values running Grok.

How is it overpriced? Audible is so cheap. $10/book. I don't see how books can be any cheaper and still allow for authors to live. Books are so cheap it hardly makes sense to write one.

That's a corrupt lesson.

A film like Star Wars can teach the lesson much more potently than a 100-hour lecture from me. Moral stories are classic. I'm just pointing out a few tweaks to make it better. Lucas did an 85% good job of it.

Because the point is to teach the audience what Good is and what corruption is. It's supposed to be a genuine spiritual lesson, not just Hollywood action slop. You want a story that has spiritual realism. People at large don't know the value of truth. The Jedi are supposed to embody that value or fail to do so and show the consequences. You wanna teach your children that scamming others is good as long as its for a princess??

That makes him no better than common folk. It lowers his skill and integrity. Scamming Watto was totally uncalled for. A Jedi should look for another way, rather than taking the easy path. Boring? Not at all. This makes life much harder for Jedi and more interesting to watch them deal with harder survival options. There are so many better ways to solve the problem than scamming a poor junk dealer. The scam didn't even work on Watto. Why mind-trick stormtroppers when you could just fight them? Or perhaps some kind of Force power like a smoke cloud. The Jedi are supposed to be the examplars of Goodness. Not utilitarians mercenaries. Jedi don't have to be perfectly good, but they should at least understand what is good and what is corruption. Jedi should be depicted doing everything in their power to avoid the corrupt option. He should have tried to avoid scamming Watto. Instead he had zero qualms about it. And if Jedi do corrupt things the film should depict a cost in terms of loss of connection with the Force. Jedi can act badly but then lose Force powers for it. That is far more interesting from a story perspective. For example, Qui-Gon Jin scams Watto and then gets his hand cut off in his next saber battle because he losses connection to the Force. That would be so much cooler.

We have been using CloudFlare from day one. Since 2014. It isn't enough.

Valve makes so many billions from Steam that they can't motivate themselves to make video games any more. That's why HL3 never happened.

If you are questioning why it's called God then you haven't yet realized God.

@LambdaDelta Don't give Todd Howard ideas or he will release Skyrim for the NES.