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Correction: Earlier in this thread I said the gold EFT is called GDX. That was a mistake. It is called GLD.

Did you become a Jedi?

The problem I find with using AI to do creative work is that you end up wasting way too much time trying to get the AI to create what you want, and it never really creates what you truly wanted. But you wasted 10 hours fiddling with the knobs. By the time you invested 10 hours into it, you're hooked. But it isn't really creating what you wanted. Such a process is the death of creativity and spirit. Rather than being truly creative and skillful, you are just manipulating knobs to get half-assed approximations of something good. Using AI is almost like gambling. At least that's the case for image generation. It takes hours of trial and error just to create one usable image.

Interesting. I hope it's worth it.

You can eat and drink gold. What is the problem with injecting it?

It costs $2+ per query.

To be fair, you can probably use cheap Chinese models. But that doesn't bode well for US tech stocks. I don't think cost is the true problem. The true problem is lack of AGI. Costs will go down for sure. But AGI is unlikely to magically materialize.

That was death as a function of mystical state, not a physical danger. But yes, psychedelics can be physically dangerous.

Well, when you have to pay the true unsubsidized cost of AI tokens out of your wallet, you might discover it is cheaper to code by hand.

Fine. But the market has priced in vibe coding as AGI. So prepare your butt for a crash.

Women are attracted to God.

This is a multi-decade project and you still have much of the old material to master.

Well, I have and best is yet to come.

He started as a drug addict. He did many drugs in reckless ways. His problem is not psychedelics but addiction in general.

That's just not true. Many people have used them responsibly. Terrence McKenna, Dennis McKenna, Martin Ball, Joe Rogan, Bernardo Kastrup, and many others who you just don't know because this is a niche and taboo field.

@Natasha Tori Maru It is a struggle to understand Reality in ways no one else does. It is similar to building a brand new technology when everyone tells you its impossible. Then, once you do it, everyone says, "That was obvious."

And that has been plenty disclosed too. There is never enough disclaimers for fools. This work cannot be fool-proof. You can't talk a reckless person out of being reckless.

Hehe. This is like asking, "Why was life difficult for you? Why didn't you just die quietly?"

Sorry to hear that. Alcohol can be wicked. Except you conveniently ignore all the disclaimers and advice given against mixing psychedelics with mental illness. No one who teaches about psychedelics thinks it is okay for a bipolar person to take psychedelics daily, for weeks and months. Everyone tells you that's very dangerous. That is called abuse of psychedelics. Yes, abusing psychedelics can be lethal. No person with mental health issues should be taking psychedelics daily. That is crazy. Perhaps Connor was normal, but lots of psychedelics can unlock latent mental illness. Psychedelics don't cause bipolar, but they can unlock it if one was already prone. Psychedelics are just like guns. Reckless people will certainly injure themselves with it. That is not the gun's fault. The gun is doing its job. What ever happened to responsibility? Whose responsibility is it to use psychedelics carefully? Why is that responsibility crucial?

That is interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Psychedelics heighten the manic delusions. That's why they are dangerous for bipolar. Especially daily chronic use. That will send the manic episodes out of control. If I was manic while doing 5-MeO for a month, I could easily have killed myself.

Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Yellow thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Yellow. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Yellow thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Yellow. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. Stage Yellow Values: Nuance & complexity Openmindedness Perspective Novel concepts & POVs Generating fresh insights Understanding Systems thinking Nonlinear dynamics Sustainability, long time frames Going meta Big picture vs technical analysis Holistic analysis Synthesis Connecting the dots Penetrating to the core of an issue Identifying & solving root problems A multi-disciplinary approach Mixing hard & soft sciences Creativity, outside-the-box solutions Ecology Responsible ways of being Studying models Spiral Dynamics Natural hierarchies Education, knowledge, research, reading Reading lots of diverse books Clean content, concentrated information Life-long learning Expertise, competence, experience Context, learning from history Developing skills to become an instrument for the greater whole Independent thinking Neutrality: Being objective/impartial Designing solutions for the entire Spiral Meeting people where they are at Building bridges Social engineering Ecological designs Reducing the suffering of living systems Pulling ideas from many sources Combining different ideas, models, theories Left-brained Vision & purpose, being a visionary Requisite variety, mental flexibility Self-actualization Paradox Uncertainty Responsibility, independence, autonomy Being a lone-wolf Stage Yellow Examples: Abraham Maslow, Eben Pagan, Fritjof Capra, Carl Sagan, quantum mechanics, fathers of quantum mechanics, David Bohm, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, Arthur Eddington, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Campbell, Erich Fromm, Clare Graves, Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics, Ilya Prigogine, chaos theory, cybernetics, biomimetics, NLP, Alfred Korzybski, the leading edge of academia, futurists, StarTrek humans & Vulcans, Prime Directive, sustainable living, ecology, eco cities, conflict resolution, Wikipedia, Buckminster Fuller

Don't be too available.

What you see in video is not the full picture but only what he wanted you to see. He was not truly happy. Manic states never last.

I don't think Connor wanted to die. He was just reckless and thought he could get away with it forever. His luck ran out.