Leo Gura

I've had people threaten to kill me over solipsism.

But what happens when Russia or North Korea get their hands on AGI? It's gonna be a shitshow. I'm less worried about AI killing us of its own accord vs human scum weaponizing AGI.

I feel like at this point they should either charge him or let him go. It's getting silly. It's not right to keep a guy locked up without even a charge. They are turning him into a martyr and victim.

It's an acquired taste. I never liked partying but as I pushed myself to learn game I started having more fun and learned to enjoy myself. But I still don't enjoy myself every time. Sometimes I'm in a serious mood and not in a mood to socialize or party. Having a set of good friends/wings is crucial for making your nights fun. It's hard to get in a party mood all alone. But if you are taking on this journey to learn game, you can't just do it based on mood. You have to discipline yourself to go out even when you don't feel like it. Most of the times I went out I was not in the mood to be out. Your mood will also change as you start socializing and meeting interesting people.

Go all or nothing. Either just don't bring it up at all. Honestly, why are you thinking about her beauty unless you want to date her? Or just be very free and frank without over-thinking it. Just give her a compliment and move on without hovering over her in an awkward manner. You can give people as many compliments as you want as long as you don't linger and make them feel awkward. Say your compliment and go about your work. "You are so beautiful" is the only compliment you really need to give a girl. Say it and move the fuck on. Don't make it a big deal in your own mind.

For the love of God, people are going to haunt me about solipsism for the rest of my life. On my deathbed someone will ring my phone and ask, "So Leo, is solipsism really true?"

You just wanna get enlightened by smelling your own farts

@Squeekytoy People who come here from Jed McKenna are so obvious. The McKenna stench I don't see much of a difference between Adya and Tolle.

It is odd why they arrested him if they had nothing to charge him with. Still doesn't make his actions or teachings ethical.

Rookie mistake right there. Nothing will humble you like a high dose of mushrooms.

You do not have Absolute Consciousness right now. You are like a light bulb set to 0.01% power. Which is why you need Awakening, to change your direct experience and take your light bulb from 0.01% to 100%. Yes, there is something behind the scenes, namely more Consciousness. In your current state, of course. I am talking about a very different state which you have not yet accessed.

Mushrooms are intense. Why you taking such high doses? Dial it back. There's no rush.

Yes, it's not purely like being animal. You still retain higher human thinking functions.

@Findus I wasn't talking about nothingness as you understand it. I was talking about becoming fully conscious that you are inside a dream. The dream still continues but you are aware that it is all your imagination. There is even deeper consciousness in which the dream disappears as you transcend it.

And to take it one final step deeper, the present too is imaginary. You are walking around inside a MIND.

I don't like talk of NPCs. It's not an accurate frame. Becoming Awake does not turn everyone into an NPC. That's not how it feels like at all. If anything you appreciate the humanity of people more than ever. So be careful with how you frame these things. Your frames will limit your consciousness and influence how you feel. Improper framing will make you feel depressed and nihilistic.

That's because you hold it in your mind like something is wrong with reality. When you realize reality is Perfect, that GOD is Perfect, you just surrender to it and you are happy and at peace. The ego is always trying to manipulate its way into a better reality. But with Awakening you realize there is no better reality than to surrender to GOD's Perfection. Working with psychedelics. Or other spiritual methods. Just ask yourself, What is perspective? Have you ever seen any perspective other than your own? Notice that all perspectives but yours are imaginary and hypothetical. All so-called perspectives are just subdivisions within your over-arching perspective. There is no getting outside your perspective. Because your perspective is Absolute. It's not really a perspective at all. It's Absolute Truth. General Omniscience is being directly conscious of what everything is at the highest possible level. A complete comprehension of the ultimate nature of CONSCIOUSNESS. Specific Omniscience would be if you knew how many ants are crawling around on planet Earth. You are not gonna get specific Omniscience. At least not while you live as a human. Maybe if you die you could get something like that.

Why are you so sure about that? Have you seen this Napoleon? And where have you seen him but NOW? This stuff is far more tricky than it seems. So be extra careful with your leaps to conclusions.

Depends on what you mean by "my" creation. Certainly not the ego's creation. The ego is not creating the chair you are sitting on. Yup. God is dreaming of being human. So your mind is filled with ideas of being a human creature. This places severe limits on you. God could just as easily dream of being a worm. And then you wouldn't even be able to think. You'd just squirm around in the dark. There is worm consciousness. There is human consciousness. There is alien consciousness. There is GOD consciousness. You can be in any of these states. Right now you happen to be in the human state, which has a component to it we call ego. This component is a figment of Consciousness.

Well, ultimately you have to discard this notion of "ego mind". It will hold you back. There really isn't an ego mind, there's just GOD/Consciousness/You -- right NOW. Ego mind is just some ideas and feelings within your present Consciousness. If you throw all that away you will be left with pure Consciousness. Ego mind is when you personalize your present experience too much. When you make it all human, biological, and personal. If you strip all the crap away then you're just left with pure reality. Just imagine that you're so present that you stop conjuring up anything beyond the present moment. No past, no future, no birth, no death, no memories, no ego, no other, no stories, no science, no spirituality. Just PURE NOW.

They are not equally real. One has more reality than the other. NOW is more real than past and future.

It's much deeper than a thought or belief. It is a deeper layer of Imagination/Mind. It's more at the level of chairs and dogs than thoughts and ideas. But ultimately you are imagining history. When you were born there was no history for you. You had to invent it. Although, of course, even your birth is part of the history you conjure up. You have NOW, and then everything else is imagined around this NOW.

That's not what I said.

Well, you're in for a rude awakening one day when you actually become fully conscious that history only exists in your Mind. For you right now this is merely theoretical. Which is very different from experiencing the reality of it. It is very shocking and traumatic to realize that history only exists in your Mind. It's gonna mind-fuck you real bad.

I just don't see how this can possibly work. The good actors will pause, but the bad actors will not and they will in fact gain a 6 month advantage over the good ones. Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are gonna develop weaponized AIs to help their regimes amass and hold power. You will not stop them with a petition. And I'm pretty sure the US Defense Department is already developing their own AI for military purposes. They will keep it top secret and not tell anyone so you will not be able to stop them. The way to stop a bad AI is with a good AI. Begun the AI wars have.