Leo Gura

@integral Post more puzzles for us. Without the answers.

No. Because the thesis of the series is that rationalism is a self-deception. If you wish to steelman it, that's a good homework assignment for you. I plan to eventually make an episode that teaches rationality. You could consider that the steelman. But that will be a while.

1) Enjoy the work itself. 2) Enjoy working towards a larger vision. You don't need to be at the goal to enjoy moving towards it. Being at the goal doesn't in itself produce enjoyment. Just because you have mastered a skill doesn't mean you are living in pleasure. Having a skill is no different than having a Ferrari. It doesn't make you happy just owning it. The joy comes from doing it, from the journey, not the destination. Example: If your goal is to become a doctor, you can enjoy reading a book which moves you towards that goal today. You don't have to wait until you are a doctor to start feeling good.

It is not scary because the self who is scared will be nullified upon death. It is scary because you imagine yourself surviving and then living through new horrible lives.

As I said, when you actually look inside with the camera, you're in for a rude awakening. You don't even know what your ears look like inside. They are weird.

1) There is no bad from God's POV. So no reason to skip anything. 2) Obviously you see many people suffering in the world. So clearly God is not skipping the "bad" stuff out of squeamishness. Why didn't God skip the Holocaust or Gaza? Why didn't God skip the suffering in your own life? Obviously God finds some value in it.

@Vibes Life is like a video game. It doesn't need to be real to enjoy it. It's okay to get lost in the dream a bit because there's nothing outside of dreaming. Relax and enjoy the dream.

I wouldn't take it too literally. Infinity is all things, but it doesn't necessarily unfold in a simplistic linear series of lifetimes. The broader point here was to communicate how limited your mind is by only thinking within your personal lifetime of experience. You need to be thinking much more broadly, as if you were going to be all people. It's sort of like John Rawls' Original Position thought experiment.

Stings? Why? Obviously if it advances mankind's Awakening it also advances your Awakening. These are not mutually exclusive. Plus, what good is it for you to Awaken but then live amongst a bunch of cavemen? Obviously you want to live among others who understand you. So this goal is not just good for mankind at large, it is good for you. Do you want to be Awakened and living among a bunch of materialist Nazis? So obviously we need a larger goal of advancing the entire culture.

@Dayo The problem with telling someone something is a problem, is that they can always just say, "But it's not a problem for me!" Maybe. But it's a problem for billions of not-yous.

Consider: When Taylor Swfit was learning the guitar, she practiced till her fingers bled. That's what success and mastery requires. That's why it is rare and valuable. Because most people aren't driven enough to follow through with it. Everything big is much harder than it seems. Successful people work insanely hard, long, and consistently. Lazyness is incompatible with greatness.

@Dayo You are overlooking the issue of Jesus worship. Christianity is fundamentally about worshiping a man. Consider how that is problematic.

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I saw the queen sac as the first move to try. However I didn't see black's bishop covering the rook's checkmate for a long time. It's so obvious in hindsight.

Great example of confromity.

That's hard for me to answer because I don't work in organizations like that. I am not the right guy to pioneer that. That's something one of you should take on as a life purpose. Consider that the test of everything you learned here.

Yes. 2 years ago during my long break from the channel I had to give up my life purpose and all the meaning I created. Of course meaning isn't bulletproof. You can lose it. But you can also create new, higher orders of meaning, and you can drop meaning altogether and ground yourself in the Being of God. Really, you want both. If you work on creating ambitious projects that align with your top values, you will hardly ever run out of meaning.

Yes, I am still passionate about those practical topics and I will have new videos on that in the coming months.

That is wrong of course, but don't attack her personally.

From their POV it is not wrong because it is useful, and they confuse useful with true. It is useful to be an fully committed Christian. It is an empowering way to live. It does make you feel good. It does have positive impact on one's sense of purpose, meaning, happiness, kindness, work ethic, marriage, etc. It does produce mystical experiences. It does make one more loving, inspired, creative, fearless, moral, social, etc. It just isn't true. Fantasies are very useful. That's why they are so popular.

No. But there will be a pathway for understanding minds beyond human for those few who want to understand them. I don't know what that means. Higher creativity, higher levels of abstraction, better understanding of alien species, deeper mysticism, deeper spirituality.

Are you kidding? Obviously not.

Your expectations are just wrong. It doesn't work that way for anyone. Even talented people work their asses off to train to be great and to perform. Modern culture has spoiled you with an entitled attitude. You expect life to be too easy. Life has never been that easy. That is some Hollywood/Disney-spun fantasy. Everything great requires deep patience, hard work, and long term investment. Even just having a child is a 20-year investment. Even after 20 years of life that child will still be a fool. You need an attitude change and a strong work ethic. Even if you had the skill it would still be lots of work. I have the skill of speaking, but each new video still requires lots of work. Great work cannot be effortless. Meaning and satisfaction comes from working hard and investing in yourself every day. Anything effortless isn't meaningful. It is meaningful because of how much you had to work to develop it. So pick a domain and start investing. You don't need to wait for years to feel good about yourself. You can start feeling good now, just knowing you're training hard and investing.

Both are survival machines lost in Maya.