Leo Gura

Really? You do live down-under

@Natasha Tori Maru Some are rubber, some are glue. Bounces off me and sticks to you

It means a difference in perspective. When you get multiple perspectives on an issue, you have parallax. The more perspectives you get, the greater the parallax.

This is a good distinction.

I am not going to go into details since it is private. Best not to speculate or assume too much about it. If you are worried about whether I have trauma, I don't. All my personal history is resolved and irrelevant now.

It wasn't really like that. You have to be careful about you imagine. If you imagine something heinous then it doesn't make sense.

Jim Carrey probably had a glimpse of Awakening on a psychedelic, so he started talking about it, but I doubt he did serious work beyond that. He has a busy career afterall.

It wasn't a traumatic thing.

It's not so hard. You just need to min-max more. Pick better rewards. You need to select rewards that give you tons of armor and healing. You cannot beat the bosses if you invest too much in offense rather than defense. Defense is huge in this game. Selecting the right artifacts is also hugely important. And upgrading the right cards is huge.

He said it, he didn't do it.

Ugly is relative. Beauty is Absolute.

Look in the mirror

YOU! You decide everything. I shouldn't have to tell you you're ugly. You should notice it yourself. If I told you, you wouldn't believe me anyway

The conclusion is: Do you want to be ugly? If not, maybe change those parts of yourself.

A core part of being epistemically responsible is being responsible about handling your survival. If you have painted yourself into a corner survival-wise, then you have not been epistemically responsible. Being homeless is not just irresponsible, it is epistemically irresponsible too, because homeless people will not develop good epistemology.

I wouldn't say that. That's too extreme of a position. The bottom line is that you still have to survive somehow. You can work for an evil corporation and still be epistemically responsible on your own, inside your own mind. You just happen to be stuck in the meantime in an evil corporation. Eventually you will leave when you get the opportunity. But you can't be perfect immediately. It takes years of work to improve your situation. I wouldn't waste time being this perfectionistic.

Because psychedelics shatter all paradigms. Every mind is stuck in some paradigm.

@Joseph Maynor Time to get disgusted with yourself, bro.

Keep trying to change it. Apply more consciousness to the issue. Apply consciousness to this. Keep observing the ugliness of it until your mind rewires. It can take years.

It depends on how you want to define your terms. I don't think moralistically at all, because that implies some objective right and wrong. Ugly is an aesthetic.

It is best left undefined and open. You know when you see ugly. Yes, but also deeper. No. Not in a moralistic sense. But of course immoral behavior is ugly. Selfish and ignorant behavior is ugly. Ungodly behavior.

It is not my job to do introductions. I am not a podcast host.

I think that problem is solved by properly teaching epistemology all throughout school. By the time kids graduate highschool they should have the epistemic knowhow of everything Actualized.org teaches. This should be a baseline for everyone in society. Not as a belief system, but actual epistemic work, questioning reality. We expect everyone to know math, yet not epistemology? This is silly.

Yes, it costs money to avoid toxic chemicals these days. Making poison has been big business for the last 100 years.

I was gonna make a joke saying kangaroos, but then read your post. Lol