Leo Gura

You can set intentions and contemplate whatever you're interested in. Over the long-term, if you do it seriously, most of your questions will basically be answered, just not with the answers you necessarily want or expect. The key is asking really good questions and being persistent about it. Don't expect to get the best questions answered in a few trips. You're looking at 100s of trips.

Once the AI models become robust enough, they will be indistinguishable from human learning. And thus any claims that AI are stealing or copying will equally apply to all artists, which of course all artists are in denial about. You are not the originator of all your best ideas. God is. And God works by interconnecting with its own self, cross-pollinating itself in an incestuous manner. But the human ego wants to take credit and possession of this creative process. As an artist, if you introspect carefully, you will be able to notice the source material from which your "original" work is "copied" through cross-pollination as you do your art. Which is exactly what the AIs are doing. It's just harder to track you because it doesn't serve you to track where your art ideas come from.

You should be careful making fantasies of such people. In reality, if there were buses around, he would be careful not to walk in front of them. There's little to fear when you live in a cave, once you've adopted that lifestyle. It would actually be a lot more impressive if Maharshi had to run a business and a family. When you live in a cave you got nothing to lose, so little to fear.

Because fear is what a finite constructed identity requires to stay finite. If you were not afraid you would have already walked in front of a bus. Note: Lack of fear does not mean your finite self will survive or things will just go okay for you by some kind of Care Bear spiritual logic. The guarantee of okayness is that the Infinite Self can never die. Don't confuse that with things going well for your human life. You CAN ruin your human life badly if you act incautiously. Which is why everyone is run by fear at all times.

Then vape it instead. You don't want to waste so much chem.

Yes, that's the core of it. Basically it's fear of change, because change is death of things you love. Hence conservatism is about Love.

@BreathingAddict Congrats man!

I can't keep my eyes closed for longer than 10 minutes without having breakthrough new awakenings every day. I'm having 1-3 new awakenings every night in my sleep. No chems. Just a never ending stream of weirder and deeper alien awakenings. It's hard to sleep. I'm super-conscious any time my eyes are closed. I enter a sort of effortless meditative state nearly instantly even if I don't want to. It's pretty terrifying. Sometimes I have to distract myself out of it with BS human activity. And then I have to write down all the news which just pour forth at such a rate that I would be writing for hours each day if I tried to catch them all. As I said, I feel like I opened a permanent portal in my skull into another dimension. It feels like there is dark light in the center of my skull when my eyes are closed. This light bursts forth with visions, insights, and new deeper awakenings. It had been a bit much lately. It has also made my hyper creative and artistic. I suspect that I have done so many psychedelics that they have permanently rewired my brain. That's how it feels right now. Waiting to see if it's just a passing phase.

That hasn't stopped me here

I won't be talking about my new awakenings much right now because I want to take more time to integrate them. These insights are really too advanced to be discussing publically. The proper place for them is inside an advanced course.

Of course, because reality is nothing but your own Mind at work. Eventually you'll realize there aren't even any other minds to understand but your own.

Wow! Awesome news.

The meta-lesson you should have learned from listening to all my content is that just because a mind is good in some specialized areas does mean it's right in all areas. Most intelligent people are not broadly intelligent, they are very narrow specialists. Success != Intelligence/wisdom. In this case, if you have been following this story since 6 months ago, it was clear that Musk had no deep understanding of how moderation or "free speech" works on online platforms. He seriously underestimated the depth of the issue of freedom in general, and overextended himself biz-wise. And I claim this happened because his libertarian, pro-biz, capitalist ideology blinded him. It's clear that his political opinions are pretty shallow, opportunitstic, and cringe. He's just not a deep political thinker because his thinking is highly biased by his involvment with business. The problem is that a significant chunk of the culture just wants to give Elon a free pass and automatically assume that since he's been so successful thus far in biz, that he know how to fix social problems. It is a flawed and dangerous assumption. Someone like Musk should not even be allowed to be in the same building where governance of public spaces takes place. He is not going to magically save mankind from our social problems with more technology and more capitalism. Social evolution requires serious development in how we think about society, technology, and business. We don't lack technology or success, we lack wisdom and understanding. I know more about how moderation works than Elon Musk because I spent 6 years every day moderating this place. So it's obvious to me that he doesn't understand the trickeries involved. He's way too flippant about the whole thing, noy appreciating how dangerous it can be if things are allowed willy-nilly. Musk's biggest mistake is creating this distraction for himself from his core competecy at working on engineering design problems. Twitter is a social governance and communuty-building problem, not an engineering problem.

Sure gives a whole new meaning to the word "game".

Sounds about right. Welcome to spirituality. The trick is getting over your fears and exploring ever deeper. All the coolest stuff is blocked off from you by walls of fear that must be broken down, if you dare. Be careful though. Going that deep gets dangerous.

I don't know what the big deal is. I always play my games with explosives strapped to my nuts.

I'll believe it when I see it.

They both wrong in important ways. Too complex to explain here.

People have been going crazy on this topic for months. And Musk feeds into it. I wish he succeeds. But I have my doubts. I don't hate the guy. There is only something like 300k Twitter users with a blue checkmark. Even if he converts them at 100%, it will be a drop in the bucket. There is no way that 15M users will buy Twitter Blue. So your calculation is off by two orders of magnitude. Must will be lucky to have 300k paid subs.

Because women are driven by emotions. If you cannot convert when the iron is hot, you likely never will. One of the hardest aspects of game is learning how to quickly seize an opportunity because the window is so small. Never just settle for a number. You need to set up insta-dates and try to close. Numbers basically mean nothing. She gives out her number to 30 guys a week.

Just realize that being creative feels way better, and you're always winning. Why play a game you can lose?

Thanks for your concern but I'm sharper than ever.

Laying down is no good. You will quickly fall asleep. It's important to keep the spine as vertical as possible. Even reclining is not good. Ideally you should meditate without any back support, so your spine supports itself.

Be careful. At your age you can get lost in psychedelics while neglecting handling basic personal development issues. Psychedelics will be very distracting to your development if you do them regularly. Especially powerful ones like 5-MeO. It would be wiser to hold off till you're 25+. In the meantime, get to work establishing your life. Don't make the mistake of assuming that just because I do psychedelics that it will be good for you at your age. I had over a decade of work done before I got into psychedelics. It's not that one trip will ruin your life, but if you get sucked down this rabbit hole and start tripping regularly, it will become a big distraction. Make sure you consider that and how it fits into your whole life plan. Doing psychedelics is sorta like getting married. It changes the whole trajectory of your life. Think deeply about whether that's right for you at this time.