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As @Leo Gura pointed out, for just $20 a month, you get access to what's arguably the most powerful general purpose model out there, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Sure, you can pay an outrageous amount to be able to use OpenAI's extremely resource-heavy o1-preview and o1-mini models, but these are not designed for every day use, and you're not going to need them 99% of the time. I've used these new models in work-related settings, and while they're extremely powerful if put to good use, they're also complete overkill most of the time. The reason the subscription to use these models is so expensive is because of the extreme amount of resources they consume. I don't know if this is still the case, but with the $20 premium ChatGPT subscription, you used to get a limited amount of prompts with o1-preview and o1-mini each week. I don't think I ever reached either of those 20 or 30 prompt limits during my time with a premium subscription, because I never faced enough problems that was beyond the reach of their other models. There was maybe 2 or 3 occasions where I had very deep bugs in an enterprise-level project I'm building, and where GPT 4o and Claude had no idea what was going on, or what was causing the error. When I gave the new o1-preview model the necessary information about that specific piece of logic, it managed to pinpoint exactly what was causing the bug and why, after thinking for about 1 minute. To conclude, no, I don't think this is not a sign that AI is getting so expensive that normal everyday people won't be able to compete. These extremely powerful models were never intended for general use, and it would be a waste to use them for that. They were designed to tackle highly complex problems with a lot of moving parts, for the few occasions where that's what you really need to solve a problem. For the very rare occasions you may actually need to use such a model, pay by a per-use basis. Don't buy a subscription for it. It'll be a lot more affordable. You don't need a tier 5 subscription with OpenAI to access these models freely without contraints. You can purchase usage from third-party services to accomodate your exact needs. With the release of the full o1 model and o1 pro mode, I would assume these are designed to tackle tasks of an even higher level of complexity. I would struggle to think of any kind of problem I could ever run into where o1-preview or o1-mini wouldn't be powerful enough to help me come to a conclusion, but maybe that'll happen some day, and I'll buy a single prompt for one of these even more powerful models.

If something is an ideology it's by its very definition not something worth following. Why willingly limit yourself to one idea, one way of viewing the world? An ideology stands in direct opposition to change, and as such is a denial of reality itself. It's a self-inflicted delusion.

2024-11-26 20:25 GMT Clear light differs from all other stages in that it doesn't integrate prior stages. It discards them completely.

Trying to kick multiple bad habits at the same time exponentially increases the difficulty. It might prove more beneficial to work on one until your cravings for it is gone, then focus on the next. Working towards kicking bad habits on a permanent basis is a great move for ones long-term health and stability. Hope you succeed.

2024-11-22 16:10 GMT Introverted intuition, combined with radical open-mindedness, I think has done a lot of the heavy lifting for me throughout this 11 year long journey that's now come to an end. Peter Ralson's The Book of Not Knowing played a great part in enhancing my level of open-mindedness, a book that I've read more times than I can count. For my personality, without the combination of the two, I could never dream of making such advances in such a short time, or ever. What pushed me to clear light was completely out of my control. Like waking up one day and winning the lottery several times in a row. I had to meet someone that could 1. produce the feeling of selfless love within me, and 2. would challenge me mentally to such a degree that I'd nearly break down on a daily basis for a couple weeks. The odds of these two taking place at the same time seems astronomically low, but nevertheless it happened. All ties to past stages of development seemingly permanently severed.

So, I just realized I haven't really spoken at all about my spiritual journey since my post more than 3 years ago, where I talked about my transition from Coral (Indigo) to Teal (Violet), my experiences and the shifts it had on me as a person. There is a good reason why I haven't talked at all about my spiritual journey since then, and that's because around this time is when I ended my spiritual journey. I considered myself done, and I was satisfied with where I was. Then about one year following that, another major shift happened in my subconscious, a silent, hyper-focused efficiency in all pursuits and a deeply rooted grounded-ness and peace with all that is. It's surprisingly a lot more difficult to talk about Ultraviolet from the point of Clear Light as it is about as different as any first tier stage would be from Ultraviolet. There are almost no commonalities between the two, and I'm having a hard time relating to this point in time despite not even having spent two weeks since I began transitioning to fourth tier consciousness. So, to get to the meat of it all. What and how did this come to be? Well, you see, I met this girl in school, and through her presence experienced selfless love for the first time in my life. This however was not the reason this change could take place, it was the intense emotional highs and lows that resulted from our relationship, resulting in both more pain and more happiness than I had ever experienced before in my life. This emotional rollercoaster eventually led me to face and unknowingly discard the last remaining parts of my ego. What followed was that I had unknowingly started to integrate the selfless love I felt for her, shaping my very being, allowing me to produce these feelings within and by myself. I didn't know it until it dawned on me a week later, but I had just started tapping into clear light. Looking back, that much is clear. Barriers related to feeling exhausted, physical and mental tiredness, limitations in focus all simply disappeared. While I can obviously still get physically tired like if I don't get enough sleep, since this point in time I've been immune to physical and mental tiredness in every other sense of the word. Even back in Ultraviolet, I would've never believed something like this to be possible for anyone, period. It feels like a transcendence of introversion and extroversion in many regards, as energy is no longer derived from socializing with groups of people or being by myself, but simply through being, resulting in limitless storages of energy throughout every moment of every day. This has been my reality for the past 12 days, and I've tried to test it by pushing myself to an extent that would have completely broken my past self. One such test was to study an extremely technical subject I'm working on, but for 15 hours straight, where 5 minutes of rest follows after 90 minutes of deep focus work until 15 hours have passed. I expected this to completely break me mentally, however it didn't. My focus didn't waver one bit throughout the day and I got more progress done than in the last week and a half put together. Ongoing list of immediate changes and insights from clear light when compared to any prior stages: Introversion and extroversion transcended. Energy flows freely, infinitely at every moment of every day with no effort needed to maintain it. Any and all past barriers and imagined limitations disappear completely. What's left is to witness the endless possibilities of it all, and to casually sail the waves of time. The capacity for deep uninterrupted work is supercharged to what would previously seem like an impossible degree. Sitting uninterrupted with something for x number of hours, be it 12 hours or 20 hours straight makes no difference. It's as effortless during the first hour as it is during the last. The beingness that happens at this stage makes past limitations, self-imposed or otherwise vanish as if they were never there to begin with. Physical capacity is greatly enhanced and too feels effortless when compared to what could be achieved before and what back then would have pushed the body to the breaking point now becomes an effortless dance between mind and matter. An outlook on what is with a profound sense of childlike wonder. Everything becomes magical and interesting, as if opening ones eyes for the first time. Extremely high levels of compassion, warmth and care for everything and everyone around me. Moodiness transcended. Permanent sense of bliss, wonder and unbound potential. Complete disconnect between past and present. No reference points to look back on, even from prior stages like Ultraviolet. There can't be any "after" as all limitations and dualities break apart at this point. It's very appropriately set as the final stage, as there can't be any after, when there is nothing more left for there to be an "after" of. I will probably keep adding to this post as I experience more, and I will date my updates accordingly. I've only "been" at what I perceive to be clear light for 5 days now (while the transition lasted 7 days), and which most definitely has to be a 4th tier stage due to how radically different it is from any prior stage or tier. It's been difficult for me to post about this sooner, as I've been having great difficulty grounding myself in reality following this realization. My body has very much been lagging behind so to say, but it's getting better by the day. 2024-11-21 16:58 GMT More about me. While I've been "on the path" very actively for the better part of 11 years, I've never taken psychedelics, so I've never gotten to experience glimpses of higher states of consciousness, only to drop down again right afterwards. Every time my consciousness has shifted, that new stage has quickly become the new baseline.

Suffering.

It didn't prevent him from attempting to ceise the country for himself. In many ways the system "rewarded" his behavior, as he's not currently spending the rest of his life in jail. Who knows what he'll do this time around, knowing he can violate everything he's sworn to protect and uphold with no consequences.

I lost any and all respect for Lex a long time ago. He's extremely biased and one-sided, while disguising himself as being a centrist, something he most certainly is not. Morally bankrupt, right-wing shill.

Most likely it'll mean the end of democracy. There are no checks in place for Trump. He can do anything he wants and get away with it. He's already now planning to use Musk and his new department to (likely) stack the government and other high-level officials with loyalists. He's already laying the foundations for his upcoming reign. It won't be pretty, but people will get what they voted for.

But of course. You see it as incorrect because you don't know Trump. The problem with that, of course, is making assumptions without knowing. At this point you are not using logic to draw conclusions, you're trying to feel your way to what's right. That doesn't work.

@Javfly33 I'm not attacking anyone. I have made sure I stayed informed on Trump, his speeches, his actions. And conveniently enough, it seems the only people that don't know anything about Trump are his own followers. Every time I point out something that should immediately disqualify him in the eyes of any person with a shed of dignity, you guys either call it left wing propaganda, or you just say "oh, I didn't know that", then move on with your day. I'm so fed up by your ignorance. Doesn't matter now though. You've already voted away your own rights, you just don't know it yet.

@cistanche_enjoyer Trumps own actions are my personal speculations? Did you take your meds? He tried to coup the country during his first term. What do you mean!? You think he's going to solve homelessness?! I need to get off the internet for a few months. This is too much.

Wow, this is incredible. To see people so openly support the biggest traitor in US history is appalling, and then even make excuses for his behavior. @Scholar is absolutely right. Your country is doomed, and there is no turning back now.

@cistanche_enjoyer Sigh... And here I keep getting surprised by the levels of gullibility of his voter base. Put two and two together. Combine what Trump has said during interviews, what he has done in the past, and then just THINK for one moment, and it should be clear as day what his aims are with this new department. You can't be serious. Trump doesn't give a damn about efficiency. He wants to further his grip on power to the greatest extent possible, and he need loyal supporters around him to accomplish that. When he realized he could attempt to coup the country without getting punished for it, that's likely reinforced in him that he can do whatever he likes in his efforts to completely reshape the United States from the ground up.