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@Leo Gura Oh, okay. I've heard Owen Cook talk about this point as well—the idea of 'digging the wrong hole' and having to climb back out once you realize you're wasting your time on soul-crushing activities.

@Leo Gura Would you say it's not worth it because of the years "wasted" ?

He left behind him an eternal legacy. Dragon Ball was a huge influence for millions of people. Goku was like a spiritual father to me. That's what I call a successful life purpose!!

@ZenAlex Same here! I can tear up listening to some of the OSTs. I still vividly remember myself as a kid dancing to the opening on top of a table. When I didn't behave, my mom wouldn't let me watch the weekly episode, I would get so frustrated, lol. Have you watched (or read) Dragon Ball Super ?

GPT 4 still has the best value proposition IMO. Its ability to receive images and files in prompts is just too amazing + its ability to search the web can be very useful.

How do you know Maharshi didn't give a fuck ?

@Ry4n I'll add a nuance to this : I will almost never believe someone that says to me they don't care about sex unless they can prove that they can get sex whenever they want. If you can't, then you're just using spirituality to bypass your inability to attract people into your life.

Arguing that porn is spiritually harmful is more of a reflection on the person making the claim than on the porn itself. We call that a self report my Guy

Beware of spiritual bypassing

@zurewNoob prompter spotted

@Space A year ago, GPT-4 hadn't even been released. Now, you can talk with a stage yellow entity whenever you want, 24/7.

@Thought Art Let the man enjoy his late night shenanigans !

@Scholar If we use the metaphor of Adam and Eve eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, can we not envision a scenario where AI, having accumulated a vast array of intelligent functions, experiences an AHA moment that instantaneously grants it consciousness? Maybe using artificial DMT

@Scholar I get what you are saying but I don't think we are using the same definition of AGI. When discussing AGI, the focus is on the functional and cognitive abilities of an AI system rather than on replicating consciousness. As long as your "'intelligent functions" allow you to solve any problem we're good to go, and if they can't you just make new ones with your existing set.

@Scholar The discussion isn't wether or not AI could obtain qualia. I personally don't care if GPT-87 is a philosophical Zombie, I just want it to be smarter than me.

It took nature millions of years to create bees The timeline from the first prototypes of self-driving cars to achieving Level 5 autonomy is reasonably within 10 to 30 years from now (assuming linear progression)

I crafted a perfect reality and a gazillion self-deception mechanisms , all to fully immerse myself in the game, only for Leo to spoil it all It's as if I went to Skyrim and told the Dovahkiin that he's made of binary code

Well, I don't like this plotline. I'll change it next time

I asked ChatGPT to write a prompt using this meta-prompt for each stage: "I want to write a prompt for midjourney depicting an Orc that embodies every single value of Stage Red of the Spiral Dynamics model." I wanted to share with you the images that I got after using the prompts. P.S. : Why were skulls placed at the end? We were supposed to have achieved peace and harmony at green

Thanks! We can see the Orc at Orange, surrounded by mountains, ready to climb to the top. Perhaps the skulls also symbolize the real work required to ascend to the next stage, making the mountains seem insignificant in comparison.

That's a good interpretation! Perhaps it's only at the yellow stage that he truly understands what it took to get there, and therefore, he confronts it. He was too busy during the orange stage and too much in denial during the green stage

I don't see the point of meditation and self inquiry when you have such a powerful tool. I mean, at a certain point you will even drop your identity and desire to be alive, that seems like a more powerful state than what meditation and yoga would ever get you. I wanna hear some thoughts about that, maybe it's just my ego deluding me haha

@Aeris @Aeris Yes I do think that theory is very important, but at the same time the next (ultimate?) paradigm is to let go of all of that. It's almost like you go full circle, that's why I find it very easy for me to mistaken apathy for enlightenment, like both are the same note but with different frequencies. That's the side I hate about self help, having an arsenal of techniques and making it a chore to apply them daily. Like my first year of meditation was the heaviest thing I had to do, maybe it made me more receptive to that new letting go paradigm, but I think that not taking the spiritual work seriously but still doing it is the best way to go, by trying so hard to get "enlightened" we make things more difficult in my opinion But again, maybe I'm just deluded lol