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https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/playground-experimental-gaming-platform/ You might find this interesting. I'm not sure if you can use it now but I think we'll see more stuff like this in the future.

My parents forced me to go to church when I was a kid, and one time the priest told us that reading or watching Harry Potter was satanic I went home freaked out.

Just finished watching, it was awesome! Thanks for the initiative @Vido I'll also watch the other one with Davino, and looking forward to the next episodes with others. I was also mostly lurker like you for like 8 years, and this year I've become more active, it's fun, you should join conversations more As for @Natasha Tori Maru, you were great, as Leo said the other day, we're lucky to have you here 🫶. Couple things I noted during the interview: I've also been intuitively good at drawing (so is my sister, so it might be a genetic thing), and I haven't had a formal artistic education, but I remember in childhood and teenage years when I was drawing something, I made a distinction between what I was actually looking at and what I thought I was looking at, and most of the times when I didn't like the drawing, it was because I was adding my own interpretations to the perception. And when I was switching that off, and was perceiving what was there directly, literally, the art was coming out much better. It was a small insight that I now realize has some ontological significance. You also mentioned the same thing. I also found out about Ralston through Leo's videos and the book list, and it gave me (still continues to) a crucial epistemological foundation. Kudos to Leo for introducing him to us. One question, you mentioned that after your walking experience the suffering never came back to the same degree. Did you do some formal practices before that experience, did contemplating, or it just spontaneously occured because suffering was so intense that something in you surrendered? That story reminds me of the story Eckhart Tolle tells when he speaks of his first enlightenment experience. Also, did you attribute your success in construction management mostly to the perceptive and consciousness change (plus discipline and work-ethic)? Would you still be able to accomplish things the same way if it wasn't for those couple experiences? You're nice to listen to, looking forward for the second part with a better mic Tell us more about your Kanguru sandwiches next time 😂

Yeah, being a millionaire comedian doesn't hurt

You can lose all that fat in under a year and plus build a muscle and recompose your body. What have you actually tried to lose that weight? Like what specific ways did you try to lose the fat? Just list them to me. Maybe you haven't tried as hard as you think you did. As for the shorter guys, I've seen very short guys with beautiful short girls, but rarely I find short guy with a taller girl. Work on things that you can control, like weight-lost, this you can control 100%, no exuses here! I myself am on the way to losing 35kg. Already down -10kg very easily, in a healthy and sustainable way.

So what if I want my dream job, and I send CV's and me and some other guy get interviewed, and I use all the manifestation techniques by which I get hired (as this pop new-agers would suggest). In what world is that a fair logic? Why in the world would reality be constructed in a way that by just imagining and "manifesting" my desired output, some other guy losts his opportunity? What if he also tried manifesting that same job? Who's manifestation would win? And what makes that happen? This is so silly. Am I missing something?

@Majed Yes but at the same time, money is the only thing that gets you out of wage-slavery and gives you freedom to pursue whatever you want. Of course it won't solve anything existential, but it will free your time and energy to actually spend them on things you really care about. On a collective level, yes, I'd agree. Also known as survival. Money helps with survival, and people mostly care about survival so money becomes very important in that regard.

If manifestation was real than all the government intelligence agencies would have manifestation departments And what if those are false in my experience, so you suggest bullshitting myself to the point that I blindly believe my own drilled-in bullshit just to then act out of that belief? Some things just can't be learned without going through the experience of doing it, especially attracting women if you lack the skills for it. Affirmations won't make you effective at it. Maybe it can motivate you to do more action.

Guys just parrotting and mindlessly repeating words of Owen Cook when he says "say it". It's in all of his videos. It's so cringe.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/what-is-death @Leo Gura If death is infinity and eventually we'll realize that after physical death, why bother Waking Up before physical body dies? If there is no judgement in the end and nothing we do here has any point ultimately, why bother living a Good life? Why bother anything at all? My answer to that would be that why not, what's the alternative? Alternative is a totally unaware selfish life, being an animal basically with some cognitive abilities. I can't exactly pinpoint why that is wrong per say, other than that it feels bad, it's highly biased living which after some point becomes a source of suffering by itself. But suffering is kinda irrelevant because truthful leaving also comes with it's own suffering. The bias itself makes it not okay because it isn't objective, it's just a bias. The reason I'm asking this is that lately I've been overly stressing myself for failures over my attempts of deliberate & conscious living, and that post on Death got me thinking if my attitude was correct. Was wondering what were your thoughts on that.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. I wasn't aware of potential mercury in a tuna, I've been eating a can of tuna most days because it's very low in calories and high in protein, I'm in a caloric deficit and trying to keep protein numbers high to not lose muscle, and it was a good deal. I'll look into it more, probably reconsider the amount.

Why? I eat it cause of high protein.

@Miguel1 Hey, I have one question. Would you be willing to marry a woman who is very developed, spiritually advanced, maybe even more then you, but isn't as good looking as you'd like?

https://www.actualized.org/insights/should-you-read-the-bible You should see his latest book Great post man! My father used to tell me to read the Gospels to understand God, and I always refused because it didn't make sense to me how God was to be understood by reading stories of Jesus. And the mental gymnastics that Christians go through to defend facts from the Bible and portray them as literal truths like Earth being 5000 years old and Noah's ark being real, is so funny. As if Christian God's existence depends on those facts being historically accurate.

Then we're all fucked by that point