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I am in a position where my friend has done them and knows where to get them and offered that if I ever wanted to try them that I could ask him. I trust my friend, but I am a little paranoid about fentanyl and screwing myself up.

I am new into investing and I will see how it goes with Vanguard. I read the book the simple path to wealth by Jl Collins

Cool! Do you all invest through a Roth IRA or through a brokerage money market account?

I asked Claude 3 the traps of Ai chatbots like itself. Here is what it said: Me: What are some of the traps of using AI chat bots such as Claude 3 opus? Claude: Here are some potential traps and pitfalls to be aware of when using AI chatbots like myself: Overreliance and misplaced trust. It's important to remember that AI chatbots, while highly capable, are not infallible. We can make mistakes, have biases, and sometimes "hallucinate" incorrect information, especially about niche topics. Don't blindly trust everything an AI says without verifying key facts. Lack of true understanding and reasoning. Current AI language models are very good at pattern matching and generating human-like text, but we don't have genuine understanding, reasoning, or sentience like humans. Our responses can sometimes seem more coherent and intelligent than they really are. Potential for misuse. AI chatbots could be used to generate misinformation, propaganda, scams, or other harmful content on a large scale if misused. The open-ended conversational abilities also raise privacy concerns. Over-anthropomorphizing the AI. It's easy to start thinking of a highly capable AI assistant as more human-like than it really is. But current AI lacks true feelings, self-awareness, and the depth of a human mind. An AI is not your friend, even if it may feel that way sometimes. Impact on human knowledge and skills. Relying too heavily on AI assistants could lead to the atrophying of certain human skills like research, writing, critical thinking, and problem-solving if people become overly dependent on AI. Brittleness and inconsistency. AI chatbots can be brittle in the sense that slight changes to a prompt can lead to very different outputs. They may also be inconsistent, giving different answers to the same or similar questions at different times. So in summary, while AI chatbots are incredibly powerful and useful tools, it's crucial to be aware of their limitations and potential pitfalls. Use them to augment and enhance human intelligence rather than to replace it. Maintain a healthy skepticism, think critically about the outputs, and verify important information. Keep in mind that you are ultimately interacting with a statistical language model, not a sentient being, even if it can feel quite natural and human-like at times. Let me know if you have any other questions! Me: Can you please expand more? Claude: Certainly! Here are some additional points to consider regarding the traps and limitations of AI chatbots: Bias and fairness concerns. AI models can absorb and amplify biases present in their training data, leading to biased or unfair outputs. This could perpetuate societal biases and discrimination if not carefully addressed. Bias is complex and can be hard to detect and mitigate. Lack of contextual awareness. While AI chatbots can maintain context within a conversation, they lack the broad contextual awareness that humans have. They don't have a rich understanding of the world, current events, social norms, and individual users' circumstances that humans intuitively grasp. Inability to truly learn and adapt. Despite being called "learning" models, current AI chatbots do not actually learn and improve from conversations with users. They are static snapshots of their training data. Adapting to new information or individual users' needs in a meaningful way is a challenge. Difficulty with tasks requiring creativitiy. While AI chatbots can engage in creative writing and ideation to an extent, they are ultimately remixing patterns from their training data. Truly novel ideas and groundbreaking creativity are more challenging, and the outputs can feel generic or clichéd. Limitations in reasoning about the physical world. AI language models are not grounded in the physical world and can struggle with tasks that require reasoning about physical properties, spatial relationships, or real-world constraints. Their understanding is based on statistical patterns in text. Challenges with very recent information. AI chatbots are not connected to the internet and their knowledge is based on a static training dataset. So their information can become stale over time, and they may have limited knowledge of very recent events or developments. Inappropriate or offensive content. While responsible AI developers work hard to reduce unsafe or inappropriate content, it is an ongoing challenge given the open-ended nature of interactions. There's a risk of AI outputting offensive, explicit, or dangerous text. Uncertainty about long-term impacts. The increasing use of AI chatbots may have significant societal, economic, and psychological impacts that are hard to predict. There are open questions around issues like AI-generated content's effect on discourse, automation of cognitive jobs, privacy implications, and AI dependence. It's crucial for AI developers to work on addressing these limitations and for society to thoughtfully consider the implications. At the same time, AI chatbots offer immense potential benefits in areas like education, research, mental health, and productivity if developed and used responsibly. Ongoing research aims to make AI systems more robust, controllable, aligned with human values, and beneficial. Let me know if you would like me to elaborate on any specific point or if you have additional questions! I'm happy to discuss this important topic further. Me: How can I avoid these traps? Claude: To avoid the potential traps and pitfalls of using AI chatbots, consider the following strategies: Maintain a critical mindset. Always think critically about the information and responses provided by AI chatbots. Don't accept everything at face value, especially for high-stakes decisions or sensitive topics. Verify important information. For critical facts, decisions, or assertions, take the time to cross-reference and verify the information using reliable human-curated sources. Understand the AI's limitations. Familiarize yourself with the capabilities and limitations of the specific AI chatbot you are using. Be aware of its knowledge cutoff date, potential biases, and areas where it may struggle. Use AI as a tool, not a replacement for human judgment. Treat AI chatbots as powerful tools to augment and assist human intelligence, not as a complete substitute for human reasoning, creativity, and decision-making. Be specific and provide context. To get the most accurate and relevant responses, provide the AI with as much context and specificity as possible when asking questions or making requests. Don't over-anthropomorphize. Remember that you are interacting with a language model, not a sentient being. Avoid attributing human qualities like empathy, loyalty, or true understanding to the AI. Protect sensitive information. Be cautious about sharing personal, confidential, or sensitive information with AI chatbots, as the data may be stored and could potentially be misused. Use multiple sources. For important topics, don't rely solely on a single AI chatbot. Cross-reference with other reputable sources of information, including human experts. Keep human-in-the-loop. For critical applications or decisions, ensure there is human oversight and involvement rather than relying entirely on AI outputs. Stay updated on AI developments. Keep learning about the latest developments, best practices, and discovered limitations in AI chatbot technology to inform your usage. Provide feedback. If you encounter biased, inappropriate, or incorrect outputs from an AI chatbot, provide that feedback to the developers so they can work on improvements. Encourage transparency and accountability. Support efforts to make AI systems more transparent, accountable, and aligned with human values. This includes initiatives to address bias, improve safety, and develop ethical guidelines for AI development and deployment. By following these strategies, you can harness the power of AI chatbots while mitigating the risks and pitfalls. It's all about using AI responsibly and in combination with human intelligence. Let me know if you have any other questions! I have already foreseen and warned people of these traps already with ChatGPT. I am glad I was thinking ahead of the curve. I suspect that in the future like it is right now, the attack will be on our sources of information. I foresee that just like how the election was manipulated, our information will also be as well. Claude may be great, but you don't know if anything it says is true unless you verify it through critical thinking.

Thanks! I appreciate you. Are there any testing kits you recommend?

I came up with the answer before Leo gave it. The answer I came up with wasn't "self" but rather the matrix, which is basically self-deception itself - the ego/mind/devil.

Seems like this is another BS leaving post. These posts are pointless and are just trying to get attention. The guy is still here. Lock the thread. It is a pollution.

If that is true? Why are you only posting videos of GMW? That is the only reason why I made that comment. It just seems like all your information is coming from one source.

Obsession over a guru won’t get you anywhere.

Yes. But watching the breath alone is time that you won’t be engaged in critical thought and contemplation. Contemplation is one of the best ways of gaining understanding, intelligence, and insight. To even type a logical response to this thread requires that you engage in critical thought and not just stuck on watching your breath. If meditation is making you dull, you are doing it wrong. Curiosity is number one.

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That's the thing is that anyone who says they fear death are very good at lying to themselves. There is a difference between logical analysis and your emotional response. Fear is emotional, so there is no logic you can do that will eliminate that fear. When the gun goes to your head, your heart will pump blood like there's no tomorrow.

I do agree with what you are saying. I just think that is the missing piece when Leo talks about morality is that it is very metaphysical (which is good) but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of practicality in how to work through these ethical situations, especially when it goes into politics like trying to balance different issues such as drug legalization or whatever. But even these political issues are out of most peoples control and can be impractical for them. I think one of the best principles is devoting time to contemplate and dissecting each theory, the pros and cons, and then to establish your own view of morality.

You don’t know that. If a gun was pointed to your head and asked “what do you know for certain? Tell me a lie and I will blow your head off,” you wouldn’t be making these assertions about death. You honestly think that you are the exception to everyone else? Everyone dies except for you? How selfish of you, you Devil. You are gonna be put 6ft under just like everyone else. This kind of thinking gets us nowhere. You could make the argument that seizures are an illusion because I have never had them and have no evidence that I will ever get them. Yeah, all that sounds good logically speaking, but emotionally, your body knows it is going to die. That is why you have fear. That is the only reason why fear exists. Death is part of Infinity in the same way sleep is. There is absolutely zero evidence that I will lose consciousness and go to sleep tonight. But I will anyways. There are plenty of things in life that are true that have none or limited evidence. Evidence deals with conviction/belief and not with truth. What is true is beyond evidence.

The issue is being too metaphysical is too detached from most people. The masses aren’t going to be at that developmental level in this lifetime.

Right. That is simple on paper but is so complex in practice. Your blog post suggests that it is so difficult to implement morality in practice. We can create laws that are out of good intentions but turn out to have horrific outcomes. I went to Portland, Oregon and saw how the drug decriminalization has negatively impacted that state. Liberals can have utopian ideas that seem good on paper, but when implemented, they don’t turn out the best. Even ethics when it comes to mental health is so complex because mental health is complex. I can be selfless and compassionate and still make dumb mistakes out of my best intentions. I would say that it is more than selflessness vs selfishness. It is about wisdom vs ignorance. Reality vs deception. I consider myself really selfless, but my desire to defund the military out of a selfless desire to end innocent killings could lead to more innocent deaths.

It depends on how I get the sex.

We operate off of these theories whether we think about them or not. I am a mental health counselor and I have to do ethics all the time and I have to consider my ethics in my decision-making. I tend to use different ethical theories in my work. I treat clients as ends and not as means (deontology), and I weigh the consequences when faced with an ethical dilemma (utilitarianism). That video on Goodness is not what I am talking about. It is too metaphysical and disconnected from everyday human affairs. If a Devil were to watch it, they still wouldn’t know how to act good in society.

Please point out a video he has that analyzing all the normative ethical theories such as utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, contractarianism, Confucianism, etc., as well as articulated the limits of each theory and creating a grand big picture of morality. I am not interested in a moral code. That doesn’t work. I am interested in contemplating the grand picture of what makes a human good, what is the right behavior, what makes human flourishing possible, how to be moral, how to navigate through moral dilemmas, and why be moral. We are making moral decisions every day even when we don’t think about it. I don’t need Leo to answer these questions, I just found it ironic that he has been more political as time goes on and I find it interesting that there is no analysis of morality at a normative ethics and applied ethics standpoint. If there is a video, I have looked and have not found it.

Probably similar to Anesthesia.

Supreme Court 101

This is why polyamory exists. Look into it. Monogamy isn’t for everyone.

Amen. I would say on number 2 that you do have innate knowledge since you are the Universe. But the Universe is always a mystery to itself.

If an alien held a gun held to your head and said to you, "Tell me what you know with 100% absolute certainty about reality, consciousness, and awakening, or I will blow your head off!" What would you say? Me: "I can only know that Consciousness exists, but I do not know exactly what Consciousness actually is. I just know that experience of some sort is happening. I assume that this experience is true, but I do not know whether this gun you are holding is actually real or if it is not just a dream or some toy gun you have to scare me. I do not know if solipsism is true or if Infinity of Gods is true because all I know is within the limits of my finite human experience. The only thing I know with 100% certainty that exists is the Universe/God/Experience. The idea of a first cause is a belief because the human mind will invent distinctions between what is a cause and what isn't. There is nothing in the Universe that can tell me the first cause of you pulling the trigger of this gun you have to my head. Scientists will say it is neurons in the brain, but then if we study it further maybe something else could be found. But then we could trace it back to it being caused by an experience that you had (assuming you aren't a philosophical zombie) that led you to want to come down here and ask me this very stupid question in the first place. But then that "cause" would have another "cause" and another until we realize that we are literally in the Mind of God right now and it is infinite and eternal, which means that it is entirely uncaused. To even say that "causes" exist is to presuppose a duality and posit something outside of the caused and the causer. There is no such thing as a first cause. Alien: But then what is God but not a first cause? Me: God is simply All That Exists. God is not the source of existence. God is the very substance of Existence itself. Existence has no source because that would assume there is something outside of existence. But there isn't anything outside of existence because even non-existence would have to be an idea inside of existence. Alien: Then what are you so afraid of what will happen if I pull this trigger? Me: I am afraid of losing all of my attachments to everything I have experienced in the flesh. The Universe is experiencing itself through this human body. It has attached itself to survival and is afraid of non-existence. Alien: Even though you stated that non-existence is an idea in existence, you still fear death? Me: Yes, because it exists. If non-existence didn't exist, then I wouldn't have to worry about it right? But I will die, which all that means really is that I will lose this story and dream I have experienced in this body, but I will continue another story through your body right now. So, in essence, I am you, experiencing you right now in another life. But because time is not linear in the realm of eternity, I am experiencing all lives simultaneously together. I can feel secure knowing that death is an illusion, but I will still have the fear because I am attached. All fear is is attachment to the ego. But without ego, there can be no life at all. We have to have a reference point to have any notion of experience at all. That is the great paradox. Without a body, what would the Universe be experiencing? Can you see how perfect and intelligent this design of the Universe is? We couldn't be just a floating consciousness experiencing reality because then how could you have an experience of anything at all? How could you experience pain if there is nothing, nobody, and no-body? You see, God, the Universe is in a show playing with itself for all eternity. I am laughing now because this is what is happening now. Go ahead and pull the trigger. I am ready to experience your life and why you decided to shoot me. Maybe I will find out. Alien: See you. What are your thoughts?? What could you say that you truly know with absolute certainty?? The point of this thought experiment is to get you to really hone in on what is true knowledge vs. belief. If you claim you have had an awakening into reality, let’s put it to the test. Are you willing to put your life on the line for that “insight”? Or is it really just a belief? Edit: That alien would’ve blown my head off much earlier than it did.

If you truly know nothing, then what is awakening? If you truly know nothing, then how can you say anything is true or false? Clearly there is something you do know.