Jayson G

So Open AI is doing this 12 days "shipmas" thing starting today, Dec 5th. Most likely it is including Sora. All the current sources I usually check are confirming that this is definitive. I am journaling all the possibilities this opens up. So far I'm inclined to create music videos like "Lost" by Linkin park, re-created game music videos like that of Kingdom hearts, and even experiment with Harry Potter related scenes. I am imagining there will tons of nuance that we can include in the prompt engineering. What do you plan to create with it? What specific nuances in prompt engineering do you plan to include? What kind of beautiful, magical scenes? From seeing these videos with Sora, it is far surpassing any video model to the point where its not even worth comparing to any current video model. So if you have been experimenting with those current cr*p ones, this will be a whole other ballgame. I can honestly imagine myself spending hours a day just fine-tuning prompt responses to get the exact scenes I want. How would you plan to master it? Any workflows? Interested to here your guys' thoughts on this, of any kind. Maybe when this releases, if a lot of us really get hooked, we can have a mega-thread to have some kind of hive-mind of creative nuances for our videos. To be honest, I wasn't that keen on Sora for the past 4 months or so. But as I started journaling, and watching videos like Lost by Linkin park, I'm now deeply inspired to explore this tool.

@Leo Gura In your post on the corruption of success .. isnt it too broad to say that all forms of success is corruption? Isnt the pursuit of life purpose a path of reducing inner corruption? Whats the point then of pursuing any creative path if that leads to more success, which means more corruption then? Would it then just make sense to pursue your life purpose in limits? to not be ambitious with it?

Yeah I think so. The details matter, in my opinion. It can be a trap for you depending on why you're doing it, if perhaps you're doing it as a stepping stone or not. Are you learning skills from that job that will contribute to a greater purpose? Some people just want a really simple life so a job may not be a trap for them. I guess the details really matter. But at the same time, I think context alone isn't what defines a trap. Like generally speaking, a 9 to 5 job is wage slavery. No matter who you are, that is the case. There are inherent negatives to that path. There are inherent negatives to this AI hysteria going on too. So their is a sort of inherent trappiness to certain things lol and these could be really time-wasting traps. I guess not all contexts are equal in terms of its health.

For any entrepreneur out there, the current AI revolution could be a trap for you. I noticed something odd happening in me over the past 2 years since ChatGPT came out. Almost every day I got caught up in listening to some lecture, talk, interview, etc. from really smart people like Lex Fridman guests, Eric Schmidt, Sam Altman, etc. Now don't get me wrong. They're all highly intelligent people. Yes most of them are capitalists. But what I'm trying to highlight in this post is something specifically nuanced. As an entrepreneur, this can take you down a deep rabbit hole that perhaps is not meant for you, aligned with your values, etc. It can take time away from what you genuinely feel is most important. Ask yourself, are you listening to these videos because it connects with a life purpose that is genuinely authentic, a beautiful vision, your core values? or are you getting caught up in this never-ending daily excitement, unprecedented levels of excitement of the new AI product coming out every day. This excitement can blind you from who you really are, and what you really value. Now truthfully I have 2 programmers in my team working for 2 business projects that involve AI, but I guess the details matter here. I'm deciding to leave the programming aspect to them, focus on my vision, and focus more on aligning with my true values. I'm just saying this could be a trap, not necessarily that this is a trap. It could be a trap in the way crypto was a trap back in 2017 (or now for that matter given the current spikes, but I mentally got out of that trap thank god) Just to give you a perspective on how many entrepreneurs fall for this trap: I once listened to a podcast episode by Tim Ferriss back when NFTs were ubiquitous. He told the guest that all his big CEO friends all stopped what they were doing to pursue NFTs. And Tim is connected with all these top CEOs. That's how much NFTs took people away. Crypto. I'm seeing similar patterns with AI. Except crypto and NFTs is not an "everything-industry-changer" like AI, so AI is a much bigger long-term concern. Similarly, I think I've been in this AI trap. It's crazy because its SO ubiquitous right now. It's literally everywhere. It can be a big problem for that self-actualizer who wants a beautiful life, a life aligned with their core values, yet hasnt had their money needs met, and so they fall into this AI trap to meet their money needs (with somewhat good intentions, to build their great life of course) but in turn get caught up in a deeper and deeper rabbit hole. Today I almost seriously considered learning Python, going down this path. Now Python, I'm sure is amazing for many of you. But for me? It is so not aligned with my values. I'm not that heady, logical, technical person. I consider myself more an artist, visionary, etc. I tried to convince myself of all the amazing products I can build with Python, but then I looked deeper and although all those products would be cool to build, if I mastered python, its really not what I want. I'm convincing myself because of the sort of power Python would give me in this AI revolution, and that core motivation is flawed fundamentally. It's rooted in power and money, I'm guessing the same thing that drove these hyper-capitalists. On the other hand though, AI can be a great path for making money if you're financially stuck. Like I said, I have 2 people in my team developing AI products. But I need to keep distance, not get sucked down the wrong rabbit hole, stay clear on my vision and values, and not fall into this trap. I'm particularly highlighting this trap because this trap just started, and it will get way more of a concern as time goes on. Perhaps this trap can manifest in all kinds of ways. But again, AI in itself is not the trap. AI could be a trap for you though, depending on who you are, what your values are, what your authentic vision is.

Damn bro I've been there, wish you the best I'm glad you have a positive attitude

One important lesson for me personally is to distinguish more strongly between success advice and development advice and not to mix both. I think I have been loose with these distinctions. Also I still have this notion that success comes without consequence. I'm starting to see the falsehood in that more. Even Russell Brand? Didn't know that. I think you make an important point here. These people do have great qualities in terms of intelligence I believe, but it seems that a few "simple" qualities of corruption can really take over a person for the worse.

That is one thing. But also from another perspective, I think that pursuing of success may possibly be making them more corrupt than a "normie". And there are people on this forum who pursue success, but I see most people here actually recognize Trump as a low conscious leader. It's just weird how people like Joe and Owen, whose perspectives I admire, had their success pursuit take them in a different direction. Maybe they just got really good at getting success, that they wanted more and more power, and they think trump gives them an avenue for more power.

This has been making me question the field of personal development lately: Joe Rogan, Owen Cook, etc. people who have been in personal development for a while, understanding life from many perspectives, etc. .. You would think after all that work they would at least care about voting for a conscious leader.

I used to do something similar. Journal + ChatGPT (deep exploration for hours) + get fine distinctions from other art (video content in your case) + ask yourself questions that you are curious about + free write. You will have tons of ideas this way.

@The Renaissance Man These are pretty good examples. I'm actually curious about a lot of what you mentioned as well. I think Leo would cover the dynamics of theft in his video, but also curious about AI and marketing as for a lot of us this will be a part of our future as business owners going on our life purpose. And I also think Leo is not suggesting to not be a thief as well. Theft does appear to be a natural consequence of survival. By nature of survival, if I'm surviving, I am consuming all kinds of resources from my environment, resources from other living beings, the environment, resources not even mine.

@Leo Gura Thanks for addressing the recurring subscriptions. It is connected to my life purpose and I want to make sure that I am as conscious and as ethical as possible. I too dislike when companies like ClickFunnels make me go through 7 tricky hoops to cancel their absurdly expensive software. I will make my software easy to cancel and find other ways to make it conscious. My purpose for recurring subscriptions is just continuous cash flow for continuous expenses like employees, recurring development tech stacks, etc. Also looking forward to the videos on corruption and theft a lot. Corruption in particular would be a very useful video. One theme about corruption that keeps coming up for me as I keep noticing and letting go of corrupting behaviors in my life this past week is my connection to life, my authentic self, and honoring that as motivation to let go of corruption in my life.

@The Renaissance Man I'm actually referring to his latest blog post lol he gave a ton of examples there. But I felt that those examples are the pretty obvious ones. He referred to more subtle forms of theft, but I think Leo could have expanded on the more subtle forms of theft. I have also been very interested in examples for corruption lately as well. Past some days I have really been observing corruption and contemplation in my own life and realized just how important this topic is.

@Leo Gura Regarding Theft .. I have actually been thinking about theft, since you made some forum comments a few weeks ago. I'm starting to think that it's not just the AI companies stealing data. If one even generates an AI image with MidJourney or Dall-e and uses that for some purpose of any kind, that is a form of theft. My thinking is that it took stolen data to create that image. It's like that image was made with that data in a sense. Along those lines, it is possible that ordinary human creativity, which is most of the creativity within most of the products and services we see is a form of theft. James Cameron said Titanic was Romeo and Juliet on a boat. Aside from the obvious Titanic copy, he copied ideas from Romeo and Juliet. Now of course this form of theft is not bad in my opinion. I actually think this is a good form of theft. But it is theft. But then the question is, how does one even define theft. If theft is stealing what shouldn't be stolen, then that's a narrow form of theft. If theft is defined as taking an element outside of yourself that is not yours, that can be theft. But also interestingly, at one point you mentioned that nothing is yours. Everything is god's. We take credit for a product we built, even if it is completely original, when really it is god doing it. Maybe everything in our life is theft considering we like to say to a lot of things that "This is mine." "This is my mother." "This is my desk." I don't know about that last part lol I might be getting too ahead of myself. By the way, are all recurring subscriptions theft? If I decide to offer an app with a 10 dollar per month recurring subscription, but that app provides tremendous value to society, and I need to set that recurring subscription for continuous cash flow for the sustainability of the app's long-term development, I don't think that would be theft, would it?

@Leo Gura "At this point I will be happy if America still has a democracy in 4 years. I doubt it." .. what does that mean exactly though? dictatorship? a highly flawed democracy? collapse of government?

@Leo Gura It's not like I'm only on social media all day. But social media, from my understanding plays a big role in the election votes right and societal thinking? It's currently the most powerful form of media distribution and the influence on society's mind. I'm not talking about my own mind. I primarily get my information from books and high quality videos. I'm talking about the minds of mainstream society.

@Leo Gura I try not to let it affect my inner reality, but don't they represent a good portion of societal thinking and societal reality, sort of?

@Leo Gura do you know why everywhere I look on social media there is only support for Trump? Owen cook's comments, and even Eminem showed his support for Kamala harris and the whole internet is only talking about trump in Eminem's comments. I'm just trying to make sense of this.

@Leo Gura ah okay, in that case he is very similar to Yuval harari, but instead of being blinded by christianity, he is blinded by his national identity. He too is otherwise pretty wise. Actually I'm starting to see a pattern like this in quite a few places.

@Leo Gura I haven't looked into this one bit, but JP can't be that naive? I've seen some videos of his in the past, and some were pretty good.

@Raze but does he think the people of Israel faced a much greater suffering?

@Princess Arabia The older I get, the more I realize how different the female mind is from me. Almost like another type of human lol .. It's weird because over time, I did learn a lot about the female mind but I think its one thing to learn about the female mind from outside the female mind, and a whole other ball game to truly know the female mind from the inside.

My logical brain always tells me that most of this stuff is coincidence, but when I reflect these "coincidences" happen so frequently, it makes you wonder whether there's something more.

@Leo Gura from a spiral dynamics perspective, I think IDF and Israel has a lot of patriotism as a factor, or something in their propaganda that can turn even great thinkers blinded. I am thinking yuval noah harari, for example. It's surprising because on all fronts, he is a great thinker. He is even a historian beyond national identity, but when it comes to his national identity and his people of Israel, he thinks only his people are suffering in this war. I actually can not comprehend how powerful this national identity patriotism is. Yuval is actually brilliant in the sense that he is one of the few thinkers on AI that can look outside of AI to pull important insights into the future of AI. So he is a very good holistic thinker, and still his national identity completely blinded him on something so obvious. It's actually quite shocking. I also think IDF is luring people in with some aspect of patriotism in the whole country. One of my friends joined IDF, just a normal guy who is not radical in any way, and I can see it is mainly just to fight for his country, and that's it.

@fabger Dude you're still a kid, respectfully. Don't be so harsh on yourself. Your life just started.

Just looked into it, it's so good. This is an instant game-changer for any serious project you're working on.