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Within Buddhism they sort of acknowledge a lot of mystical experiences that don't have much to do with the path to the cessation of suffering, just like in Christianity that they have all kinds of ideas about miracles, demons and angels, etc. But we know that their goal is none of those things, they are just part of their universe. I think this is what can make religions have a certain flavor of what is possible within their universe, meanwhile others might not even register something as plausible. Like focusing at breaking down your field of consciousness is an extremely alien idea to Christianity, meanwhile within Buddhism it's close to the techniques they use to achieve their goals. So to them, acknowledgement of the truth of the ego as a construct is absolutely bizarre, because they think your soul is this indivisible entity that was spawn once in your birth (or as a fetus, or whatever, even before your dad's sperm entered your mom's egg, because some are against using condoms). And then Christian's use that "eternal soul" idea to peddle stuff like that you're going to eternal suffering in hell or will be reborn back to earth once a special day comes and the sinners won't get eternal pleasure, and that will depend on your moral following of Jesus teachings. Within Buddhism the idea of rebirth is more fluid so it leads to other secondary conclusions, like the mind being reborn due to desire from moment to moment, or you being reborn as a shit eating fly if you are too obsessed with your girlfriend or wife in the moment of your death because you want to be close to her at any cost lol. But also you can be reborn as a higher being like some alien that feels a thousand orgasms per second, but even then you're not exactly enlightened.

The point of Buddhism isn't understanding of reality. It's the path to the cessation of suffering. Buddha was very adamant on it. I listen very frequently to Buddhist dhamma talks, and it's literally one of their main points, is the analogy of someone that gets hit by a poisonous arrow. The dumb person will stop and think too much about all kinds of questions about the arrow, it's materials, where it came from, etc... But not focus on the fact that they need to treat it as fast as possible. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing if this is good or bad, just stating it as a matter of fact. One of the points of Buddhism as well is changing of mindset and values, such that you value more your own path to the kind of enlightenment of cessation of suffering, rather than cosmological/intellectual conquest of some kind. Obviously. The best Buddhists such as Thanissaro Bhikkhu, it's not like he is a stupid person. He's very skilful, he's a professional Buddhist scholar in practice, he has done some of the best modern translations of the Pali Canon to the English language. But, they don't have as a bias going on their own path, they see the buddha's path as a path you should accept and follow. It's not like they just take as blind faith like the focus on Christianity, in Buddhism it requires following the process of proving Buddha's teachings to yourself as opposed to accepting it by blind faith. But also paradoxically, like I said, it's sort of an already stabilized religion, they won't try to innovate or come out of their own way too much. There are modern Buddhism such as the "pragmatic dhamma" where they toss away most of the dogma and they do it closer to how Leo Gura would do it, where they mix and match their techniques and knowledge based on their own pursuit of truth, as opposed to being more guided through the dogma. Definitely a lot of echo chamber going on, they can be very strict, some sects are so strict to the point of lunacy. In the Pali Canon itself, buddha went through several years of self-neglect because he thought it was the proper path, then he did backtrack on that and found the so called middle way. So just like other religion, their core text have had certain biases that got stuck there up to this day. If the Buddha was alive today, he would tell you not to get bogged down by Buddhism itself if you care about truth. Like they say, even for someone in the Buddha's path, if you find him alongside of the road, you got to kill him because the outside dogma will block you from your own understanding. (not literally obviously). Use multiple sources. A single source will lead your mind into blind spots. Traditional Buddhists are very closed minded in their own world view, not that it doesn't deliver. It does deliver on its promises (probably not as effective if you used many sources). But it's not the whole world of mystical experiences and truth seeking.

I agree. As a content creator they have a bias of pushing their ideas/content on us. But in practice, most people have in their lives very hairy and OBVIOUS ISSUES that are "pending" to any given area of their lives, which are highly specific to the individual, and more theory and content won't solve unless it's very specific to the exact problems they are facing. Content creators, make us -- by their nature, information consumerists. For me in my stage of my life, I consumed way too much content to the point it would take me several life times to put into practice at the pace that I'm going. Most of Leo Gura's or anyone's content as a matter of fact, is to me right now simply intellectual masturbation due to those important things left not actualized. I mean, it's literally the name of his brand. Actualized.

Me too. He really doesn't really have anything new to say. The best "biohacker" content I read was a post by an entrepreneur called Serge Faguet, he made a few great very long articles and then called it off. He made comments saying that he wouldn't continue speaking about the "biohacking" stuff over and over again because he already taught a system. That's what I like about your content Leo, you teach a system. Serge Faguet best posts: https://hackernoon.com/im-32-and-spent-200k-on-biohacking-became-calmer-thinner-extroverted-healthier-happier-2a2e846ae113 https://hackernoon.com/biohack-your-intelligence-now-or-become-obsolete-97cdd15e395f https://hackernoon.com/how-taking-900mcg-of-lsd-permanently-accelerated-my-personal-growth-52935c848f9c https://hackernoon.com/embrace-being-a-programmable-biorobot-hack-your-own-cravings-83fc7e79bf12

😂 I think this is what the conservatives think when they speak about "Neo-Marxists"

This video, produced by *More Perfect Union*, investigates the business practices of the two dominant dialysis providers in the United States, *DaVita* and *Fresenius*. The report argues that these companies prioritize profit over patient care, leading to systemic issues in the dialysis industry. **Key Takeaways:** * **The "Fast Food" Business Model:** Critics and former executives compare the dialysis industry to fast-food chains, focusing on maximizing patient throughput, cutting staffing, and minimizing costs (0:14, 6:16). This often results in understaffed clinics where patients report dangerous conditions (2:22, 3:32). * **Impact on Patient Care:** The video highlights instances of severe neglect, including poor facility hygiene, lack of necessary medical assistance during emergencies, and pressure on patients to cut treatment times short (2:12, 6:42, 9:12). * **Gaming the System:** *DaVita* and *Fresenius* are accused of manipulating Medicare-linked performance metrics by intimidating patients, "blackballing" those who complain, and avoiding hospital transports to maintain their ratings (8:28, 9:01, 10:47). * **Industry Consolidation:** By acquiring over 80% of independent clinics, these companies have created a duopoly that limits patient options and creates barriers to receiving kidney transplants (10:04, 12:08). * **Global Comparison:** The video notes that American patients on dialysis experience significantly higher mortality rates compared to those in Europe and Japan, suggesting the for-profit model is a critical factor in these outcomes (13:10-13:30). The documentary concludes by calling for systemic changes, pointing out that while this is a worst-case scenario in healthcare, the trend of corporate consolidation and profit-prioritization is spreading across various medical sectors (14:24-15:06).

I know. What I said is to convert the final dump to a brand new RSS format, so a regular RSS feed reader pull from it instead of some other custom format.

From the scraping, somebody should just generate an RSS feed file with the full posts embedded and with the OCR idea in a free static file hosting service like Cloud flare. So the user can just use his favorite RSS reader. There are probably some good ones that allows for full text search, if not that can be easily be done from the RSS feed file. This way we don't have to waste time maintaining more custom code than necessary, we won't be running multiple of those bots accessing and creating their own databases, and it will work in all platforms and provide the real-time update abstraction from RSS feed readers. If that's not enough, we can just write our own custom format if RSS happens to have some major limitation like maximum number of posts. Extracting the posts into their own respective HTML files cleaned and properly tagged for automation before doing any further format transformation should be the first step of this scraping pipeline, that will guarantee that it will preserve all the original features on the post, like the youtube embeds and whatever he might have included there. The major issue I believe would be the vimeo embeds, I believe leo configured them to not run outside of actualized.org. It has to be checked. What Claude Code gave there wouldn't handle if it's taking just the text of the posts and tossing away the original HTML. HTML already has a tag to add the text description of images that is used for accesability, that would be the correct way to extracting HTML and using OCR to embed back into the image the text, and then the later stages of the pipeline uses that. For searching quick right now just use on google: the tag "site:" followed by the address to search there. site:https://www.actualized.org/insights

I now understand why rationalism/science is blind: what it measures are relationships between things, it does not measure the things themselves, because that's impossible, because there is only "one thing," which is the very fact of existence itself existing. There is only one existence. The existence of any object such as the universe, and the only one I have direct access to which happens to be thoughts about the universe, are precisely identical. Ignoring infinity as our nature and the nature of reality is ignoring the precondition for there being any relationships to measure at all. This is the most understated fact among modern humans. Physicists claim physics tells us what matter is, when it only tells us how it behaves. It cannot possibly tell us what it is! That's fucking impossible, because there is just one substrate for everything everywhere! That's already it. It's right here. The very fact of existing is what it all is. It's not even consciousness itself, it's even more encompassing. But sometimes I struggle to grasp how all of this complexity and self-consistency the universe possesses is generated by me. Then I remember: it's not that this universe is generated by my human brain, it's that this whole reality is me, I authored this whole reality, including all of its contents. Because what else could I be? The character in the game is the computer itself. The character is the computer, and the computer is the character, those are just distinctions we invented. This is so sticky, it's so hard to believe in this fact once we untangle it to its conclusions, that I'm actually the universe, that I had to fabricate this whole universe, so I could witness its consistency projected onto the human brain I created, and then that human brain attempts to map it all back to its source, a miniature universe nested inside another universe, all within the same reality mirrored back to itself.

I reflected on what you said since yesterday, and I realized that even through the most materialistic paradigm I can say that I'm the universe including whatever substrate it may be originating from, and the universe has to be equally causeless and infinite. I say this from the perspective of trying to look both ways in this street. Did I create reality or did reality create me? It's so obvious that it's all equally the same everywhere we look. I'm existence itself. Existence has to be infinite, because my consciousness is infinite. This sounds ridiculous to a materialist, but they don't get... We are talking about existence itself, the very fact of anything existing at all is the most ridiculous and bat shit crazy thing to begin with. Reducing the importance of something existing at all, it has to be causeless infinity. If I trace my origins even within this universe we reach the big bang or another theory, and behind that we can have yet more and more... Doesn't it seem familiar? THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE ITSELF MIRRORS MY OWN MONKEY BRAIN CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ITS ABILITY TO BE INFINITE, or the other way around, the universe imbues into me that ability, either way it's the same exact existence, any distinctions are byproducts of minds like ours trying to make sense of things, the universe is not made by little discreet pieces and every attempt at finding indivisible units failed towards fuzzy unmeasurable quantum properties that propagates up the ladder of scale. We look at the beginning cause, we see infinity. We look at our consciousness and it's infinite in it's capabilities of taking in any object in, only limited by our physical brain not letting it in. The brain is just limiting infinity and constraining it. Sense making is just constraining this infinity into specific stories, narratives, streams of more mental events. Even the role of this physical universe, it's to create the shared constraints that we have as humans, so we can have distinctions inside of it so we have something to talk about, something to create with, something to seek, something and someone to be. Crazy enough, I keep arriving at those same answers no matter where I look. Inside of myself, on physics, on philosophy, on religion, in "spirituality", in logic, in the core premises of mathematics, in my animal desires, in the limits of my consciousness and how I can't perceive beyond the literal walls of my room and I have to imagine beyond it based on my world knowledge, and how those are just small mind moments happening at a given millisecond and vanishes until I think of something else. But I haven't seen yet that it's all actually infinite, my mind can only see distinctions, it can't see infinite because it's just nothing and nothing is always replaced by something the moment you try to catch it. Therefore it's all just the same no matter what direction we look from the confines of consciousness, it's all infinity everywhere we look, even if it required us to go higher and higher to some unknown substrate, that substrate has to be at least equally infinite. "The Cosmos is within us. We are made of start-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." - Carl Sagan

She's doing Leo Gura-level analysis here: s-tier spiritual content. Her point: consciousness and the story-building overlay on top of it are separate. It doesn't matter what metaphysics you hold, as long as you're not the materialist criticizing the finger pointing at the moon, or the blind believer staring at the finger thinking it's the moon. Personally, I'm agnostic about "mind over matter" vs. "matter over mind," as well as Leo's "you're God dreaming yourself." I see the physical universe generating my consciousness, and my consciousness generating the idea of a physical universe, as equally valid co-arising aspects. I don't know if they co-arise, if one is primary, or if the question is malformed. This is close to Pyrrhonian epoché or Kant's phenomenon/noumenon split; I'm not claiming novelty. And does holding any position here actually change moment-to-moment experience or ethics? If not, why do idealists and materialists fight so hard? The stakes seem mostly tribal. It's impossible to ascertain the nature of consciousness *from within* consciousness, because it can generate infinite layers of stories. The substrate, whatever it is, can never pierce through to prove itself as the absolute bottom, because any such "proof" would only arise as more thoughts, objects, and experiences. These are simply more figments of consciousness. Any attempt to perceive outside is mediated by the very same mind doing the looking. So I don't take Leo's word on faith that I'm God imagining the universe. The mind/brain is stuck inside whatever this universe or substrate is, and my view of that universe/substrate is stuck inside this mind/brain. (I use "mind," "brain," "universe," and "substrate" flippantly; they're concepts arising within the very field I'm trying to describe. The whole argument is built with tools that can't escape the problem. That's a hard limit of language, not a defect of the argument.) By the same logic, a hardcore materialist can't bend my words toward the primacy of the physical universe either. The mind is stuck in itself and can't perceive outside itself. By "physical universe" I mean the whole bundle: theories, brains, common sense, all of it. The situation might as well be: 1) A computer simulation 2) A Boltzmann brain, which is a mind that popped out of quantum vacuum fluctuations in an empty timeless universe 3) A dog struck by lightning, in whose mind arose the exact thoughts I'm having this millisecond, including the sense of time and self 4) A boundless, all-permissive god carving distinctions 5) An empty void where everything is built from axiomatic truths upward into a cohesive cosmos with emergent phenomena: the big bang, the multiverse, or whichever fad theory is current Even these skeptical hypotheses are made of concepts arising in consciousness. Anticipated objection: "But you look both ways before crossing the street; therefore, you functionally believe in physical reality." Sure. Functional engagement with appearances isn't a metaphysical commitment about their substrate. You can navigate the dream without claiming to know what generates it. What remains after all this uncertainty? The bare fact of experiencing-now, without commitment to what it is or what produces it. That's the floor. The materialist-vs-spiritualist problem gets dissolved by people who see the spiritual point without collapsing into blind belief. The moment it turns into dogma, even for "intellectually advanced" Christians who claim they don't hold blind belief because of some technicality (Jesus existed, resurrection is historical) but then in the same breath push specific doctrine, that is the failure mode. Same shape, different flag.

I see marketing as a tool just like looking at financial market charts. It's just part of business, can't get around that shit. Who the hell says the love looking at charts? It's an acquired technical taste. But think about this, even if you're a saint, you want to have effective marketing to run a non-profit business and do the biggest impact if you need cash to run it. Even the pope needs good marketing, specially him with all of the scandals... Well, that was a bad example. 😂 Good marketing is an extension of selling people a vision. I think what makes marketing so trashy is that to get the most effective responses from most people they react to trash. If it was possible to get billions of people to become more spiritually aware that would be god-levels of marketing. Major religions tried to do it, or at least tell they us that they did, take the challenge yourself if you wish lol.

Bonjour! J'espère que ça va s'améliorer! 😊 lol. I'm a guy and dating is basically just talking to new people. I'm thinking of charging to teach English to some chicks that I've been talking to, actually, trying to teach English to them was a way of them getting to know me... But I don't want necessarily to be making my money like that, it's just that I wanted to do in my area that I'm self-taught, but unfortunately those two things are unrelated, the best work I can get would be online and to american/european markets because it pays better, and dating has to be people that at least lives in my own country, obviously right now because I'm broke, it has to literally be in my city. So it's not exactly optimized. For context, I'm a heterosexual male lol. For dating her looks and personality matter the most and her personal interests or industry is not my concern, for making money it could be an old dude and I'd gladly network with him if it's the direction I want to go. Funnily enough, one chick once used to help me financially several years ago, and she was from asia, I'm from latin america. But she did more harm than good, because she behaved bipolar... So if you mix dating with monetary necessity, you could end up putting up with some shitty people, and breaking up with them might cause you problems if you don't navigate this well. I don't like mixing the two, unless we are coming in as equals and we are both getting a goal deal and I could break up without being a burden to me. I think it's useful when you're dating somebody that can share similar goals and mindset together. I'm currently talking to somebody that we have been having some great conversations about professional life, spirituality and emotional stuff. It's nice, I think she would be a good gf that would be positive to my professional life, even if she can't directly help me.