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You have cornered your mind into a spot, and you think you need to go through that. I get it. Unless it's some deep spiritual truth (Nirvana, Infinite Consciousness): EVERYTHING IS A FABRICATION. It's not "FOUND". Please read this post I wrote, that's the point I'd make:

Essentially, to evolve is to train yourself to train the next version of yourself. And then, to let go of that previous version, and let its capabilities only exist in a latent, weaker form, that gets triggered contextually, as opposed as by default. That version of you right now that consumes this personal development content too often must not stay the default version (or the even earlier version, that consumes just porn and games), this version of you full of just fucking theories. Use that to train the new version, it should assume the default, and you use whatever means necessary to do so. Go all in, go with your whole arsenal. Use as much alignment as possible, as lightweight as possible, as streamlined as possible. You absolutely need it all, and more. You're too misaligned right now. I don't just mean this in the Life Purpose sense, but also in the spiritual sense. The reason you've not reached nirvana is that, you are too full, your resources are wasted towards a multitude of directions that never builds up on itself, like a mere source of light spreading out its light as electromagnetic radiation towards all directions and becoming part of the universe. You're supposed to concentrate your energy, not spread it. If you spread it, it becomes part of this amorphous field of background radiation of the universe. Once it's concentrated, it's of better use and good to the universe. It's like if planets never formed, and matter was just spaced equally in a big blob, essentially, just emptiness because the universe is so large, and you're so tiny. You should fight against that entropy. Otherwise, you will keep being just wallpaper, just a battery for the matrix, just a chunk of matter lying around, being tossed around... Never reaching critical mass towards an atomic explosion. A rocket that never reaches escape velocity, it never reaches space no matter how much energy it wastes.

This is how I'm looking at it. What do I mean by that: The purpose of Life Purpose is to align yourself and remove inner conflicts/friction, with AT LEAST the purpose of meeting your basic needs. And one of our needs is to have an aim to look for. To align our whole lives, our habits, environment, relationships, desires, interests, aversions, etc. Akin to a spiritual process (but not quite) Life Purpose is more of an alignment of what you'll do with yourself in Samsara, in Maya, in The World, in how you will build/align your EGO, as opposed to deconstructing it and having nothing to do with it. Why do you think one of the goals of many spiritual masters is to simply teach and pass it forward? They have to rebuild their ego somehow. It's like an AI system that has a broken reward function, and keeps spitting just probabilistic text completion (i.e.: GPT-3), we aligned them towards conversational format, and they spontaneously emerged with useful general intelligence (ChatGPT). In which, we can solve tasks with a single prompt, as opposed to having to do black magic to make it do anything useful. All of that happened with the SAME architecture. And now, with even LESS parameters, even less "capability" it's still capable of out-performing just text-completion models. Just the same way for a person, someone completely all over the place needs all sorts of shenanigans to even get anything done, they need to get their "committee of the mind" completely on-board, and it's a massively expensive and complex process to be done EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY FROM SCRATCH, because you KEEP LOSING MOMENTUM, because it's not BAKED INTO YOUR MIND, BEING, ENVIRONMENT and RELATIONSHIPS. It's like the old crappy Large Language Models like GPT-3, you had to waste a ton of your precious tokens/text/prompt window just PREPARING IT for the INSTRUCTION TO COME. Even if that instruction was to "Calculate 5 + 5 ". You had to give it EVER SINGLE TIME a whole paragraph of examples. But now it comes without extra effort and less processing power, and it can do more. They are EXTREMELY INEFFICIENT, just because their training was misaligned. In other words, their VALUES were misaligned. The things they feed their minds are misaligned. They are feeding their minds and spending their days filled with garbage. What will their minds output? Garbage. No wonder, people without even the most basic guiding principles can't even get a handle on their basic psychology. Of course, if you lack the material environment, or lack of enough "compute power" i.e.: You're distracted by internal or external causes, emotionally unstable, poor health, self-caused ADHD through engaging in highly dopaminergic activities, etc. It will become much harder to retrain and align yourself, but once you're slowly building leverage, getting through certain milestones, at some point it stops becoming a black hole sink of time, effort and energy, and it is becoming a virtuous positive cycle, where you are even GETTING PAID TO SHARPEN YOUR SWORD. Like training an AI to train another AI system that's more lightweight and takes less resources and can output more useful stuff than an old, misaligned and inefficient model.

I have never been in a gym before (No money). I'm doing some calisthenics with a bar in a public place, and push-ups indoors sometimes. And it gave me muscle gains, at least noob gains. Even despite diet changes. I think it was a massive ROI for such a small habit, and it's quite an effective way for me to increase Heart Rate, and I'm not feeling any more muscle soreness after waking up, and I can carry heavy grocery bags easier. I think perhaps for women once she sees me naked that would make some non-negotiable difference, even if subconscious.

Robert Greene (Everything he released) Alex Hormozi ($100M offers and $100M Leads) Alex Becker (10 pillars of wealth) Thanissaro Bhikku (Dhamma talks) Tim Ferris (Tribe of mentors, Tools of Titans)

LOL. Making small talk to as many people as possible was my way to develop the habitual trigger to be able to do the same to the hot women I want to date... Which I didn't do so far, I beat around the bush and don't get out of the small talk. But it was massive progress. I realized, one thing I need is just that connection with the people around me and be more "extroverted" in that kind of grounded way. Even if my skills with dating women properly are still at ground zero.

😂 What the fuck, on my last post, some similar stuff happened. Thanks god, it was just a week for me, and I'm not at her mercy. But it just hits it differently when they are gorgeous.

LOL. Most of the highest quality comments I found through searching on the forum through Google for very specific things I'm facing. Most quality answers I saw someone organically wrote somewhere, and it got buried and forgotten by the noise of the discussion.

I can't say that others physically exist, my brain could be in a matrix, but that doesn't change the figments of consciousness that appear in my stream. It's like someone saying that a character that ChatGPT is playing is actually him, and ChatGPT tells you: "Oh, no, they are just characters. And for I, I'm just a large language model that takes inputs and outputs textual tokens". Does that make ChatGPT any less real? I mean, we literally know it doesn't exist as a person. The ego isn't an "unreal", its merely a fabrication, and humans traditionally are capable of perceiving that fabrication with the appropriate mental views and practices. Just the same way that others are merely a fabrication. There isn't me, and there isn't them as something that's not fabricated conceptually. That talk he made is so naive. What is other? What is mind? What is my mind? Even my mind is comprised by different elements I can perceive, and they are just as real as the elements I can perceive of other minds: I can read their writings, I can hear their voices, and see them. But I can also see my own body, hear my own voice. But, the entity that I call "I" is just OF THE SAME NATURE as all other entities that I ascribe any meaning to. Fundamentally, all that we traditionally say exist, does really exist. But, the nature we fundamentally give to it, isn't quite so romantic. I can't hear someone else's thoughts, be on someone else's body... And that's just that, I simply don't perceive that part, and I can't possibly ascertain their existence. It's just a stream of data following, some of that data is what we traditionally call me (as a person) and some of it are of other conceptual entities, they are just as conceptual as the parts of that stream I perceive. There are others. But... The fundamental nature of them is one where we take for granted our conceptual understanding. But... Fundamentally, all of that exists are figments of consciousness like Leo would describe, and those build help build up conceptual understanding of the phenomena behind it. But we can't possibly say what they are.

With the risk of just paraphrasing you: The human civilization has always been really toxic, only now things have been improving. Essentially, whoever gets paid the most is whoever has the most power to bargain, which means, we are still fundamentally very power and survival driven. But that's it. It's just a fact of our current state of affairs, evident to everyone in this forum. 😉 Personally, I'd recommend you to do ASMR videos on YouTube, personal attention, emotional talks, roleplays, "reiki", etc. Checkout EdiyASMR for example. Most ASMR videos are just a front for receiving that kind of feminine energy. Some artists even receive some monthly income even from donations from people that expect nothing back, many times they don't release a video for months and people don't stop the monthly donations. They form some sort of parasocial bond. My best regards to you!

@Princess Arabia You are defining bad game traps here. All of that happens with the least conscious and most toxic men (Machiavellian on purpose), or the ones that are severely lacking (Not being Machiavellian, just lack of experience, social awareness, very neurodivergent, etc.). All of this talk that a woman can recognize this or that in a man and be correct with 100% accuracy about their assertions is flawed. They will get some rough averages, and also, they cannot deal with the entire complexity of the man's inner states that are completely invisible, only with the external representation which will only tell to some extent about him, and will work mostly just on the average, like I said. A man can be absolutely marriage material and even spiritually enlightened, but still give bad vibes (i.e. you think someone that appears detached from results seems creepy, etc) or give too friendly vibes and not get results due to lack of experience in dating BUT ALSO, a man can be a literal psychopath that has even killed, absolutely cunning and Machiavellian, but due to his experience and control over how he displays his emotions (he can turn on and off his empathy on command), he can appear the most charming and all other parameters that wound appear natural in the interaction, while being completely premeditated in his goals (i.e. lead her to whatever, while keeping interaction unpremeditated at a visceral level). What happens is that most people are not skilled enough, neither they also are absolute masters over their inner emotions, so there is a lot of room there for creepiness or lack of success, etc. Of course, that's based on HIS OWN POTENTIAL. Compared only with men that looks similar to him.

Quoting myself retrocasually.😉

Btw, to me consciousness is different from mind. What scientific-minded people call "human consciousness" is merely describing the localized human mind, that's part of the bigger set of consciousness. I haven't seen yet infinite consciousness like how Leo says - it just looks very murky/theorical to me anything beyond my mind and what it's fabricating, but I've had a lot of deep insights on my own mind. i.e.: A la "Book of not knowing" by Peter Ralston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind I find this concept pretty close to how I can directly inspect on my own mind. Nothing new here, I just thought it was nice to share it, since I saw it being referenced on a Reddit post I found through googling about Large Language Models (LLMs).: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/10ybsjf/theory_of_mind_may_have_spontaneously_emerged_in/ It's pretty obvious to me LLMs are in PRACTICE some sort of mind, even though it's highly debatable how that emergent phenomena works (i.e. data vs raw intelligence, stochastic parrots, etc.). Well, from the field of cybernetics, we know the threshold for an "entity" can be pretty low, i.e.: human organizations. But, LLMs have passed an entirely new threshold, both in a theoretical and practical way.

Medical? I think you must be careful. I hope you know the drill about safety already. Hallucinations, fake info sounding real, etc. If a model like GPT-4 hallucinates, smaller models are hopeless for safety. You can use Kaggle free GPU beyond Google Colab for example. Beyond that, you can fine-tune on a powerful gpu your models (by paying some form of cloud compute), and deploy them as smaller fine-tuned models, that's the only way to overcome the quality-performance issue. Also, there are lots of deployment possibilities that would allow for stuff like running in a chain the model so its output would be better (in theory).: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Also, perhaps for your needs, you just need a really good local search tool, that uses an llm tech to return info from a trusted body of work. Search for that. The simplest is simply vector databases. I'd side with tech that will return text from a trusted body of work, and using the LLM just to interpret the users input, as opposed to relying on it generating. The entire Wikipedia english raw text is about 14GB for example.

Right there close to Hot Witch Girlfriend references, and the 2014 Halloween special. lol.

So everyone knows: I've seen counter-recommendations against meditating on the physical heart. I don't remember where, but I'd look it up if anyone reading this is concerned.

That's called: Cybersquatting / Typosquatting What big companies (the owners of the brand) do is to actually buy commonly misspelled versions of it and redirect them. If you are bothered all you can pratically do is to buy those mispelled/similar versions before anyone will decide on it. I've heard about someone called Michel Soft (Idk the spelling) getting sued by Microsoft. They need to be doing trademark infringements, like purposefully trying to clone you, and even then, it's an expensive legal hell. Another practical tip: DO NOT BUY ".CO" a lot of people will believe it's misspelled version of ".COM". Don't worry so much about it. Most people those days will click on links anyways.

I listened to the first 38 minutes. One of the best podcasts episodes I've ever listened. There is no way around hard work at trial and practice.

People are already looking for that, creators simply amplify their wants. Mr. Beast isn't even the worst of all. Just look for YouTube videos made towards children, it's pure "sludge", absolutely non-sensical, and actively harmful (sexuality mixed with children's cartoons). At least Mr. Beast has some sort of coherentish narrative/plot. But it's no better than the stuff we would have no traditional TV. Parts of our society already had that talk before, about the shallowness of most of the content on TV. But for example, at least in Brazil. The biggest TV channel (TV GLOBO), they have a somewhat equilibrated display of different things, but not too much, they can't put too much education of the public, because it can be too niche and people would tune out. But I've seen them trying to improve, and not being so shallow. I remember they removing certain humor that was cheap and geared towards laughing on the backs of opressed people (poor people, etc) and tuning that stuff completely out. But also on the other hand, it has been getting too politically correct. I can see changes happening in our society. Can you see we becoming more politically correct for example? But somehow it's becoming too much? Mr. Beast tries to stay wholesome as much as possible, I don't see him being cruel/tasteless or toxic on purpose beyond what's needed to give people what they want to see. I seem him as somewhat an improvement. But idk what direction mankind is going culturally. It makes me wonder, could we become so degenerate one day that we have literal porn (and the hard stuff...) on the front page of tiktok/youtube, and that is just normal? Currently, we have a lot of nudity at best. Well, actually thinking about it. The children stuff on youtube... There is minecraft "porn" on youtube basically. That shit is fucked up.

One of the only games I'd play, besides flight simulators, that I'd play just for the sake of experiencing the tech/beauty of it. But I won't waste my time grinding the online mode when it comes. I wasted too much time with entertainment for a lifetime. I'll play the story mode till the end and for the rest, I'll just chill/explore the game. Hope to put 100h at it at best.

I use Text-To-Speech to read to entire books for me. I can go on a walk with a nice comfortable 120 WPM reading to me, but I can listen up to 2x~3x depending on my attention and mood, I've read many books just by taking a walk. It's also very practical, since audiobooks can be more expensive/hard to find, they take more storage space & bandwidth. I used to use "Spritz" I can "read" up to 500WPM perhaps. But as Leo said here, it's not enjoyable. Any book that's worth of my attention is worth more processing time than input speed. So much so, that using TTS off-loads that cognitive bandwidth of having to sit down to pay attention and use my visual field to process information, and instead rely on much more comfortably listening to it. I use Google Books app, I highlight what I want. I also switch back to reading with my eyes as well whenever I want, as opposed to an Audiobook.

I already write in my common-place book/note-taking app anyway. The act of writing by itself helps me flesh out those ideas/insights. Here at least I get to have others answering from time to time. I also spend 95% of that time just consuming the content that's very specific to the issues I'm facing. I look for very specific info of the forum by searching through Google ("search site:actualized.org"). But I have to limit it, I tend to stay too much on theory.

Well, it could be fine-tuned with the transcriptions of his videos. Use "Whisper" to transcribe it, then fine-tune with it... But feeding it psychedelics is another story, lmao. Maybe, you can play with the weight of: A) 60% Most of his content B) 40% Higher weight for the videos he's speaking of his deepest experiences. C) Introduce random changes, like how the other user here mentioned. D) Play with other different parameters of the network. Play with the weights and check the outputs.