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I was 20 years old and had to get a colonoscopy because my ass was bleeding from wiping. Fricking embarassing, used to think that wiping my ass was proof that god was unjust In order to solve the digestion issue you gotta eat enough fiber, don't eat too close to bed (especially meat), get enough exercise, don't overeat and thoroughly clean your ass in the shower (shampoo & conditioner good for hair). Highly recommend getting a bidet attachment for the toilet as well, cheap and easy to install. Recently bought a showerhead extension on amazon (one with the fancy filter only 20-30$) and use that to target the crack. Good luck my friend!

I think so. At least that's what the mushrooms told me The thing about "god" "universe" talk is that a lot is lost in translation into communicated language. Leo does a good job of it compared to most but plenty of people bastardize these ideas into poorly composed word salads that probably do more harm than good.

Israel is a western democracy, albeit a flawed one. Can't deny it's pretty sketchy the way Netanyahu has "won" the election. The 20% arab citizens have full voting rights, are in gov't etc. The Palestinians who are not official citizens do not because they are descendent of former Jordanians who lost the 6 day war. There have been many good faith attempts at solving the problem but religious extremists on both sides have fucked it up, but objectively Israel has attempted to offer 2-state and been denied. If only reality were as simple as "right and wrong" but it's messy and complicated. Oh well whatever everyone's entitled to think what they want. Jews are .2% global population but we are overrepresented in banking, nobel prize winners and Hollywood. The idea that it's some sort of "evil gene" is ridiculous. There is a network effect of "wanting to help our own" but a lot of cultures do that. Nobody complains that the Koreans have a disproportionately high % of delis and small businesses. We place insanely high standards on our kids to study and succeed, the same way Indians and Nigerians immigrants in America do - who are also equally successful stastically. Who would have thought that encouraging kids to study, network, work hard and sacrifice had good results?

A notebook has no soul and yet people develop some very deep relationships with those.

Rome wasn't built in a day. Ray Kurzweil predicted 2029 for AGI and that seems to be tracking given how quickly things are developing... but he ain't nostradamus so who knows maybe "true AGI" will never be what we imagined it to be.

Agreed. I find it very relaxing, like having a great conversation with an intelligent person talking sense to me. Even if it is just a very powerful word generator makes a hell of a lot more sense than 99% of folk out here.

Extinction is probably the wrong framework but the "geshtaldt" of what Elon & Jones are getting at is "pro-human" competing with "pro-environment." Elon's take seems to be that the "leftist death cult" see humanity's growth (population increasing, consumption of energy) to be at odds with "saving mother earth" (limit energy consumption, slow down population growth.) My take on Elon is that he has become so targetted by endless negative propaganda that his shadow and or mental illness (seems like he goes through mania) has inflamed him to the point of losing common sense. He's convinced that free speech is so righteous a cause that publicly discoursing with mouthbreathers like Jones and Tate speak is somehow a good use of his time. Culture wars seem to have a degrading effect on mental health and judgement.

@BlessedLion With an open mind without pretenses? I might be overly judgemental about people who try to be "spiritual AF" But it seems like a contradiction to the true nature of spirituality to want to appear very spiritual.

Chat GPT is built on human data, which is inherently biased is it not? I think an Actualized.org Leo Bot would be kind of funny.

I think he tries to but the true believers are difficult to convince. He dialed back some of the extremity of the god consciousness stuff which I'm sure is useful for some but probably a minefield for others. One of the best metaphors Leo used was the eyedropper in the bathtub. Some people's tubs barely have a few drops and yet they are convinced it's the ocean. I respect people who of their own opinion decided to step away and reaccess why they're doing it. Better to make up your own mind what's for you as opposed to blindly showing up to the Ashram faking the funk. Spirituality under the wrong pretenses does nobody any favors.

I think the movie Silence encapsulates this feeling well. It's one of the hardest questions of religion and philosophy is how can god allow this injustice to occur? I think the answer is that our definition of injustice is small-minded and lacks omniscient level perspective. A simpler example I think is how many animals kill and eat eachother, all forms of life compete for resources constantly. How can ALL of that be bad? Our view on attachment to life as sacred is kind of a western philosophy. If we embrace the concept of life as a whole rather than individual life then death, misery, suffering serve a grander purpose. So death, mayhem, destruction may suck for us in the moment but what if the end result is worth it?

It's hard not to vomit a little in your mouth when Andrew Tate and Alex Jones start agreeing with eachother.

It's very alluring to want spirituality, to think of oneself as enlightened. There are numerous people I've met who seem utterly convinced of their spiritual enlightenment and yet behave like selfish assholes. The challenge is to live your daily life with a more enlightened underpinning. To live in the world without trying to be above it. Sitting around in the woods with a loincloth chanting "ommm" all day might be some people's dream but it would be better use of their time and knowledge to imbue the world with whatever wisdom/enlightenment by participating and improving people's lives.

What's "worked" for me has been to try and cultivate belief in myself and simply steer my attention away from negativity without trying to erradicate it which only fed it. Not narrowing in too much on the details or lending too much credence to my negativity. Acknowledging the trauma of being abused and neglected without letting the negative emotions control me. I have plenty more work to do, and actively try to level set expectations - which seem to be a source of pain. I have found "god" in my own personal way, or g*d as my people say... it's impossible to really put infinite love & consciousness into words without tainting it. What's worked for you?

Crypto is first and foremost a secure decentralized technology platform. Currency is a store of value. The idea is to bridge the two, not necessarily make a get rich scheme. The thing that fucks people up about cryptocurrency is they see it as a lottery ticket not a piece of technology. If you study the origins of it the people who make it (the real ones, like Vitalik, Hoskinson, Nakamoto white papers not the douchebags trying to scam with a 30 minute built shitcoin) they care first and foremost about expanding the functionality of digital transactions - not some ballooning value get rich scheme. We all pay for tons of shit online using credit cards and banks that do all sorts of goofy shit like fractional reserve banking and worse and yet when someone wants to try and do something to take power back to individuals away from these greedy centralized institutions they get lambasted, It's going to take time but cryptocurrency as a technology is going to be very influential, whether or not the value of current coins goes to 0. Bitcoin is king of secure decentralized store of value, garbage as a transaction tool. Ethereum is the most functional decentralized store of value can initiate smart contracts - trustless blind contracts, build NFTs etc... Cardano is the interesting one that's putting $ into helping build secure digital infrastructure in Africa but small fry comparatively. People have to see the value of the technology and ignore the whole $ value which the creators of it were less concerned about.

I think the book "The Power of Belief" has a lot of ideas that play into being a successful visionary. It's not enough to see and think you have to have the belief and conviction to put in the effort to bring it to life. It takes a lot of pain, sleepless nights and hard work to really bring something incredible to life and the only way I know to do that is to see your vision, believe that it's possible and then bust your ass to make it through the drudgery and pain.

@Dodo I've seen the movie Pi, I get the whole fibonaci shit but realistically when you put $ down you're putting energy ($, time, power) into something. If I buy Ethereum it's because I believe in the idea that digital money can be put to work. If I buy Cardano it's because I believe that logic and governance and future governments could be founded with crypto currency. If I buy whatever the fuck shit coin I have no idea who I am giving money to.

I think a lot of nuance is lost to the "when moon" crowd of crypto. If you're looking for a slot machine then you rightfully should be mocked and derided. The 10,000 mutant douchebag apes are not what crypto art is all about. They are worthless as shitcoins and I completely agree you might as well buy stocks. They are a bastardized slot machines and any idiot who just throws in 5000$ into them hoping to get rich off the next idiot putting in 10000 deserve to lose money. It's a fucking nasty game and fuck all those pump and dump douchebags. @Leo Gura I will push back that actual NFT artists exist and provide value intrinsic to the technology platform that they are creating on. There are real artists who put their heart and soul into creating art digitally and deserve to be respected and earn money just like anyone else. They are doing it on a new platform that allows them to make $ directly instead of money going to the platforms that control and exploit them. The artists making unique digital artwork the same as any other artist chosing to mint their artwork on the blockchain providing a public way to display and share artwork is not stupid. They are creating things that are of value to the world as same as any artist making something on paper. What people don't understand is the digital artist has been brutally exploited by these centralized platforms. What's a way for an artist to make money besides putting out thousands of hours of free art on centralized platform like IG and hoping that someone might buy a fucking t-shirt and maybe make 10$ after dropshipping fees or hope that an overpriced gallery will pay attention them and take 50% of their prints. Crypto has value but the whole community-social aspect is fucked. I don't know the realistic value of a token but the realistic value of currency isn't as real as people think either. It's a very dicey game to put $ into crypto because the entire valuation is socially derived and thus pegged to the idiotic pump and dumpers who bring in the masses who bring in the dollars. I believe that crypto as a techonology platform has value but beyond that the price of a token is up to the masses and that is a ridiculously complicated game where the biggest winners are those that cash in on the people looking to get rich who don't know what the fuck they're doing.

I agree. We are so quick to laser in on this detail as the end all justification when the truth is the United States has done far worse with a 1/1000th of the scrutiny. While Saddam was no angel we went in and destroyed an organized society and replaced it with this idiotic notion that a bunch of warring tribes are going to just stick their thumb in blue ink and all problems will be solved. The atrocities the united states has quietly committed across the world have paled in comparison to the very scrutinized "war on terror" going on in Gaza. While I think they have failed to live up to the world's standards and should be scrutinized they have at least put in nominal effort to try and protect the civilians at least more than Hamas who are literally killing their own people.

I think we can all be more visionary but I do think there's a certain personality type that is especially visionary. I'd rather be the best version of me than try to emulate something I'm not suited for. Personally I very much value individuality and vision but I would rather be realistic to my limitations than charge ahead and call myself the new Elon Musk.

Good stuff! Share some links curious to see what you're up to.

Great advice thanks!

Has anyone taken the leap and made their first hire for their business? I run a video production company which is doing OK but I've hit my breaking point as a "solopreneur" and I need some help shooting some videos. I don't have any big projects in the pipeline at the moment but have a lot of personal projects I'd like to work on and feel that hiring someone/looking for an intern would help me stay motivated and complete tasks. I don't want to exploit intern labor but realistically can't afford a fulltime salary and would rather offer studio time usage, share gig $ and more. Anyone have any experience in this have any advice on hiring/growing beyond the "one man band"?

This false equation is not productive. Putin nor Netanyahu are "good guys" both are corrupt and run countries with militaristic populations and expansionist ambitions... but if you pay attention to the details it's clear that one is engaging in far more ruthless barbarism under far less valid circumstances than the other. Netanyahu is no Putin. Nor is he an angel. I think it's sad that people who never gave a shit about the Middle East dogpiling on Israel because it's the new cause du'jour are the same ones who rattled the saber for Ukraine to march into a buzz saw. The Ukranain people (my ancestors) have been annhilated and have nothing to show for it, it was a battle that they never would have won and all our $ just led to more slaughter. We have to be adults and stop moralizing and judging how countries do things. This "interventionista" thinking is pointless.

The reality is what we call "AI/LLM" is just a tool built around a massive spreadsheet and graph, not an "entity." It's closer to a parlor trick just mimicking human knowledge, despite how convincing it is. That said it's a fucking amazing tool and parlor trick or not it's revolutionizing how we interface with computers. No code programming is a vast improvement on traditional coding and nobody in their right mind would spend the years learning BS jargon if it weren't necessary to execute the goal of programming which is taking thoughts and translating them onto the digital world. When you compare the "compute / watt" the human brain is about 10 watts of power compared to the hundreds of thousands of watts of power required to power these mega-models. We are a long ways away at the moment from being anything close to human level intelligence (generally speaking, less so on specialized tasks) Ray Kurzweil predicted 2029 for what we call "AGI" and that seems about right. I don't think the AGI will be anything that different from the current iteration of chat GPT in principal but it's capabilities are going to vastly dwarf humans. The thing I find most interesting about what makes computers "smart" is the ability to exist outside of spacetime. They can gain experience non-linearly and achieve experience laterally thousands of years of experience (albeit through "brute force.") Using massively expensive and power-hungry GPU clusters they are not bound to our spacetime limited "one minute at a time" existence. So even if computers have the intelligence of a toddler they have the added benefit of being able to gain infinite experience if you have enough $ to throw at it. It will be a super tool and the real danger is what asshole is going to use that supertool to try and destroy humanity...