Nilsi

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I knew that @Oeaohoo was secretly running a YouTube channel.

Andrew Tate is an ENTJ cosplaying as an ESTP.

In my estimation, Switzerland is mostly healthy blue. Cinsidering they have to deal with a lot of orange and green in culture and politics and seem to handle that quite well, I can see why one would call them yellow (which they definitely are not).

I think I actually need a break from all this theorizing. This is melting my brain.

The guy in the video used much more extreme language than that though. I'm also not advocating for walking around, lost in compulsive self-talk, like an idiot - of course. Transcendence can easily become pathological and run amok, if there are no checks and balances on it; and tends to get glorified by spiritual folk; so I'm just making sure we're on the same page here. Pursuing "no mind" is no different than pursuing some utopian fantasy - it's escapism (but it's also tricky, because you're escaping into the present moment, so I'm not entirely sure what to make of it).

I find this extremely interesting and would love to get closer to the bottom of this, so Ill just restate my point again: I was talking about transcendence, ensoulment and development as all being irreducible constituents of the psyche. A similar typology is being, becoming, doing. Do you understand what Im saying? And then assuming you do, what do you disagree about here? Just escaping into being is quite cowardly and unoriginal, as far as Im concerned.

How does this have anything to do with being conservative or liberal? lol

Holding being as some kind of ultimate attainment is silly and doesnt reflect the reality and complexity of the psyche. Being "liberated" from your thoughts is no different than some Marxist utopia or Platonic realm of ideals - its a fiction your psyche constructs to cope with suffering and nihilism. Have you read too much Maslow, or what is going on here?

Leo Gura is an American personal development coach and writer who is known for his work on productivity, mindfulness, and self-improvement. Here are a few inspiring quotes from Leo Gura: "The only way to do great work is to be passionate about what you do." "The only way to achieve greatness is to be willing to put in the hard work and dedication required to get there." "The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible." "The only way to truly achieve success is to have a clear vision of what you want and be willing to work tirelessly to make it a reality." "The only way to truly be happy is to live in the present moment and let go of the past and the future." "The only way to achieve your full potential is to be willing to take risks and embrace change." I hope these quotes from Leo Gura inspire and motivate you! Dirty absolutist! lol

The more developed you are, the more mature you are. To use a crude example: a human at a worldcentric level of development is more mature than one at an egocentric or ethnocentric level of development - no matter how many "self-referential thoughts" this human has. Lets not reinvent the wheel here - these models are the best thing we have to define maturity.

My point is that self-referential thought serves a purpose. Compulsively regurgitating episodic memories is not the same thing as delibeately reflecting on yourself for whatever purpose.

If you sometimes experience yourself as the "ego" and sometimes as the "no-self self," yet the you remains constant, then what are you really?

Calling self-referential though "always a problematic process" is itself a problematic process. I like Zak Steins metapsychological framework of transcendence (firstness), ensoulment (secondness) and development (thirdness). Self-referential thought would be in the domain of development - and thats precisely where its useful; in being able to idealize oneself. There is a time and place for being as well - of course. As far as Im concerned, framing self-referential thought as "something to get rid of" is quite reductionist and not mature. This is fundamentally very much escapism and an unwillingness to accept the human condition for what it is.

I agree with this as well.

In your dreams kid.

Just goes to show how ignorant you are.

Red hates the status quo and will rebel for the sake of rebelling. So depending on who's in office, Red might vote conservative/liberal/socialist - whatever goes against the grain. Red doesn't really give a shit about politics, unless it serves itself (as in the case of some infamous dictators).

The whole thing is out of key, what are you talking about? You dont help the guy by endorsing his shitty creations, but by pointing out what makes them shitty.

Fair enough.

Thats why we talk about how to use and build AI ethically. There is no problem. If humanity is nothing but an evolutionary dead-end, so be it. But this philosophy is not condusive to living a meaningful life and oganizing a society. Is this something you would tell your children? If not, whats the point of postulating it?

Learn music theory. The chords are completely out of key. This is like using language without grammar. No matter what profound thing you have to say, no one will take you seriously. After you know the rules and have mastered them, you can go break them - with intent. Good prose and poetry plays with grammar - again, with intent.

We are co-evolving with AI now, which means a lot of our fat is getting trimmed. Thats fantastic. The single most important skill you can cultivate right now is open-mindedness and flexibility - spirituality is not looking so stupid after all, huh?

Why should I calculate gas prices in my head, when the computer can do it faster? You shouldnt - thats precisely the insight.

It doesnt though. Which only goes to show you who made the more intelligent decisions in their lifes. Life will punish you for being stupid, thats nothing new. If you bet on the wrong horse, you always lost your money for that. If you build your life on scribbling lines with a pencil, you deserve a hard lesson - welcome to the jungle my man.