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I don't buy that. If they want to tell me something, why be so cryptic and vague? I don't want to play guessing games.

I understand that i get how people just use mental health to feed their egos meanwhile there are people who are genuinely struggling and crying for help because they've been silent for too long. If one has been through things themselves, it would also be annoying to see people just saying things for attention and making a circus out of it. I get where you're coming from. Don't worry about it, it's cool

Perhaps he’s in some sort of manic state. After all this is the mental health section of the forum Thought people would be a little more understanding

I’m not in any sort of pain. Instead I’m like incredibly numb to everything. Life just looks like it is when I am not. These days rather I laugh a lot despite being very inert emotionally and mentally. I feel free in a way from thoughts and emotions that used to torture me. id say the mental health professionals already did their job by drugging me up. There’s not much else to do you see lol. My lifestyle is average I go out and do stuff with people and do hobbies like music prod and stuff like that. Nothing really hurts me anymore. Nothing feels that good either but not in a depressive way, in a numb way. it’s like seeing life without the lens of the mind and its thoughts, emotions, likes and dislikes. Everything just is. I feel like I’ve reached the end. Not in a sad suicidal depressive way. But just like it’s finished. It’s like playing life on new game + I can choose to play again and rebuild my life or I can take a massive break (death) and then come back to it.

I think depersonalisation already made me have the epiphany that there is no “me”. Like I’m in tabula rasa. I feel a loss in identity. I don’t identify with what happened in the past nor the future anymore. Something clicked and I’m in the now so to say. With my mind blanked. What makes suicide so attractive is that I want to go all the way in. I feel like I’m done and there’s nothing more to do. I will save up the money to try psychedelics at one point though

No haven’t tried psychedelics. Plan to but don’t exactly have the money to buy them

No thoughts, head empty. Nothing feels real. I realised I’m not even real lol

The funny thing is that non-incels usually wind up to be criminals more than incels themselves. It’s just that there’s more spotlights on incels whenever they do something. it turns into some kind of moral panic type situation where they generalise and label all incels as bad people when most of them are just mentally ill with bad life experiences. Blackpill has a lot of truth in it too ignoring all the toxic BS they can say.

Me and him have very similar life experiences. Both of us have mild autism (pdd-nos) and high anxiety and social awkwardness that others can easily pick up on and outcast/bully us for. It’s kind of sad reading it because I totally understand where he was coming from. Sad it all had to end this way

This is exactly it. I’d say the most important skills in life are foresight and good judgement. Sort of like meta skills that spills over into everything else in one’s life. but of course there’s a meta foresight where you think about how your foresight can be wrong and how it can limit and mislead you.

I took the youtube generated transcription and used AI to format the messy transcript into paragraphs that have correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. I think this is a very meta video and one that has a lot of rewatch potential and reread potential so I made it into a PDF. Enjoy! There may be some errors and inaccuracies but I think the general message counts. Let me know if you find any. leoTraps22.pdf

For a lot of people who have been dealt a very bad hand in life genetically and environmentally, the Blackpill makes sense. In online spaces I’ve seen a lot of discourse surrounding Blackpill and its implications. Sure it has truths but a lot of times it’s also mixed up with toxic nonsense of course. I would be interested to hear Leo’s take on the subject matter since the Blackpill gained popularity, notoriety and entered the mainstream somewhat. I would like to see a video that also has tailored advice towards people in these Blackpill sort of life situations. leo should also provide personal sort of advice in the video that’s for people teetering the edge of Blackpill and how to overcome it and not get consumed by it. I know he had takes on the Blackpill on this forum but it would be interesting to hear his full thoughts on the subject matter

I’ve heard it gives people brain damage

This is useless conjecture and speculation on my part but I think the hyper mind is a sort of infinite intelligence that perceives things in incredibly abstract ways that the human mind can’t comprehend yet. Basically the ultimate ULTIMATE big picture view that shatters any inaccurate ideas we have about the nature of reality, truth etc.

Both. Music just is. the way music is perceived: subjective the way music is formed and composed: objective

I never understood the hype around podcasts anyway

Look at it like this: the world is a giant interconnected system. Chain effects cause many seemingly unrelated things to happen. Let’s say that if you suddenly died, obviously people would be affected. Undoubtedly it would also have some sort of influence on what they do after that. And that would subtlety influence a lot of other people. Therefore everything sort of shifts into a new timeline. All the changes snowball and accumulate into unimaginable things you would never think would happen… it’s like a giant machine, everything has a place. And it works in one giant harmony. This machine also happens to auto balance and auto adjust itself. We live in a cyclical world. Nobody truly dies, they live on through the actions they’ve done in this world that snowballed and accumulated into other things. Everybody leaves a mark. and the question is, would it be a net positive or net negative? well at least that’s how I see it.

I think you’re reading too deep into it lol

I was thinking that it missed out on a lot of detail. Sadly don’t have access to Claude 3 opus so can’t generate my own. I’d ask it to be more detailed but here’s the caveat: I fear that AI hallucinates information because when I generated the transcript, chatGPT basically started to insert things into the paragraphs that sound very similar to what you would say. I hope that it doesn’t do this with summaries. After all, chat models basically are designed to generate words that are supposed to come after another word sooo I don’t think they’d even have comprehension of what’s being said. AI can go wrong too…

And after all of this work, I’ve basically built a mini leo inside of my head lol

@UnbornTao Thanks for the summary by the way

The thing about AI is that while it generates good summaries, a lot of important details can get lost. That’s why I like reading the whole thing. The way you verbalise and express your ideas in your videos appeals to me and I don’t think AI can capture that. Skim reading the transcripts and making mental notes of things that can be applied to my life is usually the way I consume your videos. And then after that I basically try to consolidate my personal understanding of your videos by noting down the knowledge in my own words This way my understanding sinks in deeper rather than being lazy with surface level understanding. The more dots connect. I know I sound very anal by doing this but it’s just my style

No problem

Another way to reframe what Claude said about this whole presentation is that of course, actualized.org can be a trap. Of course, it can. Of course, the very source of your highest information, your spiritual Guru, you know, your expert, your Genius scientist, that very Source itself can, you see, how that becomes a trap, all right? That's it. I'm done here. Please come check out my website, check out my blog, check out the Forum, check out the life purpose course, check out the book list. We've been having some technical issues with the actualized website over the last week, but those have all mostly been resolved at this point. I apologize for that delay. We had some problems with the server and the hosting company that's all being fixed. And I'm making improvements into the infrastructure, migrating to better server and so forth in the future. Look, final Point here is that I've been away on a very long break for almost a year. I didn't release any content. This was necessary for me. I haven't really talked about it. Why I went on this break and what happened during this break I'll reveal some of that in the future. It was actually pretty tough but also a huge growth opportunity for me. In the future, I have a lot more videos planned, a lot of deep stuff, a lot of stuff that comes from the lessons that I learned over last year. I wasn't just sitting around Naval gazing. I was suffering a lot and I was going through a lot and I I I integrated a lot of deep lessons and a lot of changes subtle changes have happened inside of my own mind and how I'm going to be presenting content going forward hopefully you can already see some of those in this episode I don't know they're they might be pretty subtle at first but maybe you can pick up on some of those. I'm also going to be working on some new courses coming soon although I don't want to promise anything but hey you know I've made that mistake before and I'm sure I'll make it again so that's kind of where we're at I'll I'll share more in the future and frankly some of the stuff that I went through I'm not even prepared to share yet for you know a lot of it is quite personal but um I do have a lot of deep insights to share with you on various topics the fundamental topics practical topics political topics I have some deep stuff on politics that I have planned so stay tuned for that and I want to leave you with one final thought this is a little reward for those of you who stick around through this long three-hour long episode you know I saved a little tidbit for you towards the very end and that is this the final thought is what is the ultimate trap in life. Self. Self is the ultimate trap.

So when I'm generating one of my episodes, you know that's me generating a single perspective, and it's always great to have another perspective, but oftentimes I don't have anybody else to bounce off of, but now I have AI. The next hole it pointed out was falling into traps should be reframed as an opportunity to learn, not a personal failing. The next hole it said is under the emphasis of systemic factors. Individual agency isn't the whole picture. We did focus a lot in this episode on individual agency, what you can do about these things, but of course, there are also more systemic factors. There's more collective factors. We touched on some of those, but a lot more could be said about the political aspects of this, which we didn't have time to go into. And then the final point that Claude made is, it said, "Hold the framework lightly." And when I read that, it was funny, I started laughing because it's like, "Have you been watching my videos?" Because that's what I usually say. That's the kind of injunction that I usually deliver at the end of an episode. So, I wholeheartedly agree with all these points. And the reason I present them to you here is because I'm also trying to show you the power of this AI if you use it appropriately, of course. Now, you can use AI to reinforce all of your biases and all of the gaps in your thinking, and AI is not going to automatically fix the gaps in your thinking. You have to actually see if you're actually interested in truth in understanding genuinely, not just as some platitude and virtue signaling, but if you're really interested in that, and you don't confuse the truth with your own perspective, then you will actually ask other people or an AI to point out flaws in your own perspective, limitations in your own perspective. And the reason I'm able to do that and to use the AI in this way, which is a little bit counterintuitive, most people wouldn't use AI this way, is because I'm really interested in truth. I'm not interested in just reinforcing my own perspectives. I don't need that. What I want is the value of the AI. Finally, I have someone that's very intelligent—a very intelligent mind. That's what this AI effectively is. Whether it has consciousness or not is irrelevant. It effectively serves the purpose of a very intelligent mind. It's more intelligent than most humans. You know, a human couldn't point out all these holes if given this presentation. But the AI could. So, that's a very amazing technology. The proper way to leverage that is to take whatever perspective you have, feed it to the AI, and ask it then to play Devil's Advocate. So that's literally what I told Claude. I said, "Okay, play Devil's Advocate with my outline here." And you know, initially, because Claude is very obsequious, so all these AIs are overly obsequious. They love to blow smoke up your ass. Whatever you tell them, they will say, "Oh yeah, that's a very good point you made," and then they'll slobber all over you of how intelligent you are and how good of a point you made, especially if you're telling them something of the quality that I would share with one of these AIs, you know. But then, see, that's the trick. Your ego is like, "Oh yeah, yeah, Claude, tell me more about how great my perspective is, how great my outline is." That's initially what it was telling me because it was a great outline. But I knew that that was a trap, you see? And I knew that really to use this AI properly, I have to ask it to play Devil's Advocate. So what I told it is I said, "Now play Devil's Advocate with me and point out all the flaws and holes in my perspective." And so it did, and that's the beauty of this technology. So now, here you have a brand new Cutting Edge tool for how to identify traps in any domain, which is AI. Amazing, right? This is a revolutionary technology that has only existed for like the last year, really. You couldn't do this a year ago. And so from now on, I'm going to be running all of my future content through AI to point out these kinds of holes for me. Now, of course, that can still be a trap, you know, because I haven't used the saying that much, so I don't know what the potential for the traps are. But I can already foresee a few traps. Like I can foresee that it's possible to start to get lazy because, you know, it took me a lot of work, manual contemplative work, you know, months of contemplative work to slowly develop this outline. But in the future, I might get lazy and I might just say, "Hey, I'm not going to skip all that. I'm just going to cut a corner here," which would be a trap. And I'm just going to ask Claude to write the whole outline for me. And I'm sure that a lot of people are going to fall into that very trap because why? Because they're looking for something fast, easy, free, cheap, convenient, no emotional labor, no contemplative efforts, no difficulty, right? Why spend months developing your own examples when you can just scrape and copy and paste the ones from Claude? But that's not going to be the same quality, you see? So that's a trap that I could potentially fall into in the future. We'll see. I don't know. I haven't done this enough to really understand how alluring that will be. But of course, you know, saving time is always alluring and avoiding work is always alluring. So you know that from all the traps we discussed above.