LambdaDelta

I recently bought a Bombardino Cocodrilo lapel pin to serve as a symbolic representation of a particular aspect of Creativity — no matter how ugly, derivative, hallucinatory, chaotic, brainrotting it all is, AI slop is still ultimately God's imagination. I envision it will be a useful facilitation tool for me to go deeper into the Insanity facet, especially paired with deliriants. A clever little reframing of the issue. (though also silly 🤤)

There goes your inability to hold opposites again. Learn it, it'll do wonders for both your sense-making and emotional state. These things can be true at the same time. They are genuinely patriotic and greatly value their national identity, but also highly brainwashed and sometimes exaggerate displays of loyalty in fear of punishment. Crying and mourning is totally understandable and even admirable, but such extreme measures are problematic and counter-intuitively make the mourning less genuine than it could have otherwise been. As it always goes with morality at gunpoint. I'm no westerner, I'm intimately familiar with how such regimes and people under them operate. Just posted a mass-scale live performance of the Russian anthem in another thread, I know the words by heart and cry every time I sing it on New Year's Eve — the deeper I awaken to God & Love the more emotional it gets. The issues of which government is more or less evil, oppressive, untruthful, etc. are all inconsequential bickering over content in the grand scheme of things. These people experience cognitive dissonance which then generates a huge portion of mental and collective issues. I can tell you for a fact that many people in Russia feel oppressed, but would also die for their country if called upon it, even in a senseless war against a so-called fraternal nation like Ukraine. How do they square that? They can't, so the only way out is to bullshit themselves. Primitive minds can't operate in any other way. And then by extension everyone looking from the outside also doesn't understand this and get the same cognitive dissonance in another form by drawing these simplistic binary conclusions, taking either the pro-western or 'tankie' sides. That's all kids' stuff, your standard should be much higher, which is to go meta. Else what hope is there of escaping the matrix? The matrix tricks you by letting you think you escaped it, when in fact just a couple minor variables got shifted to create the appearance of something novel, more advanced, more trutful.

11th Commandment: Thou shalt not use AI to create hot girlfriends. Instead imagine them in your own mind like a real man.

I didn't mean imagination, I meant sense-making, which this indeed wouldn't be a failure of. But now that you mention it, from a certain POV that is a failure of imagination, as its most commonly defined function is precisely to think up the most outlandish shit (in other words, being creative). God's imagination runs at 100% capacity, thus reality is infinite the way that it is. Since that's a position you derived of your own recognizance, it can't be conformist by definition, even if I disagree. I only brought up conformity 'cause you did in your first post, probably wouldn't have entered my mind otherwise in the context of this discussion.

Why do you keep pinging Leo about it? His approval or lack thereof has no bearing on the validity of your insight. Unlike a question or some video you record, an insight doesn't really require answers or feedback, as it is self-validating. It's good insight, but it is not what's meant by alien consciousness, not even close, at least going by how it's articulated, despite getting the big picture right. Even if you were told it is stupid, wrong, or trivial, that should be irrelevant to you, what matters is the fact you had an original insight. Well, to a reasonable extent, wouldn't want to be entirely unreceptive either. If I may suggest, contemplate neediness, authority, and the nature of insight itself next. There are interesting mechanics behind why insights of others are so often dismissed or downplayed, that's also something you could have an insight into.

I have no particular attachment to gore itself, there's other similar practices I mentioned Which is exactly what yesterday's blog post is describing https://www.actualized.org/insights/squaring-ugliness-with-beauty I simply happened to intuitively realize this even before logically connecting evil & ugliness to Love, Beauty, Goodness, Equality, Balance, Totality, Truth, etc. through direct consciousness. Which of course includes my own evil and ugliness, that's the whole point — to see it in yourself through the mirror of 'other'. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, really. There are places you can visit so imbued with evil it makes you physically sick, speaking from experience. Statistically you are of course correct, but your model will be made better if it also accounts for the remaining 1%. Not sure why people are so stubborn about this. In essence we're all freaks here just by virtue of doing this work, but some freaks are freakier than others. There's numerous avenues for growth, it's as you say; for instance one can grow tremendously by becoming a parent, I respect that and acknowledge the fact I wouldn't dare take this path even if I biologically could. P.S.: nothing wrong with cutting yourself either (provided it's performed in an anatomically safe and sterile manner); I've done it a few times out of curiosity, not self-hatred or attention seeking. One of the central ideas of Psychology of Conformity was that the why matters more than the what and how.

That's an interesting as fuck coincidence 😉 and now it's been taken down by the mods

A bit of a departure from the original idea of documentaries, but here's a resource that allows to stream local live TV from 100+ countries, dozens of channels per. No ads and other nonsense, there's even a randomizer feature. A lot can be understood about a culture from their TV, even if you don't speak the language at all; it's a somewhat different approach with its unique advantages and limitations. https://famelack.com/

Neither for me. Not my goal to engage in sophistry. Since you said you're trying to improve your writing, I'm pointing out an aspect that could use some of that. It's just done in a specific style that may come across as rude. I'm sure you'd agree that there's an important distinction between 'us' as humanity as a whole and 'us' as people on this forum.

Ah, so you have a PhD in the Obvious. All the explication and it's still left unclear which 'us' is being referred to. Btw, quote or tag people if you want them to see the reply.

Apparently not so alien. There's some study Leo mentioned about how 20% of people don't even have insights. Unless by 'us' you mean the loonies gathered here.

Agreed with the rest. But furries could also be people like this guy