UnbornTao

"What you think, you become." - Gautama. I'm not talking about a belief system. Leaving the fantasizing aside, there might be a principle at play here. As a small example, pay attention whenever you start the day angry, distracted, etc., and carry that out throughout the day. What consequences does this disposition have on your experience? What results does it produce in your life and those of others?

Some would say blue. I myself don't pay much attention to that. The good samurais lived according to powerful principles such as discipline, honor and integrity. They lived with the presence of death. There's much to learn from that. A model is a model while living with integrity and the reality of death kicks your ass. Loving the show so far.

Banana. Don't extrapolate.

Don't know if you're being sarcastic or not. It can be called however you want, really. I mean it as a profound consciousness of one's nature.

Contemplate why you feel this way.

And explanations are just that.

- Helen Keller, The World I live in (1910).

Is he actually "enlightened"?

The guy's intellectually brilliant. I wonder how much of what he talks about he's directly conscious of.

GTA VI? None at all. I don't think so.

Physical?

Great books I prefer to read physical. Makes the experience more real and grounded for me. If I'm serious about studying a book, physical wins.

Stop thinking. Okay try again.

Why talk at all? There was never anything we could say about the nature of anything in the first place, from a certain perspective.

Diogenes looking for an honest man.

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@MuadDib As written!

My take wasn't meant to disparage weight lifting. I was pointing out that sports have a function that isn't just mechanically moving the body -- winning a game, throwing an opponent, etc. Whether it is sports, running, going to the gym, doing callisthenics, etc., enjoy them all. "Does a sedentary lifestyle decrease your lifespan and overall health?" Likely, to simplify, yes.

@Schizophonia Team sports are more fun and functional, multi-faceted. Lifting weights isn't that much fun imo compared to soccer, etc. What you do is basically moving your arms up and down. It is comparatively simpler.

Sounds good, thank you. Going seven days without added sugars wasn't easy for me; not a short-term goal for me as of now.

@Carl-Richard Do you avoid all added sugar?

Our assumptions set the parameters for our ways of thinking about, and interpreting, 'reality'.

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Creepy and fascinating: https://openai.com/blog/navigating-the-challenges-and-opportunities-of-synthetic-voices "OpenAI is committed to developing safe and broadly beneficial AI. Today we are sharing preliminary insights and results from a small-scale preview of a model called Voice Engine, which uses text input and a single 15-second audio sample to generate natural-sounding speech that closely resembles the original speaker. It is notable that a small model with a single 15-second sample can create emotive and realistic voices. We first developed Voice Engine in late 2022, and have used it to power the preset voices available in the text-to-speech API as well as ChatGPT Voice and Read Aloud. At the same time, we are taking a cautious and informed approach to a broader release due to the potential for synthetic voice misuse. We hope to start a dialogue on the responsible deployment of synthetic voices, and how society can adapt to these new capabilities. Based on these conversations and the results of these small scale tests, we will make a more informed decision about whether and how to deploy this technology at scale."