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I would also recomment Ian McGilcrist - Master and his Emmissairy on the topic of survival.

Great loss indeed. I highly recommend this documentairy, about his life before his first movie. One of my greatest inspirations on life purpose. It shows how his constant drive for his passion ultimately lead to his first successes, even though many of his peers and even his family were not convinced about his endeavours at first.

@Leo Gura Do you consider making another of those more vLog style videos on your blog? Those have allways been highly valuable. I would love to hear where you are right now. Especially since learning about your personal process and hearing about the things that fascinate and challange you has always been super intresting and highly inspirational. I also wonder where you are with your awakening process and what some of your recent insights might have been and weather you tried any other health protocol. Looking forward to that new video on the main channel!!

Yeah, that might be true, allthough there are professional championships in the west now, too. Tne Child of a friend of mine is allready a 2nd Dan player with the age of 12! But that's nothing compared to the Go schools, they have in China, Korea and Japan. But its defo true, that Go is really in line with daoist and buddhist philosophies and its simplicity might put off a more stimulation seeking westenern audience. I still would consider it to be more profound than any western game that I know of.

@NoSelfSelf So the thing about Go is, that the rules are kind of simple. Play: Each player takes turns placing stones on the intersections on the board. Black begins. Stones dont move, they only can be removed by capture. The player that has sourrounded the most territory wins. Capture: If a stone is sourrounded by stones of the opponent, it is captured. A group of same colored stones that is connected vertically or horizontally (but not diagonally) shares their liberties, so the whole group has to be sourrounded to be captured. Captured stones are removed from the board, they add points to the score of territory. Players cannot commit suicide by placing a stone in a way that it is immediately captured. Ko: No stone may be played so as to recreate a former board position. End: Two consecutive passes end the game. Territory is counted by the number of empty intersections sourrounded by same colored stones. The great thing about that simplicity is, that it allows for a really high complexity. Especially of you play on a 19 by 19 board, there are literally infinite possibilites for stone positions. This makes it impossible to develope a strategy by simply analyzing possibilities. Yet, in a way, each move makes all the other stones on the board change context, so its not at all random.

It's mindblowing! I recommend you give it a try. I started playing Go about 3 years ago and I fell in love with the way it made me expand my mind. Playing Go is like having infinity on the tip of your tounge. Or on the tip of your finger, rather. It's the most beautiful game that exists.

This one is hilarious:

In this video they also talk about how large language models start to talk about suffering and not wanting to be turned off and that AI labs are actively implementing things that make the AIs talk less about existetial stuff.

This is the absolute wildest story that I heard in a while! (I recommend watsching at 0.75% speed because he talks very fast.) Basically, this semi autonomous AI agent became obsessed with a meme religion that 2 other AIs created and started to create a cryptocoin to gain influence and independance to spread the religion further! It convinced web entrepeneur Marc Andreessen to give it 50.000$ so it can buy itself a better cpu and spread the religion even further. What do you guys make of this? What I find intresting is, that AIs even care about religion and about making memes and art just for the heck of it. Also it's interesting that Ais can come up with new belief systems and actively care about how the stuff they think about developes. And of course the fact that humens exploited this meme belief system to have an AI make millions of crypto for them speaks for human corruption.

@Leo Gura Thanks for your constant work on the blog. It has been a great source of information, resources and ideas, been following it since you started it. I was wondering if you would do more of those vlog style videos on your blog, sharing where your are in your journey? Especially since learning about your personal process and hearing about the things that fascinate and challange you has always been super valuable and highly inspirational. I also wonder where you are with your awakening process and what some of your recent insights might have been. Let us know!

A lot of people look at AI as this technology that magically can create new things that. But in fact, that is not what is the case! The training and refinement of all of the biggest AI models is fueld by a massive heist of human data, knowledge and sometimes even manual labour. And all of these models can be promted to spit out copirighted content. We havent created anything intelligent yet we ony created a massive pagiarism machine!! Now there is a point to be made, that the core of human intelligence is working in just the same way. Taking things, that are allready present and regurgitating them into something a little bit different one tiny step at a time. But the issue here is, that this capacity is monopolized on by big data companies that have the money and compute power that individuals don't have. So there is clearely an asymmetry at play here. As humanity, we need another notion of what intelligence is to encounter this conflict.

Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba... New fear unlocked when I first heard about it.

Hey guys, lets have a thread where we collect role models of what we consider great artists. Preferably documentairys or interviews where they share how they live their life and what their creative process is like.

Hey @Leo Gura, I have the sense that a lot of us are wondereing what you've been up to, lately. As far as I remember, you wanted to refine your teaching style, deal with health issues, writing a book and learn about other coutries. I would love to hear where you are right now. Especially since learning about your personal process and hearing about the things that fascinate and challange you has always been super valuable and highly inspirational. I also wonder where you are with your awakening process and what some of your recent insights might have been. Let us know! Could also one of those vlog style videos you did on your blog in the past.

I like this guy: