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I'm aware of this too. It's something I developed. It's academic brainrot. But I like my academic brainrot 🥲. Going from theory to conclusion is satisfying, and I believe I have collected a nice chunk that goes parallel to my experiential insights. It's just I like to express them in that realm (the theoretical), and I also think it serves a purpose. Take somebody like Bernardo Kastrup and contrast him with Rupert Spira. They are friends, they talk to each other, but they come from completely opposite ends and yet have arrived at essentially the same conclusions. I've tried to do the same convergence inside myself; I was explicitly a fan of first Spira then Bernardo for a couple of years each. Because I had a problem I was trying to solve: saving my scientific/philosophical worldview from being devoured by my spiritual worldview. I wanted to make them consistent. So when I made them basically consistent, I started operating from the scientific view more, explaining things in the spiritual domain from that view, because I can. And that can seem lofty and ungrounded, but know that it comes from a place of integrating the two perspectives, getting them to talk to each other, not just knowing one of them. I did not start from the top. And of course this scientific bias extends to all topics, not just pure "spiritual" topics.

I also make fun of that term. Spreading consciousness in the upper eschelons of power is mighty effective, if that is what he does.

Nah, too earthly. Comparing eagles and earthworms. Emerald has a word for it: loftiness vs groundedness.

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I have my own theories but I don't bother commenting limitations too much. There are multiple ends of a Zen stick.

Surely then you must have had something more specific and nuanced in mind when you said "personality doesn't change"? In what way does personality not change?

I also get paranoid about things nobody gets paranoid about, also informed by life experiences 😋 I thought he was just a-ok.

Speech is after all just another medium, as is energetic transmission face to face. If you want complete undeniable connection, you have to become me, from my perspective. The thing about AI is that behind the medium, there is nothing. The medium is a flat, groundless mirage that disappears with only minor scrutiny. And like a mirage of a water source in the desert where you expect to be hydrated and filled with life, you're left with severe disappointment and a dry mouth and a fear for your existence. I did think whether somebody did notice my absence.

Just literally become enlightened and spiritual practice is over, now you can live in the illusion and you don't have to cling to a spiritual ego that thinks it needs to "be aware of the illusion".

That's not true. You think two identical twins raised up on different sides of the world would have the same personality? Yes https://www.actualized.org/forum/?app=core&module=system&controller=content&do=find&content_class=forums_Topic&content_id=111596&content_commentid=1700155

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@Elliott I was awake for 21+ hours with a flu finishing my thesis two days ago (even threw a workout in), and today I had to sleep 5 hours in the middle of the day despite sleeping 7-8 hours last night 🙂

I feel like a lobotomy patient in the morning when I take those.

Not just genetic. Leo have to stop presenting his brown-pilled view of genetics. Nothing is "just genetic" except e.g. Huntington's disease or eye color (but that is also highly simplified). Karma, yes. Karma is just another word for "it is what it is" or Newton's third law or physics. But Leo is not akin to Buddha. He's more akin to Plato, or Newton, or Leonardo da Vinci.

OP is practicing triphasic sleep and has problems with restorativeness of sleep.

Find out why you wake up two times a night. That's two times too much.

Identifying with those traits is ego. Ego identification is ego. The illusory world exists, the ego makes you believe it is real and not an illusion. Enlightenment is breaking the belief in the illusion as real, removing identification, not removing the world. Enlightened people can be highly wordly, highly driven, highly successful, highly achievement-oriented, or they can not be. It fundamentally does not reflect their enlightenment because their enlightenment is beyond the world. It's true that if you are identified, focusing more on worldy things instead of enlightenment could make you more egoic. But if you are enlightened, or if you do enlightenment work, that doesn't have to be the case.

Duh. Did the problems start before or after mouth tape?

Connection is not impossible through text. It's quite possible. @Natasha Tori Maru can attest to that. When @Nahm was a regular on this forum, his text connected with me in ways probably no human has. And it's possible to not connect in person. See countless videos of satsangs where guests ask questions and express confusion and doubt. But I'm sure any connection that is there could definitely be magnified in certain ways. I've spent hours just watching spiritual teachers talk, not listening to their words, just watching, and getting more out of that than any words they were saying.

Let's also not dismiss a relevant topic. How do you think AI use relates to the points you brought up? Inb4 geniuses use AI-generated voice. The technology you're looking for is called Discord. But with closer social bonds and the tendency for quicker and shorter format posts comes certain challenges. I think having to express yourself in text in a long format way is an exceptional way to develop your thinking and a way to ensure a level of quality control. When threatened, the ego might become paranoid and project more threats where there aren't any. It's good that you're discovering the imperfections of this forum, just as the world. But just like changing the world, it could be good to hamper one's expectations, start from a level of acceptance. The forum and the world is not a threat to you.

Being bullshitted is not the issue. It's having to smell shit every time you open the door. I'm aesthetically appalled and existentially offended by having to read what a robot has produced when I should be speaking with a human being. If I want to talk to a robot, or something that just sounds like a robot, I can do that on my own time. It's like you go to the cinema and instead of motion pictures, you get a slideshow of still images. "What — you still get to learn the story? What's the big deal?" It's the experience of connecting with the medium you're immersed in, in the way you were expecting, in the way you were intending. I don't connect to a robot. I never did, ever since 2022 when I first used it, except for very few moments. Human connection, connecting to somebody else's mind, authentically, is currently irreplaceable. If you're too insecure to connect with somebody else truly as you are, I feel sorry for you. Develop your weaknesses, don't let an AI take away your very soul.

It's on you to follow the guidelines, and if what you're doing is indistinguishable from what counts as breaking the guidelines, that is also on you. So again, how can we know the difference between you using AI to inform phrasing and not your thinking or ideas? I don't think we can other than taking your word for it, which is not a good basis for moderating. The last few posts you've made only makes me think you're actually letting AI add to your thinking, not just rephrase it.

I sometimes tend to make insensitive statements when I'm sick with the flu. Not to excuse it. But yes. It is an excuse. I'm sorry @Monster Energy

Yes, it's good to get an update on the state of AI use on the forum. We tried that, by the way. How can we know the difference?

Yes, that is the standard sycophantic AI answer. Yeah that's just bullshit. The guidelines are clear: LLM hallucinations combined with sycophantic cheerleading, no wonder why it is linked with psychotic breaks. No mods can ban anybody (unless they're spam accounts). But if all your posts on the forum are bot posts, it would be essentially banning a bot.