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Carl-Richard replied to bloomer's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The whole vaccine skepticism thing exists because of the internet, social media and alternative media, because now you can find unqualified people posting inaccurate interpretations of scientific questions everywhere, and just the sheer volume makes it into a shit storm which claims the minds of all sorts of people. The fact of the matter is that the vaccine underwent well-established scientific protocols/trials for testing. The fact that they were released early doesn't change the fact that they were tested on many thousands of people, and it doesn't change the fact that this decision saved tons of lives. Then you can ask "but what about potential long-term unintended side effects?". Well for one, long-term side effects from vaccines that stretch beyond 2 months are virtually unheard of, and the professionals responsible for the trials had access to extreme amounts of analogous data to make an educated decision whether to release the vaccine or not. When you really boil it down, vaccine skepticism by and large is science skepticism. -
Carl-Richard replied to bloomer's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Trooo! -
https://incels.wiki/w/Coolness ?
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Explain. Think about it this way: our current programs can only be "fed" information. Relevance realization is about "grabbing" the information that is going to be fed to the program. The person using the program is like "here is the information!" and the program is like "OK, let's compute it!". To get to generalized intelligence, you need the program to do both those things at the same time at some level.
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Carl-Richard replied to iboughtleosbooklist's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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So I was listening to this song by The Aristocrats, and I noticed that the main riff at 0:33 sounded very similar to "Bad Horsie" by Steve Vai, only a more deranged version. Then I remembered that the bassist of the band used to play for Steve Vai, and I thought "huh, maybe this is a tribute to Bad Horsie by Steve Vai". Then I looked at the title of the song, and it said "Terrible Lizard" ? Of course!
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One way to conceptualize some of the problems with making human-like AI is "relevance realization": how to make a program distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information for performing a task. That is what makes biological life adaptive, the ability to reduce perception down to what is appropriate for a given goal, which in the larger picture is survival. That is another argument for why "conscious AI" might just have to be abiogenesis (if relevance realization can only be a product of living cells).
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Carl-Richard replied to Realms of Wonder's topic in Intellectual Stuff: Philosophy, Science, Technology
Bro. The possibilities are endless. If I had ChatGPT back when I was 17-18 and was obsessively reading every possible wikipedia article about neuropharmacology, I would be such a brainiac ? -
A video where the creator uses Minecraft references makes you question your sanity? ?
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Carl-Richard replied to iboughtleosbooklist's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
The would be true for the usual interpretation of capitalism. By the same token, the usual interpretation of solipsism has nothing to do with nonduality. Believing that reality is reducible to a limited appearance (your finite mind) is just duality. It's only when you start making vague interpretations that you can start making connections. You can do that with capitalism as well (but it's of course more ridiculous): "reality is a self-organizing and self-perpetuating system of pure Value". Yes, it's easier to make the vague connection between solipsism and nonduality ("everything is you"), but it's still only a vague connection which ignores important nuances. -
Carl-Richard replied to iboughtleosbooklist's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@AtheisticNonduality ? -
Carl-Richard replied to iboughtleosbooklist's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"Solipsism" and "capitalism" are academic words, and their meaning is very specific compared to other words. By using them, you're making a gesture towards academia, and when you then separate the words from how they're generally understood in academia, that adds a layer of confusion. "Love" or "truth" are basic words that you simply pick up by learning the language. The confusion is simply at the level of meaning (unless the person is an academic in those subjects, but most people here aren't). -
Carl-Richard replied to iboughtleosbooklist's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I edited my post slightly. -
Carl-Richard replied to iboughtleosbooklist's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
There are levels to this though. Imagine if I referred to non-duality as capitalism. It's that level of confusion. Words like "love", "truth" and "oneness" are a bit different. -
Carl-Richard replied to iboughtleosbooklist's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yes, so better to use words that are not confusing. -
Carl-Richard replied to UpperMaster's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
If the changed man routine is just about external appearances, what if he convinces most of his fans that he was falsely prosecuted (granted that he is going to jail at all)? Romanian courts and all? Does he even need to perform the changed man routine when he comes out? Who else does he need to keep up his appearance for? The Matrix always hated him anyways, and his whole shtick is to not compromise on his lifestyle just because the Matrix tells him to -
Carl-Richard replied to UpperMaster's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Like when Tim Leary was also hated by the entire "Matrix" and went to jail as well There are actually so many parallels between Leary and Tate: "the most dangerous man in America", "the most googled man on Earth". I see. The next Osho, but only with the nice cars -
Carl-Richard replied to UpperMaster's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
What are you basing your predictions on? I was just reminded by Tim Leary, who was close friends with Ram Dass, but who didn't have the same drive as Dass to pursue spirituality. Leary was known as a bit of a bad boy in his youth, hence why my mind associated him with Tate. In other words, being on the darker side of the personality spectrum seems to have a pretty strong effect on deterring you from truly looking inwards. -
Carl-Richard replied to UpperMaster's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
What stopped Tim Leary from going on a spiritual arc like his friends? -
Try living in Norway
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I guess such videos can be a reminder that when people are expressing suicidal tendencies and they're justifying it using spiritual ideas, be very deliberate about how you're giving advice and focus on grounding them, don't use it as just another oppurtunity to mentally masturbate about non-duality.
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Carl-Richard replied to iboughtleosbooklist's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
But you're talking to these people. -
Give me a YouTube channel ?
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Carl-Richard replied to iboughtleosbooklist's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
And it's why we should stop using the word.