Carl-Richard

Sure. I was mostly just mocking the current state of ChatGPT. If you manage to bypass the fact that it spews complete bullshit in a non-zero percent of answers, sure, it's a great learning tool. But for me personally? No thanks.

Opeth isn't the only band from the 90s and early 00s that mixed progressive metal and extreme metal influences. Dan Swanö of Edge Of Sanity could be considered the progenitor of the style. But of course, Dan Swanö has a lot of ties to Opeth, as he is Swedish as well. He mixed some of their albums, collaborated with Mikael Akerfeldt on a few songs, and also plays in Bloodbath (oldschool death metal band) where Mikael also played.

So it's still just a chatbot? I think a specialized bot actually needs general ChatGPT training as a support beam, or else it will be nothing like teacher. A teacher has general knowledge and special knowledge. The student also has some general knowledge, which determines which questions and concepts the student feeds the bot, and if the bot doesn't have any training in that general knowledge, it won't be able to unpack those questions (if it's even able to be coherent at all). So with a ChatGPT support beam, it will probably have just as many flaws as ChatGPT if not more.

The territory of the spiritual process looks something like this: Discovering spirituality -> doing some practices -> seeing smaller changes -> more practice -> glimpses of the truth but returning to egoic identification ("awakening experiences") -> even more practice -> bigger glimpses of truth and shattering of preconceived notions of enlightenment -> alternative 1. letting go into the truth, alt. 2. run into a wall of resistance or fear, alt. 3. getting attached to the practices and creating an identification around that -> become enlightened, or get stuck in a "dark night of the soul" for a while, or get stuck in a spiritual ego -> more practice or shattering of preconceived notions, etc. I think OP took the alternative 2. route like me and is stuck in the dark night of the soul territory. There is the person doing things that is associated with spirituality (meditation and such) which has a certain progression to it, and that is what I refer to as a process. However, the realization of direct consciousness itself is not something that you can easily map as a process, as it's too individual and complex.

What does the teaching involve which ChatGPT cannot already do and which doesn't require generalized AI?

Please, no, just no. I would rather let a kid teach me than ShitGPT.

What do you mean by kids exactly? Regardless, if I had to listen to a kid lecture me about something, I would never go to class.

Haha he is also very picky about things like texture and oiliness. I think people with a higher disgust response tend to be skinnier. He is also a bit ADHD, and he used to stand up and walk around the dinner table when we were smaller, and even today, he tends to forget about the food if he's talking a lot.

My brother is just like you. He has a hard time eating enough. I've always been a big eater. It's mostly just genetics. We're wired differently.

I know pretty well when I've lost or gained fat by how I feel and look. The weight measurements are just to give a clue of how much we're talking. I know that it fluctuates throughout the day. Regardless, I'm very certain that the scale never showed below 80kg in the winter/spring, while today, I sometimes see 76kg and something. That has never happened in 4-5 years, and I'm using the same scale every time. And if you need more proof, I had to drop down my deadlift weight because I've gotten slightly weaker (as lower calorie intake also means smaller muscles if you work out regularly).

Enlightenment definitely has a clear positive effect, but awakening experiences (and the general territory leading up to enlightenment) are riddled with egoic projections and distortions. Feeling like you're dying I wouldn't merely classify as a "change in state". It's the ego realizing it's coming to an end and singing its final death song before giving up its illusory existence.

You might think it's negative now and that your suffering at this moment was predestined, but do you think it will be negative forever?

It sounds like an awakening experience with the ego resisting it and retrospectively trying to make sense of it through his intellect.

Consciousness is ruthless and unforgiving.

Yes. There are many conceptual conveniences that we concede to when communicating and that even you are conceding to in your skeptical language framework. It's just that you're creating a tone of antagonism towards a select few of those conveniences, while I'm saying that it's not necessary to do so.

But when I flip a coin say 1000 times, how would you describe the relationship between the amount of heads I get vs. the amount of tails? Well, obviously that's probability. Probability is not a perfect measurement. It depends on large numbers for consistent patterns to show up, and just because something is highly improbable doesn't mean it cannot happen. But that doesn't mean it's not a valid concept. In fact, most ways of describing reality are not perfect, even your own hyper-skeptical attempts.

Your fixation on this hyper-skeptic and nihilist way of describing reality is amputating your ability to understand reality. Chemicals in the brain, timelines, probabilities are all useful descriptions of reality. They're just at a different layer than the Absolute. There is no need to talk about them in such a dismissive way ("it's complete nonsense, there is no such thing").

Does your chair have arm rests? Are they positioned so that your cursor hand rests at the same height as your elbow? That is crucial for eliminating excess tension while gaming.

Why am I laughing ?

If you care about being happy and at ease, nihilism of the neurotic kind is something you have to work through, because it obviously doesn't lead to much happiness.

Every day since March 10th, 2020.

Metallica's heaviest song from 1986 remixed and remastered to sound even heavier.

If you value the mental clarity, you'll have it in you to balance it with your cravings.

Just find a regular pace where your mental clarity is not too inhibited. For me (26 year old male who lifts), it's once every 3-5 days.

If you're reporting the effects post-nut, it could because you're more sensitive to the lobotomizing effects of the prolactin surge than usual. So it's a problem with memory recall after fapping, not the recording of memories during nofap.