Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Princess Arabia]

18 minutes ago, JTL said:

Politics,

Any more politics and his blog will look like CNN.

[Princess Arabia]

@Leo GuraIt's obvious your followers love your mind and the way you think. That's powerful.  

[CARDOZZO]

I don't know why people like politics.

I know it is important but I don't have ANY interest about understanding politics.

Just seems a bunch of formal hungry power humans self-looping on self-generated lies.

Edited October 5 by CARDOZZO

[Clarence]

7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Do ya'll prefer when I share YT videos as posts or write text posts?

I love texts! They have a special vibe and give me more time to think and ponder. I reflect more easily when I read you. To me, your texts are also complementary to your own videos, because, together, they create more connections in my brain. The information is processed differently; I am more passive while listening and more active while reading. My mind also tends to lose focus and wander more easily while listening, so I value your texts a lot, both from the forum and the blog.

As for the videos you share, I skip a lot of them, including all the ones on politics; I only watch the videos when I'm very interested, like those on The Varginha Incident or on American Religion — as it related to self-deception and I quickly got into it — or when they're very short and I'm curious, like the ones from the posts titled Child Prodigies & Geniuses, What Is A Woman, Adriano Celentano, Jack Black, Particle Life, The Hairy Frog Fish, How The Queen Eats Bananas… to name a few.

You share really cool ones on various topics, which I would never have searched for, so I find that very valuable. But for example, even if I love airplanes, I didn't watch the full SR-71 Blackbird video, even though I found the 3D animation fascinating, because I don't have the patience to watch it all. So I get a lot of meaning from the texts, which I always read fully, taking my time, and rereading them once or more when I absolutely love them.

Edited October 5 by Clarence

[OBEler]

5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Do ya'll prefer when I share YT videos as posts or write text posts?

Both

And I especially prefer seeing your couch talking blog videos about spiritual topics/your self improvement etc

 

[Davino]

18 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

What blog topics would you like to see more of?

Actuality, topics that apply to current events and the state of the art of humanity.

I would enjoy you helped us get a deeper grasp of what's going on in the world in a way only you can do. 

[PigeonPark]

I like both. The variety of different posts keeps the blog exciting/interesting. I really enjoy the vlogs as well.

[Ulax]

5 hours ago, Nemra said:

By the way, The Paradox Of Knowing Social Systems post was excellent!

Agreed

[Ero]

3 hours ago, CARDOZZO said:

I don't know why people like politics.

I know it is important but I don't have ANY interest about understanding politics.

Just seems a bunch of formal hungry power humans self-looping on self-generated lies.

When you do not live in a politically-stable environment, following/understanding politics becomes essential. Understanding 'geopolitics' is a key component for the survival of many small nations, sandwiched between superpowers. 

Edited October 5 by Ero

[Ero]

6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Do ya'll prefer when I share YT videos as posts or write text posts?

Definitely both. I regularly check the blog as a unique source of epistemic novelty. Even though currently I don't have time to watch videos, it is nice to have high quality references to come back to, considering the difficulty in finding the latter among the sheer noise of brain rot content. 

The more you post in general, the better. I have found that even noting down a sentence/ paragraph can become fertile ground for an idea/ connection I make in the future. You can treat your blog as exactly that - a stream in consciousness you can reference and build on top. Adding tags or identifiers for the topics/ ideas discussed creates continuity that can be helpful if you decide to further develop an idea. 

[LoneWonderer]

@Leo Gura

6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Do ya'll prefer when I share YT videos as posts or write text posts?

Both are excellent!

[Thought Art]

7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Do ya'll prefer when I share YT videos as posts or write text posts?

I like variety.

[Sincerity]

7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Do ya'll prefer when I share YT videos as posts or write text posts?

Definitely text

[Leo Gura]

I didn't know you guys like text so much. I will write more.

[Miguel1]

35 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I didn't know you guys like text so much. I will write more.

I didn’t know you didn’t know we like it so much.

It’s like an even more articulated and condensed version of your videos about a particular point / insight / idea.

And also much faster to consume as it is written. And finally, just very lovely that aside from my own deep contemplations, the deeper aspect of my mind is activated / exercised by an outside source every once in a while as well, as I don’t have much time to consume other high quality stuff right now. So reading and contemplating the writings is a consistent and certain way I get that exercise.

And you post there just the perfect amount 👌

[Jayson G]

10 minutes ago, Miguel1 said:

I didn’t know you didn’t know we like it so much.

It’s like an even more articulated and condensed version of your videos about a particular point / insight / idea.

And also much faster to consume as it is written. And finally, just very lovely that aside from my own deep contemplations, the deeper aspect of my mind is activated / exercised by an outside source every once in a while as well, as I don’t have much time to consume other high quality stuff right now. So reading and contemplating the writings is a consistent and certain way I get that exercise.

And you post there just the perfect amount 👌

yeah same, I didn't know he wasn't sure we liked it either lol 

@Leo Gura I end up reading it 3 to 5 times because there's a lot of nuance, depth, and angles. Text-based ones are very valuable.

Edited October 5 by Jayson G

[Bjorn K Holmstrom]

3 hours ago, Ulax said:

Agreed

It was nice, even if he didn't account for the cases where one is both inside and outside the system, and the case where one is neither.

[Ulax]

1 minute ago, Bjorn K Holmstrom said:

It was nice, even if he didn't account for the cases where one is both inside and outside the system, and the case where one is neither.

How can you be both inside and outside a system? Or neither?

Edited October 5 by Ulax

[Princess Arabia]

3 minutes ago, Ulax said:

How can you be both inside and outside a system? Or neither?

I wanna know too. I was puzzled by his statement.

[Nemra]

I think maybe he means being objective could make you outside the system from inside the system.