Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Leo Gura]

14 minutes ago, Ash55 said:

In bed with the most attractive women on the planet.

One time I was in bed with a girl and I told her:

I wanna go to a Chinese supermarket, buy a chicken foot, tie some dental floss around it, and hang it around your neck.

[RendHeaven]

Just now, Leo Gura said:

I wanna go to a Chinese supermarket, buy a chicken foot, tie some dental floss around it, and hang it around your neck.

Instant puddle

[Greatnestwithin]

7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

One time I was in bed with a girl and I told her:

I wanna go to a Chinese supermarket, buy a chicken foot, tie some dental floss around it, and hang it around your neck.

@Leo Gurayou are so romantic. You must have girls crazy for you Casanova! 

[Luc1nda]

“ You can turn creature design into a life purpose. You could make a whole YT channel devoted to how you design weird alien creatures and use that as your portfolio and parlay that into a career as a creature design expert for film, games, etc. What a fun career that would be! What is stopping you from becoming the world's leading creature design expert? “

 

Funnily enough Leo, you described my current career.

If you’re interested, I’d suggest looking at Terryl Whitlatch’s books on creature design, as she had the pleasure of designing a lot of the creatures you would see in star wars. These books are full of some fascinating illustrations along with a few things you can learn. 

Currently I’m learning how to design, 3D model, texture and do CG fur for creatures. I can show you some things I’ve been trying to work on!

Theres all sorts of things like anatomy, life cycle, adaptations, environment, diet, social adaptations, etc and also general design principles you have to think about when designing such creatures. 

I’ve talked to people who do this for a living and they have enormous moodboards on all sorts of animals and creatures that inspire their work. 

Food for thought, I could nerd on about creature design since I’m deep in the rabbit hole. 

[Ash55]

On 12/9/2024 at 4:01 PM, Leo Gura said:

One time I was in bed with a girl and I told her:

I wanna go to a Chinese supermarket, buy a chicken foot, tie some dental floss around it, and hang it around your neck.

LOL what was her reaction ?

[LambdaDelta]

Fischer Random? That's weak 

True alien minds play infinite chess

Who's up for that?

 

 

[Ash55]

Am looking forward for the chess awakening video now







if this is somehow offensive i really just mean it as a joke, i like playing chess but its a time sink for me id rather put my mind somewhere else atm
Fischer Random seem it will change strategies totally, early queen may hunt undefended pieces more easily it seem less balanced than the classic one 

I think leo like mind twisting chess not only mind twisted self deceptive realities

[Davino]

@Leo Gura So cool the interactive chess board. Movement 41 was good. It was interesting to see your style, you started quite aggresively and then measured your movements strategically with calculated attacks and finally suffocated the king.

 

I once played Chess with a friend both on LSD while listening to classical music and I had an epic insight into the nature of Reality through each piece. Being the King the "I" or atma, the pure trascendental unchanging God-particle and the Queen being the perpetual feminine motion of Reality, the shapeshifting fabric of existence, and so on with the other hierarchies. I also found of immense beauty that the pawn (the most limited piece) can become the Queen (most powerful piece) going full circle when arriving at the end of the board (fulfilling its life purpose)

Edited Thursday at 08:09 PM by Davino

[Leo Gura]

On 12/10/2024 at 11:11 PM, Ash55 said:

LOL what was her reaction ?

Same as yours.

[RightHand]

Poker > Chess 

[Ash55]

I think we need to pin this Mega-Thread to the "Pinned topics"
its frequent and hard to access

If its pinned somewhere i didn't see i hope to know

[Vibes]

@Leo Gura Could you please allow the option to ignore mods? Maybe only for old members or/and those who ask.

Edited Thursday at 09:14 PM by Vibes

[WonderSeeker]

@Leo Gura On the Corruption of Success post...

First of all, that was one hell of a read. Pure brilliance.

But as I read it, questions shot up.

Does that mean that to find success, it's necessary to fail a ton?

I failed massively at business in my first year, but now I'm starting to reach the early stages of success. 

I'm already wondering how I might fall into this trap myself and how to avoid it.

Do you recommend staying highly connected to those who are a few steps behind you to remember what the average person deals with, so as not to enter too rigid of a bubble?

I imagine being picky with friends helps too.

Cheers man-

Edited Friday at 12:44 AM by WonderSeeker

[Leo Gura]

6 hours ago, Vibes said:

@Leo Gura Could you please allow the option to ignore mods? Maybe only for old members or/and those who ask.

This is like asking for an option to ignore the police.

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, WonderSeeker said:

Does that mean that to find success, it's necessary to fail a ton?

It's not strictly necessary but struggling through failure is usually a big part of developing anything. Much of learning is just trial and error.

2 hours ago, WonderSeeker said:

I'm already wondering how I might fall into this trap myself and how to avoid it.

Do you recommend staying highly connected to those who are a few steps behind you to remember what the average person deals with, so as not to enter too rigid of a bubble?

It's hard to say how exactly to avoid it since corruption takes many subtle forms. Mostly by paying attention to fundamentals like consciousness work, epistemology, contemplation, truth.

Being very diligent about truth is the foundation for seeing corruption.

[Vibes]

9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

This is like asking for an option to ignore the police.

That's why I said for old members, even narrow it down to those proven to not be 'criminals' (no warning points).

I have only one specific mod in mind to ignore.

Edited Friday at 12:24 PM by Vibes

[RightHand]

9 minutes ago, Vibes said:

That's why I said for old members, even narrow it down to those proven to not be 'criminals' (no warning points).

I have only one specific mod in mind to ignore.

Brother, let it go.

[Dazgwny]

On 05/12/2024 at 4:33 PM, Ninja_pig said:

 

I have blood caked on my walls,

I have shit stains on my carpets,

I have holes in my ceiling,

I have shattered windows,

I have scars and permanent damage to my body from my Awakenings.

 

I feel this has been ghosted over too easily. Unless there’s more about it elsewhere on the forum I’ve missed, which I very well could have as not been on as frequently of late. I just think it requires a more substantial in depth explanation. I mean like, what the hell were you actually getting upto in these awakenings to cause these effects Leo? Shattering windows and blood on walls? 

[PenguinPablo]

@Leo Gura How strong are you in regular chess elo wise?

[Exystem]

@Leo Gura
It's cool to see you playing chess, especially fischers960! I like it more than classical chess, too.
I have some qestions if you like

What are your most holistic insights around chess as a metaphora for life?
What's your goal behind it? Just having fun or developing more depth in thinkinh etc?
What were the greatest chess-insights that enhanced your playing which could be transfered to other areas of life?

I play around 2000 elo and some booster insights for my game and life in general were:
- Take the same amount of time to think about the opponents move as your own. It seems that only you are more in control of your own pieces but actually that's an illusion, because with every move you make you change the value of every piece on the board and therefore control its meaningful options as well as your own.
- Play the board equally often turned 180 degrees around. That's how you develop a feeling for the perspective of your oppenent.
- To learn quickly, training tactics is ernormously helpful. Actually, if I had the challenge to succeed at chess from 0 to max I would take the same route as with labyrinths, start at the end. Meaning, start with 1 move until checkmate, then 2, 3 and so on.
- Going for elo directly is stupid. I like playing strange and inefficient openings so I start with a slight disadvantage, which keeps me more focused and cautious the rest of the game. I develop a more broad skillset and don't fall into the trap to repeat what I already succeed at too often.
- Analysing your game for blunders is so crucial! It's not "practice makes perfect" but "feedback makes perfect".
- Play with time pressure as well as without. Both help to develop crucial skills, the advantage with time pressure is more efficient thinking (decision making) and by analysing blunders you get a better feeling for the disfunctional heuristics that will probably cripple your game in general. No time pressure is good for the in-depth-reasoning, but to be honest, here are the tactic tasks superior, because there is only one perfect solution so the feedback is much clearer, and you usually don't overthink but also don't underthink since you are more motivated to find the best move because you know it definitely exists.
- Though oftentimes bishops are more powerful as knights, especially when both bishops are still present, the knight is a much more complex piece which needs more training to master, so for the brain gains and in long term it may be advantagoeous to trade bishops for knights.
- Also play against real players. The problem with engines especially at low levels is, that they sometimes make extremely stupid moves. They don't play at a consistent level from a meta perspective. It sometimes seems as if they were forced to take the second best move even though the best move is completely obvious. Then they are quite strong again in artificial ways.
- Play against the chess engine at the highest level possible. Grind your teeth against it! Make it a challenge to survive as long as possible. This develops another area of your skillset. Train as many areas of skills as possible, and find creative ways for it.
- If you have found a good move, find a better one.

In your games on the blog I wondered about some moves. I think it would be very beneficial for you to analyse blunders like these, but maybe you play just for fun - sorry if I add my two cents

- Generally it's quite advanterous to (risk to) move the queen and especially rooks so early in the game, seems to be a thing you like but may cost you some moves and therefore speed and whites advantage.
- Moving the same piece twice in the opening phase is some kind of unwritten no go. Of course there are lots of cases where it is very necessary but generally the order is something around > knights bishops queen rook, with pawn movements all around and castling of course, avoiding to move the same piece twice in the beginning. Exceptions like pushing pawns and attacking pieces which either gain space, speed or positional power are logical, but the rest is rather disadvantegous
- I guess you aware of en passant but one time you overlooked the obvious. Tactic tasks can help a lot with using castling and en passant for some genius counterattacks for example.

Your play from move 29 to 40 in your latest game were really spot on, enjoyed watching it! Thanks for sharing your games and the passion around it.