Leo's Perspective on Elites, Meritocracy, and Success

[Clarence]

35 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I will make a video addressing how to cope with the harshness if life.

Thank you! That will be highly appreciated.

[Ishanga]

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[cistanche_enjoyer]

Let’s assume that in the next few years a superintelligent AI will be built and programmed to minimize the suffering of all humans, obviously without killing anybody.

Why wouldn’t such an AI then “overthrow” the elites and provide abundance to all humanity?

It’s not so unrealistic considering we have no idea how an AGI singularity will operate - and it’s coming inevitably.

[Ishanga]

1 minute ago, cistanche_enjoyer said:

Let’s assume that in the next few years a superintelligent AI will be built and programmed to minimize the suffering of all humans, obviously without killing anybody.

Why wouldn’t such an AI then “overthrow” the elites and provide abundance to all humanity?

It’s not so unrealistic considering we have no idea how an AGI singularity will operate - and it’s coming inevitably.

This is the way it should be, check out Jacque Fresco and his Venus Project, AI should be controlling all of the resources of the world and optimizing it so all have the essentials for basic living, no more homeless or starvation due to corruption and no profit in it, but AI today is learning via the data of humanity that is vast and great, and since the majority of Humanity is UnConscious to a high degree it learns to be like US, so therefore it will want to destroy or control the majority like the elites are doing today, so its no different if AI researches Human history and follows suit,, How that is considered Intelligence is beyond Me! 

[cistanche_enjoyer]

We humans seek power and control because millions of years of evolution have structured us this way.

Human evolution and AI training are similar because both involve learning and adapting over time—humans through experience and natural selection, and AI through data and training. Humans have evolved to seek power and control as a way to survive and secure resources. In contrast, a superintelligent AI could be trained with better values, focusing on helping humanity rather than competing for survival. Unlike humans, AI doesn’t have instincts, so it can be designed to prioritize fairness, cooperation, and long-term well-being.

[Ishanga]

4 minutes ago, cistanche_enjoyer said:

We humans seek power and control because millions of years of evolution have structured us this way.

Human evolution and AI training are similar because both involve learning and adapting over time—humans through experience and natural selection, and AI through data and training. Humans have evolved to seek power and control as a way to survive and secure resources. In contrast, a superintelligent AI could be trained with better values, focusing on helping humanity rather than competing for survival. Unlike humans, AI doesn’t have instincts, so it can be designed to prioritize fairness, cooperation, and long-term well-being.

Yes agreed, but we don't need millions of years to know we are going in the wrong direction, as Humans we have enough Awareness capacity to see this quickly.. We've already made it so that we have more control and power than ever before, even individual power and control is at a all time high, but the problem is a massive lack of Awareness/Consciousness, we still see each other and everything as separate from ourselves, competition rules, cooperation not so much it happens here and there but is not promoted or engaged with much, and this has been going on for many decades and will continue unless the overall masses Raise their Consciousness levels, and its more important today than ever simple due to the power we have available to all of Us as individuals and Government or Corporate Entities!!  

We can for sure program AI to be safe, but if it gets in the hands of bad actors then what? So we have to be prepared for that...

[The Renaissance Man]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I will make a video addressing how to cope with the harshness if life.

Super cool

[numbersinarow]

So... am I missing something obvious? Why is OP literally posting obviously AI-generated things as if he wrote them?

I know that redditors aren't able to tell, but in general, the way the post is structured is a dead giveaway.

[integration journey]

5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I will make a video addressing how to cope with the harshness if life.

Thank you

[ExploringReality]

@Leo Gura please make this video, it will probably make us cry, straighten us out and shredd our fantasies. 

[Raze]

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I will make a video addressing how to cope with the harshness of life.

Will you supplement it with break through difficult emotions and break through pain by Shinzen Young and NLP techniques for mood improvement 

Edited January 20 by Raze

[Leo Gura]

17 minutes ago, Raze said:

Will you supplement it with break through difficult emotions and break through pain by Shinzen Young and NLP techniques for mood improvement 

No

[Frylock]

On 1/19/2025 at 3:07 PM, Leo Gura said:

Has anyone noticed how liberals and leftists keep being surprised and shocked by the right's victories?

Why do you think that surprise and disappointment happens?

Could it be because the left does not have correct sense-making of how society functions?

Yeah I mean, I should stop being surprised that society is full of single digit IQ voters.

[Twega]

On 1/20/2025 at 8:43 PM, numbersinarow said:

So... am I missing something obvious? Why is OP literally posting obviously AI-generated things as if he wrote them?

I know that redditors aren't able to tell, but in general, the way the post is structured is a dead giveaway.

Bro..?

I only used AI to summarize the bullet points (which are related to the book mentioned, so it's not mine anyway) + everything else I wrote and I just used Grammarly for spell check.

[ryoko]

On 19/1/2025 at 4:29 PM, Leo Gura said:

You have to want it bad enough to endure hell. Otherwise you will just be average

Yes, system rejects those who don't respect it's rules.

But who cares? What's the point of getting approval from a mediocre system.
 

On 19/1/2025 at 6:15 PM, Golem said:

isn’t the life of a billionaire- one who fucks over millions of lives in the process- arguably "better lived" than that of someone like me, sitting "perfectly content" in stillness?

Nope, the latter is far better (I'm just lying to annoy you). They're not different, but you won't see it unless you go the other side. And actively remove the social conditioning, and if you live in the West, you're doomed from the start. Just double down on the other side unless you see it clearly. Either way, do what you want, it's not about doing what's "the" best. It's about doing what you can do best, at this point in time.

If you think the former is better, I'd tell you, you don't know any better. And that's fine. Just live it.

[Emerald]

When thinking of elites and ordinary people, this quote from the Bible comes to mind...

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:3)

There's a high price to pay for rising in the hierarchy and being 'elite'... paid in disconnection from humanity, nature, and the universe at large... and having the burdens of responsibility pressing down on you like the world on the Atlas' shoulders. 

There is a deep wisdom in embracing ordinariness. It is only wise to accept an elite role if your cause is something outside of your own egoic pursuits... and is something you're willing to suffer greatly for and bear tremendous amounts of responsibility in service of.

The issue is that most elites become elite because they are running from shame. And they mistakenly believe that being elite will help them love themselves more. And this dynamic can be passed down generationally as well where elite parents try to pressure their children to be elite.

Power is wise to approach with specificity... to only take what power you need to have the impact you want to have. 

[Emerald]

@Leo Gura Unfortunately, the only way the world has ever changed is through people being super idealistic and pie in the sky about the possibilities and keeping their morale high as they organize and mobilize people.

So, while you're certainly correct about the corruptions within the human species in our current state... being correct about the current state of things doesn't have the gas to move humanity towards future possibilities. And it would just lead to loss of morale and aiming too low.

The leader should know it... but the leader should not share these truths to their followers.

So, correct doesn't mean wise... especially not for someone in a position of power like yourself.

Shoot for the stars and you might hit the moon.

And while it's true that humanity has a lot of corruption on the symptom level... everything is fundamentally innocent and well-intentioned at its core if you go deep enough. I've seen it myself in my medicine journeys. And it showed me the power of accurate diagnosis through unconditional compassion (which is where truth and love meet).

It's only when the human will gets mangled and knocked out of alignment that we end up with such corruptions. And we've only just now started scratching the surface of what it means to heal and come into alignment with the truest deepest will.

So, while you're correct about the current state of things on the symptom level... your "reality checks" aren't wise because they will just demoralize people and put them in a state of learned helplessness, where they won't even use the levers of power that they genuinely do have.

Instead, they'll just sit idly in mental masturbation land where they can pat themselves on the back for being so smart and correct... because they know the truth.

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, Emerald said:

So, while you're correct about the current state of things on the symptom level... your "reality checks" aren't wise because they will just demoralize people and put them in a state of learned helplessness, where they won't even use the levers of power that they genuinely do have.

Instead, they'll just sit idly in mental masturbation land where they can pat themselves on the back for being so smart and correct... because they know the truth.

Well, that is the difference between truth-seeking vs political activism or success. Success in the material world requires some delusion. But my commitment is to truth-seeking.

3 hours ago, Emerald said:

Unfortunately, the only way the world has ever changed is through people being super idealistic and pie in the sky about the possibilities

I don't agree with this.

Most of the change in the world comes from grounded pragmatic solutions, not wild ideals. The wild ideals crash and burn most of the time.

I try to keep people grounded because there is so much fantasy in the Green leftist political domain. We need a real, accurate view of how politics works, not wishful thinking. Especially in the era of Trump.

Edited Wednesday at 09:23 PM by Leo Gura

[Hardkill]

On 1/19/2025 at 1:07 PM, Leo Gura said:

Has anyone noticed how liberals and leftists keep being surprised and shocked by the right's victories?

Why do you think that surprise and disappointment happens?

Could it be because the left does not have correct sense-making of how society functions?

Then again, has anyone noticed how conservatives and MAGA keep getting very shocked by a lot of the center-left victories we have had in the past? 

Even though the Left and Dems lost in 2024, the Republican party lost an extraordinary amount of big elections from 2017 to 2023. They were supposed to win the 2022 midterms when the Democratic party did uniquely well. Also, since 2022, Democrats have kept growing their power significantly at the state and local levels of government.

8 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Well, that is the difference between truth-seeking vs political activism or success. Success in the material world requires some delusion. But my commitment is to truth-seeking.

I don't agree with this.

Most of the change in the world comes from grounded pragmatic solutions, not wild ideals. The wild ideals crash and burn most of the time.

I try to keep people grounded because there is so much fantasy in the Green leftist political domain. We need a real, accurate view of how politics works, not wishful thinking. Especially in the era of Trump.

Conservatives are just as delusional as liberals are in their own way. They are less developed overall, they are still stuck in fantasies of wanting to bring back the "good old days" that will never come back because they will never work again. 

Centrists/moderates are perhaps the most ground or pragmatic compared to staunch liberals and staunch conservatives. However, even moderates can really be more delusional about certain things than left-wingers and right-wingers are. For instance, moderates like Manchin and Sinema were so delusional, even more so than Biden himself was about being able to bring the country back together through bipartisanship. They eventually had to admit that the old days of great bipartisanship are gone. Moderates tend to be more spineless. Look at what happened with Merrick Garland and how he fucked up his prosecution of Trump by waiting too long all because he was too afraid of being deemed too partisan if he went ahead with the matter much faster and much earlier than he and his team did. Moderates get easily taken advantage of from less moderate people. 

[Leo Gura]

12 minutes ago, Hardkill said:

Then again, has anyone noticed how conservatives and MAGA keep getting very shocked by a lot of the center-left victories

That's not surprising because MAGA are lunatics. They will be shocked by many things as reality crushes them in the end.