Here's some human logic that I'm not sure an AI like GPT3 can comprehend:

Imagine I said "I bought 7 items this January, 8 items in February, 9 items today, and so on. How many items will I buy next January?"

It must understand "and so on", it must know months, must count, etc.

There lies a real benefit in documenting your most dreadful moments or negative experiences

Because the nature of human mind cannot be trusted

It often distorts past reality's harshness to give you a sense of comfort in current time

Therefore, a wise man trusts words over his own mind

You can document the pitfalls, so that in future, you don't repeat the same mistakes again

The whole point, is you equip yourself with suitable weapons, before going to war

Here, weapon is analogous to dreaded mistakes and reality from the past

It makes you feel how bad that was

It warns you to prepare accordingly, so you don't face such situations ever again

Or even if you do, you know how to tackle them.

#1

"Happiness - as ānanda - can only come from self-knowledge.

Happiness - as sukha - can come from anything ... from career to family.

We are genetically pre-dispositioned to seek the latter.

Hence, the enlightened are few."

#2

"One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature.

Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all."

All this wicked and all this evil.

But we still keep shining.

We mock the devil with our spirits.

We blast through the darkness with beams of pure white lightning bolts of love.

God is working through the Sages.

Always.

Death Meditation

Death Meditation. The biggest regret on people’s deathbed is always that they didn’t do enough.

Not enough what THEY truly wanted. They didn’t make, build enough.
Didn’t love enough. They were a slave to society, and convention, and conditioning, and programming. They never self actualized to be their prime self.

This type of meditation is like a visualization, or internal verbalization, where you see yourself at the end of your life, as if you’re dying tomorrow for example.

Did I do enough? — You ask yourself. Usually the answer is no. And then you know what it is you want/NEED to do.

Then you go do that. So what would you do if I told you, You are going to die tomorrow. This urgency you just felt. The images you saw, the voice speaking to you, inside you.

What was it?

Go do that, after Your Death Meditation Session.

Doing all the above will get you a nice long meditation session of 20-30 minutes. Even 40-50, or when you take it REAL serious.

A full hour. Don’t be daunted by the amount I just typed, or when you’re new to meditation, don’t be a pussy, just pick one of the above, and meditate for ONE minute, that’s it. Just try it, experiment, and compound over time, and get better at it. No worries.

Interoception is the art of feeling your body from the inside out.

Of thinking of how your body feels as a sense akin to sight or smell.

To blast it with awareness and dissolve rot by pointing your conscious attention at pockets of tension.

Interception is like a continuous bodyscan meditation, meant to heal.

They must chose you as their leaders, not the other way around:

These days, I am often asked by content creators and web3 entrepreneurs about how to grow and take leadership of an online community.

This is what I tell my clients: You cannot impose yourself, THEY must chose you as their leader.

Those who try to “take the group by storm” rarely become leaders.

Why?

Because no one likes a chest beater, why would anyone let an arrogant prick boss them around? In reality, all power over people is a given and never coerced.

In general, the rule is this: "strong leadership candidates rest on the group’s support."

And when overly dominant individuals try to exert their will, they fail to bond with the other members and to win their acceptance.

And while an already established leader can keep leading with an iron fist, it’s much more difficult for an "aspiring" leader to impose his leadership by "starting" with an iron fist.

The second reason for this is that, as a new member, you don’t have a clear idea of the power map and the personalities that compose the group.

NYC has lifted their vaccine mandate for restaurants, museums, etc as of this week.

Good.

I wonder how much influence social media had on that decision.

So far, 8300 votes, 58% unvaxxed. https://twitter.com/DeeperThrill/status/1500980894307389441?t=wj58K4To7eW2diwrtX86nQ&s=19

Gene swarms - over many millennia, genes swarm together, clump up into an organism, and then reshuffle themselves amd coalesce in different combinations in future progeny once your human husk finally succumbs to entropy and dies, with the genes surviving long into the future.

When the primitive entities from the fabric of reality deep within your own cells begin speaking to you, how will you respond?

I want to be the best in the world at medical AI.

We need more neural networks with multimodal input streams and multiple loss function basins in cutoff sections of the architecture, instead of a single loss function at the end.

Anyone else notice that social media is bringing more and more interesting people out of the woodwork?

The wide pipes connecting us are giving gifted people a platform they never had, and mixing them up with other interesting people.

Same effect as ubiquitous cheap air travel.

Idea:

An AI app trained on thousands of before/after photos of people to show you what your physique would look like if you lifted more or leaned out.

Humanity's earliest known settlement, Göbekli Tepe, was founded 12000 years ago. In the overall scheme of things, this is absolutely nothing. It's amazing how little human beings know about our origins.

I'm not pro-Putin, I'm anti-propaganda.

Text-to-image AI getting pretty good these days 🤖🐇🎩📰

Learn more here: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1511724264629678084?t=m1rypO7FSvfBRgfmzNcRzQ&s=19

There's a certain comfort in knowing there were immensely powerful kings of yesteryear, controlling vast swaths of land and dealing with court dramas and warring enemies, whose names have been completely forgotten to the annals of history.

All that effort, power, story, gone...

Burrowing Into The Now:

It's a strange experience to burrow into the present moment, trying to pay attention to everything happening now which your brain keeps in the periphery - breathing, sounds, bodily sensations, thoughts entering your mind, drifting out of presence. Then to stay there indefinitely.

Your mind tends to make interesting connections regarding what's happening moment by moment.

You realize how your internal feelings now depend on what you ate days ago, see subtle patterns of behavior you didn't realize until you experienced a continuous unbroken stack of Now's.

Can you be so present that you notice the subtle movements of a leaf in a gentle breeze?

Can you watch thoughts and emotions rise and fall every microsecond?

Can you notice not just microseconds but nanoseconds?

Feel the split second your breath changes from inhale to exhale?

The wild thing is you can intellectualize it all day.

You can rationally and logically break it down, to understand it deeply, to talk about it, to feel like you're doing it.

But it's always a new Now.

Since you read this, your mind left the present.

Step into it again.