Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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This YT Channel has amazing moody, atmospheric cyberpunk relaxation music.
Here's one of my favorites:
I often listen to this while I'm working, contemplating, or meditating. It's so good for that.
It's also good for setting the mood if you have a girl over.
There are 100s more on the channel.
This gives you a peak into Trump's true character:
And this is what it looks when people refuse to admit that they're wrong and keep doubling down:
I don't share these clips to be political. I share them as meta-lessons in self-deception, so you can see the patterns playing out in the real world. This is not about Trump, it's about the trickeries of the human mind and ego. Politics isn't really about politics, it's about psychology and dynamics such as bias, survival, and Spiral Dynamics.
When you are awake and someone tries to explain consciousness to you with science:
This channel/podcast is genius. It breaks down the behind the scene shitshows of Hollywood. And the chemistry and banter of this podcast trio is just God-tier. Listening to them banter is so much fun. If you're a film buff, you gotta listen to this podcast.
I mentioned in my latest video on The Psychology Of Being Wrong how easy it is to be wrong about large creative projects, such as making a film or a video game. Until you try to make something like that for yourself you have no idea how insanely difficult it is.
The following podcast explains the epic shitshow behind the making of a never-released film called Empires Of The Deep. This film was the pet project of a Chinese billionaire and it was so poorly managed it burned through $130 million dollars and turned out so cringe it was never even released. The story behind its development is wild and insane, full of rookie traps and human wrongness.
If you like that, you'll find many more on their YT channel.
Here's another one I liked:
If you want to be successful, it's very important to make a study of all the failures of Hollywood, or whatever industry/field you're interested in. Notice how many traps you learn about as you listen to these podcasts. This is one of the ways you get wise to traps: you diligently study all the people who failed before you. And in this case, it couldn't be more fun. So grab a drink and some popcorn and enjoy listening to every trap that exists in Hollywood.
As amazing as AI is, the more I see people use it, the more it concerns me.
It's not that AI is bad, it's that there is infinite potential for abuse. AI is like pouring gasoline on Stage Orange toxic capitalism. The most scummy, shameless, and unconscious Orange humans and companies will try to use AI to ruin the internet for everyone and siphon obscene amounts of wealth, eyeballs, and power into unconscious toxic Orange values. It's going to be an unconscious, soulless runaway flywheel of profit maximization. At least that's my fear. I hope I'm wrong.
I don't see AI experts, researchers, and "super-aligners" talk seriously enough about the toxic and dangerous combination of the Orange value system + AI. That's the real concern, not some Terminator-Skynet fantasy.
Mankind's overall value system and ego and moral development levels are not high enough to make responsible use of AI. Not even the major AI companies are mature enough to handle it, never mind the smaller bottom-feeders. And at the same time, the toothpaste is already out of the tube, with no putting it back.
A big trap of AI seems to be that people will use it to enable laziness, to take every shortcut possible to flood the internet with hollow, cheap content to make a quick buck. AI doesn't have to be used in such a lazy way, but that's going to be the most common way people use it.
The world was already in the middle of drowning in its own greed. And now we add AI on top of that.
Begun the AI wars have.
About a year ago my ex-girlfriend moved to live in the rain forest in Costa Rica. There she found two abandoned kittens to raise. As she was raising them, she would put their food bowls outside on her porch. Then, one day she texted me a video of a large bird — a hawk or an eagle — that she saw in the rain forest. When I saw that, I had a sudden epiphany: Eagles are just sky-crocodiles! I texted her to hide her kittens and their food indoors, or the eagle would snatch them. She responded that she didn't even know that a bird could snatch a kitten. So I sent her this video:
An eagle can literally fly off with your child if you're not careful.
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Owen is a genius. His drive, his passion, his leadership, his insane work ethic, his intelligence, his connection with the beauty of life — all amazing.
This does not mean I endorse everything he says, or that he's right about everything.