The rampant use of AI wreaks of the desperation of mediocrity.

Episode 444 of Once Bitten also features some pretty good conversation on some of the finer points of education. 🪶

This is the way.

Bought a mortar and pestle and it came with seasoning instructions. Looked it up and found other independent sources indicating that this is the proper way to ready a mortar and pestle for use. While truth doesn't necessarily proceed upon consensus, when there is a consilience that forms, I tend to consider that to be signal emerging from the noise that is worthy of deeper consideration and research.

Overgrowth can be penetrated if the plant is stout and sturdy. If the plant is a benefit to the soil and to other plants around it, they can grow above the canopy of overgrowth and "find the light". Relatively few achieve this, but it is possible to find the truth...at least the truths that matter.

There are oases in the desert but yeah, it's pretty dry. The overwhelming majority of people are here to be seen, not to receive/see others. That's why so few people actually "light the lamps" and why those who have are such great listeners who offer meaningful feedback.

Use of a mortar and pestle has proof of work baked in as it must first be “seasoned”, similar to how cast iron must be seasoned before it can be properly used. To season a mortar and pestle, first you must wash, WITHOUT SOAP, both pieces. Do this with water and a clean sponge. Next, grind white rice into rice flour using the mortar and pestle. This will remove grit and polish the porous surfaces on both pieces. Do this repeatedly until the rice flour is white, not grey. This part of the process is work intensive. Without rinsing, add some garlic cloves, coarse salt, a handful of cumin seed, and a bit of whole coriander into the mortar and grind it all into a paste. Coat the entire inner surface area of the mortar and the grinding areas of the pestle with this paste. Let this paste remain coating your mortar and pestle overnight. Bare minimum, a few hours, but half a day would be closer to ideal. Rinse the paste out USING ONLY WATER, NO SOAP. At this point your mortar and pestle are seasoned and ready for use. 🪶

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDCrlgKGACo 🫡

Education is one of my wheelhouse subjects so if you want a primer, let me know and we can arrange a conversation of some sort.

I follow Ben but I don’t subscribe to flat earth. I’m also not a fan of the divisive racial/religious content he puts out. I will definitely give him credit for being an outside the box thinker though. That has recently yielded me an interesting insight on the spiritual benefits of high elevation living as it pertains to theta neural oscillation band synchronization.

Join us tomorrow, approximately 24 hours from now (12 noon US east coast time), as we continue studying "The Law of One” which is a series of 106 conversations that occurred from 1981-1984 between a physics professor & the entity known as Ra who had previously tried to spread the Law of One in ancient Egypt with mixed results. Last week, we covered: - The logical fallacy known as “Appeal to the Bandwagon", - The first half (pages 108-112) of chapter 12 from “A Channeling Handbook”, - Session 81 of the Law of One, - Personal research updates from study group members along with discussion. This week we plan to cover: - The logical fallacy known as “Ad Hominem", - The second half (pages 113-116) of chapter 12 from “A Channeling Handbook”, - Session 82 of the Law of One, - Personal research updates from study group members along with discussion. Link to join the "Flight Club" study group Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/house/flight-club-aeg58h1l7sb6?chs=QKlU4Z4pWa%3A162m6aw2UBc-Y_38pxL36vmjIQ78UBQVqgi1qMuq7KQ Link to RSVP for the upcoming study group session: https://www.clubhouse.com/invite/2dguW5NRVrdr9kKgQ778wz6opVe4FVpVZyd:jE662DUkJ9JFgiXlEPFKvwmC829rejDS2XOpnNw-A_c

Many early Bitcoin/crypto people are either uneducated on logical fallacies or they are just hypocrites. “I was right about Bitcoin, therefore you should listen to me on subject X” is the composition fallacy a.k.a. the “part-to-whole” fallacy. Just because the tires are made of rubber, doesn’t mean the whole car is made of rubber. I see this same logical fallacy committed by religious dogmatists, racists, Democrats, Republicans, etc.

I'll start working my through them. Looking forward to it :)

I’m with you dude. My research methods have been almost entirely devoid of AI usage. In order to gain high level overviews of tradition X or philosopher Y, I used others YouTube content. If I wanted to explore, say, Giordano Bruno, I would search his name, throw a playlist of half a dozen videos about him together, and listen through them all, figuring that some videos will cover things others didn’t and, in general, they’d offer me the ability to “triangulate” a decent approximation of who Bruno was and what he was about. If that process yields signal rather than noise, then I would follow up by buying physical books by him or about him to study later on. In the last 2~3 years I’ve stacked well over 200 books on dozens of topics. I read. I underline. I harvest quotes. I write my own content and incorporate quotes as appropriate. Almost none of the over 200 pages I have written up consists of AI generated content. There’s a little bit in there, but I presently have zero AI subscriptions, so anything AI generated came from the fact that search engines have integrated AI into their offerings of search results. 🪶

“Patience is the ladder of the philosophers, and humility is the key to their garden.”

Does this mean we have to start calling King Tut "Gizachad" now?