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Channel full ai slop? All thumbnail same person, same hair, same beard, 15-20 minute video almost every day. Thumbnail first video on channel in reflection cigarette wrong direction.
No disclosure in channel or video description.
Search for "you see too much" 4 video with almost same thumbnail, probably all ai slop. Fuck this.
Carl Jung is a very famous psychologist - a student of the infamous Sigmund Freud and considered by many to be the very founder of most psychology today (Jung, not Freud, whose work was pivotal and inspirational but not quite as inspired in and of itself). And Alan Watts - the guy with the beard - is... well I dunno, some kind of self-help guru I suppose.
If Alan Watts was saying in his own words a message that traces its roots back to Carl Jung, then that makes sense. I did not watch all of those other videos, which yeah are probably AI slop, but the one I shared is from a channel dedicated to Alan Watts. So a primary source then. Or rather we might say secondary, if an auditory record was converted into this more traditionally visually-oriented media space. But not tertiary - it may have originated from Jung's work but it is not verbatim and rather seems heavily adapted, so represents a message in its own right.
Your 2nd and 3rd sentences do not make much sense to me - yeah it looks similar b/c the ones in the same channel are for the same person, Alan Watts? The cigarette... I dunno, even presuming that it is wrong, it is an exceedingly common visual trope to show something in a supposed "reflection" that points in the other direction. A 6-fingered hand is strong evidence of AI slop, but a mismatching reflection is not.
You might be, ahem, "seeing too much" yourself there, haha! :-P
Far worse than what you mentioned, the video gets into some religious gibberish that I do not believe is true - something about being one with the universe and all. I can look past that, and I saw something in the video that made me think for a moment, which I thought gave it some value that might be worth sharing. I saw no evidence that the video itself - past the thumbnail - was made by AI, though tbh I barely looked at the visuals and mostly just listened to the auditory track.
4 paragraph response, fully written out, one talking point per paragraph, 2 i never talk about. Say physically impossible reflection not evidence ai (wtf?), then say nothing BUT thumbnail seem ai.
YOU ai slop too. Get out.
If ai thumbnail, must assume all ai. AI script danger, ai no sense of psychology, correctness, quoting. Religion gibberish even more danger. If people take at face value, people will believe and live like it say, might become horribly unhappy, depressed, maybe not trust real psychologist because alan watts say otherwise. But alan watts never say any of it.
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Carl Jung is a very famous psychologist - a student of the infamous Sigmund Freud and considered by many to be the very founder of most psychology today (Jung, not Freud, whose work was pivotal and inspirational but not quite as inspired in and of itself). And Alan Watts - the guy with the beard - is... well I dunno, some kind of self-help guru I suppose.
If Alan Watts was saying in his own words a message that traces its roots back to Carl Jung, then that makes sense. I did not watch all of those other videos, which yeah are probably AI slop, but the one I shared is from a channel dedicated to Alan Watts. So a primary source then. Or rather we might say secondary, if an auditory record was converted into this more traditionally visually-oriented media space. But not tertiary - it may have originated from Jung's work but it is not verbatim and rather seems heavily adapted, so represents a message in its own right.
Your 2nd and 3rd sentences do not make much sense to me - yeah it looks similar b/c the ones in the same channel are for the same person, Alan Watts? The cigarette... I dunno, even presuming that it is wrong, it is an exceedingly common visual trope to show something in a supposed "reflection" that points in the other direction. A 6-fingered hand is strong evidence of AI slop, but a mismatching reflection is not.
You might be, ahem, "seeing too much" yourself there, haha! :-P
Far worse than what you mentioned, the video gets into some religious gibberish that I do not believe is true - something about being one with the universe and all. I can look past that, and I saw something in the video that made me think for a moment, which I thought gave it some value that might be worth sharing. I saw no evidence that the video itself - past the thumbnail - was made by AI, though tbh I barely looked at the visuals and mostly just listened to the auditory track.
What? This sounds like an ad for a lifestyle coach or something.
As far as I could see, no products were being sold there. The Threadiverse likewise sounds highly odd to people on web 2.0 platform (centralized & corporate, like Reddit, X, Instagram, etc.), and they often don't feel fully comfortable here. We're a bit different than the usual.
Anyway these concepts presented in the video are just thoughts to consider - some of even all of them may not speak to your condition, and that is okay:-).
Fair warning: long post ahead.
From a mental health standpoint, Alan Watts and, perhaps to a greater extent, his contemporary, Ram Dass, are some of the best talks you can find on the subject.
That said, I have come to conclude that Watts, Dass, and others of his era failed to prepare their own generation for the corruption, misinterpretation, and weaponization of their talks by those that would come after them. Much of their work made their way into the psychedelic scene and eventually the manosphere where it was then coopted by capitalistic influences and self help grifters.
Even in this talk presented, in which Watts makes sure to hedge all bets by reiterating that this is not a call for passivity, fails to realize where this line of thinking goes when an entire community accepts that truth can only be realized on an individual level. Sure, in a healthy society where there are not urgent matters where truth needs to be realized sooner than later, this would be great. But of course...where we are today is that the truth is terribly uncomfortable to bear, and fixing the various problems we have is only possible when the prerequisite that we have a consensus on what is true is met. Because we are all stuck waiting for each other to see each other's truths, we never get around to solving anything unless the problem has already become so large it is impossible to ignore.
This isn't a knock against Watts or the thinkers of their time period, but it does explain a lot as to why the previous generations never preemptively solved problems, but rather always waited until the problems were already present then solve them. It's because there wasn't an obvious problem that definitely existed that could be easily observed. This might just be human nature, btw. And it might be the fact that humans are naturally reactive and not proactive that is ultimately our own undoing.
I personally think a more modern take on the issues presented in the talk is that the reason so many of us suffer from various mental health problems is because the world itself is actually in a bad state that none of us have any power to change, and that the various attempts to cope with this be it through psychiatric care, introspection, and living a more healthy lifestyle don't actually change the state of the world in which we are inescapably a part of. In other words, when the world is on fire, it is normal to become mentally unwell, because it means, at least initially, you're seeing the world clearly.
While it is good to take a moment to work on yourself, all that work is undone or at least greatly challenged as soon as you return from your wellness practice to interface with the challenges of the world, and you're put into a cycle of constantly having to work on yourself rather than addressing the potentially insurmountable problems that plague us all.
A good short video that I think covers this well comes from philosopher youtuber, Michael Burns. If you're so inclined I'd check it out.
EDITS: Wording, spelling, grammar.