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ikiz's avatar

Ive been telling my friends and family for a little bit now that with the way tech has exponentially growing it’s time to make personal decisions about our beliefs and desires moving into this new future.

While my future will probably look much different than yours its good to see people becoming more aware and making these choices for themselves 🤞🏼

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Red Young's avatar

who’s receiving the torch?

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Ken G. Tisdel's avatar

I’ll admit, I am at a loss at the moment processing this. I will say, “Thank you” at a minimum for all of your work and the role you played leading me through my own Ai journey. I will continue to follow the new journey that you and your wife are embarking on, and look forward to your combined insights!

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James O'Reilly's avatar

Psychedelics are extremely useful tools that provide a lot of clarity. Ayahuasca changed a lot of things in my life, all for the better, but I didn't feel the need to quit my job.

Write about whatever you want David, and try to enjoy it! 👍

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Jax 5D's avatar

I admire your ability to choose you and a path filled with love, adventure and curiosity. And awesome work on reducing the inflammation - what a relief on your nervous system.

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Jake's avatar

Hi David, I've been experiencing GI issues for a while now. It would be great if you could share you journey especially what you were suffering from and how you fixed it.

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David Shapiro's avatar

GI is so complicated. Go to a dietician and start there. Maybe a stool test, and once you have some clinical evidence, go to a GI or start with a GI

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Jake's avatar

Cheers! Did your test come out positive for something?

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David Shapiro's avatar

Also read the book EAT DIRT

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Dinas's avatar

Hi David, I loved sharing your soul. It reminded me that I also had this at various times in my life.

Now I'm going through this again.

It's as if no matter how much good you're doing in certain areas or niches, your soul seems to say, no, that's not what you were created for.

Many questions about values ​​and life itself.

The thing that comes to mind is, discover yourself and reveal the glory of God through yourself.

In the end, this potential that we often keep hidden, out of fear, insecurity or any inferior feeling, needs to be developed and released. It's as if we were a flower and it has to open and blossom to give off a sweet scent and achieve BEAUTY, the beauty of the developed creation.

I'm happy to know that you're on this path, of listening to and fulfilling your inner calling.

This is certainly the path that we should all take or that we will take at some point in our lives.

I also speak to myself first, how much time will you continue to waste ignoring your calling and suppressing your inner power?

Thank you again for sharing, it's great to walk together.

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TOMEK's avatar

Success is not the end, it’s just a step toward finding your real purpose.

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Eugenia Loli's avatar

Just a quick note, do not believe everything the entities tell you (e.g. as in your psychedelic trips). I've had experiences with them, and they told me to start painting. I became an illustrator. I never found success, and my work hasn't really touched anyone. So I'm sorry if I have doubts about the validity of their suggestions often. Or the other one that they told me a couple of times: to become vegan. Only I need meat, since I'm celiac and my gut is in terrible condition and can't create b12 (among taurine etc). These entities are not evil, but they're armchair CEOs. They advise on "what would be nice", not what's more right or appropriate for you.

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Jordan Vaughn's avatar

Just a suggestion that if you're not too burnt out on content creation you could start a creative writing / Sci-Fi YouTube channel. I know you've gotten a lot of positive support and I think that's because you were trying wholeheartedly to solve meaningful problems and if you just kept the YT channel but started doing Sci-Fi stuff I would stay subscribed.

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David Shapiro's avatar

I already have one, it’s called Literary Launchpad

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SortOfCommenter's avatar

well, ... that was on the horizon, wasn't it?

best wishes for this new road/land/world/cosmos to explore.

Since you will be more into writing in the future and you had once the idea for "word seekers" and made that gitrepo (); I once made a quickshot for this idea ("search a good word for 'harsh verbal ranting' --> vituperative") and posted it on the discussion (https://github.com/daveshap/Semantic_Embedding_Reverse_Dictionary/discussions/1#discussioncomment-7407976) - never knew if you saw this but could be a nice (offline) tool for writers ;)

all the best for your second (or third?) life

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Will Cameron's avatar

Glad to hear you're finding that alignment. I recently found it as well so I have a sense of what the shoulders feel like once that weight is off it. Good luck on your new path.

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Michael R. Lavelle's avatar

Get off your treadmill. Rest up. But don't quit AI completely. You offer a lot of insight on a lot of topics. In some respects you have been over-doing AI. Let AI play-out. Watch it evolve. Use it as you can. Offer commentary when it is meaningful to you. Thanks for all your work so far - and that to come.

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Troy Stanley's avatar

Do you have any resources for the inflammation piece?

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praxis22's avatar

My Mother says "follow your bliss" too.

Be well. See you on the other side.

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