Leo Gura

Did they have a chupacabra?

The single anything.

It's good but don't get paradigm-locked into a single source.

Good. Good. That's legit.

But is that the right analogy in this case? Be careful not to pick the wrong analogy.

Yes, without good leadership humans are doomed. Humans need good leadership because most humans are followers and incapable of leading themselves.

For it work like that, I would have to charge you guys a lot of money. The content couldn't be largely free. You can't have it both ways. You can't want it all for free and easily accessible and everyone to be woke, and also esoteric. Esoteric means only 1 in 1000 of you here would have found the content. Is that what you really want? Finding this content is hard enough even now. Most people who need and want this content will never even know it exists. Actualized.org is not some mainstream thing. Very few people know about it.

Because that's what my passion is. This is not a utilitarian project for me, this is a passion project. I'm not doing this work to get someplace, the understanding itself is the point. Keep in mind that most people are not intellectuals, so they don't need so much detail and complexity. But I need it because I have a need for deep understanding. When you go to university, all the professors are intellectuals and nerds. That doesn't mean that you as the student need to go that deep, but the professors need to go that deep in order to teach at the highest level. You don't ask the professor, "But why are you going so deep on this topic? Why not just chill out and take it easy?" The professor isn't just there to teach you, he is also there because he wants to innovate the field with cutting edge research. In fact, that's primarily why he's there. He's not just there to be useful to you, because what is useful to a student is so shallow that it cannot generate innovation in understanding. So yes, I do treat this topic like a nerd. Does everyone need to be a nerd of the topic? No. But a teacher should be a nerd of the topic he's teaching.

Sense-making is more than just Awakening or mystical experiences. Sense-making is an even broader and deeper thing. Today we live in a very complex, abstract world that is very challenging to make good sense of. 2000 years ago, or even 200 years ago, people could have their Awakenings and then return to a simple lifestyle and a simple world. But today that is no longer possible. That's why stuff like Buddhism and Vedanta is so outdated. We live in a much more complex world which requires a much more complex level of cognitive development to make sense of. You didn't need complex cognition in Buddha's day, but today you do. Just making sense of our political situation today requires a decade of research and study. You are not going to understand politics without that. And you are not going to understand science and academia either. If you want to understand such things, that's where you need more than Awakening. Just look at how much more stuff there is to understand today than in the Buddha's time. Today you see a woman with a dick and you gotta somehow make sense of that. Buddhism can't teach you that.

You can't trust any of these models because these companies spend billions of dollars to game the benchmarks and make their models better and better at faking intelligence. These companies don't care about science or intelligence or anything genuine. They are just doing anything that works. And by works, I mean, fools people into thinking it is intelligent. Can you train a child to fake reasoning? Yes. Does that mean he can actually reason? No. If you give me 5 years and a billion dollars, I can train a group of kids to be fake geniuses. They will fool most of you. But they are not actual geniuses and they cannot do the work of even one genius. You will say, "So what? It's good enough." No, it's not good enough when it comes to doing the work that needs to be done by a genius. Or even an average man. You are assuming that this fakery is enough to do good work, but it isn't. This is like assuming that fool's gold can do the work of actual gold just because they both look yellow. You can take lead and paint it yellow, but that doesn't mean it can do what gold does. Once you start to really work it, it will not behave like gold.

Because that isn't Intelligence. Humans are confusing good performance and utility with Intelligence. It is capable of what it was trained to do. This has always obviously been the case.

The fundamental limits of the LLM structure have not magically disappeared. None of these models can know what is outside their training data.

It takes a lot of work to make the most of your genetics.

Technically yes. But Awakening is not all there is to this work. You will still have low cogntive development and be prone to self-deception. There is more to this work than just mystical states. Yes, your role in the world matters. If you do intellectual work you need more advanced cognition. If you work at Starbucks, perhaps you don't need it. I have the bias of being an intellectual. An intellectual loves to think about deep things. If you are not an intellectual then you don't need so much cognitive complexity.

Omniscience merges epistemology and ontology into ONE.