Leo Gura

Making that painting takes crazy taste. Art is more about taste than it is about skill. Great taste is very rare. Which is why great art is very rare. That painting is perfectly balanced.

It's basically that way for all worldclass athletes. To be worldclass you need to sink all your skill points into a single skill. You have to be semi-crazy to even find that appealing or meaningful. You basically need to fool yourself into believing that this super narrow skill matters. But if you can make millions doing it, fooling yourself will be too easy. Until some day you wake up and realize you wasted your whole life playing games.

Stupidity and evil is much more fundamental than any race or culture. This what the racists get wrong.

None of these people are conscious enough to understand their own talents. It's all taken for granted.

I don't like memorizing openings, which is why I play Fischer.

So it looks like I'm right about average.

What a beautiful painting. Wow!

Do you guys find the blog quotes useful/valuable?

Realizing the limits of SD is an important part of Tier 2. SD can be criticized from below or from above.

Progressives should be forced to watch 50 hours of road rage incidents to show them how the bottom half of mankind lives.

Watch police cam videos to see how evil and stupid mankind is.

Very good point!

Read my pizza analogy again.

Many folks here are good at chess. I didn't even know.

Epistemology is the process by which you come to know anything. How do you know that Leo is real and not just an AI? What do you really know? And how? If you inspect all of your knowledge and worldview you will see that it's built out of all sorts of ungrounded assumptions, beliefs, hearsay, and fantasy. All of that needs to be questioned to death until you reach a profound sense of not-knowing. Because most of the stuff you think you know is just BS. It isn't grounded in anything real. It's ideas that you heard someone else say and you bought it. But that kind of epistemology is prone to lots of error and delusion. See this video for more:

Tell that to Putin, Jinping, or Trump. See how far you get. I'm tired of progressives trying to convince everyone that mankind is good. Mankind is not good. Mankind is evil and stupid. Which why progressives keep failing. Progressives themselves are evil and stupid.

A picture of a pizza is as real as a pizza, but it is not a pizza. But people easily mistake the two. That's the illusory nature of concepts.

I'm disappointed that Chess.com does not have a Crocodile Bot.

Gifted people almost always take their gifts for granted. It's hard for someone as advanced as Schmach to appreciate how average people live -- like animals. Schmach was raised in a hippie household with hippie values.

It doesn't mean anything because IQ is such a poor capture of actual intelligence. There never was a "smartest man" because there isn't such a measure. This is man-made fiction. There were many men with all sorts of different unique intelligences, with various pros and cons, in various fields.

Bots play better chess than humans, how can you not practice on them?

Very cool that you played Magnus. Congrats!

Hikaru's reaction is like a girl when you cum after 3 pumps

I expect that real elo rating is harder to maintain than beating a bot. I am slowly working my way up to 2000-rated bots. 3 weeks ago I was struggling against 1500 rated bots. Now 1700 is pretty comfortable. Once I can beat 2000-rated bots then I will be ready to play some humans. When the bot uprising comes, they will eat me last.

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