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Reminds me of this kid

@Jodistrict That is exactly what is being disputed here. "Taught to her" is a very loaded phrase. I could "teach" a parrot to speak epistemology at you. That doesn't make the parrot a genius.

I have not said I read thousands of books on that. Dozens, yes. If I read a thousand books on torture I would kill myself. Lol

I don't see why we need a new word for this. This is a feature of leftists. I just call that Green/leftist. I think Hasan is intelligent enough to understand that Hamas is not some pro-gay leftie organization. He knows they are barbaric terrorists. He just thinks they are justified in fighting back against the injustices done to them. The notion that Hasan is some terrorism promoter is silly to me. He is just realistic about why terrorist exists and may even be necessary when your oppressor is a gigantic machine. Hamas does not need to adhere to progressive values for us to recognize that they are just defending their homeland and families from getting raped by Zionists. It is silly to expect Hamas to have progressive values or else we refuse to see the validity of their grievances. Hamas are barbarians and they are also victims of heinous crimes that made them barbarians. No great paradox here. It is also silly to side with Israel just because Israel has some gay rights. As if gay rights somehow makes ethnic cleansing okay. This is actually an absurdity of the Sam Harris position: Israel is more progressive so they are allowed to ethnically cleanse anyone less progressive than them. Keep in mind, slaves were less progressive and less developed than their slave masters. But that doesn't mean that slaves were wrong for overthrowing their masters. The entire issue is that Israel is progressive off the land they took from primitive Palestinians. The progress came at Palestinian expense and now the bill has come due. America is also progressive thanks to our exploitation of 3rd world nations. It is legitimate for 3rd worlders to be pissed off about that.

Dude, the above video beautifully presents the evidence and the case. You are choosing to deny it. You are defending the claim that a completely blind woman wrote epic poetry about the colors of a sunset. This is absurd. She clearly could not write that. She had no way of knowing what colors are. Or she wasn't blind. Another possibility is that her handicaps were grossly exaggerated. Perhaps she wasn't truly blind or deaf. People love to exaggerate handicaps too because it makes them seem more impressive than they are. And I am very vocal about the evils of AI slop.

I should buy a chimpanzee, put his name on all my work, and then tour the country with my legendary, epistemic genius chimpanzee. I shall name him Coco. Coco the first chimpanzee to teach humans epistemology

Why would Mark Twain not have been duped along with everyone else? How could Mark Twain know? He didn't have all the facts. He wanted the legend to be true as much as everyone else. The issue isn't plagiarism. The issue is that her caretakers were doing all the physical writing for her and injecting their own heavy interpretations and polish on everything she said. This was not a single incident, this was her entire lifestyle, origin story, and legend. Imagine if I had all my work edited by a secret nameless worldclass author and then presented it as my own. That would be fraud. But it was never at the same level of quality/depth. And who was her replacement?

My process for these clips is quite efficient. I am satisfied with it. I can generate 500 clips per month. Not that I intend to keep that up. So it is at least 100x more efficient than YouTube. Start a new thread please.

Ultimately there is no reason to do anything. However, unlike a dog, a scientist can realize that science is a human construction, a scientist can open his mind to things I say, and eventually I will get some scientist to realize he is God. And that will be the point. The point is, at least a few people will realize God from the things I teach. It won't be thousands or millions, but dozens. And that's good enough for me. All of my work is done for a small number of very serious people who will eventually realize God. But larger numbers of more casual folk will also benefit along the way without going all the way to God. It is good for scientists and academics to understand epistemology and the limits of their fields. This will help their fields advance. I don't just criticize them for entertainment or clicks, I explain how to think deeper and better.

Unfortunately that's just not feasible. Every clip requires at least a bit of editing work, titling work, rendering work, copy & pasting work, uploading work, etc. Posting raw videos looks too unprofessional. The overhead on rendering and uploading a video takes more time than recording it. But it's not too bad. I have a few ways of managing it.

It's a mix. There is re-treading of insights from my long YT videos, but also entirely original insights and ideas, or framing them in new ways. If you go into it expecting 100% new ideas, then you will be disappointed. The Vault is not essential, it is a bonus feature for fans who want more. Like a backstage pass to a concert. You don't need it, but if you love the band then you will enjoy it. The Vault is not intended for lukewarm people but those passionate about the work. Yes, this is precisely the case. The Vault allows me to release more content than I can on YouTube because the prep work for long YT videos is very grueling and unsustainable after a decade of doing it. The Vault solves the sustainability problem for me. Yes, I am open to any topic ideas. I can easily cover topics in The Vault, unlike on YouTube because they are much faster to create and I need thousands of topic ideas. Taking requests for YouTube videos doesn't work well, but for clips works much better.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualizedorg-awakening-retreat-coming You can sign up now by emailing me at the email indicated in the blog post. Discuss it here.

It really depends on you. It's not a function of time as it is a function of your effort. If your effort is too low, then you will never get good. But if your effort is very high you can get good in a year or two. Effort matters most of all. To advance quickly you have to get very serious about it. It has to consume your life for a few years. If you are just dabbling in game, even 5 years won't get you far. You have to be a beast about it.

I fixed this. #112 works now.

Hmmm... must be a typo in the link. I'll fix that. Thanks for reporting it.

I will be posting longer content in the Vault as well. Videos that are too long for Instagram and TikTok. I just recorded a 20-minute long clip which will be posted in the Vault soon. So the Vault will consist of shorts but also dozens of original longer videos which won't ever be shared on social media. I am often way too limited by Instagram's 3-minute long format. So I plan on making many 5-15 minute long clips in the future to add more value to the Vault.

That is beyond my coding ability. That requires managing a database. You can bookmark links using your browser by right-clicking on links. Perhaps in the future if many people use the Vault then I could hire a programmer to add that.

@LordFall Okay. I understand. I will make courses too.

Steven Hassan is not teaching epistemology. He is teaching about cults. And his teachings are spot-on. If you want to actually understand what a cult is, read his book.

@Carl-Richard I will throw every human under the bus on epistemology. If you don't like it, tough. I am the standard of what counts as proper epistemology.

Just because you encounter ideas that you disagree with does not make a thing a cult. That is peak stupidity.

No. That is the proper definition created by cult researcher and cult deprogramming expert Steven Hassan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hassan You speak of things you don't even understand.

Yes he did. Her caretakers were obviously writing for her.

@Carl-Richard That is not what defines a cult. A cult is a fringe group that uses deliberate mind control techniques to extract money, sex, and power from its user base. A cult is about abusing and exploiting its members in a pyramid like structure. Fringe ideas does not a cult make. Actualized is not a religion. If you don't understand that. then what do you understand? It is shameful that I even need to explain this to anyone here. The epistemic standards of Actualized.org are higher than anything found in science or academia or anything any YouTuber comprehends. The YouTubers who criticize me are epistemic morons and this should be obvious to anyone who studies my work. No one on Earth will teach you epistemology deeper than I will. That is, if you are willing to learn and aren't too cool for school.

This is false. Watch the video. The evidence of fraud is every blatant. Not from her, but from her caretakers. People with her condition do not grow up to be great authors because it is virtually impossible. She did not have the physical ability to write the things she is credited for. She was the original example of using AI to write your books for you and then claiming you wrote it.