Leo Gura

That is not my take. But most horror is pretty trashy, and wading through to find the good ones is already going to fill your mind with junk. Those images of horror will tend to stick in your mind. This does not mean that excellent horror films don't exist. But as a whole, I'm not a fan of that category. And I'm not saying you are wrong if you enjoy horror films. I like A Quiet Place, for example. Not sure if you consider that horror.

Yes. Yes it is.

Cult discussion is over. If you think Actualized.org is cult. Leave. Save yourself while you still can.

Just a reminder, anyone who calls Actualized.org a cult on here will be instantly banned. Take your idiocy elsewhere.

I am serious. I will ban everyone on this forum who is incapable of learning. I am not kidding. Tread carefully. I am not going to argue with you about core things endlessly.

You take me for an idiot. It it amazing you still do that after everything I taught.

Of course I know that. That doesn't mean you won't get lost in local details at the loss of the big picture. I don't deny that local details affect the big picture, just that people are using the local details to get the wrong picture. There is no generic solution to this problem. It's all depends on case-by-case. That's way too oversimplified. I have not said otherwise. You are looking for things to argue with me over now.

@Joshe The problem I have with the arguement you guys are making here on AI is that you are trying to win the argument on narrow technical ground: "Leo hasn't used LLMs to code, so he doesn't see how useful it is." But this muddles a larger point. The larger point is that even that AI will underperform in the long-run when all factors are taken into account. I concede the point that I have not coded with AI. I am looking at the big picture.

Sure, that is called relativity. But the difference is that I created this platform and teachings. I am responaible for leading this place. I have to make decisions about who is suitable to be here and who is not. If he wants to teach his own thing, I am happy for him to do so in a space of his own making. But I am not going to be here every day listening to him.

@Ero I understand science deeper than any scientist. No scientist has ever explained science as deeply as me. Scientists cannot even imagine what I understand about how science works. But, I do not know the technical minutia of anything. I do not even care. As far as AI, of course I am not an AI expert. I am talking about AI as a social hype phenomenon. I am talking about the sociological and investing aspects of AI. I know you guys have not invented AGI. I do not have the gift of yap, I have the gift of understanding. Also, keep in mind that the stuff I share on my blog about AI is a tiny fraction of what I have studied. I don't share everything with you.

I am not kidding at all. If I see that someone is too closedminded to learn from me, I will stop letting them have access to me. My time is valuable and I will not waste it debating with closedminded. If I was not on this forum, I would not care. But since I am here, there must be limits. Any other teacher would do the same. No serious teacher will endlessly argue with closedmindedness. If you cannot learn what is being taught, the class is too advanced for you.

But what does this say about AGI and the bubble? Does your direct experience explain whether the bubble will pop?

@Ero You found a couple of things that you can ridicule me on and blown them out of all proportion. The net result of that will be that you deprive yourself of deeper understanding and teachings. I have never said that you can't use mysticism to deepen science. Of course you can. That's what I teach. My criticisms of science have been very sharp, so I can see how you take that as caricature. However, every point I make about science is still valid. That can make it seem like I am anti-science but I'm really not. I just never talk about the valid parts of science. I am also not anti-AI. I am anti AI hype and mechanical madness. How you do know what homework I have done? Just because my view differs from yours on AI does not mean I haven't done homework. Your views of me are very much of your own making. "Weasles, bigots, and rats" -- you lack a sense of humor about this.

But it's not stupid. This is a common issue that many people will have with learning this material. So I am happy to address it. There are good lessons all around here. It's not argument, it's ultimately about proper understanding.

You. Because you expect unreasonable things of me. You expect me to not get things wrong just because I teach epistemology. That is not what was ever promised you. There is no mismatch at all. I have never been above mistakes or self-deception. That's exactly the attitude I was talking about. You really think I don't have more profound things to teach? Then you really are kidding yourself. Your mind is already closed to learning. All I want from you is guys is open minds, and you struggle to do it.

Not comparable to anti-vax. AI is over-hyped, over-invested, and the science on it sucks. I have done plenty of research on AI. I know its fundamental limitations despite all the hype. I ban people who are too closedminded to learn.

If you think that epistemology means you will get everything right, you are kdding yourself. That is not what epistemology ever meant. In the future I will teach such radical and advanced things that I will lose plenty of you. Because most of you are not openminded enough. But I will still teach it. I already know many of you are too closedminded to reach Alien Consciousness. I warned you guys before that you have not learned everything I have to teach. But it is easy to convince yourself that you have. No one will teach what I teach. So be careful. It will be your loss.

It isn't horrible. That is the ego's opinion.

In other news, the price of gold is relatively good right now. Gold looks like a great investment opp right now. Now is an ideal time to cash out tech stock and crypto into gold. If you wait too long it might get too late. Don't get distracted by all the AI debate. The market is historically overpriced and AGI is not coming soon.

Dude, I posted in this thread several times that I am open to hearing counter-arguments. Don't try to portray me as some kind of bigot. I could be wrong about AI. I am just thinking out loud here. Epistemology does not guarantee you will have the correct view on every topic. I can be wrong about stuff. My arguments are not comparable to anti-vax arguments at all. It is too hard to be right about every damn thing.

I don't think some of you guys understand how bipolar works. Bipolar means you are normal most of the time, but have occassional manic peaks and depressive lows. Occassional is the keyword there. Bipolar does not mean you are always batshit manic. A bipolar person seems normal most of the time. You can't tell someone is bipolar from one interview. I could be bipolar and you guys would not know it.

You expect me to trust science on AI? What kind of fool do you take me for?

Are you serious? Look at all these billionaires, they're rats in wheels.

I don't use AI for text.

They have actually conducted tests on this, and they found AI reduces programmer efficiency by something around 20%. But I'm sure you can debate this and find contrary data. The problem is you can't trust any of the authorities on this topic. Everyone is getting paid off to hype AI, and the scientists do bad science so you can't trust their AI studies.