Leo Gura

I have serious work to do. I cannot babysit thousands of people to ensure they all do their homework. Most won't do it anyways. I am developing serious courses and books that will guide people through the entire epistemic process. But that takes a lot of time and work to create. On the blog I make statements and claims. A blog cannot be a course in epistemology. The blog is me throwing out insights that will be more fully explained in courses and books. If Albert Einstein had a blog, it would not teach you how to do basic physics. For that you enroll in a university course. And Albert Einstein would not be prodding you to do your homework.

In practice many people flunk out of university.

@UnbornTao I expect you to contemplate and to do philosophy. I teach advanced things and I'm not going to keep repeating myself. I expect everyone here to be intelligent enough to know they need to do philosophical work. If you are not doing the philosophical work then that's on you. And I should be chastising you for that, not you me. You are like a child crying about other kids who don't do their homework. I am not going to force anyone here to do homework. If you don't do the homework, tough luck. This is like a university. Nobody in university holds your hand and forces you do homework. In university, if you don't force yourself to do homework you will just flunk out. That's how advanced intellectual work goes. Everyone is free to flunk out of Actualized.org.

Let's get a thread going that showcases the deep intelligence of survival in nature. This helps people see the intelligence and sneakiness of survival in the human realm. Try to post examples not merely of survival, but the intelligent, deceptive, and sneaky nature of survival.

What it?

Discuss: This guy says there's a UFO housed in Las Vegas!!

I'm not sure. It's a deep issue. Requires lots of careful contemplation.

It's hard to adapt to chronic health problems. Or to be happy. When your health fails you will see how much happiness requires health. Intelligence cannot save you from losing your health.

I reject the notion that space needs to be bent at all. That is still a limit. Just leap to wherever in space you want to be! Does your PlayStation need to bend space in order to teleport you from one corner of Skyrim to the next? Do you really believe your PlayStation is more powerful than Reality? Haha!

How is that conformity?? True shit is inherently funny. If you lived alone on a tropical island, you would still find true things funny. God does not need others to laugh at Itself. The funny comes for free.

Aliens saw us in the bathroom and made a vow to never contact us again. Aliens came to Earth and did the Homer Simpson backs away into the bushes meme.

That's a classic.

More like, with AI the science bros are like: "Look! This PC can talk so AGI is here!"

Actually it does. That means light speed limit is bullshit. There should be a way to hop between space using advanced consciousness. The idea that aliens are limited to light speed is so myopic. These are limits of the human mind, not Reality at large.

I watch a lot of non-fiction content on YouTube. I liked Gravity.

This crazy bird: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZKtur2AAQL

Meh. Not great but okay. Ironically, I was okay with The Martian. Not great but decent. Far better than Riddely Scott's trash Alien sequels.

It's a perfect little sci-fi film.

I have not been to a movie theater since 2015's The Martian, starring Matt Damon

I kinda like Tom Hanks. He's got more charm than Matt Damon. Tom Hanks was great in Finch. Of course, neither one should be playing Odysseus. Nolan's casting was so bad. What was he thinking?

In the future AI Qaeda will just be a bunch of angry computer nerds sitting in a dark basement.

Space is a hallucination.

That actually means it requires more intelligence to do good spirituality than good mathematics or physics. The fact that no one can peer-review your work makes the work all the more self-deceptive and challenging. It doesn't take much epistemic skill to follow the rules of math like a machine. It takes extraordinary intelligence to do spirituality and not make any mistakes because no system exists to save you. Spirituality is like threading a needle. Science is like driving down a highway. It is not hard to sell snake oil as a scientist. String theorists have been doing it for 50 years

Yup. Good one. It was a bit too weird to be a blockbuster. Same for Annihilation. He is so meh. Most overrated actor of our time after Pedro Pascal.