Leo Gura

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.

I am doing research for a new episode about how to avoid scammers, cheaters, exploiters, con-artists, etc. I would like to hear your stories about how you were conned or swindled in life. It could be financial, business, medical, relationship, etc. Could be something major or minor. Please keep your story concise. We don't need your entire life story. Also share what lesson you learned from this incident. And what is it about you that made you fall prey to this con?

Please find examples of fake spirituality. I am especially interested in New Age examples. But cult examples are also acceptable. This is spirituality that is very conformist, performative, fantastical, conceptual, ungrounded, word salad, grifty, magical, corrupt, occult. Cringe spiritual BS, basically. I want to see how bad it gets. How deep does self-deception and fantasy go? How deep does the New Age go?

The Museum of Narrative Art should have been a giant building shaped like Jar Jar Binks' head. Opportunity missed. "Meesa gonna teecha you about the nawative arts."

When you finally realize God, you will laugh at how stupid anyone is to deny it. Denying God is dumber than Flat Earth.

It is hardwired into your brain.

Memes celebrating psychedelics. Post 'em if you got 'em.

No serious government wants to support terrorists.

Ukraine is a viable state. Palestine is not. Ukraine is also doing a great job opposing Russia, so power-wise Ukraine is doing okay. Palestine is a terrorism and radical Islam issue. Ukraine is a classical war issue.

Russia-Ukraine are not comparable. Russia straight up invaded a nation and seeks to eat the whole territory if allowed. Even Israel is not so bold.

You guys are dealing with ideals and theories, not political reality.

They are the military arm of Palestine. Of course they are responsible. Again, the bear does not care about your morals.

Ukraine did not bum-rush their way into Russia, killing everyone on sight.

Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Yellow thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Yellow. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Yellow thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Yellow. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. Stage Yellow Values: Nuance & complexity Openmindedness Perspective Novel concepts & POVs Generating fresh insights Understanding Systems thinking Nonlinear dynamics Sustainability, long time frames Going meta Big picture vs technical analysis Holistic analysis Synthesis Connecting the dots Penetrating to the core of an issue Identifying & solving root problems A multi-disciplinary approach Mixing hard & soft sciences Creativity, outside-the-box solutions Ecology Responsible ways of being Studying models Spiral Dynamics Natural hierarchies Education, knowledge, research, reading Reading lots of diverse books Clean content, concentrated information Life-long learning Expertise, competence, experience Context, learning from history Developing skills to become an instrument for the greater whole Independent thinking Neutrality: Being objective/impartial Designing solutions for the entire Spiral Meeting people where they are at Building bridges Social engineering Ecological designs Reducing the suffering of living systems Pulling ideas from many sources Combining different ideas, models, theories Left-brained Vision & purpose, being a visionary Requisite variety, mental flexibility Self-actualization Paradox Uncertainty Responsibility, independence, autonomy Being a lone-wolf Stage Yellow Examples: Abraham Maslow, Eben Pagan, Fritjof Capra, Carl Sagan, quantum mechanics, fathers of quantum mechanics, David Bohm, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, Arthur Eddington, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Campbell, Erich Fromm, Clare Graves, Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics, Ilya Prigogine, chaos theory, cybernetics, biomimetics, NLP, Alfred Korzybski, the leading edge of academia, futurists, StarTrek humans & Vulcans, Prime Directive, sustainable living, ecology, eco cities, conflict resolution, Wikipedia, Buckminster Fuller

@Raze Hamas provoked the bear. You see the result in Gaza's ruins. You need to understand when you a dealing with a force way bigger than you. It is like you are fighting a tsunami.

In a war between Palestine and Israel, Israel will win. There is no question about that. Don't provoke the bear.

That is not a matter of rights, that's a matter of raw power. You can try to fight a grizzly bear, but you will lose that fight. The Israel-Palestine situation is not going to be resolved with moral grand-standing. It will be resolved through raw exercise of power. Which is exactly what you are seeing in the news.

Rationalists love to rationalize all their biases with evo psych.

Yes, however: 1) The entire Middle East lacks development, of their own making, independent of the West. You cannot blame most of their underdevleopment on the West. Their underdevelopment is home-grown and hitched to Islam's regressiveness and ideology. 2) Even so, you cannot expect today's Israeli politicians to sit back and allow vindictive Arabs to just slaughter them. That's not how politics works. You are expecting a level of selflessness from Israelis which they are incapable of. It is like you are expecting a grizzly bear to just sit back while you slap him across the face. For sure the grizzly bear will over-react. And you will scream, "But it's not fair! All I did was slap him." But the grizzly bear does not care about your ideas of fairness.

I have a realistic view of their development. It just so happens Palestinians are even less developed than that. There is much lower development than Blue/Orange.