Leo Gura

Self-deception is a great hobby.

@Judy2 For you:

Epistemology is about truth. And Truth is God. So the best measure of the quality of your epistemology is how well do you know God? Atheists do not have good epistemology.

Let all take a moment to cry for the tax evaders.

I made it myself, by hand, with fabric, sponge, and paint.

I use a combination of LED and fluorescent lighting. Aputure makes good LED lights. You want really high CRI or it will look bad. Fluorescent can look better than LED. It requires lots of experimentation to get it looking good. Also depends a lot on your camera's color settings. LEDs do not look good without large softboxes.

Of course. It is not different. Those are part of skepticism. Skepticism involves asking deep questions, especially of your own self. And questioning all your assumptions.

Infinite Botox.

I wouldn't call it skepticism as much as just careful thinking, self-reflection, and strategy. You need to carefully think through various strategies to win in life. Good thinking requires skepticism, but it is more than just skepticism, it is also constructive and visionary. Skepticism is important in that it keeps the mind grounded, otherwise it is easy to get lost in fantasies. Your strategies need to be realistic and grounded, not pie-in-the-sky.

@AION Einstein never realized God. By sitting down and questioning how you know anything. See my episode: https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-discover-whats-true - - - - - - Also, I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't read existing literature. You can and should read. But reading is not enough. You have to sit and think.

They ARE the investors! The investors are the heroin addicts. Who runs these companies? The guys with the largest percentage of the company stock options. Plus, they truly believe AGI is around the corner. They don't know any better. They buy their own sci-fi tech fantasies.

Yes, that is important and useful. However, you have to be careful not to get too philosophical about practical matters. You don't want to be so doubtful of yourself that you become indecisive or inactive. For example, in business, you want to be questioning and testing your assumptions, otherwise your business is likely to fail. But you need to balance this out with action. In practical matters, err on the side of action rather than inaction. Inaction can be more dangerous than wrong action. So be careful not to use skepticism as a tool to justify inaction.

Conformity. Hollywood is full of it. Everyone there is doing it and telling their friends to do it. After 10 friends tell you they did, you will think it's normal and cool. They are all obsessed with maintaining their good looks, since their career was made on it.

Corporations are being paid billions to invent the illusion that AI is AGI. So they will use every trick they can to fool us into believing they've achieved it when really they don't know how to. The incentives are so screwed at this point that nothing these AI companies say or do can be trusted. These AI companies are like heroin addicts looking for their next score, telling you, "Just trust me, bro!"

This is exactly wrong. Believing someone about what the right epistemology is, is different from doing the work yourself of deriving it. You will not have an epistemic foundation if you do not derive it yourself. It is like you asked AI to do your homework for you. But this means you have not mastered the subject. No one can tell you how to find the truth. You have to actually go through the process of finding it.

I don't buy this number at all. Sorry, nothing personal. I want to see your mind epistemically sound.

I swear, people are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Obviously simply believing me is wrong. However, in this work when you start thinking for yourself, you have a serious risk of derailing your train into a ditch. You have to be extremely careful thinking for yourself. People take the notion of "thinking for yourself" and then within a couple of years they are lost in delusion-land. Thinking for yourself is like disarming a nuclear bomb. You better know what the hell you're doing. I am here to help keep people on track. But then they think they have outsmarted me and stop listening. It's a deep problem with no easy answer, because obviously you can't just treat me as an ultimate authority. You have to be able to question me without turning stupid. It is possible to outsmart me, but if you think you've done it, I encourage you to think again. People who think they've outsmarted me usually end up making fools of themselves. Be careful relating to me too casually. I am very casual in my communications. But this creates an false sense that you will outsmart me. If I was a professor at Harvard you would relate to me with a lot more seriousness. But you are dealing with a greater intelligence than that here. Be careful underestimating it. I can't save you from yourself.

You are getting lost in conspiracy theories. That is exactly what this is. He got botox. This is precisely on-brand for Hollywood.

OF COURSE! That's the only thing that's ever going on.

No one is asking for that. However, there is an attitude that the most advanced things I teach have been understood and surpassed. This is self-deception and it turns into an arrogant attitude which is often displayed here. As above. Be very careful of the things you guys assume about me. You do not understand me nor the most advanced things I teach. Think for yourselves, but be careful not to hang yourself on that rope, as many before you have. Every year I see another smart-ass here who thinks he's outsmarted me and he inevitably turns out wrong. Be much more epistemically careful. That is all. You are confidently concluding things about my level of trauma, which is insane. You have no understanding of my mind at all. Have the intelligence to not-know at the very least, if you don't want to believe me. But to think that you can come in here and psychoanalyze me successfully is beyond delusional. You have no idea the intellect you are dealing with. You still think you can play human games with me and win. This is a big mistake. Think for yourselves, but don't be stupid. What I've noticed over the years is that people start thinking for themselves but then slowly over the years end up deluding themselves because they don't have a deep enough epistemic foundation to think properly. They start making all sorts of assumptions, projections, conclusions, etc. In short, they become impossible to teach because they've convinced themselves they've figured everything out. Which is a sick joke. And they commit the gravest error of all, which is trying to undermine what I teach.

Watch your projections.

Never underestimate an Aussie.

Really? You do live down-under

@Natasha Tori Maru Some are rubber, some are glue. Bounces off me and sticks to you

It means a difference in perspective. When you get multiple perspectives on an issue, you have parallax. The more perspectives you get, the greater the parallax.