Leo Gura

By thinking about them from first principles, and my intuitive fitting together a lot of diverse facts. Intuition plays a big role. But also insight is happening as I contemplate stuff and piece facts together. Yes. I am working on a deep episode about understanding.

I updated the audios for iTunes, Spotify, and MP3 downloads. Everything is up to date now. Sorry for the slowness on that. I will try to keep it more up to date going forward.

I regard neuro-divergent as conditions like ADHD, Autism, Aspergers, bipolar, etc. That's usually what that word means.

I don't consider myself neuro-diverse so I am not in a position to spread that message. However, I do teach that minds are very different and that genetics is very important.

I don't know what it is you want me to do or change.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

You don't need to be neuro-divergent to be into niche things. Truth-seeking is niche, like yo-yoing.

You are obsessed with this neuro-divergence thing. Yes, Awakening discriminates against endless mental masturbation and conceptualizing.

You are free to chase your tail till you die. Doesn't bother God.

It is an honest signal. And also, it is the fruit. The process is not just for its own sake. The process has a purpose, which is God. The point is not to do endless philosophy, the point is to transcend all that and be with God. It is a ladder you climb to reach the roof. You are not climbing ladders just to climb ladders for the rest of your life.

You can't transcend Truth.

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!"