Leo Gura

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.

This is a good distinction.

I am not going to go into details since it is private. Best not to speculate or assume too much about it. If you are worried about whether I have trauma, I don't. All my personal history is resolved and irrelevant now.

It wasn't really like that. You have to be careful about you imagine. If you imagine something heinous then it doesn't make sense.

Jim Carrey probably had a glimpse of Awakening on a psychedelic, so he started talking about it, but I doubt he did serious work beyond that. He has a busy career afterall.

It wasn't a traumatic thing.

It's not so hard. You just need to min-max more. Pick better rewards. You need to select rewards that give you tons of armor and healing. You cannot beat the bosses if you invest too much in offense rather than defense. Defense is huge in this game. Selecting the right artifacts is also hugely important. And upgrading the right cards is huge.

He said it, he didn't do it.

Ugly is relative. Beauty is Absolute.

Look in the mirror

YOU! You decide everything. I shouldn't have to tell you you're ugly. You should notice it yourself. If I told you, you wouldn't believe me anyway

The conclusion is: Do you want to be ugly? If not, maybe change those parts of yourself.

A core part of being epistemically responsible is being responsible about handling your survival. If you have painted yourself into a corner survival-wise, then you have not been epistemically responsible. Being homeless is not just irresponsible, it is epistemically irresponsible too, because homeless people will not develop good epistemology.

I wouldn't say that. That's too extreme of a position. The bottom line is that you still have to survive somehow. You can work for an evil corporation and still be epistemically responsible on your own, inside your own mind. You just happen to be stuck in the meantime in an evil corporation. Eventually you will leave when you get the opportunity. But you can't be perfect immediately. It takes years of work to improve your situation. I wouldn't waste time being this perfectionistic.

Because psychedelics shatter all paradigms. Every mind is stuck in some paradigm.