Leo Gura

@abc123 I don't have a good answer. I teach advanced things for advanced people. I don't really know how to drink beer with your local Joe and talk about football. The ideas I teach would offend the hell out of most normal people.

Trump def qualifies because of how much bullshit he spreads. He dumps horseshit into the epistemic pool by the truckload.

Well, but I see no preemptive solution, so there's no way out. That's not just not the case. That's not happening.

There is a factor to intelligence which is general, across-the-board. That determines a baseline. But then there are individual types of intelligence over-top of that. So people can be quite dumb or rusty in some domains. For example, I've always struggled with math intelligence. Math was always an uphill struggle for me because the way my mind works is not wired for it. My verbal intelligence is way higher and comes to me effortlessly. Intelligence determines what comes easily or naturally to you and what doesn't. But also don't forget that you can develop higher intelligence by training, education, cognitive development, consciousness work, emotional work. Rationality, for example, isn't automatic, it must be developed. If you fail to develop rationality you will be pretty dumb even if you have high general intelligence. 1-4% of the population has aphantasia, which means that cannot visualize, they do not see images in their mind. It's not a lack of intelligence, it's a kind of neuro-divergence. Maybe you have that, I don't know.

@Vynce That's why sages and saints have always been rare. Oh well, it's good to be a unicorn among horses.

Yeah, that's the whole game. It's deeply frustrating and sad that people get stuck like that in their own narrowness of mind.

CEO: Chief Epistemic Ontologist!

I like that one

Jeez

@Natasha Tori Maru He only got schizo symptoms from weed?? How much weed did he do? At what age?

I've never heard fat described as "profound" before. You have a way with words, madam.

@Natasha Tori Maru Thanks for sharing. That's a nice illustration of it. Disturbing indeed. Weird how it's mostly auditory. Did meds help him?

I literally said the opposite of how you quoted me. Jesus. I explicitly avoided the mistake of conflating meaningfulness with constancy.

Trump's weakness is that at the end of the day I think he really wants to be loved. Putin has no such weakness. This is really the only thing that might save America. LOVE wins after all

Actualized.org is the epistemic Oregon Trail. Pray you don't get dysentery or we leave you out for the wolves.

Don't forget that Trump is pretty cowardly under the facade. I don't think he has the balls to do the kind of stuff like a proper dictator would do, like a Putin.

Time for Tier 2 to embed with the Taliban. It will make for great sitcom. The odd couple. I wanna see Daniel Schmachtenberger discussing Game B with an Afghan warlord. "Let's double-click on that..."

You have some weird definitions of feeling. I would never say any feeling is constant. Feelings come and go. Not to say that constancy is required for them to be meaningful.

Problem is, Trump lacks self-control. He's like a bipolar boyfriend who beats you one day and then love-bombs you the next day. And you never know which it will be today. Sick MAGA people may actually enjoy that roller-coaster.

i.e., steroids

Joe Rogan will be blowing up my phone.

This should be Trump's official portrait, to replace the awful baby-face one. Just imagine

Tier 2 must look like this:

I think to qualify as an epistemic scoundrel one has to deal in some way in creating knowledge-like content. An epistemic scoundrel is one who pisses in the epistemic ecosystem more so that just lies to cover up a crime. So Elon Musk is an epistemic scoundrel because he pollutes the information ecology through Twitter on a large scale, spreading misinformation and right-wing propaganda. FoxNews is the shining beacon of epistemic scoundrelry. This is an important clarification. I'm glad we sorted it out. Epistemic scoundrels create careers out of poisoning the information ecology! -- that's the proper definition. They profiteer off of poisoning minds. It's a special category of evil. Ho-ho! Epistemic evil! What a concept! This just hit me! I just invented Epistemic Evil

We could use that logic to rationalize a Marxist revolution: Behead the rich! Out of chaos will come order! Clever bit of Epistemic Scoundrelry