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In cybersecurity there is something called worst-case complexity. In engineering it’s called FMEA/ stress testing. Bottom line is your system is only as good as its weakest point. So Leo’s point is not that everyone is a road raging maniac. It is that your idealistic solutions will not work because they do not handle such cases.

Exactly. Any picture or model you can have will always be limited because it can never capture the full complexity of reality. We deal with many levels of abstraction - for example, no matter how much you know of quantum physics and all the wave functions of the queen piece’s particles on a chess board, that will in no way help you play better. When you realise you don’t know anything is when the real epistemological work starts. You open yourself to many methods and approaches, carefully studying the strengths and limitations of each. In the physics and chess example, you can see how this plays out - the conclusion is not that physics is useless but that chess is not its domain of expertise. This level of epistemological openness is a Tier 2 feature of relativity and systems thinking. You first need to transcend religious, materialistic and new-age belief systems. Each of these is a subject on its own, which Leo has covered in his stage blue, orange and green videos on SD. I suggest you start there.

There are humans incapable of functioning in society. No matter how you try and incentivise a violent psychopath (atrophic limbic system), child predator or paranoid schizophrenic, if the underlying brain chemistry/architecture is not plastic, no carrot and stick can change it.

@Tristan12 Leo explained it far better than I could. Note that when he says epistemology (i.e your system of knowledge and method of establishing it) is not grounded, he doesn’t mean all models are made equal. What he means is that you should never halt the process of refinement because it is fundamentally uncomputable (phrased in language of Algorithmic Information theory).

@Nilsi Your analysis in this thread has been a worthwhile read. Epistemically grounded and brutally honest. Thank you for sharing. I think the bottom line is that survival of our species will depend on the emergence of semi-stable trajectories from Game A dynamics. You correctly point out that neither Putin nor Xi care about cooperative platitudes. Not even the US and it’s national security apparatus for that matter. Species will continue to die, genocides will continue to happen. However, this is not a call to nihilism. Those of us that find ourselves at the “flash points” do not have the luxury of despair. The silver lining is that when a complex system approaches a phase transition (as we do in both geopolitical and technological terms) even microscopic nudges can result in macroscopic cascades. As such, deep study of social, geopolitical and technological systems is not a waste, for targeted and strategic incisions can result in steering the system to desirable attractors.

Outside of the usual suspects, is there a particular substance that you have found the most useful for epistemic and ontological work? More deconstructing the dynamics of consciousness rather than nondualistic/ Love/ God aspects.

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187 “At one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said two people briefed on the request“ This is beyond worrisome.

@Husseinisdoingfine Most certainly it is possible. Started this work as a teenager in a fucked up household and country. I am currently in the US, finishing up an Ivy degree, having set up myself and my family. Only up from here. Stop feeling bad for yourself and bite the bullet.

@EdgeGod900 The “follow your bliss” people have large red and blue shadows. In life you have to do a lot of miserable shit that will make you stronger and more disciplined. Forget the hippe slogans for now and drill down on your strengths and weaknesses, so you can set yourself up. Then you can choose to bask in the sun and meditate without any distractions.

For being a waste of server space on this forum. I am yet to see a meaningful post from you.

I wouldn’t use “purple” as a language qualifier, but I definitely resonate with your motivation. I speak 4 languages and want to learn Tamil next - spoken by 65 million people - it is the oldest Dravidian language with 60% of ancient texts in India being written in it.

That’ll be you when he bans you, which will be soon enough.

You not even American. The fuck are you going to do?

You keep coming up with these low quality posts. You think anyone on this forum doesn’t realize what a lying and delusional person Trump is? Find something better to do with your time than scrolling through that brain rot on Tik Tok.

I am not doing the pills, just the foam (rogaine). You don’t have to take them for life, I plan on using it for a year more.

@Bobby_2021 You are the type to get eaten by the starved lion for thinking you can help. A communist dictatorship will break you. Kim Jong Un doesn't need your sympathy.

Assuming you are guy for this answer, sorry if wrong. The higher your T levels, the more you will crave it. When I was younger I tried the no fap BS and all that, but it is just unsustainable. Most ppl who demonize porn have some repressed sexuality to have to address (like I did). Nothing wrong with it. Different people have different kinks/cravings. As with everything, there are definitely both high and low quality sources. Don't overdo it and you will be fine.

There are definitely levels to it. There's fast food sex and there's some minblowing shit that will make you touch other dimensions - mnot even kidding. Finding a right partner is necessary for the latter.

Change the pictures. Not that deep.

Yah, that's normal. I am a powerlifter, squatting 405 lbs/180 kg for reps and I still find overhead squats hard. My problem is I have low mobility in my shoulder from all the benching, so I can't get proper form. Idk if it's similar for you, but my tip is to work on that mobility. Standing shoulder press helps for strength.

First learn a valuable skill and then find a way to maximally automate it. All the passive income bros are parasites imo.

Ditto. All the commie liberals need to go live in China or NK to understand what it really means. Tired of idealizations.

Been using minox for my beard for like 13 months. No changes in libido or dick function lol. You are fine, stick with it.

3 days ago (10/18) I wrote the following in my journal: Quote Start: The following fuzzy picture has emerged in my head - 'universality' - the phenomenon of macroscropic structure, independent of microscopic structure, is what sits at the root of the [[Chaos, Entropy, Order]] paradigm. The understanding that mathematical disorder is impossible is what has lead to the search for such underlying structures. I see these glimpses emerging in entirely disparate fields of mathematics, physics and statistics that nonetheless share bridges between each other. Some of those bridges are: - [[Statistical Mechanics]] - conformal field theories as the limit of many stochastic models (brownian, Ising, SLE) - use of string-theoretic language as well -[[S. Smirnov]], [[W. Werner]], [[H. Duminil-Copin]] - [[Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map III - the conformal structure is determined]] - KPZ universality and Tracy-Widom/ GOE/GUE - - [[An exact solution for the KPZ equation with flat initial conditions]] - [[The One-Dimensional KPZ Equation - an Exact Solution and its Universality]] - [[ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LENGTH OF THE LONGEST INCREASING SUBSEQUENCE OF RANDOM PERMUTATIONS]]] - KPZ regularity structures and TQFTs - [[Martin Hairer]] - RMT universality [[Eugene WIgner]]" - [[Representation Theory]] modular forms and algebraic groups (particularly proven for the monster group, but also known for other sporadic groups) - use of string-theoretic and CFT language as well - [[Richard Borcherds]] - Langlands progam - conjectured bijection between automorphic forms and Galois representations through the universality of zeta/ l-functions -[[Robert Langlands]] - [[Number theory]] - Riemann zeta hypothesis universality Quote end The following is today's Quanta article (10/21), describing Roger-Ramanujan identities, establishing a very deep relationship between partitions. You will see the applications matching word for word the fields that I intuitively connected in my notes. This was the missing link. At moments like these the only way I can describe it is that the Universe is talking to me.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/10/17/hopes-for-religious-harmony-come-to-life-in-the-muslim-vatican