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I logged in for the first time in a while and this seems to be next level of brainrot. It's literally became the sewage of Social Media.

Solaris and Possession are two spectacular Soviet movies I recommend everyone watch. Tarkovsky is considered one of the Goats. Zulawski also deserves recognition. This is cinema at its best - deeply philosophical, without the glitz and glam of Western hyper-consumerism.

+1 These are phenomenal topics. I have come to appreciate more and more the fundamental significance of "Chaos"/ undefinability and uncomputability. So much so that I want to pursue a PhD to better understand it.

@Leo Gura That makes sense, thank you for elaborating. I would love to hear your feedback on the following: I have definitely come to appreciate more the ontological significance of relativity in the sense that for some people it is literally true that those things do not exist. I know you have referenced it before when speaking of a "Christian reality" vs. different "histories" or when referring to genetic aptitudes. This is also the trickiest piece of the "scientific" puzzle. Currently my understanding is that the monadic ontology "peers through" no matter what relative perspective you take, signified by the general transition towards more unified and "universal"/ "interconnected theories" that are nonetheless perspective-dependent (model universes in math, different constant values in physics). What is hardest in pinpointing is the meta-interactions, since the unity of it all makes it paradoxically "undefinable" from within the system itself, which makes you have to chase your tail ad infinitum up the ladder of abstraction, i.e. there is no "ultimate end"/ToE in science or mathematics. Possibly somewhere along it you get constructive control of genetic or vacuum configurations (neither are theoretically inconsistent).

Can you elaborate? I know you were open to the existence/evidence of siddhis and had semi-paranormal experiences on psychedelics like telepathy, omniscience and electricity out of your fingers. But there was also the fact that nothing worked when you were experimenting for your health. Are you stating that the structure of your consciousness is in some way incompatible with the more fluid psychic types or have you transcended the meaning of such occurrences as a whole?

In parliamentary governments, PMs do not have term limits.

@Oppositionless One concept even more awe-inspiring than fine-tuning is universality. In mathematics (of which physics is a strict subset), there are ideas and concepts that appear to be connecting every field. We are only seeing tiny glimpses of it, but even those are enough to make you question everything. Most of it is pretty abstract stuff like the Langlands program, but there are some stuff that is more accessible and has pretty awesome videos about it. Look into the "monstrous moonshine", busy beaver proving conjectures like the Riemann hypothesis, statistical physics universality and many more. Ramanujan is one person who almost certainly had a spiritual access to the underlying source code. The Rogers-Ramanujan identities appear in different form in all of the latter examples. He is an example and inspiration I keep coming back to remind myself that the ontology of modern "science", i.e rationalism, formalism, logicism or instrumentalism is simply false.

Nope, this is universal. Degenerates in the Balkans or Mexico are even worse.

Pretty much. Observe that this goes beyond a post-modernist stance that everything is relative. Clearly models, such as flat earth or a universe made in 7 days are not on the same level of QFT and GR.

Harvard is a good example. 45% of admitted students are legacy (parents went to Harvard), donation-based or varsity (to sports I hadn’t heard of that are also ridiculously expensive). The elite will do everything in their power to keep the system working for them. From time to time there are disruptors who can break through.

Very. I often screenshot blog and forum posts. You should add also your less spiritual sound bites from the forum like the “progressives should watch 50h of road rage” one.

Not AGI, but definitely a first glimpse. Still far from usable - to run all those Chain of Thoughts on high compute, it cost 1.2 million for all 400 puzzles - something that would have taken you an hour and two cookies worth if energy.

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?