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Psychedelics effectively serving as a brainwashing and belief construction tool.

I found some of his ideas valuable and interesting but that was years ago. I remember being quite inspired by him.

I agree. As far as I can tell, it is only descriptive of the individual at blue and below. You can peg red and blue individuals all day, but it gets blurry quick when you get into orange. Also, some people are literally born "systematizers". That's just how their minds work. And what, these people get shot up the spiral without doing any work? This is a big problem for SD, among many others.

At what point do you stop asking why and what and how? No matter the answers you find, you'll still just be there, perceiving and interpreting the answers, building meaning into them, trying to make them mean something that suits you.

Do you already have writing in your own formatting and you'll need a system for easily porting it over? It's actually funny, I'm solving markdown formatting to HTML as we speak. If you're starting from scratch, Obsidian actually isn't a bad idea because they have a "publish" tier, which basically let's you publish your entire vault online and it's all converted to HTML so each note is rendered as a proper HTML page. Probably the simplest. But if you already have a ton of writing you need help programmatically formatting, I could help with that. Just shout. And let me know if you want to discuss hosting options. I'm thinking Obsidian Publish would probably suit you very well, as it's a hosting and content management platform in one. The only prerequisite is knowing Markdown, which is simple.

I'd be very interested.

The only way to test a model is to use it. When someone uses the model to type Jesus or even fictional characters, they're mostly just engaging in an analytical hobby. It would be similar to trying to peg Jesus on the SD and ego stage models. If you claim Jesus was stage coral, I wouldn't call that ludicrous. I would know you were just plugging available data into a model and making a guess.

If you tried to figure out what personality type Jesus was, all you could do is analyze the available data. Of course you could never be certain of his type - you'd just be making a best guess based on available data. The way it works is community members vote on what they think the profile is, and whichever gets the most votes wins. Crowdsourcing improves accuracy.

I think the majority of awakened masters are INFJ, which has lead Ni, just like INTJ except they have Fe instead of Te. Lead Ni seems to be the main thing. Another way of looking at is is about 15-20% of the population are born as systematizers. Of those, a few will be highly metacognitive. When the systematizing tendency pairs with high metacognition, you get deeper access to the inner world. There are other factors but I think these are the main ones that set the stage.

Of course many identities built around intellectual superiority (Elon Musk) would find this threatening. Losing half the time to mere mortals isn't something the ego can sustain. Instead, just say you tried it, reached a very high level, but opted out because it was just too simple and basic for a true intellectual.

You delay the whole learning/advancement process if you constantly switch up your openings. The point of playing the same opening over and over is so that you can arrive at the middle game with a decent position. When you can finally do that you will be competing against other opponents who can do the same. This is where the game actually takes place and is where you learn about position and tactics. You have graduated to middle school. It's foundational. If you look at the players who stay stuck at 1000 for years, it's because they refuse to adhere to the basic principles. They never stick with a single opening and just move however they want to. My dad does this. Been stuck at 1000 for two decades. He can't pass 1000 because he continues to ignore the basic principles. He's been playing for so long, he could probably be at 1400 in a few months if only he'd submit and follow the rules of advancement. Side note: the nature of online chess is that you will lose roughly half your games by design, no matter how good you are. This applies to all chess players.

The tricky part is sticking with a process long enough for it to produce results. I'm no expert but if I decided I wanted to really get good at chess, I'd exhaust the ideas from this video. It's basically spaced repetition for tactical motifs. This isn't typical chess Youtube stuff. This is probably the highest quality chess learning video I ever came across.

Chess is not simple at all. It has simple rules and a simple structure, but that's not the same as a simple game. Go has even simpler rules than chess and it's one of the deepest games created. I understand how the structural contraints of the game can make it feel boring, but this is a preference thing and is distinct from the game's actual complexity. You and Elon could simply just say "I prefer more open domains of creativity without as much constraint". But for some reason, there's a need to call that which is complex, simple. And I totally get it - chess can get old because of its structure, but that doesn't make it simple. To watch Elon Musk call it simple - alongside him saying he never lost a chess game - reveals exactly why he needed to diminish the game in the first place by conflating its constraints with simplicity. He needed to manage the identity of being intellectually superior. Which is funny because chess skill has very little to do with general intelligence in the first place. The game only threatens your ego if you've decided it's a valid metric for your intelligence. Also, it might be the case that you haven't played enough to understand the amount of creativity on offer within those 64 squares and 32 pieces. Depth reveals itself the deeper you go. You can't see it from the surface. 200 games isn't enough to see it.

Reminds me of that time Elon Musk said chess was too simple for him. 😂 What would make someone say such a ridiculous thing? Identity management. Musk opts out of the game because he thinks it's a reflection of his intelligence, and since he realized he was getting beat by 13 year olds, well, he just couldn't have that. Which ironically says a lot about his intelligence. Leo, chess.com makes it just as easy to play real people rather than bots. Why not play real people instead of bots? Your rating would be more accurate and the gameplay would offer more variety. All you gotta do is click the other button.