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Strange response to a critique of overt sycophancy.

Whyyyy??? If someone posts to Elon Musk: "I thirst for the day you post again. For me this was the last Godly Gem. I'm at least 5 years behind reaching your level. I can't help but smell the divine exuberant fragrance of your unique work", would we all know that person was an unhinged sycophant?

Intelligence is emergent. If AI mapped out all known problem structures and all known solution patterns, then I can see how it would be able to solve novel problems if it were trained on those structures. And I think that’s actually what they’re working on behind the scenes. They’re not just training them on knowledge and data. They’re training them on problem and solution structures, which are finite. Can you imagine a machine that could instantly identify the problem and instantly know the path to the solution? That day I will come. And when it does, the AI would be more creative than the human, as it will understand the structure of creativity and it will know what is good, bad, useful, and useless creativity.

Stupid = the impulse to act, decide, and conclude in haste with ignorance or rejection of knowledge that would change one’s action, decision, or conclusion. It seems “willful premature closure” is the main thing. Most aren’t stupid because they can’t think. They’re stupid because they stop thinking when it becomes uncomfortable. To go deeper, it is fear of destabilization. They flee discomfort, not truth. Stupidity is usually not lack of intelligence but lack of courage to remain cognitively open under discomfort. Truth requires courage, and most people don’t know they’re afraid. They use rationalizations so well that the fear doesn’t even register. That’s the bitch of it, because fear can’t correct if it’s unconscious.

When you have a shit load of capital, brand awareness, connections with rich people, influence and attention in one domain, all that easily transfers over to almost any other domain without having ANY skill in the new domain. Just look at Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. They're making millions right now in various domains. Do you think these two idiots are also geniuses in business, crypto, and filmmaking? OR does it have something to do with the leverage they got from the family money and connections? If intelligence/skill is the primary factor in success, how do you explain the vast number of millionaire imbeciles like Marjorie Taylor Greene? Absolute dimwit - makes millions every year. I guess she's just got that magic. To grasp complex systems does point to intelligence, but Trump, MTG, and the like are not grasping systems. They're riding unearned leverage. Sure, they did something, but don't act like it's some astonishing feat when someone born into massive leverage has success in multiple domains. And historically, Trump's business record is littered with multiple bankruptcies, lying to banks about asset values, stiffing contractors, etc. He stayed afloat mostly because he had assets and access to credit, not because he was modeling systems like a genius. I'll give him credit for The Apprentice. He did relentlessly push his brand until it finally landed with some TV exec who now feels guilty about defrauding the public with the idea that he was a successful businessman. That show played a huge role in manufacturing the image of a great businessman, which did wonders for Trump in 2016. So yes, he did do something. But narcissistic persistence and attention capture isn't intelligence. 😂

SALT... SALT... Where's the SALT? That's what my dad says at every meal. lol. I don't get what all the hype is about, myself.

To me, wealth is being able to do what you want and buy what you want with money never coming up as a limitation, and never having to do things you don't want in exchange for money. 5 million USD earns about $15k/mo interest from treasury bonds alone. If someone can't relax with 15k/mo, I feel for them.

My goal was not to bash Trump to make me feel good. It was to get you to demystify what you think Trump's "power" is. You're treating outcomes as proof of competence when the structural elements did far more to put Trump in power than anything else. Trump is simply not a strategic mastermind in any sense or any domain, and it's an error to think that he is. There is far, far more to it than "Trump is a political mastermind". I pointed out several of the elements, but there are dozens more. Put them all together and you'll see that Trump is just a rich, lucky dimwit. Also, when I used the word "stupid", I meant it literally. If "stupid" means anything in English, like: shallow reasoning poor abstraction impulsivity inability to model second-order consequences reliance on instinct domination rather than understanding Then Trump is literally "stupid". It's easy to think Trump is stupid and politically brilliant, but it's not true. In general, stupid and "brilliance" doesn't typically mix, right? Can you provide any evidence that suggests it's mixing in this case, aside from "he made it to the top - it must be true"? Because the only skills I can identify are of a predatory nature, but predatory skill doesn't equal political genius. Those predatory skills didn't gain leverage through intelligence, but more so via institutional blind spots, the media landscape, incentives of the rich and powerful, and dozens more things like that.

Some guys get laid like crazy because girls think they're hot AF. It's normal to feel jealousy about this or wish you had it that easy. But it's also normal to call these dudes who abuse it pieces of shit. It's like they're billionaires with monopolies, except sex is the commodity. Most of us think billionaires without morals are pieces of shit. Same thing here. And just like with billionaires without morals, there will be a lot of people who look up to and admire them, seeing them as something to aspire to.

Yes, it's the sum total of everything you notice about them. What they're silent on and what they respond to. How much they need to talk. What topics they respond to and how they respond. You can easily gauge ego development by the things they talk about. A lot is revealed by the eyes. You can often tell if someone is open, defensive, or avoidant just by their eyes. How willing or easy can they shift perspectives. How inquisitive they are. How much does the conversation need to be about them or people vs ideas. How much they complain. Do they tend toward the positive or the negative? Do they like to laugh? When I find someone who I can tell is not shallow and they tend toward the positive and aren't interested in ego, that's a good sign I'll get along with them. I usually bond first over humor and when the depth spills out of me, I track their response to it and balance as needed. You can tell if they like it or not and what their tolerance is for it. That said, I've never found anyone who goes as deep as me IRL, but I have found people who like it, so long as I balance it well. I accept that I'm the oddball and I don't hold any grudges or negativity about it. If someone with some depth comes along, I love it, but if not, no big deal.

It's a consequence of development. I've only found a handful of kindreds in my life. I consider it lucky if you can find one or two. You just have to keep an eye out for your people. They aren't common but you'll often recognize each other almost immediately.

Trump is stupid. Trump is a trust fund baby who was born into so much money that the interest on it alone would pay for dozens of servants. Trump was lucky to win in 2016. He didn’t “architect” and execute a great victory. He was up against an opponent who most people were repulsed by. That’s why he won. After he won, a hundred million people felt cognitive dissonance for having voted for him after seeing who he was, so the right wing media apparatus and Russian troll farms went in full effect to relieve that dissonance and brainwash people. It worked better than anyone could have imagined. That brainwashing was the mechanism that allowed Trump to be himself in public - a bully - threatening people’s careers via tweet, inciting violence, etc. Further, he became the leader of the Republicans and ruled them with fear and threats. Like the cowards they are, they bowed down and transferred their power up to him. The sum of all that power was enormous. if you think all of this happened because Trump just knows how to finagle people politically, you’re the fool. He didn’t get this peace prize donated to him because he’s a political genius. It’s simple power dynamics, and any third rate dictator could achieve it if they had the position of POTUS, which Trump lucked into. Trump is simply the luckiest devil ever, that’s all this is. Narcissistic sociopaths simply don’t have the same moral constraints normal people do. You’re seeing the lack of those constraints as some kind of intelligence - something to behold and admire. Buts it’s actually just de-evolution.

American politics is cooked. Marjorie Taylor Green will get us out of this mess in 2028 when she defeats Gavin.

All internal suffering stems from mind content. Read my signature. You guys clearly have the energy available to figure out how and why you are bound. It’s just that you haven’t figured it out yet. If you t keep trying in earnest, you will eventually see the light at the end of tunnel. Seek and ye shall find. Remove all mind stuff that nurtures your suffering and it will dissipate. If you jumped out of an airplane or went scuba diving, would you suffer during those moments? No, because your mind would be busy with other things. I’m not suggesting suppression, just pointing out an important mechanism. There is right thinking and wrong thinking. Wrong thinking is to continually focus upon things which produce negative emotions such as shame, guilt, fear. Wrong thinking keeps you bound, right thinking frees you. After you map and understand your suffering, often the next thing to do is to forgive yourself and others. Then, focus on right thinking, because it doesn’t make sense to keep yourself bound. Forgive yourself and others so you can move on, then break the habit of wrong thinking.

The fact this this prick made it to my eyeballs is pathetic. Humans have to do better. lol