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It seems like it would be political suicide, but so did trying to coup the government. The fact of the matter is, the citizens are too caught up in their own lives to care about a nazi salute or a government coup or a convicted felon with a several decades long history of con artistry . Half of them probably don’t even know what a Nazi salute or a Nazi is. The majority don’t care but the vocal minority opposition does, which is who the salute was intended for.

Right, the Nazi salute isn’t surprising to me, it’s just clear evidence for those still pondering. Lol

Doesn’t matter if he’s a nazi or not. He did a nazi salute during the presidential inauguration and it was applauded and then hand waved away by nearly all in attendance. Doesn’t matter how immature or dumb he is. This is a testament to the lack of intelligence, integrity, and common decency of this new administration and its lieutenants. He did the Nazi salute because he’s emulating Trump’s playbook. Do some wild shit to get press and polarize people on your behalf. Make people defend you so they entrench themselves in your corner, which effectively creates a cult-like following. He will do more and more things like this, and it’s not because he’s simply against the woke mind virus. He’s using that as cover for gaining a following. People think he’s more ideological than what he is. He wants material gain and power. He doesn’t give two fucks about a woke mind virus. He would embrace the woke mind virus if it gave him power and material gain. It’s just his tool. This is obvious now. He doesn’t care about his trans son or humanity. He’s not heart broken about anything. Ta da! Now you know Musk.

I thought about it. I'd be down for it but I don't like dealing with clients. It can be a pain in the ass. If someone was willing to do all the sales and client/account management, I could get on board with it. Also, maybe a better idea is to come up with complete business solutions for tiny businesses. For example, there are tons of successful one-man and even 3-5 man HVAC businesses that are stuck and don't know how to scale. You could offer them a complete brand, digital, and business strategy package for like 40-50k a pop and have all the systems basically plug and play. It would take a bit of set up in the beginning but once all the systems were dialed in, it would mostly just be a matter of sales. I've heard of people doing things like this and it seems like a sweet ass gig.

If you know HTML, CSS, and basic JS, you should be able to use Claude and ChatGPT to build it. If you don't know those, you're probably a good ways out before you could produce a solid web app. And if you decide to get into modern frontend tools like React, Tailwind, etc, you'll have an even steeper climb. If you're a newbie, the problem is, you don't know what you don't know. It's very easy to build something that works but it's hard to build something that works well at scale, because to do that, you have to build things right, and there are dozens of ways you could build this app. Your entire tech stack would need to be well mapped out and understood. Such an app would need complicated state management solutions, so most would tell you to use React. I don't like React because it seems overly complicated, so I decided to build my own solutions for rendering elements in the DOM and managing their state. I plan on eventually building commercial apps myself, but first, I'm setting up a "systems builder" desktop app (screenshot below) that lays out my entire architecture with documentation and easy copy/paste for all my code. I'm creating all the building blocks I would ever need, that way, when I'm building my apps, I'll have everything ready to go. I'm using custom web components, which is where you build out your own custom elements and program them to behave however you want. Say you want to have a file drop element where people can upload a profile picture. Well, you could build it out normally with HTML, CSS, and JS, but it's not very efficient for reusing it, so you can put it all in a custom component and make it work however you want. I've designed my file drop component to work like this: Now, anytime I want a file drop element, that's all I have to do. The idea is to build things so they can be used with as little friction as possible. That little bit of HTML sets up the functionality you see above, which is actually somewhat complex behind the scenes. And, to make sure I never forget about it, I'm setting up documentation for each component, which provides a demo and code for easy copy and paste. Once this system is set up, I'll be able to scaffold out apps very efficiently. It's taken me a while to figure out the best way to set this all up because I kept realizing I was handling things suboptimally, so I had to go back to drawing board and start from scratch many times. I didn't know what I didn't know. I'm finally at a point where I feel good about the architecture and everything but it took a lot of time. So if you have the money and don't care much about this tech or acquiring the skills, it's probably better to just pay someone, otherwise, there is a good bit to learn and the only way is to get your hands dirty and keep them dirty for a couple years.

You misunderstand what current AI is. LLM stands for large language model. The whole point of it is to predict it’s next output based on a given input. They trained it on language and had it make millions of guesses and the programmers told it if the guesses were accurate. Over time, it’s predictions got better and better until eventually, it could learn unsupervised. Im not the best to communicate it but AI is not programmed the way a calculator is. That would be simple. If you think an AI is the same as a calculator but just scaled up for every possible question, then you will be shocked when you learn what it actually is. They don’t even know how it does what it does. They can’t trace all its processing. They call that “the black box”. It literally is like a giant mind. It wasn’t trained to produce a specific output, it figures it out on the fly, guided by parameters of course. For example, they have it behave friendly. They did program that in. Look up neural nets, machine learning, and natural language processing, or better yet, just ask AI to explain the mechanics of itself. # Mechanics of AI Large Language Models (LLMs) ## Architecture - Based on Transformer architecture introduced in 2017 (Vaswani et al.). - Key components: - Encoder-Decoder structure (e.g., BERT). - Most LLMs like GPT use only the decoder. - Utilizes self-attention mechanisms to process context. ## Tokenization - Text is broken down into tokens (words, subwords, or characters). - Each token is mapped to a numerical vector using embeddings. ## Training - Trained on massive datasets containing text from books, websites, and other sources. - Objective: - Predict the next token in a sequence (causal modeling). - Fill in blanks (masked modeling, e.g., BERT). - Loss function: Measures the difference between predicted and actual tokens during training. ## Context Window - LLMs have a fixed "context window" that limits how much text they can process at once. - Larger context windows allow processing of longer texts but increase computational cost. ## Attention Mechanism - Self-attention allows the model to focus on relevant parts of the input sequence. - Calculates relationships between tokens to understand context and semantics. ## Layers and Parameters - Consist of stacked transformer layers, each containing: - Attention heads. - Feed-forward networks. - The number of parameters (weights) determines model size and capability (e.g., GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters). ## Pretraining - Models are trained on general tasks using unsupervised learning. - Enables them to learn patterns, grammar, facts, and reasoning. ## Fine-tuning - Optionally adapted to specific tasks (e.g., sentiment analysis, code generation). - Done using supervised learning on domain-specific data. ## Inference - At runtime: - Given an input prompt, the model predicts and generates the next token iteratively. - Continues until it forms a complete response. ## Scaling - Larger models tend to perform better but require significant computational resources. - Scaling laws predict improvements with: - More data. - Larger models. - Longer training times. ## Limitations - Prone to generating plausible but incorrect or nonsensical answers (hallucinations). - Lack common sense and grounding in real-world truth unless externally validated. - Memory is limited to the input/output within the context window; lacks long-term memory. ## Applications - Can perform tasks like: - Text generation. - Summarization. - Translation. - Coding. - Question answering. - Used in industries such as education, customer service, and research.

I’ll have to think on that. It’s an interesting idea.

Haha. Intuition does have a mysterious quality to it though. Even with the same level of cognitive development and training, two people can progress at different rates in a skill if one has more developed pattern recognition. I think this might relate to higher consciousness or a heightened perception, though I’m not entirely sure. Additionally, an almost compulsive drive to deeply understand the subject plays a big role. When someone possesses heightened perception AND a strong, obsessive need to understand a thing, that’s when it becomes a gift. You have it with epistemology because that’s your focus, Magnus has it with chess because it’s his, and I have it with reading people because it’s where I’ve focused. It’s very interesting.

No. When you see patterns in chess a thousand times, eventually, they reveal themselves without analysis or trying to see them. That recognition of the patterns is the result of unconscious processing, not analysis. Go watch how the worlds best players mind’s work and how fast they operate. There’s no way they could analyze that fast. They rely on previously acquired patterns much more than analysis. That’s why Magnus Carlson can play 25 other players who take 10 minutes per move and Magnus only needs 3-5 seconds. He’s not analyzing orders of magnitude faster. His pattern recognition is orders of magnitude better as a result of previous analysis and high intuition, not analysis in the moment.

I get the sense he’s not interested in self-development. He parted ways with Sam after Sam jokingly showed him how wrong he was. He’s not the type to want to be corrected. He’d hate you for it. Lol.

Sam's leaked text exchange with Musk exposed a stance on COVID-19 so absurd that it would have been collectively outwitted by the consensus view held among the bottom 10% of intellects. Lol.

The tricky part is, we're always getting hunches and making assumptions about reality and we're always guessing what is and what might be. If we make a thousand guesses, many of them will be right. This applies to all people. But how many of the hunches/guesses/assumptions are incorrect? The track record of being correct is, IMO, the best way to assess development of intuition. AFAIK, a high intuitive faculty does not just randomly fall onto people. I think specific personality traits or thought patterns are required for it to develop, like curiosity, a tendency to observe, contemplate deeply, and analyze. Also, my theory is these are not enough. There must be some sort of spiritual/perceptual endowment, which I'm not sure how to explain. I think we all have intuition and surely have witnessed having an insane hunch that turned out to be correct, and it is in these kinds of instances that many would claim endowment of high intuitive faculties, but they forget about all their inaccuracies.

No. Lol. Does an amethyst count?

Hi Trenton. Im sorry you went through all that. What made you decide to start talking about it? What you’ve gone through is why I think it should be avoided, because it’s too toxic for the psyche to handle. I agree that the number is much larger than we know and almost all will take it to their graves, which says a ton about you having the courage to face it. It’s so painful to allow that truth into existence that I suspect it’s a common cause of low consciousness. Self-reflection of any kind might be avoided because sooner or later, it could lead to reflecting on that unbearable truth, so stay unconscious so that never happens. That’s just a theory I have. The brother in my story is a close family member. He recently told me the story when he was drunk, and I realized he’d been suppressing the truth since it happened. He only opened up because the booze. He started to spiral in guilt and shame and I had to steer his attention away from it out of fear of what acknowledging it any deeper could do to him. I made no judgement and told him we all make mistakes as children. He said “Josh, I know but that was a big mistake”. This was very uncharacteristic of him to admit a mistake. I just said something like “ you can’t blame yourself for things you did when you were a kid”, and soon changed topics. I usually want people to acknowledge truths, but not this time. That’s how dangerous it is. I think your book is a great idea. Your courage is commendable and surely exactly what many need. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope whatever trauma you still carry begins to lift.

As someone who is highly intuitive, I understand intuition as unconscious pattern recognition of previously discovered knowledge or insights. Then, there is automatic perception of the result from the unconscious processes, which is called intuition. Since intuition is built by observation, knowledge, and insight, it’s certainly fallible. When the unconscious patterns being recognized are valid and the stored knowledge accurate, intuition is like magic, but if the pattern recognition is faulty or the stored knowledge incorrect, intuition leads astray. You can’t just spiritual your way to intuition. It forms only from deep observation. At least, that’s what I’ve discovered about how mine works.

@Leo Gura I view David Hawkins' politics like I view your pickup artistry and psychedelic escapism—slight imperfections that don't have much bearing on integrity, but maybe that's just a sneaky rationalization.

I can't speak for "most" but if Elon were a highly developed, integrous human, I'd be glad he has the power he has. I'd like for the world's richest and most powerful people to be integrous... so it actually is about ethics/virtue and not about being jealous. Many others feel the same way, so I'm not sure "most" want to see Elon fail because they're jealous. Seems that would be mostly applicable if you were already seeking power in the upper echelons.

Haha, I highly doubt Hawkins would be for MAGA. Politics was different in his time. He had a conservative bent but he wouldn’t call overt devilry good. He was too integrous for that. Also, Hawkins references a lot of news sources to prove some of his points. If he referenced Ben Shapiro, that is funny, but it doesn’t make him a fan.

@Butters the reason why any of us focus on anything we do is because we have told ourselves it’s important to focus on it. Some may find it important to focus on peace at the exclusion of chaos and some may choose to focus on the chaos rather than peace. Each person gets something from it, otherwise, they wouldn’t focus where they do. What drives people to do either is a matter of condition and circumstance, none of which they chose. Why do magnets attract or why is ice slippery? Because they do and because it just is. Leo is not the evolved being you seem to think he is. He’s just another human doing what all of us humans do…that which we do not choose. Our conscious attention and values are shaped by our own narrative-making…narratives we often create unconsciously…which is why it’s hard to answer the question: Why do you care about the things you care about? Why does one harp on Trump? Being someone who has done the same, it’s not easy to answer that question. I tell myself I do it because it’s important that humanity not blunder or that I care about humanity, but I suspect there’s much more to it than that.

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It's not inherently wrong but it's wrong in the sense that it's not the proper way to live a healthy life as a solid member of society. If a brother and sister decide to leave society and spend their days in the woods, then what's wrong with that? lol. I mean, it's not for me, I think it's sick and weird, but if people want to do it, why not? But if they want to function in a society, it's a no-go. I recently had an insight that many incestuous relations start at a young age when the child becomes curious about sex. I saw that it was much more common than I had previously thought. More often than not, it gets repressed, but the longer the relations go on, the harder it is to repress/suppress. I recently heard about a teenage brother(16) and sister(15) having sex some decades ago. The story goes like: both kids were very attractive and curious about sex. They were attracted to each other but knew it was wrong. The sister enticed the brother and when the brother started penetrating her, she told him to stop but only out of guilt/shame. She intentionally brought about the conditions for the encounter to occur and invited him into her room when he was naked. Years later, she says her brother raped her. What better way to avoid the shame of wanting to sleep with your brother than to say it was against your will. Anyway, my point is I think it's more common than most realize but it's not psychologically healthy to engage in and if for nothing else, should be avoided based on that reasoning alone, regardless any feelings of disgust. Plenty of fish in the sea... don't fuck yourself by succumbing to the lust for your family members. 😂

It could work if he plays his cards right. Trump’s managed to keep his con running on the world stage for about a decade now. But if I had to guess, Elon won’t be as effective at it as Trump. A lot of the followers have underdeveloped egos, and those egos tend to have a secret hatred for anyone who reminds them of their own inferiority. That’s why I think Elon’s house of cards could come down much faster than Trump’s. Plus, he’s not even really American. MAGA don't like that. That said, even though Elon is basically a disposable tool for MAGA, he’s still a major figure for the right-wing establishment. As far as I can tell, he’s one of their biggest assets, so they can’t just cut him loose even if he totally screws up. If he blows it and goes full scorched earth, the propaganda machine and the big players will just spin his fuckups into something people shouldn’t take seriously. Trump would step in and say something like, “Did you see what that Elon did? He’s a wild guy, but a good guy, a genius, and we need him, we love him,” and that’ll be enough to smooth things over. 😂 The thing is, most MAGA people think Trump is one of them, and in some ways, they’re right. But they know Elon isn’t like them. They’d drop him in a heartbeat if they had to, which isn’t the case for the establishment. The more I think about it, the less sustainable it seems. Now that they’ve won, the Democrats aren’t really the enemy anymore. They’re all turning inward, jockeying for position and trying to figure out who they actually like. Without the Democrats as their common bogeyman, I think the whole movement could start to erode. The disparity between the elite and the everyday MAGA supporter will get easier for them to see... maybe.

haha, yeah, it's just so pathetically obvious. I imagine him sitting around coming up with his schemes, getting giddy at the idea of buying leveled up gamer accounts as part of his scheme to trick the world into thinking he's a god among men. Rogan and Dave Chapelle were bought as well. A while back, they were publicly idolizing him as a god, which I sensed was orchestrated. Now I'm near certain of it. Musk has spent a ton of money to spread this idea that he's a genius. I guess when you suffer from grandiose narcissism and have unlimited capital, that's the most obvious thing to do.

WHAT??? I thought he was one of the best in the world at World of Warcraft? You're telling me he's paying for those accounts as part of his long-running PR campaign to trick the world into thinking he's a genius? What an utter fail from the people who think/thought this guy was special.

We need a thread to keep track of all the loyalist/sycophants being installed. I'll kick it off with this: A Fox News host just got appointed to oversee the DOD, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force. Official title: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Served in the National Guard, so that's how they're justifying it. Additionally, reports indicate that the Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order to create a "warrior board" tasked with reviewing and recommending the removal of senior military officers deemed unfit for leadership. This move is seen as an attempt to purge "woke generals" and could lead to a restructuring of military leadership to align more closely with Trump's policies. They're going to corrupt every facet of government and they're moving very fast. It seems like the people will know their mistake much sooner than I thought.