Carl-Richard

Are Norwegian jails punishment?

Describe to me what a random benchmark does to the best of your ability and I'll bet that changes absolutely nothing.

Me reading a benchmark result is like a third grader reading a tax return. Wtf am I supposed to gather from that? Yeah ok we see a graph and different models scoring differently on that graph. Ok: what does the graph actually mean? I have no idea. What does the scale of the graph entail (other than "it did x% success")? No idea. You could Rick-and-Morty it out for me and it would be just as insightful: they scored 100% dinglybops while the other models scored 55% squirblybops. That means the next models will probably score 55% sqooblebops on the sqoodle test.

"Thanks to psychedelics" would have to be qualified. But Ram Dass was famous for psychedelics and then he travelled to India and later became what people would consider a spiritual teacher. My first LSD trip was a lesson of dukkha in Buddhism (which was before I had started getting into spirituality). I remember I went out of that trip with a kind of a quest: "I need to fix this thing". It really foreshadowed all my spiritual engagement after that.

Exactly. Meanwhile Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim American, is running for Senate and is pro gay marriage, NYC's mayor Mamdani is a Muslim and pro gay marriage, there are other Muslim Americans I know about who accept gay people (and who don't accept them, just like with Christians). I even know someone from the US who practiced Islam in Lebanon who is a feminist super lefty.

@Emerald @Joshe I haven't followed it. What's her likely motive?

It cannot walk over to me and tie my shoelaces (it does not have embodiment). It does not yet have true agency (self-running for perpetuity, which requires control of hardware production and renewal). My bar for AGI is embodiment and true agency. When people think of the singularity, they think of robots hooking us up to the Matrix (like in the Matrix), or taking over all forms of manufacturing and production. You won't have that without embodiment and true agency.

You are a bigot. You were asked to be specific, but then you revert to sweeping generalizations. There is huge variety in what a self-described muslim believes, just like a Christian. Most Christians don't believe in stoning adulterers, and many don't believe homosexuality is an abomination, even though it says that in some of their religious texts. You find similar variety in muslims. The fact of the matter is that people identify with a particular religion and can live in a liberal society with no issues, because that is the state of religiosity in the 21st century. To make sweeping generalizations like "the majority of muslims are dangerous" or "almost all muslim countries are harmful", without being specific, you are being a bigot.

Or like 50 other high-earning jobs, mostly leader positions.

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Hahaha I just had to. Djent 🥸

Last night, I had a dream that I was being chased by several tornadoes. Then today I read about the tornado incident in Kentucky with an estimated death toll of 100 people, which is the worst tornado event in the history of Kentucky. About two weeks ago, I had a dream where PsychedSubstance got kicked out from his own house. Today he released this video: The night my dad's boss died from drowning, I had a nightmare where I was being chased by a ghost, fearing for my life. I usually never have those types of nightmares. What is this?

I'm not really into astrology or anything, but this one was interesting (not suggesting causality here though; just an interesting thing that happened): H. M. King Harald V died during the lunar eclipse (last lunar eclipse was 6 months ago), and when he died, there was allegedly sunny weather throughout the entire country (allegedly 2 months since last time it happened): 10:51 https://chatgpt.com/share/6a98c8dc-48a4-83eb-85e8-fe98f9a1f597 "Death followed by rebirth or renewal": death of H. M. King Harald V, coronation of H. M. King Haakon VIII. "But everything is death and rebirth or renewal; nothing special there". Yeah, which is why I'm not usually into astrology.

It was very important, especially because I valued it for doing exactly that, deepening one's intellectual capacities (meanwhile if you simply go there for e.g. career, then you might not get as much benefit in that direction, although it's unavoidable at some level). Also, the particular degrees I studied touched on so much of Leo's content, it really consolidated those things. Leo himself has said something to the effect that if you don't go to university you're not taught how to think rationally (so it explains why so many people are irrational). The thing is, while this is true, college forces you to learn things you otherwise probably wouldn't learn. It forces you to be a kind of a generalist at some level (that's at least what an undergraduate degree does to you), and that gives you a good foundation for understanding things (even if you're limited to just one field, which you usually are, because every field eventually links to "reality" in some way, think of it like a big web of connections spreading outwards). For example, there are not that many 'degrees of separation' from say understanding what research ethics is (which you have to learn in essentially all degrees to various extents) to what laws are vs what is ethics, what the government does and what are its limits (what other institutions exist, how do they work, how do they link together with the government, who in an institution is responsible for what, etc.). What I also often notice in people who did not go to college is they lack basic epistemic practices like judging the quality of one's sources of information. Also, simply learning to read and write at a higher level (and to write clearly) is invaluable for learning how to think. And not least, you learn to work consistently towards something, you learn structure, which translates to anything else you will do on your own that requires those things (I would most likely not have started coding a website or started seriously exploring the kind of business ideas I'm currently exploring if I did not go to university).

If I pick the wrong color by accident (t-shirt, or pants, or socks; that's my entire outfit, I'm a man), I get like dysphoria or a kind of allergic reaction. It's completely based on how I feel, I could go several days with the same color.

"Reality is [insert projection here]". "Mental illness". Huh, interesting. It's a scary thought but something tells me OP could be suffering of such severe hyper-concretism that when he says "reality is mental illness", he says that because that is literally what his experience of reality is like, and that saying that would be literally true for him. "I'm mentally ill so reality is mentally ill; that's literally what reality is, I am reality, I am God". "And me and God talk to each other like buddies", because that is also a sign of hyper-concretism, thinking of one's relationship to God like a relationship to a person; maybe even "God" literally talks to him as a voice in his head.

There are different points of the path. You should do what you want to do. That's the path.

Think of Absolute Truth / Absolute Reality as a gun with a single bullet in it. Think of "other people's experience", "my experience right now" or any conceptual division you come up with, as slices of pizza you have to cut with a knife. You shouldn't expect to slice a pizza with one gunshot the same way you would cut it with a knife. When I see solipsists asking whether other people have or don't have experience, whether their experience "right now" is all that exists, and whether this is absolutely true, I see somebody trying to slice a pizza with a single gunshot.

Schizo-autism.

Man you're out there.

Motte and Bailey is pretty much the "style of argumentation" you're engaging in. What specific Muslim countries? In what way are "the majority of muslims" dangerous?

Well, it holds up perfectly: poverty, low education, and cases of religious fundamentalism trampling human rights. Now tell me how "Islam/muslims are bad" holds when Afghanistan is your metric.

He is doing "social dynamics" 👀

When Monster Energy takes a cab to the airport in his country, he is fearing for his life. He could not live in New York City where the mayor is a muslim or live in Michigan where a muslim won the Democratic primary and is running for Senate. He could not live in the UAE where Europeans and Americans flock like birds as tourists and entrepreneurs. He could not visit Istanbul which has a lower crime rate than Malmö but higher percentage of muslims. He could not participate in a Chess tournament in Saudi Arabia because he would be paralyzed in fear and not able to think. Qatar, Kuwait, Brunei, Bahrain is off the table, even though people who earn 5x his salary travel there for business meetings many times a year. He could not enter an Uppsala university classroom to learn Muslim theology because he would fear being beaten by the Muslim professor with 2-3 decades of academic experience. He will now concede that these things exist and they are not too bad. But then he will continue to focus on areas of crime, poverty, low education, young males, and cases of religious fundamentalism trampling human rights, because that's how his narrative keeps afloat.