Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights

What Jordan Peterson says here is good and useful, but the best way to learn how to think is by doing philosophy. Not by reading philosophy but by doing philosophy. Philosophy is the art of asking questions and critical thinking. Writing and speaking without philosophy, without epistemology, without ontology, without truth-seeking, ends in what Plato called sophistry. Sophists are skilled at rhetoric but their ideas are ultimately shallow and corrupt, in the service of unconscious survival and ego. Proper thinking begins with thinking about epistemology. Once you've got some understanding of epistemology, then you can think properly about other aspects of life.

But, of course, writing is a great skill to develop alongside that. But my understanding of Reality does not come from writing, it comes from pure contemplation. Writing is secondary for me, even though it certainly helps me to clarify my understanding.

Another great way to develop thinking is by teaching. Teaching a subject forces you to think it through very carefully and explain it clearly to yourself. My understanding of Realty got so deep because I've been teaching it for 13 years, which forced me to clarify every bit of my own understanding. Every time I explain something to you, I get more clarity around it from me, I understand it more profoundly. So it serves both you and me. The more I explain the better I understand.

You are not inside the world, you ARE the world.

As I keep saying, LLMs are NOT AGI and will not magically become AGI no matter how much money these companies waste on datacenters. You cannot create intelligence through such stupid ways. No one in Silicon Valley has a clue what intelligence is nor how to create it. They are selling bullshit. We are living through the greatest conformist mass delusion since Nazi Germany. People are drunk on their own bullshit because all they care about is survival. It is ironic that such stupidity thinks it will create such intelligence. It is like watching a footballer think he can become Albert Einstein by kicking a million balls.

This AI bubble will go down in history as one of the most comically stupid aspects of the materialist worldview. All of this is to blame on materialism because all these tech companies are run by godless materialists who believe that Reality is a stupid machine that works in stupid ways.

Note: I am not against using LLMs in moderation.

This is an excerpt from my book:

Physicists do not understand that you could not have a single atom without Infinity existing first. The only reason even one atom exists is because EVERYTHING exists first. From Everything you can get atoms. Without Everything you can’t get anything. The universe didn’t come from nothing, it came from Everything. Before the Big Bang was not nothing, it was Everything. The fundamental ontological insight that physicists are missing is that it’s just as easy to start from Everything as it is to start from nothing! God didn’t create the universe from nothing, God created it from Everything, because no limit or rule existed telling him he cannot do so. That is the ontological trick that makes everything possible: just start with Infinity. No matter how you think about it, there had to be a first thing. If you are dumb, your first thing is nothing and you are completely stuck with nothing forever. If you are intelligent, your first thing is Everything, so you get the whole universe and endless more universes for free. This is the importance of Intelligence in ontology.

If you think you need to start with nothing, you just lack Intelligence.

If a magic genie gave you just one wish, what should you wish for?

EVERYTHING!

Duh!

GOD IS EVERYTHING.

That is the genius of God.

The world's best physicists do not understand that it is no harder to create EVERYTHING than it is to create one atom from nothing. No thing is harder to create than any other thing. This insight solves cosmology.

This is how every paradigm works, including science, rationality, religion, atheism, materialism, Marxism, libertarianism, Flat Earth, geo-centrism, etc. Paradigms are a one-way revolving door. It is 100x harder to leave than it was to enter. But everyone assumes this as proof of the paradigm's truth.

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When I look at a scientist, I see a mind locked in a cage. It is sad to me. Like seeing majestic eagles in cages. My job is to show the eagle it can fly.

I can show you every way science clips your wings, if you are just willing to listen.