Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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One of the most seductive self-deceptions is thinking you are better than you are, gooder than you are. You are not nearly as good as you think you are. That’s very painful to realize. Which is why most people aren't Good. Evil is when you think are Good without having done the work to become Good. All the most evil people think they are Good, and they are incapable of seeing otherwise. Being evil is a kind of hypnotic spell that one gets lost in, in which you think you are Good when you aren’t. Evil is a kind of delusional self-absorption. All evil people are delusional. Their view of themselves is not accurate, not objective, not truthful. Evil is a disconnection from truth. And in general, people are not even close to understanding how much work is required to become truly Good.
Being the good guy is usually a self-deception.
"I am the good guy."
That's where your skepticism should go.
The mind fools itself that it is the good guy when it is just being selfish. This is an amazingly powerful self-deception that most people never see through.
Imagine that Reality is only ONE way, not a million different possibilities, but just ONE way, precisely the way you experience it. That ONE way would be the Truth. The crazy thing is not a multiverse, the truly crazy thing is if Reality can only ever be ONE way, precisely the way it is, and no other possible way, ever. What if that was the true meaning of Absolute Truth? What if Reality is just ONE way? No infinite possibilities, no probabilities, no odds, no chances, no luck, no randomness, no uncertainty, no statistics. Just ONE way! How do you know this isn’t the case? Notice that technically there is zero scientific evidence to the contrary. Everything science calls probability could just be the ONE and only way Reality could be. Imagine that when you flip a coin a million times, there is exactly ONE outcome, the way it will actually be, and everything else is intellectual human nonsense. After all, why waste all that effort and energy on probabilities when the most elegant and efficient solution is for Reality to be ONE way? Why do we need all that probabilistic complexity? What ever happened to Occam’s Razor? Well, of course, science never cared about Occam’s Razor, that was all just bullshit. What if the odds of Reality being precisely the way it is are 100% percent? What if God does not play dice? After all, why would God play dice?
Is what I’m saying true? Find out for yourself.
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The problem isn't AI, it's the godless corporate scumbags who have no qualms about anything they do in life, who don't believe in empathy or introspection, who will use AI to enslave you and your children.
The people in charge of AI are not serious human beings. They are shallow as a puddle. Who have the political views as sophisticated as teenage boys and anonymous Redditors. Who will lie, cheat, and steal for an extra billion. Egotistical libertarians whose idea of liberty is that they get to do whatever they want while the rest of us serve them.
The problem is not AI, the problem is the lack of humanity in the humans pushing it. Mechanical workaholic humans pushing for a break-neck-pace of mechanizing humanity, just because they don't know anything better to do.
