Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights

This is an AI-generated video. This is not actually Richard Feynman speaking. I don't like sharing AI videos. However, the content of the speech is so good that I had to share it. It is a profound explanation of the speed of light. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Rayman for the PS1 is one of my favorite games of all time. It was one of the games that got me into game development as a kid. It is one of the best platforming games ever made. The art style is just magical.

I recently discovered that there exists a player made re-make of Rayman for the PC. It recreates the entire game from the ground up in a new engine but plays just like the original. But it also adds additional extras like widescreen, various resolutions, and various other things like extra gameplay options, extra levels, extra bosses, new difficulty modes, a level editor, and more. And it's free! You can download it below.

Rayman Redemption Download

Rayman Redemption Level Editor

I was amazed that one guy made this.

Wrote 8,000 words today. Words fly. Writing is easier than making new videos. My videos require hours of exhausting contemplation. Writing doesn't.

The Jehovah's Witnesses are a case-study in self-deception. The way to master epistemology is to deeply study case-studies in self-deception like this, analyzing them for specific self-deception mechanisms, and then generalizing those mechanism across the board to every mind, including your own. That's how I mastered epistemology. I carefully, without bias, studied hundreds of major cases of self-deception across human history, and I did not hold my own worldview as above it. If you do that seriously, for years, eventually you will know every trick of the mind, of how the mind constructs paradigms and worldviews. Epistemology is not arm-chair philosophy. Epistemology is like a science. You learn it by studying real-world examples of self-deception. Observe how self-deception actually works and then realize that your mind operates by exactly the same principles as all self-deceived people. The key insight is to realize that no matter how scientific or rational you are, you are no better than a Jehovah's Witness.

This is the foundation for everything I teach. The reason my work is so powerful is that from day one of this work, 20 years ago, I never assumed I was any better than a Jehovah's Witness. This is what people misunderstand about my work. They think that I think I am above everyone else. That's exactly backwards. I know that my mind has all the same self-deception mechanisms as the most deluded humans who ever lived. That's why I take epistemology so seriously. No one takes epistemology as seriously as me. Which is why my work is what it is. The paradox is that I'm special because I know that I'm just like everyone else. You might say, "So what? Everyone knows that." No! Almost nobody understands that they are as self-deceived as the most deluded people who ever lived. This is an exceptional insight. The paradox of my work is that on the surface it seems arrogant, but actually I am more epistemically humble than any scientist. That's why my work is better than science. Not because I am arrogant but because I am humble. I was humble enough to understand that science can be as much a self-deception as Jehovah's Witnesses. But scientists are too arrogant to understand that. People see the fruit but not the tree on which it grew. People see me being arrogant in a video or on the forum or in a blog post, but they don't see the 20 years of epistemic toil and humility that I did beforehand, and so they misunderstand me. The real work that I did, no one will ever see. All you see is the fruit. Which is why I'm explaining it to you, because I want you to copy the work I did, not the fruit. Don't become a Buddhist, do what the Buddha did. Don't become a Christian, do what Christ did. Don't become an Actualized.org fanboy, do the epistemic work that Leo did.

Believing stuff is not epistemic work!

It's like, once you're a billionaire, you can afford to burn some money. That's what I'm doing when I'm a bit arrogant in my intellectual demeanor. But I didn't become rich by burning money! Get it?

When I am arrogant, that's like an agile peacock displaying its tail in front of a hungry lion. It's a display of the epistemic depth I've built over decades of work. The peacock's tail makes it more vulnerable. But an agile, masterful peacock who knows what he's doing can pull it off and not get eaten by the lion. But if a newbie does it, the lion will eat him! In this case the lion is self-deception, Maya. When I'm being arrogant, I am using lots of skill to dance around self-deception in a clever way to entertain myself. Because once you've mastered a thing, it becomes play. The mechanics of self-deception are so obvious to me that I am bored by them. What do you do once you've mastered basketball? You show off a little bit. Why? Because there's nothing else to do. It is boring for me to have a serious conversation with a scientist because he won't even understand what I'm talking about. So what do I do about that? I entertain myself. Who else will entertain me? This is very different from a closedminded belief in one's worldview.

And with all that said, I am still not immune to self-deception. A lion could eat the peacock any day. Reality will find ways to humble you.

This is probably AI-generated but it's still a damn good biography of Pascal. It should open your eyes to many of this things I talk about. What we see in the case of Pascal is that when intelligence and reason rises high enough, it realizes the limits of reason and the illusion of science. That's what Pascal realized, what today's scientists are clueless about because they are not doing serious thinking.

It is so perverse that all of modern science was built on the intellect of geniuses who understood God. Not these materialist hacks we have today in universities. Geniuses created science. Those geniuses all understood that God exists. And then only in the last 100 years did fools and hacks hijack science and corrupted it with materialism and atheism. The irony is that today's scientists are so ignorant that they don't understand their own history! They don't understand that atheism and materialism is dumber than what came before. But they can get away with it today because of the success of technology. Technology masks the fact that atheism is stupid. You give someone a smart phone and suddenly they stop caring about ontology. "What difference does it make as long as I got my phone?" That's how myopic today's humans are. The irony is that today's most vehement defenders of science would not have enough intelligence to have created science in the first place. They are part of a science herd, not leaders of cutting-edge thought.

Fine art is a conformist scam. These world-famous artists like Dali, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, etc. — this is nonsense invented by group-think. The only reason these people are famous and regarded as great artists is because people do not think. It is a social hallucination. If you objectively evaluate their art, it is stupidly overrated. But since people don't know how to think and judge independently, they fawn over of it. I studied a lot of art history in my youth, but now after all of my consciousness work, I see the whole field as a silly human game.

The value of a Dali or Picasso painting is pure illusion. But humans are too unconscious to see it. As long as enough humans are unconscious enough to buy into the illusion, it has value. It's a pyramid scheme, but it holds because humans are so unconscious.

This is the celebration of pervertry and nonsense:

Meat companies have invented clever ways of stealing meat from you by injecting it with 30% water.

I love to document more and more clever forms of theft. Because it's the intelligence of survival and devilry. One of the major things you'll learn from studying my work is that scams are absolutely everywhere. Human society is basically an elaborate web of scams.

Ta-daaaa!

Why is that? Well, of course, because no one cares about truth.
Truthless = Godless = scammer = devil

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