Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 10

I'm a fan of Red Letter Media — they do some of the smartest film commentary on YouTube — and they just released this episode on AI slop.

2026 will go down in history as the year of slop. Every social media platform will be flooded with slop upon slop upon slop. You will be drowning in AI slop until you hate the internet more than you ever have.

The future is now! Bigger, faster, uglier, more ads, more CGI, more ads, more AI, more ads, more grift, and slop to the horizon.

Don't think, consume product.

Be careful with romaticized notions of Stage Purple. Stage Green holds a fantasy of Stage Purple. Stage Purple are not peaceful, spiritual, nature-loving, ecological people. They are deluded, conformist barbarians, rapists, racists, sexists, genociders, torturers, and slave-mongers. The further you go back in history, the uglier humans get. And if you go back far enough they become chimpanzees.

This is not racism, this is human nature. It doesn't matter which race you are, your ancestors had the psychological development of chimpanzees.

It is now out of vogue in our politically-correct, post-modern times to call indigenous people savages and barbarians. But that is exactly what they were. Of course Europeans were also that!

Humans white-wash our own history. Of course we do, because humans are so ugly that we cannot stand to look at ourselves as we truly are. Notice that every culture, every tradition white-washes itself.

Note: I am not justifying the genocide of the Native Americans. The Europeans were monsters. I do not buy into the "Western civilization is best" myth. In some ways the natives were wiser than the Europeans.

Michael Jackson mastered the shit out of dance. That moonwalk is magic.

Become as good as him in whatever your passion is.

Note: Yes, I know he was a sex creep. That is irrelevant to my point. Don't emulate the sex creep part.

Remember, when you finally achieve your mega success, the Devil will come and sink his claws into you. This should not surprise you in the slightest.

Look how profound this gets:

If your sense-making is wrong, you will use that wrong sense-making to make sense of your own sense-making, judging it to be right. Doubly sure of yourself and doubly wrong, you will proceed to use that wrong sense-making to make sense of anyone who comes along and points out the wrongness in your sense-making.

Any wrongness in sense-making is projected outward onto others by the mind, making them appear wrong even if they are right. If your sense-making is wrong you will perceive anyone who contradicts you of having wrong sense-making. In this way your mind constructs an unfalsifiable projection/illusion which no one can pull you out of because you think you’re right and they’re wrong. This is the ultimate mechanism of self-created paradigm lock. No amount of evidence or proof can pull you out of this paradigm lock because you will interpret it as being wrong. This paradigm lock is found in Christianity, Islam, Mormons, Scientology, science, academia, cults, MAGA, Nazism, terrorism, libertarianism, Marxism, and more.

The mind is always using its paradigm to judge its own paradigm. This unnoticed circularity creates the illusion of being right while being wrong. It is like installing a fox to guard your hen-house and then asking him, "Hey, are my chicken doing okay?", Fox: "Yes sir! Chickens all good!", You: "Good, good. Keep up the good work.", Fox: "Yes sir! You can count on me sir!", You: "What a good fox I have."

The tragedy of wrong sense-making is that it is wrong at making sense of all the ways it is wrong, and the mind cannot see it. The mind literally lacks the self-awareness/intelligence needed to go meta on itself.

YOU CANNOT TRUST YOUR OWN MIND! This is Rule #1 of epistemology. Really get this. Really contemplate this until the gravity of it penetrates your bones. Nobody understands Rule #1. They think they do, but they don't.

This is why epistemology is so tricky. Almost everyone falls into this trap. Especially scientists and academics. They make the huge mistake of assuming that only religious or mystical people fall into this trap. As if science saves you from this devious projection. Haha!

This is why radical openmindedness is pivotal in sense-making. If you are not openminded enough to imagine that your sense-making is entirely wrong, you are forever fucked. No amount of education can save you.

This is why I am so openminded. I figured this out when I was 18 years old and I've been living it for 20 years. Yet the world's best scientists have not. Why not? Because they never cared about truth, they were just conforming to academia.

Do you understand that academia cannot teach you that academia is an illusion?!
That is called suicide.
If it did, it would not exist.

No illusion will willingly betray itself. Not academia, not science, not Christianity, not Marxism, not capitalism, not nationalism, not humanity, and certainly not your ego. If you want to deconstruct these illusions you will have to drag them kicking and screaming to the grave. But watch out, because they bite back and might throw you in the grave instead.

The key thing for you to realize is that these illusions are alive, they are intelligent. They will proactively fight you as you try to deconstruct them. Think of these illusions like intelligent spirits who you will be wrestling with for years to come. The only way to achieve Freedom and Autonomy of Mind is if you wrestle and defeat each trickster spirit in hand-to-hand combat. You are Nick Cage in Willy's Wonderland.

Imagine that science isn't some dry, dumb institution or theoretical abstraction but an intelligent trickster spirit. Its job is to ensnare and parasitize your mind until you are dead. Will you let it?

Now, here's the final double-irony: someone reading this post with bad sense-making will make sense of it as me recruiting you into a cult. He will not have enough self-awareness to see that this is his projection. So he will read everything written here and it still won't save him. He will rationalize to himself, "I know better than this Leo guy! Leo is the deluded one." That's how deep this goes. There is no cure for closedmindedness.

Russian culture is extremely homophobic. Especially the rural areas. Rural and poor Russia is very Stage Blue.

Rural Russians are such closedminded hicks, it's amazing.

This video was so homophobic YouTube banned it.

Here's a taste:

This is one of the reasons Russians reject the West. The West is perceived as too gay.

A great example of conformity.

By the way, many rural Americans are equally homophobic. It's just that they aren't allowed to express it. This is one of the major reasons Trump won. Progressives do not understand how homophobic most people in the world are. Homophobia is not some silly thing that Progressives paint it out to be. Homophobia is serious and deep. Underestimate it at your peril.

It is ironic that as much as Progressives whine and complain about homophobia, racism, sexism, transphobia, and xenophobia, they do not truly understand the power of these forces. Which makes Progressives so smart they're stupid.

Of course racism is stupid, but not understanding its power and appeal is also stupid. We are dealing with stupid upon stupid here.

Intelligence is knowing that if you corner a rat, it will bite you.

The only reason science is able to be non-mystical is because it always artificially sets a narrow, partial scope for its explanations. This partiality is mandatory because it allows science to make sense of one part of reality in terms of another part. This only works because it off-loads epistemic responsibility onto another part, leaving it unexplained. The scientist comforts himself by rationalizing, “Well, this is good enough. I'm merely human. Someone else will figure out the rest some day.” Except that day never comes. When a new scientist comes around to figure it out, he will fall into the same trap and also kick the can down the road. Epistemically, science in nothing more than an endless game of the mind kicking the can down the road until you are dead, all the while telling yourself that this approach must work out in the end because, after all, science is true. Except it cannot work out in the end and you merely assume science is true.

This mechanism creates the illusion that reality is non-mystical. But if you take epistemic responsibility for explaining ALL of reality, this sense-making aim is different in kind from what scientists do because you are not allowing yourself to kick the can down the road. As soon as you take responsibility for explaining the existence of Everything, any possibility of a non-mystical explanation dies. Why? Because there exists no part outside of Totality that you can use to define or explain it with. Parts only exist internal to Totality. The only possible explanation is Infinity, and Infinity is necessarily a Mystery. But the scientist does not understand this and cries foul whenever he hears a mystical explanation because his entire career has been a commitment to narrow, partial, technical explanations, and out of sheer conformity he cannot imagine any other way. The scientist has been so brainwashed by the STEM sub-culture to only work on partial, unholistic explanations and to never take total epistemic responsibility that he cannot fathom anything else. Nobody has ever taught a scientist that Total epistemic responsibility is different in kind from the partial epistemic responsibility that he’s been taking his entire career. Moreover, it is deeply hurtful and embarrassing for a scientist to admit that he has been epistemically irresponsible his entire life. He cannot admit that to himself because it would crush his scientific ego. After all, his identity and sense of self is wrapped up with science. He really believes science is truth. Admitting all this would send him into an existential crisis which would disrupt his career. He can't worry about this "silly" philosophical stuff, he's got "real" work to do! — exams to grade, grant money to get, grad students to manage, admin meetings to attend, papers to publish.

The essential difference between me and any scientist is that I take TOTAL epistemic responsibility for accounting for ALL of Reality. This sounds like a small difference, but it makes all the difference. No scientist does this. The STEM sub-culture does not teach this and they are all conforming to that sub-culture. Which is why they can never understand God or mysticism. God is Totality. Which is why science cannot see it. Science is not Total by its own definition and science does not understand why this matters. Science thinks it’s okay to not be Total. No, it’s not okay. That means you will never outsmart Maya. All that Maya needs to outsmart you is to be more total than you.

Epistemic responsibility is no joke. Do you take TOTAL responsibility for understanding Reality? If not, Maya has already won.