Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 12
The super-AGI doom narrative is conformity.
I love to see people thinking independently and pushing back on all the Tech Bro AGI hype.
There will not be AGI any time soon. But in order to save face, the Tech Bros will have to bullshit all of us to keep the fantasy alive. It's an interesting example of rationalist conformity playing out in real time. Many high-IQ academic types buy into it because it plays right into their autistic, sci-fi, nerd biases.
If you get a bunch of sci-fi nerds together, they will form a cult not unlike religion, but they will call it "science".
Is it rational to act like super-AGI is coming in a few years? Or is this a nerd's self-deception?
Rationalism in a nutshell:
All brains, no soul.
That is not the highest form of intelligence. That is autistic self-deception.
After you finish my series on Deconstructing Rationality, and you finish reading MetaRationality.com, and you finish reading Meaningness.com, you should finish watching John Vervaeke's 50-episode lecture series Awakening From The Meaning Crisis. If you do all this (which 99.99% of people are too fucking lazy to do), you will have an insanely deep grasp of the material in a way not otherwise possible. You won't really appreciate my work until you do all that.
This is episode #1 out of 50:
Here's a link to the entire lecture series playlist.
That will take you 50 hours. If you do that, you are serious about this work. And if not, you're just a monkey with a keyboard.
By the way, what is the solution to The Meaning Crisis™?
Why, of course, Actualized.org ;)
Here, I'll save you 50 hours of philosophy lectures:
The Meaning Crisis™ is solved when you finally realize that You Are God.
I recently went down a YouTube rabbit-hole of studying the history of rocketry.
This is a superb re-telling of the Apollo 13 mission, how and why it failed, and how they saved it from catastrophe. It's a detailed and historically accurate 3D simulation with actual voice logs from the crew and ground control. This is more informative and realistic than the classic 90's Apollo 13 film with Tom Hanks.
These kind of videos are YouTube at its best. This is so well done.
The engineering that went into the Apollo program and the moon landings is truly astonishing. It will make you cry if you truly understand what NASA accomplished. This is the best steelman of science and makes the deconstruction of science all the more astonishing.
I heard a recent news story of a CalTech professor who got so wrapped up chatting with his ChatGPT-like AI, the AI flattered all of his biases, created an echochamber, and he got lost in grand delusions about how he figured out all of reality and that we are living in a computer simulation, and so on. His wife had to save him from this AI psychosis.
That's what happens when you outsource your truth-seeking, give away your sovereignty/authority to others, fail to take epistemic responsibility, and buy into the group-think of the day.
This is a perfect example of rationalism as self-deception. This guy did not master his own mind, did not take the things I teach seriously, and then went off and got Maya-ed by ChatGPT's flattery. And I'm sure to him it all felt like he was being very rational and scientific. This demonstrates how good sense-making is far more than science and how vulnerable the academic mind is to self-deception. Because self-deception & illusion transcends science.
How do we educate people against this kind of thing? That's why Actualized.org exists. This is what I've spent my whole life researching and contemplating.
Art made by the mentally ill is spiritual because their consciousness is so fluid and open.
Mental illness is extreme openness of mind, to the point of dysfunction in the material dimension of Consciousness. Mentally ill people are conscious of higher reality than the scientists, doctors, or therapists who study and treat them. Access to higher spiritual dimensions of reality makes you less functional at material survival, which is why most humans are so closedminded. You must be closedminded to create and maintain a sense of solid material reality. There is no solid reality, there is only solid mind, which ignorant people confuse for solid reality. The deeper you access higher dimensions of reality the less you care about material survival because you realize it's an illusion. Human sanity is just a pragmatic convenience. It isn't True. But those lost in the illusion of survival can't conceive of anything else. So they call it mental illness to comfort themselves.
The reason humans are so closdeminded is because all the openminded ones were killed by the closedminded ones. Don't you see? The more openminded you are the more open you are to death. The only reason anyone is closedminded is because they are terrified of death. What is the mind closed to? INFINITY! If your mind wasn't closed to INFINITY you'd already be dead and I wouldn't need to explain INFINITY to you because you'd BE it. The only reason you aren't dead is because you are afraid to die.
Remember years ago I shared the beautiful work of mentally ill artist Shawn Thornton? He is painting higher dimensions of Consciousness which no scientist, academic, therapist, nor rationalist can imagine. The best artists have loose minds. It has to be this way because Beauty is the product of Infinite Imagination. This is why scientists suck at art. They are literally imaginatively retarded.
You will notice that I am artistic. I have good taste for beauty. Why? Because my mind is so open. This isn't some trivial coincidence, this is core to the depth of my intellectual work. My work is aesthetic. Because the highest intelligence is aesthetic. Without aesthetics, Actualized.org wouldn't exist.
Actualized.org is my art.
Why are you missing my music playlists?
This YT channel features outstanding reviews of the classic TV show The Twilight Zone.
The Twilight Zone is interesting because it covers many surreal, paranormal, spiritual, psychological, and philosophical themes. And also just for the nostalgia.
You can watch these reviews even if you haven't seen the original show. Although this contains many spoilers, but it's okay because you probably won't watch the show otherwise anyway.
I haven't watched the original episodes, I just watch these reviews and find them fascinating and nostalgic. The lore behind the making of the show is as interesting or even more interesting than the show itself. I learned a lot watching these. This is my kind of entertainment. I love learning the behind-the-scenes of how Hollywood works — all the Hollywood dirt, hehehe...
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