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This is an unusually honest talk about developments within AI:
And people think that Harvard will deliver anyone to Truth? Ha!
Harvard isn't about truth. Harvard is about survival. Harvard mints some of the world's most morally bankrupt degenerates and gives them cover with a fancy degree.
The Devil has long ago made his way into the halls of Harvard and every other top university. The Devil isn't stupid. He knows that a fancy degree is the perfect disguise for his work.
Think of it this way: Imagine that Satan himself incarnated on Earth tomorrow. What would be his plan to cause maximum damage? Why, of course, graduate with a degree from Harvard. Then get to work.
The Devil works by taking any source of high goodness, authority, or credibility, and just co-opting it from the inside for his own purposes. The Devil is bold, he dares to roost right in the heart of goodness.
Am I being melodramatic? Why did Jeffery Epstein affiliate himself with MIT?
If Satan existed on this planet, you can be sure he would make large donations to Harvard or MIT. And his son, Satan Jr, would be on the Z-list.
It's not a conspiracy theory. These are just the mechanics of devilry.
The following example perfectly illustrates the stark difference between low and high cognitive development:
Destiny is the only one here who has a clue.
Low cognitive development (everyone in the video except Destiny) isn't construct-aware, so it takes categories for granted as objective. Moreover, low cognitive development is so unaware that it cannot even understand how something like "a woman" can be a complex metaphysically-loaded question, therefore it laughs at a serious answer.
High cognitive development (Destiny) is construct-aware, so it appreciates the insane complexity and metaphysical-loadedness of a question such as "What is a woman?" and treats the question with the nuance and respect is deserves.
So what you see in this video is one mind of high cognitive development (Destiny) dealing with a dozen epistemically-clueless baboons who act like they understand anything but actually understand less than nothing.
Study this example carefully.
The difference between low and high cognitive development is not a matter of opinion, belief, or ideology. It's not that I agree with Destiny. It's that Destiny is construct-aware, at least to some degree. His construct-awareness is quite limited, but still orders of magnitude beyond a conservative pundit.
No conservative knows what a woman is, which is why they act like jackasses when talking about this question. To understand what a woman is you would need to do 20 years of advanced epistemology, and you would still not know. That's how serious the question is. But to a baboon it seems that a woman is just tits and vagina.
Until you start to appreciate the depth and seriousness of such questions you're stuck in low cognitive development.
I have a powerful new video explaining how to distinguish low and high cognitive development coming soon. This was just an appetizer.
This is an usually deep political discussion:
Hint: What really matters is survival. Everything, including ideology, serves the god of survival. Which is why political behavior is often so confused, messy, twisted, and contradictory. The mind uses ideology as a vehicle for its own survival, and there are infinite ways for the mind to survive — which is why there exist hundreds of species of ideology. But the mind doesn't really care about being a pure-breed, it cares about survival!
Survival. Survival. Survival. Survival! EVERYTHING humans do is SURVIVAL! Especially so within the domain of politics. Politics is survival on steroids. Which is why it is so devoid of truth and consciousness.
The core problem every ideology faces is that no ideology can ever capture reality accurately. Not even close. Even the best ideologies grossly misapprehend reality, so their implementation always requires a lot of fudging, and the maintenance of an ideology always requires lots of bullshit to make it seems like it's going to work. The problem with ideology is that no ideology can solve mankind's deepest issues. Every ideology thinks it can, but ends up failing spectacularly. Notice that.
In the end every ideology fails because it lacks Requites Variety. Which is why an intelligence mind should free itself of all ideology.
Watch the following discussion with an ambassador from China. It is an absolute masterclass in the human's ability for bullshit. The discipline and skill with which he bullshits is just awesome:
With that said, a deeper issue is still being missed by everyone watching.
The reality is that China cannot have free speech, liberalism, or democracy because it is not at a stage of development that allows such freedoms and luxuries. The problem is that a leftist like Mehdi Hasan does not understand this. Leftists and liberals take freedom for granted. When in fact such freedom can only exist under suitable collective survival conditions and centuries of development. China does not have free speech because it cannot have free speech. This is not a mistake. This is their reality. And to not understand and appreciate that is ignorant.
The reason humans bullshit with such skill is because God holds a gun to their head.
Here's what this Chinese ambassador should have said to Medhi and the audience:
"Let us be serious and stop playing games. You in the Western liberal democracies look at China and criticize us for our lack of freedom and strict policies. You are shocked that we are not as free as you. But we are not as free as you because we cannot be as free as you given our stage of development, given our history. Every country must go through stages of development at its own pace, just as every child must go through school at his own pace. Some move faster, some move slower. Do not be so short-sighted to forget your own country's rocky and bloody histories and illiberal repressions. You are liberal now, but only relatively so, and you were not always this way. Liberalism is a luxury that the Chinese people cannot yet afford, but we have made much progress over the last 70 years. One day we will be as free as you, but that will take time, and I hope you will be as patient with us as you were with yourselves. This is the truth which you do not wish to admit to yourselves and this is why you are perplexed by the situation in China. China is doing what we must do to one day have the freedoms which your forefathers gifted to you with their blood. Everything of value has its cost. What you see in China is us paying the cost to one day have your freedoms."
Mike drop.
JP is engaged in some heavy denial of climate change. He's so convincing at it that when I listen to him enough in good faith, he almost has me convinced. It's really quite something.
It is useful to study Jordan Peterson's mind for examples of self-deception mechanisms. If you watch enough of his videos you can spot self-deception mechanism after self-deception mechanism being employed without his awareness of them.
What are some of those mechanisms?
- Projection
- Bias
- Lack of construct-awareness
- Survival
- Mental attachment
- Rationalization
- Demonization
- Denial
- Cherrypicking
- Whataboutism
- Misuse of skepticism
- Selective application of relativity and post-modernism
- Gross double-standards
- Dodging questions and key issues
- Strawmanning, misrepresenting alternative perspectives
- Moralistic crusading, moralistic self-righteousness
- Speaking on topics outside his area of expertise
- Obfuscation and conflation
Here's some killer advice for you: look for highly intelligent speakers and minds (like Jordan Peterson) and study their talks for self-deception mechanisms, and then contemplate how you will avoid that yourself in your own exercise of rationality and sense-making.
There is nothing more dangerous than human reason.
Someone sent me an email saying that they had a dream of me swimming calmly in a bathtub full of crocodiles.
That's my life in a nutshell. But I'm not always so calm.
There exists an entire profession called Philosophical Counseling.
It's when an academically trained philosopher (with a masters or PhD in philosophy) is employed as a consultant or coach to help you think through existential problems in your life. For example, maybe you're confused about whether there are only two genders, or more. So you hire a philosophical counselor who will help you contemplate through the issue and reach some kind of conclusion that will put your mind at ease.
According to Wikipedia, here's what philosophical counseling involves:
"A philosophical practitioner helps clients to clarify, articulate, explore and comprehend philosophical aspects of their belief systems or world views. Clients may consult philosophical practitioners for help in exploring philosophical problems related to such matters as mid-life crises, career changes, stress, emotions, assertiveness, physical illness, death and dying, aging, meaning of life, and morality. On the other side philosophical practitioners also initiate projects in common life worlds with various goals that are related to essential problems of life, such as sustainable energy, direct democracy, etc.
Activities common to philosophical practice include:
- The examination of clients' arguments and justifications
- The clarification, analysis, and definition of important terms and concepts
- The exposure and examination of underlying assumptions and logical implications
- The exposure of conflicts and inconsistencies
- The exploration of traditional philosophical theories and their significance for client issues
- The initiation of projects for common goods
- All other related activities that have historically been identified as philosophical."
I just wanted to share this because I thought it was a really cool application of philosophy and I'm sure some of you who follow my work would be interested in such a unique profession as a life purpose.
In light of this profession, I am like a Philosophical Drillmaster — where I bludgeon you with practical philosophy until you change how you live your life.
"Hey, Johnny, who do you want to be when you grow up? An astronaut? A firefighter?"
"A philosophical counselor!"
"Time and space are unreal, matter is an illusion, and the world consists of nothing but mind."
-- Bertrand Russell's summary of Hegel's philosophy