Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 9
It's been about a year since I played any chess. This is my first returning game.
Fischer Random. I played white against a 1800-rated bot. My play was rated 2050.
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.