Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 9

This lady offers an interesting critique of how post-modernism has infested psychology.

But, is her critique from above or from below? Who is right? Is this a higher or lower perspective? You decide.

Intelligence is not measured by an IQ test, it is measured by your ability to comprehend God, epistemology, and metaphysics. To deeply question all assumptions, paradigms, perspectives, and frames. To think holistically, abstractly, analogically, intuitively, mystically, relativistically, existentially. To be infinitely openminded and mentally flexible. To be able to understand all perspectives. The more diverse perspectives you can understand the more intelligent you are. Intelligence is the ability to avoid self-deception and outsmart Maya. IQ tests are utterly inadequate at measuring intelligence. Intelligence is not your ability to solve a word or math puzzle. Intelligence is your ability to comprehend Yourself and Reality. No amount of multiple choice word puzzles can measure this. And no, computers are not intelligent no matter how much the Tech Bros hype up AI. AI is faking intelligence and most people can't tell the difference.

Robots are definitely going to be a big game-changer, however, that is still a decade away and in the meantime we will have plenty of robot scams along the way as all the early robots will fail to live up to the hype and marketing BS.

There is a very realistic dystopian scenario here where most of the robots in the world will not be autonomous (because there will not be AGI) but just tele-operated by sweatshop labor from poor 3rd world countries. It looks likely that every rich household in America will have a robot who is actually just a poor teen wage slave from Bangladesh. I find this far more realistic than fully AGI robots.

Making the robot hardware is the easy part. Making the software is going to be almost impossible. So prepare yourself for robot scams.

Tech Bros have reinvented slavery while waxing poetic about techno-utopia. Now that's some good Maya!

Academia is becoming more and more corrupt.

One of the best decisions I ever made was not joining that circus.
I feel like I dodged a grenade, haha!

Do you see the force of survival? Do you see its awesome power and intelligence?

Do you see that science alone cannot solve this problem? Scientific intelligence cannot outsmart survival. Only meta-scientific intelligence can. This is why sense-making and intelligence can never be subordinate to science.

You do not understand this issue until you realize that survival is more intelligent than you. Only then do you stand a chance at outsmarting it. Then you are in my world.

What's special about my work is that it teaches you how to outsmart Maya. This is the hardest thing to teach because Maya is a trickster. No academic will teach you this, because academia is Maya.

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.