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These are some outstanding discussions about how elite corruption works.

The more research I do into how power works, the more outrageous things I discover. But what nobody understands is that all of this corruption is rooted in one thing: not caring about truth. The people in power have never cared about truth, which is why they are so corrupt. People dismiss epistemology as unimportant but then act shocked and outraged when elites abuse and cheat them. But that's exactly what lack of epistemology ends in.

This is not really about pedophiles. This is about an improper relationship to truth. That's what everyone is missing. Once you understand that, you see how ludicrous it is that Trump is a solution. Trump is Liar in Chief. If you want to stop child abuse, you need to care about electing people who care about truth. Which means you need to care about truth.

Also, note something here about academia. These are the people running the top universities. And you expect truth from academia? This is laughable. Academia is about power, not truth. The low level academics themselves don't understand that — it's above their pay grade. They don't understand that academia is about survival. That's why something like Actualized.org could only exist outside of academia. That's why I didn't become an academic. Truth-seeking is too sacred to be confined to such a human system.

Tech CEOs are just the Monorail Guy. They're selling us a fucking monorail.

He is right that Art with a capital A is about enriching the viewer, dare I say, enriching the viewer spiritually. However, the problem I have with this is that Art just isn't a good medium for that. You can consume all the Art in the world and it will not enrich you spiritually as much as just contemplation and psychedelics. Just as video games are a terrible medium to deep story-telling, Art is a terrible medium for spiritual enrichment. The spiritual enrichment that art like film and video games offers is as thin as a potato chip.

Not to be a jerk, but for all of his fancy talk, you can play all of Jonathan Blow's games, which took him a life time to create, and you will get less enrichment than just contemplating one of my videos. Human literature is just not deep, never mind video games.

So for me, video games ARE about escapism. Video games are about exploring imagination and dream worlds. The Art is in the beauty of creating an alternative reality. What he didn't mention at all is that Art is creating beauty. Just Beauty for its own sake is enough of a reason to do Art. Art doesn't need to have a message or a lesson because neither does Beauty.

But kudos to Jonathan Blow for having artistic integrity and at least trying to do more with games than just mindless fun. I admire how hard he works on his Art and his thoughtfulness about it.

This guy worked in one of the most successful Wall Street algorithmic hedge funds until he finally discovered religion and morality.

Note: This guy has some sick Zionist ideas towards the end. Obviously I don't endorse those. This is a good example of how religion and morality are not enough to reach God, even though it's better than mindless materialism. Is Judaism inferior to what I teach? Of course it is. How could a 3000 year old religion compete with one invented in the 21st century? This is like expecting an ancient Roman chariot to out-match a modern tank.

If traditional religion is like chariots and steamships, Actualized.org is a B2 stealth bomber. That's the difference in the level of epistemic sophistication. And yes, it makes a huge difference in how well God is understood in the end. Judaism just cannot get you to where Actualized.org can get you. Why should it? It's 3000 years old! This isn't a feature, it's a bug. All I'm doing is creating modern religion. But people are so shocked and outraged by this, when it's the most obviously needed thing in the world. But people just can't think outside the conformity. They either hate it because it undermines their tradition, or they hate it because it undermines the authority of science. But they have no understanding of what I'm creating and why.

You have a front row seat to watch mass self-deception play itself out over the next few years. Watch and learn.

This is what group-think looks like:

In this video Cal Newport (a computer scientist) deconstructs AI journalism, showing how flawed it is. Cal Newport is a good example of responsibility in the AI information space.