Leo Gura

I like that one

Jeez

@Natasha Tori Maru He only got schizo symptoms from weed?? How much weed did he do? At what age?

I've never heard fat described as "profound" before. You have a way with words, madam.

@Natasha Tori Maru Thanks for sharing. That's a nice illustration of it. Disturbing indeed. Weird how it's mostly auditory. Did meds help him?

I literally said the opposite of how you quoted me. Jesus. I explicitly avoided the mistake of conflating meaningfulness with constancy.

Trump's weakness is that at the end of the day I think he really wants to be loved. Putin has no such weakness. This is really the only thing that might save America. LOVE wins after all

Actualized.org is the epistemic Oregon Trail. Pray you don't get dysentery or we leave you out for the wolves.

Don't forget that Trump is pretty cowardly under the facade. I don't think he has the balls to do the kind of stuff like a proper dictator would do, like a Putin.

Time for Tier 2 to embed with the Taliban. It will make for great sitcom. The odd couple. I wanna see Daniel Schmachtenberger discussing Game B with an Afghan warlord. "Let's double-click on that..."

You have some weird definitions of feeling. I would never say any feeling is constant. Feelings come and go. Not to say that constancy is required for them to be meaningful.

Problem is, Trump lacks self-control. He's like a bipolar boyfriend who beats you one day and then love-bombs you the next day. And you never know which it will be today. Sick MAGA people may actually enjoy that roller-coaster.

i.e., steroids

Joe Rogan will be blowing up my phone.

This should be Trump's official portrait, to replace the awful baby-face one. Just imagine

Tier 2 must look like this:

I think to qualify as an epistemic scoundrel one has to deal in some way in creating knowledge-like content. An epistemic scoundrel is one who pisses in the epistemic ecosystem more so that just lies to cover up a crime. So Elon Musk is an epistemic scoundrel because he pollutes the information ecology through Twitter on a large scale, spreading misinformation and right-wing propaganda. FoxNews is the shining beacon of epistemic scoundrelry. This is an important clarification. I'm glad we sorted it out. Epistemic scoundrels create careers out of poisoning the information ecology! -- that's the proper definition. They profiteer off of poisoning minds. It's a special category of evil. Ho-ho! Epistemic evil! What a concept! This just hit me! I just invented Epistemic Evil

We could use that logic to rationalize a Marxist revolution: Behead the rich! Out of chaos will come order! Clever bit of Epistemic Scoundrelry

@Terell Kirby I dunno. Should an outright fraud/criminal be called an epistemic scoundrel? Hmmmm....

Frankly I'm amazed at how much depth each stage has. I keep dipping back into Orange and Green and Yellow and learn more about myself and the mind. Each color is like its own wellspring. You gotta stop worrying which stage you're at and just grab insights and lessons from the whole Spiral whenever you can. It's like a color palette and you are Picasso.

@Carl-Richard Sure, that's a trap. But then again, people gotta start somewhere. At least they know what to work towards. That's why it takes a decade.

That's animal cruelty.

@r0ckyreed If you get a cattail you can use it to filter water like a caveman

That's too vulgar. Even pervert is pretty insulting. I want a nice memeable term. Epistemic Scoundrel has a nice aristocratic ring to it.

You gotta watch his channel for the full context. He's a master at butchering basic history. I have an old blog post about it.