Leo Gura

Sigma life!

I love Dave as a posterboy for all the problems I teach about science. Without Dave people would be like: "Leo, you are painting a strawman of science." But thanks to Dave they cannot say that to me. Haha. Dave is the living proof that I am right. Lol

It's much worse than that. His debating is awful. He does so many personal attacks on his opponents, it is shameful. Serious scientists should be embarrassed to have Dave representing them. It makes science as a field look as dogmatic as religion. Dave is actually doing us a service by putting science's dogmatism out on display for all to see. Usually scientists are much more clever about masking their dogmatism in a veneer of propriety and decency. Dave just goes full materialist beast mode.

Well, yeah, consciousness work brings insane requisite variety, mental flexibility, creativity, and intuition. My learning process is so intuitive now that it cannot be formalized or rationally laid out. I just channel higher intelligence. Can this be turned into a formal training method? Not really. A decade of consciousness work is the training. And the beauty of it is that it works in any new domain, from music to math to chess to social to children to animals. It is truly General Intelligence. I could intellectually master most domains. The problem is that most domains are meaningless to master. What is the point in mastering math, for example? It's a big opportunity cost. And mastering domains requires such seriousness that it ceases to be enjoyable. So for hobbies, mastery is not ideal. Chess is much more fun as intermediate than as a grand-master. The only way to become a grand-master is to turn chess into a tedious grind. I love chess in a causal way. I love chess before it was computer-analyzed and memorized to death. Chess back in the 1800s. That was magical chess.

I feel that consciousness work has made me much better at learning chess. If I wanted to invest that time, I could get very good at it, but that isn't a good use of my time. The single most important thing you need for becoming masterful at chess is fooling yourself that this is a good use of your time. If you can do that, you're halfway to grandmaster

This is similar to Phil Hartman's death. Tragic.

I disagree that it is corruption. It is a perspective. A perspective should not be assumed to be total. Yes, his job is helping people get off medication. That is not wrong. There is a need for that. Whether this applies to you is an open question.

Yeah, it's not good for black.

Yes he can. E6 pawn can also be attacked by black rook.

Not really. If that pawn takes rook, then king takes other rook and the e6 pawn is lost. The bishop was keeping king from reaching e6 pawn. Eliminating it loses that pawn. So pawn cannot take rook. Instead white needs to move his rook away from king. But where will white move his rook? Not so obvious.

Take the bishop.

Good. A visionary is one who has a creative mind and sees strong visions of how things ought to be done, what things ought to be created. If a visionary is writing a novel, he has a strong sense of what kind of novel to write, what values it should embody, what themes it have. A visionary knows what is right, knows what he wants, sees a btter way to do things. A visionary says, "No, we must do things this way, not that way. Follow me, I know how to do this right."

Black will not win, but might tie. Or at least put up a good fight. I don't see the point giving up by king taking rook. Black's rook after taking bishop is well-positioned to steal a few easy white pawns.

Okay. And so what? There is not a bishop.

Both things are true: 1) Psychiatry is corrupt and medication is overprescribed 2) Some people need medication Nuance If nobody needed medication then the illusion would be too easily cracked. The Devil creates corruption by mixing the right with the wrong. Not by being 100% wrong.

You can't push e6 if the king didn't capture rook. King will not allow e6 to work.

It is more like Type A vs Type B personality types. Type B is laid back and not ambition. A oot of this is about personality type and style. Not everyone wants to dominate, lead, and climb to the top. The problem with the alpha/beta distinction is that it makes the beta seem wrong or bad, when it isn't per se.

If you recapture rook you will not get a passed pawn. King should take white's rook.

He has a massive scientific ego and zero self-awareness of it. He thinks the truth of science justifies his ego.

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Re-read the note in that post.

It would be a twisted Christian-flavored awakening, not the purest kind.

Oh yeah, Kriya yoga.