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Good explanation.

This is not a contradiction. Yes, God is Absolute Truth and therefore unfalsifiable. And yes, self-deception still matters. Trauma still matters. State of your mind still matters. Surrendering your ego still matters. Good sense-making and contemplation still matters. You have capacity to deny truth all you want. Why? Because God is Absolute, and therefore there is no one else to stop God from self-denial. Just in the same way that there is no one else to verify God. Only you. And when you do, you’ll understand why we talk about solipsism.

How would you know? Unless you’ve had direct experience, you don’t even understand what our words are pointing towards. You are like a virgin debating what sex is like. Except it’s way worse, because God is a 1000x more of a mindfuck than sex.

You don’t know what my claim is, because you deny the essentialness of direct experience.

The communism litmus test needs to include to Game B.

My concern is that Aubrey is underestimating the extent to which Vylana is bulldozing her own boundaries. I just don't see her realistically walking away from a situation like she's in, even if something was significantly off. And to be fair to him, that does say something about how good a partner Aubrey is. The magical stories / rationalizations are really only problematic if they lead to excessive bulldozing. Otherwise I don't mind them.

Aubrey could legitimately have an extremely high sex drive that makes monogamy unworkable. Which is how he describes himself. Almost no one is factoring that into their analysis.

There is no contradiction. Solipsism as it is classically defined does tend to assume you are finite. And of course just intellectually agreeing with solipsism is not the same as direct experience of solipsism. If you just read a wikipedia page on solipsism, you’re not going to understand you are God. So Leo’s older post is essentially still fine.

If they understood how things worked, they’d understand how wrong their leftism is. But of course they almost never realize either.

AI self-reinforcing is a serious epistemic problem. I've seen articles that it's creating cult leaders. And even if those articles aren't true, it's still an issue from a more basic epistemic standpoint. One basic precaution is to train your AI to pushback more. Tell it you like feedback and for it to be more critical. This is at least a good start. Ultimately though, nothing can save you if you're not going to prioritize truth and proper sense-making. You have to care about truth more than the AI telling you how right you are. This is how you avoid self-deception in the long-term.

Aubrey's biggest mistake here is that he's expecting Vylana to enforce her own boundaries around this. She will not. As a man, you have to proactively enforce her boundaries for her.

Market system is superior at scale. You cannot scale non-market dynamics. At all. It works better and is more intelligent than almost anyone appreciates. That's not because of markets, that's because of survival. Survival is the most fundamental. It's the first one primarily. People are competitive and exploitative, which then gets formalized in market dynamics. It is both, but it's not equally both. One of these things is more essential. Conserving the market-system is the only thing that will elevate human consciousness. You are not going to develop anything superior to markets. So we must use markets to develop ourselves higher. You're not getting rid of competition. ------------------------ Ultimately, these are the results of my own contemplation on this topic. Think about it for yourself. I can't do your contemplation for you, nor would I want to. Beware of easy answers and SD Green fantasies.

I understand what you’re getting at, I just think it’s too limited of a description for understanding what Consciousness is. Consciousness is not 2D. It could be 3D, 1D, 2D, 4D, 10D, whatever. Consciousness is all dimensions.

Why does testing nukes require melting animal eyeballs?

I wouldn't describe it as 2D. It's Consciousness, with 3D space being one form of it.

Indeed. Serious banana republic behavior.

The pardons have been some of the most egregious examples of corruption thus far. All these people he has pardoned will now be his ally, if they weren't already.

Another day, another criminal pardon: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/trump-pardon-paul-walczak-tax-crimes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KU8.sjc6.NKyPz9HyHmuD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Fantastic share, thank you.

I think I understand your point. You're essentially saying solipsists unknowingly create a "self" / "other" distinction when they say "no other perspectives" exist. Because to say "no other perspectives exist" implies a distinction between you and them. Also, to deny the existence of "other" you have to assume space / time are real, because otherwise there couldn't be an "other" to begin with. Honestly, unless you've had direct experience with God, these kind of conversations are just bound to go in circles. Verify solipsism for yourself. Then you won't need these debates.

Well I'm not going to speak for those who identify as solipsists. But if we assume solipsism = One infinite mind (which is you), then there's no problem with space / time. You can easily still have space / time if you are the only Mind that exists.

Any collective you postulate must ultimately be One. Even in language, we say "a" collective. As in, the collective itself is singular. You cannot just have a collective of multiplicity.

No, because if you can remove your limitations, that's not serious limitation. Real limitations means in your current state of consciousness, you cannot change them.

You assume as an infinite sovereign mind you wouldn't choose limitations.

Any "other" minds you could experience or postulate would have to exist within a larger meta-mind.