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Intellectuals are often naive and weak. How can one claim to be an integral thinker when they have no grasp on what evil is?

Nassim Taleb is one of my favorite intellectuals. https://youtu.be/THFsNUnMh2U?si=RQJdnY42TZnDwa1Z He has such a brilliant grasp on psychology and how the world really works. It's so clear, and no BS. I'm particularly impressed with his concept of Via Negativa Via Negativa: The approach of knowledge and improvement through subtraction rather than addition. Taleb suggests that we often achieve better outcomes by removing harmful elements rather than adding beneficial ones. This applies to fields such as medicine, governance, lifestyle, and knowledge. There are metaphysical reasons this principle is effective. Reality is an infinite matrix, will all possibilities and distinctions within it. So to gain insight about something, you have to distinguish what it is from everything it is not. Subtractive sensemaking. It's impossible to start at a void and build up understanding, you will create a delusion. Additive sensemaking leads you down rabbit holes and fantasies, subtractive sensemaking keeps what works in focus and removes the BS. Recognizing this principle and actively engaging it is key to good sensemaking.

If you experienced whatever Leo did, you'd have done the same thing. Have you had a reality shattering experiences? Becoming an Alien feels absolutely real in that state. As real as the feeling of your feet of the floor right now. Not defending the claims he made, but if you don't know the nature of such an experience you would be strawmanning Leo.

Then why are all the Christian evangelicals so anti-woke? Tom Holland should stick to making movies. It's a mistake to attribute general western moral virtues to Christianity. Moral virtues are developed based on principles that support survival and pragmatism, they are just culturally steeped in Christianity in the west. Like a coat of paint on a house, it doesn't matter what color (religion) you paint it, you still have a house (moral virtues). Because moral virtues are a social reflection of Life's ultimate purpose, they are not an arbitrary religious construction.

@gengarThis is like shit talking the first cosmonauts for being overwhelmed with the experience of visiting outer space. If you've never been to space, what do you know of it? A little bit of love and empathy on this forum you enjoy for free would be nice.

God has a personality. God is not as unbiased as you think, although this bias is not a product of ego or agenda. This bias is a result of functionality, what exists in God's creation are only things that function. All life shares a soul. A soul that chooses to survive, multiply and seek love in all its forms. That is the personality of God.

Ralston is quite an outlier in terms of personality and lifestyle though. A traditional marriage doesn't really work for a non-traditional person. Marriage is a lot more functional for the average person.

You exist. You are a product of reality. You are made of reality. Whatever reality is, is God. You are God.

Curation is creation. Creation is curation.

Make Actualized.org great again.

I'm manifesting. 🔮💅

Yes way. That is the only way, and you do that until you're able to replace the 9-5 with your life purpose. There's no shortcut.

Throw out the Qigong book, and write a better one. Forget about success and money, focus on being effective and doing things well and accurately for the sake of it. Money should be a secondary priority to effectiveness.

Great post @Joshe Yeah, the incentive from Theil is pretty clear - there's no better way to make your high-risk investments pay off than by manipulating public opinion. It's a dying game though, the generation that follows us will be clued into how these bastards manipulated a whole civilization. The same way we are 'woke' where our parents were not - our boomer dilemma will be having thought social media was ever good for us. There was once a time when smoking was cool.

Depends how hard the market crashes. I sold most of my shares (less than 100k) about 6 months ago when I could tell Trump was going to be elected. In that six months since it would have climbed a combined 15%. Now crashed about 7%. If I held, I would still be up. Will it crash another 8% or more? I doubt it honestly. The oligarchs are already feeling the burn. This is Moloch in action. It was better for me to keep my money in a sick system rather than opt out. Is the lesson here: Don't bet against Moloch?

Kidding, great episode. Lots of tools here for understanding God.

Me when people need proof for God.

People aren't sharp enough to get facts straight sober most of the time anyway. Funny - a 'truth serum' is only be as effective as the mind you give it to.

Yep, God is a logical necessity! That is part of what I call completeness. Everything has a logical explanation if you look for it because in order for a thing to exist, God must create an infinite causal chain that explains it. God justifies everything to an infinite degree because it can't not do it. Although the first bit about God seeing goodness is still new to me, I haven't gotten to that part. I'm still dark and edgy.

The trans people I know are totally happy to use a gender neutral or 'disabled' toilet separate from gendered bathrooms too. It keeps them safe and keeps the sanity of people who don't understand trans people intact. So the solution is really open ended and case by case, if decision makers could just use a bit of empathy and perspective we could find good solutions. But that's often a big ask for little minds

My trans friends just want to live totally as the gender they transitioned to without being demonized by people. View it through that lens and you have all the answers you need.

Maybe, but that's an assumption too. Solipsism can come in a 'exclusive' or 'inclusive' flavors. Both are functional perspectives that make more or less sense logically. That's why people can even hold those perspectives in the first place. So what does that mean for solipsism, if it functions under so many different interpretations?

Yes, but I don't think most of us do that honestly on this forum. Which is hard to admit. We have built up spiritual models with tons of assumptions we don't question anymore. And who's to say one's direct experience is accurate or unbiased? That's an assumption.