Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Thought Art]

@UnbornTao Did you just with post AI without saying it was AI?

Also, you doing okay man? I’m reading you as a bit upset and combative right now.

@Leo Gura Yo is that your cat? Is that real?

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[UnbornTao]

Just now, Thought Art said:

@UnbornTao Did you just with post AI without saying it was AI?

Insert "that's the joke" meme.

[Thought Art]

@UnbornTao Forum guidelines my guyyy.. lol, subtle joke too. 
 

You doing okay? 

[Carl-Richard]

"There are stupid people and there are smart people" is the most stupid way to view the world.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

2 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Fair point. Content is content — if it holds up, it holds up.
The obsession with source over substance is just credentialism in disguise. People dismiss good information because of where it came from while uncritically swallowing garbage from "approved" sources. That's not discernment, that's tribalism.
Judge the argument, not the jersey. And honestly? That's rare.

Thanks. I hate it.

[Thought Art]

@Carl-Richard I think there likely is stupid and smart people too

[lostingenosmaze]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/why-stupid-people-exist

A microcosmic case-in-point:

 

gooseworx is a victim of the childish, . infectious rot that is internet fandom culture.an entitled, bratty, mentally deficient, and emotionally subpar group of adult consumers that eat and eat and eat and eat and eat and throw a tantrum because they choked on their "content"

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[integral]

A stupidity test: When your exposed to leos content your first thoughts are:

• "OH someone else has figured out the same stuff i figured out"! -> this means you've been doing epistemic work your whole life before being told to. Probably even when you were a child it was all intuitive to you.
• "OH this is really important work" -> realizing that this is one of the only communities online that cares about Truth. Or even recognizes truth as an important value to have.

After being exposed to Leo for the first time you immediately recognize pure gold and you realize you just dragged your feet through non-stop epistemic garbage your entire life.

Every time you are exposed to any video in the future you feel like you are siphoning through a swamp of epistemic shit

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[UnbornTao]

@Leo Gura Did you even say 'thank you' once? I mean, did you know it was AI prior to posting it? 

[Leo Gura]

10 hours ago, integral said:

Ive seen his reaction when ever hes confronted with trump, like in the video you gave.

The read i got from it is He cannot speak freely on the matter and limits himself to keep his social connections.

Yes, he's very social and he wants to maintain his social connections with celebrities and important people. He loves being friendly with power. But I'm sure he still thinks he's fully independent. He doesn't believe befriending all those celebrities corrupts his judgment. But it does.

9 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Are you sure about that?

The Vernon Howard quote.

Never crossed my mind.

8 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

"There are stupid people and there are smart people" is the most stupid way to view the world.

Of course it's not that simple and that's not the attitude that's being suggested.

It's just sometimes you will run into stupid people and you should be prepared for it.

44 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

@Leo Gura Did you even say 'thank you' once?

I don't know what you are talking about.

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I mean, did you know it was AI prior to posting it? 

Yes, I suspect such videos to be AI. If the channel has no human face and was created in the last year or two, then I suspect AI. But mostly I just focus on the quality of the content.

I try not to share AI content unless it is particularly poignant.

I wish YouTube would force AI channels to have a label.

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[Raze]

5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Yes, he's very social and he wants to maintain his social connections with celebrities and important people. He loves being friendly with power. But I'm sure he still thinks he's fully independent. He doesn't believe befriending all those celebrities corrupts his judgment. But it does.

Recently he pushed back hard on one of his long time guests in Elon Musks orbit and criticizes Palantir

 

[integral]

I had a friend who told me he hates thinking because it gives him a headache.

For most poeple the effort to think is to high.

think friction is to high

[Leo Gura]

16 minutes ago, Raze said:

Recently he pushed back hard on one of his long time guests in Elon Musks orbit and criticizes Palantir

 

Gad Saad is such a worm.

Rogan's fanbase is getting quite upset with Rogan for all this befriending of billionaires. At some point Rogan is gonna have to do some backpeddling to get them back or he will have a revolt on his hands.

[Leo Gura]

11 minutes ago, integral said:

I had a friend who told me he hates thinking because it gives him a headache.

For most poeple the effort to think is to high.

think friction is to high

I certainly get exhausted from deep contemplation. I can only do some hours of it per day.

Deep thinking literally strains the brain. It is like running raytracing on your graphics card and the fans go into overdrive.

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[integral]

51 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I certainly get exhausted from deep contemplation. I can only do some hours of it per day.

Deep thinking literally strains the brain. It is like running raytracing on your graphics card and the fans go into overdrive.

That's a good insight, I think the average person gets the headache immediately? When I was younger it would take Maybe 4 to 5 hours of non-stop concentration before I get a headache. 

 

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[Leo Gura]

7 minutes ago, integral said:

That's a good insight, I think the average person gets the headache immediately? When I was younger it would take Maybe 4 to 5 hours of non-stop concentration before I get a headache. 

 

I never get headaches no matter how long or how deep I think.

I just get exhausted, hazy, burnt-out, or sleepy.

I have to be in the right mood to think deeply, otherwise it doesn't work well. I have to find a flow state. And that state/mood doesn't last more than a few hours.

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[Joseph Maynor]

Schopenhauer is a fool.  

[UnbornTao]

9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Never crossed my mind.

You need to pay closer attention, then.

9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't know what you are talking about.

Silly joke. 

9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Yes, I suspect such videos to be AI. If the channel has no human face and was created in the last year or two, then I suspect AI. But mostly I just focus on the quality of the content.

I try not to share AI content unless it is particularly poignant.

I wish YouTube would force AI channels to have a label.

For many, the fact that it was artificially generated gives it a hollow ring from the get-go.

It's clear the author just wants to make a quick buck by selling overly simplistic (albeit reasonable on paper) narratives that make people feel validated. And it is working - the channel has been gaining popularity relatively quickly, and most people in the comments don't seem to realize it is AI.

Would such a person care about being factual and accurate in the first place? This is clearly not their goal.

I doubt they even care about the content per se. You saw the Himalayan AI BS stories. Getting eyeballs the easy way is their main concern - maybe the only one.

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[UnbornTao]

8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I certainly get exhausted from deep contemplation. I can only do some hours of it per day.

Deep thinking literally strains the brain. It is like running raytracing on your graphics card and the fans go into overdrive.

Contemplation and thinking are not the same thing. The former could be thought of as a silent or still "waiting," or opening.

It's not so much about trying to solve an equation as it is about facing a blank canvas - or some such metaphor.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

The word searched for in all that might be concentration.