Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Heaven]

Leo you were wiser when you were 17 than me at 30😅

[Rafael Thundercat]

This is the sort of Rationality science make people do

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DegTMxLzjZV/?exln=c3ZkczZ0N3BmYzg5

Sounds so profound but ..

[Rafael Thundercat]

Love allows fools to be fools

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DejaSJhuogh/?cplk=MTZudXM5MmI1OG4xaw==

 

[Human Mint]

1 hour ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

Love allows fools to be fools

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DejaSJhuogh/?cplk=MTZudXM5MmI1OG4xaw==

 

That's a couple of blocks from where I take classes. Nothing new.

[aurum]

2 hours ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

This is the sort of Rationality science make people do

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DegTMxLzjZV/?exln=c3ZkczZ0N3BmYzg5

Sounds so profound but ..

About as profound as it gets for rationalists.

[Leo Gura]

9 hours ago, Basman said:

Those fish look like they are hunting for the nearest wine bottle.

Correction, that fish video is AI after all.

I have updated the blog.

[r0ckyreed]

13 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Correction, that fish video is AI after all.

I have updated the blog.

Ahh god damnit. I just sent the video to my ex-girlfriend. 😂

Edited 3 hours ago by r0ckyreed
Just kidding

[Rishabh R]

@Leo Gura Leo your recent blog post is great . Particularly I liked the part of skepticism , questioning assumptions , direct experience is the closest thing to truth, also the philosophy of self-doubt  . I discovered Actualized.org when I was 17 , now I am 26 and you know what people hate philosophy in real life . I am talking about people in real life . I talked about a person of my own age, that person asked that who is your idol and I told Socrates . It was mind blowing or per say surprising to me that they didn't knew Socrates . Hello that person couldn't even pronounce Socrates . That's how deluded people are in their own culture and religion . I am also deluded but not only that the main point is that I am wrong . You may not reply to my post but here is the thing - I have discovered that challenging your own mental assumptions is one of the worthwhile journeys that one's mind can take rather than seeling the comfort of living in a positive or negative beleifs .

Life has proven to me again and again - I don't know is truer than any positive or negative certainity of an event happening in the future . 

Questions - Am I going in the right direction when I choose questioning my thoughts ,assumptions instead of choosing to be confident in self-belief ? 

Is self-belief is better or self-questioning better ? ( I assume self-questioning is better )

Is direct experience questionable ? ( Since direct experience exists until we are experiencing things or is it a dream ?)

Thank you much appreciation from a long time subscriber to your videos since 2017.

[Ulax]

@Leo Gura How would you go about deciding the right decision in a legal case?

[Leo Gura]

15 minutes ago, Ulax said:

@Leo Gura How would you go about deciding the right decision in a legal case?

You need to see as much of the evidence as possible without jumping to conclusions or making assumptions.

You also need to be unbiased and committed to truth, not some agenda.

Edited 1 hour ago by Leo Gura

[Ulax]

18 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

You need to see as much of the evidence as possible without jumping to conclusions or making assumptions.

You also need to be unbiased and committed to truth, not some agenda.

What about in hard cases? Where the law does not point to a clear answer

[Leo Gura]

15 minutes ago, Ulax said:

What about in hard cases? Where the law does not point to a clear answer

Legal cases have standards for judgment like most likely, or beyond reasonable doubt.

There is not guaranteed way. It is always imperfect and not absolute.

[Ulax]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

Legal cases have standards for judgment like most likely, or beyond reasonable doubt.

There is not guaranteed way. It is always imperfect and not absolute.

I'm asking more of a question of what is the right legal response to a situation. Rather than what facts are true or not.

[Leo Gura]

@Ulax Your question is too vague so I am not going to guess what you mean.