Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Nemra]

@Leo Gura, I remember that my math teacher gave us a problem to solve, and after a while of understanding it, I just said the answer because it made sense.

The teacher just laughed at me and said, You are right, but how did you solve it?

Then the teacher got disappointed. 😁

[Joshe]

8 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

@Leo Gura

Most recent blog post on intuition - enjoyed!

Big intuitive leaps really mess with types who work in other ways. It is really one of the most common reasons for misunderstanding.

It is like the ability to see all possibilities, the connections between them, and all deductions that result. Without getting stuck on one single detail. This processing occurs in an unconscious way.

The flip side is it can (as you point out) be difficult to elaborate precisely how you came to this conclusion. Often with intuitives it is hard for them to understand how their own intuition works, because it is such a baked in 'default' way of thinking. It is, in my experience, a rarer trait. 

You would probably have a heaps chill time with other intuitives

I'm an intuitive. It's really quite baffling to witness it. It's as if 20 variables and their implications are being processed in the background and when the process is finished, which is often in milliseconds, the final result exists as a single, formless knowing, with no symbol to represent it, and I have no idea how I know, but I just know. Over time, as it develops, if you have high metacognition, you get good at knowing when the results are incomplete or totally accurate. 

It can be frustrating to know something but not know the logical pieces that construct the knowing. Also, I've felt like an intellectual fraud (not that I'm an intellectual) because I don't sit down and work my ass off in collecting knowledge piece by piece. I just observe what grabs my attention and somehow, much understanding seems to be just handed to me on a silver platter. Of course, I have a high NFC and am always collecting information, but I don't work to organize any of it. I don't take notes for study. It all just goes into the brain bucket.

Figuring out how I know things becomes an interesting puzzle that requires decoding the things intuition serves up, but it's a task to figure it out. I have to leave my default world of wide-gazed perception and engage my Te (extraverted thinking), but before I do that, I ask my intuition where the intuition came from, then run the answer through the Te filter until I'm satisfied, then add the result back to the database for further intuition.

My working memory isn't the best when I'm engaged in linear thought but there seems to be a subconscious memory that tracks all the things. I ahve high pattern recognition of knowing where I've been before, so I think that has something to do with it. 

Also, I think it takes an intuitive to know one. I don't think you can really know what it's like if you don't have it as your default mode of operation. Like you said, even for those who do have it as their default likely don't understand it. 

It's a really interesting phenomenon. I've been learning a lot about it lately. 

Edited June 5, 2025 by Joshe

[CARDOZZO]

@Leo Gura

Can you point a single human being who is on that path to full autonomy of mind? 

I would like you to talk more about innovation, pioneering work, creativity, new levels of cognitive development, mind programming, how to become an inventor/pioneer.

Is there a science to engineer human geniuses?

[Leo Gura]

52 minutes ago, CARDOZZO said:

@Leo Gura

Can you point a single human being who is on that path to full autonomy of mind? 

Ralston is the best example I know besides me.

Few people have this as a goal.

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I would like you to talk more about innovation, pioneering work, creativity, new levels of cognitive development, mind programming, how to become an inventor/pioneer.

Yeah. I will. It takes time to build up to it. It requires a deep scaffolding.

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Is there a science to engineer human geniuses?

That's iffy.

But there are definitely principles and methods.

I don't view it as engineering geniuses. I view this whole path as understanding reality, oneself, and mind. The deeper you understand Mind the more genius gets unleashed.

So it all revolves about building up insane understanding of the most fundamental aspects of reality. The more fundamental, the better your mind becomes.

Ralston's and my work focuses on the absolute fundamentals, which everyone else tends to skip over.

Your best chance of becoming a genius is devoting yourself to the deepest fundamentals even when they don't seem practical.

When everyone is telling you that metaphysics is not important to science, that's exactly why you should master metaphysics. This is how a genius thinks.

Edited June 5, 2025 by Leo Gura

[UnbornTao]

1 hour ago, Miguel1 said:

Link doesn't seem to work. Can you check the correct link?

I want to re-read it.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/wrong-state

 

[Miguel1]

18 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

https://www.actualized.org/insights/wrong-state

 

Where the hell did you pull out that ”articles” part in the original link 🤣

[UnbornTao]

28 minutes ago, Miguel1 said:

Where the hell did you pull out that ”articles” part in the original link 🤣

Not me

But it happens. I think the videos use "/articles."

Edited June 5, 2025 by UnbornTao

[OBEler]

@Miguel1 I fixed the link. https://www.actualized.org/insights/wrong-state

@Leo Gura I am digesting your sweet insights one by one. What else you have you baked in your oven you didn't put on the menu? I like it also bitter sweet. 

My wish list:

Alien mind

AI for development 

Black pill

Solipsim for dummies 

 

Edited June 5, 2025 by OBEler

[Leo Gura]

28 minutes ago, OBEler said:

What else you have you baked in your oven you didn't put on the menu?

Over 100 videos it the oven slowly roasting like chickens, dripping with juices.

Edited June 5, 2025 by Leo Gura

[Miguel1]

@OBEler Thanks

I think Alien Mind is for the advanced course.

Inspired by your wish list, for years my big wish has been: Creativity !

Edited June 5, 2025 by Miguel1

[Vibes]

@Leo Gura What about that faint memory I have of a distant maybe dreamed up course you might have talked about?

[Leo Gura]

@Vibes It's all on my long to-do list.

[CARDOZZO]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Ralston is the best example I know besides me.

Few people have this as a goal.

Yeah. I will. It takes time to build up to it. It requires a deep scaffolding.

That's iffy.

But there are definitely principles and methods.

I don't view it as engineering geniuses. I view this whole path as understanding reality, oneself, and mind. The deeper you understand Mind the more genius gets unleashed.

So it all revolves about building up insane understanding of the most fundamental aspects of reality. The more fundamental, the better your mind becomes.

Ralston's and my work focuses on the absolute fundamentals, which everyone else tends to skip over.

Your best chance of becoming a genius is devoting yourself to the deepest fundamentals even when they don't seem practical.

When everyone is telling you that metaphysics is not important to science, that's exactly why you should master metaphysics. This is how a genius thinks.

Thanks Leo.

Already excited for the future of actualized.org

[Daniel Balan]

@Leo Gura How do I develop world class political education and understanding? From a very young age I always wanted to develop world class understanding in the most importand endeavourus of reality! It keeps me up at night the fact that I don't have 100% understanding and mastery of a subject! And right now politics is something I deeply want to understand but I am totally clueless! The more I try to understand politics the more insecure and weak I start to feel about my understanding of it!

[Leo Gura]

23 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

How do I develop world class political education and understanding

Books, books, books!

You must read actual books.

Books on history, geopolitics, war, diplomacy, espionage, law enforcement, sociology, political science, international affairs, economics.

I will add 40 books about such topics to my book list soon.

Edited June 5, 2025 by Leo Gura

[Daniel Balan]

@Leo Gura But how to make sure I don't become a Whatifalthist? That guy as you've said, read a ton of books on politics and is very educated in a way, but is a MAGA conspiracy theorist! My biggest fear in any endeavor is the potential to be totally cloaked in self deception! How can someone who litteraly followed the advice you just gave me become a MAGA conspiracy theorist? This gives me nightmares thinking that this could be me! Unless I have access to your blog and videos and forum! And if I never had encountered your work, I am 100% convinced that I would have been exactly like Waitifalthist!

[chisel]

My dad watches too much TV. He watches the news every day at lunch and dinner, even though the news often repeats from day to day. He says a person has to stay informed. I, on the other hand, don’t watch the news, so I feel that I shouldn’t vote—at least not until I understand what the political parties are all about. During lunch and dinner, the TV is still on, but I mostly ignore it. His political views clash with my sister’s, since they are in different stages of Spiral Dynamics (stage Orange vs. Green), and that creates the most anger and conflict in our home.

[Leo Gura]

@chisel That kind of passive consumption of political media creates brain-rot and ideological indoctrination. It doesn't create political wisdom.

Edited June 6, 2025 by Leo Gura

[Gidiot]

On 6/2/2025 at 2:55 PM, Leo Gura said:

Well, the whole doomer argument basically assumes that mankind is greedy enough to commit suicide.

How true is that? Hard to say.

I don't know how this whole AI thing will play out. Could be great, could be hell.

Old reply but at least you admit it. You don’t know if there will be good or bad from unemployment and agi. It could go terribly bad or it could lead to a unity of humanity and a Star Trek robot utopia where everyone has basic needs and money for fulfillment and maximization of love. I disagree strongly that humanities purpose is to be employed. There are probably more tasks being done outside of employment than inside the contractual obligations and if someone is better at doing it like a machine it’s against truth to deny that expression of reality for own our purpose or something to do. We are humans we will figure something out we always have.

 

people aren’t necessarily addicted to drugs cause they lack employment they are addicted because of a myriad of different reasons with probably the number one being lack of resources/opportunity.

One does not cure a drug addict by giving him a job you cure a drug addict by caring about his life his interests what makes him happy and empowering him to do such things in a healthy way, and of course there will always be people you can’t cure.
 

Nothing you can do about that.

Edited June 6, 2025 by Gidiot

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@Joshe You sound like you are well versed in MBTI and not just the typical types.

Have you been formally tested?

I have had 2 paid tests and both turned up INFJ - so the function stack would be Ni (introverted intuition), Fe (extraverted feeling), Ti (introverted thinking), Se (extraverted sensing). It aligns very well for me. But it is a framework with limitations. The Big 5 is more utilised in psychology. I had fun learning about the functions and how they all mesh together a long time ago - but I find it useful even today. I blatantly admit to manipulating and using leverage at work by working out peoples top functions and changing my management style to suit! I am sly so never trust me

No surprises Leo types as INTP