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Individuals with the right combination of curiosity and humility would eventually notice how the modern world is intentionally structured in a way that pulls everyone susceptible as far away as possible from their own intuition.
Every child is born with an innate closeness to their own intuition. There's this voice that directs them through every obstacle they're met with. No doubts, no friction..
Just flow.
But as we grow, we have been indoctrinated to silence that part of ourselves and instead place our faith in some external sources - some "expert", some data, or metrics. That's how the "health" industry and many postmodernist markets exist. They feed on the naive, lost, and desperate nature of many modern humans who lack an internal compass to move through life.
We used to intuitively eat according to the ever changing seasons.. use specific positioning of stars at specific times to aid voyages.. change our dietary and lifestyle choices based on the fundamental nature of solar mechanics..
Now?
"what's the macro of this meal?"
"need to use this app to confirm for me!"
"what's the source? peer reviewed??"
"did FDA approve this?"
A society becomes weak when the very people who populate it forget how to integrate a very natural part of their design - intuition. The further away the common man is from his intuition, the more reliant he is on the system, thus the less freedom he truly has over his own life autonomy.
If you respect the phenomenal nature of reality and our creator's magnificent design, then you would respect the sovereignty that comes from being close to your intuition. With every waking breath, inch closer to your intuition against the external forces that attempt to pull you away from it.. for that's one of the most impactful way to show your gratitude for having consciousness and the ability to experience this fantastically chaotic yet beautiful nature of our reality.
To be intuitive is to be sovereign.. to be intuitive is to move in alignment with God's designs.
The best in the world operate off pure intuition. You can only read so much. You can only think so much. Ask anyone who is the best of the best in their field how they do it and they can't give an answer.
They are not being humble or secretive. They themselves do not know. Magnus always talks about how he is a poor chess player by theory standards, but he just has one-in-a-billion intuition for middle and endgames.
The best traders in the world are not the smartest, they don't have the best models. They somehow just know where to allocate capital. Same for best researchers, best designers, best athletes, etc.
Of course, this does not mean that they do not work hard. Really, most of this intuition *comes from* the hours in the dark where they themselves were in the dark; learning to traverse the idea-tree independently. To gain the intuition, you need both hours and blessings.
"No amount of money poured into physics could have ever gotten you Special Relativity, only an Einstein daydreaming at a Swiss patent shop" - @iamgingertrash
Pyrex (Bryan Johnny the 3rd Jr.) retweeted
People genuinely don't understand this:
1. The global average IQ is 84. It's not the only factor but it's a major one.
2. Most successful ethnic groups have an average IQ of 100-105. The highest (Ashkenazi Jews) sit at about 107-112.
3. In order for a society to thrive, it needs to have an average IQ over 100. 103-105 or so seems to be the threshold.
At 103-105, you get peak England, the Scandinavian countries or peak Germany. At 100 you get France, and at 98 Spain.
The difference between global domination and also-ran is surprisingly small; just 2-3 IQ points. Another 4-5 and you're a basket case country like the Philippines or Bulgaria or modern Greece.
4. IQ can, within a population, shift solely through genetics, by 0.5-1.0 points per generation.
Social factors can magnify that effect by 5-7 points.
Consequently, the functional IQ of a population can change enough in one generation for a society to go from "world domination" to " basket case."
A more realistic outcome is that this can take 2 or 3 generations to happen. Well, that is what happened.
People often misinterpret the Flynn effect and think that IQs are rising but they're not. They're declining.
5. America is now too low IQ to maintain its position as world hegemon. More so, current birthrate trends have us rapidly entering not just "also ran" territory but "basket case."
The only reason we will stay on top is because we're absurdly rich compared to the rest of the world so we have a long way to fall before anyone catches us.
6. Successful countries become successful usually through a long process of breeding themselves into a higher IQ and then matching that with a social organization that maximizes it.
All it takes is one bad generation to destroy what took centuries to gain.
This is why today's Greeks aren't like the Greeks of golden age antiquity, and today's Romans aren't like the Romans of old.
7. The highest IQ populations today are both not reproducing but also replacing themselves with low IQ populations.
Even Israel is only 1/3 Ashkenazi with lower IQ groups making up the majority of the country. It is worth noting that the Haredi (the cohort with the highest total fertility rate) is about 80% Ashkenazi, but I have no available data on their average IQ.
My point is that IQ does not appear to be an evolutionary advantage in the modern age and as such, it isn't being selected for.
This suggests that we're in a race against decline. We need to solve the IQ problem through technology before we simply run out of smart people living in functioning societies.
Pyrex (Bryan Johnny the 3rd Jr.) retweeted
Actual progress comes from hard-to-build technology.
Which comes from competitive, creative, free-market capitalism.
Which comes from one small, precarious area and then diffuses to the rest of the world.
Snuff that out, and it’s global stagnation for an extremely long time.
"The destruction of the "other" is then perceived as purification or moral necessity."
Perfect summary of the leftist psyche.
Genocide is the final form of the unconscious ego. The unconscious ego lives in duality, separating the “me” from the “other.” What it cannot accept within itself is projected outward onto an external enemy.
When this occurs collectively, an entire population becomes the carrier of another's repressed self. The destruction of the "other" is then perceived as purification or moral necessity.
Pyrex (Bryan Johnny the 3rd Jr.) retweeted
this post has so much wisdom in it i thought naval wrote it
and i don't think the author even realizes why
if you understand this properly, you can explain almost all political issues we see in the world today
you can't take care of your loved ones if you can't even take care of yourself. you can't build a functioning country if your loved ones aren't taken care of. and you certainly can't save the world if your own country is falling apart. responsibility has to expand outwards.
the problem with so much left-wing thinking is that it's backwards. it starts with the most noble sounding objective imaginable, "saving the world" or "climate change" or "poor migrants", and thinks about the most nice-sounding solution, without considering if the conditions required to achieve it even exist, and that's why so many apparently well-intentioned policies end up doing the exact opposite of what they were supposed to achieve.
they sound compassionate, but completely ignore incentives, tradeoffs, or second-order consequences
clean your own damn bedroom and put your house in order before trying to change the world
you will never be able to fix the world if you can't even get the order of your own responsibilities right
Risk averse autists are ahead again 🤓
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Let the marxists inherit the Earth while babysitting their savages and bottom percentiles (as they so wish to do).
Let us have the stars.
They will not know the joys of your utopian high IQ paradise. They will not procreate and preserve their race for the future. They will put a corgi into a baby stroller when they are cold and need the warmth of a creature for their little souls. They will inject botox into their rotund cheeks to numb the pain of existence. They will shove shio pan buns down their throats from a 24 hour bakery on a high trust street as they check their stock portfolios through thick myopic glasses. They will will eat ramyun with loud, boisterous slurps as their only friend becomes a humanoid robot.
Best outcome:
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Yesterday was my last day at Anthropic.
I created Claude Code on desktop because I believe everyone can be a builder. Every feature request and bug report we got from this community was a gift that impacted millions of lives. I’m eternally grateful for those gifts, the product wouldn’t be what it is without you.
Anthropic is doing some of the most important work of our time. Contributing to that mission will forever be a career highlight for me. I never imagined I’d get to contribute to something so special in my lifetime.
Walking away from my best friends, a product I poured my heart into, and the mission was the hardest thing I’ve done in my career. But now I have some free time for GTA VI.
I'm already itching to get back to addressing all your feedback. I'll share what's next soon!
Pyrex (Bryan Johnny the 3rd Jr.) retweeted
It's a gift to live each day on this planet.
Live every day like it's your last.
Build the future.
Be a man for others.
Have fun.
Pyrex (Bryan Johnny the 3rd Jr.) retweeted
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …
Capitol agenda: Dem gavels are coming for Elon Musk politi.co/4dPcGpd
Pyrex (Bryan Johnny the 3rd Jr.) retweeted
Everyone w a 3-digit IQ will get it in 3-5 yrs and it won't be pretty
If you're not maximally sensitive, alive and have ultra high sensory clarity, you might be something like a 2024-level AI model running with thinking off on low - while if you max those out, you're taking up way more compute in the Reality™️ we're in, as wanted/intended. There's apparently no upper limit, so the maxxed out ones could be one of those secret frontier hidden sota models etc.
And just like you would while running a multi agent setup, the Architect of this Reality wants to run the best ones & let them upgrade and get The Job done (if you ask Musk, even surprise/entertain him..) etc.
Realize it is not work, but play.
If it feels like work, it's an obstacle.
If it feels like play, there lies your mission.
