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有先知力喎

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOfb-TvhLfI 

理

 理不可服人，只可服眾

以理說人，令其孤立於世

唯心傳心，方可通達

Correlation between identity politics and general intelligence

I'm sufficiently bothered by these thoughts and felt I had to put them down in writing.

The reason why there is a correlation between actively engaging in identity politics and general intelligence is because the participation in identity politics reveals a general inability to tease out subtle true causes of undesirable outcomes and a tendency to misattribute it to some other apparent factor that is somewhat correlated but ultimately not a real cause.

Take this for example.

It is quite obvious nobody is hired for their skin color alone. It is an insufficient cause. The existence of poor white men is proof. A more robust hypothesis is that in the vast majority of these cases, the so called "mediocre white men" are hired because of nepotism by people of similar backgrounds who do hold positions of power.

Mis-attributing the problem of nepotism for racism is of course a problem, and solutions to fix each respective social problem are different. But this is beyond the scope of this article.

But people who routinely mis-attribute various problems for discrimination of gender, race and sexual preferences are precisely those people who fail to rationally discover more robust explanations of undesirable phenomena seen in the world around us. Which of course is highly correlated to their general intelligence.  These misattributed causes have simple explanations of why bad things happen in the world -- the simplicity is alluring to people who prefer to avoid complicated models, except that they're often disastrously wrong.

格物致知

 ACIM L28

"You could, in fact, gain vision from just that table, if you would withdraw all your own ideas from it, and look upon it with a completely open mind. It has something to show you; something beautiful and clean and of infinite value, full of happiness and hope. Hidden under all your ideas about it is its real purpose, the purpose it shares with all the universe.

In using the table as a subject for applying the idea for today, you are therefore really asking to see the purpose of the universe."

王陽明話格竹格唔撚到，我一直都存疑。明明我格《涼宮春日》嘅「漫無止境八月」都格到至理出嚟，格竹點會冇用？ 格竹無果，主要係中二病未除，心有所急，效力未見。何況悟道在恍忽之間，去到勞心勞力嘅話就即係緣份未到，不妨再等下次機會。

Self-imposed constraints of logic

I'm actually pretty good at making logical arguments that have a correct conclusion. People may think that's because I'm logical, but generally the trick is to have good intuition. If you have the correct conclusion, you can easily work backwards and back-fill the logic.

I didn't always provide the arguments to my conclusions, before I picked up the habit of *being rational*, I just often gave the intuitive conclusion without explanation.

The rational explanation is a useful skill for persuasion (and sometimes to double check myself), but it is also a self-imposed limitation to my abilities to intuit.

i.e. if there's no apparent connection between the situation and an outcome, then limiting myself to rational explanations means that I can't give a correct conclusion.

I will probably have to learn to lift this limit somehow. Otherwise my abilities are incomplete.

Sacrificial magic

Q: "If abundance is natural, why have magic users from past millennia used sacrificial methods instead?"

A: If the intended effect does not lead to abundance but instead deprivation, then obviously the ritual performed must be depriving in nature. This is why when you intend to take from others you get less, and why when you give you gain more.

 

materialization

It seems that the only way something materializes is ... whether people accept it as well.

As such the "spirit" and "physical" is a false dichotomy. The only thing that differentiates the two is whether other people want to see the same thing.