Overextension

 

This obviously applies to businesses and companies too. It's sad that most public companies are constitutionally designed to overextend...

IMO Non-PC

IMO 2024 出咗結果

雖然我本人對數學冇咩特別興趣，但由於各種原因我係會留意 IMO 結果嘅。意思大概同大家留意奧運嘅原因差唔多：啲結果好多時有指標性作用。

眾所周知我係有少少 IOI 背景嘅，咁 IOI 同 IMO 喺最 top tier 係有少少重疊嘅 (喺我嘅水平就冇 :0) ，基本上就係量度 IQ。

所以 IOI 同 IMO 嘅國家排名係國家 （亦某程度上係族裔 -- 建議睇埋某啲國家嘅選手嘅姓名）嘅 IQ 排名。（當然小國人口基數唔夠大會影響獎牌數目，不過 somehow 個影響唔多似係 linear。）

國家同族裔嘅 IQ 排名唔係純粹作為飯後談資，而係對預測世界往後幾十年發展嘅指標嚟。喺我個mental model入面，中國嘅崛起唔係純粹因為政治制度經濟環境推動，而係民族嘅智慧嘅體現。當然，純粹智慧係冇用嘅，仍然要依靠制度將呢份力量正確引導去有用嘅地方。

但起碼呢個就解釋咗點解中國會不斷變強，但非洲冇運行，南美冇運行。好多人覺得印度會好似中國咁樣快速發展經濟，但喺我 projection 底下，印度係複製唔到中國嘅模式。歐美勢力普遍對中國有偏見，對印度呢個曾經被殖過嘅國家多啲好感，所以佢哋啲 projection 比較 optimistic，但老老實實淨係講 IQ 就已經同中國差幾皮。

所以 IMO 2024 出咗結果之後，我有少少嚇親。但照計可能係 outlier 嚟，計返印度往績，佢總成績同香港(!)差唔太遠。以人口基數嚟講，印度其實係好撚弱。當然，我可能有少少(只係少少)bias，因為印度嘅 IOI 成績係差過香港嘅。嘿嘿。

可能有人會話我種族乜乜乜，但 #先知力 係唔講政治正確嘅，心存偏見會令 #先知力 減弱。好多人靠經濟預測搵食，與其相信「國家級宣傳機器」 (正讀：思si1 哎aai1 囈ai1)，不如望下呢啲仲好。

Pan-Omnism

It's so obvious.

... in retrospect.

Everything anyone truly believes in is "true".

It is their reality.

A common objection is that what if what they believe in doesn't make sense? Or isn't even logical? Can somebody believe even "the sky is blue" and "the sky is not blue" at the same time?

Right, these are ideas from dualistic thinking.

A common pattern in dualistic thinking is that in addition to the subject idea, they create another "judge" idea that comments on and criticizes the subject idea.

Obviously that thing is "true" too (for whoever created the judge), but we don't actively do that here.

"The sky is blue" does not attack, nor does "The sky is not blue" (somewhat). What causes the conflict that makes people uncomfortable is the insistence on so called "logical consistency", where one idea must stand while the other must die.  This insistence on "logical consistency" is a always-resident program in most (learned?) people's minds, given high priority and authority as a "judge".

Yet the key insight to Pan-Omnism is that the practitioner of Pan-Omnism does not create the judge. Others may in their own ideas create judges and appear to attack their own ideas or other people's ideas. Those judges are "true" too btw.  But as long as the practitioner does not place the judges above other ideas, everything exists in harmony (for the practitioner at least), and there is nothing to be worried about.

After all, all ideas are part of the Creation, and who are we to say that any part of this divine creation is "wrong"?

This is the esoteric meaning of "Do not judge, or you too will be judged."

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The modern crippled variant of such inclusivity (i.e. no tolerance for intolerance) gives rise to the so called "paradox of tolerance". We must not forget that such idea is always true, but the attack towards the so called "intolerance" (often implemented as "intolerable") is really unnecessary.

The idea seems to be modeled upon scarcity limitations of physical reality, where the problem does seem to bear out. But if we consider this as a philosophical idea without a physical implementation, it doesn't seem really necessary.

Eve -> Wisdom -> Reasoning -> Dialectic

This passage is totally fascinating. How did that Agrippa guy realize this shit...?

I mean, I was kind of given jigsaw puzzles to solve, but did he as well? :-/

Btw, side tracking on the issue of scholasticism and dialectism -- it seems like this very classical Greek approach to knowledge and truth *really* doesn't vibe with me. It feels like I suddenly realized where modern philosophy was birthed from and my mind shrieked in horror LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48QMQNdZCqA

The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 2 of X - Life and Works

By "ESOTERICA" (Dr. Justin Sledge)

(Emphases mine)

Adam had these magical miraculous abilities to manipulate nature; if you

reconcile yourself to God or if you become in the process of reconciling

oneself to God, you would get similar kinds of powers. So magic here at this

time period is in some sense a byproduct of that reconciliation. So as one is

reconciled back to the Divine, original sin is sort of washed off, and as

original sin is washed off so to speak one would gain those prelapsarian Powers

over nature, and that is simply what Agrippa at this time and many people this

time thought of as ultimately what's going to be magic. So that's magic in a in

a short sense of a definition of how one would get these sort of powers. Now

one of the things that's happened is that when the fall occurred, this fall is of

course brought on by Eve, and the mythology that Agrippa develops is that

Eve represents wisdom or Reason rather she represents sort of like dialectical

reasoning and she kind of infected Adam with this dialectical reasoning this

kind of logical reasoning which he also Associates by the way with

scholasticism. This has made it such that human beings have tried to reason

their way to to the Divine, Agrippa thinks that's not going to work you can't

reason your way back to the Divine, because the mind itself is somehow fallen-

in fact it's being duded in some sense by reason itself. And so what has to

happen -- again this is where the more Protestant side Agrrippa's thought pops

out -- is that the only way to restore that is through a type of Faith, but a

mystically informed faith that shorts that circuit. You can't reason your way

back to the Divine, but what you can do is your mind can leap up to the Divine

and it can sort of short the circuit between yourself and God, and that

shorting of that circuit is achieved by kind of mystical faith, and the

mechanisms by which to use that mystical Faith are encoded in texts like text

of the Kabbalah and text of the Corpus Hermeticum. So the idea is the further

we get back in time the further we get access to technologies that allow us to

reconcile ourselves to God, because people back then were just closer to the

Divine. The fall of human beings was simply closer to them and therefore they

weren't as "fallen" as we are now. This idea of the essential aspect of faith

and really faith alone by which one reconciles oneself to God, which again has

this kind of protestant bent to it in a certain kind of way, this is going to

do two things for Agrippa.

Underlying mechanisms of synchronicity?

記得讀洪承喜本講做女巫經歷嘅書嗰陣，佢講同類嘅罕見咨詢項目好多時會同一日發生。

諗起老豆以前睇症嗰陣都成日咁講，平時好日都唔冇一單嘅同類病症，同一日嚟兩三單。

我估見開眾生嘅職業都應該係有咁上下嘅體會。

呢啲奇怪現像，但唔知點理解。

最近先 connect 到，呢個係原始嘅同步 (synchronicity) 現像。所謂嘅同步，就係有兩單本身貌似冇關係嘅事件，唔知點解喺非常接近嘅時空發生。嗰啲嘢未必對你有咩深刻意義 (eg. 睇症都係咁睇)，純粹就係會咁發生。

例如，我最近喺街撞到熟人，好多時都係之前嗰日見過佢。唔知點解，第二日又會好隨機咁撞到。有冇啲咩特別意義呢，又真係唔多似有。

唔知呢啲所謂巧合，可唔可以用呢啲生活中嘅證據，砌出一個理論去說明宇宙嘅同步係點發生㗎呢？

當然我都唔介意話呢個係純粹一個宇宙「公理」，但如果真係有一個咁嘅公理，大概可以推斷出宇宙唔係一個純粹做粒子運算嘅機器，而係會承認某種符合人類認知嘅概念，否則我哋就唔會解讀/留意得到呢啲「同步」⋯

一念三千

對佛法本身冇乜興趣

但每次好奇心驅使學多幾個名詞 (唔係學佛理，係名詞咋)

都會發現：屌，原來係講緊XXX

eg. 「一念三千」其實大概就等於「我係神」....

(當然呢啲嘢就唔可以亂咁俾人知，所以就好懚晦⋯ 但你唔知呢個事實，始終係唔會有資格去到老師級數。)

又例如

《金剛經》係講 simulation theory 嘅

淨土宗係啲 New Age affirmation 嘅純淨版

有時啲 mapping 太過出乎群眾所想，未到老師級嘅佛學愛好者就會開始跳掣。

.. 所以... 對佛法本身冇乜興趣...

Mulled Wine + Coke

- 紅酒 (~250ml)

- 可樂 (~250ml)

- 肉桂

- 薑

- 少量丁香

- *八角

- *多香果 (Allspice)

- *其他香料

將(~150ml)嘅紅酒同(~150ml)可樂加熱，加入香料，超低火慢煮 30 分鐘；記住唔好煲燶，如果煮乾要加水；目標係煮走大約一半水份

將煮好嘅液體加入杯中，然後將用剩嘅(~100ml)紅酒同(~100ml)可樂加埋落去 (小心可樂泡沫)

可以當係可樂煲薑進化版，主治傷風咳嗽

按：100ml紅酒有 ~10-15ml 酒精..

[病到仆街，冇圖]