I just realized that this is precisely why I think LessWrong will fail in the end. And why I have been unable to help.
From what I have seen, beyond all of the awesome information on how to use one’s thoughts appropriately, LessWrong suggests that people attempt to interpret things correctly. I strongly disagree with that ideal. Interpreting something correctly is, in the end, just as bad as interpreting something wrongly; because both are equally different from perceiving something.
This is why people call science and reductionism a religion. Interpreting something and assigning it a truth value is trying to assign a truth value to an interpretation. Yeah, that’s an obvious sentence, but what I mean is that interpretations are never true. Sure, interpretations can mimic or look like the truth, but only the original perception is true. And perception is true regardless of how it is interpreted. The difference between common religion and the religion hidden in science is a simple matter of different interpretations. Interpretations that are less wrong are more useful only because it’s easier to extract information of perceptions from them. This is extremely useful, but only as a transition state designed for communication purposes (including communication with oneself).
For those of you who might read this and think “but directly perceiving something is impossible, as all perceptions are filtered and interpreted by the mind.” So? That never stopped me. Try interpreting things in multiple, opposing ways simultaneously. That’s how I started learning how to differentiate between perception and interpretation. Also, try considering that the interpretation doesn’t exist, and so doesn’t actually matter. Eventually, all interpretations become useful, as all have information of the original perception hidden within them. Trying to set one’s mind on interpretations hinders one’s ability to perceive. The less interpretations one believes, the more one is able to perceive. I am speaking from direct experience, and also observation of tens of thousands of conversations, and hundreds of individuals over time.
Please. This is an important step toward sentiency. Hell, it’s the definition of sentience.
Please try to be sentient. LessWrong is my greatest hope of a sizable community capable of sentiency. Yes, I am literally begging you to attain sentience. It’s really lonely up here.
Please. This is an important step toward sentiency. Hell, it’s the definition of sentience. Please try to be sentient. LessWrong is my greatest hope of a sizable community capable of sentiency. Yes, I am literally begging you to attain sentience. It’s really lonely up here.
You are lonely up there because you are slightly insane (and, alas, in a way that isn’t a sufficiently shared cultural insanity for it to form a group bonding role for you).
Interpreting something correctly is, in the end, just as bad as interpreting something wrongly; because both are equally different from perceiving something.
I stopped reading right here. It sounded the crackpot alarm for me.
I just realized that this is precisely why I think LessWrong will fail in the end. And why I have been unable to help.
From what I have seen, beyond all of the awesome information on how to use one’s thoughts appropriately, LessWrong suggests that people attempt to interpret things correctly. I strongly disagree with that ideal. Interpreting something correctly is, in the end, just as bad as interpreting something wrongly; because both are equally different from perceiving something.
This is why people call science and reductionism a religion. Interpreting something and assigning it a truth value is trying to assign a truth value to an interpretation. Yeah, that’s an obvious sentence, but what I mean is that interpretations are never true. Sure, interpretations can mimic or look like the truth, but only the original perception is true. And perception is true regardless of how it is interpreted. The difference between common religion and the religion hidden in science is a simple matter of different interpretations. Interpretations that are less wrong are more useful only because it’s easier to extract information of perceptions from them. This is extremely useful, but only as a transition state designed for communication purposes (including communication with oneself).
For those of you who might read this and think “but directly perceiving something is impossible, as all perceptions are filtered and interpreted by the mind.” So? That never stopped me. Try interpreting things in multiple, opposing ways simultaneously. That’s how I started learning how to differentiate between perception and interpretation. Also, try considering that the interpretation doesn’t exist, and so doesn’t actually matter. Eventually, all interpretations become useful, as all have information of the original perception hidden within them. Trying to set one’s mind on interpretations hinders one’s ability to perceive. The less interpretations one believes, the more one is able to perceive. I am speaking from direct experience, and also observation of tens of thousands of conversations, and hundreds of individuals over time.
Please. This is an important step toward sentiency. Hell, it’s the definition of sentience. Please try to be sentient. LessWrong is my greatest hope of a sizable community capable of sentiency. Yes, I am literally begging you to attain sentience. It’s really lonely up here.
You are lonely up there because you are slightly insane (and, alas, in a way that isn’t a sufficiently shared cultural insanity for it to form a group bonding role for you).
Gonk. Gonk.
I stopped reading right here. It sounded the crackpot alarm for me.