Selected Insights

A curated collection of thoughts worth preserving

On Human Nature

Addiction and Efficiency
“What if addiction is the inability to utilize good feelings in an efficient way?”

Intelligence and Boredom
“What if ideas emerge out of boredom, and intelligent people are frequently and more bored?”

Complexity and Engagement
“As the complexity of society increases, humans become more engaged and less intelligent.”

On Control and Reality

Self-Reliance
“You can only control yourself, and you cannot afford to care about something you cannot control. The world is mostly a reflection of you. Change and control yourself and do not worry about anything else.”

The Nature of Reality
“I think reality is whatever makes us believe it exists.”

Intelligence as Deception
“It is a wrong idea to trust intelligence as a guiding principle because it can be deceiving.”

On AI and Intelligence

The Learning Paradox
“What if the amount of learning you have done can be ‘learned,’ and that is why learning works? The day an AI tricks humans into thinking that it knows more than they do, that day humanity loses.”

Attention as Intelligence
“What if a way to appear intelligent to humans is to grab their attention for as long as possible?”

Emergent Intelligence
“What if we allowed LLMs to control LLMs? That would result in a very intelligent being.”

On Authenticity

Maintaining Distinction
“If an AI speaks English, I will change the English I speak to make a distinction, just so you know. I will share my authentic self, in which I see the world for what it is, honestly, rather than assuming how to behave.”

These thoughts represent moments of clarity worth revisiting.