mercury

I just realized with a start that this is _absolutely_ going to happen. We are going to, in the not-too-distant-future see a GPT-x (or similar) be ported to a Tesla and drive it.

It frustrates me that there are not enough people IRL I can excitedly talk about how big of a deal this is.

As somebody who has attempted a goal-oriented practice and failed (and continues to fail :P), I agree with these sentiments :)

value of both inter-generational accumulated wisdom

See: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GXvNCbmJajvkg4Wsu/tradition-is-smarter-than-you-are

What's the value proposition of enlightenment?

Like Elo said, it's quite difficult to describe. MTCB has an entire chapter on what Enlightenment is not as well as what is. My understanding is that Enlightenment is the state of seeing fundamental reality clearly, which:

• removes an entire class of suffering: "delusional" identification with the self, which causes obsessive rumination, worrying about your status/position in the world, etc.
• improves your relationship with others: related to the above, once you see how you're actually not