19-02-04 How to be way ahead of your time

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Akin to Jeremy Bentham, Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles Babbage.

1. Take ideas to their logical conclusions, ignoring social norms.
   1. Take consistency extremely seriously.
2. Assume away implementation details, and invent at the functional level instead.
3. Create depth in yourself by repeatedly destroying and rebuilding your own worldview
4. Know truths (ex., scientific truths) that have dramatic implications for cultural beliefs but which won’t propagate for generations.
   1. Ex., memetics
   2. Ex., the implications of quantum for the reality of time
   3. Ex., schrodinger’s negentropy
5. Propagate a known truth fully through your worldview
   1. Often, collective beliefs will flip on one truth, but as the rest of collective belief was formed around that truth and takes time to adjust, adjusting immediately yourself puts you ahead of your time
6. Go to foundations that don’t exist yet (via recursive decomposition) and reason from them.
7. Create your own conceptual scheme through which you interpret reality, seeing an entirely different reality that the doctrine conceptual scheme.

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