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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:
choice between taking up organized religion and going to church or... (read more)
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.