He's a genius. I mean it seriously. We brought this up in the context of AI sweeping away entire domains — IT jobs, text‑based decision‑making roles, lawyers, developers, project managers, customer support, accounting, translation, data entry, marketing content creation, and even parts of medicine and finance. What is your energy?
bigyabai•4w ago
> He's a genius.
He's framing Zoroastrian principles from ~2000BCE in an Abrahamic dichotomy. The underpinnings of his thought have been discussed for millennium by smarter people who aren't trying to sell you an online self-help course.
cumo•4w ago
If you already know all this, what stopped you from making an eye‑opening video and actually illustrating those Zoroastrian principles yourself? Calling someone derivative is easy; producing something better is not.
And if you’d really absorbed thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Hume, or Leibniz, you’d know that reworking older metaphysical frameworks is literally how intellectual progress happens. Every major philosopher in that era built on ancient ideas — they didn’t sneer at people for revisiting them.
bigyabai•4w ago
> what stopped you from making an eye‑opening video
I don't have a paid course to sell you, I have a fucking life to live. That's why.
Go on, pay for his class and attain Hegelian enlightenment. He's a genius, after all.
cumo•4w ago
No, I’m not paying for his course, I just appreciate someone actually putting "fresh" (reworked) ideas into the world. And sure, everyone has a life; that’s not exactly a philosophical revelation. If “Hegelian enlightenment” is your punchline, you might want to remember that Hegel, like Heraclitus, Plotinus, Spinoza, and Kant, built entire systems by reworking older metaphysics. That’s how philosophy grows.
Dismissing someone else’s work as “illegitimate” when you haven’t reworked a single idea yourself isn’t critique: it’s just opting out of the conversation while pretending you’re above it.P.S.: for you; the brain’s prefrontal cortex literally relies on pattern‑integration, not invention from scratch.
cumo•4w ago
bigyabai•4w ago
He's framing Zoroastrian principles from ~2000BCE in an Abrahamic dichotomy. The underpinnings of his thought have been discussed for millennium by smarter people who aren't trying to sell you an online self-help course.
cumo•4w ago
And if you’d really absorbed thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Hume, or Leibniz, you’d know that reworking older metaphysical frameworks is literally how intellectual progress happens. Every major philosopher in that era built on ancient ideas — they didn’t sneer at people for revisiting them.
bigyabai•4w ago
I don't have a paid course to sell you, I have a fucking life to live. That's why.
Go on, pay for his class and attain Hegelian enlightenment. He's a genius, after all.
cumo•4w ago
Dismissing someone else’s work as “illegitimate” when you haven’t reworked a single idea yourself isn’t critique: it’s just opting out of the conversation while pretending you’re above it.P.S.: for you; the brain’s prefrontal cortex literally relies on pattern‑integration, not invention from scratch.