Robb Smith

Institute of Applied Metatheory. Fostering the rise of humanity’s fifth historic worldview structure, the Integrative.

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1/ The Big Picture Mind: What Every Elite is Missing

Big Pictures are holistic, integrative, self-consistent systems of thought that when combined represent the broadest and deepest philosophical worldview available to humanity today.

Big Pictures liberate. By building a mind capable of seeing what’s really happening, you have more freedom, more understanding, and feel at home in the world no matter how chaotic it seems.

I recently did a live event to provide what I hope will be one of the Biggest Picture views of what’s happening in 2025 available anywhere in the world.

This thread clips the video for easily digestible chunks and explains each piece along the way.

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This loss by Cassidy, combined w soaring inflation & a takeover of the electoral system by the GOP via gerrymandering, will show voters they don’t have power to control their lives.

Good, it’s exactly what’s needed to amplify & accelerate the release phase. Not enough pain yet.

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I think a values trust mark is a profoundly important idea right now. And integrative values even more so.

Check it out. Adopt it if it fits.

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

1/6 IAM has just released the Integrative Values Charter — a voluntary, self-attested trust mark organized around eight shared commitments, designed as a public signal of alignment with the depth, honesty, and care our moment demands https://t.co/IKkVFg9Azf

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@Clara_Gold Even as kid growing up in Bay, obvious it was modernity on acid, as if nonlinear compute of money, code, tech—anything exterior—will magically jump the ontological divide & yield spiritual meaning.

Least wise place on earth, a city-sized Atman Project.

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On the error of the AI alignment field.

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If you’re working on AI alignment, you might find my latest paper worth a read.

[Lee Mason @_Lee_Mason]

@RobbSmith @IAMetatheory A profoundly sophisticated perspective on the evolution of AI.

Recommended reading for anyone interested in the relationship between technology and wisdom.

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“humanity’s leading-edge cultural technology”… love that

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If you tried to DM but couldn’t, try again, I loosened my settings.

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For any of my followers who want a private sneak peek of a @IAMetatheory’s latest project, DM me.

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Trump will be judged as history’s biggest idiot. Over a decade, he somehow blundered every step necessary in order to single-handedly give Iran its nuclear weapons. The Iranians have to be awestruck at their good fortune.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Pulling out of the Iran nuclear was a catastrophic mistake.

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I just released a paper @IAMetatheory arguing that AI alignment is insoluble as currently framed, and might require a move to topographical, values realist meta-alignment to make it both technically tractable and philosophically coherent.

https://t.co/oOOTMnYFul

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Every single American is on the verge of becoming an historic monster that future generations will look on in shame, wondering how a people could be so depraved as to allow a clear and expressed genocide to be committed by their nation in their name.

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@emillively Working on it.

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I’ve never been more optimistic about the future than I am today.

AI is the technology the Integrative Worldview needed, and the worldview is what AI cannot succeed without.

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Watching this unfolding energy debacle with Iran thinking the same forces that’ve killed our march toward non-petro energy resilience also act to guarantee its inevitability.

Reality eats simple leaders for lunch.

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

We’re being pulled back toward the 19th-century across all four quadrants, says @RobbSmith.

History already tested that model — and it led to endless conflict.

So what’s the new story that can bring coherence to today’s fragmented world?
🎧 https://t.co/8164RrZpeF

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

1/5 Can faith development be measured with greater precision?

@BrendanGrahamD1 shares some compelling findings from his research into Integral altitudes: a statistically significant correlation between Fowler’s stages of faith and the Lectical Assessment Scale.

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@Jacob_Billings Vice versa. lol

Try LI? https://t.co/6OCchJAXUH

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@AnnMcNeal11 The world has the innovators it needs to create a beautiful future. But they’ve been missing both the intellectual resources and the acute pain to motivate them to do so.

Integrative AI is solving the first.

The metacrisis is solving the second.

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@emillively That Q can be interpreted in two ways, can you clarify which way you mean it?