Edward Bart

Supporter of Truth, Justice, and Wisdom. Striving for Sophrosyne and Nobility of Spirit. Crypto curious; pro BTC & KAS.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

@jamesjjohnson83 @Thermobolic I don't know. Kinda looks like he skips leg day.

[Dr Rudolf Steiner @RudolfStein2026]

Spiritual knowledge isn’t dangerous.

What becomes dangerous is the ego that takes hold of it.
An immature ego doesn’t seek truth to grow;
it seeks truth to feel superior.

It doesn’t want transformation.
It wants identity.

It doesn’t ask,
“How must I change?”
It asks,
“How does this make me special?”

And the moment spiritual knowledge becomes fuel for self-importance, it mutates.

Humility turns into subtle pride.
Study turns into performance.
Experience turns into status.

The person begins to speak from above instead of from within.
They stop questioning themselves.
They stop refining their thinking.
They stop examining their motives.
And now knowledge becomes a weapon.

Not a weapon against others necessarily —
but against their own balance.
Because the higher the idea,
the more damage it does when filtered through insecurity, ambition, or the need for recognition.

Spiritual knowledge magnifies what you are.
If you are grounded, it deepens you.
If you are disciplined, it sharpens you.
If you are sincere, it purifies you.

But if you are unstable,
it destabilizes you further.
If you are arrogant,
it gives your arrogance metaphysical language.
If you are confused,
it gives your confusion cosmic justification.

That’s why ancient traditions guarded knowledge —
not because truth was fragile, but because ego is.

The real danger has never been the unseen world.
The real danger is giving power to a self that hasn’t learned restraint.
Spiritual knowledge isn’t dangerous.

Immature ego with spiritual knowledge is.

And that’s the distinction almost no one is willing to face.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

@johnlovell275 Slow, meaningful progress w/ habits & focusing on incremental improvement (kaizen) really is the surest path for most.

It also aligns to the idea people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day (or a year), but underestimate what they can accomplish in 10 years (decades).

[Edward Bart @epbart]

A Bose-Einstein condensate is a cluster of particles (can be subatomic or atoms) that behave like one particle.
- Under normal conditions, if you had a small cloud of rubidium or sodium atoms, each atom would have its own character/behavior. If you did something to one side of the cloud, the atoms there would be affected, and whatever force might ripple across the cloud to some degree, but each atom would react individually.
- If you cool the same cloud to almost absolute zero, the character of the cloud changes. Suddenly, all of the atoms will give up their individuality and the entire cloud effectively becomes one particle. Whatever input you induce anywhere in the cloud instantaneously affects every particle throughout.
-This "coherence" of the particles has implications for superconductivity and other bleeding edge tech applications, including what is addressed in this thread.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

@SeligerGrants @realBlagojevich It's my understanding this progressive edge developed after the Rockefellers took him under their wing and he moved to NY from Cali, which would make sense (whether he was truly becoming a Rockefeller republican himself, or he found it necessary to appease them).

[Edward Bart @epbart]

The robot becoming erratic reminded me of the way a poor swimmer might become erratic in the water. In a drowning person, fear inhibits higher faculties in favor of survival instinct (however poorly guided). The body, under stress and juiced with adrenaline, panics and flails about-- attempting to grab or push itself out of the water, though it won't work. In the case of the robot, there aren't true higher faculties. Its movements are limited in an ontological sense to simple stimulus and response loops... which resemble instinct (akin to how plants instinctively bend towards the sun) more than higher order faculties like reason or will.

In other words, a robot with impaired programmed responses resembles a person with impaired consciousness and will. In the case of the robot, it is a matter of software errors leading to inappropriate responses, but it's happening purely on the physical plane of stimulus and response like instinct (there is no reason or will). In the case of the human, it is the absence of a strong enough will to be calm in the face of fear, and an absence of conditioned conscious training, which will lead the body to respond irrationally.

On another note, even though the robot wasn't technically going psycho, it isn't comforting to see a robot that becomes effectively confused by a series of errant input/output loops acting like a deranged person-- both are dangerous.

[AI Archive @AI_Archive_]

Is AI rebellion in the room with us?

The Unit H1 robot flailing on stage looked like a scene from Ex Machina 2.

In reality?

A stabilization bug + a head tether = a robot in panic mode.

Not a revolt—just a reminder: lab code meets the real world, chaos ensues.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still
- T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday

I've read this poem many times and every time I do, this short couplet, which appears twice (in the first section, and again in the last), never fails to move me.

With haiku-like economy of words and understatement, these lines express the essence of developing compassion and love for one another and God (learning to care), and contrast it with letting go of egoic desires, concern about what others may think of us, and other matters of pride and vanity (learning not to care). To "sit still" evokes an image of meditation, of course, but it also draws the previous line's dialectic consideration of love and renunciation into pithy resolution with a call to discipline, and a call to look inward and center oneself in self-surrender. This is all done with the humility of a man recognizing his limitations, and invoking divine assistance to help him learn. The whole heart of spirituality is here. And the how is left open-ended enough that anyone who has stepped meaningfully on the path in nearly any form-- eastern, western, shamanic, theurgic, mystical, etc.-- can see a reflection of their efforts in these lines.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

"But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister. Conversion may come under many shapes, and it may be brought about in many ways. With some men it needs a cataclysm, as a stone may be broken to fragments by the fury of a torrent; but with some it comes gradually, as a stone may be worn away by the ceaseless fall of a drop of water. Strickland had the directness of the fanatic and the ferocity of the apostle." ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

This excerpt, in which the narrator muses over the motivations of the character Strickland (based somewhat on the real life story of Paul Gauguin), never fails to stir something inside me.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

@Tech2380 @zerohedge Well, that was prescient... https://t.co/Kjd6YNIK5E

[Edward Bart @epbart]

@leafsnlifts Schrödinger’s investment, eh?

[Edward Bart @epbart]

Vanilla coffee fan, eh? I kid, but your concern over small economies is legit given the apparent prominence of trade deficits in the reciprocal tariff equation. The likely strategy is to bring all pain&bad news at once in overwhelming fashion vs a more slow-moving fair process, which is more considerate to Ethiopia, etc, but that will give media more ammo for a longer time. Trump/Lutnick would hopefully ease up in cases like Madagascar before we truly punish them, but it might look worse if Trump, after dealing with Canada, the EU, China, etc, made later attempts to renegotiate trade with small economies. He would have less leverage and create more negative press. Now, he is acting ruthlessly (a gamble), but it hopefully sets himself up for wins vs large trade partners and benevolence... to the extent he grants mercy to small ones.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

WHY TRUMP WON

While the legacy media has a meltdown searching for hitherto undiagnosed psychoses in the electorate to explain its embrace of a Hitlerian strongman, the truth is much simpler than their fictions.

This election is a reminder that after all the manufactured drama and overheated rhetoric, politics is still about issues. Whether you agreed with him or not, Trump ran a substantive campaign based on issues like the border, inflation, crime, and war.

Harris ran on vibes, celebrity endorsements, name-calling (“convicted felon”, “fascist”), debunked hoaxes (“very fine people”), and platitudes (“democracy”). She would neither defend the Biden-Harris record nor say what she would do differently. When she did talk about specific issues, they were often stolen from Trump (child tax credit; no tax on tips; border funding).

On the one issue where Democrats had an advantage, abortion, Trump deftly got ahead of the issue by rejecting a national ban and removing problematic language from the GOP platform. Harris wore out the issue by blatantly lying about Trump’s position and by exhibiting her own party’s extremism (nobody needed to see an abortion truck at the DNC).

While Trump expanded his coalition with MAHA (health) and DOGE (government efficiency), Harris concluded her ersatz campaign by going all in on demonizing her opponent, pretending Madison Square Garden was a Nazi convention.

The fact that voters saw through it should be reassuring, even if you don’t agree with the result. Voters want to know how a candidate will give them a better life and, increasingly, they have learned to tune out the rest as noise.

While the legacy media creates excuses and impugns the motives of voters to explain why Trump won, the reason is simple: Trump is the candidate who spoke to voters’ concerns directly.

It’s the issues, stupid.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

Lol

[Laura Powell @LauraPowellEsq]

The Amish coming out to vote in 2024 reminds me of the trees going to battle in the Lord of the Rings.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

@TiffanyFong_ Never was

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

Unpopular opinion-

Trump voters, now is the time to walk the walk. This is the unity party- if you want to heal this country you need to show real love and compassion to liberals and democrats.

You need to talk to them, listen to them- prove to them that what the media said about Trump was lies- what they said about Trump supporters was lies. You can’t mock them for calling you garbage and then act like garbage because you won.

Their greatest success in Trump’s first term was creating TDS- it is up to every Trump supporter to live out the counter narrative to their lies.

Making America great again is inseparable from dismantling the divisive psyop that Trump supporters are mean, uninformed, Nazis.

Be the bigger person, build the bridge and welcome someone across.

Otherwise four years from now America is even more divided and even more in danger.

No excuses. 🇺🇸

[Edward Bart @epbart]

I agree with this. I'm happy so many have awakened 2media manipulation &govt overreach. But as of yet,nothing has changed. It will take great effort&will 2reverse the erosion of institutional ethics &culture 2make society healthy. &those in power who profited will strike back.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

We mustn’t kid ourselves. There is a long, perilous road ahead. But failure was not an option in this election. Every single honorable person—even the mesmerized ones who voted blue—needed a Trump victory TOO BIG TO RIG.

The Republic still has to be rescued, but step one was make or break. And we made it!

For those who can’t fathom this perspective. For those who bought the viscous nonsense about Trump, MAGA, MAHA and the Unity Movement, the dominant feeling this morning for me and many others who endorsed Trump is one of profound relief—the extreme elation that comes from the discovery that you have survived, when survival was in serious doubt.

We dodged a bullet. It won’t be the last, but everything hung in the balance, as many of us understood it.

Now let’s put our civilization back on track. There’s no time to waste.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

@_whitneywebb (2/2)take a totalitarian turn under Trump,but my $0.02 is that you'd do better pointing out issues than dissing anarchists4embracing Trump over a more overtly globalist enemy. We all rely on imperfect tools at times-just need2remain vocal(not passive!)2influence better outcomes.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

@_whitneywebb (1/2)You're right 2stay skeptical as long as the hidden power players have influence. They will seek 2subvert any Trump reforms 2their end. But for many people(including anarchists),this election lifted a heavy boot from their neck. I hope u keep reporting how/why things might...

[Edward Bart @epbart]

@Will_Tanner_1 Not even getting to the earlier relevance of cultural Marxism (Gramsci &his ilk)after Marxism failed to make inroads where culture was strong &Alinsky's later work(both Hilary &Obama being something of disciples to him), etc.. all topics deep enough for long threads of their own.

[Edward Bart @epbart]

@Will_Tanner_1 Good read. Based on a quick scan of your content, u seem 2have a solid grasp of history. So,at the risk of telling u what u already know, I'll add that I think the amending of Smith-Mundt in 2012 to allow propaganda stateside has amplified the divide (tangential, but relevant).