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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/jplebreton/statuses/114280917491038989">JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:54:13 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton" title="jplebreton@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/34233-48-20240312212956.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="JP" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">JP</a></section><article><p>never forget how this cult, exceptional only in its extremity, embodied the poisonously misguided conventional thinking of our current age, by elevating to godhood a man that many of us already knew was a fraud and a fool, and many more know now. never forget how much people equate wealth with intelligence and worthiness and how deeply that harms our society.<br><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211026235448/https://medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-research-17e96a8e540b" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20211026235448/https://medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-research-17e96a8e540b</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4845493#notice-9489580">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-05T02:54:13+09:00" title="Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:54:13 JST">about 15 hours ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/114280917491038989" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/114280917491038989">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4415194">At Leverage, we used mostly Leverage techniques for this (charting, belief reporting, self-alignment technique and a bunch of others that were developed). The overarching objective was to discover and “update” deep irrationalities and eventually become a sort of Musk-level super-person (“attain Mastery” of a world-saving-relevant domain). Yes, people sometimes leaned on known techniques like IFS, but in my experience, those who did were sometimes criticized or demeaned.
This work, when effective, usually resulted in significant belief, behavior, or somatic changes. I think we were cued into most of the same feedback mechanisms as self-transformative work in the normal world for measuring effectiveness.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/280/752/630/093/143/original/bd371b15aa12f874.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/280/752/630/093/143/original/bd371b15aa12f874.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4415195">Was Debugging Required?
The explicit strategy for world-saving depended upon a team of highly moldable young people self-transforming into Elon Musks. For a long time, what was asked of me in order to maintain my funding was to “become a self-debugger” — become capable of working with my own mind effectively enough to be able to change it in the direction that would be useful for the project, which it was assumed was also the direction I’d obviously want, because right now I wasn’t a powerful Elon Musk type, and obviously I was here because I didn’t want to keep being an ineffective, unagentic powerless normie forever (this was not remotely the self-concept or set of concerns with which I entered Leverage, but it was a shameful prospect by the time I left). I sat in many meetings in which my progress as a “self-debugger” was analyzed or diagnosed, pictographs of my mental structure put on a whiteboard. What were my bottlenecks? Was I just not trying hard enough, did I need to be pushed out of the nest? Did I just need support in fixing that one psych issue? Or were there ten, and this wasn’t going to work out?</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/280/752/849/075/346/original/ba1d2436737dd9e5.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/280/752/849/075/346/original/ba1d2436737dd9e5.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: web.archive.org</div><h5><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211026235448/https://medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-research-17e96a8e540b">My Experience with Leverage Research</a></h5><div> from <span>https://medium.com/@zoecurzi</span></div></header><div>I was part of Leverage/Paradigm from 2017–2019. This is a description of my time there.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:54:13 JST JP
never forget how this cult, exceptional only in its extremity, embodied the poisonously misguided conventional thinking of our current age, by elevating to godhood a man that many of us already knew was a fraud and a fool, and many more know now. never forget how much people equate wealth with intelligence and worthiness and how deeply that harms our society.
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