there is no alternative to the "certainty" provided by the left hand path to politics and philosophy, there is no possible articulation of any possible alternative that can provide you with the same sense of psychological certainty as materialism, and that is exactly the point

the alternative to materialism is not "some other theory" that provides the same psychological comfort, it's not another *kind* of the same thing, but with different attributes, or a different inner nature. scientism, materialism, enlightenment, modernism: psycholical "certainty"
"we KNOW as a FACT that history behaves in X Y and Z ways", "this NECESSITATES communist endgame", etc. you can't articulate a reactionary "version" of a vision of the future that provides that same certainty, validated by an external non-personal "mode of being" or mindset
and that is exactly the point. the right hand path is not "grasping" the "certain knowledge of systems and history, to infer etc etc etc", but "letting go", as the primary psychological core
letting go of the need for ultimatism, universalism, the "all encompassing view of all things", and adressing things practically, from the human view. localist pragmatism vs universalist utopianism
there's the kierkegaardian aspect of embracing the uncertainty as uncertainty, but really you dont even need to go all the way there, it's really more about just being comfortable with uncertainty, and being able to act within it, and not letting it make you a deer in headlights
the real "alternative worldview" to the globalist psychotic utopian, whatever you call it. lib normie ism. is not being able to say: "I want this and that and this, INSTEAD of lib normieism", but just being able to say "I don't know whats going to happen in 10 years but thats ok"
not "instead of agenda 2030 great reset I want *list of demands*", just "I would like to have a functional country where people have good lives and then we'll just take things a decade at a time, deal with the problems as they come"
the demand for a full political program with solutions to various made up "global problems" is complete horseshit, and even if those where truly "global problems" the correct answer to them would be "can't solve them, do your best to cope"

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How can we use language supervision to learn better visual representations for robotics?

Introducing Voltron: Language-Driven Representation Learning for Robotics!

Paper: https://t.co/gIsRPtSjKz
Models: https://t.co/NOB3cpATYG
Evaluation: https://t.co/aOzQu95J8z

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Videos of humans performing everyday tasks (Something-Something-v2, Ego4D) offer a rich and diverse resource for learning representations for robotic manipulation.

Yet, an underused part of these datasets are the rich, natural language annotations accompanying each video. (2/12)

The Voltron framework offers a simple way to use language supervision to shape representation learning, building off of prior work in representations for robotics like MVP (
https://t.co/Pb0mk9hb4i) and R3M (https://t.co/o2Fkc3fP0e).

The secret is *balance* (3/12)

Starting with a masked autoencoder over frames from these video clips, make a choice:

1) Condition on language and improve our ability to reconstruct the scene.

2) Generate language given the visual representation and improve our ability to describe what's happening. (4/12)

By trading off *conditioning* and *generation* we show that we can learn 1) better representations than prior methods, and 2) explicitly shape the balance of low and high-level features captured.

Why is the ability to shape this balance important? (5/12)

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