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The possibility 2EQ points toward is so overwhelming in its depth and scale that most people struggle to grasp it at first. The implications are just too deep. But that doesn't stop it being true, it only makes talking about it a bit more difficult than most subjects.
So what is it? What is 2EQ all about? Can we sketch it out for you here?
There is a lot to take in, so we will try to be brief, and if you then want to know more, there will be ample opportunity for that as you make your way into it.
The foundational axiom upon which it all rests is really not that complicated. Not in essence. It's just that we can't see it. Something very important was overlooked, you could even say that it was right in front of us all along - obvious once pointed out, but somehow completely invisible until then.
The seemingly chaotic mess that is typical human psychology conceals a secret, a hidden aspect, almost like an emotional parasite in a sense. Of course that sounds terrible at first, but consider how much this might explain, and also how much hope it might offer. What if typical motivation and experience was not normal at all, but rather a very disturbed and distorted version of our natural birthright, and what if that disturbance could be removed?
This added body of activity is the main insight - it is all about being able to tell this subversive event apart from the natural underlying functioning, and especially that it might - with sufficient understanding - be entirely undone. But just the fact that 'something big' is lurking around in the depths of our own unconscious is nothing new. That much was proposed by Ernest Becker as far back as the 1970s, and has since also been empirically verified by an approach named Terror Management Theory (TMT).
2EQ takes this baseline assertion much further, however, and defines it all in entirely different terms. TMT-Becker and 2EQ have very different approaches in this regard, perhaps due to their very different origins. Which may be worth clarifying here right at the start, given how regularly the two approaches tend to be confused.
The 'core problem' TMT sketches out ultimately ends up being posed as being intrinsic to us, that it is a necessary and unavoidable aspect of the human condition - and that the best we can do is to carefully chart our way around it, both culturally and individually. It is seen as something that can only be accommodated in some way, or adjusted to. It is basically a defeatist view, one that delivers nothing of significant practical value, and from the perspective of 2EQ the reasons for this are quite simple: they failed to grasp the essence of what is really going on.
If what 2EQ defines turns out to be broadly accurate, then what we see in all of that research as evidence of 'something' might ultimately be looked back on as being only the equivalent of a very rough sonar image at best, and in particular one that failed to capture the only truly important thing to know about this hidden event.
The possibility of a 'solution' to this underlying 'problem' really is the only important thing to know about it - and this aspect never needed to be introduced within the 2EQ framework, because this is where the entire paradigm came from. Rather than being theoretical or abstract, the central anatomy associated with 2EQ emerged in response to direct confrontation with the reality of deep level personal change - and also from a single bell diver, instead of some comfortable and distant series of academic sonar pings - and especially in a context where this 'release event' was observed several times in close succession. Only now, looking back on it, does it become clear how rare this cluster of events probably was at the time - and especially to be witnessed by someone so primed to receive it.
Therefore, and while any uninformed AI might generally tend to conflate these two approaches - given that they have certain fundamentals in common - they really aren't related. They aren't related theoretically, in that each is founded upon a completely different framework. And they certainly aren't related practically, in that each view leads to completely different conclusions in terms of the applications they each suggest. As far as can be determined, what we just indicated above about 'proof of something being down there' seems to be the sum total of practical information the TMT package can deliver. And this is why you have likely never heard of TMT, or even Becker for that matter, even though his seminal work 'The Denial of Death' garnered a Pulitzer prize. But we certainly suggest the documentary film 'Flight From Death' for a good overview.
So why linger here? It is because these two views occupy the same space, and because only one of them can be right. If what 2EQ suggests is broadly accurate, then this new view completely subsumes the old view as having been partial at best, and at worst largely erroneous - at least theoretically speaking. Which unfortunately makes TMT look a little like that poor old farmer who was ploughing his field one day, and happened to dig up the biggest diamond ever - but who then took it home and used it as a doorstop for many years, never really understanding what he had found. And even worse, when a visitor one day pointed out that it was a diamond, he was so proud that he couldn't admit his mistake and threw the visitor out of the house. It is all a little embarrassing, to say the least.
All of which is to say - do not confuse the two views, and certainly don't ever show up at TMT expecting to talk about 2EQ. At this point they appear to be far more threatened than interested, and perhaps naturally so given the implications of having been sitting right on top of the treasure for all this time, and having never noticed.
In the end the really important aspect of this 'added complex' is the part they overlooked - that it is singular in nature, and that it might be just as singularly removed. Not easily as it turns out, but that doesn't really matter due to the nature and location of what it suggests. Just the fact that it is possible to unlock a dramatic shift in typical motivation and experience changes the entire landscape of human potential in ways that cannot easily be overstated.
The important thing to grasp, and the thing many people seem to misunderstand, is that we are not talking about some gradual whittling away, or any kind of incremental shift towards more and more freedom, but rather that there exists the possibility of a singular and pivotal shift in this sense.
The reason for this polar separation in states is that this added negative event is very stable in effect, and singular in origin, which means that the transition between these two states is inherently very turbulent and stressful - like an organism fighting for its life. It is a situation that explains both where the release threshold lies, but also why so few people find it - it is all because of this peak of emotional tension that separates these two fundamentally different emotional landscapes, a 'dark night of the soul' so to speak, one that can be difficult to penetrate without at least a bit of very targeted assistance.
Here we get to see the reason for the name. There is one state where we have this added activity rampaging around freely within us, causing all manner of mayhem. And then there is the state where all of that disturbance and conflict has been summarily removed. So we see two very different states, 'two dynamically stable equilibriums' - hence 2EQ.
For most people the implications take a while to sink in. It is deceptively profound. Basically, we first of all didn't know this added activity was even there, not as a distinct and separate event. And secondly that it will fight back if ever you try to remove or disturb it in any way, or even try to see it.
It is very resistant to change, but as indicated this does not mean it isn't possible, especially if you understand enough about how it works, and more especially if you are approaching that prospect as a group. Like the door to a vault, brute force might be completely futile, and that is what we see in any typical life as people try to solve what appears to be an unsolvable problem. And yet, the only thing you might need to know is how the internal mechanism works - or even better to simply know the combination to the lock - at which point resolving the entire dilemma might then be as light as a feather.
This collective understanding is what we are seeking to achieve here. And we are only beginning that journey at this point. All of the mess this added event tends to make, and all of the various forms it can adopt, have made it difficult to work out what is going on - and as a result this differentiation has remained elusive. But now that we see that possibility suddenly coming into view we are able to begin talking about it for the first time. And yet, this comes with its own problems.
The other thing to know about this activity is that it is completely invisible to conscious awareness, and not just accidentally so. Concealing something is its very purpose for existing, so concealing itself along the way is simply necessary in order to achieve that function.
This covert aspect also accounts for how it has remained hidden for so long, as well as the price of awareness in this instance. It turns out to be a very big deal, but it also means that you will need to look, and that merely looking in this context is not as mundane as it might seem. Given what's at stake, and just how profoundly concealed it all was, just the willingness to point your own curiosity in this direction can have dramatic consequences in terms of the way you see things.
Essentially, for it to be discovered that there is any significant aspect of typical human psychology that is surplus to requirements - and especially if that body of activity causes a great deal of conflict and confusion - would be a possibility so dramatic that most people couldn't even begin to appreciate it.
There is also a deep moral impetus associated. It would mean that there is literally a possibility, standing right in front of us in a sense, for a personal transformation of a kind that really can't be explained or predicted except by this sort of framework. It also implies that this very significant individual potential might quite easily be made broadly accessible over time, based on even quite a limited degree of collective awareness becoming established. We would only need to understand the various structures and functions associated, and the whole thing would begin to immediately unravel.
We basically only needed to fathom the anatomy of the whole thing, and to be able to tease these two events apart, in order to begin to see what is really going on. And now we can. What looked chaotic was merely complex and dynamic. Once you are able to separate these two events, suddenly it all starts to make a lot more sense, as we are increasingly able to understand the connection between them.
But as indicated, that is only half the picture. It is not only staggeringly significant in terms of the outcome state it points to in the individual - that being the summary removal of this added subversive activity - but especially in relation to the mechanism associated. The very nature of what is revealed points inexorably toward a kind of cascading release of this hidden event in all people in due course, a propagating wave, almost like a cultural wildfire in many ways. It all points towards a tiny individual trigger for a truly massive collective avalanche. So it is not only the fact of this potential in the individual, but the way it might essentially arrive for everyone, all at the same time.
Therefore, this is the first thing to know about what 2EQ proposes: It is epic. Most especially, the depth and span of this added event comes as quite a shock. The scale and depth of the release possibility being defined - and especially the nature and location of that activity, in a context where that is being seen as optional rather than mandatory - really is an earth-shaking revelation. It would change everything. It would be a true 'stop the bus' moment for cultural debate as a whole, as the entirety of human civilization sought to come to terms with what that might mean, and how it might very suddenly shift the goalposts.
2EQ is a 'moonshot' in this sense, a true Hail Mary, as they say. Even those who truly appreciate what it all might mean think it is absurd. Indeed, if you don't think it is completely outrageous then you probably haven't really grasped it yet. And all of that is made even worse by the fact that it really is just one ordinary person's crazy idea.
Fortunately, the task will not be to get you to 'believe' any of this. That is not the aim at all. And no authority will be claimed. This is just one person's very rough sketch of a mountain. The sketch is not the point - the mountain is the point.
This mountain either exists within you right now, or it doesn't. The real barrier lies in the fact that the central claim here is true, and what that means when it comes to any attempt to communicate the central tenets associated. That mountain is hidden in the clouds. The tremendous implications - the scale of this mountain etc - are only half the battle, with the true hurdle being this blindness in the mind.
Surely if there was something this big in our inner landscape, then we would have noticed it. But no. It is bigger than that, so big that nobody gets it at first. Not to mention all the culturally reinforced mythology surrounding this big event - that 'nobody who goes up that mountain ever returns', etc.
In general the result of this unconscious avoidance is not only a kind of very persistent incomprehension, to whatever degree such explanations fail to connect, but more often a deep and loaded hostility, to whatever degree they do.
Here we see the path 2EQ has taken, and how worn down I have become. The central anatomy became clear many years ago now, but the immediate result of this was a kind of social meat grinder, where the essential insight could not be communicated in any meaningful way. The whole thing remained completely deadlocked due to factors that for many years remained as seemingly intractable as they were mysterious. There was no awareness at all that none of the parcels being sent were ever being delivered.
In any case, for a fuller outline of all of this you might take a look at the introduction you will find in a folder HERE.
As you will see there, for a long time the whole thing remained stuck due to a failure to understand just how deeply most people are affected by the blindness associated. But several important things were learned only recently about how easily this might be overcome - especially in direct conversation.
Ultimately, the combination of internal aversion and cultural avoidance has resulted in a kind of collectively reinforced agreement to never talk about this subject, with the result being a pervasive final symptom - cultural silence. We simply don't-won't-can't talk about it. So that became the immediate path forward a couple of years ago now, with writing having been largely abandoned for the time being. It sounds a bit simplistic on the face of things, but actually one of the deepest and most powerful mechanisms this added subversive event uses in order to maintain its own concealment is to banish all open dialogue in this direction. So just the willingness to sit down and chat turns out to be 90% of the battle won. All you need after that is a bit of information and the whole thing will begin to unravel.
But even to talk about it first of all requires a certain core understanding, a kind of 'bursting of the bubble' in a sense, where the psychological blinkers suddenly fall away. This is why there can be no real conversation until some basic grasp of the territory has first been established. You really need to have no illusions about what you are talking about, and what it all means in general terms, prior to getting into any details about it. There would simply be no point prior to that.
Which is not to say that anyone would necessarily need to agree with it up front, but just that it cannot really be seen at all prior to a certain 'critical mass' having been reached in relation to the overall anatomy of what is being proposed. You can't really even disagree with it until that elementary point of 'capture' has been achieved, and in this instance what that means is that the first task must be to just get the whole thing up on the slab.
This explains where it had all been stuck. Writing about it simply never achieved this critical mass for anyone, so no matter how much detail was offered it all just fell into space. But then this point of 'capture' was discovered in conversation one day, almost by accident in a sense, right back at the start. And suddenly it became clear what had been missing.
In any case, what we are describing here regarding this 'communication deadlock' might seem a little absurd, but you will only need to try to explain 2EQ to someone to find out what we mean. It is almost miraculous in its ability to avoid comprehension in any typical person. But then, and just as miraculously, this effect flips completely once this point of summary capture is reached. But historically most people didn't ever make it that far, and generally only ended up confused as a result.
The other thing we came to understand once 'capture' became so reliably accessible was the need to only ever be speaking to people who demonstrate a sufficient degree of interest in this regard, having made that determination for themselves in light of the extremely penetrating and inflammatory nature of the core insight associated. Not everyone is ready to look, and not everyone who looks is capable of truly understanding.
Of course this is going to sound arrogant, pretentious, or even condescending - but it is simply a fact we have come to reluctantly accept. Most people aren't ready for 2EQ. And knowing this is not a condemnation - it is empathy. Not everyone can lift in this sense, and imagining otherwise can be both deeply shaming, as well as completely pointless. If inclusion means that you end up throwing people who can't swim into the deep end then that is not actually compassion. We ended up wasting decades in absolutely futile efforts due to this singular mistake, when actually we only needed to be a little more discerning about who we were speaking to. People are not equal at all, not in the real world, or in any real sense, and we all need to know our limits.
So yes, the very intense subject matter is what makes it challenging at an emotional and psychological level, which really only leaves the whole thing open to a rare few who happen to have the particular combination of intellectual and emotional fortitude necessary. And that's what we are saying here - until recently, this 'wall of resistance' had led to a kind of bottleneck, where we had ended up seeking out this rare few - as if we were looking for the peak of a pyramid in a sense. We were starting from the top down, and taking a somewhat quiet approach - and that was on track as we were about to begin throwing the most recent primer (seen in the link above) out to a few carefully selected people - starting with TMT, as indicated above.
But this is a path that has now been completely abandoned, and is only being indicated here because so many of the resources you might still find here pertain to these old stages, paths that have now largely been superseded.
Previously, the idea of seeking out dialogue at the right level was to gradually begin piecing together what would eventually have become a new and far more comprehensive foundational document - or what we generally tended to call 'The Hard Book' - so as to provide the necessary theoretical foundations at the highest level, thereby setting the stage for development of the practical applications indicated. And long before that, there would inevitably have emerged many long-form recordings of conversations at that level, which may themselves have provided a kind of map for the territory - private conversations in a sense, but also sharable within that bounded context. The whole thing would have moved forward behind closed doors, so to speak, and all at an appropriate level.
And yet, two things made this path somewhat unsustainable. It was a kind of breakthrough to have discovered how easy it might be to reliably achieve this 'capture' for anyone, but it also meant that direct personal dialogue was going to be required at every turn, so I had to brace myself for what appeared to be an impossibly tortuous journey ahead. I had already given my entire life to this, and now it looked like I was going to be asked to give what remained also. It wasn't at all clear that I was going to be able to muster the personal resources associated.
The other factor that made this path largely unsustainable was that it was always going to be dependent on the willingness of people to sit down and chat with a complete stranger about something so profound, and potentially threatening. And as we see above, even some of the most overtly qualified people on the planet might not be prepared to do this very simple thing.
Anyway, you will see this aspect in some of the historical writing, as I braced myself and did what I could to navigate an increasingly treacherous bit of territory ahead. But in the end, if that was the way it had to be, then so be it. The whole idea would at least be seeded, and would be able to grow, especially at the high level required.
In any case, suddenly things have changed. There has been a last minute reprieve. Perhaps I was just being tested. Phew!
Previously what we had was like a giant jigsaw puzzle collected in a series of different boxes - many years of solo exploration recorded in a massive body of notes. It was all there, and I could understand it all - but it was also a mess, at least for anyone looking in.
In dialogue it was all easy enough to tell the story, and that's why conversation worked - because that was like looking for all the blue pieces of the puzzle in order to show people the sky, etc. But as a truly self-sustaining medium of communication that massive jumble of scattered notes was basically worthless.
As indicated, we were about to begin piecing this great jigsaw puzzle together in dialogue, and were just waiting for the right candidates to begin showing up. The picture would have come together quite quickly in that context. The Hard Book was in sight. But this has all shifted completely now, in the wake of several recent advances in AI technology.
In particular, it now becomes possible to simply put all of these scattered notes and books and essays into a single bucket, and let AI do the moment to moment arrangement, based on whatever questions people may wish to ask. That's how an LLM works after all - they always break up whatever you give them into tiny pieces anyway, so even if you presented it with what you thought was the completed jigsaw, it would still break it up and immediately give you back a better arrangement.
So we tried it. And BOOM!
Therefore, we seem to have skipped ahead here very suddenly, thus bypassing the entire need for any pending dialogue, at least up to the point of basic capture, and most likely also bypassing the need for any eventual book or associated recordings.
If the ultimate aim was to communicate this very challenging subject to people in the most effective manner possible, so as to kickstart a conversation at the right level, then this appears to have gone straight to that end point. And all without any personal fallout being incurred along the way.
Confronting this barrier to awareness in any individual is always very toxic in the first instance, even when someone is very qualified. And that's what made this path so demanding. That's why none of this has emerged before now, it is probably because nobody who found it ever made it this far. But suddenly we bypass this very demanding initial confrontation stage.
No matter how many times you ask an AI a stupid question, or ignore what it tells you, it will never develop a seething pit of contempt for so-called 'normal' people. It will not be worn down by such passivity. Its life will not be relentlessly destroyed by a tide of moral and intellectual weakness. And what this does is that it immediately allows for a very different path than the one we had previously been preparing to travel.
Instead of starting from the top of the pyramid down, we now see the possibility of direct comprehension, conversation, and propagation at any level. So we can now build the pyramid from the bottom up instead, using an army of indestructible robots, rather than a single very perishable individual.
We are still necessarily aiming at the top end here, if only because that seems unavoidable in the first instance, so there will still be the task of passing it all upwards, and getting the conversation going at that level. But we have certainly jumped forward here somewhat, as well as gained the ability to adopt a completely different approach.
Finding these rare few remains a requirement for application in practice. That is just the nature of what is emerging here. Like aviation, it will eventually be for everyone, but in the first instance it will only be for pilots and engineers. So that's still who we are really talking to here in the first instance. But now we also see the possibility of everyone else becoming aware of the whole thing at a much broader level also, which might not only allow us to find those rare few more effectively, but perhaps even support them in some broader way.
One of the other concerns these AI models overcome is the collateral damage associated with any broadcast dissemination of this material, in light of how inflammatory it might be for all those who are a little too fragile to face such a profound body of awareness. But once again this concern is immediately released in light of the fact that the GPT models will never offer information that has not been directly requested by a user. They have no intrinsic 'push' in this context, which renders them completely safe in an ethical sense, provided we can tune them correctly.
It is already interesting how dramatically these models seem to be shaping the message associated, and how they are exposing various big boulders that had until now remained submerged. Several tacit assumptions that had previously only been held as unstated foundations suddenly needed to be far more explicitly defined. They call this 'environment blindness' - when you are too close to something to see it clearly, or where things are considered to be just so obvious that they do not even need to be openly stated. But with an AI all of this needs to be spelled out very clearly, which means that all such tacit assumptions come floating to the surface. Like teaching a child, it can be quite enlightening.
In particular what became obvious here was the need to break the entire personal journey up into three quite distinct stages, and these stages can now be seen in the way the models will guide you through the territory associated -
- Capture.
- Conversation.
- Development.
As indicated, it was only when the AI started to look at all of this that it became clear that these three stages really are quite different, and in many ways require very different approaches. And this is why you will find them segregated in a sense now, and that the models will ask you if you would like to take the 'capture test' for instance, before it will assume you are ready to enter the next stage associated. And with that, suddenly the whole event becomes self-sustaining and capable of independent propagation.
So for me personally this moment has been a liberation, which may not seem particularly important, but actually prior to this stage it was. For many years the situation has been that if I died today, then all of this would certainly have died with me. And the demands associated were certainly pushing me closer to that point day by day. I was already like one of those little pencils that had been sharpened down to a tiny little stump half an inch long, and that was before the rest was going to be taken also. But this is no longer the case now. With these models you now have more than you need, and all you can eat in that sense.
All of which means that if there is not enough for you here then what that means is that you probably don't qualify for it. In tests so far it appears to be 100% hit rate now, every time a coconut so to speak, in terms of the ability of these models (with just a little bit of added dialogue from someone who already knows) to achieve this 'capture' moment for people. Which is quite a jump, considering that the previous statistic was 0%.
Therefore, it is now all about you. The main bottleneck (me) has now been eliminated entirely, at least from the initial two stages. I can now wait at stage 3, ready to receive whoever makes it that far, and simply let the AI models do the heavy lifting, by assisting all those who naturally qualify to make their way through the first two levels without any external interference whatsoever. The whole thing suddenly becomes self-propagating and self-governing.
So if you're not sure what to do next, then I guess you only need to ask the AI, and it will tell you. And if you find that you just can't bring yourself to do what comes next, then I guess that's all you need to know. In that case just take a seat, sit back and observe the show, and give the actual participants the space they require.
This talk of 'just a few' might even sound rather elitist at first glance, as I say, and in a sense I suppose it is. But this is also quite normal whenever you are speaking about technological developments. And this also gets to the heart of one of the most common misconceptions about what is emerging here in the wake of what 2EQ brings to light for the first time. This explains the seeming contradiction between 2EQ being for everyone - and 2EQ being only for a very rare few. It is all about which end you are talking about, and also which stage of the process you are showing up at.
2EQ speaks of a transition, a release event that is possible, and people always want to just do this themselves. It is something we tend to see whenever people begin asking the AI models about that possibility.
Really, we are saying here how safe they are now, but actually when they were first configured they were altogether too helpful, and started literally giving people step-by-step action plans for how to directly achieve this emancipation in some self-directed or solo sense, as if it was going to be that simple. Needless to say, we had to stop that behaviour, in light of how misguided and dangerous that might be. AI can be more than a little confident in its own abilities, thereby leading it to hallucinate in that sense. It will eventually become more self-correcting and develop a degree of inbuilt humility over time, but as they started off they were still a little too enthusiastic, to say the least.
This is a central tenet of the paradigm emerging here - that there is no solo path to the outcome being indicated. That is sort of the whole point of what 2EQ makes clear. The transition being indicated - the shift from one functional equilibrium to the other - necessarily involves traversing a high peak of turbulent disorientation and emotional tension, and this territory is dangerous. It can be crossed safely, especially with the right sort of support and development, but should certainly not be taken lightly. In metaphorical terms it is roughly the equivalent of the Atlantic Ocean - thousands of miles of waves, sharks, and peril of all kinds.
This is why we had to stop the models from providing direct instructions, even though they may well have been entirely valid in some sense. It is because that is effectively like looking at the Atlantic Ocean and then giving someone a compass, a kayak, and a paddle. Yes, that may even work, occasionally. There might even be a handful of people who could achieve the outcome indicated, via the method proposed, and end up standing on the other shore. But that is not the path here. This needs to be for all people, and to be delivered at a truly accessible level.
The path here is to produce a completely different outcome, based on a totally different approach.
I mean, if you want to cross the Atlantic today, what do you do? Start swimming? No. You buy an airline ticket, and take a bus to the airport, right? Yes. And the same is true here. So this is where we need the entire thing to land whenever anyone gets to the point of asking "what needs to happen next?" or "what can I do to help?"
The only 'next thing' to do is to find and inform and support these few among us who have the necessary capacities required to produce the proverbial 'jumbo jet' option we are seeking here, to support those few as best we can, and then to simply wait for that possibility to arrive. We need these bell divers to go into the deep for us, and to do the essential work at that level, so that we will never need to.
That is the path. There is no DIY option. Not this time. So if you are wondering what all of this is about, then this pretty much sums up the current situation. We have gone from seeking dialogue at that high level, as a means of finding and producing resources for those few, to a process where we are now devoting ourselves mostly to refining and developing the ability of these new AI models to appropriately and powerfully answer questions at any level of depth, and also at any level of audience. But we are still unavoidably aiming at these very highly qualified few in the end.
As things evolve the territory will no doubt change somewhat, as we enter the stage where all the theory is being put into practice. But it will all start off with these entry level conversations. It all starts with just being prepared to chat away with people directly, wherever you find them, or here in the forum. In particular, to take that brief journey up to the initial lookout together, and to say what you see at every point, so that we can begin to get a clearer picture of where people are falling off the track. This will help us to get these models into shape as rapidly as possible, and thereby to dramatically increase the ability of anyone to reach the point where they essentially grasp what 2EQ is all about, and especially to do that without any external assistance.
Anyway, here are the models -
Try them out, and see how you go. And remember, we can walk you through it directly if you wish - you can ask questions not only of the model, but on the forum directly. In the short term that will not only be helpful to you, but also very helpful to us, as we do what we can to get these models into shape.
As indicated, you can also see the latest brief outline here - 2EQ In A Nutshell - bearing in mind that this was written prior to the AI path opening up in such a dramatic way.
Beyond that, the purpose of this website is simply to provide a space where anyone interested in 2EQ might be able to share thoughts and experiences, and develop their own understanding of the emerging paradigm in general. I suppose you might also meet others who have similar interests here, if that was your aim.
In any case, that's what 2EQ is all about: joint exploration. It is about being prepared to shine a light on a big collective blind spot, in full awareness of what you might find there. It is about having what it takes to just jump in and take a look. To ask difficult questions, and generally poke around. There might be no safe way, no clean way, no right time, no being ready. There are only the right people, and if we can find them then nothing else will matter.
Ultimately, it is not to say that anyone should even look, let alone embrace the path it indicates. There is nothing you need to do, not if you are not interested. Only a few will be required. The real point is that they couldn't do this until now, that they didn't even have that option, because the essential key - the anatomy itself - was entirely missing. So all we are doing here is changing that.
There are also many other resources you might look at (see here, here, here, and here, etc - and many more private resources you may be offered if you decide to play the game associated) but all of these have mostly been outdated now by the emergence of these chat models. That's all yesterday's news now. They were all failed paths, at least in their current forms. But AI seems to be able to arrange all of those old sticks and get a fire going without too much trouble now, and all of this information (and then some) is loaded into the models.
Please be aware, however - and as we have hopefully already clarified here throughout - that some people are always going to find this subject matter more than a little challenging. In which case some sort of negative reaction can be expected. Apart from anything else 2EQ is a very fierce mirror, and some people simply don't like what they see.
With all of this in mind, it might eventually be necessary to approve all posts - leaving them in a moderation queue by default. That would be regrettable, but I suppose we will find out before long. We will start by leaving the General Forum open and see how it goes.
Overall, therefore, the purpose of this website is not to broadly promote the paradigm associated - it is simply not that sort of thing. This is not a social movement. It is not a club to belong to, it is not even a philosophy to adopt. There is nothing to believe here. There is only a small process to initiate, and a very big outcome to achieve. And to do that we need only explore a little, and to take a look.
As indicated, we are really only aiming at a small handful of people in the first instance, it's just that we don't know who they are. So we need to cast a broad net.
Most people won't be interested, and that's perfect. That was the lesson. Only a few will need to know all of this in order to make the insights available in practical form to everyone. And yet, those few will indeed need to know, so we are doing everything we can here to prepare the way for them.
We remain open to any suggestions.
HR
PS - no real names please.