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Overall I feel like abstaining is beneficial if I'm serious about going out. But you do need to be careful about thinking too much with your dick. If you just let your dick run the show, you can make stupid decisions. Dick gets a voice, not the final say.
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I think people still try to send a message with songs (at least sometimes), but there are so many genres and people have really fractured into listening to things from the genres they like best. I saw Weird Al say this; he said he makes parodies so rarely now because everyone has kind of fractured into their own musical bubble. Apparently (I wasn't around for this), in the 80s an 90s things were very different: tons of people watched MTV and everyone was aware of the top songs on the Billboard Hot 100. It seems like you could push an idea to a much larger group of people if this was the case.
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Xonas Pitfall replied to Xonas Pitfall's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
“But, but, but then all the rich people will leave for Moldova and the Cook Islands!!!” -
To add (directly above), the situation isn't completely hopeless though, in fact, relative to the last 20 years, it could become better than eva! Music now is brand/memetic economics. Music was only ever a system as a mirror reflection of a larger system, that's literally it. So it's able to be easily gamified with enough intelligence and power. And thus, that's precisely what has happened but to societies detriment. That's a part of a project I am working on. I am creating a safe environment for musicians and artists to move back to creating solely exter-personal or exter-personal enriching music. Aka, either cultural enrichment or more towards being a cultural critic. That was the element of true rap and anything with extensive consciousness flavour. Artists can't be doxxed when they're protected by an environment that solely lives off the very architecture that defines an artist. This is a cultural war, and you gotta pick your side; if you're pro your own personal development, then you're pro-artist architecture of consciousness. The problem was never music in and of itself, but the jukebox that was able to define the limits of the intelligence that came out of it. I will create a new jukebox, a new system, built for artists to stimulate a virus worth being infected by. All it takes is one brand, protected hosting, and intelligent system feedback loops between architect to artist, artist to end sentience, and sentience back to architect. A single artist shouldn't have all of that weight on their shoulders in todays environment, they need protection. People are begging for exter-personal music, but they also need the rest of the system that creates and maintains brand integrity with its corresponding vision to ensure it survives both competition and status preoccupations inherent to human nature. So it has to come from a brand that isn't just a label, but system designed to positively infect society. It'll be its own mini-society, and that's not a choice, I'd much prefer just being an artist, but unless someone else does it, its actually one of cultures only hopes. To vex a degrading society, it must compete with one purpose built for regrowing from societies roots.
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I think this isn't a very clear-cut situation with the information that is publicly available, it seems mostly like a breakdown of communication to me. You can read Tristan's statement here, and OpenAI's response here. In my opinion, there was some skullduggery by OpenAI in that they heard a rumor that these two collaborating mathematicians (one of which works at Anthropic) had made a breakthrough in this Euler problem, and then they decided to drop a ridiculous amount of money on Navier-Stokes as a result. It seems that the resolution of Navier-Stokes use different that the method that Tristan and Levent used to construct finite time blowups of Euler equations (something about "forced" vs. "unforced"; I don't know much about the field of PDEs in general), but I sort of wonder if OpenAI just got lucky that their model took a different route than Tristan and Levent. Tristan sort of jumped to conclusions that OpenAI had accessed his conversations with Codex, for reasons that seem reasonable in his account of what happened. There was also some pettiness with OpenAI not wanting Levent to be an author on the paper because he worked at Anthropic. I have a pretty low opinion of Sebastien and his colleagues after seeing some of them mock a heartfelt response to Levent on X, but whatever. The effect of this drama that I see is that mathematicians are concerned that OpenAI is training models off of their conversations (it is, unless you "opt out", who knows if that actually does anything), which would result in their arguments being plagiarized if AI regurgitates them in future solutions. This is a general issue with AI in math: it doesn't know who was responsible for the data it's trained on, so it can't cite any sources properly.
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Stick replied to Xonas Pitfall's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
@Leo Gura There is an even better argument which is that humans can't handle equality and they can't handle socialism. Look what happened to soviet union in the name of equality. They became an unquestionable absolute dictatorship. The current capitalist structure provides a more guided hierchy rather than a law of jungle. If survival needs are met that is already a really powerful system. Do you think the lady cleaning toilets would rather be cleaning toilets or live in an absolute dictatorship where she could be thrown in the gulag any second. Of course I am ultimately not a ben shapiro type capitalist. All that needs to happen is to tax the rich more and most problems with this system is solved. and the system is so good that it will facilitate tax increase with a election in 2028. We do not need a stage green communist society; that is for 200 years later. -
So I am starting to think more about love and I think love is not in meditation, it is not in being present, it is not in living your purpose per say, it is in supporting your brothers, it is in giving back, which is nurturing, meaning not just giving 200 euros randomly, but actually giving support to others, I see brothers who struggle and helping them, supporting them is where I feel alligned, today I had a brother who his father and mom died, but we were open about death and those kind of convos you don't have with your girlfriend, ultimately your girlfriend needs you and you can't just rely on her for stuff like that. But in hard times you can laugh with your brothers and help eachother grow aswell as open up. Giving in a way that is nurturing that is real love, it has to be a win-win, a win for you and a win for them, not drowning in misery and bringing each other down, holding each other back from the next level. but authentically opening up and supporting each other to become better, to improve, to push ourself to our potential. We all have so much potential and I love nothing more then to see someone go from nothing to something, to outperforming me, that is the beauty of being a leader and I feel every guy should aim to lead men, it will transform you, it is ultimately what an alpha does, a beta complains, is scared and does nothing or meditates to avoid life, that is also beta. Alpha is to be there for your brothers and yourself, which is love. Of course not everyone deserves your endless support, it needs to be a win win, again that is what it is, a nurturing love. I get how this is not for woman, but woman have this too in their own way, woman support eachother already more then men I believe. I feel there are allot of men who are competing in bad ways, from insecurity instead of genuinely trying to lift eachother up, genuinely wanting the best for eachother, because they don't want the best for themself. On the higher paradigm everyone is winning and that is what love is, where you see everyone win, where you want everyone to win, I helped someone with girls and he was so grateful, he said I owe you a million dollars lol, you don't understand how much power and influence you have on others, how much impact you can make when you make an impact on your own life. Impact YOUR life! And after that, impact someone elses life! Summary: give in a way that is fulfilling and gives back to you, support your brothers, become a leader and go towards your highest potential instead of bringing eachother down back to misery. This is real strength. -
A difficult question 🤔 I have gotten used to the fact that the best songs often take 2nd-4th place but don't win.
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Habits & Disciplines Journey Entry #222 ~ Sun Sep 13 '26 Daily goals: Wake up at 7:30 AM: 4 Make bed: 38 Take medication: 55 Shower: 55 Groom hair: 55 Brush teeth: 55 Floss: 0 Kriya yoga: 0 Push ups & pull ups: 0 No porn: 6 No ejaculation: 6 No electronics before bed: 1 Brush teeth before bed: 2 Wash face before bed: 2 Weekly goals: Workout 3x: 4 (☑️ Give yourself a haircut: 1 Do laundry: 7 Clean room: 7 Clean car: 6 Things to do: Get new card at L Bank Set up high yield savings account Get new light bulbs
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aurum replied to Xonas Pitfall's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The clearly example of capitalist bullshittery is how much the richest people in the world have made since Covid. There's no possible way to justify how much more they are worth in just a couple years based on merit. Their businesses have not functionally changed in that time period. -
Yes. There is so much published mathematics that each person only knows a tiny fraction of what exists, even in their own field. I mean, I study algebraic geometry, which was revolutionized by Grothendieck in the 60s. He published a ton of papers laying out the new foundations of the field ( EGA, FGA and SGA). I haven't read almost any content from any of these, only textbooks which are ultimately derived from these papers, and I only know some of what's contained in the textbooks. My advisor certainly does not know most of what is contained in Grothendieck's papers. And this is only the "foundations" of the field, let alone the thousands of problems that have been solved in AG. So, it absolutely seems like AI will be used to sort of fill in the "convex hull" generated by our current knowledge, and this is mostly what will happen first (by people unwilling to spend $10 million+ on compute to solve a hard problem like OpenAI did for Navier-Stokes). The question is, who is going to read the massive influx of papers that are being created and submitted to the arXiv? People are considering splitting the arXiv into two different sites to handle this. Yeah, this is one of the big incoming societal issues I think. There's likely going to be a huge division between people who actually know things and can read, interpret, and understand what an AI is doing to help guide it (if they use it for whatever reason) vs. people that sort of just use it to do what they can't and remain ignorant. Also in this second camp are probably those that are too easily fooled into believing what it's saying is wise/a prudent response because of some general pro-AI biases, or because the output is different than what they would have thought of, etc. My girlfriend is a software developer, and she already sees this. There are people not on her team that use AI heavily, but also clearly don't understand the goal they're trying to accomplish or the details of their situation as they use it. It's very frustrating to try to work with them. Recently there was a series of meetings, it's somewhat of a long story, but in the last one these people were still confused about very basic details of the project (and it is not at all a complicated project, it's just deciding the best way to allocate some group IPs). At the conclusion, they asked for information about the project details so that they could send it to Claude to make a short summary. She was like "...I can just summarize what we are doing for you...". A more relatable (but less specific) example is Suno, the AI music generator. Adam Neely has a great video on it. I just think about how many people are going to *avoid* learning an instrument or any music theory because they have access to an AI music generator that can generate whatever they want. It's unfortunate. Of course, there is also the huge crisis in education...
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Don’t be ugly/hateful.
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https://x.com/YairGolan1/status/2098672638319022221?s=20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe5E4QcYUGM The lesson behind this video is that there are always unintended consequences to every decision. There are first order consequences that are the intended result, second order consequences that result from the first order ones, and then third order consequences that result from those consequences and are seldom accounted for in decisionmaking. The law of unintended consequences resulted in WW1, 9/11, and various financial recessions. He's not really saying that people should never take risks as to avoid ever being wrong (a strength of orange is avoiding this severely limited way of thinking). Rather, he suggests making preparations to survive being wrong.
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Actually, it's probably best to go out with a hard rod tucked into your waistband.
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I know we're not ready for something like Democratic Socialism and that we won't be until at least several decades or several centuries from now. We still need to get to Social Democracy as soon as possible to truly have the best form of free and fair capitalism. So, if most people are not woke enough to understand the structural problems of capitalism, then does that mean that most people don't know that American Capitalism or Capitalism in the West since the late 1970s/early 1980s has been gutting the middle class more and more to concentrate wealth at the top and cause the extreme corporate power which have corrupted our government?
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Xonas Pitfall replied to Xonas Pitfall's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Yes, I've definitely heard this argument. "Well, with investments, if they do well, you'd expect some kind of return. You risk X amount, and if things go well, you might get X amount back, or potentially many times more, or lose it all. They risked $100 million, made the right investments, recognized the market opportunity, positioned themselves well, and ultimately got a huge return. Yes, sure, it's an absurd amount of money, but it's an investment like any other. If you had that amount of money, you could theoretically do the same thing. But would you have? I don't know. I don't think so. That's why there are so few people like him in the first place." I'm not saying I agree with this viewpoint, but I definitely hear it argued. -
Plus, you're flirting with not being able to get your dick up, which isn't good. Trust me. The last thing you want is to eat some strange cat just to save face.
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Yep. It has been a big thing for me recently. My siblings seem to be oblivious - but I think this is because I am more engaged in a caring role already. I am lucky that my parents were young when they had me. I am only 40 but I still see this as half way through - if I am lucky.
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Agree. If anything, horniness will fuck you up. It seems like stockpiling excitement for 3 months before you skydive like a madman out of a plane. The anxious energy is still there. The solution to the anxious energy is to forget about it and just be playful. Imagine if you didn't run like a madman out the plane door and instead walked out playfully. Much better.
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Has my writing become more beautiful? Kind of looks like it from the previous one. Could also be the medication, without them my mind is very fuzzy.
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Also did that. The biggest task now is actually to get to sleep in time lol. I need to get to the secretary in time. Oh and I get my table tennis wood together, perfect timing. Also I think I want further tasks afterwards or I will fall into a hole. I want to go to a hairdresser with professional consultation and look for a place for ergotheraphy. Oh not speaking of needing a job, needing an internship, needing to register for new semester, wanting to work on my table tennis wood ... Perfect a lot to do to always keep my mind busy from realizing spiritual truths. Lol, jokes aside, having lots to do is actually kind of comforting, how interesting. The jokes are all so real.
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@Leo Gura I agree. Self love as motivation is even better because it fuels self development. Now I think about it too much horniness scares girls off. But some weekends I need libido to go out. If I don’t have libido I won’t go out.
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Everything done. All I can do today is sent the digital versions. Tomorrow I have got to print it and sent the physical versions as well. So I would commit when I sent the digital versions now. But I feel like for my mental health its, I am not going to oversee the stuff tomorrow anyway I think.. Welp .. Maybe I prepare everything so far that the hurdle to sent it is basically zero. I can do that. I will prepare the email and everything.
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