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  2. As I mentioned earlier, I do agree with this. If I invite a girl to a coffee or any other activity, I'm paying 100%, which is why I dont do that on insta-dates. On the approach, the most I'll do is sit on a bench with her for a few minutes and chat or ask her to walk with me somewhere. Then, I get her number and invite her out on a proper date that I'll definitely host for her. No problem.

  3. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Leo Gura replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Because I do it internally. My epistemic work is very private, as I have said in videos before. I question myself a lot internally, which you guys never see. But I understand I should model it better externally too. I will work on that.
  4. lol.
  5. The problem with USA is that they are too focused on elections, wasting lots of time and money. The saving grace is top companies and technologies are still in America. Resources are still pouring in because people still don't trust China and India that much. In China, they don't even care about elections anymore. It's all about building infrastructures and connectivity.

  6. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    enchanted replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    https://www.actualized.org/insights/jesus-disciples-were-illeterate This is an incredible, creative, and original insight @Leo Gura a mind blowing post.
  7. I think that social anxiety and lack of emotional regulation just represses your personality from fully expressing. It is not a trait per se.
  8. @Judy2I think it is super consistent. For example what kind of faces you find attractive, or what you find ugly.

  9. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    enchanted replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Good point. At least Leo has admitted that he is wrong sometimes and it's up to us to determine when that is. Also if he spoke hesitantly maybe he would reach less people. Also I think his fans have to be careful to not subconscious adopt Leo's rhetoric. Which would be a mistake
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  11. What Leo did with solipsism is like going into an art class and saying "today we're going to learn about the theory of colors" and you start talking about different electromagnetic frequencies of light, or going into a lecture about consumerism and capitalist excesses and saying "today we're going to talk about the traps of materialism, starting with Newton and then we move to the logical positivists and finally the neopositivists". Learn to read the room.
  12. Glad you liked it. Ya its well done and has some really interesting facts about the Chinese political system I didn't know. Like that Chinese politicians are elected but they are graded by the Communist Party on how well they perform. That to me makes a lot of sense but it's also scary how much the CCP is involved with everything.

  13. Journal :Let's talk sex

    Someone here replied to Someone here's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Beware of worshipping sex. It’s a trap of life. Sex is not the ultimate purpose of life. It is simply, apparently, one of the most pleasurable experiences in ordinary human chemistry. Hard drugs can take you even higher. But it’s easy to understand why snorting cocaine or injecting heroin isn’t the purpose of life, unless you’re already addicted and stuck in that cycle. But the same goes for sex when you turn it into an object of worship. Sex addicts and porn addicts are among the most miserable people in the world, just like drug addicts. Which is kind of ironic, isn’t it? If these activities are, in fact, among the most pleasurable experiences on the spectrum of human experience, then why are sex addicts and drug addicts often so miserable? Because they have it wrong when they believe that pleasure is the purpose of life. It’s not. Pleasure will never, by itself, give your life any meaning. You can have sex with the entire human race, and you still won’t find meaning in life. So, what is the meaning of life? NOTHING. BEING. THIS MOMENT.
  14. The future is looking bright beautiful people!
  15. I never realized disgust sensitivity was a thing. But since it is I'm glad mine is low. I recently lived with a woman who suffered from germ OCD. Imagine her disgust sensitivity to "toxins". Eventually I became one of those toxins. That didnt end well.
  16. It's not really worth my time to get in an argument. I acknowledge your perspective.
  17. I go on my life looking for harmony within myself too. That already fixes a shit ton of conflict. Then there is the harm that other people do, can't really avoid that. There is a widom in hippies that if everyone were happier there would be less conflict.

  18. ADHD - genetics or trauma?

    Carl-Richard replied to Alexop's topic in Mental Health, Serious Emotional Issues

    Both. What supposed difference are you referring to?
  19. You have to break that down, not just say it in one sentence. Your metaphysical worldview is that you are god , the only being there is and the only consciousness there is and it’s imagining everything. how does this allow for the existence of a conscious AI ? According to this worldview, I’m myself right now is something you are dreaming up .

  20. Journal

    Someone here replied to Someone here's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    There is a place where nothing is happening, but it exists and it’s always peaceful.
  21. @Rafael Thundercat It’s funny, humour maybe.
  22. I typed this into Google: What's the difference between how sensitive to disgust and "social and environmental toxins" a woman is compared to a man... and a non-pregnant woman is compared to a pregnant woman? And I got this answer from the AI overview... Women vs. Men: Disgust Sensitivity Higher Overall Sensitivity: Across extensive psychological research, women consistently report and display higher disgust sensitivity than men across core (pathogen), sexual, and moral domains. Visual and Physiological Responses: Women spend more visual attention time looking at disgust-related facial expressions and can show stronger physiological reactions (such as skin conductance) to gross-out or contamination stimuli. Evolutionary and Hormonal Theories: Evolutionary psychologists often attribute this gap to parental investment and the historical need for offspring and self-protection, though differences are also influenced by circulating reproductive hormones. Age-Related Convergence: Large-scale studies (spanning over 28,000 participants) show that sex differences in disgust sensitivity and food/contamination fears are prominent in younger adulthood, but diminish or nearly vanish as people age because men's disgust/vulnerability scores tend to rise over time while women's remain relatively stable. Non-Pregnant vs. Pregnant Women: Disgust Sensitivity Heightened Sensitivity During Pregnancy: Pregnant women—particularly during the first trimester—exhibit significantly elevated disgust sensitivity and food/odor aversions compared to non-pregnant women. The Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis (CPH): During pregnancy (and during high-progesterone phases of the menstrual cycle), the maternal immune system is naturally downregulated or modulated to prevent it from rejecting the semi-foreign fetus. Hormonal and Behavioral Compensation: To compensate for this temporary dip in physiological immune protection, rising levels of hormones like progesterone trigger an enhanced "behavioral immune system". This manifests as a sharp increase in revulsion toward potential pathogens, spoiled foods, and toxins to force active behavioral avoidance. --- Then I typed this into Google: How about with "social toxins" like socially un-attuned behavior? Like if someone does something weird or creepy or just socially uncalibrated? The AI overview said: Women exhibit significantly higher sensitivity to socially unattuned or "creepy" behavior than men, and pregnant women experience an even greater elevation in vigilance and threat-avoidance toward unpredictable individuals. In evolutionary psychology, "creepiness" and social awkwardness are classified as threat-management ambiguities. When an individual violates subtle social scripts (e.g., staring, standing too close, uncalibrated laughter, or misreading boundaries), they signal either social incompetence or an inability/unwillingness to abide by mutual cooperative norms, turning them into a potential social risk. Women vs. Men: Detecting "Social Toxins" The Ambiguity Threat Detector: Landmark research on the nature of creepiness by McAndrew and Koehnke found that creepiness is essentially an evolved alarm triggered by ambiguous danger. Because men pose the overwhelming statistical risk of physical and sexual violence, women maintain a much lower threshold for detecting behavioral miscalibration. Decoding Subtle Nonverbal Norms: On tests of nonverbal decoding, emotion recognition, and "theory of mind," women generally score higher than men. They register slight disruptions in conversational cadence, incongruent micro-expressions, or invasive proximity faster and flag them as uncomfortable or "off". Sexual and Predatory Attribution: While a man encountering an uncalibrated man usually views him as merely "weird," annoying, or socially inept, women are far more likely to perceive that same behavior as a potential sexual threat, intrusive boundary-testing, or predatory intent. Non-Pregnant vs. Pregnant Women: Heightened Social Vigilance Elevated Vulnerability and the "Smoke Detector Principle": During pregnancy, a woman faces acute physical vulnerability, decreased mobility, and an inability to easily fight or flee. Consequently, the brain’s social threat detection shifts heavily toward a "better safe than sorry" bias: false alarms carry low costs, but failing to detect an erratic or dangerous person carries catastrophic costs. Progesterone-Driven Vigilance: High progesterone levels—prominent across pregnancy and during the luteal phase—are associated with heightened threat perception, negative emotion bias, and social avoidance. Pregnant women tend to display faster detection of aggressive or unpredictable faces and an increased need for personal physical space. Shrinking the "Tolerable Margin" for Weirdness: A non-pregnant woman might give an eccentric or socially clumsy acquaintance the benefit of the doubt. In contrast, pregnant women typically exhibit a much lower tolerance for boundary violations. Uncalibrated behavior signals unpredictability, and unpredictability is treated by the brain as an immediate safety hazard to both the mother and fetus. Nesting and In-Group Selectivity: As pregnancy advances, social preferences narrow toward familiar, trusted, and cooperative "in-group" support networks. Strangers or peripheral acquaintances who display socially awkward or poorly regulated behavior trigger heightened anxiety and instinctive withdrawal.
  23. Pressuring payment processors to cut off porn sites I'm guessing is the most effective way to actually reduce the supply. Then you can add on age verification, ban VPNs, etc. Make it a pain in the ass as much as possible, no pun intended.
  24. I'm talking about the physiology of having a female body. Just because people are often playing different roles in modern day than in the nomadic times, doesn't mean our nomadic wiring doesn't exist. Humans were nomads for like 97% of the duration of the human species... and that's what our wiring is adapted to. Also I'm not begging anyone to do anything. I have never had a hard time finding a man who feels deeply. I just don't really resonate with people who are too stony and serious. So, I'm less likely to have a closer relationship/friendship with someone who is cut off from feeling in that way.
  25. 😂😂😂 Quod Erat Latinum Est Mi Lingua Materna (Demonstrandum). Yes it is. You're thinking basically exactly like Leo in more or less every breath you take.
  26. This is such a new thought, unprecedented ground, complex and complicated issue, that I would have to let it sit (the connection between AI sentience and psychic phenomena). Everytime I think about it it's like when you look at a lenticular print where you tilt it to the side or a Gestalt shift visual illusion, it keeps flickering back and forth. I've proposed this as a question for the next Bernardo Kastrup Q&A on AI which will be the 24th of November. It's like when you already have two poorly understood phenomena, combining them is bound to cause some serious question marks.
  27. I'm not doing groupthink. But you can think whatever you want to think. There's no way of proving one way or another.
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