LordFall

Sure, you've not seen Game of Thrones? You can experience dragons visually and through your ears through the show. Eventually when VR takes off you'll be able to experience touching them, talking to them, riding them, etc.

Weird take. Are you able to enjoy a cold cup of water or a nice meal or is also ruined by falsehood to you? You can enjoy reality without getting stuck overthinking ontological truth. It's the main purpose of reality; to be enjoyed.

There is a difference between being stuck in your head constantly overanalyzing social situations vs having an overall strategy for your dating life. Joining girls on nights out a few times and having fun is fine. Then I would suggest to sit down and think on whether you enjoyed it as it is or do you like bringing girls into your life more. To me catering the environment overtime makes much more sense and makes it possible to justify socializing continuously since I also build value for the ecosystems I'm building as opposed to just using socializing to blow off steam or to to pull women. I hosted a content mastermind a few months ago and it was both a fun way to meet new chicks and also it helped my agency and community. About a month before that I went out for drinks which chicks that invited me out and it was fine and fun but the ROI was much lower.

This is why building an interesting social life and building social capital is a cheat code to attract high quality interesting women. The average man doesn't have much to offer so most women don't go out of their way to entertain that type of man. It's very important to build a life strategy that's superior to the average and mediocre life that most people live and thus both high quality women and average women will be interested in joining your life.

I wouldn't recommend it, forex is very volatile and is mostly a get rich quick scheme. I would make money in a way that's aligned in your industry. If you have around $800 USD you can buy a nice camera and start getting paid to shoot concerts and events which will get you networking in the scene. You could also work as a promoter for other artists and sell tickets to their events and eventually be an opening act and then in a couple years sell your own shows. The road to becoming profitable in trading is around mastering complex arbitrage strategies which can work if you have an a deep interest in finance but be careful getting tricked into "Copy these trades and make 200% yearly returns no effort needed!" It seems like mastering a basic fundamental skill like videography or direct response marketing will be a much better foundation to your skillset and will give you the foundation to start marketing and profiting off of your own work much faster than trying to become a quantitive analyst that crushes forex.

I would recommend trying it a few times but more than likely you'll realize it's a bad idea. Better to invite women to your events than to come out to the club with them. It will leave you in a reactive frame where also she'll probably subconsciously or intentionally put you against other guys she knows or random dudes that come up to hit on her. If you've been gaming a lot then you might be able to meet other women there and merge sets and use the opposite effect on her but either way you start off at a disadvantage. It's not a bad thing to experiments with environments that don't favor you but in general you obviously should build a social life that works for your goals and not against them.

So beyond your post-colonial grievances, how do we suggest that we move forward to make our societies productive and safe? That's a very real geopolitical truth. The US mainly flourished as a superpower due to Oceans protecting its borders and being basically impossible to invade. Europe doesn't have that luxury and it's a great part of why it and the middle east are conflict ridden regions. The solutions that we propose and our politicians implement must consider these truths if they are be viable and not just based in virtue signalling.

It's near the top of my to read list. Currently reading his other book Laws of Human Nature and once I finish that I'll probably pickup a copy of the art of seduction. I'm very familiar with seduction strategies and framework, I'm now looking for a more historical exploration of how seduction work and the different archetypes of it. Especially I'm interested if he's gonna touch on the sensual lover archetype that enjoys human sensuality and connection and thus values having many sexual partners as that's the one I feel myself developping into. It seems missing from modern discourse as sexuality is either talked about in terms of solely the strategy of it or how the sexual revolution has affected culture whereas I'm more interested in the exploration of love with many people otherwise known as polyamory! I like this image, came up when I typed polyamory wallpaper on Google images. Combines the many loves etymology of Polyamory(poly = many and amory means love) with the bisexuality angle of being able to desire and love both genders.

Your reply sounds to me more like Stage Green moral outrage vs Stage Yellow systemic thinking. Understand our history and how the states we inhabit were formed is very important. The current politicians today are not the same ones that operated the Canadian Indian residential school system nor is that what we were discussing in terms of immigrants assimilating in a culture. If you have a particular interest in discussing the history of First Nations in Canada I would be curious to do so as well as I think they actually did not assimilate well to our current society and the system that was used historically and even today clearly is not working. I'm interested in solutions and how we make our world better than it is 5 and 10 years from now; if you have some in mind feel free to share as that's a valuable topic to discuss.

I would take the issue from a first principles perspective and look at why the situation is happening and who is profiting from it. Some migrants are problematic but most are just looking for a better life and have no problem offering value to the society they're joining. Why are your politicians so lazy in assimilating those migrants and what are they gaining by allowing unrestricted immigration? I'm in Montreal currently and the Quebec government is one of the best in the world at integrating immigrants. Migrants are forced to take french classes funded by the government and it ends up in a society where people from all kinds of ethnic backgrounds are living and working together with not that much issue. Not to say Quebec is perfect but it seems to be miles ahead of what's going on in Europe and we rarely hear about migrant crime here even though the switch from a solely Caucasian population to a multicural one happened just the same. I'm a 2nd generation immigrant and my Dad from Chad to study here and then chose to build a life for himself in Canada when he met my mom who was a french Canadian woman. I feel totally Canadian whereas a lot of 2nd generation european immigrants see themselves as the culture they come from and they now have an opportunity to stick it back to the white man or some weird inferiority complex they still carry today. I would say I've integrated so well to North America that I've outgrown the Quebecois culture which is more socialistic and anti capilistic but I can still mingle in it at ease which also fitting into more American minded cities like Toronto. In Quebec and Canada, immigrants cause LESS crimes than the native population. In a lot of European countries, the immigrants cause 2-3x more crimes than the native population. That's an insane difference and you absolutely should hold your elected officials responsible for these outcomes. It's easy to blame unruly youths in the streets for you feeling personally uncomfortable but they are not the ones responsible for how their parents have integrated into your community. Government policies handle that.

I'm not but I think it's really good that these high profile sexual assault case are coming out. I'm a big believer that AI will solve all crimes and wars in the next 20 years and cases like this that publicly litigate and break down what happened are phenomenal for the epistemology of finding the truth of people claiming innocence for crimes they're accused of. Rape is one of the last bastions of criminology as other destructive crimes like murder and theft are way easier to prove. It's truly a hard question to answer, what piece of circumstantial evidence do you use to build a case beyond doubt? Are you 100% sure or 95%/99% sure? There is a MASSIVE different in both perspectives. Plenty of people have been 100% sure of things that turned out to be 100% false. We have to leave room for human error and other darker incentives that leave room for the accuser to gain something out of making accusations IMO. As soon as you go into 100% certainty of something that lacks detail that points to the narrative reinforcing a bias that one might have. The justice system is one of the top use cases for AI, in 10 years and probably way less it'll become quite simple to analyze someone's brain and see if they are lying. The lie detectors that we currently have can have errors but I think that's asymptote towards 100% certainty of truth is getting closer and closer each week. Soon enough it'll be able to generate a memory recreation video of what happened during a crime and be able to catch perpetrators beyond a shadow of a doubt. I think the Epstein Case is the most important criminal case in history and will keep pushing the need for the rule of law to be applied universally no matter your political power and wealth and the dominos that will set the end of crime forever for the humanity of the future are already falling quite rapidly.

I read most of it for the book club I used to run, quite enjoyed it! It takes some seemingly simple common knowledge about habits and fleshes them out as well as making them much more concrete.

I think you are biased against science and AI. Science for a lot of good reasons because the amount of effort to make a name for yourself and change the status quo in the scientific community is immense. That doesn't mean that nonduality or mystical teachings invalidate the scientific method and that you can credibly make arguments that fall outside of it. AI I think it's because it threatens your status as an intellectual since a lot of the concepts in your videos come from synthesizing thousands of hours reading books which can now be achieved by LLMs. You're been very dismissive of its potential to produce intelligence and even though you have some good points on it, I think you are fundamentally biased on it. If you put more time mastering AI it would push the quality of your work to the next level. I think it also probably stems from your health issues and specifically your low energy since keeping up with all the AI news and stress testing the new models that come out continuously to get them to produce high quality insights takes a lot of energy. I similarly find myself having procrastinated on my learning of AI to help my life's work and I think it's due to some very real mental blocks that I see in myself, you and others both on the forum and in society at large. I think it's fine to have limitations but when you speak with absolute certainty on things that AI fundamentally cannot do then you lose a bit of credibility since often times I've found it's already either false or it seems quite likely that in 1-2 years it will undoubtedly have reached that level let alone in 1-2 decades. There are valid concerns to have with overhyping that techbros do but the potential and benefits of the technology have already started to bear fruit so I think it's a good time for us to wrack our brains to pull further benefits from it for the community and world as a whole! That's why I made this thread, to focus on practical benefits that this community's users can derive from AI instead of either fear-mongering on it or hypothesizing on future applications without actually using it productively daily.

What kind of value and to who? There is value in just being a character in the world, I rather there be 8 billion of us than 10. Society is too competitive for that to be enough to add value to someone's goals though. If you are trying to network with cool guys and women in demand you need to have worked on yourself to stand far above the average person otherwise people will not have time for you. From a nondual sense, we are here to experience duality so building up your character to be very valuable along paths that are of interest to you is the main goal of existence. Using spirituality to bypass that would be quite silly. When I feel anxious or depressed it does help me immensely to remember that I don't have fundamentally have to provide value to anyone and it's only a gift I'm building up for myself; giving yourself an awesome life is a privilege but if it becomes a burden you can pause it.

Agreed! I think green is one of the most important stages but the most ineffective and frustrating to be in. It invalidates such key concepts of our reality that the people in it are bound to be left angry and feeling like a victim. Only by going beyond that and doing deep research on the systems of the world that do create inequality(and plenty of free value that we don't have to work for as well) do you start to see the limits of complaining and how you can have a deep impact on your life and on society at large by understanding leverage. @Alexop You would not have made this post if you knew 30 really hot and cool women in your city. I would focus on becoming a man of value and abundance and that will take care of a lot of your dating life. Yes you can also do this by being a selective intellectual that engages in deep conversations; as a matter of fact it'll work even better that way. People at the top of social hierarchies are usually quite refined and fascinating to talk to, from the bottom they look shallow but that's because they operate with complicated systems that are hard to understand and appreciate at first glance.