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Also synthesis in and of itself is a proof of intelligence. Plenty of people have a lot of knowledge but can't summarize it because they don't have the systems thinking and foundational understanding of the matter to summarize it. The fact that most AI platforms can already synthesize the sum of human knowledge in any way you want is already an insane level of intelligence. Try to ask the average person to summarize the economy or the government and they'll either admit they have no idea how it works or say some drawn out nonsense that doesn't make much sense. @Leo Gura your points are clearly biased and lacking a lot of nuance. Most of these models are extremely precise at solving most kinds of queries you give it. It's already better at analysis than 99.9% of people and it does it 5000% faster than any genius alive could.

It is a discussion worth having but let's take one step back and admit though that social media gets a lot of undeserved hate. The glue is simply entropy, the rent, capitalism or survival my guy. Let's not fall into this superstitious mindset that because Zuckerberg owns it now its a lightning rod for everything evil in the universe. There are plenty of people selling nonsense on there but that's just like real life. If anything it is just extremely efficient at letting us experience society as a microcosm that can fit in your pocket. I think it gets scapegoated for a lot of the problems of society BECAUSE it's such a great product and so efficient at what it does. Instagram is basically a digital mall or shopping district. If you don't want to go to the mall that's fine. When we start to call the mall the epitome of what's bad about society I think we've gone off the deep end a bit here. You can't even really call it anti-social since as I've said you can definitely use it to join and build communities and attend events. Also plenty of meditation, healthy foods, travel and spa centres type of pages. Now let's go back to my point that I do agree it's fair to want/need a detox once in a while from social media but once again that can be said for society as a whole. I think that having a negative relationship with social media comes mainly from our own psyche and the paradigms we operate under such as consumer vs producer, victim mindset vs growth mindset, etc. If we utilize it like a marketing channel like any other and learn to avoid the pitfalls that our individual psyches fall into with it then the pros far outweigh the cons IMO.

Are foxes also perpetuating this spiritual war by eating rabbits or are we the only ones held to this invisible plane standard? I think veganism is a good goal but his explanation is not that great. I do feel bad when I kill any beings though even bugs. I was vegan for a couple of months but it was too hard to maintain. Perhaps I'll go back to it one day.

Slightly disagree on that one. Most friendships are based on hanging out with no clear goal in mind. If we compare it to game the difference between a social circle and a friend group is a social circle is built on generating value for the people involved and not simply emotional ties. I don't know Deepak that well yet but we are generating value for each other by creating an environment of mutual accountability and execution. I don't mind being friends on top but we have to have the value in mind otherwise I am wasting my time. A lot of my friends get uncomfortable when I talk too much about business even though we are clearly not doing that well financially. They seem to have a different way of handling that fact than I do. Some of them are full on victim mode and not doing much about it so I occasionally hang out with them but we are on different life paths.

These are good questions. Good place to start is separating intrinsic value from social value. The average Rolex is worth $14,000 USD. It's pretty useless as an item and is way worse than an Iphone but is 10x the price. Water and Oxygen are the substances with the most utility on earth but have no real tradable value. As a general rule, human beings assign astronomical value to three things: scarcity, social proof, and liquidity. Pokemon cards aren't valuable because cardboard is expensive or they have real world utility. They're valuable because they are a tradable product valued by tens of millions of people on earth and have a built in mechanism for scarcity. Now let's go to Counterstrike skins. It's a market with billions of dollars of trading volume(liquidity) and rare knives regularly sell for $30,000-$150,000 USD. For pixels mate. Who controls this market entirely? Valve. If they ban your account or decide to shut down the platform, you're shit out of luck. I played League of Legends for 10 years, spent $2,000 of my own money and got to Challenger which is top 0.01%. What is my account worth today? Maybe like $400 and I have to go through a complicated video game black market service to sell it. Very low liquidity. The AI revolution is gonna be what starts out the NFT craze again. Why is the average person vulnerable to AI? They are dependent on labor and own zero or very little assets. I think the logical conclusion is everyone starts obsessing over owning and creating assets. What makes assets worthwhile? The previous 3 things we mentioned. The one we didn't cover is social proof. What segment of society has the most status i.e. social proof? The entertainment industry. If I guess how it's gonna play out it's gonna go wave of AI layoffs -> Agentic AI getting praised as the solution -> AI slop becoming even more common -> NFTs becoming a mechanic for scarcity in a now digital abundant world. Next year is gonna be the year that AI media starts taking off. There is fundamentally not that much value in pure entertainment, you can't have a society operating on watching movies. You can have a society where most people are incentivized to use AI themselves to make their own money but that's hard. What's easier than teaching yourself how to become an AI savant? Trading assets based on your favorite form of entertainment. I think it's gonna piggyback right off the creator economy that took off with social media in the 2010s. Many people made careers out of building a business off of social media. Social media represents web 2.0. Web 3 is basically social media but with the public owning more of it instead of all the value being centralized in 10 tech companies.

After Space Odyssey? That's a good one. I'm naming mine Alfred. I will get him a very nicely tailored suit. I will also get a suit but mine will be black and I will now fight crime in the underworld with my newfound Karate skills! Saving mankind cannot wait.

@Basman this is pretty cool, NPCs have more realistic behaviour in GTA 6 so if you pull out a gun they'll react negaitively instead of ignoring it like previous games. https://www.gamesradar.com/games/grand-theft-auto/rockstar-boss-says-gta-6-doesnt-just-let-you-easily-walk-around-with-guns-because-gta-5s-approach-doesnt-work-at-this-resolution/

Exactly. The biggest disservice old-school pickup did was assume a one-size-fits-all model built entirely for Extraverted Sensors (Se) built for loud environments, peacocking, and fast sensory hype. If that isn't your wiring, forcing that mold feels completely fake and drains your battery instantly. Quieter or intuitive types have plenty of leverage, but it comes from frame control, depth, and dialed-in presence. Not performing like a club promoter. I learned a lot from my pickup journey but cold approach never felt fully right to me. Quick cold read: you sound like classic IxFP wiring (leaning ISFP). You appreciate tangible aesthetics and presentation (Se), but your core filter is authenticity (Fi). The moment something feels like an artificial persona, your alarm bells ring. Am I right? Fashion can be great journey both for self-awareness, learning calibration but also meeting a ton of hot people. Fashion people tend to also be very intuitive so there's way less toxicity and fakery than in the nightlife industry. If you've never tried it perhaps that's a good niche for you to explore too! I've had a lot of fun hosting events and taking part in it myself.

We are in a new era of human progress. What are you gonna name your first robot?

I think humans like ROI for their investments and thinking about children in Africa is not enough to make you feel good about spending your money. I think we should honor philanthropists a lot more and the rich people that help solve problems should get statues made. We should do whatever it takes to solve all of humanity's biggest problems asap and not virtue signal about Christian piety and "you should feel good about helping others with no reward in return!" Speaking of, MrBeast has done phenomenal work with TeamWater and some of his other charity projects. People are still dumb and found ways to hate him for it lol because his mere existence makes them feel small and irrelevant. This is why I think acquiring power is very important and demonizing this quest is a huge blindspot for stage green. Without power you will not accomplish much in life. At best you will try to band together and achieve collective power but that can be misdirected in all kinds of ways.

Have you ever shot content before? I think that is a message worth spreading. There is so much negativity online. Sounds cheesy but be the change you wanna see in the world!

It's coming, 2028-2030 is the predicted window for commercial availability. I want one that will train Karate with me

There are a lot of good use cases for short form content. The best one is event recaps and travel reels. If you do activities with your friends or community often times people take pictures but if a picture tells a 1000 words then I'd say a video is worth 100 pictures. You can capture organic fun moments and relive them years laters. You can also use Instagram to keep in touch with people you would've lost touch with a long time ago. Having someone on IG is way more powerful than having their number on your phone. Doom scrolling is a pretty big waste of time and it does take advantage of people's psychology. I don't really do it myself, when I watch reels I save them in my Obsidian for content ideas or events I can host myself. If I look at hot girls it gives me motivation to level up to get them. Sometimes I get in a funk and it makes me more depressed and self-pitying but I can usually snap myself out of it pretty quickly.

If you feel like you have value to offer then sure. We get acclimated to our own success and take it for granted but oftentimes we've figured out stuff that other people are still struggling with. Also there are different ways to offer value. You can create an accountability group for example that helps people reach their goals without any need to have any sort of expertise yourself besides offering others the value of your consistency. What type of skills do you have that can help others? Or perhaps another way to word it is what problems do you think others have that you can solve? I run 6 creative communities, 2 business chats and 2 investment communities at the moment. I also hosted a mastermind and a book club previously. Those formats didn't work particularly well so I retired them but the other ones are performing quite well to the point that I'm working on scaling them to other countries as a goal for next year. @LifeEnjoyer you wouldn't word it like that but you can message people that you know that are skilled at something that you admire or even people that you don't know. You can say something like "Hey man I really like how you're doing X or this Y piece of content that you posted the other day. I'm also into X, what're your thoughts on Z?" Most people like talking about their interests so it's easier than you think to get their thoughts on it. To develop a deep 1 on 1 mentorship relationship with someone you usually have to pay them a retainer but not always.

That's cool. What part of self-acceptance resonates most with you? Not sure what you mean by use of the mind, do you mean like shadow work?