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This is such a textbook example it would be a shame not to use it to spread awareness. As someone who's dated a cluster B(bpd) woman before, it catches you by surprise and fails to follow the rules of rationality so watch out if you're a highly rational man. So Aba from AnaNPreach just had a big drama unfold in the past few months with a woman he got pregnant accidentally and then tried to break up with as she decided she didn't want to date him. What follows is a beautiful case of all 4 dark tetrad traits displayed beautifully. https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1t6kunw/woman_making_claims_against_aba_from_aba_and/ Thankfully for him he has recordings, text receipts and in the situation he didn't get volatile himself otherwise it could've gone much worse for him. She proceeds to completely lie about a situation where she split him(going from full in love to someone to discarding them emotionally due to perceived abandonment or slight) and then after he decides he doesn't want to deal with this and tells her to leave and books her a uber and hotel to get out of the house, she proceeds to gaslight him by saying she's not safe outside and she has no service and has to walk outside for hours in the Montreal cold. Turns out after months she rephrases that she walked to 30 mins and booked herself a hotel. She then goes on interviews with Youtubers and tells people he screamed at her and verbally abused her when he has a recording of him talking very calmy and just being fed up with her and trying to get her to leave. People high in machiavellianism are master manipulators and know how to make themselves seem like the victim in all situations. You can't usually catch them red handed so it's common for it to lead to gaslighting and mental health issues for the person being targeted since you start to believe them. She also clearly shows sadistic traits in trying to ruin his life as much as possible and going out of her way to threaten to expose him to his competing content creators and records videos with any other girl she can get to say something negative about him. Also seems like clear psychopathy in feeling no guilt in turning on him like this(for example my BPD ex didn't really do things like this she was mostly just BPD) and also a lack of long term thinking and massive pride at being slighted since publicizing this makes her look unhinged and undateable to future prospects with healthy boundaries. She has some traits of BPD like frantic irrational efforts to avoid abandonment as she booked and cancelled abortion appointments multiple times(I read somewhere up to 10) even though she didn't seem to want to date him. It's very lucky for Aba that he's quite a grounded and rational person otherwise he could easily be in jail from an incident like this. It's a good reminder that emotional regulation is one of the top skills in life and most times with severely mentally ill people you just have to leave as soon as your boundaries are crossed and do not react to the attacks that follow. Dark tetrad is very real and present in both men and women so watch a few videos on it to understand how it manifests and especially some on healthy boundary setting as that's one of the best ways to cut those types of people off early as there are always signs. It's likely that Aba has a few narcissistic traits to be attracted to someone like this, narcissistic men and BPD women are a classic combination. How it works in a nutshell is you're a bit numb emotionally so a volatile and hot woman(they usually also tend to be hotter than the women you usually get so you let your boundaries slip and/or love bomb you) and play up the damsel in distress traits and it triggers a savior complex as well as you view yourself as a smarter and more grounded man than most you think you can handle her and change her. Big mistake the BPD traits are basically a hard counter for this and it always unravels. Traits are not the same thing as a personality disorder and I believe a lot of the self-development work that's done here if done sincerely will heal those traits as they surface from a wounded and thus powerful and sneaky ego. I did for sure and I've been working since my own last relationship to work on them and heal the wounded parts of my psyche so it doesn't happen again as it's quite a traumatic experience. Also quite common for PUAs to end up with mentally ill and particularly BPD women as we have an unstable sense of self and so do they and one of the core laws of dating is you do not attract what you want, you attract what you are. Dark Tetrad people aren't usually born evil, there is a clear genetic component but it's trauma based and it turns the ego into survival machine that's willing to do whatever it takes to get its egoic needs met(which aren't always rational. As I said before, psychopaths lack long-term thinking skills and impulse control; because they don't feel fear or the weight of consequences like a regular person, they're actually terrible in business.) Machiavellians are really the ruthless CEO archetype. Feel free to share if you've also had experiences with dark tetrad individuals as it's quite common and not talked about enough I believe.

Why do you care what they think?

It impacts a lot. First of all if you're an investor(you should be) your gains and losses are gonna be heavily impacted by what you invest in. Even if you're not though an AI bubble crash impacts the average person in a few different ways. If you're in tech then there's gonna be massive layoffs, AI products are gonna become way more expensive and for retirees their pension payments are gonna go down. Also depends if that crash is accompanied by geopolitical events like a war around Taiwan which would send the cost of living through the roof for everyone globally.

AI has already completely changed my life and my ability to plan and reason. It's helped my emotional development since now everytime I have an emotional outburst or overwhelmed with something I journal about it and just input it all into Gemini. It's also allowed me to start my own worldbuilding project that I will hopefully turn into a VR MMO one day, it's helped me with the art generation which I never would've been able to afford on my own. My next step is to start implementing AI agents to have active labor 24/7 on my behalf, super excited for that. I think you're perhaps using it the wrong way or just throwing out the baby with the bathwater in terms of when it makes mistakes.

Admitting that a complex system(reality) is hard to predict is one thing. Lacking the ability to see where things are going and make predictions that you can test against the future is just anti-intellectualism though. We have flying cars today they just don't make sense to adopt at scale. Artificial intelligence makes sense to adopt at scale. It's already beaten the top humans in most linear fields. Already all human research is starting to include AI and soon enough it'll be mostly AI with some human supervision. Machines always beat human they are made for efficiency, humans are made for consciousness and experiencing things. It's two different facets of existence. Idk why this concept of human intelligence being surpassed is so insulting to people, @Leo Gura hates the very concept as well. I think it's the name, it's more accurate to call it Masterpiece Intelligence than artificial. It's literally taken out most intelligent researchers and thousands of them over decades with billions of funding to come up with it. Why wouldn't it be smarter than us? I think it's quite exciting and will only extend our capabilities.

Well the true answer is that girls are just people and they want to participate in the attention economy like anyone else. Now they're exposed to it through social media whereas before they weren't. It's probably not healthy though so I'm curious to see when the data on the widespread social media bans for under 16s is gonna come out in a few years if it was good for their mental health to have it banned. I do think teenagers should have some media literacy to be prepared for the marketplace side of it in terms of business and content production but the downsides are definitely troubling and it seems the data currently points to it being negative for most.

I'm going to revise my predictions and the overall title of this thread since I do change my mind and that an AI crash or at least correction is coming. Scenario A is most likely gonna play out sometime this year if the Iran war isn't fully stopped or Taiwan escalation happens. Even if there is a temporary 1 week naval blockade of Taiwan its gonna crash the AI stocks and the people invested in them are gonna lose money. AI is gonna thrive, succeed and change the world I believe but a temporary correction seems probably. Finance is quite complicated I won't pretend to understand it fully. Mostly trying to learn and investigate this situation with you guys. There's a pretty good video on it.

Si tu le voit choses comme ca je dirais que la plupart des gens se mettent en couple pour se construire le style de vie auquel ils aspirent, donc je ne vois pas le probleme. Je recommende au gens d'utiliser toutes les dating apps a la fois sa rend les choses plus rapide.

Yes that's a good point usually they approach with choosing signals and making themselves available.

I've been going through another awakening lately that was triggered by my 30 day challenge and I noticed that men basically always react to eachother on the street. If you walk confidently you will notice that you will either puff up more or shrink down/move out of the day depending on which guy you see on the street and how much of threat you peg him at. I first noticed it years ago while taking shrooms at a club but humans are basically screaming at eachother 24/7 through body language, it's quite mesmerizing once you tune into it. So really the odd that you trigger another dude especially if you make eye contact and don't back down is quite high, much more that said random dude would go to the point of harassing/assaulting a woman. Robert Greene talks extensively about body language in the 3r chapter of the laws of human nature, highly recommend that book.

That's a really good video. It's accurate in my experience that most men suck at approaching women, no such thing as a natural they were just socialized better than you were in that context. I remember my mom teasing me about women in junior high but she never even told me to ask out a girl, nor did my dad. Had to learn it from pickup coaches. And even though I was not the most confident guy at the start you forget most rejections after 5 mins. Women definitely want to be approached. I got a great one on film, I was doing street interviews with my buddy and decided this girl was too hot to approach. Then I said fuck it lets do it anyway and interviewed her and you can see she was pretty receptive and happy to be talked to, got her Instagram after. You can see though my left hand is jittering throughout, I kept my composure for most of it but I was really afraid of talking to her. https://www.instagram.com/p/C947lEPpMkn/

That's fair, I would say keep the hobbies and vision alive though. I would say it's one of the best times in recent memory to start a comic book and basically create your own IP, with AI agents and generative media it's gonna be possible to create the most alive alternative worlds that humanity has ever created and to do it by yourself/with a small team. I'm actually working on one myself right now! For me I'm in a similar boat of focusing on immediate cashflow to fund my bills and then working on a few separate projects on the side like this Legend of the Abyss IP I've been writing for like 6 months and also want to start a media agency since I host a lot of photoshoots and know a lot of models that would benefit from help with their media creation/marketing so that seems like a big win-win leverage. Just moved to Montreal so gonna see where I can take this over the summer. A lot of pretty women here boys you wouldn't believe. It wouldn't be a good place go to full MGTOW but then again I think every place on earth is a terrible place to give up on women. There are good times for monk mode periods of focus though, I haven't dated in the past 3 years to focus on the ecosystem I'm building.

That's a very naturalistic way to look at it. I would say it comes down to strategy vs coping then. Humans are build around using our times effectively to secure a better future for ourselves, that's one of the main differences between us and animals that live mostly in the present moment due to lacking the cortex for strategy. I think it's good to medidate and always enjoy the present moment even when it's mediocre but not to forget long term strategy so you're not stuck in stagnant environments over the long term.

Do you watch porn regularly? Being used to being alone shouldn't have too much with sexual drive. Technology mostly hightens competition, it's like globalization. The women in your immediate vicinity are engaging with the content of people living across the world and in part other men with more resources living funner lives than you. If you have the drive to compete it's not an issue but if your brain chemistry is out of whack then yeah it's gonna be overwhelming. The dating marketplace becoming more competitive is why social media and social circle game are so important.

@Zenterus What are you working on apart from pickup? Life purpose is definitely a big part of the life puzzle and without it you’ll invariably be bound by chaos.