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In what way? The entertainment busines is full of weird dramas, strange to see how it goes. I'm really hoping AI write helps us out with the creative hole I feel like Hollywood is hitting right now. Hopefully they're gonna blow all expectations out of the water and make it sweet, they should start with a new superhero story though so many fresh interesting ones they could tell. I feel like an average guy/girl struggling to get by with the shitty job market we have today and gaining powers and using it to make money in an interesting way would feel fresh to most people, we don't need everything to be a grand epic tale of good vs evil.

I take it as have the means to engage with the conflict that you are dealt with. To me that goes straight to spiritual people having a blindspot for business and power building and they think being at peace with their own mind will save them from the problems of the world. On the other hand I agree with you that we don't solve wars with getting better at war, that was what we learned with the cold war and us being inches away from nuclear winter. We deal with it with realistic empathy. Naive empathy is thinking that your nice words are gonna stop someone's violent goals like europe tried doing with the appeasement of Hitler. Realistic empathy is understand where your enemy is coming from and what his objectives are and being able to either meet those in other ways or being able to exert less force due to greater leverage ala Power vs Force by David Hawkins Robert makes phenomenal books, highly recommend everyone read 48 laws of power and Mastery. I'm reading one of his new ones laws of human nature right now and its one of the deepest books I've read in my entire life.

Well yes charisma is usually about making others feel important and that you like them but also not being too needy and DHVing yourself so that they actually value your opinion. I'm reminded of a passage from a book I can't remember where it talks about Richard Nixon partly losing his 2nd term election due to making people feel like he's really smart where as JFK made the people listening to him feel like they were smart. I think understanding that most group conversations and social circles work on consensus rather than making individual good points is important, I used to be like the odd man out in friend circles for being too logical and not getting the flow of what the extraverts were talking about or refusing to dumb down my points to fit in. I think ultimately that's why social circle game and leadership skills are so important to make your own circle without pandering and entrepreneurship/business to tie it back to genuine value that everyone relates to. I try to walk that line myself of offering value but not pandering, it's hard but feels right to me at the moment. A good tip it to give genuine compliments to people when you mean it or to approve of their point if they're right even if you're arguing with them. I have debates sometimes and I know I make phenomenal points that the other person didn't take into consideration and sometimes they keep doubling down or moving the goalpost and it's very annoying or they actually say good point and it makes it seem like we weren't having an argument but more like a heated friendly chat that in the end bonded us closer. The skills part of social skills should ideally mean that it gives you the knowhow of streering social engagements the way you want to and to achieve desired outcomes instead of being frustrated people don't get you or not being able to hangout with the people you want. It should only feel like being forced to praise people that don't deserve praise if you're stuck in a social construct not of your own making like a job or maybe school otherwise you always have the freedom to create your own social circle and filter it however you want.

Bro thanks for sharing that's actually so interesting to watch. He does phrase it as putting his way on top which I think discredits him a bit but I think each man found a niche that called to them and is providing value in that niche. For what it's worth the guy I used to throw social circle events with said that he took Jeffy's bootcamp and he was a very rude guy and he almost got in a fight with him because he was so insulting but he actually learned stuff and he found it better than Owen's bootcamp.

It's not very productive to insult people, I think it's better to question their points or ask what they mean by that if you find it genuinely confusing. Ultimately we can get enflamed in online debates as I definitely do often do but we are on the same side so if people are making points that don't seem to make sense I think that asking them to put more effort into their points as it's a lazy one is a good move in terms of confrontation that's not literally an insult or to just say that you don't think they're being logical anymore and to rephrase their point if they think it's worth making. I like Leo's point that even if you possess the truth you shouldn't beat people with it, the point is to evolve collectively not for a certain self to be better than another one.

This is a false equivalency. You can't conflate things like this, Hitler decided that most of mankind was undesirables and worth sacrificing to reach his goals. You're now comparing this to a dude running a science experience in a petri dish to help all of us live longer and cure the diseases that are ruining our lives. If you have to rely on extreme reductionism to make your points I don't think they're good points. You can die on your own terms nobody is forcing you not to. We're talking about extending human life time infinitely, if you don't enjoy our post scarcity future then I wouldn't personally vote for stopping you to end yourself if that's what you want. You are just arguing against medical research at the current moment though.

UBI doesn't threaten the status of the elites too much, people reinvests back into their companies anyway and the costs of assets keep rising while consumption is now predictable which is what the consumeristic culture of the west is based on. It gives a win-win way for the elites and the masses to collaborate together in the future of mankind. I think it's a beautiful vision for the future of humanity as it solves the problem of those wanting out of forced labor and those that want to compete for status and scarce experiences can still do so while people eventually get free food and lodging.

No, spiritual bypassing is trying to use spiritual concepts to avoid playing the game of life and to fall into passivity and nihilism. God created us with the potential to improve and overcome our conditions and it's been working thus far so I don't see why transcending the current limit of biomedicine would now be anti spiritual. Believing in science to keep advancing itself as it has done since the dawn of time is not guessing, it's having a vision for the future of our species. Many people would've called an airplane fantastical hype thinking. We've gotten this far and we'll go much further still. Solving aging and achieving biological immortality doesn't seem that insane to me in the grand scheme of things and some of our top minds as a species are working on it as well as billions of dollars being spent on it yearly so I would call it quite grounded in reality.

How so? That sounds like a weird anti-sex and anti life take. Sure but then we lose the usefulness of words and concepts. By smiling at someone you induce good emotions in them with mirror neurons, I wouldn't call that manipulative. If we use this definition of manipulation : Then only doing stuff like lying to get laid or intentionally taking advantage of vulnerable people falls into the manipulative category. Having good social skills and offering value is not manipulative even if you use it to get tons of sex but don't lie about it.

Why do you say this? He's clearly consistent and coherent in his rhetoric. It's not because it's based on sociopathy that he's not lucid. Normalization and "joking" is how you push the boundaries of people and societies while you work on the mechanisms that make your unwanted wishes physically possible.

People don't need to die for our civilization to ameliorate itself. Billionaires also do a lot of good for the world. Our political system needs to adopt to give a good standard of living for the masses and I believe AI based UBI can bring that about. This seems like spiritual bypassing. If God thought that the best way to experience reality was without life that's how he would've built it. He clearly set humanity on a path to explore more and more of the universe and itself in the process. The clearest sign of that for me is the known universe contains about 2 trillion different galaxies and we're barely on the cusp of being able to explore our own galaxy. I think that once mankind makes peace with itself and unites our technology in one axis of power and progress, our potential shall grow exponentially quite quickly. @Something Funny Luigi Mangione is an immature murdered. Speaking of manliness, the way to help your people is not to lash out violently at the people that have slightled you. It is an understandable reaction as many people feel his anger vicariously but it ultimately doesn't do much and is not solving any systemic issues. @Natasha Tori Maru Nothing I say is based on magic, I just extrapolate the current trajectory we're on. Hilarious that people hate on Musk for not hitting his own timelines while each of us has failed on our own words many times but I doubt anybody on the forum is taking on these kinds of challenges regularly or at all in their lives. If you're not a business owner it's very easy to laugh on the sidelines wihout putting your neck on the line. Accomplishing massive projects is not easy, even just ones like throwing events but the ones that choose to take on civilization changing projects will inevitably invite the derision of the masses from a lack of them empathizing with ambition.

Why do you think it's unethical and manipulative by nature? A lot of it is innocent, it's just practicing communication and human dynamics at scale. Whether someone turns it toxic or manipulative is up to them and the source they get it from. That's like saying metal is inherently toxic because it has a lot of use cases that can harm beings if you wish it to do so.

A lot of people called it but seems he's seriously gonna try again, could be a joke but I'd say it's normalization at this point https://www.smh.com.au/world/trump-announces-2028-presidential-bid-20260725-p60iho.html He's also using a rhetoric where he calls it the 4th term to gaslight people into adopting the paradigm that the system is rigged and he actually won 2020 so he's aready on his third term it's not that big of a deal.

I agree and funnily enough as we seem to be in the middle of a gender war; the duality between men and women is gonna end then in the next 20-30 years. They already made breakthroughs being able to turn random cells into sex cells so same sex couples can reproduce and soon enough babies will be able to be born in vats so the uterus is not the only place they'll come from. The main major personality difference observed between women and men is about a .50 standard deviation in trait neuroticism, in the big five personality model. Apart from that we're about the same and just have played different roles in human history depending on culture.

You have as much power as you desire to build, this is our gift. If you choose to be a worm that's on you my friend. Humans are given the potential to learn and improve. @Leo Gura Some of this stuff is clickbait but medical research is reaching an exponential stage with AI. In the next 10 years most of the paradigms we thought were ironclad will be pushed to perhaps not infinity but us being able to extend lifespan a few hundred years and make humans functionally immortal with no doubt. Many cutting edge labs all around the world are working on different aspects of biological transcendance as we speak.