LordFall

100% without a good plan protestors are just overgrown children throwing a temper tantrum and causing millions of Euro worth of damage to their own cities. There are so many more productive ideas. Creating entrepreneurship communities to learn how to adapt to AI and generate cashflow for the wellbeing of oneself and their community would be a good start. We'll see how it turns out but this is how you end up with France as a surveillance state in 2036 and robot police beating down any whiff of protest. They're gonna end up with Marine Le Pen and the National Rally sweeping the elections in April 2027. This is the worst of the left. Angry, stupid, dangerous and making life worse for everyone due to misguided idealism.

I agree with you that the elites don't play fair and the system has massive issues. But I say this precisely as a student of history: whenever legitimate frustration turns into mob rioting, the immediate conditions almost always get drastically worse. Burning schools, cars, and local shops doesn't touch the elites, it just screws over regular working people in those neighborhoods and gives the state the perfect excuse to roll out heavier policing and surveillance. Tearing things down without a solid plan to build something better usually just backfires and makes life harder for normal people. Real question here, since we are on a self-development forum: out of hundreds of thousands of protesters, what percentage do you think are spending an hour a day reading books, learning skills, or taking free online courses to build genuine leverage in their own lives? Very few. Developing yourself is hard and takes years, joining a protest and blaming the government and the elites for your problems(even if it's partly justified) is fun and immediate but is fundamentally lazy, bypassing and also mostly doesn't work. It leads to local businesses closing and more global corporations with insurance policies that cover vandalized and looted stores. How many people in this past month have lost the work of their lives and have had to permanently close their small business because arrogant and wild youth thought they were hot shit and were teaching a lesson to the system? Apparently it's around 1500 businesses were ransacked, vandalized, or looted over this weekend alone. These businesses are not Hermes outlets. They are local bakeries and coffee shops where people have their hours cut due to this if the business doesn't have to shut down as a whole. Protests also cause public transit issues for anyone needing to use it to get to work on time. You think the protestors have pity for that?

Right, it's also a lot of lazy, entitled people who refuse to provide value to the system. Is that really what you stand for? More like it gives them the political will necessary to weaken EU's surveillance laws and will end up with Palantir like tech restoring the rule of law over this nonsense. Protesting is one thing, but riots damaging cities are another. Chaos and anarchy are not a tool of enlightened beings seeking to better society; they are maybe 30% that and 70% anger and bypassing one's responsibility towards society in favor of complaining and fucking shit up for easy dopamine. @Schizophonia What are your thoughts on the current situation as a French citizen?

Right, it's also a lot of lazy entitled people that refuse to provide value to the system. Is that really what you stand for? More like it gives them the political will necessary to weaken EU's surveillance laws and will end up with Palantir like tech restoring the rule of law over this nonsense. Protesting is one thing and riots damaging cities another. Chaos and anarchy are not a tool of enlightened beings seeking to better society, they are maybe 30% that and 70% anger and bypassing one's responsibility towards society in favor of complaining and fucking shit up for easy dopamine. @Schizophonia What's your thoughts on the current situation as a french citizen?

I think it's cool, the media that will come from stuff like this over the next few years will be amazing. I think there is a hard cap to the financial upside you can get by copying others ideas so I'm not too worried about this. In most jurisdictions you're allowed to copy others work but when you start to commercialize it you can get sued. Finding inspiration from other art is the cornerstone of most artists though. Fifty Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fan fiction and then E.L. James found her own creative direction and made billions from it; that's a great story. Ideally there should be a way to link back to the original content so the creator also gets virality when a piece inspired by their content blows up; then I think it would be a net positive. There is always an evolving moat to business where you need to find ways to make your value-producing ideas hard to replicate by others, this is nothing new and has been happening since the dawn of craftsmanship. It's part of how our species evolves as a whole and is mostly a positive phenomenon. @Heaven Why do you think Iman Gadzhi being involved makes it a scam? He's an entrepreneur looking at worthwhile products to put his money into. @Olaf You're inventing numbers lol, Iman's entire net worth is not even $1 billion so he can't invest that much.

The future is looking bright beautiful people!

Got it so you favor authoritarianism to push your personal agenda on society as a large. I think that's an atrocious viewpoint and if you don't want to watch hardcore porn you should build up the willpower to stop washing it instead of wanting the government to handhold you.

I would say that's a false dichotomy, I don't think you have to choose between drinking the full solipsism cocktail or being a materialistic atheist. I don't really have a label for what I believe at the moment, I'm growing and learning and consolidating my knowledge. I've had plenty of mystical experiences and they did not make the world go poof like any other dream. Did it for you? Seems inconsistent, you're still here with us my friend. All my awakenings led me to is appreciating life way more and realizing that a lot of my limitations were self-imposed and I could do almost anything in this world.

Why don't they invest more funding into sex ed class? If people grow up with porn as their main form of sexual education then of course strange behaviours are gonna occur. Why do you want it to be banned?

Which of Hawkins' books did you like best? I've only read Power vs Force so far, and I found it quite excellent. I want to get more into his enlightenment and spirituality books, it's a subject that's calling to me recently. I've been too obsessed with technical topics lately, I feel like a hamster with a smartphone walking around his wheel. @Davidess Cool, I hadn't heard about this one! I've read a bit of the first conversation with God book, I quite enjoyed it. Have you read them all?

What do you personally think about his hypothesis? Ironically with all of Leo's ranting against science, I think the scientific method is our best tool to make sense of reality. Mysticism must be combined with science to produce the greatest insights and understanding of reality; otherwise we cannot figure out who is saying delusional nonsense and who actually understands reality far better than the average person. I have not experienced any other worlds personally, I have dreams where I experience flashes of concepts and experiences that lack tangibility and don't stand the test of time. This dream stands the test of time and has been consistently progressing for millions of years. You can believe that life is a simulation aiming to teach us some kind of lesson, people like Nick Bostrom have published very popular theories around this. I think personally it's closer to universal consciousness expanding and learning more about itself. An omniscient God would already know everything so perhaps God is evolving alongside us. I think full virtual reality is the closest thing that you can prove that will lead us to experience alternate realities that are almost as real as ours. Any other hypothesis is just a dream or fantasy unless proven otherwise. If you don't believe that God is evolving alongside us but already knows everything then we loop back to my theory about God already experiencing life as a virtual reality game and enjoying things like wars and atrocities for the sake of I guess call it divine dopamine.

Fair enough it's unclear how the rollout is gonna go with the amount of irresponsible politicians currently in power, it's definitely a bit concerning. It's fundamentally gonna free mankind from labor though and end proverty globally basically almost inevitably. It's the next stage of workers right, global UBI. Socialism and communism were always pointing towards this, their aim are unrealistic without this technological unlock.

This is base reality that gets unlocked towards infinity once mankind unites and stops fighting itself. We'll unlock AI labor, infinite green energy through fusion power, extended lifespans to eternity with biotech and soon start to populate other planets. This century is gonna be wild. The more you study history the more you see that it slowly but surely has evolved towards abundance in the material universe. Perhaps it's possible that there are alternate realities but this one is built from friction brick by brick, getting us to the point where we can talk to each other with technology that spans thousands of kilometers instantly. I'm proud of us.

They appreciate the fruit of your intellect, not the intellect itself. If you manage to use your brain to solve a lot of problems in your life and become a high-status, abundant man that makes a lot of cash, you will have more women in your life than you know what to do with. The problem with intellect and making money is it's only half the battle; the other is emotional resilience. Building a profitable business that frees your life up and makes you a 1% man takes a lot of emotional suffering, easily 5x more than I would've thought 10 years ago. I've networked with multimillionaires and influencers in Toronto; there's no one dumb in those circles even if not all are intellectual powerhouses. If you are truly an intelligent man you are well set up to reap all the benefits that this world offers. You need to cut out the victim mindset and become ruthlessly focused on your goals and raising your status in your country and city. If you truly are high IQ then become a ripped multimillionaire over the next few years and stop fucking complaining on online forums. You can get any type of woman you want, they are not that picky. They just need a man that brings something to the table and being low or medium value with a complainer's mindset on top of it is a recipe for stewing in your own shit in terms of results. Women are offensive to men with a victim mindset because they are an existential mirror. If you are on top of your shit they love you and if you're fucking up they won't spare any time on you and will move on to a guy that's actually offering value. That's not bad, that's a divine blessing. There is very little other experience in life that hold a candle to having hot steamy sex with a woman you find incredibly sexy that you couldn't have attracted a few years ago but she now appreciates and lusts over the man that you are today. Actually on that note there is another experience that I think is equally as good and perhaps much better, finding two of those women at the same time and cashing in your universal progress. The full ownership mindset works like a charm but it is a slow and painful grind. The events that I host are a lot of effort and also complicated to set up but it's already given me access to the hottest women I've ever been with in my entire life. I cannot wait to see how much it'll scale over the next 5 years; it's what makes all of my life's pain and effort worth it.

Also probably this, I've had that same problem before. I think most men run into this at some point in our lives.