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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-ties-emails?CMP=share_btn_url https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1p3uvfl/chomsky_had_deeper_ties_with_epstein_than/ Such a fascinating development as it seems one of the heroes of the left Noam Chomsky had a decently deep friendship with Epstein. The interesting part to me was that Noam didn't seem to be guilty or interested in any of the sex with minors stuff, it was mostly an intellectual friendship with the article writing about when one time they were hanging out and discussing the Oslo accords, Epstein picked up his phone and called up the Norwegian diplomat involved in the negotiations. "“I met Jeffrey Epstein half a dozen years ago,” read the letter of support from Chomsky that was reviewed by the Guardian after its Republican House oversight committee release. “We have been in regular contact since, with many long and often in-depth discussions about a very wide range of topics, including our own specialties and professional work, but a host of others where we have shared interests. It has been a most valuable experience for me." It reminds me of the christian point that all human beings are corrupt and only Jesus could've been pure. We all have our temptations towards the dark side and Chomsky was communicating and praising Epstein for over 10 years since he has publicly charged with soliciting sex from a minor.

"There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen" - Vladimir Lenin I've been thinking and researching about this concept for a while without being able to articulate it but this concept came to me recently. I believe there are 5 infinities coming to humanity in the next decades as long as we don't blow up eachother beforehand. 1) Infinity of money The most fun one. Although AI has not yet fulfilled it's financial promise there are already plenty of intitutions working on financial agents that will basically solve the concept of money through financial markets and even sales agents and eventually physical robots that fulfill labor jobs and end up providing the basis of the economy. For those of you that will now say that this will lead to a dystopian future, I don't believe so. That's one of the outcomes but you could say that outcome lacks alignment in terms of game theory and if someone made a smart contract that owned financial AI agents and automatically redistributed funds accross 8 billion unique wallets for each human that would be the most financially sound business model possible and would end up beating out other use cases for financial agents that other companies are gonna sell and pitch for your investments. Proof of personhood is a concept in crypto being worked on right now to create unique wallets for each human so that bots can't overun the internet basically and human identities are protected across the web. No longer will anyone on earth be a non identifiable data point. Here are the AI for business projects being worked on right now, this one covers project vend by Anthropic that was tried a few months ago They're not very successful so far but you can imagine that as they work on iteration the ones a year from now let alone 5 and 10 years will be pretty insane and completely overhaul the fabric of our current global economic system. There are mainly scenarios that turn out dystopian and oligarchal but I believe in the game theory that favors populism and the end of class divide and the enforcement of unalienable human rights through blockchain. 2 ) Infinity of Energy One of the biggest crisis facing humanity is climate change through the use of fossil fuels. There are massive advancements made in terms of renewable energy which the biggest of which being nuclear energy and the ever illusive nuclear fusion. There are major breakthroughs happening every few years in that regard and commercial fusion is predicted to come on the market as early as 2030. Companies like Helion Energy are planning to release their first pilot in 2028. More bearish estimates have this revolution coming closer towards 2035-2050 and that's possible especially with the current blugening of the US scientific apparatus and the cooling of US and china collaboration but the good news is that this is practically possible and is mostly held back not by technological limitations no longer but moreso by geopolitical realities of our current era. For those not familiar with fusion power it's basically in a nutshell infinite free green energy on the scale that humanity has never seen before. 3) Infinity of life This might be the most drastic but there are also multiple world class institutions currently working on and making good advances on ending aging and even reversing it. One of which being Harvard school of medicine through the lab of Dr. David Sinclair as well as Altos Labs and multiple other labs. 4) Infinity of physical space The first human is predicted to land on Mars in the 2030s or early 2040s and although it might not be exactly a luxury vacation at the present moment if you choose to accept or at least temporary imagine the premise that humans are soon to be biologically immortal the we can easily make the case that humanity will surely spread throughout the Solar system and soon enough universe. There are 2 trillions in the observable universe and many times more than that overall so you can easily say the case that God made the universe to be completely infinite and humanity will be gifted the opportunity to explore it once we make peace on earth and get our technology beyond light year travel. 5) Infinity of virtual space The most easily imaginable and in a way already is the case today but I think you can easily picture it once you think of virtual reality and augmented reality fully taking hold in our society. Pokemon Go was a basic example of what an augmented reality phenomenon will look like and billions of dollars have been put in virtual reality each year for over a decade now and the most recent versions are starting to become something aching to infinity virtual worlds. The main current limitation is the bulky and uncomfortable headset but if you've read thus far and started thinking about the other technologies I've mentioned then pratical VR shouldn't be too crazy for you to imagine. It will soon come in the form of quite comfortable VR headsets that are closer to the AR glasses currently on the market and eventually will become pretty seemless through contact lenses and eventually full on brain-computer interfaces and full 5 senses(and new senses?) immersion. I think many people here will have objections here but I wanna at least start the discussion off in terms of timelines and possibility. So people tend to overestimate progress in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. It was not that long that if you told someone about humans flying through the sky through metal tubes all over the world you would've been called stupid and crazy. I'm not a fan of the current wave of doomerism spreading on the internet and in our society as I'm a firm believer that the future is looking quite optimistic as long as we solve the very real serious problems that are facing humanity. We humans are incredibly powerful and soon will perhaps be infinitely powerful as long as we unite and reach towards these 5 infinites and beyond.

I think it's in the first episode where he mentions one of the payoff of doing this self-actualization work is that the concepts you learn build over years and you get the satisfaction of understanding the world better than anyone else. I remember watching this series years ago before I really got into politics and it made a huge difference on my understanding of the world. Without it I would've been a way angrier person that uses divisive rhetoric accidentally instead of seeing the power of uniting people.

@NewKidOnTheBlock I believe it is inevitable. Elites fundamentally have nothing to gain by keeping this AI technology to themselves. Short term yes there will be a lot of layoffs but I believe this global UBI system is coming. Many countries have already started yesting it. Saudi Arabia has an early prototype of this system where they distribute the profits of the government owned national oil company to their citizens. @Ishanga I think we've improved in the last 500 years but it's definitely not enough. I lived in Toronto for a while and it was a beautiful mix of all cultures and people from all around the world. Now Canada is facing some anti immigration sentiment but it is all economic. If we manage to fix our geopolitical issues and unite then humanity will have a bright and wealthy future ahead of itself.

Would love to live in Miami for a couple years.

Doomers and general pessimists are one of the most cringe people imaginable and I try to never associate with them if I can help it. Basically a proud version of the victim mindset. I hope you grow out of it, it's one of the most low value and disgusting mindsets in my opinion. Weakness is not a virtue, only growth and abundance are. The best example is this subreddit, read it for 30 mins and you'll get depressed like a cloud of negativity infected you. https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse Read my posts on the 5 coming infinities to get some optimism back into your life

@origin Be careful with Notion they're notoriously a hard company to deal with and they can view all your notes nothing is encrypted. Obsidian is much better. I've used Notion for 2 years now, up to 32 000 notes. It's a phenomenal software, thank you to @Leo Gura for introducing me to the notion of a commonplace book, it's taken my intellectual ability to a whole other paradigm.

This is generally a red pill topic but I find can also be deeply spiritual. Most men and a lot of the comments and the post I see on this forum come from a low value mindset and perspective. Your viewpoint thus is corrupted because the problems that you complain about are more based on macroeconomics and personal responsibility than actual dating and cultural trends worth addressing. Have a career/business that allows you some financial independence and pleasant lifestyle and work on your emotional trauma and communication skill and you'll have an infinitely abundant dating life and rise above 90% of the problems the average man has to deal with.

@Leo Gura Thanks for the tips man

@Hojo Why on earth wouldn't you pay for your dating life? Tinder platinum and a boost are like $60 and can get you unlimited dates if you have good pictures. Paying for things you find valuable is a no brainer to me. You need paid dating apps unless you're a male model and even then the guys I know that are pretty good looking are also spamming boosts so really there's no reason to not pay for dating apps unless you're broke or somehow make it an ego thing where somehow beautiful women should fall into your life without you having to expand resources to make that happen.

I think it's a very important paradigm to take on. It actually removes the pressure and self identification with your lack of results if you see it as a skill issue like a video game. Gaining or losing value then becomes a conscious choice instead of a limited identity you're stuck into. When I was in my early 20s I remember taking some upgrading classes and there were cute girls behind me talking about one of the guys she was dating and he was a fire fighter with his own place and car. At that time I had no job, was living in my dads basement with not much going on for me. People in this thread talk about delusional confidence and it does help but do you think it would be easier for me to get that girl then or now that I'm more established, run a business and known dozens of women in my city through being an event host? @NewKidOnTheBlock For sure dating and social circle and networking has lot to do with the value you offer. If you're valuable people gather around you as value is just being able to solve people's problems and make their life better. Who wouldn't want to have people like that in their life? There are also men that are chaotic entities due their lack of inner alignment and will pretty much make the life of anyone who stays near them worse. Sometimes that works with women short term but rarely long term.

@Leo Gura Most emotionally mature women don't sleep with scumbags. Depends how you define scumbag obviously but high quality women generally have especially long term relationships with high quality men. I don't know very many low level dudes banging or dating attractive and emotionally healthy women and I've been in the game community for almost 15 years.

Are you seriously saying you don't think they'll be able to? If it can even do 30% of the efficiency of what an entry level worker can do it can already be massively leveraged to not outright replace a workforce right away but most analysis from mainstream firms are predicting massive layoffs starting from 2027-2030. Unemployment in the US right now is at 4.4%, if it doubled in the next 5 years that'd be pretty drastic.

I just found out that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife's main goals have been focused on science research and specifically have the stated goal of curing all diseases by 2100. I find this incredibly inspiring as I was already a believer in humanity reaching biological immortality this century through the predictions of people like Ray Kurzweil but seeing now one of our most powerful technologist dedicate one of his lifes work to this makes this seem to me like a done deal. Humanity 2.0 now immortal and coming to a galaxy and star system near you.

Allergic or afraid of?

@SwiftQuill Any tips for starting one? I've written a few articles on substack before and I enjoy it. If I could even get 50 regular readers that would be pretty cool. I have a decently big audience on Instagram but it's quite shallow and whenever I talk about something deeper I lose like 90% of mainstream people

Agreed I like to enjoy my life much more than he does but pioneers like him will be how we actually become immortal. I've started also playing around with using ChatGPT as a personal trainer/macro tracker and it's 20x better than my fitness pal. It's just gonna be very easy to slowly orient your life towards excellent with AI coaching. Let alone when AR glasses become mainstream and you can have it actively monitor and improve your life in real time.

I've only just watched the first 15 mins as I must force myself to go back and finish the truth one to not leave these all partially watched but I like it so far. I'm an INTP with a very strong logical mind and I run into the end of logic consistently. Like it's hard to logic your way out of my own existence being a figment of my own imagination. Excited to watch the rest of the episode and the upcoming ones. Any books in particular that touch on this topic or other sources you recommend apart from the meta rationality website?

Definitely some sort of UBI. The job market cannot keep functioning even if AI fulfills even 40% of it's promises. 2027 will be the year of massive AI layoffs to the tune of 10-15% unemployment. If you're an average dude work on your social network. UBI depending on the countries will take years to successfully implement but layoffs can happen overnight. Families used to stick together with 15-20 people in a household I think we might have a similar period. Eventually it'll lead to post scarcity and abundance for the whole of human race the even the most optimistic scenarios for that are in the 2040s.

Excited for it. What do you have against AI porn @Butters ?

I feel like that's an unfair characterization of the situation. If you read the article multiple people, Noam Chonsky included were well aware of the shady allegations and his arrest for underaged sollicitation and chose to ignore that in favour of the status they gained from being friends with him or in favor of the intellectual stimulation that being friends with an global elite provides. I mean it's an interesting argument of moral relativism. Plenty of people think themselves moral characters but support wars where thousands of children are tortured and killed. I don't think it excuses being friends with a human trafficker though.

That was really creepy for me to see yeah I think trump is two faced and will say whatever to benefit his currently agenda. Which was known before but seeing it so clearly like that is very off putting.

What are you working on mostly these days?

Bro what are you talking about the market is the entirety of humanity's wants and needs separated by supply and demands in terms of services and products sold to people in different countries. It's not arbitrary or random at all. Try selling an hour of your consulting for $1M and see if it works. Some people can do it. I don't know what you mean by justification, it's a system of cause and effects. What is the justification for mountain lions eating deers? Sure you can say that we as a species should come together and figure an international system of checks and balances beyond what we currently have but that's not an argument against capitalism it's an argument for a better UN basically. I haven't said any bullshit. Have you ever taken an economics class or read an economics book? If you're uneducated about these topics I can understand that they make you emotional as they're hard to understand but don't pretend to be an expert in capitalism if you haven't studied it.