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Lol yeah that was definitely a hallucination moment. Some of your rebuttals are off base though. There are still plenty of trade barriers currently hurting our GDP to the tune of tens of billions annually. The Canadian Free Trade Agreement ameliorated some of it, but the friction is definitely not resolved. Carney didn't just inherit these policies in a vacuum, he has been Prime Minister since early 2025 and actively chairs the government defending them. More importantly, Washington doesn't negotiate with individual personalities; it negotiates with the Canadian state. Whether an unforced error like the Digital Services Tax or billions in reactive EV subsidies was passed under Trudeau or retained under Carney, it is Carney's administration that has to defend the balance sheet and bear the retaliatory cost at the CUSMA table today.

I like to collapse the less relevant parameters to focus on the meat of the topic so that my brainpower is able to figure out the best answer and avoid inconclusive outcomes Which is why I like the debate format of conversation so each person presents their strongest point and we get to the truth faster instead of proposing a bunch of random points that make life hard to understand.

You would keep God to yourself? Greedy!

@eos_nyxia Some tests are better than others; 16 personalities is very shallow. The true ones that psychologists use are like 500 questions. Stress can skew your answers, as can answering from who you want to be rather than who you actually are. That's why looking into cognitive functions made so much sense to me. For a period of my life, I lived a more extraverted lifestyle and projected wanting to be an extrovert, but at my core, I'm an INTP to the bone in terms of how I prefer to approach life.

You should be, you don't seem capable of productive dating conversation without saying wildly inappropriate stuff. Calibration is one of the foundational concepts in game for a reason.

I've always viewed the hermit meditating in a cave as a valid temporary stage. But ultimately, the more complete path is taking what you've learned back into society to create tangible impact once your consciousness is elevated. Siddhartha Gautama himself comes to mind in terms of monks but even top politicians in history have followed this path like Marcus Aurelius and Nelson Mandela. Meditation is great but it looks like world war 3 is coming and massive economic insecurity through the AI transition. Are you gonna be content meditating your anxiety away or are you taking part in saving mankind? Seems like a legitimately important question over the next few years. Not really judging you either way, mostly curious how you look at it when I put it this way.

There are not that many INTPs on the forum. Even fewer INTJs, you and @Natasha Tori Maru are rare! The prevalence in the general population is 2.5% INTJs and 4% INTPs, it's maybe a bit higher on the forum but I don't think so. Intuition is actually a rare trait, 75% of the population are sensors over intuitors. Those are my functions as an INTP! I'm a huge fan of the MBTI framework. It's not foolproof but has been massively instrumental in getting me to understand my interests and natural strengths better. Taking notes with Obsidian has been a game changer for my dominant Ti trait. It's actually my favorite pastime in the world: using Ne to find patterns, write them down, and connect them to other ideas I have to create an undebatable understanding of reality. I totally get how Leo built Actualized.org now, building a career researching stuff as an independent-minded thinker is very hard but if you have a background in marketing, build up an audience and then run a blog it makes a lot of sense as a business model. I have a different life experience and career trajectory than him but we think alike. Especially as I've been getting more into game development, it helps me understand the universe better and see the divine pattern behind everything. Life is really cool in its design; it does fundamentally make a lot of sense.

Yes I had Gemini analyze his actions in negotiation this trade war. What would you rate him /100 and based on what? I think AI is great at synthezing information and giving us a baseline to go on. We can break it down further if you disagree with Geminis conclusion.

I think you are right. I wonder how that works. Human psychology is truly fascinating, always a deeper rabbit hole to go down. One of my favorite field of study that has immediate payoff in being able to understand the behaviours of people around you more clearly.

Carney's team is making some pretty big blunders though. An analysis of their recent negotiations strategy only leave them at a 68/100 68% was not an acceptable grade for me growing up in my household and it certainly is not for a head of state. Above a 90 is mandatory or you're not doing the job right.

Have you watched Ahsoka? It's pretty good, season 2 is gonna start in January. Baylan Skoll is looking for the origin of the force on Peridea, it's about to get pretty spiritual my man. He's kind of a dickhead for leaving his apprentice behind so I hope he doesn't find it but hey, we'll see what happens.

I think road rage is a common one that sneaks up on people. It removes the fear of confrontation from regular life and also you're at the head of a 5000 lbs weapon so it's common for people's built up anger to rear its head.

You will very plausibly be able to play your own life as a video game in the next 20 years. They are getting pretty close to being able to decode memories in neuroscience. Neural decoding using fMRI and electrophysiology combined with deep learning (like diffusion models and LLMs) can already reconstruct rough video clips, continuous language, or imagery of what a subject is actively seeing, hearing, or imagining in real time while in a scanner. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur Clarke

Is this something that you're planning to transition out of to have more of an impact on life or are you satisfied with this state of living?

I watched End Game with Thanos but I never was big into Marvel so I didn't really understand the plot. Studying it in depth is making me appreciate it so much better. It's the epitome of comic book writing, film adaptation and business strategy all put into one great masterpiece. Looking forward to watching more of the MCU and watching Doomsday in December! Who are your favorite Marvel characters and why? I like Spiderman and Tony Stark the best so far. Tony is a good guy billionaire and Spiderman is almost a regular guy just tryna help.

@Raze That's recency bias. Women have faced backlash from other women for commercializing and displaying their sexuality for over a century, long before woke discourse existed. Look at the public moral panic around early Hollywood screen sirens in the 1920s, pin-up models in the 1940s, or Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s. The outrage wasn't coming from modern progressive activists. It was driven by female peers and conservative women's leagues claiming they were degrading womanhood and setting terrible examples. The political rhetoric always morphs to fit the era, but the biological baseline stays the same. The crowd will always find a convenient moral justification to police an individual woman who converts high-tier sexual capital directly into unilateral leverage. Perhaps Sydney is getting a bit more outrage for her last promo shoot with American Eagle but I think the underlying psychological phenomena of women being more collectivist than men is a real documented phenomenon.

Lmao seems true That's a key insight to female and human nature as a whole. People really mostly care about what's good for them. Women are much more collective than men. Sydney Sweeney being a hot young actress using her sexuality to make money and build influence will piss a lot of women off whereas a woman that's getting ganged up on by the legal system will trigger their sympathy. Watch out for collective power, it's rarely in your favor if you see yourself as a high agency individual. Its also why this case is trending so far. Collective survival strategies are conflicting. Very few people are actually interested in psychiatry lol, it's a battle of groupthink.

I'm very excited for it. I'm rewatching all Avengers and other MCU movies to really appreciate the universe and the business model behind it. I'm working on my own media project so it's given me a new appreciation for how GOATs of the trade handle their work. The fact that the MCU has 40 movies in a coherent plot line is actually insane and for that they are well deserving of the $30+ billion that they've earned through their visual storytelling. I made a megathread for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you're welcome to talk more about it on there!

I just rewatched Avengers 2012 to continue my Marvel deep dive. It's so fucking good I would easily rate it 8.5/10 Until you start writing plots and stories yourself, it's hard to appreciate how difficult it is to write a good story for all ages. They managed to make a plot about Gods and superheroes saving the world be not cringy. The writing is pretty top notch, usually these type of shows have really cringe lines or just weird cheezy tropes that ruin the 4th wall but they avoided it. I'm reminded in episode 1 of the Obi Wan show where mercenaries struggle to capture an 8 year old Leia Skywalker and you're instantly robbed of all feeling of danger and feeling that these are competent criminals and left wondering wtf you're doing with your life watching a kids show. The Avengers takes an even more ridiculous plot and through quality writing makes you forget that you're watching a Disney movie. I'll be writing a more in depth review in the Marvel thread and also my next reviews for the next MCU movies I'm watching. Next up on the list are Thor, Iron Man 3 and then finally Avengers : Age of Ultron!

Just had a pretty huge breakthrough in terms of how I'm gonna develop the project. I've decided like 80% sure to make the first game a visual novel. It'll let me work on the worldbuilding of Legend of the Abyss which is my favorite thing to do while still developing a playable experience. The whole world conquest plot is a political thriller instead of being more of a mindless action story so I think it'll work beautifully as an multiple route investigative visual novel. I've written the outline of the campaign and when talking about it with Gemini it should take me about 1-2 months to have a playable version I can ship so my goal at the moment is to have a complete early access version I can put out on Steam in early December so I can have it commercially ready in time for the Steam Winter Sale. I called it the Sanguine Masquerade, stay tuned for more!

I was talking with Leo today about using AI to make video games and he didn't believe AI would be that helpful so here is my devlog to prove otherwise! I have been ideating this world building project for around 4 months now and mainly using AI for generative images and lore building but I fundamentally wanna make a game out of it as I think that medium is more powerful than something like just a manga or an anime which I do also plan on making eventually. I don't have experience in game development, my main related skills would be in marketing and content creation. I tried my hands at unity a couple months ago and it was I mean not too bad but really frustrating and I got as making this square on the blue background that you see below but it was a very empowering feeling. I really like this video that I watched here That basically warns you about trying to take on an overly ambitious game project and making your dream game right away and instead trying to ship modular projects that work and are profitable and build upon that over years to eventually build your dream game. I like this idea especially as my dream game is a VR web 3 MMORPG, and mmos are notoriously hard to build but I want particularly one with a well developped economy that ties into the real world so I think that will encounter even more novel issues. My current idea is to make a simple 2D roguelite game as a MVP test project and build upon my ideas from this foundation. I think it's possible to bootstrap by myself with just mostly my time and a few hundred dollars of budget in tools to kick things off. I'm gonna use the Unity engine as it's free for startups and seems like a powerful engine both to make the 2D version of the game and eventually transfer the game assets to VR. I think there is a very powerful feedback look that's able to be utilized these days where you take on a project and document yourself building the game(in this context but can be anything) and that serves as your initial userbase and community to launch the game when it's ready. I've followed a few people that did it this way and it seems to be a very powerful way to bootstrap your own game studio basically. I used to play a lot of League of Legends and did got paid for it for a while. Made it to challenger which is top 0.01% of playerbase and that was really fun and I feel like Riot did a great job building a community in their game that was the biggest in the world at that time and I met many friends in real life that also played the game so it was a great social experience as well. I feel that they built a lot of cool stuff around their IP like the show arcane, esports world championship tournaments and local leagues but it fell short of what I think a gaming ecosystem could be. I'm a big believer in web 3 and eco investing in a gaming ecosystem with your playerbase instead of just squeezing them for cosmetics in exchange of a fun consumer experience. For example as a league player I invested something like 20 000 hours into my account, got a lot of rare cosmetics and high rank badges and emblems, spend like $2500 of my own money in the game and if I tried to sell my account it would be worth like $500 at best where as in other game ecosystems like Eve online and games like Counterstrike your time investment is translated to actual assets that are worth tens of thousands of dollars in some cases. Multiple people in different ways talk about the downfall or collapse of the gaming industry, I think it's dramatized as the profits are still there even though a lot of layoffs and downsizing are unfortunately happening in the industry but I do agree that gaming as a whole has stagnated big time. I think web 3, AI agents and VR/AR offer unique opportunities to supercharge the industry and bring it into a new era of glory. Riot Games actually ruined my favorite champion in League of Legends through a rework and thus it actually ruined a big part of my enjoyment of the game so that's also part of my motivation in wanting to develop my own game. There is a massive MMO project that just collapsed last month and I find that very sad as it was a very ambitious project that had a lot of hype in the community but it was ultimately mishandled through overambition, lack of transparency and corruption. I aim to take some of their good ideas and learn from their mistakes. There is also another game that I enjoyed playing that did operate for a while Spellbreak which was a really fun mage PvP game that ultimately fell short of its potential. I really like this mage PvP system so that's a big part of the inspiration for Legend of the Abyss that I wanna carry out. Their mistake was also making it too competitive and not casual friendly which was something that League of Legends managed to do very well. Feel free to subscribe to the Youtube channel for the project here. So far I've only posted basic character concept arts and game concepts but I want to start doing devlogs especially if I managed to build community interest around it. I think AI tools immensely empower small teams and creators to accomplish massive thing and I hope to prove it with legend of the abyss. If you have interest in helping out the project and joining the team I would totally be open to having co-founders on it!

I would love his in depth thoughts on human vs artificial intelligence. Since it's one of his most talked about topics it's a good synthesis of an esoteric spiritual topic and relevant business discussions. His forum replies are pretty shallow around it so I think with a long form format he would have some cool insights to share.

Clarity Act being voted on by the US Senate literally right now. Results should be tallied in the next 30 mins. Edit: It did not pass

This post is for @Leo Gura and really any other that believe in an AI crash. I will seek to prove that this is basically impossible and AI companies are already in the too big to fail category and ChatGPT moving towards military industrial complex instead of a business to consumer model is a proof of that. The whole reshoring manufacturing of America over the next 10 years is based on their tech supremacy. Remember the whole meme of american workers retuning to work in factories? Obviously that will not happen and the US will aim to be a robotics and automation leader, which it's already well positioned to do. A K shaped crash will absolutely happen and will serve in further squeezing the middle class into nothing as their labor becomes literally obsolete. Leo your idea that AI value is based on AGI is misguided. AI value prop is based on enterprise workforce. The whole overinflated valuation of the market is based on the premise that AI agents can replace human employees en masse. That premise is still up in the air but as someone who works with AI tools and automation daily I'd say it's already a done deal, the macro forces are just too powerful and humans not adaptable enough. It's also heavily based in the military industrial complex really as you print money to make top tier weapons with which you secure global trade and force countries into doing commerce under your umbrella and get rich off of financialization and exporting the USD. The US has just proved in its Maduro operation and its Iran strikes that their military supremacy is as unchallenged as ever and the whole tech-AI industry fits right into that. Having said this I would say that claiming that an AI bubble crash is imminent or even likely has a MASSIVE BURDEN OF PROOF under it and I invite anybody to try and make an argument and case for it. I'm pretty confident that the corporate layoffs we've been seeing will keep accelerating throughout this year and it's highly likely that Trump and his Tech buddies will introduce some sort of UBI promise this year with the primaries to secure their votes and burry their epstein scandal further.