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@pablo_aka_god What conclusions did it come up with? I think AI counsellors and coaches are the future, we all need one if not many.

I'm sure they're butting heads. Elon Musk and his companies are quite important for the US though. Robotocs, aerospace engineering, AI development, etc I don't see why they would fully cut ties. These people are not stupid and have fiscal projections for what they wanna do. The poor people losing their jobs is not a bug its the goal lol, wouldn't be surprised if it's going exactly according to plan.

Yeah that sounds right to me. You can absolutely become a multimillionaire by creating systems that help people but that's way harder than doing not much and saying all rich people are greedy and selfish.

This is not based on the Ayn Rand book although now I'm extremely interested in reading it. This is a question for Leo but the overall community, is being selfless just a stage green shadow? I don't believe in violence and hurting others but beyond that whenever I try to be too nice instead of selfishness focusing on my goals I end up sabotaging my efficiency and not accomplishing much. I also run a mentoring community and I see it in underperforming men where they say they wanna help the incels and solve homelessness while being completely unproductive humans. I'm not starting to believe we are humans and thus Apex predators for a reason and if at least myself personally I try to become too much of a humanitarian I end up smoking weed all day thinking about how much of a good person I am and not doing shit about it. A clear example I'll use for this is dating. It seems more and more that the average woman is interested in the average man and I felt bad about it but the more and more I try to help the average man the more disgusted I am by them! Apathetic and refusing to take action to improve their lives even when that would improve society as a result. I have now decided that I will just enrich myself and date multiple women and the average dude can get an AI girlfriend and hopefully everyone is happy. Self-improvement is too hard for the majority of people, I don't think most humans are meant for it. I'm starting to understand why God placed the burden of performance on Men and made hot women that don't give a fuck about virtue to motivate us to excel and provide otherwise WHO WOULD BUILD REALITY FOR EVERYONE? To use the example of Christian religion, Jesus didn't accomplish much. He was stuck in stage green and got literally crucified for it and his people have been suffering for centuries as a result. Moses by comparison apparently literally delivered divine punishments on his enemies and I mean hard to say an exact number but massacred definitely tens of thousands of people to accomplish that goal. I like the idea of being 50% selfish and 50% selfless but I'll refer to Nietzsche on this one with his slave/master morality: if you end up at 100% selflessness you will be exploited by others and not have much impact on this realm so what exactly is the point?

See you just straw manned your own point, you went from there are no best books to if you give an advanced spirituality book to a person not familiar with it they won't be able to understand it. There are clearly some phenomenal books with way more value than other books but you are also right that you need the right books for the current stage in life you're at and you need to be open minded if a book exposes you to knowledge that stretches your belief systems.

Really enjoyed this book, don't think I've read one like it before. It highlights the mindset that you need to become a world class performer. Which is not everyone btw. Not even close. For there to be a top 1% there has to be a bottom 99%. Tim Grover's worked with top atheletes like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and Dwayne Wade. He talks about how these guys thought patterns and effort put into the game was on a completely different level than their teammates. They weren't here to have a fun time and get paid well to be a superstar, they were here to crush their competition and be #1. It related with me because about 10 years ago I was a professional League of Legends player and reached top 0.01%(challenger and rank 170 in North America out of around 1.5M players.) It was not easy and consumed my life and I can say I was relentless at that point in time. It's not about fun, it's about dominance. I think if you have important goals that you wanna accomplish in your life adopting this mindset or at least part of it is mandatory. I would rate it 8.5/10 and one of the top 5 books I've read.

I came across the website of an organization called the Temple of Set that had some really interesting stuff to say that seems to relate to enlightenment and specifically getting out of group think. "The Temple of Set seeks above all to honor and enshrine consciousness. We wish to apprehend what makes us each individually unique and use this gift to make ourselves stronger in all facets of our being. To do this we preserve and improve the tradition of spiritual distinction from the cultural universe, which in the Judeo-Christian West has been called Satanism, but which is more generally known as the Left-Hand Path." "The values of the masses, whether inculcated by conventional religion or by mass media, must be recognized as an obstacle to individual spiritual development. Human society values predictability, stability, or stasis above all things. The Initiate, by contrast, seeks continuous, positive self-evolution." "Since magic enables you to influence or change events in ways neither understood nor anticipated by society, you must develop a sound and sophisticated appreciation for the ethics governing your own motives, decisions, and actions before you put it to use. To use magic for impulsive, trivial, or egoistic desires is not Setian. It must become second-nature to you to carefully pre-evaluate the consequences of what you wish to do, then choose the course of wisdom, justice, and creative improvement." "In many traditions, Satan is associated with the introduction of self-consciousness to humanity. In the biblical story of Genesis, Satan (in the form of a serpent) tempts Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, an act that grants Adam and Eve awareness of their nakedness and moral discernment. This act is often interpreted as the moment humanity gained self-awareness, moving from a state of innocence to one of moral complexity and existential questioning." Fascinating, so according to this view of things was "Satan" the first conscious being that realize his existence as separate from the rest of consciousness? Especially when you look at how abrahamic religious folks react to the mention of even the name Satan it makes sense to me that they're more toxic than anybody I've seen that claims the mantle of Satanism. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/us/kansas-satanist-protest-arrests-hnk/index.html The right hand path being one of basically submission to general principles and group think and anything outside of that gets you chastised for no particular reason apart from tribalism it would seem.

I think you're saying some profound stuff, care to share more? See that doesn't make sense because if Adam hadn't yet eaten from the tree who was God talking to wouldn't they be the same consciousness?

@Brandon Nankivell Curious what you would say are your top 5 favorite books out of those 550 and why?

Haha curious why you didn't like the Hormozi book. Purple cow by Seth Godin helped me realize I'm not crazy for overthinking business plans and great business ideas are not that common. My favorite recent one is Relentless by Tim Grover, it's a peak performance book and helped me once again figure out I was not crazy for not being interested in most ideas/people and that I should just work hard to refine my craft if I want extraordinary results.

I agree with your 2nd statement but what makes you so sure of the first one? Plenty of great books that give you insights some of the top humans spent decades figuring out and it cuts your learning curve. What epistemology have you used to come to that statement? I've read many books on dating for example and if I hadn't I probably would've turned into an antagonistic incel not understand how that system works but now it's relatively simple for me.

The wrong path how? And if you equate it to consciousness and especially the fruit of knowledge that gave Adam and Eve the self-consciousness to realize their separateness from whole and be embarrassed of being naked and thus vulnerable, wasn't he the one that created humans? If we don't have our consciousness it's just God playing with dolls, the whole christian lore makes no sense in terms of Satan being evil. The left path explanation makes way more sense.

I haven't tried the one from ChatGPT but the perplexity one is pretty dope, society changing stuff for sure.

Latin and french cultures are much more sexually open that english cultures. British colonies like US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the UK itself is where mostly PUA is popular because we live with a lot of barriers on our expression. Makes a lot of sense to me, when I lived in Montreal the concept of an incel was more rare than in english cities like Toronto. @NoSelfSelf I don't think you know much about women or dating, I would keep an open mind and let go of your prior conditioning as the stuff you've been saying in this thread makes 0 sense to me.

Where else do you recommend? It's still vastly better and with more opportunity than pretty much any other country. I don't know what you mean second class citizen, that treatment is mostly for people that go directly against their political goals. I don't suggest attending any pro palestine rallies anytime soon but apart from that or like joining a communist organization I believe you'll be fine. Doing game in Miami is basically as inoculated from the political world as I could imagine.

What does not exist mean to you? Clearly it's here so I find that explanation unconvincing. You can't fully control your thoughts but you can your actions? What would the difference between that and free will be? I can eat my spaghetti now or go take a shower. Or I could throw my spaghetti away. What would free will or no free will mean in this situation?

Yes I watched it a long time ago, I don't think it satisfies my questions nor does your reply. What does that mean to you? How do you think about your own free will? Yes christians are mostly selfish people that pretend to be holylike I believe as a strawman or as a steel man good hearted people that just have a limited worldview. At least the ones I've seen as a blank statement. Where did you get that from the left hand path? That sounds specifically like Aghori which are a nondual sect that do all kinds of crazy shit like cannibalism because they say it's all the same nothing matters from my understanding. What's your understanding of the link between Satan and hinduism?

Wild take, have you ever ran into any issues that you're mentioning or you see articles online and get scared? America is still more than likely the #1 country with the most opportunity for a young person that's motivated and ambitious. I also have never heard of a pickup guy getting into trouble except those that do some crazily creepy shit like following girls home or starting to get aggressive after they get rejected. I've done pickup in Toronto in the famous eaton center where puas are "banned" and nothing happened. Calibration is a real thing. I think spending your 20s in Miami even in a shitty apartment with 4 other roommates would be a great plan. Find other young dudes into game/business and that seems like a recipe for success. Get a random job and figure out life.

Why would there be many paths of human development? I think it's one species evolving through time, one mind. What else is there writing random books about random topics?

Is this not a stage green shadow? If one was truly loving would they not corrupt themselves for the greater good, not as a meme but literally? Why can't a sage seize control of society? Is that not a sour grapes theory?

I find that it helps to get really logical with it. Not all porn is violent gangbangs. And some women enjoy violent gangbangs. Who are you to say that's bad? On the website kink dot com for example they film pre and post sex interviews with all the performers and a lot of them are regulars that just love freaky sex. You can also go on gonewild and watch cute women masturbating so I mean that throws out any concerns of sexual exploitation out of the window. Be careful of organizations or movements trying to control your sexuality, it's a great way to gaslight you into submission. Myself I'm doing a 75 day no vice challenge right now to focus my sexual energy into productity but I don't really necessarily see anything wrong with most vices as long as you're confident they don't affect other parts of your life which I was not. Also plenty of women would watch porn with you while dating so you don't have to think it hurts your partner if you find one that's into it.

@Yimpa It's possible that Europe sees a giant crash and all the wealthy people seek refuge in the basically last solid free economy on earth the USA, I could see that scenario.

Way more. I could easily see a $10 trillion Tesla in 2030 with the money printing and it hitting its robotic goals. Tesla is supremely well positioned with its heavy investment into AI(remember every Tesla on the road is gathering data 24/7) and X.ai with it's cutting edge model. Let alone when optimus robots come out and change our economic system forever. My only question is will it outperform Bitcoin but it terms of tech stock Tesla is a no brainer.

Have you tried making friends with promoters and getting free guest lists? That'll take care of that. Still think you should hop on a Podcast with Michael Sartain, especially since you've done a few more shows lately I think he'd be happy to have you. He's a smart guy although kind of stuck in his beliefs but I think it could still be a great talk.

Someone added me on Instagram and asked me social circle questions and I figured I'd make a post about it since that's been my area of focused for the past 5 years. Social Circle game is one of the most powerful way to gain value as a man and meet women because it recreates the original tribal/communal dating strategy but on your own terms. You're in no doubt in many various social circles already or possibly just friend groups(I define social circle as group where all the members gain transactional value from eachother unlike a friendgroup where a lot of times it's actually negative sum) but you're probably at the effect and not at the cause of them. The most powerful type of social circle is one that has some type of professional/business component to it because it can then tie into an overall lifestyle design strategy and combine business and pleasure unlike let's say an AI engineer that can make $30k/month WFH and not know a single woman. The goal of this social circle will be to create mutually beneficial activites that you host on your own turff(notice how a nightclub is a private venue owned by a group of men that charge you for entry, and for drinks and for bottle service for the privilege of courting the women they assemble) and to include that as a foundation of your dating and social life. The main leverage point of this social circle is to position you as a leader in a group of people(and of course attractive women) so that you're in a better position to hit on them without being gatekept, other guys having higher status than you or HR terminating your source of income. The second leverage point is to make female teammates from your social circle. These are women with which you have goals in common that you can transactionally help you achieve. This can be you going to events together and them getting you status/access and you helping them make connections, can be you supporting their projects they have as their own girlfriends tend to be lacking in that type of support, etc. Good example of this is Dan Bilzerian has a model manager named Masha Diduk who recruits models for his company Ignite and saves him from having to manually DM all the girls and who's probably gotten him laid hundreds of time. Myself I am a photographer that has hosted photoshoots with many models(shoutout to Luke Krogh and Michael Sartain for putting me up to this) and am now transitioning into operating my own media/modelling agency. Other examples that can work wonders for this can be a run club, entrepreneur club, investing group, college parties, parties in general, group travel, book clubs, etc. The key to this is to not fake it til you make it. You must create an actual group that offers genuine value to people and not try to pull girls on day 2 before anything of substance has been created. Think of the reaping too early before you've sowed enough and you've beared fruits. I'll write another post or update this one with Social Circle 102 on how to find a lot of women to invite to your social circle. In 2020 I moved to downtown Toronto and had the chance to live with and work with a few club promoters and learned their secrets. The teaser I'll give is it's mostly like sales.