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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 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

How many dates have you been on in the past 6 months? If you've only been on 2 or 3 dates and one person gave you that reaction, you're reaching a final conclusion when you just have too small of a sample size to know if you can really attract cool women at the stage of life you're at now. If you are pursuing different things but have not achieved success then women will be a lot more forgiving than if you're not doing anything in life nor care to make your life interesting. It seems that you do have hobbies. Women don't need a provider but you score bonus points for being able to fill that role for sure! Being a provider is not easy and it requires excellence in the marketplace which a lot of men will not reach. It's a good ideal to aim for but if you want dates in the next few months you don't need to have achieved it to find dating success.

@Olaf The week is over my brother. I don't think you achieved the goal right? There are of course still many lessons to be learned from a failed quest. What are your biggest takeaways from the week? I haven't followed the whole thread beyond my initial contribution and answering some questions but I assume you took massive action this week and learned a lot.

What's your top 3 favorite video games so I know what I have to live up to

Super excited for what AI has in store for the future and my new video game/anime project that I'm building with it! I The future is bright boys and girls.

Orange felt like it was me against the world and I had to ruthlessly master all areas of life otherwise I would be fucked. Green came as a result of my dad sharing with me a lot of the issues he sees in the capitalist world and its unfairness. Also as I've lived through my 20s experiencing poverty myself led to more compassion since before I had a bit of a every-man-for-himself if you can't make it then you're not trying mindset. Yellow feels like instead of reacting to unchangeable circumstances of life, reality just offers up a bunch of levers to decide if I want to pull or not. Some levers require more energy or more time than others but it fundamentally feels like unlocking the secrets of the universe. I see stage green people being too stuck in their feelings and experiencing injustice as an absolute where as really they could conquer their country if they wanted to. It's just gonna take a while and some effort but the levers that they'd need to pull to do so are available. Turquoise feels like the divine comedy by Dante, what a good name for reality. Before it felt like I was standing in front of the levers being given options to pull and affect reality but then each deeper mystical experience I have I realize I'm made up of levers and it's all a joke that I should appreciate instead of taking too seriously.

Sure yes apologies I didn't get a notification for your question on that thread. I don't think the idea is to be guarded as you enter a relationship. More about making self-development part of your identity so that you naturally self-improve. Some people tend to only use self-improvement to secure a baseline of safety and then let themselves go once they get into a relationship. I think that's why the idea of life purpose is so powerful. If you are in a lane of society that you hate then yeah it makes sense to see clocking in or working out or building a social network as a draining obligation and once you find someone that accepts you for who you are type of idea then you've arrived and there's no need to try anymore. If you genuinely fall in love with what you're doing in life I think you can keep reaching greater and greater heights. In the case of a relationship it'll either make it more fulfilling as you both embark on a shared life purpose together as a mission that underpins your marriage. Some people don't really like each other nor have common goals and just use their relationship as a childrearing arrangement. If you build your life this way and you do get into a divorce or a breakup, you'll be back on the dating market stronger than ever instead of being completely out of your depth and a shell of your former self.

@Lyubov I would be careful with throwing out the baby with the bathwater in terms of invalidating the validity of hierarchies. They serve many purposes in our society beyond soothing low self-esteem or chasing approval. Our doctors for example face a rigid hierarchy to get into college and to get into med school. Our engineers similarly need to be above the crowd in their skillset so our infrastructure is high quality. A lot of people do not enjoy striving for excellence but the ones that do generally tend to bless the rest of us with the fruits of their labor.

Yes I like smart and somewhat dominant women too. For me they also need to know when to give up control and be submissive. Then it becomes a fun dance of polarity. Some women are very uncalibrated and it turns me off pretty instantly. I like women that can banter and speak well, I'm definitely a sapiosexual.

It's an important concept to understand to better identify the type of woman you're dealing with. Some women play games because they enjoy chaos and don't know how to function in a stable environment. Some others simply have high standards and are serious in their quest to find a long term partner. If you mistake the former for the latter you'll end up with the exciting but destructive woman instead of an exciting powerful woman that's gonna be a blessing in building all that you desire in this world.

It's definitely a test, although it's probably mostly subconscious. It comes from the concepts of signalling theory in evolutionary biology where in the mating process every suitor pretends to be a highly valuable choice. There are signals that are harder to fake than others and those are called honest signals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory For human males it can come from the form of pretending to be higher status than you are or also hiding a lack of compatibility. That's why a lot of women will subconsciously say something offensive to you to test your frame and men will either be able to banter back and not be affected, get angry at her and "put her in her place type of energy" or crumble under pressure and start stuttering because they don't react well to confrontation. In all cases she has gained invaluable information in being able to see through the mask the man was putting on.