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In what way do you think Peter Thiel is insane?

Peter thiel reminds me of this meme for some reason lol He is clearly a very competent and ressourceful guy but he's missing some chill and spirituality perhaps and comes up with some very strange takes. He does explain himself in long form content and seems genuine in his pursuit for truth so I do respect that about him. I watched his Joe rogan interview it was pretty good. He was open about him being curious about the JFK case and trying to figure out life so I think he's mostly an honest guy. Also he seems interested in eschatology and looking into the anti-christ stuff which to me is interesting.

Yes this screams depression and dissociation to me. I feel the dead energy from people who are overwhelmed with life and their soul and aspirations are crushed. Some people though are bursting with aliveness and there are sparkles and shine in their eyes, they radiate life. It's rare to see because life is tough but it's beautiful. I notice it especially with attractive femininine expressive women that are enjoying their life and don't really worry about much.

I think I agree but Natasha also phrased it in the context of a partner. If your partner respects you but doesn't love you they will probably break up with you due to the relationship being boring and not very alive. If your partner loves you and doesn't respect you then she might stop fucking you or being attracted to you but you can work on yourself and fix it or get other women. Being emotionally connected to women is the core of the male to female dynamic and the respect part is more your relationship to the dominance hierarchy and society at large. @Natasha Tori Maru Also to answer your point on contractors demanding respect sometimes they can be worth respect and you just forget to give it but a lot of times men that ask for respect haven't done to earn it and they're trying to gaslight/manipulate you into giving praise like a hurt child. I don't think that's very respectable. @Schizophonia Respect has to do with valuing the competence or contribution of someone. If they don't contribute much what is there to respect? You perhaps respect your parents because they've added a lot of value to your life or a teacher like Leo because he offers you insights that you don't encounter in society at large.

Do you think perhaps you're depressed and feel unconnected to the world and this is what you mean by this? I don't really understand it another way, feel free to explain.

Feelings are kind of the soul interpreting reality without the logic to filter it. They are very vivid but can sometimes be dangerous.

Definitely love. Respect is too intellectual. I'm sure some women respect certain authors or people whose professional work they admire, but love or lust is completely different—and that's what you want if you desire a passionate relationship with women. Respect doesn't have much sexual polarity to it. It's important as well but secondary.

There is some truth to this but Owen definitely has a chip on his shoulder when it comes to traditional markers of success and status. What he says is correct but half truths. Most people won't get phenomenal success from just cold approach because they don't structure their life like he did. He went all in and went out basically every day for a decade and built a business around it. Most dudes that have a job and go out a few times a month won't have the same level of leverage from just social skills. I've met some of RSD Madison's students when they were out on bootcamp in Toronto after a few nights of coaching and it seems like he didn't teach them basic things like dressing well and one dude had these really funky thick glasses that made it at least 5x harder for him to hook women. Stuff like this needs to be fixed to get great results with the least amount of pain possible. Also a lot of looksmaxxing is fitness and muscles. Upper body muscle mass is one of the top predictors attraction for a man that actually translates to sexual interest in women. Leo's blog post is a bit cope. Women don't fuck enlightened dudes in droves, they fuck those that give them the right cocktails of emotions which is basically dopamine. Who get's laid more an enlightenment guru or the average club promoter? The whole human experience's point is to experience materialism, just being high consciousness will not cut it. If you can be as materialistic as possible while being high consciousness and loving and growth oriented THEN I think you got a good recipe for hooking up with a lot of hot high quality women.

Hojo is like the poor man's nonduality enthusiast lol, what he says doesn't really make sense most times. At least to me idk about you guys. If you don't believe in people Hojo then who are you? I don't like to do eye contact too much I feel like it's too intense and we get too close to eachother when we look into eachothers eyes it's like it divolves the barriers between consciousnesses. I like my individuality. With certain women it's intoxicating though.

Yes, that's a solid approach. The only thing I would include is a social networking component; you can invite the girls you aren't romantically involved with to group events, where they still contribute to your social capital. Which is why adding girls on Instagram is so much better than getting phone numbers.

Their UK charges, the government asked the US gov to get them for extradition. What a great day, it's always a shame when crimes go unpunished. I've had so many frustrating conversations trying to explain to guys why they shouldn't respect the Tates. Literally knew a girl that went to Romania to fuck Tristan Tate lol that was a little bit frustrating but that's life

If I were you I'd develop a content strategy. It's what I find to be the highest ROI activity with the lowest possible output time(15 mins to a few hours to make a reel/youtube video.) I don't know if it's what you consider magical but making consistent trackable progress towards your goals to me is the best magic in life. The rest is mostly temporary or an illusion. The quickest way to today feel magical is to take drugs or fuck an escort or watch porn but it doesn't really do anything for your life. I offered to help you throw a model photoshoot, we can still do that. Gaining status and having people in your city recognize you as high value man to me is the most magical tangible feeling I've experienced in life. One of the best moments in my life is when I organized a fashion show and some of the hottest girls I've met went out under my Royals Agency Brand. That's not really short term and I lost $2000 doing it but it was one of the best memories in my life. I like combining hot women to my business there isn't really anything more fun that I've tried. I'm working on a clothing brand that I'll launch maybe next year. To backpedal on Leo's point on discipline, the best magic I've found is realizing that your goals and ideas are working and you are actually able to impact reality and actualize your deepest desires and dreams. So no really you cannot create real magic soon in my experience. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DHCQsJGSYR2/

It's hard to beat the S&P 500 for general growth and stability, but if you're worried about tech over-concentration, you don't necessarily need to hide in gold. There’s a strong case for looking at Nuclear and Biotech as structural growth plays. Nuclear is no longer just a climate play—it’s becoming the backbone of AI infrastructure because data centers need massive, 24/7 baseload power that renewables can't yet provide. Similarly, biotech is seeing a massive wave of innovation in precision medicine and gene therapy that is maturing into actual revenue, offering growth potential that doesn't depend on the same market cycles as Big Tech. One quick thought on diversifying outside the US: while it’s a standard move, be careful about defaulting to Europe. The economic data there currently looks pretty weak compared to the US, with lower projected growth and ongoing energy-related risks. If you want true geographical diversification, you’re likely better off looking at a broader Emerging Markets index (focusing on regions like India or SE Asia) or considering a Global Infrastructure ETF. This gives you exposure to the actual 'hardware' of the global economy—power grids, logistics, and communications—which is less tied to the specific tech-bubble volatility you're worried about, and covers global regions without being tied to the EU’s specific economic challenges.

Classic to my people's culture and you guys know me by now, it's gonna be a harem anime so Nerathar(the main character) will have 4 main wives I find how harems is portrayed in anime is usually quite cringe like the dude gets all the girls but is really shy and uncomfortable with them and he never kisses them or has sex with them. Nerathar will have kids quite early let's say. I want to also put some realistic pickup component in it so it's fun and informative to watch. I had to tone down the number of women in his life so that it's not 100% male gazey and women viewers actually enjoy watching it. Originally he had like 18 wives and concubines. I want to perhaps still do it like this but I need to find an appealing way to write it and not making it too unhinged. Also I need to spend more time writing male characters there are really only 2 in the story so far and like 30 female characters. The premise of the show is actually based on post scarcity and a mirror to AI. The whole story is that he has incredibly powerful blood magic and teaches it to his followers to overthrow the current 15th century european powers that also have magic in the show but are using it to enslave and crush their citizens. I want to explore post scarcity would look in a fantasy world. He will use blood donations to create an infinite magic system and feed and house everyone for free. I want to create a realistic economic system and see how that affects labor and how you'd transition a fantasy world based on exploitation and slavery towards ultimate freedom. I want to see how that affects engineering as well so there will be massive construction projects in the empire as well as war machines like this one which is my favorite concept, the imperial dreadnoughts which are massive floating ships like the Star Wars Star Destroyers that are literally magically powered. The whole IP is based on logic and although it's fantasy I created a system to calculate the magical powers of the characters. I feel like anime and fantasy TV shows rely too much on plot armor and sudden power ups based on the power of friendship and it hurts my brain to watch a lot of times. So the mana system of the universe is called Aether and is calculated in Thaum units. An average human has 0T(I now just realized writing this that's the same accronym as testosterone idk if I'll keep or change it lol), a magical commoner has from 100 to 2k and a trained soldier is 2k to 6k and so on and so forth.

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!

How so? This is what I would call genuine AI slop. People that use bots to spam Spotify with AI music and they had to take down 75 songs https://www.gadgetreview.com/spotify-deleted-75-million-ai-generated-tracks-and-its-not-done-yet If you genuinely use your time and use AI as a tool to create AI music I think that's genuine art and creation. I guess bots could also create genuinely good music en masse but we aren't really there yet.

I just finished finalizing the plot of the story. The whole idea is that the game will be part of a multimedia IP sort of like Star Wars or Pokemon. The anime is the main thing I'm using to visualize the plot, I don't really wanna spoil it but here is a wallpaper teaser. It way I'm thinking about it now the anime will feature 8 seasons. The 2d roguelite will be based on season 7. If I ever get to making that one then season 8 will be a special game and post conquest will be the final version of a VR MMORPG.

Well the good news is that your problem is easily diagnosable my friend. You mostly lack calibration and flow in your game. A cold approach should basically go opener -> hook -> DHV -> asking her questions -> Teasing her -> screening for logistics -> instant date/pulling/get the IG close If you use some principle like not giving a fuck without the proper sequence to frame it in then sure it will be unhinged or creepy. You want your self amusing to be part of the hook/dhv/teasing her. You can try it straight from the open but that's mostly not gonna work as well as being calibrated for 5 seconds then saying something funny or weird. The unhinged shit is the push part and the pull is you being a genuinely interesting and charming man. Try this format and report back. The cold approaching stats are pretty standardizable. For every about 10-40 approaches depending on how you look and your game level you will get an IG close and from there it should be about 1/3 turning dates and 30-60% of those turning into sex. Where would you say that your numbers are dropping off?

I think this is half true and half a dangerous train of thought. Children act authentically and they are not the most effective members of society. As adults we have the benefit of being able to regulate our impulses and use our developed Neo cortex to strategically plan for our goals. You’re right that most of that should be thrown out in the middle of talking to a girl but introspection on how that went and course correction if it did not go as planned are mandatory to achieve great results in life.

Of course it is. Nutrition and relationships are both core parts of the human experience. A low consciousness person or a person with low abundance will default to whatever is near them. A person with more resources and high consciousness will want the very best for them and not settle for what society tells them is appropriate food or a partner. Yeah bro you could be right but he literally said he took a test and he found himself as a secure style. I think it makes perfect sence that his psychology is perfectly healthy apart from a scarcity mindset and he has dated a perfectly nice girl and now that he is being asked to bet his life on her his subconscious is pulling the brakes hard and saying bro we need to seriously revaluate this. Commitment triggers fears for all sorts of valid reasons. In all cases it requires deeper investigation into the self and ultimately it will boil down to OP and his self-awareness. It reminds me of this thread from last month Ultimately it's the same thing, only @KaRzual knows his life and will have to deal with the consequences. I'm mainly emphasizing on being the voice towards abundance because the default is compliance and scarcity.

Yes I was just exposing the flaws in your enlightenment argument for what it is, spiritual bypassing by trying to use spirituality to hand wave materialism away. I've already answered your comment, there are many fascets that make up a phenomenal high quality relationship and being deeply attracted to your partner is one of them and deep compatibility with your life purpose is another. I'm sure there are more. This is a good comment. A lot of times as men we are shamed for our true desires and are expected to sacrifice for the collective. Sometimes that's needed but often times it's using us as disposable labor. There is no shame in wanting to date and sleep with very beautiful women especially if you've never been in a position to do so in your life before committing to this one. Most men have never slept with a really attractive women in their entire life whereas I think it's one of the most beautiful God gifted to us personally as men. Thank God that now you can learn how to do so easily on the internet, our ancestors had to go through way worse to be able to do so.

Yes absolutely. I think a lot of this stuff is overly complicated though. Why would you not authentically desire attractive partners? If you find yourself dating people that you are not attracted to but your friends and society gives you props for then that's seeking validation. You should try to date YOUR perfect 10 not mine. So what happens when the wounded child within is healed? Do you think he stops wanting good things in life or does he now finally have the courage to go for what he really wants? Also once more on your enlightenment comment, when you get enlightened do you stop needing food because you are now complete and need nothing external? Or does your relationship with food become much more intentional and your standards for what you put in your body and thus have in your life increase massively?

Sure I think sometimes that's the case. Some relationships also get more passionate as the years go on as the people are really compatible with eachother. To be intellectually honest we have to frame the whole range of possibilities. Some relationships the people are barely if not even attracted to eachother and just get together based on scarcity. That's on the looks part but even personality it's so common for men to literally dislike their wives. On the other hand there are some guys that managed to date and marry the hottest girl they've ever met. Some others have a lifelong shared life purpose together like Will and Ariel durant who spend 68 years married together and wrote some of the worlds best history books together. For me both of these things are non-negotiables, I need to have a shared life purpose with my partner and I need to be extremely attracted to them and not settle. Each person needs to make their own choices and have the self-awareness to know what life they're looking to build. > The seeking of best available partner is precisely the opposite of enlightenment. You are seeking something to compensate for lack within. No I think this is hardcore spiritual bypassing. When you realize that you are everything your standards become incredibly high and you want to also experience the best of everything. The way you put it is the dude that took shrooms one time and rationalizes being broke and unsuccessful with women because now shallow materialistic things don't apply to him. If this mindset makes you happy and leads you to enjoy your existence more then more power to you but I'll stick with the hot women and massive compatibility in my relationships thank you very much.

I would say dump her bro, sounds like you like her and she's sweet but you know you can do better. Especially it sounds like you're in scarcity when it comes to women and you're not sure you can find other ones and you specifically said your girl isn't that attractive. I think some people in your situation commit and make it work and others level up and get the women they're truly passionate about. You know yourself and your dating history best so only you can know but probably you have not gone through the full self-development and pick up journey before you committed initially and you just got along with a girl that you met or that was in your friend group and here we are 8 years later. In your 30s if you set yourself up properly you will get way more women than you did in your early 20s so that's also worth considering. Also ask yourself what is your best outcome if everything works out? Lay them all out and think for yourself. Do your hesitations lift and you only date this woman for the rest of your life? Do you compromise with her and do an open relationship and see other women on top? Do you do a clean break and find a girlfriend you're more sure about? Do you go polyamorous and date multiple attractive women at once? The whole point of this forum and enlightenment is that you are the God of your destiny. Be very careful with adhering to mainstream conditioning and taking the bare minimum of what life has to offer, usually guys end up miserable this way because they are pleasing society or their friends or even their partner but ultimately not themselves.

The main part of don't give a fuck energy is being non-reactive and being at the cause not the effect of social intereactions. You want to be as expressive and playful as possible but ultimately women will give you shit tests which are meant to test if you'll break under pressure or start antagonism her or if you're able to roll with the punches and are witty enough to tease her about it. Be careful in emulating the toxic part of being an alpha male and being almost like a thug, I had a buddy like this it was hilarious. He would like frame battle women like square up to them and refuse to leave when they weren't interested, I had to tell bro this is not the UFC this is not how you dominate an interaction lol. How you dominate an interaction is you defuse her own anxieties and defense mechanism and you handle all the logistical problems that come up so you guys can enjoy a beautiful night of romance and loving together and forget about the pains of the world for once.