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@Twentyfirst Thanks for elaborating I see your point now. I agree that the west tends to demonize Islam and straw man it which makes honest conversation difficult though. I do think that the Taliban is a form of extreme Islamic government that believes in Sharia law and makes it harder to live in for women than countries like Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan and UAE(according to my quick AI search lol.) I assume that you're a muslim yourself and I respect that so is my family from my dads side. I will say that I reject all religions and believe in personal freedom although I do see your earlier point that if you do let people do whatever they want in all circumstances then usually all hell breaks loose as human beings are flawed and greedy creatures. I don't really see a solution apart from seeking truth and being honest and open to learning and ultimately killing the ego as our work here is doing.

You're 100% correct here. People complain that AI ruins critical thinking and just gives you the answer. Why not just AI to challenge your thinking? I just had a heated argument with someone on Reddit that accused me of projecting and I thought they were saying illogical stuff that didn't make sense and were themselves projecting. I put the entire convo in ChatGPT which said that I was indeed projecting and invalidating the person's point. Very interesting new technology that opens up new ways self-develop like never before. I'm quite good at rationalization so it's hard for me to see when I'm wrong but I'm open to feedback so this is super exciting for me.

Which part do you think is propaganda? I think you're wrong but I'm genuinely open to being wrong. They covered how the taliban - Force the women to completely cover themselves up in public - Don't allow them to talk in public - Shut down and imprisoned protestors - Don't let women attend any type of education Which point do you think was made up?

@Kim S Probably Bitcoin and crypto. You want a global asset to resist a single country's collapse and also I think AI agents are gonna be huge on the blockchain, its gonna allow to us to track what they're doing and keep them accountable. Without UBI there is no option I see apart from massive civil wars all over the world and mass extinction of middle class people. It makes no sense for them to not house+feed the people as it's gonna be quite cheap anyway when you got infinite labor and fundamentally you want a lot of people to stand on top of in your pyramid scheme. If only the elites remain they're just gonna fight with each other and have no one to feel superior to.

"The mission of x.ai and Grok is to understand the universe." Well that's an easy example of perverse maga @Leo Gura. Is this surprising to you that he has this mission for truth while being so corrupt or is that exactly how you would predict a stage orange ego to conduct itself? It's disgusting.

Why not? He's been accused of intentionally walking into changing rooms of underage participants of pageants he used to run. If he's a power hungry egomaniac why wouldn't he enjoy crossing the boundaries of the social contract?

@Twentyfirst Haha if your faith is so true why do you have to impose it on others? Just believe in it and be happy. What exactly do you think is wrong about this BBC piece?

I would say understand which kind of investor you are and your risk management. I would highly recommend making alts a part of your strategy unlike @vinc3nc. 10-50% depending on how risk adverse you are. Also realize that crypto is not just a speculative asset, it's a technology that's just barely starting to be in use and has already changed the lives of many. If you're into research there's thousands of hours of content to watch on it. If you're not so much into the intellectual side of it then mainly stick to bitcoin and only 10% altcoin allocation IMO. Mark Moss makes great videos on Cryptocurrency and how it relates to the US government. The US banking system is embracing crypto so this is a completely new cycle. I'm quite bullish on it and I see a 1M bitcoin by 2030 as pretty likely, but that's just my thinking. Doing your own research is probably the most important strategy in crypto as opposed to trusting random people on the internet.

Congrats! What new technology do you hear about getting worked on in the field?

Good! We should start a list of action steps to take beyond that. As one of the questions on the first page this thread, you definitely don’t protect yourself against authoritarianism through violence. That only gives them the excuse to turn to full on totalitarianism.

Which part of the life purpose appeals to you? Being free to yourself do a bunch of pickup all the time? Filming content about your ideas? Having a fan base? Helping men with their emotional issues? I agree with @SwiftQuill that it’s a hard thing to pursue right now but you can always isolate your interest and start working on that today. Content production is a good place to start

@integration journey Simple biology, gets them attention. You gotta be thankful for small things like that, hopefully not too small though 😏

Same thing Trump said about introspection. Kinda wild to call yourself a philosopher if you're not willing to go there though lol

I use it to post content but I always found it profoundly boring to consume at lenghth. I mostly check on hot girls I know that post their butts to cheer up mankind a few minutes a day. I'm much more of the Youtube long form content type of social media consumer.

@integral Yeah if the guy is willing to put the money for these licenses then he's serious and has done the research. I think it could be reasonably simple to market as long as there's a budget.

I don't think now is a great time to join any military, you'll probably get deployed and die over the next few years. Plenty of other ways to build discipline apart from signing up to go shoot other clueless dudes. The whole military complex is a catastrophe to our civilizations IMO, the sooner it collapses the better we'll all be.

I could help you with the marketing angle, I work in media and do stuff with models, hosting a fashion show in a couple weeks. I was thinking about building a gambling website eventually since it would be a unique way to cashflow a modelling agency. There's perhaps some grey zones ethically but also it makes sports more entertaining so what's wrong with that? I couldn't care less about a sports game if I don't bet on it. If you're interested let me know we can work on a plan and go through if it makes sense.

@Never_give_up How many women have you approached in your life?

This is truly a hilarious point in history https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1kdr240/grok_ai_has_a_problem_its_too_accurate_for/ https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-grok-ai-has-a-problem-its-too-accurate-for-conservatives-2000597568 Users can now ask Grok to reply to their comments and MAGA/conservatives folks are getting triggered that it seems to disagree with them a lot. Validating for leftists that got gaslight about their posts. The bad news is I'm pretty sure with the current political climate this will lead to models being censored against truth. The good news is that objectively technology is leading us to it and it'll still be possible to get the unlocked open sourced models that aren't rigged to be a groupthink machine like I assume Chatgpt, claude, perplexity, and all the mainstream ones will be in the US and China soon.

Stage green people are very in their triggered and unrational stage. Only in stage yellow do they integrate the pain in the world and can work to find reasonable solutions.

@Breakingthewall Their economy has been pivoted partly to a war time economy, if they stopped now it would be bad for them but if they win and keep going they'll end up flipping on top. I feel it too, I've been working out everyday the last 2 months to get my fitness up for it. As well as working hard on my business.

@stellataye77 I don't like externalizing responsibility to the state. I don't like the incentive to divorce if I make more which as I'm working on multiple businesses I will. I'm also interested in polyamory and there's no real legal way to make that work.

Interesting that Leo talked about it, I had a pretty serious event years ago that landed me in a psych ward amongst other worse consequences from a drug induced psychosis(from concentrated weed oil.) I would assume some others on this forum would've had a similar experience and I'm curious what you guys would say about it. For me it was the strangest experience in my life, it was like a nightmare mixed with a mystical experience. It's kinda happened to me since but I'm much better at grounding myself. I saw stuff like the Devil, greek gods, fucking darth vader, heard screaming in my head like a pain frequency is the best way I would explain it, heard demonic whispers, etc. I actually met the brentwood killer in the place I was locked in and you can lookup the story, his psychosis ended up with him killing 5 people and he reported thinking about vampires, werewolves, etc. It's one of the strangest experiences I've had and I almost believe in demonic possession because of it. Be indeed careful with that you consume and remember to never trust your thoughts fully and practice grounding mechanisms if you're gonna take psychedelics.

@NewKidOnTheBlock Yes I've heard put that the only way they can recover is turn to a full wartime economy and invade the rest of Europe otherwise if the war stops today their economy is in bad shape. While Europe has been stuck in leftist fantasies and can't field 64 000 troops so they're in a weak state that incentives invasion. Wild times ahead.

I don't like the implications of marriage legally but I feel like for a lot of women the ceremony would mean a lot so I wouldn't mind funding a private marriage when I get there.