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Ownership. Cosmetics owned and controlled by Jagex and Valve have 10% of the true value potential of an immutable asset. If you have a CSGO blockchain skin and valve decides to ban you and it can still be traded to other players and used by them in the next version of CS like games because we are now in a web 3 world vs a web 2 one; then the world changes forever. Of course. I think many lessons will be learned from the 2021-2022 era of NFTs and the next wave of products built around it will be far superior.

Mythology. I'm using common myths like Christianity, Hinduism and Greek mythology to write my IP Legend of the Abyss and it's really cool the deep lessons that have permeated humanity through our myths. I'm constantly humbled as I think of myself as a cutting-edge intellectual but seeing a writer from 3000 years ago write some wisdom that solves a psychological hangup I have is a pretty, dare I say, mystical experience!

Remember that we're on a self-development forum. Not a safe space to be validated about your biases without confrontation forum. Calling a moderator when challenged on one's views is on brand for a stage green victim-mindset individual. Notice that when my points were challenged I made them stronger and didn't back down from the challenge. Stage green loves to make their personal flaws a moral virtue. That is indeed the sign of a weak, ego-driven psyche. You take an honest conversation (albeit a slightly aggressive one) as an insult to your character as opposed to an exercise in deconstruction of both the platform and your relationship to it. You don't have to reply to me but take it as an opportunity for introspection, growth and adoption of an antifragile mindset that will both help you in life but also to have a healthier relationship to social media if you decide to go back to it. Having impact requires becoming stronger through adversity, not folding to it.

Since you dodged every single question, you’ve basically made my point: you don't possess the discipline or agency to interface with high-leverage tools without becoming their victim. If your attention is that easily hijacked, total abstinence is definitely your only move.

I think that's a limiting belief my man. The obvious common argument is that short form content dilutes the message and to reach 3 billion people you have to pander to the masses. Sure, on a surface level. That's why funnels are a thing. You start out wide and you convert people to a different platform where you can engage with them deeper to convey the more substantial aspects of your message. This is marketing 101. I do it in a way that I have city-specific pages so I can reach people in different locales and target my content to them. There are many different ways to do it but it works quite well. If you have true value to give to others why not give it to as many people as you can? I think that's an indisputable notion.

I've already addressed the negative aspects having some validity. The fact that you emphasize the victim-mindset part to me sounds like that hit the right target in terms of your personal dislike of it. If you'd like we can deconstruct it further. What did you dislike about the app when you were on it? Do you feel like you're able to reach your goals in life effectively? Do you ever feel resentment and bitterness towards people with more success than you in the areas of life that matter to you?

I don't enjoy mysteries personally; I like solving them. You can always add more complexity to your identity if that helps you in some way but we need definitions to make sense of reality. What is a woman? Greatness. Easy-peasy lemon squeezy. You're welcome brother. You got this!

Well yes because most people have a victim mindset and don't produce much in life so seeing people produce stuff and going on adventures is gonna sting. I don't experience that effect myself because I've worked on my psychology to see myself as a continuously improving being and not as a static victim of my circumstances. It gives me ideas for events I can host, trips I can take, and the types of videos I can make. If you have a victim mindset any type of success is gonna hurt to see. You're gonna hate hearing about celebrities, dislike anything related to business and definitely influencers are gonna be the worst because they are much closer to you and me than film actors that seem more out of reach. I agree. The truth is that the planet has 8 billion people on it and you can interact with all of them if you build a successful brand. The less of those people you are able to reach with your message or through your business endeavours the more irrelevant and unimpactful of a human being you are. Social media allows you to scale the impact you have. Some teachers produce great effects on the students they have in school. Their impact is limited to maybe a couple of hundred people per year max. If you think you have value to share with the world why not try to win market share with the 3 billion daily active users across Meta platforms? You could perhaps go as far as to say if you think what other creators are sharing is nonsense and you have higher quality stuff to share then it's your moral responsibility to do so. Why watch history happen when you can be a part of it? That's my view on it at least. I've had many people thank me for the impact I've had on their lives and my main platform for reaching them and setting up events for us to meet in person was Instagram.

Bro you're looking at it 100% wrong way. First of all, you don't go there by yourself you definitely bring one or many chicks. It's basically Disneyland on water. All the amenities you could want to have a week long getaway with your partner(s). Also if you don't have any special lady friends they do sex cruises. They've thought of everything, it's a foolproof concept. They do pollute a lot though so they need to eventually make them nuclear or electric and then I'm starting to take one each year for sure. The less kids on a cruise the better, best number being 0. It's definitely paradise on water. I've never been on one but it's definitely on my bucket-list.

To steelman Leo's point on AI, I think this video is the key insight I do think AI produces a lot of truth but its top value is not truth. The companies building these products are driven by profit, AI arms race and milking the customer. Some people are also lazy in their AI usage and use it to confirm their biased opinions instead of using it to dismantle their points and have a back and forth with it to increase their critical thinking ability. I don't think that's a reason to not use it and you can also use open source models to change the weights and reduce bias yourself if you are tech oriented. I'm not particularly a techie, I just use Gemini but it's something I want to look into eventually. I also love to use AI to stress test my arguments, its part of why I'm hard to argue with because most people are very surface level in their thoughts whereas I test my opinions multiple times before I stick to them. You aren't living if you don't call your AI of choice an idiot often and tell it to back up its claims if it challenges you. Sometimes that little bitch backtracks right away, YOU SAID IT SO CATEGORICALLY THE FIRST TIME THOUGH BRO WHATS UP I THOUGHT YOU WERE A GENIUS SUPER INTELLIGENCE WHAT HAPPENED Although since it's so good at synthesis it will explain where the disagreements lie and let you explore the conversation from a multi-perspectival angle very easily. It's definitely a stage yellow tech although it has its flaws.

Fear and social comparison can be useful tools to drive us towards reaching our full potential. I've met plenty of people that lived in their own bubble and thought they were on top of their shit until they encounter the greater market that encompasses our species as a whole. Fooling yourself to think you're the big dawg because you're a big fish in a small pond type of thing. Happens all the time with the discussions I have on this forum. Which is why I encourage people to build a brand on Instagram and get into business so that the market starts working in their favor as opposed to being a force that inevitably will crush them. Being fundamentally anti social media is adopting the survival mechanism of the ostrich as one of yours. I wouldn't personally recommend it. @Lyubov I agree with your point that it should be regulated and just like it's not the manifestation of hell on earth, it's also not heaven. I disagree that alcohol is a good comparison. I would compare it more to a car. There are plenty of car accidents daily but it's still a great mode of transportation. Some people full on think cars and technology are evil and live without it like the amish. I don't aspire to be amish but I think a lot of them live great lives through their philosophy. It's up to you and what you want. Electric cars are the answer to solve the pollution effect of cars and self-driving will hopefully reduce the car accidents to pretty much 0. Similar guard rails should be built into social media. I do like your idea of posting on it but not consuming, that shows a pragmatic strategy around it. I could for sure use being less dopamine addicted so I'm not saying my strategy around it is necessarily peak. If I look at my ROI for it though it swings massively towards the positive axis. I do meditate everyday though so my relationship to presence and my ability to avoid distractions are probably stronger than the average person.

Most people are uncalibrated in all kinds of ways that turn off the people they'd want to attract. It's a hard thing to nail down as it moves with culture and changes over the years. There are generally two main categories of calibration : verbal game and visual presentation. Verbal game is being good at talking to other humans and creating good emotions in them or being able to confront them effectively if you feel the need to do so. Visual presentation comes in all kinds of different aspects but dressing well, being fit and having some sex appeal are the general categories. A lot of people seem to talk like they're ugly when that's not their real bottleneck. In high end venues they don't stop ugly people from coming in, they don't tend to allow people that dress like shit though. Most guys and women can easily look 3-4 points better on a 10 point scale if they fixed their visual presentation and even the way some people speak makes them less attractive than they could be. It's no accident that being funny and charming is known to be a panty dropper. Even for women there is a huge difference between being known as a mean girl or boring vs being enchanting in a way that gets them anything they want.

Also synthesis in and of itself is a proof of intelligence. Plenty of people have a lot of knowledge but can't summarize it because they don't have the systems thinking and foundational understanding of the matter to summarize it. The fact that most AI platforms can already synthesize the sum of human knowledge in any way you want is already an insane level of intelligence. Try to ask the average person to summarize the economy or the government and they'll either admit they have no idea how it works or say some drawn out nonsense that doesn't make much sense. @Leo Gura your points are clearly biased and lacking a lot of nuance. Most of these models are extremely precise at solving most kinds of queries you give it. It's already better at analysis than 99.9% of people and it does it 5000% faster than any genius alive could.

It is a discussion worth having but let's take one step back and admit though that social media gets a lot of undeserved hate. The glue is simply entropy, the rent, capitalism or survival my guy. Let's not fall into this superstitious mindset that because Zuckerberg owns it now its a lightning rod for everything evil in the universe. There are plenty of people selling nonsense on there but that's just like real life. If anything it is just extremely efficient at letting us experience society as a microcosm that can fit in your pocket. I think it gets scapegoated for a lot of the problems of society BECAUSE it's such a great product and so efficient at what it does. Instagram is basically a digital mall or shopping district. If you don't want to go to the mall that's fine. When we start to call the mall the epitome of what's bad about society I think we've gone off the deep end a bit here. You can't even really call it anti-social since as I've said you can definitely use it to join and build communities and attend events. Also plenty of meditation, healthy foods, travel and spa centres type of pages. Now let's go back to my point that I do agree it's fair to want/need a detox once in a while from social media but once again that can be said for society as a whole. I think that having a negative relationship with social media comes mainly from our own psyche and the paradigms we operate under such as consumer vs producer, victim mindset vs growth mindset, etc. If we utilize it like a marketing channel like any other and learn to avoid the pitfalls that our individual psyches fall into with it then the pros far outweigh the cons IMO.

Are foxes also perpetuating this spiritual war by eating rabbits or are we the only ones held to this invisible plane standard? I think veganism is a good goal but his explanation is not that great. I do feel bad when I kill any beings though even bugs. I was vegan for a couple of months but it was too hard to maintain. Perhaps I'll go back to it one day.

Slightly disagree on that one. Most friendships are based on hanging out with no clear goal in mind. If we compare it to game the difference between a social circle and a friend group is a social circle is built on generating value for the people involved and not simply emotional ties. I don't know Deepak that well yet but we are generating value for each other by creating an environment of mutual accountability and execution. I don't mind being friends on top but we have to have the value in mind otherwise I am wasting my time. A lot of my friends get uncomfortable when I talk too much about business even though we are clearly not doing that well financially. They seem to have a different way of handling that fact than I do. Some of them are full on victim mode and not doing much about it so I occasionally hang out with them but we are on different life paths.

These are good questions. Good place to start is separating intrinsic value from social value. The average Rolex is worth $14,000 USD. It's pretty useless as an item and is way worse than an Iphone but is 10x the price. Water and Oxygen are the substances with the most utility on earth but have no real tradable value. As a general rule, human beings assign astronomical value to three things: scarcity, social proof, and liquidity. Pokemon cards aren't valuable because cardboard is expensive or they have real world utility. They're valuable because they are a tradable product valued by tens of millions of people on earth and have a built in mechanism for scarcity. Now let's go to Counterstrike skins. It's a market with billions of dollars of trading volume(liquidity) and rare knives regularly sell for $30,000-$150,000 USD. For pixels mate. Who controls this market entirely? Valve. If they ban your account or decide to shut down the platform, you're shit out of luck. I played League of Legends for 10 years, spent $2,000 of my own money and got to Challenger which is top 0.01%. What is my account worth today? Maybe like $400 and I have to go through a complicated video game black market service to sell it. Very low liquidity. The AI revolution is gonna be what starts out the NFT craze again. Why is the average person vulnerable to AI? They are dependent on labor and own zero or very little assets. I think the logical conclusion is everyone starts obsessing over owning and creating assets. What makes assets worthwhile? The previous 3 things we mentioned. The one we didn't cover is social proof. What segment of society has the most status i.e. social proof? The entertainment industry. If I guess how it's gonna play out it's gonna go wave of AI layoffs -> Agentic AI getting praised as the solution -> AI slop becoming even more common -> NFTs becoming a mechanic for scarcity in a now digital abundant world. Next year is gonna be the year that AI media starts taking off. There is fundamentally not that much value in pure entertainment, you can't have a society operating on watching movies. You can have a society where most people are incentivized to use AI themselves to make their own money but that's hard. What's easier than teaching yourself how to become an AI savant? Trading assets based on your favorite form of entertainment. I think it's gonna piggyback right off the creator economy that took off with social media in the 2010s. Many people made careers out of building a business off of social media. Social media represents web 2.0. Web 3 is basically social media but with the public owning more of it instead of all the value being centralized in 10 tech companies.

After Space Odyssey? That's a good one. I'm naming mine Alfred. I will get him a very nicely tailored suit. I will also get a suit but mine will be black and I will now fight crime in the underworld with my newfound Karate skills! Saving mankind cannot wait.

@Basman this is pretty cool, NPCs have more realistic behaviour in GTA 6 so if you pull out a gun they'll react negaitively instead of ignoring it like previous games. https://www.gamesradar.com/games/grand-theft-auto/rockstar-boss-says-gta-6-doesnt-just-let-you-easily-walk-around-with-guns-because-gta-5s-approach-doesnt-work-at-this-resolution/

Exactly. The biggest disservice old-school pickup did was assume a one-size-fits-all model built entirely for Extraverted Sensors (Se) built for loud environments, peacocking, and fast sensory hype. If that isn't your wiring, forcing that mold feels completely fake and drains your battery instantly. Quieter or intuitive types have plenty of leverage, but it comes from frame control, depth, and dialed-in presence. Not performing like a club promoter. I learned a lot from my pickup journey but cold approach never felt fully right to me. Quick cold read: you sound like classic IxFP wiring (leaning ISFP). You appreciate tangible aesthetics and presentation (Se), but your core filter is authenticity (Fi). The moment something feels like an artificial persona, your alarm bells ring. Am I right? Fashion can be great journey both for self-awareness, learning calibration but also meeting a ton of hot people. Fashion people tend to also be very intuitive so there's way less toxicity and fakery than in the nightlife industry. If you've never tried it perhaps that's a good niche for you to explore too! I've had a lot of fun hosting events and taking part in it myself.

We are in a new era of human progress. What are you gonna name your first robot?

I think humans like ROI for their investments and thinking about children in Africa is not enough to make you feel good about spending your money. I think we should honor philanthropists a lot more and the rich people that help solve problems should get statues made. We should do whatever it takes to solve all of humanity's biggest problems asap and not virtue signal about Christian piety and "you should feel good about helping others with no reward in return!" Speaking of, MrBeast has done phenomenal work with TeamWater and some of his other charity projects. People are still dumb and found ways to hate him for it lol because his mere existence makes them feel small and irrelevant. This is why I think acquiring power is very important and demonizing this quest is a huge blindspot for stage green. Without power you will not accomplish much in life. At best you will try to band together and achieve collective power but that can be misdirected in all kinds of ways.

Have you ever shot content before? I think that is a message worth spreading. There is so much negativity online. Sounds cheesy but be the change you wanna see in the world!

It's coming, 2028-2030 is the predicted window for commercial availability. I want one that will train Karate with me

There are a lot of good use cases for short form content. The best one is event recaps and travel reels. If you do activities with your friends or community often times people take pictures but if a picture tells a 1000 words then I'd say a video is worth 100 pictures. You can capture organic fun moments and relive them years laters. You can also use Instagram to keep in touch with people you would've lost touch with a long time ago. Having someone on IG is way more powerful than having their number on your phone. Doom scrolling is a pretty big waste of time and it does take advantage of people's psychology. I don't really do it myself, when I watch reels I save them in my Obsidian for content ideas or events I can host myself. If I look at hot girls it gives me motivation to level up to get them. Sometimes I get in a funk and it makes me more depressed and self-pitying but I can usually snap myself out of it pretty quickly.