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I'm not being sarcastic in any way whatsover. If you don't appreciate having your views challenged and see it as condescencion then I don't know what to tell you, I'm engaging in your points in good faith and putting effort into a conversation. We have varying viewpoints, that's fine. I did feel like you moved the goalpost since it would be fair to question a random dude taking Vitamin b-12 claiming that he's now gonna cure aging with no professional experience whatsover but the fact that he's a 9 figure entrepreneur shows that he is a serious person that does set out to achieve the goals that he talks about and has success doing so. If you want to specifically talk about his impact on the health industry that's valid. I've just listed plenty of ways that he has already positively impacted the healthcare industry and the world as a whole, if you need him to personally cure cancer then as I said we can talk back in 10 years and see if it happened. I see heroic people that put their energy, time and money towards more than themselves but for helping others and even moreso if it's ambitious in scale enough to affect our whole species. I don't think you reducing his reducing multi-million dollar clinical protocol that measures over hundreds of active biomarkers (kidney function, cardiovascular output, DNA methylation, etc) as "fertilizing his farts with eucalyptus" is very intellectually honest though. It's valuable because you and I don't have the resources to do the same thing and thus couldn't get those results and he just puts that all out for free. It's also incredibly vulnerable of him. If there are other people in healthcare right now that you feel are doing more to contribute to the field feel free to share, Bryan is one of many that I personally like. David Sinclair is another. Even doctors sharing their knowledge for free on Youtube I would call heroic, although not in the same degree as they don't have stated public missions to permanently cure diseases as a whole. I'm sure some do, I just don't know of them.

Who are the main relevant democrats right now? It should be handled by other people with resources to not let him get away with it. Otherwise yeah probably he will.

AI simplifies workflows and allows for business models that were not viable previously to now be so. It allows you to create bigger systems than you usually would've been able to. As an entrepreneur you think in systems so it's easy to see how increasing efficiency in what you do is monetizable. I've made money off of AI already in how it helps me edit videos and photos. I can easily foresee how it's gonna allow me to become rich someday by increasing the capabilities of what I was already doing. @Natasha Tori Maru I'm sure there are some cases where that's true but in general it disproportionately favors the creators vs the platforms. There is a massive ceiling to what one person can manage in terms of creating a product/service, marketing it, messaging leads, doing sales calls, doing customer service, developping new features/product lines, doing market research against competitors, understanding future market trends and macroeconomic factors, etc. AI allows one creator/artist/entrepreneur to manage all of that, it's insane the potential that it already has let alone in 5-10 years.

@Natasha Tori Maru You're moving the goalposts, Natasha. First you asked what he's done, then you said his multi-million-dollar entrepreneurship track record doesn't count, and now you're claiming clinical lab tests aren't 'empirical proof.' Empirical diagnostic data: His biological age reversal isn't a guess; it's measured by TruDiagnostic DNA methylation kits, which use the DunedinPACE algorith; the gold standard developed by Duke University and Columbia University to empirically track the pace of human aging. His protocol has achieved a verified 5-year biological age reversal, an absolute reduction of systemic chronic inflammation (hsCRP levels below detectable limits), and a 2.6% extension in telomere length. If a pharmaceutical drug achieved those exact biomarker results in a clinical trial, it would be a multi-billion-dollar medical breakthrough. You keep asking who he has impacted right now outside of himself. He co-founded the Rejuvenation Olympics global leaderboard. Because of this, everyday people who don't have his money are using his open-source power-law framework to radically slow their aging. From what I looked up here's one case: a 55-year-old single mom named Julie Gibson Clark used these exact principles to take the #2 spot on the global leaderboard, verified by independent lab testing. He isn't just 'spinning words.' He built the infrastructure that pulled longevity science out of closed-door academic labs and turned it into an open-source, measurable data game for the public. When we end up literally BIOLOGICALLY IMMORTAL it will be due to his work and other scientists and visionaries like him. Which other quests do you think is more heroic? Perhaps ending world hunger but his quest is right along the line of curing cancer. What do you mean random shit? Like playing in the park with a dog or baking a strawberry pie? You aren't intellectually honest in a lot of your arguments. It's not random its very expensive and precise medical testing and diagnosis that he is sharing with the world. @Joshe Sure he could be more calibrated but nobody is perfect.

@Joshe I think that's a judgemental take, feel free to not enjoy his personality but I think he's a quirky funny guy with great ideas that does work of the utmost importance to mankind and I doubt that many people you've met that are more "normal" are doing more to impact the future of mankind. Nothing worse than normies in my book but I mean you do you. His track record as an entrepreneur is quite impressive. He founded Braintree and then bought Venmo and sold to Paypal for $800M. He is not a random wellness influencer, he's a phenomenal entrepreneur with a solid track record. Instead of then being a no name rich dude not doing much with his money or just falling into hedonism he then started to publicize his health journey and founded don't die. He is open sourcing healthcare. He operated a a multi-million-dollar clinical trial on his own body and open-sources all the raw data for free, you can compare your own biomarkers to his. He also co-founded the Rejuvenation Olympics encouraging everyday people to track and post their epigenetic aging. This is an insane level of data gathering and bringing these topics to the mainstream narrative. I think scrutiny of his work is not only valid but needed, this is healthcare we're talking about not feelings on fashion. It's not like he's accomplished groundbreaking breakthroughs yet but he is putting the money in and is on that path. The fact that his girlfriend has Endometriosis is unfortunate but it's fortunate that she's dating him since it affects 200 million women worldwide and has no known cure. We can have this conversation again in 10 years and reevaluate if it lead to any meaningful discoveries yet but I would say that even if it doesn't he is still a hero in my books. Fighting the good fights in life is worth admiration.

A lot of spirituality I'm starting to realize is inventing stories to cope with the harshness of reality. Reality is hardcore and has real consequences. A lot of spiritually minded people shy away from the pain of business by convincing themselves that they are here for greater spiritual purposes than such a shallow thing as materialism, although every problem or purpose in the world is improved through a greater access to resources and a greater ability to get others to join you on your work. One of those pains is the negative effects that we have on others, often unintended. I think it's extremely tempting to have a few mystical experiences and handwave that away with others are illusory and don't feed pain which just means I can do whatever I want in reality and be off the hook. I think that's an extremely dangerous way to think and I heavily warn you against it my friend as well as anybody else reading this.

Have you watched Leo's videos on epistemology and truth? Why do you believe what Buddhism says? What process have you gone through to validate it? Be careful of conclusions that you come from purely on psychedelics, I had something similar and I hurt someone in the process and ended up in jail for a bit so I guarantee you that the pain was real and that the jail was real. I also know many friends that had psychosis and ended up in psych wards for a bit. Psychosis and grounding mechanisms are not talked enough on this forum, I think it's worth addressing @Leo Gura because I have so many discussions with people saying absolutely nonsense these past few days in a way that could lead to dangerous outcomes for themselves and others in their lives.

Seems cool, hadn't heard of it before. My favorite Star Wars game is Super Star Wars, on Super Nintendo. My dad got me hooked on emulators growing up so I played a bunch of classics. The one I most want to play now is Jedi Survivor, seems like a really cool polished modern action RPG. I will get back into gaming over the next few years and play some of the games I've missed. Like the Zelda games on Switch those look bomb.

I think it means that we are part of one universal mind and that other selves are just you in other bodies simultaneously experiencing reality. The mind is powerful and can conjure up all kinds of thoughts and ideas and visions. Being able to separate the random passing intuitions or visual hallucinations one gets while high on psychedelics or going through mystical experiences from the tangible wise insights that can be used to improve our shared physical reality is what seperates a wise awakened person from someone caught up in a solipsistic delusion/psychosis or going full blown schizophrenic.

What makes you say that? It's a dangerous train of thought and closer to delusional psychosis than enlightenment imo. I've definitely hurt people in various ways throughout my life and I'm sure you have as well. Touch some grass.

I agree with you somewhat and that perspective is helpful in ridding ourselves of judgement. Saying there is no stupidity though is robbing the world of meaning. There are plenty of obtuse people that are falling for simple cognitive bias and their lack of quest for wisdom and intelligence is hurting themselves and others. Our ability to identify those people and build frameworks to not be victims of their stupidity is very important to living a high quality life. The only way I can reason that stupidity is good is because is it gives me a strong competitive advantage, I don't think that it's good ultimately though.

I'm not too sure how that makes sense from your perspective but from my perspective what that means is that by solving my own egoic shortcomings then I'll be in a better position to help the world heal itself and unite. I think from other states of being I could easily start wars so I can see how other people do.

I think we've diagnosed the issue with this reply. Since this is your comfort zone of topics you probably default to talking to it and do it in a way that's more logical rather than fun and playful which is why the women you've gone on dates with end up offput and a bit scared. Being dominant on a date is a good thing. Women want to show up and have an automatic good time they don't really have to have to put too much effort into it. So it's your job as the man to lead the date to being a fun and pleasant experience that takes both of your minds off of the hardships of life. I like the do you believe in ghost one, it could be easily turned into past life conversations and a "I bet you were the bad guy in a past life" playful teasing. I'll try it out. Usually I just talk about meditation and how its improved my life and lowered my anxiety but it's more of a boring topic. Maybe you can put your hand on her hand and and say do you think we are the same person in different bodies? I'm sure if the date is going well that will escalate quickly to the bedroom. Alright challenge accepted I will get laid with the spiritual topic.

Well first of all I use AI daily and am working on an automated content system with monetization verticals in different industries so I'll hopefully be one of those elites myself soon enough, I recommend you join me in that quest. Even for the poorest people though there are big incentives in catering to them and giving them UBI. UBI goes back into the pockets of corporations anyway, you pay them your rent and buy their food and services. Having starving people with weapons like in the states would be a bad plan even for a psychopathic pedophile leader. Although they are trying, never underestimate stupidity lmao. Red scare 2.0 https://therealnews.com/johnson-says-pentagon-needs-more-money-for-fighting-communism-on-our-own-shores

Totally agree it's beautiful because we now have globalized access to world class intelligence and whatever wonders it brings. The moat of academia is pretty cringe, a bunch of indeed smart people that just regurgitate what they know but don't really build much usefulness. I'm pretty anti-academia I'm a high school dropout myself, I'm sure there is some utility still to the university system but I'm a pretty big believer that you can learn anything from books and Youtube these days. The new products and services that will come out in the next decade will be pretty insane. I feel like the last decade was pretty mid not much cool stuff came out. Just improvement on stuff that was already there the whole time. I'm a gamer and I quit playing video games because it was the same shit for a long time, I think League of Legends was the peak of that medium and nothing better has come out since then and it's been out since 2010.

Focusing entirely on military history to determine your pride is a massive bottleneck. The true American experiment isn't about the Pentagon; it's about the platform. When you ask what culture we have worth protecting, you're ignoring the global operating system. The culture of individual agency, rapid innovation, and open-source collaboration that powers the modern world is uniquely American. The actual future of humanity from AI to private aerospace and biotechnology—is being funded and built here in the present, not in past history books. Asking 'what is my role' is incredibly passive. The system is a decentralized playground. It gives you the infrastructure and freedom to build whatever you want. Your role isn't to sit back, watch the news, and grade the country's performance; your role is to utilize the platform to build something of value. As long as you're not in a medical emergency without insurance it's a pretty big blessing to be American. Overall we might win though as Canadians sorry . Although our job market is quite tough at the moment, our unemployment is higher than in America.

Well my simple argument against this is that there is no economic incentive to do that, it would actually be unprofitable vs building robots and letting the poor people and middle class people do whatever they want. There are actually a lot of incentives in keeping a middle class alive, it stimulates spending and it gives you a lot of social status in comparison. Just 10 rich dudes in a room is not a pleasant room it's just ego battles and competition. 10 rich dudes and 50 middle class dude and 50 middle class women is much better for everyone involved. In what ways do you disagree? I'll have this debate anyday I'm a massive fan of Bryan Johnson and how he's publicizing his health journey. A lot of other rich people are doing the same thind behind closed doors and not letting the rest of us benefit from their journey. His girlfriend Kate Tolo recently got diagnosed with Endometriosis and I sent her IG to a woman in my creatives chat that also has it to inspires her and give her hope that someone else richer than us is working to cure it so it's looking better than before!

Think of being mysterious more as a teasing move not literally being a mystery. I have a buddy where we went on a double date with these two older women and he refused to reveal his age when asked multiple times. I like to make them guess the first time and then say it, it lets the girl do some cold reading on you and then gives her satisfaction when you actually tell her the answer. If you refuse to say your age it starts to look uncalibrated or genuinely maliciously mysterious like you are refusing to reveal relevent information because it makes you look bad. First dates are about do you enjoy spending time with this person on a surface level just getting drinks/food/a walk for a couple hours before you invest more time into them. OKAY WHAT ARE YOUR DEEPEST BELIEFS ABOUT REALITY, LETS DISCUSS is not so much chill fun conversation unless you're really smooth about it.

Maybe if she's nice to my other women. Do you really believe that free will and the self are an illusion or are you using it as a common talking points in spiritual debates? I personally disagree and think our main experience of reality is free will, I don't mind debating the topic if you have a particular interest in it. I agree that it's dumb to derive your sense of self from your country since you don't control it and it's on you to make the best of the cards you're dealt. I think it's an interesting topic in that America is currently facing a crisis of identity and the left winger are always quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater. As a Canadian I see both sides, my country is doing better in terms of human rights and universal healthcare and I'm proud and benefiting directly from that national ideology at work; I see a lot of americans that aren't wealthy suffering from the class elitisism that america is struggling with.

Which lawsuit in particularly are you following? I'm well aware of them, some of them are valid and some of them are getting thrown out or getting counter sued. I think the Midjourney suit vs Disney, Warner Bros, and Universal is most interesting because they are arguing my exact point that it was done in a fairuse way. They also just filed a countermotion arguing that the studios are themselves scraping data and training their own proprietary models on third-party works and if they can prove it it'll be a landmark case that will settle most other smaller cases. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/midjourney-wants-hollywood-studios-to-reveal-the-details-of-their-ai-usage/

Why? The United States is a phenomenal country both in its history and current power to affect mankind for the better. I say this as a Canadian. Narcissism is wanting unearned praise, America deserves plenty of praise. It is the bastion of innovation. @Yimpa Cool perspective, it's important to be proud of who you are. Trans women are awesome.

You're very welcome. A lot of users on this forum(myself included) are falling short of our potential and it's insulting to see other people rise up to theirs. Everyday is another opportunity for greatness though, we always have another shot to do something great. Our generation will be amongst the first wave of humans to become biologically immortal and see our species go beyond our planet and conquer the galaxy and entire universe. Yourself and your children and grandchildren will become infinitely rich as we go beyond the limited resources of this planet and capitalize on the infite resources of the universe and the infinite playground that God has built for us. It is a beautful paradigm but understandably it sounds completely insane. My roommate was telling me about post scarcity years ago when I was broke in our apartment and I believed him but it was so far removed from my painful existence that it was just insulting to hear. We are building it though, it's happening.

Bro wait til the first rich people start become immortal and there will be fucking immortality riots everywhere lmao it'll be a cool thing to see. People like Bryan Johnson are a gift to humanity and popularizing this sort of quest. Soon enough there will a Charlie Munger dude that spends $20 billion and manages to actually make himself immortal. Gemini estimates that this will happen in around 2035 and we will now be in longevity escape velocity territory. Never do this my friend, this is letting anti-intellectualism win! World changing ideas are worth fighting for; do not let lazy cynicism permeate your speech it is truly a disgusting phenomenon to witness. Bryan Johnson is a hero and people dislike him for challenging the very paradigms that are LITERALLY KILLING ALL OF US AND OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME. I thought we were supposed to champion radical openmindedness on this forum.

AI is great, it empowers the motivate people in society and creates more competitive advantage for us. People that complain about AI are just creating a larger and larger competitive gap. Even in a world where everyone gets guaranteed food and shelter with global UBI(what I hope happens in the next 20 years), you will still have the average dude be broke and unproductive and motivated entrepreneurs having all the leverage in society. It's sort of a tax on the lazy if you think about it but also their saving grace since eventually it'll pay their bills.

What? Aging is your whole body, organs and muscles starting to degenerate and fall apart. You can call it natural doesn't mean it's not a catastrophe that should be solved asap. As a matter of fact each year for the past decade or so pretty massive breakthroughs have been made on the journey to biological immortality. Why? Why is thinking death can be cured stupid and unrealistic? Sorry bro I'm gonna call you naive and uninformed right back. This is proven documented research that literally won a nobel prize, we are currently on track to cure aging by the 2050s. It sounds pretty wild but that's why I talk about it a lot on the forum. In 2012, Shinya Yamanaka won the medicine Nobel Prize for proving that cellular aging can be reversed. By using just four genetic proteins—known as Yamanaka factors—to reset mature cells back to a youthful state, he proved that aging is not an unbreakable law of physics, but a biological program we are actively learning to rewrite.