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I think honestly this is pure nonsense. Especially if you're gonna base it on tantric people who are not particularly productive. I think if you wanna experiment with nofap that's great and do it but I never felt any more or less energy/productivity while on and off masturbation.

Well AI systems are fundamentally gonna change politics because it's gonna let every politician use their superior reasoning ability as well as let citizens analyze policy in a matter of minutes instead of weeks of study. Big hopes for our civilization in the next few years.

So I have this new theory that no one can be 100% corrupted because they have an agenda. So their goal is to fulfill their agenda however selfish that might be and not actually the corruption which is just a byproduct. Even a theoretical demon/devil whose goal would be to inflict pain and misery for the sake of enjoyment and sadism would also not even be close to 100% corrupted because their goal would be that enjoyment and I mean dopamine they would get from that. You would have to be really committed to evil to be 100% corrupted and I've never even heard of such a concept or entity. You could also argue that everything is moving towards corruption which is basically achieving your agenda while inflicting 0% harm to other beings outside of yourself. Those would be things like the metaverse, AGI and simple things like artificial meat to replicate every single selfish goal without harming others as really it's kind of inefficient to do so. Even if you consider things like murder, rape, theft, etc all these things will be able to be replicated in much more satisfying ways in metaverse and augmented by stuff like neuralink for more precise dopamine modulation.

Do you guys think Lex is pandering and is basically a sellout? He could go much harder on his conservative guests but then that would lead to him not getting as many big guests and being less irrelevant. Is it that simple or is there some other benefit he is giving society by platforming Trump? I found his interview with Ivanka much more interesting as you could at least get some insight on Trump from an unusually close source but this one it seemed Trump was just lying and making stuff up with Lex trying to push him a little bit then just giving up.

@Keryo Koffa Do you have more links to read about the systems harmonizing part of game theory? That's precisely my point, I'd love to read more on it. @Staples I don't know if you're saying platitudes and being intellectually dishonest or making a good point but I don't think that the universe is ignorant or indifferent towards suffering. Saying that corruption is a construct of the mind seems like a silly point because well isn't everything a construct of the mind?

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Putin has already asked to join Nato in the early 2000s and was told no by the american military industial complex under Bush.

@oldhandle Try to break down your tasks into clearly achievable objectives that helps big time to reduce procrastination IMO. Instead of having a vague "gotta work on my business today", break it down into chunks like e.g buy domain for landing page, create youtube channel, write one sales script, etc. I especially like the pomodoro method where it's goals in 30 min chunk and then you chill out for a bit then do another 30 min work block. If you have any kind of ADHD too then undefine tasks that stress you out will be the worst thing for your productivity.

Per Leo's latest blog post on Ekajivavada and total solipsism basically saying that nothing exists outside of my experience? That makes no sense, no human could claim that. I have never invented a laptop yet I'm using one. Who came up with it? A being with a different life experience than me would be a completely different being regardless of how someone our consciousness is one. Non-duality as a whole makes no sense even if we are all one being on some level the different identities of that being are individual single human agents with different realities, life experiences and, effect on the world.

@AsafTheMagniv I think your point and @Keryo Koffa make the most sense. These new experiences are supposed to be for the better so if you keep hanging out with the same people and nothing changes everything is familiar and stale then you're basically getting worse and wasting your life. Idk if there are studies on it but the good feeling probably comes from safety like being near people that you've known for a while you would feel safe and accepted but the challenged and progress part needs to still be there otherwise kind of a waste of time.

@OBEler I just don't think we can use that definition of dream. If I tortured you for 30 years then we died and I was like haha it was just a dream bro we're actally the same person! It would be irrelevant even if that were true, you still had to deal with 30 years of pain and suffering because my individual actions. That's what seperates "reality" from what we call dreams; the dreams are supposed to have no consequence. @CosmicExplorer That's a good question on dream people because I can't really control their actions so they do act like free agents. I guess they don't interact with me in the way a real life human would with questions, requests, complaints, etc that's what makes real humans be not dream humants?

But like how do you even define a dream in this context? Can I choose for a VR tv to appear in my living room tomorrow? What are the rules of this dream? Why can't I choose to manifest myself a million dollar today if it's my dream? Clearly there are plot holes here. Why are people dying in Gaza in this dream? That's not cool let's stop that today and if it's not possible why not?

@Lila9 That's a nice theory but it makes no sense. I can learn to accept my suffering and accept that as god teaching me lessons and loving me but should I also believe that homeless crackheads, children dying in gaza/ukraine and people getting assaulted against their will are also experiencing that same infinite love?

Yes agreed. You can argue that I only experience things with myself but there are cars driving around me now so like there must be individual humans with a different conscious experience than me currently driving them right? @Leo Gura How would you explain this? I do feel like when I'm on psychedelics or even sober sometimes I have nondual experiences where basically the world seem to react/unfold in synchronicity to my thoughts but that's not all the time and that also doesn't explain where TVs come from. I swear I've never built a single TV in my life.

I think I understand what you mean. This infinity that we experience though can be sliced into pretty small pieces though. For example we can cut it with time and talk about what you experience within the timespan of the next 10 seconds of your life. You I guess argue that's infinite but cognitively your brain can only experience and remember so much. So lets say after 10 seconds you write down everything that you remember about these 10 seconds. You could argue that not only an AI could experience(or at least interpret/take in) infinitely larger amounts of data that we could depending on its itterations but it can also basically multiply its consciousness and for example experience 10 seconds within the data that it's getting fed from lets say documents that it's being uploaded to it, video data its getting from cameras, eventually literally neuralink human brain data, etc. In terms of time you could say it's the same 10 seconds or it manages to multiply its time depending on your perspective. But I think precisely AI is gonna be able to receive infinite amounts of data way before we can.

Well, there is the organ harvesting dilemma. If a doctor has 5 five patients each needing a different organ to survive and a healthy person walks in, would the doctor be justified in killing that person to harvest their organs and save the 5 other ones?

@Bobby_2021 I think you would be terribly disappointed by how quantifiable and mechanical human emotions are. Robert Plutchik has one of the most scientifically backed emotional model out there and it's based on just 8 main emotions that can be further divided into more precise ones. This one here has 96 different ones From there all you have to do is run experiments with weights and predictions to fine-tune the model and probably predict human behaviour. Like you could do it with exams and test how much each emotions affect testing scores. Or use something like Neuralink to track emotional responses in brains in real time over weeks/months and then at that point humans will be reverse engineered basically. @BlueOak I would argue that AI models today can already receive infinity moreso than humans can. GPT-4 can read at about 3000 WPM for example whereas humans only 200-400 wpm. Also worth noting that AI can "cheat" by having the smartest, most well-funded humans on earth label the data for it and help it with cognition. After doing more research I would now argue that not only is AGI inevitable but good chances it will happen around 2027.

Good breakdown on how AI is gonna reach AGI, by doing automated AI research on itself The researched mentioned Leopold Aschenbrenner has a good point that a human thinks really at most at like 100/token per minute. Even if you believe that AIs are incredibly stupid that doesn't really matter when they're gonna be able to compute stuff at millions of token per minute and above and basically reverse engineer the universe. Incredibly fascinating stuff. This is God having pity on us and giving us a handout; humans were never gonna figure out much about infinity fast enough to solve our issues.

I mean same. I'm not a massive fan of casual sex though and I'm not stable enough to date a woman I would be really attracted to so mostly in "monk mode." Trying to quit porn and channel that energy into building my life which is half-working so let's see where I end up in 6 months.

Can you explain your opinion here?

Meetup.com or group projects is a good way to meet people based on common interest/goals. Randomly going to a club and trying to make friends with strangers is one of the hardest ways I can think of.

I don't know what you consider his area of expertise but he said that humans communicate with reality very slowly and that's probably why AI would get bored of us. Neuralink will allow us to communicate much faster potentially a few hundred bits per second which is insane. If you consider how fast humans process things within 10 seconds like at best you're able to consciously compute 2-3 things. Which for a reality that's potentially infinite that's quite slow.

@Davino I've felt something like that before while on shrooms; like I really enjoyed my problems and was happy I was going through them and the perfect world of the awakened state was boring.

@Scholar How can you say Elon doesn't say smart things? That's a near psychotic take. Clearly there are many facets to human beings and he could use some maturity in some departments but in terms of actual impact to the human race he's involved in most fields that humanity is making progress in this century. I think his treatment of his daughter is awful and some of his takes make him seem like an anime character but you'd have a hard time making the argument that he's not one of the smartest and most effective humans alive today. He's already revolutionized the car industry and soon enough the medical industry and you could argue capitalism and civilization itself with Optimus robots coming soon.

Fair enough, I hope you feel better and you're able to create the reality you're looking for. @Dodo I'm curious how your money situation is now 8 years later. I'm struggling with money atm too, it sucks and limits like 95% of your options