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What kind of value and to who? There is value in just being a character in the world, I rather there be 8 billion of us than 10. Society is too competitive for that to be enough to add value to someone's goals though. If you are trying to network with cool guys and women in demand you need to have worked on yourself to stand far above the average person otherwise people will not have time for you. From a nondual sense, we are here to experience duality so building up your character to be very valuable along paths that are of interest to you is the main goal of existence. Using spirituality to bypass that would be quite silly. When I feel anxious or depressed it does help me immensely to remember that I don't have fundamentally have to provide value to anyone and it's only a gift I'm building up for myself; giving yourself an awesome life is a privilege but if it becomes a burden you can pause it.

You don't believe in the nonduality teachings talked about by Leo? Monogamy is an invention of society to stabilize itself, it doesn't point to any spiritual truths. You have a shared connection with every woman and man on earth. To think that you can only have an eternal connection with one person is a bit silly. I think you're indoctrinated if you believe that you can't find a lot of intimacy, respect and even love in anything but a monogamous relationship. @SimpleGuy Regardless of if casual sex appeals to you, working on your social life is still quite important. The average man is lonely and isolated and has not much impact in society. You can work on all of these things and have very little sex or you can build up your social capital and have a lot of sex along with it. A lot of the men on the forum are quite sheltered so that will reflect in their opinions but if we push the concept further; the benefits of having social capital go much beyond sex.

Don't let the news cycle bring you down. Much progress is happening weekly as well. The future is looking bright.

This post is for @Leo Gura and really any other that believe in an AI crash. I will seek to prove that this is basically impossible and AI companies are already in the too big to fail category and ChatGPT moving towards military industrial complex instead of a business to consumer model is a proof of that. The whole reshoring manufacturing of America over the next 10 years is based on their tech supremacy. Remember the whole meme of american workers retuning to work in factories? Obviously that will not happen and the US will aim to be a robotics and automation leader, which it's already well positioned to do. A K shaped crash will absolutely happen and will serve in further squeezing the middle class into nothing as their labor becomes literally obsolete. Leo your idea that AI value is based on AGI is misguided. AI value prop is based on enterprise workforce. The whole overinflated valuation of the market is based on the premise that AI agents can replace human employees en masse. That premise is still up in the air but as someone who works with AI tools and automation daily I'd say it's already a done deal, the macro forces are just too powerful and humans not adaptable enough. It's also heavily based in the military industrial complex really as you print money to make top tier weapons with which you secure global trade and force countries into doing commerce under your umbrella and get rich off of financialization and exporting the USD. The US has just proved in its Maduro operation and its Iran strikes that their military supremacy is as unchallenged as ever and the whole tech-AI industry fits right into that. Having said this I would say that claiming that an AI bubble crash is imminent or even likely has a MASSIVE BURDEN OF PROOF under it and I invite anybody to try and make an argument and case for it. I'm pretty confident that the corporate layoffs we've been seeing will keep accelerating throughout this year and it's highly likely that Trump and his Tech buddies will introduce some sort of UBI promise this year with the primaries to secure their votes and burry their epstein scandal further.

Most people today are not able to live their lives how they want, they have jobs they dislike and are constantly stressed. Being able to have a hot shower is not being post scarcity. If people get UBI they will have their whole life to self-actualize and pursue what is meaningful to them. It's gonna be a beautiful positive change for our civilization. There are no incentives to harm the population, just because the rich people don't care about the poor doesn't mean they have a vested interest in hurting them. I would say there are many upsides to providing help to them. It's ROI positive to scale UBI worldwide. Rich people will maintain their purchasing power and it will increase if anything and poor people will get their living needs met. This happens when you don't get to the root of your desires and where they stem from and thus the solution you build for it only addresses the surface craving and not the core need. There are plenty of forms of abundance that enrich your life and feel deeply fulfilling. Can you elaborate on what the abundance you built looked like and what was not fulfilling about it?

There are many ways to look at this but basically this is a function of competition. Making society more and more competitive makes it so only a few % of males succeed and the women are incentivized to pursue them. Great if you're industrious and end up at the top and pretty lame otherwise. AI, biotech, fertility tech and overall post scarcity are gonna throw all of this on its head and I think basically everyone will end up getting what they want or have a clear lane on how to get their desired life. Most men are not ambitious and don't really want to work to level up and become more attractive. If they can have an AI girlfriend/sex robot that fulfills their intimacy needs they will take that over a clear roadmap on how to become a valuable partner to a real woman. I am in the latter camp and am willing to work extra hard to be able to afford 3-4 women. Seems like it works out perfectly for all parties.

Being an value provider which mostly being able to solve your own and other people's problems. Beware of shallow game teaching some basic charisma without working in depth on this process. Men that cannot solve problems effectively will also not do well in the economy and be broke on top of being not attractive to women. A man that can relate with women, banter with them, be a rock that takes care of her problem and has a mischievous who enjoys her sexuality with her is gonna find himself in over abundance of women who want to date him.

I think that's an atheistic view of the world and a bit shallow. God could be many other ways if it was a superior mode of living. For example the Gnostics believe in a cruel God that made reality to test humanity. I don't think that's how the universe is fundamentally structured but it could be.

It's a pretty wild case and I think it's worth deconstructing from several angles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Cornell_University_rape_allegations The case has been reopened by a New York District Attorney so you'll be hearing a lot about it in the coming months. Since it's reopened, the District Attorney will present the evidence to a grand jury to determine if there is cause for an indictment. More official details will come out through that process.

Peace and love to you as well brother. I think you're limiting the expression of sexuality in many ways. I don't see why healthy sexual relations that feel sacred could only happen in a marriage. A marriage is an effective socioeconomic arrangement for humans to raise children in a lot of societies. To make it the only way intimacy can be shared in a healthy way is a bit silly. This is why it's important to go deeper in our thoughts towards this and unearth what we are pointing to. I can understand that a couple inviting a third partner into their relationship seems a bit extreme for someone that's not used to it, but I would encourage you to sit with that thought and get to the root of where the negative feelings around it are coming from in your psyche and you will likely end up with a more complete understanding of human sexual expression.

You completely dodged the dead bedroom reality because religious dogma can't account for actual human relationship dynamics. When your entire moral framework boils down to "Stage Blue religious conditioning that I can't rationally justify," of course real-world psychology looks like "ego" to you. You sound like someone who has one foot in Islam and one foot in trying to make sense of the world by himself but anything that goes too far outside of your comfort zone you run back to 'straight to eternal damnation for you!' It's cute to have an ego this fragile but it makes you seem like an individual living shackled by fear as opposed to being inspired by freedom and love. Stop shaming others for their sexual desires and you will stop shaming yourself like you've been doing everywhere on the forum for what seem to me like mostly healthy expressions of human drives that religion has deeply shamed you for.

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I think you guys are projecting your personal idealism onto the world, but human psychology is much messier than you believe it is. The idea that deep emotional love magically turns off erotic curiosity or the human appetite for taboo is a romantic fairy tale. If that were true, happy marriages wouldn't struggle with desire and dead bedrooms wouldn't exist. Conflating emotional affection with the complete shutdown of sexual novelty is just denial and idealism.

How do you know this? Or is this you guys wishing away the complexities of human sexuality? I would say that plenty of couples that love each other are in various forms of open relationships and studies would back that up.

Some couples choose to bring others into their bedrooms and in many cases, it actually revitalizes marital satisfaction and enriches everyone involved. Humans are not naturally monogamous; that's an institutional mold that society pushes on us for the sake of stability. If you want to have your relationship be strictly monogamous then sure go for it, but I think shaming others for their preferences reveals your immaturity and the core sexual shame that you carry.

I'm sorry that you associate sexuality with degradation. I think you really need an awakening toward the beauty of human sexuality instead of letting the sexual shame that overwhelmed you growing up leave you jaded as a grown adult. You don't have to spend the rest of your life running away and being terrified of your own nature. What happens between 2(or 3 in this context if the male partner is aware and cool with it) consenting adults in a private bedroom is usually an enjoyable experience for all involved.

Duty is an important topic in life. Wear something cute, put on a wig and make sure the boys still have a good time

I think it's a really hot fantasy and I thought about doing it even if the woman knew but the man didn't, after thinking about it more though I think I would only do it if they are in an open relationship or if he's a cuck and is into it. Human sexuality and psychology are full of enticing possibilities that would shock those of us that haven't integrated their sexuality fully. @Optimized Life Did you just hit on them or fully sleep with them and how did you meet up with them without their man present? Got their numbers and invited them over?

Your social groups need to be built on mutually aligned interests and goals. What are your goals for the next 5-10 years of your life? Build a community and social group based on that. The social circles I run are based on creative pursuits or entrepreneurship. I've made friends with both single women and women in relationships through them. Either way we can exchange value and be useful to each other's lives. I see other social circles based on temporary circumstantial proximity like coworkers grabbing drinks or college students hanging out and it tends to be more drama-filled because the people in them are not involved in anything productive together. Bachata is alright but it's a hobby more than a goal. How are you gonna build deep relationships based on something that doesn't really have a point? You can but it's gonna be hard. A lot of human bonding is based on overcoming challenges and accomplishing things together.

Very important! The world would be a sad place without women's nurturing.

I'm trying to make the greatest IP of all time with my current project Legend of the Abyss In the process I'm studying the other greatest IPs of all time and after making a Marvel thread We're now doing Star Wars. I loved the movies growing up but was never a mega fan. What really moves me is the medieval era so Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon are at the moment my favorite shows of all time. Star Wars is clearly phenomenal though and I'm currently rewatching all the movies and taking notes on them. Just watched Revenge of the Sith yesterday and took a bunch of notes on Obsidian which I synthesized in this article here https://kylefall.substack.com/p/deconstructing-star-wars-revenge I was quite moved at how deep the story was and how sad Anakin's downfall is and it's due to George Lucas studying deeply Joseph Campbell and the Hero's journey to write his characters. I really like that sine as an INTP unrealistic plot lines and bad writing makes me want to jump out of a window head first. I just watched this video and although I do agree with some of his criticisms I still think that Star Wars is great and the stuff coming out is worth watching. I fucking loved Ahsoka and Shin Hati is my favorite Star Wars character by far. Who wouldn't want a Dark Jedi apprentice? I think overall the multimedia adaptation of both Star Wars and Marvel is fascinating from a business ecosystem perspective and I'm studying all I can about it. Feel free to discuss whatever interests you about the Star Wars franchise and I have a few specific questions to lead the discussion. 1) What is your favorite Star Wars Movie and why? 2) Who is your favorite Star Wars character and why? 3) What are other IPs that you like as much as Star wars or more and why? May the force be with you

Very exciting! The world is changing so fast, in 10 years it'll be unrecognizable in the best of ways.

Unperturbed and standing strong amongst the flames!

It's about to start in 5 mins as I post this, tune in it's gonna be one of the top fashion shows of the year and probably the best produced! Super excited to watch it, I've gained a new appreciation for fashion since hosting my own fashion show last year. Performances from Tate McRae, Katseye, Megan Thee Stallion and way more with obviously the top models of the world walking tonight. Update: It was sick! Well produced and the performances were really well done. Tate McRae looked divine doing it but Megan really had some swagger with her dancers, I think she stole the show. Kylie Jenner also had a surprise appearance for her first runway show ever! Highly recommend you guys watch it, it's a stellar show in terms of the visual arts industry and you get some of the hottest women in the world performing!

There aren’t 1,500 Dior and Louis Vuitton stores in France, the vast majority of those ransacked shops were neighborhood bakeries, tabacs, and small businesses whose owners now won't all get GoFundMes to survive. Just because French intellectuals write essays doesn't mean teenagers looting phones and torching town halls are executing a coherent political masterplan. An angry mob is completely different from a coherent peaceful demonstration with stated goals. Calling this a transition toward "Stage Green" is wishful thinking IMO and looks a lot like some unintegrated stage orange getting angry and turning into Stage Red. You don't get a high consciousness society by trashing basic rule of law, that just ends up triggering a heavy Stage Blue backlash, more state surveillance, and an easy electoral win for the right wing party under Marine Le Pen. Not all books are created equal. Someone can read victim-mindset based literature about how the world is unfair to them or read action-minded books about solving the problems in their life, be it financial or social. It's mostly about using the plentiful self-education tools out there instead of violently protesting in the street. Also, there’s zero contradiction in holding someone fully accountable as an adult while pointing out that their mob behavior is an emotional tantrum. Tearing down your own community doesn’t hurt the elites; it just screws over everybody but especially working-class people and makes real progress even harder to achieve.