LordFall

Well obviously, I don't understand why a lot of people here pretend otherwise. It's such a strange point like who do they think they're talking to on an internet forum of all places? When I feel at highest consciousness it's like my consciousness flows into others and it's a seemless exchange but that doesn't invalidate other beings. It doesn't have any logical sense.

No. You’re making the classic pop-physics mistake of confusing quantum measurement with human conscious awareness. In the double-slit experiment, the wave function collapses when a particle interacts with a detector (or any physical system that registers information), not when a human brain "looks" at it. Decoherence happens through continuous environmental interaction—air molecules, thermal radiation, and gravity are "measuring" your room every microsecond. It doesn't "desolidify" behind you because the physical interactions maintaining its state don't pause just because your retinas aren't active. You are confusing qualia with ontology. When you close your eyes, the blackness you "see" is just your brain processing the lack of optical data from your retinas. That is a limitation of your sensory hardware, not a feature of physical reality. Conflating "I am no longer rendering visual data" with "the underlying system has ceased to exist" is like turning off your computer monitor and claiming the CPU stopped processing code. My guy if what you were saying was true when you closed your eyes you would fall through your bed and the floor and the earth. You realize how absurd that is? Really think about it for a few minutes.

I appreciate you using AI to draft your points, it elevates the quality of the conversation. Hoffman does not argue that the universe is an empty void or that physical objects are illusions created on the spot by your immediate awareness. Hoffman argues that space-time is a structured "desktop" representing a deeper, highly complex network of objective interactions (which he models as conscious agents). A computer desktop icon hides the complex code of the operating system, but the code is still there executing real functions—the computer doesn't turn into a blank black screen just because you minimize a window. Even according to quantum mechanics and Hoffman's framework, an "interface" implies an underlying objective reality that the interface tracks. When you close your eyes, you lose the visual icon of the room, but the room's causal structure remains fully intact. If you walk forward with your eyes closed, you will still crash into a wall because the wall's atomic resistance and mass continue to operate entirely separate from your visual feedback loop. Perception isn't a single human-only movie screen; different species have vastly different sensory interfaces shaped by evolution. Honeybees see ultraviolet light; pit vipers see infrared heat signatures; dogs experience the world primarily through an olfactory map. If reality were just a subjective human "black screen" when eyes close, an eagle flying overhead would still be interacting with objective physical coordinates (like air pressure, thermal columns, and mouse movement) that have causal weight independent of any human observer.

I'm confused about why your posts have resenment in them. Why are you upset about this?

I brought up public figures because they are concrete examples of humans operating within the society we share—I certainly don't think we're friends. When the claim is "nothing exists outside direct experience," bringing up other people and their knowledge is the only logical counter-argument. Other people build houses, perform surgery, and design systems using information neither of us personally possess in our immediate awareness. I apologize for being insulting. It’s genuinely frustrating because every time I address a point (like building foundations or atomic structure), you shift the goalpost to a new abstraction—from flat rendering, to animators, to quantum mechanics. It feels like arguing with ghost points because we aren't using a shared standard of logic or cause-and-effect to ground the discussion. The core mistake here is confusing phenomenology with ontology. Phenomenology is how reality appears through the limited lens of human sensory perception (like 2D light hitting a retina). Ontology is what actually exists and operates underneath those perceptions (like physical mechanics, atomic structures, and shared external infrastructure).

Not at all you've not understood it. Do you understand though that this is why you hate people like Elon Musk? Because they take complex ideas and make something useful out of them whereas you spout absolute nonsense and defend it endlessly? The reason Elon Musk can do astrophysics and you can't is because he is not lost in delusions.

@Leo Gura Why do you tolerate people saying such nonsense? Does it not hurt your brain?

Sure but that's irrelevant you just switched points. This process is happening outside of my direct experience. Your points are so bad I'm having a hard time convincing myself to reply to them. Do you know that objects have holes in them? In our direct experience objects are solid but they have a lot of space in their particules, are you mindblown now?

Of course I can. In my direct experience I have never made a building. I pay rent to live in them. If things outside of my direct experience were made up then who tf made the buildings? I don't know how to create a foundation and to insulate myself against winter yet I live through Canadian winters. My only logical conclusion is that other independent human minds figured it out, built the infrastructure, and I am now benefiting from knowledge that exists completely outside of my own direct experience.

Hojo, your direct experience is not all that exists. You are aware of this correct?

No, the Earth is a sphere.

Its because they are lazy and want to feel part of the elite and rise above the masses without doing the work. It's why a lot of them believe in conspiracy theories like that the moon landing is fake because it makes them feel smart without having to read books. If anyone tells you the moon landing is fake or the earth is flat that's basically an easy IQ test.

The main problem with these guys is they are ideologues, not practioners. They don't really build anything, they basically are almost solipsistic. They want the world to revolve around them so women should fuck them easily and in droves but have a low body count. They don't really build strong social circles that give a lot of value to people which would ironically actually make people revolve around them. They are basically being egotistical from a scarcity and victim mindset which is one of the most gross combinations you can have. When you actually build a life of value you don't need to lecture women on how to behave. You just have women around you because you help their lives and make it fun in the process. These guys are like Karens but the malevolent male version.

She's right it's currently one of the top differientiators in young men and women, 80% of solo travellers being women is not a generalization it's a majorly significant trend that points at major psychological differences and life experiences between genders.

Yes you can see it even in the replies a lot of men give here on this forum, they are reacting to life and are passive vs having agency and attacking their goals. It's fair going for it is scary but it's way scarier to have reality eat you alive and you growing to become an incompetent weakling that can't defend himself. That's why I'm trying to quit weed, it makes me very passive and complacent. I almost decided to not do the speed dating event I planned because it would be more comfortable just chilling for a few weeks and not putting that kind of pressure for myself but then reality had my back and reminded me that anything great in life has a high capital cost and losers don't get to play. I tend to enjoy really hot women and they have such fucking high standards these day if your money and life are not in right order good luck having a great dating life. I haven't fucked one in a bit and I miss the catharsis it gives you, I gotta get back on the horse I've been slumping. Also the elites are ruthless and are eating up the economy so the average person is getting weaker and weaker by the day that's not a future I want for myself and my family. Its good that you're not really into sports, I feel like a lot of that is watching other men compete and conquer while you're ignoring the fact that you're not conquering anything yourself and really as I said you're getting conquered by the day.

Do you watch a lot of porn or not really? The problem with a low libido is your weak is will. Just reading your comment I got a bit puzzled? What do you mean it's not like they're gonna give it to you? You're gonna make them give it to you or you're gonna source it yourself, either way you'll get it if you want to get it. That's the masculine spirit to bend reality to our will. I don't know if it's necessary a good thing to have high libido it makes life very frustrating for me because I can't reach my goals at the very moment but if I had less thirst for my goals I don't know what I would do like take more walks in the park lol? My ideal self is more jacked than I am now, richer than I am now, is smarter than I am now, has more power than I have now, has more impact than I have now, fucks everyday multiple times a day and is pushing humanity forward with my existence on earth. What does your ideal self look like? Also I agree with that if you get horny a few times a day you have normal libido sounds like you mostly have a victim mindset and are stuck in apathy.

100%, I would never travel if it wasn't to meet women or to entertain the women I'm dating. I don't know to me I already have all the cuisine options in any big city I've lived in and what am I going to gain from travelling looking at the different bricks they use in Europe or have some random people tell me about how they live in a way that's probably not useful to me and I can watch a video to understand? I think women are more about living life and men are more about conquering and competition then finally relaxing. Most things that don't give me a benefit I find quite useless and I have high treshhold for stimulation so if I were to travel I would need to have like a tens of thousands dollar budget to enjoy it and it would be mostly for content or like I said to go experience a new type of woman. I mostly only like building systems and testing them against reality and other people otherwise life is very boring. I also meditate pretty much everyday so it's not really a being present to the moment type of thing its just that why am I alive in this moment if not to gain a better moment sooner rather than later or I'm kinda stagnating or decaying.

We're talking about Donald Trump here. Kash Patel was just fired and Andrew Tate has been nominated as the new FBI Director effectiveness immediately.

That's fair, makes sense. So the method is great but most people using it are foolish!

I just learned they are also behind the red/yellow card system because in 1966 their captain refused expulsion lol https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1v1pdpp/til_argentina_was_the_catalyst_behind_the/

Well biological brains scan for threats and thus over focus on negatives over positives. That's the default and is mostly not objective but a useful trait of evolution. To map a timeline we have to understand geopolitics and macroeconmics deeply which I'm learning more about but it's complicated for sure. AI agents are just coming online now and people are still mostly struggling to profit from tokens today. We can guess that nuclear power will make AI much cheaper and close to free to use which will reduce a lot of friction from this process. Politics are complicated but Canada has Bill S-206 on UBI in the senate right now so us and Europe will get AI UBI sooner than other places in the world probably. Americans hate socialism so that will be a bit harder but the republican party has swung so far in one direction and thank God for the epstein files that destroyed Trump's credibility so perhaps the democrats will sweep the next election and be more UBI friendly. Mamdani has been huge in popularizing this trend, major props to him. China is actually quite pro social although autoritarian so hard to tell what they'll do. Medical progress is looking pretty sweet with longevity projects and biological immortality becoming more and more mainstream. So hopefully by 2050 Earth will be united and have reached the basics of post scarcity. David Shapiro does a good job of laying down the theory on this. To realize how lucky we are, post scarcity has been a theorized concept since the 60s with Murray Bookchin. We are now actually on the exponential curve to making it happen; unfortunate visionaries have been preaching it for decades lol but here we finally are. g

I'd be curious for feedback for people that have attended them. I haven't yet, will give it a go for my own dating life but also thinking of running them for my dating business. Was it worth it? How did you like the people there? Would you go again/recommend it to a friend? Best story wins a cookie

Right but you're gonna meet in person anyways after texting them on tinder right? A lot of guys find online dating boring but the goal is to go on in person dates as fast as possible. Not many other way you can get a woman that you never knew to meet up with you and sleep with you the same day other than cold approach which has even more friction. That's part of my idea with speed dating, the guys get to meet 15 women in a very short period and get the feedback from all of them which be hard to do apart from mastering cold approach which 99% of men will never do.

Have you gotten good results from dating apps before? I wouldn't throw them completely out if not, they are a good way to get a lot of dates in and keep your dating life active even when your work life is too busy for cold approach. They are also a good introduction to social media game and how what you post gets you different results. Depending on your personality type you might still not enjoy the concept but I think it's worth trying to make worth regardless since even just in economical value hiring a photographera and paying for tinder platinum and boosts will cost you like less than $1000 and even if you value your time at $20 an hour you will spend WAY more than 50 hours figuring out cold approach. Here is a good video on the different pictures to use to gain success. I'm a dating photographer myself but this guy's content and business are more advanced than mine.

Great minds think alike. How much do you use AI yourself and at your company?