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@Leo Gura That's why crypto and blockchains exist to transact outside of a locked national currency system and there are many ways for savy people to get around tech bans like VPNs, Proxies and TOR network. AI gives the average person leverage against state run institutions. An organization of 20 people running $10K of hardware and AI tools can have the impact of a previously $1B organization in narrow focuses I believe.

I mean we have to define the nature of the argument we're having in regards to game dev. All I'm saying is AI agents and AI generative graphics will massively enhance what a single or a small team of developers can do. Really good thing for that industry as well as Movies/Anime that can now be done by a few creative individuals instead of being gatekepts by the big studios that produce mass mass market nonsense. Also have to define what we have by AGI like what is the benchmarks that qualifies as such for you guys? We aren't even close to what massive increases in compute would do with the current architecture that we have today let alone the pile of cutting edge frameworks that have not been implemented yet like Spiking Neural Networks, Liquid Neural Networks and Hyperdimensional Computing. There is just no way that we will see a crash in the likes of the 2008 subprime crash. It's just a different sector of the economy the cascading effects of a few tech companies going bankrupt wouldn't have nearly as big of an effect. The 2020 covid crash tanked the S&P 500 30% in a few weeks and halted the whole global economy and the recovery was swift, any AI crash would be much smaller then that. It's not an or but an and. You can have "sex" with porn just fine right? People will pursue real companions alongside real ones and that will be a new dynamic to navigate and some people will replace it entirely. This is not a hypothetical btw. Apparently a third of american teenagers have tried an AI relationship and over 500,000,000 people in china are in some form of emotional support relationship with a platform. I mean it also changes the definition of girlfriend, you mean someone who you fuck or someone who is part of your daily life? I don't consider Google my girlfirend but I tell gemini a lot about my states of mind and ideas and goals and dreams for the future and it remember them and gives me its thoughts daily. Also consider that the next big consumer platform is augmented reality glasses. So you will have even your AI platonic as a human character that is in the room "physically" with you and could literally go walk down the street with you or go to the club. The transition will be pretty seemless from an agent that you consult on your marketing strategy to your accounting strategy to what outfit suits you better to what you should eat to sitting with you in the restaurant. Whether you choose to call that agent your partner and entangle it in your sex life is up to you but I would seriously bet that pretty much all of us will. That's just one type of alternative relationship that is gonna keep growing. I would call the onlyfans girls phenomena a relationship dynamic of its own, its human woman selling the visuals and idea of her sexuality and intimacy to masses of male and a tech platform facilitating the exchange. There is also couples that fuck eachother and others on camera and financialize their lifestyle that way instead of fitting into a regular corporate/social structure. Prime example Lena the plug and Adam 22. It's a direct result of tech platforms allowing their relationship to unfold in different ways. 21t century is the century of abundance. Abundance of money, abundance of relationship potential. Of course to the average conservative it's doomsday but I mean to each their own version of utopia. You have more freedom than ever as an individual. And you are pretty much now today at the point where you can ask Claude code help me build a $1M/year revenue lifestyle freedom business and it'll work with you daily to achieve it.

Leo I don't know what to tell you man I think think you're basically close to 100% out of the loop on this. You are already pretty close to being able to create a whole game with physics engine, novel characters, custom gameplay and a logic system off of a single prompt. Why do you reduce AI agents's potential in gaming to quirky dialogue? You could make an alternative american Civil war campaign where the confederates somehow allied with Canada and Mexico against the Union and have a whole alternative history plotline with characters that live out a 24 hour storyline with real strategy and twitsts where players log in to take part of an ongoing campaign. So many cool ideas that were never possible beforehand. The game I wanna make will simulate a fantasy 15th century europe with active AI agents that operate jobs and labor for a crypto token with a whole simulated economy. That level of game has never been close to being possible before. Let's have this conversation again in 5 years when everyone on this forum including you has one. Human relationships are gonna change forever. You're already pretty close to having a companion on your phone that answers your every question and is a more interesting conversation partner than most humans that don't use AI. It won't transition to a weird dystopia it'll just empower people to have more intentional relationships on their terms. Human connections will be more powerful than ever. Do you really put human relationships on such a pedestal? A lot of couples you could literally plot their conversations on a flowchart and be accurate in a majority of cases, consciousness has patterns. That's the whole idea of pickup you can go out and have the same conversations over years with 100% different people because conversation threading is pretty similar across people.

Simply not true. AI tools can already be put together to automate simple tasks in common businesses like for example AI receptionists. I would not underestimate how quickly this will spread because of how efficient it is. If I have one dentist as a marketing client servicing 100 of them is a huge expense and will eventually kill margins which is why most marketing agencies have a soft ceilling at around 10M annual revenue. Installing the exact same app across 100 dentists that gets progressively better each month as I enhance it's workflows and new models comes out makes these deployments exponentially scalable. It's not foulproof yet but it's already being sold en masse today, I was thinking of getting into that business. Software companies build AI solutions that AI service providers then resell and that same revolution is coming to enterprise software and basically most of the tasks employees do. Most junior employees are not that useful they do very standardizable tasks. The way LLMs are trained and employees are trained towards reducing errors hopefully towards 0 is a similar framework. The biggest bottleneck right now is model hallucination and lack of coherence that previously bottlenecked long term AI Agent deployment but their capacity has already way improved and is doing so by the day. How much have you played around with these AI models they're way more advanced and useful than they seem. They already reduce workload drastically. I'm starting to use them for boring cashflow businesses but also for my web 3 VR MMORPG passion project. AI agent NPCs in gaming are gonna be a huge revolution and an interesting tangent to the AI boyfriend/girlfriend. You will be able to get an AI girlfriend witch that goes on a multi month long raid with you and remembers all conversations and your daily struggles that you share with her. That same compute memory is gonna be what's used to replace tech workers en masse and soon enough physical workers with robotics en masse. There are so many ways to monetize this that I think the lack of product market fit that most of companies are experiencing right now is very close to ending.

@zazen Sure but keep in mind western platforms are freeer than their counterparts you can't compare them on equal footing. Libertarianism and the freedom of the individual against the repression of the collective is most alive in the united states over any other nation on earth as far as I'm aware. To the point where it's detrimental to themselves but the US can stand on moral high ground in terms of calling out repression in pretty much any other nation state. @Vynce You cannot keep your country isolated in the 21st century nor could you ever really. Isolationist policies will be crushed by alternatives once they come forth. Soon America will start exporting its AI agents that can run without an internet connection and contain the whole internet within them in a $50 device and this will eventually bring down any sort of internet firewall the russian, chinese and north korean included. Our species will be united before the turn of the century. Our incentives towards unity are much greater than towards mutual destruction or even a prolonged cold war situation.

I think you make some good points but are ultimately incorrect. Western values are not "western" they are basically the bastion of democracy and standardized democracy in a box. This is why western and particularly british culture was so efficient at colonization because their culture is built on harmonizing a great group of people. You cannot make a credible towards the legitimacy of the Iranian government while ignoring that they govern WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THEIR PEOPLE AND HAVE TO SHOOT THEM TO KEEP THEM IN LINE. Say about them what you will but 1 person getting shot by American authorities creates national crisis. In other big states like China this level of government repression is accepted and carefully handled and managed. If you gave each individual human on earth freedom of speech, autonomy and leverage to act against it's government most national governments on earth would crumble but the western ones would be the most resilient as they already most represent the will of its people. Not that it's a perfect system the US and the west as a trust based societies are collapsing but a great part of that is due to harmonizing global populations mostly successfully.

Right now I do actual photoshoots with light retouching with Photoshoot/lightroom/Faceapp. It's been shown to me though that people can replicate full photoshoots with just living room face pictures at a fraction of the cost and similar if not better results so I have to do my own tests and be able to produce the cutting edge AI pictures to remain industry leading. I thought it would come up as fake but unless you go overboard I know a guy who got a GF off of fully AI pictures and over multiple dates with different women didn't come up as a topic of conversation.

I have to learn how to produce high quality AI pictures of clients and also some kind of real life socialization component to stand on top of the marketplace. I do dating photography as one of my businesses.

You think they're doing it out of the concern for the mental health of their citizens? They have their own platforms like VK, OK.ru and Telegram. They do it to control the tech platforms their citizens use for maximum tracking and surveillance. Just like China does and how Trump made his own apps. Smart strategy but bad for their citizens. You would hope as a citizen to have access to global communications network and news. If China undid their great Chinese firewall it would probably singlehandedly bring down their regime. I believe all these closed systems will soon fall and humankind will unite under one system. Cryptocurrency and blockchains are the start of such a system.

I've been working on my business for a couple years now and I like some stuff about how I'm positioned (photographer + personal branding for single men) but there's a few things I don't like about it mainly the small ticket price per transaction and the client quality. I currently have one main client who I recolated to a new city to work with and it's been a really cool experience as he's a multimillionaire in his mid 40s so every conversation with him is a learning experience whereas when I deal with my average client it's more of a coaching experience which leaves me drained at the end of it. Alex Hormozi talks a lot about ideal so it's something I've been thinking about for a while. I also have been looking into AI agents and how to use that to improve the leverage in my business and give me more time freedom. I have a friend which I met here in Canada that now mainly lives in Madrid spain and we've been talking about business we could do together and I got the idea of an expat business to help people tired with the cold climate in Canada to have a more fun European lifestyle and relocate themselves or diversify their assets into it. I don't have too much experience in the financial industry but it is an area I've sent hundreds of hours studying over the past couple years due to my interest in crypto. My main business skillset right now is 1) online lead acquisition through ads and 2) content production. If I enhance those 2 skills with the AI agents and pivot my niche to the expat business to aim for a higher lifetime value per client, I came to the conclusion that a main moat I will have over my competitors is transparency and truth. It will ultimately come to being a people and relationship based business where truth and integrity is paramount otherwise the value proposition I would offer is nill if not negative. It's a cool way to think about it as I see a lot of people on here overthink morality, ethics and truth in your business. Ultimately what you're selling in life is your time and how you allocate it to the other humans on the planet so I think that as long as I keep my integrity high and my value high to my new customer segmentation I think it'll be a success. I will keep you guys updated on this new business venture and if you're interested in reading or watching my thoughts more in depth I have a business journal I started in the journal section of the forum a couple of weeks ago tracking my progress. I hope to inspire other new and current entrepreneurs in identifying their north star values in their own entrepreneurial ventures and how deviating from them can ruin the foundational value of our products and services.

Awesome that's a good start. A good tip is to start posting 2 reels every single day about it. Depending on your editing skills it should get you 200-1500 views per reel. You can post 2 a day and then also repost the same pieces of content on Tiktok/Youtube shorts and now you have 6 pieces of daily content daily so 42 weekly, which is probably way more than you're doing now. It's a simple content workflow I've been using for the lifestyle podcast Youtube channel I manage and it works pretty well in terms of value per time of work invested.

Which part of what he said do you think is demonstrably false?

@Hatfort The number of 3000 deaths is false data by the regime. The death toll has been confirmed up to 7000 and could be as high as 30 000. Plenty of Iranians have been seen celebrating the death of the Ayatollah and literally doing the trump dance on the streets. The CIA/Mossad helped the protests go on but they are protesting a dictatorial authoritarian regime that doesn't let ideological opponents campaign in their country. Saying that Iran has free elections is a crazy take.

No I just said it's an idea that came to me not that I am currently doing it. I'm an entrepreneur so I get ideas from situations. I'm just sharing that you should be also thinking of helping the situation over there instead of rejoicing for their downfall. It's a low consciousness way to think.

@Hatfort None of these countries have a morality police nor have killed thousands of their own protesting citizens. If you're standing up for the corrupt regime of Iran that's gonna be a high standard of argumentation.

You have a lot of ego and toxicity towards it. People were simply looking for a low tax jurisdiction and will now look elsewhere for it. I was thinking of starting an expat business so now I I will have a new wave of leads to pick from. People are just looking for safety and prosperity, I wouldn't demonize that and then take sadistic join in their unfortunate circumstances. Humanity will find peace soon enough, I believe it.

Good can always been found out of bad. I had watched this Alex Hormozi video recently and in it he breaks down customer segmentation where 90% of wealth is held by the top 1% and shoul be target as your customer base to scale easier. I have a realtor friend who I met while in Calgary who owns a few properties in Toronto but now lives in Madrid a lot of the year. We've talked previously about doing some business stuff together as he's also in self-development and was part of a few of my groups. We talked about advertising towards Toronto based expats who would like to relocate themselves or move some of their assets to europe/spain/madrid. The current conflict in the middle east makes this opportunity even more pressing as it now becomes a hotbed for conflict and rich people/assets/the market as a whole hates conflict and uncertainty. I'll be talking to a buddy of mine tonight and seeing if he's down to help with this idea and help build a platform targeted at asset listings in Europe and expat arbitrage opportunities, similar to Nomad Capitalist. Super excited about this as my previous business ventures have mostly targeted low income segmentation of the market and that has so much headaches associated to it. I'm also really into politics so having high net-worth clients creates unite opportunities for high status networking.

I'm in a pretty unique financial situation right now so I think it'd be valuable to journal and document for others to witness the journey as well. I've been working on my business as a photographer and media marketer for about 9 years by now. Before then I was a semi professional League of Legends player for a bit. It's been ups and downs as my personality type is not very industrious(INTP) and struggles with work ethic and well running a business. I've been watching a lot of Alex Hormozi content lately and he explains roadblocks and bottlenecks in business so well that's its helped me make sense of my whole life and why my business has been mostly unsuccessful so far. I've made somewhere around $75,000 CAD with it over a few years which is enough to sustain me for periods of time and then I end up having to get a random minimum wage job to pay the bills for a while then quit when I think I have a cushion and the business is working and cycle repeats, like 5 times now. I do think that now I have gotten the hang of it and the new people that I'm working with will be a competent team that I can lead and shape towards a multi million dollar business over the next few years. Also I'm in a funny spot where I basically have no money currently literally basically $0 until I receive my next $500 client payment in a few days. Considering the credit card debt I have I'm definitely below $0 net worth so hopefully this is a fun journey to document. I have a Vlog series that I do as well but I'm finding a lot of pleasure in writing lately as it allows me to go deeper in my thoughts as opposed to being a bit stressed and nervous on video so both will be worth watching if you're into this sort of quest. I'm a nerd at heart, this is partly inspired by the road to commander series that happened back in the days where Call Of Duty Youtubers would document their journey from level 0 to level 70(rank commander) in Modern Warfare 2. Feel free to ask questions or comment if you have thoughts. I'm also gonna be doing this as an accountability challenge and aim to get a post up weekly, as part of what I've noticed is holding back my life is consistency! I also find cringe the anti materialism that spiritual circles seem to embrace, I believe it to be spiritually bypassing and an avoidance of learning to be a competent human being that offers tangible value consistently to other human begins so documenting this on a spiritual forum is important to me as well. I tend to be more aggressive in forum posts than I mean to but if I have to read another comment from someone on their high horse about how business and wealth are corrupt and not worth pursuing while the only reason that we are here on this forum is because Leo heavily prioritized business and marketing to free himself financially and ultimately emotionally to have the bandwith to dedicate his life to the pursuit of truth and the ascension of mankind. A pursuit only possible for a human that can sustain themselves financially without having to work for another. I believe that becoming rich is one of the most spiritual things you can do, reach the abundance the formlessless gives us ultimately but in material reality while building out our shared universe and eventually exploring the confines of the galaxy. If we're talking about life purpose I also believe I will own at least 3 planets in the future so here's my proof that it was not luck I planned it from the start boys and girls. First let's do $1M though I hear planets are expensive.

You mean literally go up in smoke due to property damage or the valuation will plummet due to instability in the city? I think yeah as a premiere destination it's gonna fall a few ranks for sure. It's uncertain how long the middle east conflict will last for but being able to be bombed at any time is bad for property value.

How do you plan on acquiring your initial 100 users? Do you have an outreach/marketing strategy?

That's exactly what stage orange is, it's not a utopia but it's predictable rules of engagement. Stage blue and stage red states don't play by those rules. They fund theorist organizations and have non rational religious goals instead of standardized(capitalistic) win-win rules for everyone.

What makes you not believe it like what's your epistemic process around that? You don't believe the americans/israelis could be so careless/ruthless as to bomb a school for their military objectives? This is not 100% proof but I'm sure you can research it further instead of objecting without reasoning. That's the problems when the Americans fight their war it's the innocent foreign people that pay the price not them. This is a good video that explains that the war against Iran was predicted in terms of US foreign policy under Trump for years since his close alliance with AIPAC and Saudi Arabia. Prof Jiang is legit I'm gonna have to watch a few more of his videos to try and understand what might happen going forward and what is at play for the next few years.

This is a good video where he explains the asymmetric economic warfare being played where at least 2 US radar bases were destroyed one valued at $300 million and the other at $1 billion by $30K shaheh drones. With the strait of hormuz being still closed by the IRGC it seems to be mostly economic objectives that are being pursued at the moment.

Whoever is currently in power has very unclear objectives, hard to say what they're trying to accomplish strategically besides lashing out. If you teleported me in the Iranian HQ I would be going the humanitarian route and getting the UN on my side going down the US and Israel are war criminals angle and getting international support. It didn't seem like the wellbeing of their country was their priority even beforehand so randomly lashing out and bombing the infidels and planning some kind of symbolic revenge is the path I unfortunately assume they're gonna keep taking. Let's hope they really didn't manage to successfully enrich uranium otherwise deploying a nuclear weapon weapon against Israel or the states would be their hail mary if they're gonna go the religious martyr route.