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Appreciate it guys, so far so good about to head off for day 4. Yeah I'm about to hit 31 and I do have decent results from other avenues but I always felt like there was something missing. The more I do the cold approach challenge the big insight I'm having is I've always been fundamentally scared of the women I truly desire. Most of my experiences have been taking what's there either women hitting on me or just whatever matches I get on dating apps. The women that really amazed me out and about though I would subconsciously avoid like the plague and I'm still getting to the bottom of it but there is something really scary about facing what you want in life, at least for me. Yeah I think it really depends on what MBTI personality type you are. For a lot of people a daily challenge structure feels quite strange and restrictive. For me it feels like a natural progression and just talking to people out and about feels arbitrary and draining. One of the hardest days was yesterday day 6 of the challenge where the idea is to get rejected intentionally. I figured out through the 1 hour of walking around before I made myself do it that I have a lot of ego still in my seduction. I want women especially the attractive ones to take me seriously and validate me so saying something really dumb to get rejected was quite difficult and I had to take myself out of fight or flight a couple of times. Literally felt like people were watching me and especially other men triggered intense momentary frustration. I went with a simple "Excuse me, are you looking for a husband by chance?" and all 3 responded really well giggling so that was encouraging. Today is the genuine compliment day so we'll see how that goes.

The best way to stop fearing something is to learn how to use it to better your life and your communities. Have you guys started using your own AI agents yet? I've been procrastinating it tbh but I'm watching content on it and learning to use them little by little.

It's not binary. Law enforcement and criminology have already reduced crime heavily these past couple centuries. We don't have that much farther to go to remove unwanted violence from our species entirely.

That's fine I respect it. Why not change the world though? If you have empathy for the suffering of other humans and have faith in yourself as a powerful person then why not make it your life's mission to affect change on the world for the better? It certainly is mine.

How do you think we fundamentally switch the economic system to make it more win-win instead of the zero sum game it currently is? Financialization makes sense. I figured the same thing reading the Bitcoin Standard, the game is really rigged and it's basically the same thing as feudalism where the lords owned everything and peasants work on the lords land to survive. Now they give us this cash credit and devalue it by the year so you're free but can't afford your freedom lol. I don't think so. It's insanity to believe that peace comes from everyone stopping to be problematic. That will never happen because the incentives for chaos are too strong. You need monopoly on violence and fair economic policy. It's like saying your city would become safer if all the police and your country's military disappeared overnight. What would happen is simple game theory it would then become viable for a group of dudes to band together and become bandits and rule everyone else and get all the wealth, surplus goods and women to themselves. The best way to secure peace is to make the cost for wars and crime to be too high. If everything is surveilled and you surely will not get away with any crimes and you have a logically achievable road towards upward mobility then the incentives for both criminals and warmongers become nil.

Seems like Cuba might possibly be invaded in the coming weeks as US Navy troops are still highly concentrated from the Venezuelan operation more than a simple blockade would warrant. https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1tpt43q/pentagon_puts_building_blocks_in_place_for_cuba/ Perhaps Prof Jiang is right with his technate analysis of US geopolitical strategy.

The United States has successfully fully cut off Cuba from fuel with one of its last suppliers the state owned Mexican Pemex being pressured to stop it's shipments last month. The power grid has now collapsed and hospitals and other critical infrastructure is in crisis mode. https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/world/cuba-power-grid-collapse-intl-latam I have not followed too much of this situation over the past few years but it seems to have drastically escalated in the past 2 months since Venezuela and according to Gemini these are the 6 main strategic objectives of the US administration in order of importance. Much love to the people of Cuba and I hope that their politicians make the right decision to safeguard human well being over these next few months.

@Natasha Tori Maru I'm confused both of these thoughts make complete sense when put together. I'm advocating against AI fear mongering and learned helplessness.

That's a cool site thanks for sharing. The sneaky thing about AI cost that people that haven't studied economics don't see coming is marginal cost. All of business is based on marginal cost. It just means that you the cost of a product or service you offer goes down over time. Unfortunately traditional business(with human employees) falls into unaligned incentives where the worker wants his wages to go up with time whereas the owner wants his labor expenses to go down with time. Current AI agents today can already be deployed for like $0-500 monthly and are only gonna get more efficient with time.

The great thing about Bryan Johnson is he's a visionary. Most visionaries in the past were chastised by regular people in their time, it's the consequence of having a vision beyond the current circumstances.

I think you're spiritually bypassing with this comment. First of all everything has a soul, that's part of what a universal consciousness is. Second of all operating in the greatest common denominator i.e. complaining and fear-mongering online about AI is basically group think which I would call the lowest part of our soul. It takes courage to empower ourselves to solve the deep problems that are facing us, don't fall back into the ostrich effect and hoping that systematic issues of corruption are just gonna solve themselves. As someone who's truly passionate about evolving our species I think using all the tools at our disposal is mandatory.

No I would say most current social media platforms encourage passive consumption more than any type of self-improvement.

Talk about features you'd like instead of just a graphical update IMO. I personally like the idea of isolating different metrics in life and gamifying them to quantify progress. In terms of career/business the metrics are more obvious but even in terms of general well being it should be possible. Make it seamless with AI. What gets measured gets managed.

This is mainly the answer. Complaining about stupid people if you're intelligent you should see it as victimizing yourself. It just means that you lack communication skills, empathy or self-sufficiency. Worry about your own lack of competence instead of other people who you will rarely be able to change. Why do you need to have political debates? Gain power and change the world. Why do you need friction against rigid institutions? Create your own. If you study systems thinking you will realize that human systems are created to benefit mostly those who created them. Complaining about them not benefitting you enough is obviously peak stupidity. Integrate within them as much as you have to, reverse engineer them and make your own.

@Magnanimous I mean Leo himself started his content from his book list and regurgitating concepts from there then he found his own voice, style and teaching material. Everyone does this. Fun fact I didn’t invent English, I stole it from somebody else!

We are closer than we’ve ever been to nuclear fusion being commercially viable. The future of humanity will include basically infinite green energy

Hail Mary was sweet, Ryan Gosling did well here. I highly recommend the Dune movies, it’s kinda like Star Wars but more gritty. Just watched them a couple of months ago, can’t believe I waited this long. The 3rd one is coming this December. Good commentary on the idea of blind faith a well as the main character is basically a fake messiah.

Explain your position then, I'm curious

It's also the bastion of innovation. If you want to empower yourself and your community then american ideas and resources are still world class. Starting with entrepreneurship and AI. I see a lot of people on this forum complaining about the state of the world and it's trajectory and very little about what you're personally doing to improve it for yourself and others.

I 60% disagree with the spirit of this topic, especially because it's in the geopolitics section. Most human thoughts are not quality nor helpful. They are expressing feelings of usually confusion or sadness about topics. Which is understandable but let's not pretend it's gonna solve the very real problems that we are facing as a species. AI is gonna be much better suited for that purpose. There is of course a place for social media to be about emoting and conversing with humans but IMO separating that from actual problem solving is mandatory. AI can be used to identify the root causes to issues and track the progress towards fixing them. People can then utilize their time, energy and resources to fixing them. Random chit chat is separate from that.

If you're try to discredit my arguments then you'll have to explain. Otherwise we'll just assume that you didn't get my points. Do you not see how the different nodes of our species are moving closer and closer together? Our financial systems have been uniting and soon our language barriers will drop. World peace is a very simple concept really, it boils down to a global monopoly on violence that makes state warfare and even violent crime impossible.

They refuse to make a deal while Iran still pursues an uranium enrichment program. Seems half fair to me. We'll see how things progress.

Good transhumanism will radically improve our healthcare system. We need to get religious folks out of any health policy decisions. They unironically advocate for death as a more natural healthcare solution than actually curing diseases.

That's a good point generally guys that grew up with sisters tend to do better with women.

Can definitely learn it. Get fit and talk to lots of women and put ads up online. Lots of lonely women out there. I considered it myself for a bit but ultimately decided against it cuz I like more long term relationships with women don't really wanna see many of them casually. If you're bisexual you'll make bank, I had a roommate that was a male stripper. Easier if you take male clients too but you could do it purely heterosexually as well.