LordFall

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.

I mean just use condoms as much as you can and if you get HSV just gotta deal with it. I know multiple dudes with 100-500+ body counts and I'm not their doctor but they seem to be doing fine. I'm at like 50 body count myself and I got chlamydia + gonorrhea one time, told the FWB I had at the time, went to the clinic got a shot and it's gone afterwards not really a big deal.

Of course alpha males exist. You can use the simple adem concept of are you at the cause or the effect? In social groups, dating and in your work, are you at the cause of the things taking place or are you like a leaf blowing in the wind if good things happen you're good and enjoy it and if bad things happen then it's bad and you complain.

Well the good thing is it seems that our civilization is integrating itself and global world peace through monopoly force will be achieved within the next 20 years. Until then you can help accelerate the process. Are you working or volunteering on anything charitable? There's all kinds of suffering in reality, I myself work on helping creatives figuring out a viable career path for themselves. I want to get into food charities though because with automated farming I think we could solve world hunger quite soon as well.

Just put the contract and this post in Gemini and ask it what part to take out. Ideally don't make yourself identifiable and just give an anonymous testimony and tell them to blow you if they push back.

It's good that you're introspecting on which relationship model would work best for you. Not enough people do that and get stuck in societal norms which rarely are optimal for anyone. Personally I'm a bisexual polyamorist and would like to date multiple more submissive partners and ideally work on a collective business together and/or provide for the ones that aren't that productive. I work a lot and have worked on business for a while so seems natural to me to create my own structure outside of established norms. I live in Montreal so alternative lifestyles are pretty normal here. I would say use AI to flesh out and reverse engineer your dream lifestyle and go from there. What I agree with most in your level 3 relationship is the importance on going on a lot of dates to find a compatible partner. Dating is pretty exhausting so most people go on less than 10 dates and settle in a mediocre relationship afterwards. That's pretty wild to me, you should probably go on at least 30-50 dates if you aim to find just one final partner. Have you read through the female dating strategies subreddit? They fall a bit too much into the anti men philosophy but from a woman's perspective, it'll be probably refreshing to read through women fleshing out their ideal relationships. It's not active anymore but you can sort by top and read through the posts. Also in general there are plenty of provider males out there. I am one of them and in general I get dopamine from giving money to a woman and people in general as long as they are appreciative of it. It helps to work on looksmaxxing so you look your best and if by chance you're bisexual I think you're setting yourself up for a much easier ride IMO. https://www.reddit.com/r/FemaleDatingStrategy/

Why don't you want advice? How else will you get our of your situation? I empathize with your feeling of weakness friend but the best antidote for weakness is power and its top proxy : money.

What is genuine AGI to you guys? @Natasha Tori Maru If we don't define the terms then all we can do is keep pushing the goal post further.

Non-duality is a fascinating concept and arguing whether or not witnessing life by definition makes you unmerged from God is beyond the scope of my interest. Throughout this thread you've basically advocated for suicide and seemed to see harm in pursuing more powerful healthcare. That's the concerning part to me. Remember that throughout history most of the scientists that have researched breakthroughs that we now see as regular mundane part of life were seen as bat shit crazy and attacked in their time. This is what you're doing with Bryan Johnson because he stretches the boundaries of our current paradigm. He is helping in popularizing immortality research which is a phenomenal pursuit for mankind.

You are merged with God right now. Experiencing duality is an illusion. Biological life has been fighting itself since the first bacteria was evolved. We will soon reach world peace at the same time as we reach biological immortality and infinite energy through fusion power. You think that's an accident? Being scared of progress is fine, we are in uncharted territory. Masking it in some sort of wisdom towards death is foolish and perhaps even satanic in and of itself. You're basically saying don't worry about fixing the problems of the earth! Just rejoice for the time you die. That makes no sense my friend.