LordFall

Do you want to flesh out your identity further or are you content with your current life? I'm a big believer that through AI ubi humanity will be freed from the shackles of labor something between 2035-2050. Some people will use that to make their lives even more complicated and get a brain chip and explore the universe and virtual verse and become super intelligences themselves, this path appeals to me personally. Some others will be able to slow down and go deeper in their relationship with their family, community, hobbies, etc and that seems to be the path that appeals to you more. @Hojo I would define a normie as someone who doesn't really think too deeply about life and were society is headed they're more simple minded. Visionaries on the other hand take great effort to imagine and bring forth this positive future for humanity. I'm very humbled at the visionary forefathers that have helped shaped the pleasant parts of our reality today.

It's true. If you come at it from a nondual angle then anything you want in life you can get by just getting better at cooperating with the rest of reality and that's mostly done through communication. I'm working on nonviolent communication as my next big communication skill. As an INTP I tend to be overly logical and use it as a weapon against people that disagree with me or just have a different perspective and I don't like that in myself and others. It shows up even here on this forum and I apologize to people if I've been rude to you in the past. It serves as to highlight my insecurities usually and my lack of communication skills if anything.

@UnbornTao Absolutely untrue and this is a huge stage green shadow IMO. Poverty is not a virtue. Nor is weakness nor lack of competence. If you agree on my premise that wealth is made by providing scalable solutions to people's problems then of course you can do that in a conscious or unconscious way but glorifying piety is a massive spiritual trap. How can you sell to me that you being unable to help your fellow humans is you having an unusually high level of consciousness? Laughable concept. Tony Robins talks a lot about this concept where poor people use their lack of success as virtue signaling but usually is a shadow that hides if anything lower levels of development.

@TruthFreedom That makes much more sense. Wanting a simpler way of life I would call you a traditionalist more than a doomer. Doomers believe civilization is going to hell and refuse to do anything to help that just complain all day.

What are the main points and what do you think about them?

Of course. Most business is about solving people's problems. The profit motive can corrupt that but if you're in general a high quality thinker and problem solver there are endless ways to money through that skillset.

I like the idea that the main function of government should be to provide security for it's citizens. The control part just being necessary to achieve that end. If I were to use just logic to think of a simple perfect system I think smart contracts mixed with AI surveillance will be the norm. You will have AI constantly watching earth 24/7 and your private data will be viewed by no one unless it detects that you're aiming to do something criminal and then it will counteract that either by warning you, alerting authorities or in an eventual future where we all have neura link type devices by straight up stopping you from doing it. As strange of a future as that sounds, I would argue that most problems in society today stem from us not having any technology on earth currently able to apply the rule of law universally. The UN is a laughing stock organization because they don't have military power(and for good reason) but you can picture an AI augmented UN(that also is able to monitor not only the populace but the ruling class as well) to be able to solve basically most problems of humanity. I believe that crime will disappear from our societies in the next 5-20 years very predictably. Someone like Donald Trump who's taking a sledgehammer to the US government and somehow managed to become the most powerful man on earth despite being a raging criminal from many accounts will only further highlight the necessity to having an immutable legal system and blockchain is a perfect technology for that.

It's the best time in history to make money outside of the system. It's incredibly difficult but rewarding. I've been working on it for 10 years with many successes and failure. It's a deeply personal quest as your mental blocks and passions are gonna be different than other humans. I would start watching a few business videos on Youtube and seeing what catches your fancy

Leo started out as a life coach which makes sense to me. You take your inquiry process and turn it into specific outcomes you offer people. He then used the power of social media to amplify that to the point that he could then switch to a more passive income model instead of a weekly active coaching model. The book "So Good they can't ignore you" by Cal Newport talks in depth about turning your passion into a lucrative endeavour and where common pitfalls are. I would be extremely careful with this mindset as money is much deeper spiritually that most people and seems like you included give it credit for. It's a universal account of value. Meaning it's a strong counter to delusion. You can sit in your room and ponder random stuff all day but being able to turn that into value for other humans is what makes your thoughts valuable and not random nonsense.

It's beautiful, love space. Can't wait until we explore it further.

@SimpleGuy Sure, why not? You have to be careful with the correlation not causation fallacy. You can be an unproductive member of society and not watch porn and you can be a daily gooner and be very productive.

I think it's in the first episode where he mentions one of the payoff of doing this self-actualization work is that the concepts you learn build over years and you get the satisfaction of understanding the world better than anyone else. I remember watching this series years ago before I really got into politics and it made a huge difference on my understanding of the world. Without it I would've been a way angrier person that uses divisive rhetoric accidentally instead of seeing the power of uniting people.

@NewKidOnTheBlock I believe it is inevitable. Elites fundamentally have nothing to gain by keeping this AI technology to themselves. Short term yes there will be a lot of layoffs but I believe this global UBI system is coming. Many countries have already started testing it. Saudi Arabia has an early prototype of this system where they distribute the profits of the government owned national oil company to their citizens. @Ishanga I think we've improved in the last 500 years but it's definitely not enough. I lived in Toronto for a while and it was a beautiful mix of all cultures and people from all around the world. Now Canada is facing some anti immigration sentiment but it is all economic. If we manage to fix our geopolitical issues and unite then humanity will have a bright and wealthy future ahead of itself.

Would love to live in Miami for a couple years.

Doomers and general pessimists are one of the most cringe people imaginable and I try to never associate with them if I can help it. Basically a proud version of the victim mindset. I hope you grow out of it, it's one of the most low value and disgusting mindsets in my opinion. Weakness is not a virtue, only growth and abundance are. The best example is this subreddit, read it for 30 mins and you'll get depressed like a cloud of negativity infected you. https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse Read my posts on the 5 coming infinities to get some optimism back into your life