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There's something non-arbitrary about human preference for beauty though. We seem to recognize order, completeness, intentionality, intelligence etc. It's not just bias. For instance, if I play a musical tritone, almost everyone will agree that it sounds dissonant and ugly. Whereas a perfect 5th sounds harmonious, complete, beautiful.

@Toranvor I would be really careful here. It sounds like you need some more basic grounding. Maybe getting outside into nature, gentle yoga, that kind of thing. If you still want to try psyches, I would look into a legitimate ketamine or MDMA-assisted therapist. Iboga maybe as well. I would not take psyches alone.

Sounds like it was a total flop. Can't say I'm upset about it.

@Unlimited I remember this. Depends on your risk tolerance. I would definitely at least ask questions about legal risk and see what they say. If they can’t answer reasonable questions about what you’re getting into or accommodate your requests, the I’d consider declining.

That communism video is insane. It got me emotional. Very effective for understanding the worker's POV.

Chimping has always been about min-maxing energy. That's what the AI offers.

The AI writing is so generic. Use AI when you want to say nothing unique or of substance.

I didn't find safeties noticeably superior. Mostly just slow.

Even assuming her story is true, this is a huge leap. You can take anything people say and interpret it as having spiritual significance if you want.

@Ben_P you're probably just not comfortable enough. New encounters can do that.

I'm used to being on people's mind

@CARDOZZO sounds like testosterone.

Bryan would probably do well to develop more boundaries with the personal things he posts. He's over-indexing on freedom of expression.

Kids and their crazy cults these days

That's certainly a potential trap, but that's not an inherent flaw with theory. Potential traps exist everywhere. There are traps with learning theory and traps to not learning theory. If the argument is simply "this thing has a potential trap", that itself is not enough to make something a bad idea. But then you're just arguing that theory needs to be appropriate to the student's skill level. Which I obviously agree with. Again, this does not invalidate theory. It just alters how you should consume it. I would agree that if you truly have that little social experience, you definitely should be getting in more much experience than theory. But many guys who learns pickup are not some hard-case, autistic, basement dwelling weirdo these days. Many are actually just fairly normal guys with average levels of social skills. But pickup requires above average skills, which is why you have to learn it. I'm okay with altering the framing. Pickup framing can sometimes be creepy, objectifying, misogynistic. If framing it as "learning social skills" works for someone and makes them more ethical, I will obviously not argue with that. The issue I see is that goal is too broad, too untargeted. Call it whatever you want, but you need to focus on your specific goal.