Jayson G

I personally know people making 6-figures to millions with AI building solutions for businesses, B2B on top of these tools built by these big corps. I don't think its as simple as 95% money to the elites, and the rest are slaves. There's all kinds of corners and creative uses of AI, where people can reach some kind of middle ground. Also don't forget AI startups like Eleven Labs, etc.

@Leo Gura we'll wait for Santa to come to vegas before Leo gets serious about this

Exactly what Im saying. We really don't know but of course somethings up. This isn't just random phenomena, and from the data, it seems things are advancing on their end. Government is too slow with this.

I want to share my report over the past 2 days, and need some advice if I should stay in NJ. Yesterday, Dec 12th: At 1:30 am I left to go look for the drones (technically Dec 13th, but like yesterday night). I drove for about 3 hours straight, and I thought I saw a total of 1 drone, and 6 airplanes. The first confirmed drone I was in shock. It was surreal, way more than I thought it would be. It hovers so still, some of them. This one was. It was close but big. It had a bright light shine down. (Different drones exhibit different shapes, lights, etc. at least in first person viewing, i dont know if its actually the case reality wise) Today, Dec 13th at 10 pm: I had no intention to look for drones today. I had a big change in my business plan and my mind was on that all day. I even told myself, ok I see a drone who cares now. We'll get used to it like we did with Covid. Those people who are complaining are just wack job conspiracists (Is what I thought at that time). I'm at this time coming back from Panera back home. At 10:20 pm or something, on a major big highway, (40 minute drive home), I suddenly see 5 drones at once. This is when things shifted in my mind about. I'm actually a bit scared now. Unsettled. I'm not terrified. There's no known threat, but I definitely feel unsettled for the past some hours. Then I started chasing more drones on inside roads. I think I saw some other cars doing the same. Got back on the highway, see more drones. Tonight I saw at least 30 to 40 drones guys. This is actually f*cking nuts. Family is reporting the same. I called them up and they said its crazy too. Family friend groups, reportings are going up. My strong guess is that these drones are increasing, likely in big numbers as that is just what I saw. Anyways, at around 10:40 pm, or something, I see a car drive off the highway into a field and the car was in mid air bumping up and down on the grass. I call the police to notify them about the details of the accident. It's possible he was looking at the sky like all of us. I myself went out of lane at least 30 times over the past 2 days looking for at these drones. But the crazy part is my mind immediately got off that car crash and just so shocked about these drones all the way back home. Then right on my road, home road, I saw one drone the closest possible. I think these drones are closer to the ground in more remote areas as opposed to highways. Key points: These are hard to chase. Cars have inside roads and they have open terrain. And often I see some vanish, maybe because of the fog, not sure. How do you detect if its a drone or an airplane? This is a good question because at first I thought you have to be stupid if you don't know the difference. A family friend said he wasn't sure and I thought he was stupid. In my opinion, it's not the lights. These drones and planes have similar lights, flashing at similar speeds. Then I thought it was speed of flight. Then later realized they "appear" to be in similar flight speeds (even if they are actually not). The idea is you want to distinguish in your view, not in actuality. Finally I came to the conclusion that its not about the lights, not the apparant speed of flight, nor whether its hovering or moving because drones are exhibiting both. The key thing is realizing that airplanes are likely not 6 airplanes at once, in different altitudes, near each other. Those are all drones then. So without looking at them now I know they are drones. (Exception if I'm near EWR airport, which I'm not) But the obvious giveaway is when its hovering, and about 10% of the ones I see just straight up hover with no movement, eerie kind of. Anyways, I feel like I'm in the clouds here. I am admittedly a bit scared so I can't think that straight. I want to get anyone's thought-based opinion, reasoning, anything really about whether its safe to stay in new jersey? I don't want to be rash and just go out of state until this resolves. But also it's better to be safe than sorry. Who knows what these drones can be? I dont want to wait for some kind of attack. I know one more important thing: 1) They are not our friends. I don't know what kind of bad they are. They could be from China, or Mexico or wherever, any "bad" organization. But I do know they are not our friends. Why? Because they are doing illegal activity like flying over restricted areas over and over again, and not identifying themselves. 2) It's my opinion that they are increasing in numbers, maybe at a high rate. Yesterday I had to search 3 hours to find just 1. Though I probably saw more but falsely concluded they are airplanes. I also looked at a very late hour compared to today. But today I saw insane levels of activity that shook me. Also I checked on google: I think between yesterday and today there are the most reportings on a given day. I checked News Nation today and one sheriff saw 50 coming in from the ocean or something. It's possible the numbers are increasing as they are coming from the ocean side. But assuming that the numbers are increasing, whatever the reason they are for being here, and assuming they are bad because they are doing this illegal activity, numbers increasing means their strategy is advancing, whatever that strategy is. That hints even more about stepping away from NJ for some time.

@kray I just read your space x + govt theory lol .. thats a creative mind you got there lol I was kinda surprised because thats a possible theory, maybe even has something to do with Elon being involved in govt, who knows? (not to join in on the conspiracy, but hey its possible)

@kray yeah .. thats possible but still leaves a lot of questions on the table

Im from jersey. I've been thinking about driving around the state at night to look for them, even though Im quite busy these days. Ill report back if I find anything. I'm actually really curious though what it could be. It doesnt look like alien craft. Nor is that alien behavior lol just from reading all these alien reports of how "one-off" it has traditionally been. I think aliens wouldnt be in the same area for that long. Yet its exhibiting some behavior (flying over sensitive facilities) Some are saying its state-sponsored. Okay but SUV sized? Thats wild. And for what? If so, then why is the FBI taking forever to figure it out.

@Leo Gura they dont look like alien spacecraft though, a lot like human made drones.

@Tristan12 Journaling + Sedona method saved my life emotionally. I was in deep emotional suffering but those 2 got me out. It's similar to therapy in that you are targeting specific emotions, acknowledging them, and releasing them. Think of journaling as your friend too. Many people have been in your situation and got out. Things may feel hopeless but that's just this current state you're in. You can do the work to get out, and I know it's exhausting, but one step at a time and you will get out. If you fail, just keep trying again.

So Open AI is doing this 12 days "shipmas" thing starting today, Dec 5th. Most likely it is including Sora. All the current sources I usually check are confirming that this is definitive. I am journaling all the possibilities this opens up. So far I'm inclined to create music videos like "Lost" by Linkin park, re-created game music videos like that of Kingdom hearts, and even experiment with Harry Potter related scenes. I am imagining there will tons of nuance that we can include in the prompt engineering. What do you plan to create with it? What specific nuances in prompt engineering do you plan to include? What kind of beautiful, magical scenes? From seeing these videos with Sora, it is far surpassing any video model to the point where its not even worth comparing to any current video model. So if you have been experimenting with those current cr*p ones, this will be a whole other ballgame. I can honestly imagine myself spending hours a day just fine-tuning prompt responses to get the exact scenes I want. How would you plan to master it? Any workflows? Interested to here your guys' thoughts on this, of any kind. Maybe when this releases, if a lot of us really get hooked, we can have a mega-thread to have some kind of hive-mind of creative nuances for our videos. To be honest, I wasn't that keen on Sora for the past 4 months or so. But as I started journaling, and watching videos like Lost by Linkin park, I'm now deeply inspired to explore this tool.

@Leo Gura In your post on the corruption of success .. isnt it too broad to say that all forms of success is corruption? Isnt the pursuit of life purpose a path of reducing inner corruption? Whats the point then of pursuing any creative path if that leads to more success, which means more corruption then? Would it then just make sense to pursue your life purpose in limits? to not be ambitious with it?

Yeah I think so. The details matter, in my opinion. It can be a trap for you depending on why you're doing it, if perhaps you're doing it as a stepping stone or not. Are you learning skills from that job that will contribute to a greater purpose? Some people just want a really simple life so a job may not be a trap for them. I guess the details really matter. But at the same time, I think context alone isn't what defines a trap. Like generally speaking, a 9 to 5 job is wage slavery. No matter who you are, that is the case. There are inherent negatives to that path. There are inherent negatives to this AI hysteria going on too. So their is a sort of inherent trappiness to certain things lol and these could be really time-wasting traps. I guess not all contexts are equal in terms of its health.

Damn bro I've been there, wish you the best I'm glad you have a positive attitude

For any entrepreneur out there, the current AI revolution could be a trap for you. I noticed something odd happening in me over the past 2 years since ChatGPT came out. Almost every day I got caught up in listening to some lecture, talk, interview, etc. from really smart people like Lex Fridman guests, Eric Schmidt, Sam Altman, etc. Now don't get me wrong. They're all highly intelligent people. Yes most of them are capitalists. But what I'm trying to highlight in this post is something specifically nuanced. As an entrepreneur, this can take you down a deep rabbit hole that perhaps is not meant for you, aligned with your values, etc. It can take time away from what you genuinely feel is most important. Ask yourself, are you listening to these videos because it connects with a life purpose that is genuinely authentic, a beautiful vision, your core values? or are you getting caught up in this never-ending daily excitement, unprecedented levels of excitement of the new AI product coming out every day. This excitement can blind you from who you really are, and what you really value. Now truthfully I have 2 programmers in my team working for 2 business projects that involve AI, but I guess the details matter here. I'm deciding to leave the programming aspect to them, focus on my vision, and focus more on aligning with my true values. I'm just saying this could be a trap, not necessarily that this is a trap. It could be a trap in the way crypto was a trap back in 2017 (or now for that matter given the current spikes, but I mentally got out of that trap thank god) Just to give you a perspective on how many entrepreneurs fall for this trap: I once listened to a podcast episode by Tim Ferriss back when NFTs were ubiquitous. He told the guest that all his big CEO friends all stopped what they were doing to pursue NFTs. And Tim is connected with all these top CEOs. That's how much NFTs took people away. Crypto. I'm seeing similar patterns with AI. Except crypto and NFTs is not an "everything-industry-changer" like AI, so AI is a much bigger long-term concern. Similarly, I think I've been in this AI trap. It's crazy because its SO ubiquitous right now. It's literally everywhere. It can be a big problem for that self-actualizer who wants a beautiful life, a life aligned with their core values, yet hasnt had their money needs met, and so they fall into this AI trap to meet their money needs (with somewhat good intentions, to build their great life of course) but in turn get caught up in a deeper and deeper rabbit hole. Today I almost seriously considered learning Python, going down this path. Now Python, I'm sure is amazing for many of you. But for me? It is so not aligned with my values. I'm not that heady, logical, technical person. I consider myself more an artist, visionary, etc. I tried to convince myself of all the amazing products I can build with Python, but then I looked deeper and although all those products would be cool to build, if I mastered python, its really not what I want. I'm convincing myself because of the sort of power Python would give me in this AI revolution, and that core motivation is flawed fundamentally. It's rooted in power and money, I'm guessing the same thing that drove these hyper-capitalists. On the other hand though, AI can be a great path for making money if you're financially stuck. Like I said, I have 2 people in my team developing AI products. But I need to keep distance, not get sucked down the wrong rabbit hole, stay clear on my vision and values, and not fall into this trap. I'm particularly highlighting this trap because this trap just started, and it will get way more of a concern as time goes on. Perhaps this trap can manifest in all kinds of ways. But again, AI in itself is not the trap. AI could be a trap for you though, depending on who you are, what your values are, what your authentic vision is.

One important lesson for me personally is to distinguish more strongly between success advice and development advice and not to mix both. I think I have been loose with these distinctions. Also I still have this notion that success comes without consequence. I'm starting to see the falsehood in that more. Even Russell Brand? Didn't know that. I think you make an important point here. These people do have great qualities in terms of intelligence I believe, but it seems that a few "simple" qualities of corruption can really take over a person for the worse.