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then how does a guy with such high integrity like snowden survive in russia? is it that he just stays out of people's business there - the russian govt, and just sticks to his online talks?

I dunno man, I think that could be a limiting belief .. Ive seen some crazy transformation stories online, everyone is capable of drastically changing their looks if they actually make it a pursuit over a few years

@Leo Gura about the looks thing, why dont you do things like get ripped and stuff if thatll 10x according to you? I noticed you always talk about looks being a limiting factor like you cant change it. Isnt there a lot of things you can do to like 5x looks? also are you sure looks matter that much? Im a guy, and I wouldnt date an unattractive girl like who is overweight and stuff, but there have been tons of times where Im attracted to pretty girls but who may be a lot less prettier than other girls, whom im not attracted to .. and if im a guy who feels that i doubt looks matter so much to girls

Hey guys, I have been reading this book called "The Kill Chain" .. and this really was a wake up call like no other book I've read. I highly encourage reading it. It's currently the #1 best seller book in "military public policy" on amazon. It was written by the former staff director of the senate armed forces committee and the senior policy advisor to senator john mccain. The book talks of how the biggest threat and priority of the us military should be (but is not at all) the rapidly transforming military of china since 1993. He showcases how china's military is already way ahead of us' in terms of technological advancement, but also it's rapid data-decision-action networks. It got me thinking of a lot of things .. Creating serious change in the US military through a) building a brand raising awareness, bringing new innovative solutions to US military, etc. for both the citizens of america and the us military itself. The US military, according to this book, prioritizes platform over network, just investing in better versions of older technology rather than a) new types of technology altogether (that threaten the existing ways of doing things), and b) new ways of thinking, doing things, re-imagining the US military. I don't think its stressed enough in the media how great of a concern this is over the coming decades. What do you think about turning this into part of a life purpose? Do you think it's safe to discuss these matters? I would plan to remain conscious, non-attacking, just raising awareness, caring about humanity at large, and mostly preventing disaster through strengthening US military. Also, WHY is this not talked about enough in US society? How great of a concern do you think this is? There's one incident he talks about, "little green men" in 2014 in Ukraine, where (I think Russian) forces demonstrated technological superiority to Ukraine, but that scared US because of how advanced it was compared to our technology in the military. And China, according to this book, has astronomically more advanced technology, ALREADY. I have been reading similar things, such as China's silicon valley, and it's sort of all coming together how a) China's military advancement is growing at an astronomical rate and b) how AI, biotech, and other rapidly growing technologies can really move so fast compared to our gov't's willingness to adapt to this rapid pace of innovation and technological advancement. This is concerning. What are your thoughts? @Leo Gura What are your thoughts too? There's one AI researcher who said the 3 biggest problems facing humanity is 1) AI, 2) nuclear war, and 3) global warming .. I think one thing that unifies all this is the theme of the rapid pace of technological innovation that is so rapid that its getting out of hand, out of our hands, out of our inability to move fast enough and control things. Do we even have hope as the decades go by? How do we wake up US military, society, govt?

@Raze You do have a point about China not doing any serious invasion, but at the same time a) that 9/11 presented them with a strategic opportunity against US, and b) they are in a competitive arms race with US, and c) just because they havent done anything in the past doesnt mean they cant do something in the future. But idk tbh, Im still trying to figure this out. I definitely think its possible that something is here worth looking into, but I guess I'll have to keep digging into this. Of course, as you mention nuclear war is of a great concern and thats undeniable. That's definitely worth raising awareness about, and generating important solutions for.

@Leo Gura Yeah I think it was mainly julien's behavior, but also I think society has gotten more sensitive, as you can see with the cancel culture movement .. owen is also at fault too, and there's many things I dont like about owen, but as a whole, I think he put out some really high quality content in game, that was relatively conscious ... in fact it kind of reminds me of osho, osho put out conscious content, but his leadership of this organization was bad, just like owen where his content was relatively high conscious, but his business tactics, leadership, etc. has a lot of toxic elements

@Leo Gura do you have any examples of what he said that was unethical, mysogynistic, and abusive? I mostly remember him saying to just go out, get field experience, ways to improve your personality, etc.

Happy holidays everyone, Im doing a yearly reflection now. Wish you all a good upcoming year of success, growth, love and happiness.

Actually thats pretty clear, do that which you fear the most, and Id have to say that aside from game, life can be pretty comfortable as even intellectual business work is not as scary in many ways

@Leo Gura can you expand on what you said about game making you a stronger man? I recently got back into serious game, daily approaching, even taking a train into manhattan daily just to do serious game, and yesterday I did 3 approaches after 6 months, but rather than with the intention of getting girls, my mind has been set on becoming a powerful man (partly because of what you said, how you cant explain it but it really does make you a powerful man, and what owen cook said in his blueprint course, about how this is really about developing deep internal value) .. In the past, I've gamed with the mindset that it will surely produce some good personality characteristics, but just from one day of cold approaching, yesterday, I felt a strong reduction in fear. I came home and set up the christmas tree, no hesitation, just effortless, something id leave to my family or maybe go thru hours of mental work just to get myself to do. I can really see that game can make me a powerful man. But since yesterday, Ive been curious as to why that is. How is something so simple as talking to girls, something that feels like an external "doing-based" activity, produce deep internal powerful change?

well that was quite the roller coaster

@Leo Gura yeah I figured, it will also be expensive for most consumers, but i do like to dream big, envision the future and automate as much in my life thats sort of SOP .. I do think one day they will be pretty common in households too, b2c, maybe within 6 to 10 years, bezos and musk are always looking to create cheaper consumer items

Im trying to think of the use case though, if someone is to get one: id prob just get one for cooking, cleaning, but what else is there?

Elon: We must stop all AI progress after GPT4 Also Elon: Develops the highest tech AI robot by miles Me: stops fighting and just eats popcorn watching this all unfold

With respect and kindness, I used to be in all kinds of fantasies .. i watched this movie recently, vanilla sky, about a man who got stuck in this romantic fantasy for ages, and he realized after all that wasted time, that he'd rather choose truth. At the end of the day, wasting time on fantasies that wont yield anywhere will just leave in regret. Just my perspective though.

To everyone and @Leo Gura Wanted to share an account I have been following, this girl is living in Gaza, reporting on it. Here is the instagram profile: https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/ She is very well-spoken. She is receiving overwhelming support, half a million likes per post, which is nice to see that so many around the world are rooting for her and the palestinians. I personally learned a lot and can empathize more with palestinians. She is constantly reporting from a first person's perspective, things like the delusions she and her family are experiencing, live footage, daily challenges .. whats heartbreaking is seeing how she went from a normal instagram girl to her current situation, if you look at her past posts. Subtle things like how she would care about instagram filters in the past, and now no care in the world. War would do that to you, make you let go of petty things like IG filters. Small, but I think it matters.

@Leo Gura how can someone like elon be incredibly smart, build high conscious companies that are actually successful (except twitter and maybe neuralink), possibly be a force of major good in the AI safety space giving high quality insight there, yet at the same time be so dysfunctional with his politics, befriending some highly dysfunctional people like Alex j. or Andrew tate, work habits, the way he treats workers, etc. ... i honestly dont know how thats possible .. but just the fact that hes a major force in ai safety, global warming, etc. some of humanity's biggest problems to solve .. wouldnt that make him a net positive for society?

@Leo Gura I have been following this very intensely, listening to all the experts on this, and I also have no doubt we've had encounters, but I still dont get why there aren't clear, high def photos and videos online? or why there isn't anything that is super clear and obvious that is viral, such as a video encounter? or why these interactions are so rare and hidden? Have you found the answers to any of these questions? Then there are other things I wonder, which is much farther away from discovering the truth, so I don't expect to find that easily: what planet are they from? why are they interested in our nuclear bases? why dont they show themselves in like nyc or something or why dont they attack us

@Leo Gura also I noticed over the years you try your best to make this forum as incel-less as possible, and a bias towards respecting women that goes a bit on the extreme, a good thing in my opinion as we need more respect for women overall as a society, and actually I think that bias is important otherwise incels would infiltrate.

@Leo Gura With respect, Ive noticed you do it too lol just to bring it to your awareness in case you dont see it sometimes, I could be wrong tho .. more subtle than this comment, but ive noticed over the years .. ofc its always fun hearing your stories

@Leo Gura at first i was like whats the big deal if its in vegas, especially compared to the wilder shit he's talking about, then i realized you live there .. don't get any wild ideas to check it out now lmao but if you do we'd love a field report

I don't know how to explain the particular kind of social anxiety I have, but I'll try to explain it. I'm not trying to say that Im some unique snowflake lol .. but Ill explain my thought process here. So I've cold approached a lot. (300 approaches over the years) And with cold approach I always usually talk to a single person. Im a guy and whenever I talk to a girl, Im usually fine. Im normal, casual, a bit flirty if I want to be. But when it comes to groups, things are different. Usually in the beginning of entering a group, I start to really choke up (social anxiety wise) .. and this is pretty much any kind of group. Even my 2 closest friends, I just start choking up and getting anxious. It got to the point where I have to drink alcohol any time I enter a group situation. And at 3 beers Im usually having a great time, social, etc. but only with alcohol. This really got amplified 2 years ago, I was hanging out with a group of friends and I really was choking up, anxious .. it happens even more when its quiet around us, like no music is playing or whatever. But then the girl from the group is like "why are you all scared" and like attacking me, and that made me shut down even more. And now I cant enter most group situations without alcohol. There's family Ive wanted to see for many years, but Ive been avoiding them because of this. Up until today I was like okay its fine, I'll fix it later after I fix my financial situation more, but now it's like Okay I really need to fix this, work on it 4 to 5 times per week. The way I would describe this social anxiety is situational: It mainly happens when its quiet around me, in groups of 2 or more, with people who I know judge me or dislike me, with my aunt and uncles (in my culture they tend to be more on the judgemental side), and other situations too like in conversation I would laugh at something but then suddenly get self-conscious about my laugh and then kind of shut down, or someone brings up something from my past that is hard for me to talk about. Sometimes I think though that some of these situations are different from social anxiety. Like some things could be associated with trauma and OCD which I have also. But at the same time I spend a lot of time alone, and my OCD and trauma doesnt make me anxious so I have a feeling this is all just social anxiety, and nothing really else. I kind of just want to know if I can really fix this. I used to be nervous with girls, one-on-one, but I've fixed a lot of that with cold-approach, getting girlfriends, dating. Now one-on-one with girls, or hanging out with a guy im usually fine for the most part. Really its just in a group of 2 or more. My aunt was coming over, and I just took a lot of hurt from her in the past. And the whole week before she was coming to my house I did all these things to try and get myself to be okay to talk to her, but the day she arrived, I choked up again .. but for the first 3 minutes it was very obvious and uncomfortable, but after 3 minutes I was completely fine, wanting to talk to her, talking perfectly well in a group. So often its just those 3 minutes in the beginning. I know cold-approach isn't enough to be honest to fix this (I think) .. because in cold-approach, Im only talking to one person at a time usually, and my social anxiety is situational with usually groups of 2 or more. But then again with cold-approach, I usually have short conversations, Im not that social to be honest, Im pretty inconsistent, rarely talk to groups, etc. So maybe that will help. I also wanted to add that the past month, life's been pretty good. A month ago I had this BIG emotional release, and since then Ive been very peaceful in my mind, a whole month straight. Alert, happy, peaceful, meditative, productive .. but only by myself, in my house. To the main point of my post: I guess really the main point of my post is this: I want to commit today onwards to really making a shift in this area of my life. It's been years of just avoiding friends and family, both out of social anxiety, but also because I am very happy alone. But I cant keep this behavior up of avoiding people. What I want to know is, is this really possible to change? I know thats a weird question to ask. I mostly know that any change can be made in life. I know that people have cured all kinds of social anxieties. But for some reason, I have this thing I tell myself that my social anxiety is situational, that mines is mixed with OCD and trauma, that I have failed to change this a lot in the past and despite my efforts it only feels like it worsens .. I just really want to know, with honesty, if this is possible to change. And then if its possible, what can I do to fix it? I plan to socialize 4 to 5 times a week. (I have only met 1 friend in the past 4 months) .. Im planning to go to the gym 3x per week, join classes where I can be more social like hip hop classes and stuff, go to the gym, if I have the courage I'll try to join toastmasters. Ive joined toastmasters before and even gave speeches. I was pretty nervous but I did it, so I think I can do it again. Im 27 right now. I was a lot more social in college. I feel like I can get back to that. What else can I do for this unique situation based on your experience. Any and all replies would be greatly appreciated. @Leo Gura if you have any advice, based on your past struggles please share if you'd like.

@Leo Gura if Biden sticks to his guns on supporting israel no matter what, how bad do you think that would be for usa in terms of living in usa safety, or how much would that affect matters in usa: people getting along, security, etc. I'm guessing that's to be seen, and hard to say how people will respond. I live in US and Im wondering how this could affect us citizen lives, moreso with internal matters

Just wanted to say @Leo Gura, this post means a lot. I'm not the one to get in arguments with you and all that, but you've been literally my hero these past 8 years, and past few years I always had a fear before posting that "just don't get yelled at by someone you look up to a lot" .. but also even if your behaviors don't change immediately, the thought really does count, just knowing that you're trying is enough for me. What more can anyone expect? You're human too. Humans are messy by nature. I can't speak for others who have faced harsher replies, but I think we all know deep down you care a lot, more than you realize, about the actualized community, and the individuals. You take the time to individually reply to us, to look at our circumstances. To be truthful as best as you can, and pour your heart out in your videos. Nothing about this is easy. And lastly, I hope whatever deep suffering you're going through at the moment, is manageable and you're able to come out strong. I don't know what to make out of "deep suffering" but just that I, we, care and hope you're doing well.

That case became a pure mess for so many people .. ashton and mila, danny's sister, etc. Im surprised they stepped down from their organization just over those letters. They did so much good work for their organization but a small mistake in supporting an old friend made them take such a big hit. Quite the shit show .. hurts also cuz i was such a big fan of that 70s show lol