Natasha Tori Maru

There are challenges sure - I just don't want you to fall into black pill thinking (like I myself did, and clawed out). (づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ♡

The statement " I am stage 2 construct aware, I am yellow" is more likely a confession of stage orange. It is a way of establishing authority or superiority, identity through achievement, status signaling, and using labels as credentials. Pillars of stage orange levels of growth. Someone with a more integrated understanding is often less attached to identifying as a particular stage. It doesn't necessarily discount that person from being yellow or tier II - but it serves as a reasonable point to infer the above. Especially when this is a pattern of behavior: needing to state oneself as this stage when cornered in debate.

@AION oh no no - this is about you being obsessed with me you want to join my cult!

I have, in the proper looksmaxxing vernacular, ascended ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈)

Looksmaxxing movement is just one - which is why I raised you linked it. If you remove a range of metrics, others have very little to go off. As an example, if you remove speaking face to face, body language, tone, intonation and only have an image to go off - that image is going to serve as a larger metric to go off due to absence of other qualifying factors. If you are interested in being able to deduce with logic and critical thinking I can link you to some good resources. I suggest you look into it yourself if you do not wish to accept my claim. I don't care to pull up data, if that's what you want.

You don't see how if you remove one domain for connection - others become more important?

I mean - you posted it.

Dude you just called him dumb. The irony.

I think there is a distinction to be made between: 1) People care more about looks than they used to. 2) Looks have more influence because technology changed how people meet and interact. There is probably more evidence in support of the second claim. Human preferences for attractiveness are ancient and fairly stable - what has changed most is the environment. It is probably more accurate to say technology has increased the importance of appearance in certain contexts/domains.

I wonder how the projected budgeting for upgrading all the data centre hardware factors in - by the time they are built and running new chips will supersede them. Bets on Nvidia having deals for buybacks or upcycling or some shit.

It brings out the worst traits in people. All the wrong behaviour is rewarded if the intention is to build something of substance with another being with maturity, respect and gracious connection. The platform removes the context in which human qualities become visible. You are very correct that it corrupts men's understanding of the nature of women. You end up in a terrible cognitive echo chamber where confirmation bias destroys truth. Dating apps create conditions where confirmation bias thrives because people receive highly selective feedback and then generalise from it. I wouldn't say there is NO success in online dating unless one is good looking, but the odds are against you if you do not have that "look" to initiate a swipe right decision.

SING IT ((ヽ(๑╹◡╹๑)ﾉ))♬

We need to create systems to support this, and incentivise markets to work with these systems to profit in some way. I can't think of any other way for people to hop onto problem solving faster. There has been a lot of research and development into ways to extract carbon out and leverage the carbon cycle. Carbon farming. Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, DAC or direct air capture. Even ocean absorption based strategies. If only stupid cu*** like Musk weren't insisting on abandoning Earth for Mars. TF even happened to that narrative? Someone needs to engineer a HUGE plant to move carbon into places we want it to support the existing cycle.

Been my best years so far.

I agree with this, which is why I think for someone like Orion it was a matter of time before he jumps on it in some way. Capture the audience while it's hot, ready and there. Smart.