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I personally realized how difficult it must be for a woman I might meet walking on the street to even give me basic trust, that I don't want to do her harm. That's what I hear a lot from women online, they are concerned for their safety, and a lot of them will just be with their guard up most of the time and only date through their circle of friends/classmates. But I'm suspicious that's because most cold approaches that happen to them are uncalibrated guys that are incapable of even displaying trustworthiness, being emotionally comforting and breaking off the stranger's frame, and trigger in her feelings of rapport/trust.

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783 (In case the link above goes down: https://web.archive.org/web/20240601103419/https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783 Great 2011 article by Eric R. Weinstein that he mentioned on a podcast about Kamala Harris repeating multiple times a Karl Marx quote. Read more on

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He was ahead of his time, 7 years ago he was already telling us that our education system was essentially so outdated to quasi-medieval levels, because most people are unable to master complicated concepts because the education system leaves them with too many gaps. He was already mentioning the vision for the future that most of the people could be giving creative contribution to the world, as opposed to being essentially at beaurocracy and data processing factory work, and that AI is coming close low intelligence/low-creativity jobs to greater extent as the tech evolves.

"One has to love oneself in order to have a relationship" is one more of those saying that are a matter of degree. If you loved yourself to an ultimate degree, nobody knows what you would want, but it definitely wouldn't come from needing to fuck or needing to "feel loved" because you would already see all of it as a fabrication of your mind, those cycles of craving and the actions we take to satisfy those cravings. Tell me someone that ever said: "I feel at peace with my addictions". Cravings are supposed to be disturbances in the mind that moves you towards action (Well, hopefully) A relationship is that. BE WARNED: Do not spiritually bypass and try to "medicate yourself out of your league" sort of speaking. To be at a low level of development/self-love, and to believe that you can't be in a relationship or, to be somewhat developed, and think you don't need someone, like how Jordan Peterson will be talking about women pursuing their careers and stuff, and later realize they want a baby before their biological time runs out. Or for young guys in this forum to try to spiritually bypass the needs for satisfying our base needs. Regardless, it's somewhat of an empty saying if we stretch it too hard. IN PRACTICE: It does say people should come from a place of self-respect at least, and abundance, and not have our boundaries stepped on, or lower our standards too much because we are desperate. It leads to much more pain to be in a terrible relationship than to try to be on our own.

So you're supposed to be a social media manager, yet you can't build your own personal branding and sell yourself? I mean, the biggest purpose of any business being in social media is to make sales, and you're unable to sell yourself. This is very much a feedback loop. Build leverage. Don't just chase. Use your knowledge. Show up to those businesses, start creating some content on YouTube, networking, talking to businesses, being helpful. Look up online the kind of marketing social media managers do to get their clients. I mean, essentially your goal is to build a Social Media Marketing Agency (SMMA). Frame your job as helping businesses make money. In other words, your main job and profession is to MAKE SALES. Those job boards are the bottom of the barrel way of getting leads for interviews, you're running against the flow. Build your leverage.

Post-truth world hitting hard. I don't even know what is real anymore. 😬😆

Sorry buddy, but your argument becomes just a matter of degree of how much a thing responds to stimuli, by that logic, ChatGPT (Or another Large Language Model - LLM) is a more alive than a plant due to its emergent intelligence... But plants are more relatable when it comes to mortality and survival than an LLM could ever be (it's ephemeral, it's an immortal bag of bits and instructions)... It's interesting, but I guess we should move towards making EVEN MORE granular distinctions about what things actually are, than taking a step backwards and trying to revise some definition like that... It's like asking if Pluto is a planet or something else... Naming of things are very contextual, and what they mean is contextual. I think our current definition of a "Living Being" is already pretty good. We share a common ancestor with them, they literally have cells and dna just like we do, they literally have the same molecular machinery that we do, they even suffer from dna damage similar to us ("cancer"), and so on. They are part of our biosphere. They suffer from diseases, plagues, environmental factors (toxins, temperature, humidity), radiation, gravitational forces, water, sunlight, etc. We are literally dead without plants, they are an extension of us. I think all of that is more fundamental than the complexity/utility of their behaviors. Like Gabor Maté said: "The nature of human beings is disputed, but if you look by what we NEEDS it thrive and grow" Our nature and the nature of plants converge with our shared needs we have to thrive and grow. That's a better, more wholistic approach to defining them, rather than trying to disconnect us away from us. There are psychological/social implications to that definition. Like when they used to say that animals were merely automatons that didn't even feel emotions, when in fact, from every angle we look, they are more alike us than different. We should instead see how things are similar to us, as opposed to dissimilar. I think it's too reductionist and disconnects human beings from our natural roots and we are becoming those sick and isolated beings, too much about the power we yield, too little about our needs. Calling plants not alive is essentially saying a person is less alive because they are mentally handicap. I'm sure they still have the same basic needs we do.

What's your niche? What is your medium? YouTube long form? YouTube Shorts? Tiktok? Instagram? Twitter? DMing clients? What is your offer of service/product?

Do you have reliable internet access or not? Can you receive payments from high paying countries? If yes, then you're actually in an ADVANTAGE by being in a cheaper country with cheaper living standards. I'm from a "Third World country" myself, too. But I wouldn't be stupid to do local jobs, I could get a decent living by going to university here and getting some "local job" but it takes just as much work as working for high paying clients online or building a business that targets them. Start with improving your formatting in English with proper capitalization, and adding spaces only after commas and full-stop signs and always capitalizing the "I". (I know you could have styled it kinda sloppy just because we are writing informally here, I do that a lot of times too). Most Brazilians I know are worst off than you, since they couldn't write what you just did in English without egregious mistakes. There is no "fucked" here, the only fucked thing here is that you will have less time to enjoy your life purpose than someone that started earlier. Just chill bro. Even if you answer no to both of my questions above (internet & payment processor) you can still find ways around it (Crypto payments, saving things offline, working asynchronously - i.e. something you don't need to be online all the time to do, etc.) I'm 26 by the way, and I'm not panicking like that. It doesn't help. It takes many years to sort ourselves out.

Ignorance at its finest... Truly a textbook definition of fear of the unknown. 😂😂😂

In 1943, Bertrand Russell said: "The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people. Nowadays, however, calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people" [. . .] "As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. The consequence is that, though many philosophers continue to tell us what fine fellows we are, it is no longer on account of our arithmetical skills that they praise us." - An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish https://www.ditext.com/russell/rubbish.html

ABSOLUTELY YES. I really hope it will go similar to that debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Žižek, it was very productive.

Source 1: http://datagenetics.com/blog/november32010/index.html Source 2: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-will-everyone-i-know-be-married/ Also, let's keep in mind the "creepiness rule" (Highly debatable, subjective) : Wikipedia / Age disparity in sexual relationships

What matters to me, is that I need to calibrate my expectations, that the older women are, the more likely she's in a committed relationship. Common sense already told me that. But also, I've read from some studies (citation needed, I think it was on that book a billion wicked thoughts?), that the shorter a relationship has been, the more likely one of them is to cheat or monkey branch. Also, from those singles, many of them are not looking to date. Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/a-profile-of-single-americans/

That's pathetic, unless she has a body, and it behaves biomechanically like a woman and is past the uncanny valley of realism. Even hyperrealistic video & audio with a chatbot that has a mind similar to a woman wouldn't be enough to fully suffice a person's cravings, they will always yearn for the full thing. "Surrogate" partners will be a thing. Like the scene in the movie Her. A lady that wanted to be part of the "triad" between the main character and the AI offered to give the full girlfriend/sexual experience to him, while the AI mimicked being her (to him) and, she simultaneously, were giving instructions to the woman. So guys would hire escorts to take on that role. I guess that's the full uberzation of relationships? The mind is the AI, the body is an escort. (in the movie, she wasn't paid, she did it out of some sort of polyamory love)

It just became a habitual pattern, I'd guess. Some people say they can't get stuff done without coffee. Well, they are addicted to it chemically... But the trigger of doing is the crucial part too. Some just swap decaffeinated coffee. Like people that have to jerk off every time they feel the urge. We really don't. It's just an acquired thing. You just over-used the pattern of being in that weed-induced state of mind for creativity.

Luxury lifestyle infused song, I understand some french, she's pretty classy about it, I can vibe to that! 😂

SPRING. 🍃

There is just something about the sexual act with a beautiful, feminine and loving lady that just compels me. That sexual merging with someone I'm infatuated for. I go all in with the emotional connection, that makes it astronomically better. If I desire something, I want it to be as pleasurable as possible, I want to explode with bliss upon entering in contact with that object of desire. It's like if food didn't taste good, it would be some kind of chore. You can frame that animalistic desire in any way you want. It's like the pleasure of tasty food. We can make delicious healthy food tasty, or we can be obsessed about eating as many types of food as possible and make our entire lives around it, etc. But here is a opposite view:

As an extreme example, the literal life-savings money of your possible boss could be at stake on you delivering results. Imagine the pressure. Unless I was looking to get experience on how a tech startup operates for my future startup, I wouldn't do it. That would be a great way to get paid to sharpen your sword, sort of speaking, if that were the path. But the business advice I see from Alex Hormozi, is to get good at being a good marketer first, to know how to build cash flow. But then, you're more of a marketer than an engineer. Being both at once is advised against by him. If I wanted experience in a startup, I'd like to be as close as possible to the business/marketing aspect, then the engineering aspect. That's much more valuable. An engineer can be hired, a founder that brings cash to the table monthly has all the power.

You have cornered your mind into a spot, and you think you need to go through that. I get it. Unless it's some deep spiritual truth (Nirvana, Infinite Consciousness): EVERYTHING IS A FABRICATION. It's not "FOUND". Please read this post I wrote, that's the point I'd make:

Essentially, to evolve is to train yourself to train the next version of yourself. And then, to let go of that previous version, and let its capabilities only exist in a latent, weaker form, that gets triggered contextually, as opposed as by default. That version of you right now that consumes this personal development content too often must not stay the default version (or the even earlier version, that consumes just porn and games), this version of you full of just fucking theories. Use that to train the new version, it should assume the default, and you use whatever means necessary to do so. Go all in, go with your whole arsenal. Use as much alignment as possible, as lightweight as possible, as streamlined as possible. You absolutely need it all, and more. You're too misaligned right now. I don't just mean this in the Life Purpose sense, but also in the spiritual sense. The reason you've not reached nirvana is that, you are too full, your resources are wasted towards a multitude of directions that never builds up on itself, like a mere source of light spreading out its light as electromagnetic radiation towards all directions and becoming part of the universe. You're supposed to concentrate your energy, not spread it. If you spread it, it becomes part of this amorphous field of background radiation of the universe. Once it's concentrated, it's of better use and good to the universe. It's like if planets never formed, and matter was just spaced equally in a big blob, essentially, just emptiness because the universe is so large, and you're so tiny. You should fight against that entropy. Otherwise, you will keep being just wallpaper, just a battery for the matrix, just a chunk of matter lying around, being tossed around... Never reaching critical mass towards an atomic explosion. A rocket that never reaches escape velocity, it never reaches space no matter how much energy it wastes.

This is how I'm looking at it. What do I mean by that: The purpose of Life Purpose is to align yourself and remove inner conflicts/friction, with AT LEAST the purpose of meeting your basic needs. And one of our needs is to have an aim to look for. To align our whole lives, our habits, environment, relationships, desires, interests, aversions, etc. Akin to a spiritual process (but not quite) Life Purpose is more of an alignment of what you'll do with yourself in Samsara, in Maya, in The World, in how you will build/align your EGO, as opposed to deconstructing it and having nothing to do with it. Why do you think one of the goals of many spiritual masters is to simply teach and pass it forward? They have to rebuild their ego somehow. It's like an AI system that has a broken reward function, and keeps spitting just probabilistic text completion (i.e.: GPT-3), we aligned them towards conversational format, and they spontaneously emerged with useful general intelligence (ChatGPT). In which, we can solve tasks with a single prompt, as opposed to having to do black magic to make it do anything useful. All of that happened with the SAME architecture. And now, with even LESS parameters, even less "capability" it's still capable of out-performing just text-completion models. Just the same way for a person, someone completely all over the place needs all sorts of shenanigans to even get anything done, they need to get their "committee of the mind" completely on-board, and it's a massively expensive and complex process to be done EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY FROM SCRATCH, because you KEEP LOSING MOMENTUM, because it's not BAKED INTO YOUR MIND, BEING, ENVIRONMENT and RELATIONSHIPS. It's like the old crappy Large Language Models like GPT-3, you had to waste a ton of your precious tokens/text/prompt window just PREPARING IT for the INSTRUCTION TO COME. Even if that instruction was to "Calculate 5 + 5 ". You had to give it EVER SINGLE TIME a whole paragraph of examples. But now it comes without extra effort and less processing power, and it can do more. They are EXTREMELY INEFFICIENT, just because their training was misaligned. In other words, their VALUES were misaligned. The things they feed their minds are misaligned. They are feeding their minds and spending their days filled with garbage. What will their minds output? Garbage. No wonder, people without even the most basic guiding principles can't even get a handle on their basic psychology. Of course, if you lack the material environment, or lack of enough "compute power" i.e.: You're distracted by internal or external causes, emotionally unstable, poor health, self-caused ADHD through engaging in highly dopaminergic activities, etc. It will become much harder to retrain and align yourself, but once you're slowly building leverage, getting through certain milestones, at some point it stops becoming a black hole sink of time, effort and energy, and it is becoming a virtuous positive cycle, where you are even GETTING PAID TO SHARPEN YOUR SWORD. Like training an AI to train another AI system that's more lightweight and takes less resources and can output more useful stuff than an old, misaligned and inefficient model.