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I mean, there is also nothing morally wrong with smearing shit all over yourself and your partner for sexual pleasure, but that doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of people find it pretty disgusting. There are biological mechanisms in place which make things like that and incest seem disgusting to most humans.

Are they incel forums? Because I've looked at them a fair few times and the primary issue is not looks. It's that they're all really unpleasant people. PUA is something you need basic social skills before you can start doing effectively. If you are not physically attractive, have zero social skills, and no social network at all (which describes a lot of incels) pickup stuff is like step 5. There are like 3 or 4 other steps you need to complete before you should start doing pickup. I've met plenty of ugly dudes who are great with women. The difference is that they are fun people to be around and don't spend their time complaining about how ugly and unlovable they are on forums online, they have vibrant social lives and do a bunch of stuff with their lives.

People have been fearing it for centuries. Artists are crying now like they're the first group of people to ever face the existential crisis of having their job automated, lol

Depends what you’re looking for. Clubs are unbeatable for hookups and more casual relationships. Maybe not ideal for more serious relationships, but it’s not like that’s impossible either. As a guy you will be able to meet way better girls in a club than you’ll meet online

It's a common pattern where a woman shows tons of interest towards a guy on a night out, may even want to go home with him but can't because of logistics, and then seemingly never wants to see them again after that night. I'm not saying it's impossible to see a girl you met on a night out again if you don't sleep with her or anything, just that it's a notably unlikely. When you meet someone out a night the passion usually burns quick and fast, which means it also dies fast.

In my experience, women you meet on nights out at a club are really unlikely to want to meet up again if you don't pull on the same night. It might not be anything you did wrong, it's just how it is.

Because there are some things that cause enough suffering to others to not really require justification for being unethical from a human POV; cold-blooded murder, cheating in clearly monogamous relationships/marriage, and molestation of kids are all examples of things in that category among plenty of others. In regards to cheating specifically: you are breaking a solidly defined agreement of trust, which has the potential to emotionally destroy another person and cause extreme suffering. You are putting your own selfish needs in front of a shared responsibility that you agreed to. Most people agree that this is unethical and at the very least an indication of poor character. The fact you need to keep it a secret from your wife actually explains it very succinctly. If it was a harmless act then you could just tell your wife that you came inside another women's vagina. But you know that it would likely emotionally destroy her so you have to keep it secret in order for it to be acceptable in your mind. Which again brings you back to having to justify the statement "it's not unethical to molest a child if no one finds out" if you want to make that particular argument.

I don't know or care, I'm not coming at this from an absolute perspective or from any kind of religious perspective, I'm thinking about it in terms of the concrete harm it potentially causes to you, and those around you. Hiding behind an absolute POV when it comes to ethical questions is somewhat lazy because everything is OK from an absolute perspective. That's nothing new.

This logic is comparable to saying it's OK to molest a baby as long as no one ever finds out.

I don’t even know what you are trying to say here.

This is a really great explanation and I’m probably going to steal it from you at least the part about attraction/maintaining I think that’s a really good way of putting it

That’s like going to your local basketball team and telling them how to play basketball because you read 5 books about it. You have no idea if it’s quality advice or not if you have no experience. It’s especially bad if you talk quite arrogantly about it, which I sometimes see you do. That’s why I felt it was necessary to comment. I am really sorry if this comes across as aggressive, I just think that you should not give advice without some solid experience.

This is more of that "I've read a lot of theory about game but don't have a lot of practice" talk. I really don't mean it in a bad way, it's just the impression that I get from you and I feel I should be honest about it.

I read what you said, I just don't agree with it. To me personally, it reads like someone who's learnt a bunch of theory about game but not actually done that much practice. That might not be true, but that was the impression I got, sorry.

Nothing you say here suggests that "how's it going", "how are you", "how's your night going" are bad openers. These are still starting a conversation with a woman, which is moving things forward. Yea, you should move past small talk quickly, but almost all conversations start with at least 1 or 2 small talk questions.

What openers do you usually use then?

It's not a bad question. Yea dry small-talk conversations are bad, but saying "you should never ask a woman 'how are you' because it's a waste of time and boring" is extreme. My opener is "how's your night going" which is similar and it's worked for me plenty of times. You don't need fancy openers as long as you know how to move away from the boring small talk quickly. Fancy openers can actually make you look like you're trying too hard.

That is not someone who has your best interests at heart. Wanting an arranged marriage for you is one thing, threatening to commit suicide if you don't do what she says is behaviour that you absolutely DO NOT want from someone close to you in your life. It is hard to live a good life if the people close to you are constantly emotionally blackmailing you to do what they want instead of what you want for yourself.

Besides things like a car and house, what are you saving your money for? If you are saving it just to hoard it like a dragon and never spend it, what's the point in even having it? You can have some super cool experiences just by spending a bit of money. It's possible you reach old age with a bunch of money in the bank and realise that you're now full of regrets for things you could've done with it but now can't because you're too old.

This is making me think I have autism I don’t feel much difference between 1 and 3 tabs of the acid I’ve taken and it’s rated at 250ug Even if it was 100ug you would still expect to notice severe difference between 100ug and 300ug based on typical descriptions but practically the only difference is duration and slightly more intense visuals

This is maybe why you are so focused on diet. It could be coming from a place of trauma. She likely doesn't have that, which is why she doesn't see it as being as important as you do. It doesn't make either of you right or wrong. You just have different priorities because of differing life experience. It's the most relevant point to this whole discussion. It's just a bit odd to me that you don't say what her diet is yet talk about it like she's eating takeaway 7 days a week. To me that makes me think she probably has a reasonably balanced/healthy diet, just not up to your very high standards. Maybe that's wrong, it's just the impression I get. Not everyone wants to make a serious study out of diet. Most people want a balance of health, cost, ease and taste. If you aren't an athlete or someone who needs peak performance out of their body, you can find a pretty decent balance of those things that works for you without stressing and turning diet into a serious study. It's far more about setting up good habits than turning it into a lifelong study. You turn health into a study if you need to because you have specific/unique requirements for diet i.e. athlete, weight loss, health condition, eating disorder etc. I'm not promoting junk food, I'm saying that many people (especially younger people like up to late twenties) have bigger fish to fry than worrying about eating a pizza once a week.

Try out ChatGPT. It’s more creative than most people.

I agree with a lot of what you’ve said except this. Attractive women absolutely have the option to live life without developing any character or personality. Even moderately good looking girls can do it. There are no shortage of love-starved desperate horny men with cash to spare. It’s obviously not likely to be a healthy dynamic but it is an option to survive with minimal work. Good looking born moderately to very rich guys can pretty much do the same in terms of coasting through life. And really, who can blame either of them? Both can choose to work, and develop character and live a fulfilling life, and plenty of both groups do, but they don’t really have to if they don’t want and that fact would change someone’s approach to life a lot. I’d wager that the thought of “well if I don’t succeed in life with what I want to do I can always set up shop in someone else’s” has occurred as a thought in every attractive women. It’s pure human survival nature. You got given a gift by nature and your brain is hardwired to leverage that. Just knowing that option is available to you would make you behave very differently even if you didn’t follow through with it. It’s very similar to guys born with a trust fund or wealthy parents. Yea they go to uni, study, and get jobs but in the back of their mind they always know if push comes to shove they’re going to be fine.

Hmm. It is impressive but you rarely see it tackle anything more complex than stairs. I see some articles of it ‘hiking’ but it’s all on predefined, pathed trails which are pretty easy. A boggy route with no path, scrambling over rocks ranging from orange sized to house sized, steep inclines that require something like hands with fingers to grip properly and hold on. Something like that is probably still quite a few years off for any AI powered robot. Those robot dogs are also fucked if they end up on their back or fall over. Also not to mention winter hiking either. Or any kind of technical climbing. That’s an order of magnitude harder again. Thats the kinda stuff I like doing anyway and I find it pretty hard to imagine an AI doing it soon. Then again people thought AI wouldn’t be super-human at Go until 2030 or some shit so who knows.

It’s weird to think, but training an AI to hike is very likely a harder task than training it to replace programmers. Thats why my backup profession is a mountain guide when AI replaces me as a programmer It also makes you a appreciate just how insanely complex your body is to allow you to climb mountains or do other physical activities so effectively.