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@Something Funny Ok buddy 🙄. You are being spoon fed the truth and still can’t swallow it.

The blue triangle/spiral on the older videos can be used as a symbol for pedophilia. Food for thought…

Kant gives a great framework for approaching these questions. I don't think Kant has a deep appreciation for the essence of being and is overall pretty dry. Still, his writing offers an excellent methodology for understanding the capacity and limitations of insight gained from perception. Some Christian prejudice sprinkled in but still makes space for God, transcendence, and the sublime. Curious if this community has any appreciation for og western phil?

@Leo Gura Explain technically why Firebase (ik always gets hate, Supabase if you rather) is unsuitable for a forum with <10M reads & <1M writes monthly. Or explain any complicated technical aspects of the forum that go beyond CRUD. Or explain why you think AI cannot do the heavy lifting for a CRUD forum with firebase backend. This isn't Twitter or Reddit. You don't have to read DDIA to vibe code a forum with 10k users.

@Leo Gura You are massively underestimating how much AI will transform society. Game Dev is some of the most complicated code. Nobody is vibe coding multithreaded pipelined cpp. You can't just go "Claude re-write MongoDB in Rust, make no mistakes." There is certainly a lot of work AI cannot do. But only 10% of CS people work on anything of substance, and that is being generous. Most of the industry is grinding out low priority Jiras in React or Java, things AI can already do quite well. Human work in general is, for the most part, highly dull and repetitive. For example I think you are wrong that AI couldn't replicate this forum. What is so complicated about it? There are ~1M total posts. Even at 10M reads & 1M writes monthly it would be possible to run everything on a cloud hosted DB for under 10$ a month. Everything is in English so you probably need only 3 deployments for US, UK, AUS. There is no complicated nested reply structure. Its a CRUD web page that has fairly low traffic. I could easily vibe code a forum with a Firebase backend over the weekend. I think it is possible that valuations will collapse. But this would be because Wall Street got detached from reality and not because the tech is not transformative. Same thing happened with the internet. AI is already turbo cracked at Math+CS. There are maybe 100 competitive programmers better than AI; you will see a Deep Blue moment where AI becomes #1 in competitive programming and IMO. I challenge you to post any math or programming problem that AI cannot solve. Yes these are compartmentalized repetitive problems in well documented fields, still impressive. AI can translate in real time, generate custom images and video, search 1000 page documents for relevant information, work with applications such as PowerPoint or Excel. Massive funding is flowing into robotics. Expect to see self driving, automated shipping ports, Amazon fulfillment centers completely automated, aspects of food preparation and farming automated, AI powered diagnostics and surgery, military drones and drone defense with no human in the loop. There is going to be massive disruption to the work force and societal structure in general. Even in research AI is showing some promise. For example Donald Knuth, who is a CS legend and Stanford professor, published a recent paper "Claude Cycles". This is from the abstract: "Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6— Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model that had been released three weeks earlier! It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days."

At the latest 6,000 or 2239 AD. The current goal is 2030, an even 2000 years after the death of Mashiach BenJoseph. The Chronology of MBJ is disputed but I gather the elders have chosen 2030 as the inaugural date because I hear all this talk of 'Agenda 2030.' Needless to say... "We want Mashiach" now! lol...

@Lyubov Yes, the Scandinavians have been very welcoming to our cousins

@K Ghoul Obviously a very sensitive question... Level 1 social/political: Israel is a colonial state. The Jews can rationalize taking the land because they have been persecuted by others, but that is not a justification. That said, the world is a brutal place and I believe a degree Realpolitik is necessary to survive. Ultimately the only rational for a state to exist is its ability to uphold itself using force. Every state was at one point colonial. America is stolen land from the Native-Americans, same with South America. The Africans in Hati are not indigenous to that island. European nations have been stealing land from each other for thousands of years. Before that Indo-Europeans conquered the indigenous people of Europe. Nations have always waged war against each other. Is Israel stolen land? of course, but so is every other country. Jews treat Muslims far better than the English treated Africans or then the Mongolians treated the Chinese. Level 2 esoteric/spiritual: The Jews are trying to bring about their messiah, Mashiach BenDavid. They want to fulfill certain prophecies... central is the establishment of Jewish state in Jerusalem. It is not, at its heart, a 'political' question. Peace is not the true goal. They want the third temple... When you understand the religious motivation, the political situation makes a lot more sense.

@Raptorsin7 This is exactly how I see it. This is why I like the teachings of Messianic Judaism, because it recognizes the teachings of christ, and the unity of all humanity in the body of God; while also acknowledging the special role of the Jewish people. I see the role of the Jews as being a moral one, not an ethnic/political one. "Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him" Unfortunately many of us don't see it this way...

@vizual When you look at the influence of the Jews on the world, is it really that delusional? More than half of the world believes in Abrahamic religion. Our prophecies have been fulfilled. Our people, once the weakest, has now all but concurred the world. All this coming from a jew who is not blind to our people's 'shortcomings'--to put it lightly. But it should at least make you wonder... Maybe they are....

Growing up I was taught that my people had a special role in history. We were elected to guide the world toward God. We were chosen to teach the world personal morality, proper political organization, and the immanence of divinity in creation. It was taught as a responsibility; I was held to a higher standard because I was a Jew. Never did I think of myself as being special or better than anyone else because of my ethnicity. Ok, admittedly I nurtured a certain pride in my peoples accomplishments. But I always believed that all people are equal before god. But recently I have come across a different understanding of being "Gods Chosen," one that I believe is deeply flawed and racist. I have found some passages in the Talmud (one of our many books) that are just gross. They talk about the inferiority of all non-jews. Now that is not the essence of the rabbinical tradition.Judaism is about universal humanism and dignity for everyone who does not violate the basic moral law. But, being honest with myself, I have found this attitude in a lot of people. Its like they want to keep our special knowledge for themselves; while I believe it is meant to be shared with the world. With all that said: is the idea of "Chosen People" racist?

I have learned to see gore the same way I see porn. They are two sides of the same coin. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

@sleep No, I mean crucifixion as a metaphor for the ultimate suffering.

Existence is a spiral. Along the way to the center there are various experiences: your first kiss, a scraped knee, third row seats at The World Series. As I approach the center of the spiral the experiences become more real--they are increasingly profound. It is difficult to express exactly the nature in which they become more 'real.' It is like their significance to the ultimate nature of being becomes greater. Torture is a deeper experience than a school dance. Progressing towards the center of the spiral I learn more, but each step is more painful than the last. With great wisdom comes great suffering. "The Giver" is a book that describes this process. Also the television show "WestWorld." In that show some people are trying to figure out 'the maze.' (Below is a picture of 'the maze') What is at the center of the maze? Crucifixion! The ultimate experience is crucifixion--the greatest suffering & the greatest wisdom... Why do I crucify myself?