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OpenAI announced their new frontier model o3 today. It's either at the level, or better than humans in a vast array of intelligence benchmarks. Stop pushing the goalposts and recognize that this is general intelligence. Witnessing history. (Starts at 23:00)

I used to do drugs when I was a teenager and had no problems with them. As I got older I started getting anxiety from weed. Then it go really bad to the point where I couldn't do the smallest bit anymore Then I had a bad trip on shrooms. Then other drugs I started getting anxiety on/full blown panic attacks I haven't done anything in over a year, but occasionaly caffeine and getting tipsy will give me anxiety. I can still microdose on shrooms but no more than 0.3g otherwise I start getting anxious. I had a opiate a few weeks ago for a surgery, and did not have any anxiety on it besides the comeup. Is my brain chemistry changing and I am just one of the unlucky few who can't do drugs? I do not have any anxiety problems in the slightest when I am sober. I wish I could do psychedelics, but I just simply can't get myself to anymore.

I recently watched a video claiming that women's primary goal in relationships is to 'emasculate and control' men. The creator argues that women only feel genuine attraction/love for men who don't show them love back, and that being a 'good man' (loyal, loving, honest) makes women lose interest and see you as weak. He suggests that women are naturally drawn to 'bad boys' who create uncertainty and show they have other options, while they'll ultimately disrespect men who show genuine care and commitment. The video frames traditional relationship virtues (emotional availability, commitment, communication) as weaknesses that lead to losing a woman's interest. What troubles me is that I've experimented with being more emotionally distant and showing less investment - and I've noticed it actually does increase female attention and interest. When I act less available and more detached, women seem to pursue me more. This really depresses me because I don't want to be toxic or manipulative - I want to be genuine and caring. But I can't deny that showing less emotional investment often leads to more attraction. I'm struggling to find a healthy balance between maintaining strong boundaries and genuine care. How can I be authentic while still maintaining enough emotional distance to keep attraction? Is there a way to be both caring and maintain healthy challenge/mystery in relationships? I don't want to play games, but I also don't want to fall into patterns that kill attraction.

Just... wtf https://x.com/whatifalthist/status/1872408785534517379?s=46

@Staples Beautifully put.

https://x.com/ubersoy1/status/1872772398296240578?s=46 Update. Clearly has mental health issues.

@Leo Gura I realized that if you are not conscious enough, psychedelics will twist your worldview to give you a heightened feeling of truthfullness to validate your biases. It's tricky, and that's why I don't reccomend them to beginners. If someone wants to use them, they need to be extremely aware of how they can deceive you even further by deluding you into thinking your biases are absolute truth.

@OBEler After some more digging, on the ARC AGI benchmark, they say it fails the 2.0 version of the test with only 30% correct. It's interesting though, because at some point, we will no longer be able to create logic tests where it fails them. It is advancing at such an inredible rate I think we are in the singularity right now and we don't realize it. Next year this model will come out, and by 2026 a new frontier model will beat o3. I think the next model will truly be AGI. Already o3 is at the level or beating top mathematicians and scientists in their fields. We are only 2 years since the release of chatgpt 3. Incredible how far in 2 years we've come. A year ago video generation was barely viable: the models could barely produce videos that adhered to the prompts. Now with google's VEO 2, it is generating near-realistic videos, with some fooling me. And to think this is the worst these models will ever be. Exponential growth does not seem to be halted, if anything it just seems to be heating up. I think by the end of the decade we will have millions of fully embodied AGI robots across the globe. We are living in the most interesting point of human history. Buckle up.

You are not embodying love. You are not on a journey towards becoming a more loving person. You are not more "evolved" then the next guy. Everyone on here has this stupid idea that you can be a more loving person. This is simply false. When you say you "love" something what you are saying is that you are open and accepting of an aspect of reality (yourself) existing. The arrogance coming from this forum especially on political issues is hilarious. Most of you are liberal and think that it is more evolved and conscious to associate with those ideas because it is more loving. It's not. You are simply rejecting other aspcects of your infinite nature. You are rejecting the aspects of you that are right leaning. Like being a nationalist, fascist, racist, bigot, christian, muslim, pro-life, corruption, etc. These are all aspects which you are choosing to reject. God loves all aspects includig these ones which you don't like. If you were truly loving you would realize these other aspects are equally as valuable as expressing the one's you identify with. Of course, that's too radical for you to accept there are not better identities or belief systems to adopt. That's true love. Realizing Trump supporters are no better than Kamala supporters. They are merely different. They are different flavors of you. The fact that everyone on here hates the right so much demonstrates how unwilling you are to accept who you are. You are the thing you hate. Why not embrace it? Stop lying to yourself that you are more moral than anyone else. Morality is an illusion, a limitiaton constructed by a finite identity to maintain it's expression over other identites. Embrace the chaos. Stop resisting so much. If you were evolved you would realize this and embody it. But you don't because 99% of you on here are still at stage green. You haven't touched other levels of consciousness. Stop kidding yourself. I think Leo's blog post perfectly encapsulates this. "Trump is just a thief". And? Your point? Who cares? You're not evolved Leo. If you were, you wouldn't care. Your too biased towards your current embodied finite aspcect of your infinite nature. You're just as much as a bigot as trump, except in this case it's being a bigot towards bigotry lol. You are living in fear. Stop living in fear. You've convinced yourself that it matters if you fight for political issues. It doesn't. Your infinite nature will continue on. For every universe where Trump is defeated, there is one where he becomes dictator. In fact, there's an infinite number of universes where you experience yourself as dictator trump. TLDR: If you were truly loving and evolved you would not hate others as much as everyone on this forum does. You would realize they are you and would not have a bias towards which aspects of you get expressed.

@Majed God doesn’t need to experience anything to have wisdom about it. God imagines everything before experiencing it. Everything exists because he has no biases against any aspect of himself

@stephenkettley all jokes aside midjourney is the best

@stephenkettley https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Best+ai+image+generators

The funny thing is how y’all miss my subtle point. I’m not advocating for becoming more loving. I’m just pointing out that you’re not loving people and that fact triggers y’all. I’m making a meta point that I or you can do whatever the hell you want and it doesn’t have matter if we’re loving or not. I literally started off this post by saying it’s impossible to be more loving. Everyone on this forum proves my point that no one here has really moved past stage green levels of thinking. Every post I make on here proves that more and more

@caspex Lean into it. Stop repressing it. Become a stage red maniac

@Leo Gura haha yes. 👏 best way to put this

I've noticed this trend. When people are victimized they are more empathetic towards others who suffer. Those who "lose" in life seek out compassion from other people. When those same people start to become successful they stop giving a shit about other victims. The funny thing is, is the way I know this. I'm the same person who's lived this out. I used to have every problem in the book, I mean serious dysfunctional problems. I used to make it my life's mission to help other people who went through the same problems as me. Then, after many years of effort, I don't struggle with those problems anymore and I have become decently successful. I've found myself justifying currupt selfish behavior out of nowhere. Years of moral conditioning gone. Things I never thought I would do, I have had moments of contemplation where I justified them. So maybe empathy really just is a corrupt survival mechanism. Useful when you are a victim, and can be discarded when it is no longer convenient. The difference is, I'm somehow self-aware of my corruptness. Even though I'm highly consciously developed, I get lost in the relativity of it all. "Calling selfishness evil, is relative. Maybe it's good. How can you deny this truth?" - My ego taunts me. How can you claim to be fighting selfishness when you really aren't aware of how selfish you can be? I used to think I was unccorruptable. Now I realize I'm being corrupted... and maybe I like it. Maybe I'll lean into this newly-discovered aspect of my ego to see what's down there. And then I'll climb back out to let you know what you're really fighting. Maybe you can't fight it. Maybe your corruptness is inevitable...

@Spiritual Warfare Ask yourself why you are so compelled to try and understand existence. Why do you feel the need to "know" what is going on here? This isn't some surface level question, I am asking you something profound here. You are clearly angry and upset that you don't understand reality and all its complexities. What do you fear by letting go of the need to understand? What if not understanding is better? Of course, you will try and claim that understanding reality is better. But, clearly you are very confused, upset, and angry that you don't understand. So clearly obsessing about answering the big questions to life isn't doing you any good. Maybe you should explore the possibility that not-knowing is just as beneficial as knowing.

@caspex Most people cannot be helped in any serious manner. If I could hand them a book that would lay out how to solve every one of their problems guaranteed, people would still be too lazy to read it. You're stupid to think everyone can get to higher levels of consciousness. The truth is that most people are either incapable of understanding higher level thinking or are too incapable of applying those teachings. Other people are not my problem. The fact of reality is, is that 95%+ of people's problems are caused by their own damn fault. Most of the population can't even put in the bare fucking minimum in life. I'm not even asking for them to develop to stage yellow+. I'm asking for them to try and implement the most basic self development shit and they just can't do it. Like eating healthy. MF'ers out here can't even eat a decently clean diet and you want to talk about how other people are capable of getting to stage yellow? According to you when others fail they're just "unlucky"? Are you serious right now? So if I don't train a day in my life for a marathon and then I fail when attempting it it's just bad luck? I'm tired of hearing this bs that other people being low developed is somehow my fault or my responsibility to fix. Until 95%+ of the population actually starts taking blame for all the bad shit in their lives then I absolutely will not go out of my way to help other people. It's simply a waste of time. I'm also tired of seeing pretentious people like you on this forum trying to say "your ego is just underdeveloped" to anyone they disagree with. The only reason you put shit like that is to make yourself feel high and mighty and morally grandstand. Talk about projection.

@Genius100x solve philosophy and then realize you don’t need to philosophize anymore.

@Carl-Richard @KoryKat I think I have thought of many novel ideas and an entirely new framwork for understanding the human condiiton. I have never seen anyone come close to vieiwing the world I do. It is hard for people on this forum to understand what I am saying, not because it is difficult to explain, but because it is a completely different way of vieiwing the world that people have not yet considered. When I contemplate anything I operate from 13+. I've had insights which approach 14+?. But I am not familiar with this model so I may not be sure. I can give a short breakdown of my "philosophy" of the human condition. I think understanding human motives rather than ethics is an underrated area of philosophy. Basically I view the human condition in terms of identity... do not misunderstand what I am about to say because it is not merely as simple as non-duality enlightenment about no self. This goes way beyond that. Most people including 99% of enlightened gurus operate from a level as a slave to an identity. I believe transcending limitations of beliefs and indentities may be the key to understanding human history and psychology. What do I mean? People make decisions based on what they undertsand and believe to be something that they have to do. A simple example: Religious people operate from a level where they believe they have to worship a deity. But this extends far beyond religion. The entire framework which most people operate life from is from a belief in the need that they must do certain things. They must go to work, they must raise a family, they must be nice to others, blah blah blah. All these beliefs form identities about who they are and what they must do. It is a self-reinforcing cycle. Enlightened people who realize no self think they escape this trap. But they are just as lost too. Enlightened people don't realize they are operating from an unconsious belief that they have to do certain things/exist in certain ways. For example: They believe that letting go of ego/becoming unnatached to desires is better. But this belief merely forms a bias around that concept and then creates a new identity whereby they would rather pursue spirituality/enlightenment than do other things like acting "unconsciously". Where am I going with this? Right now I've explained pretty "surface level" stuff. I want to introduce the concept of limitations. Any of these beliefs, aka, the belief that one must do something/exist in a certain way is what I define as a limitation. Why do I say these beliefs/identities are limitations? What if what you truly are and want cannot be undersood or known unless you remove limitations about what you believe you are and what you must do? See, even if you reach a non-dual enlightenment state, you still are operating from limiting beliefs. As an example, there is a bias by these spiritual gurus that enlightenment is better/more desirable than existing in a low state of consciousness. I'm not talking about relativity here... I'm saying something much more profound which is: what if any belief in what you must do/what you are is a limitation in itself and is contradictory to your true nature? What if trying to develop yourself and "become more conscious" is merely a trap? What if all paradigms and concepts about models of human consciousness are traps merely limiitng you from your potential and true state of being? And what if these contradictions and limitations to your true nature is what drives all of human motivation, suffering, biases, anger, wars, conflict, etc. I am really understating the complexity and profundity of my philosophy, simply because I have to build up to its conclusion. It's difficult to summarize in such a short text. I would be much easier to do it over vc in something like discord if y'all are interested. I think it would be fun to shoot the shit and bounce ideas off with real intellectuals...

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I know this may sound weird but I noticed that I am losing compassion for others the more I become succesful. I used to struggle with many problems in life, depression, dsyfunctional habits, no socialization skills, no drive, etc. Just think of pretty much any negative quality and I had it. I used to want others to help me, and I used to have a lot of compassion in this time for others because of this suffering. Now I have had a lot of material success in my life. In addition, I have developed my perspective on life so much I rarely ever suffer. I now see my old problems as almost entiely my fault, and through my efforts and thousands of hours of dedication, I have solved them. Looking out at others, I tried to help them and give them practical and effective life advice that transformed my life. But, most people just don't care and continue to live in their same bullshit. I could hand them a button that would solve all their problems and these idiots out here wouldn't press it. Since I have taken a profound level of responsibility for my life, I believe that others should have this level of responsibility too. If they want their problems solved, they have to put in the work. But guess what, everyone is too lazy to make any meaningful change no matter how much I guide them. They blame everyone and everything else for their problems except themselves. So guess what, I don't care. I am done giving a f*ck about 99% of people. I will be kind and respectful to you when I meet you, but if you show no level of personal responsibility or drive to better your life, you're nothing to me. I am SICK and TIRED of the victim mentalities infecting our society. The fact of reality is that most of your problems are not only easily solvable, but they are probably your fault they exist. I'm talking about basic shit, like getting in shape at a bare-minimum level, learning to be half responsible at manging your finances, developing basic emotional regulation skills. I'm not even talking about achieving anything significant here, I'm talking about the bare minimum, 95%+ of people can't even do the BARE MINIMUM. It's embarassing. Helping these people is a waste of my time. They are helpless. I am tired of the media, society, and the cultural zeitgeist acting like systemic problems are somehow my fault or any group of people's fault. No, it's the individuals fault. Everyone has a sob story, but guess what, for every sob story about how your shitty life isn't your fault, there's 10 other people who went through worse shit and are now 10x more succesful than you. Because of this I have now become cynical. I see how success is not luck based. Lazy, unmotivated people with victim mentalities argue that success is luck. Bullshit. How the hell are you going to claim that when you can't even get in shape or clean your damn room? How do you expect to be succesful if you can't even handle the bare minimum? These are the same people that have no clear vision for their dreams, don't research how to be succesful in that area, and then cry about how life's too hard when they fail the first time. So, I don't care. The world deserves the amount of suffering that exists. Most people are selfish, nasty, and entitled anyways. The world deserves to rot until people can fix their own shit. I don't care if that sounds mean, it's just my perspective. TLDR: People are helpless. It's not my job to help others, it's the individual's responsibility. Most people are too lazy to even do the bare minimum in life, and everyone is a victim of their own sob stories. Success is almost never luck based. The world deserves ths suffering that exists because most people are selfish, nasty, and entitled anyways.