NewKidOnTheBlock

At some point during the 80s neoliberalism started to get adopted by the Western world as a way to increase the state's GDP and economic output/competitiveness, emphasising free market values and less state intervention. The downside of such a system is that, given enough time, it eventually produces bad actors and elites who can potentially destroy the system itself and the democracy that allowed it to exist. However it also supercharges technological progress due to the principles of free market competition and the rapid commercialisation of new products, which tends to lead to high rates of flexibility and constant iterative improvement (with customer feedback serving as the end of each iteration). We can clearly see that with the rate of technological progress at this very moment. So, although the more Keynesian model of economics may lead to more decent living standards in the short term, it is actually technological progress which sets entirely new levels of living standards previously unimagined. It also leads to even more democratisation and liberalism, and we are nearing the end stages of that process

It's a nice conformity, I appreciate it. I'd like to hang around this place for couple centuries at least, with this body and ego. Or you just prefer respawning constantly? LOL maybe next life you respawn as an ant and you'll keep getting squashed and you'll just keep respawning every few minutes

They're maximizing their muscles i.e. testosterone. Which is fairly strange to me. But simps gonna simp regardless

Women into bodybuilding are weird lmfao I don't care if you call me a soy boy. It's not attractive at all on a woman

Yeah I think he'd continue. Living an elf-like existence is pretty cool regardless of philosophical implications and dimensions to this whole thing

I mean yeah, it might be literaly impossible to never die, but it certainly might be possible to extend your life dramatically. There are couple of species on this planet who are considered biologically immortal, meaning they essentially do not age because their stems cells keep regenerating or they start to age backwards when damaged. Trees age extremely slow and some of them have been existing for thousands of years. Bryan might be inefective about the methods he's attempting to achieve it (via specific diet, exercise, blood transfusion etc.) and his goal might be unachievable in the literal sense, but that doesn't mean that the research regarding aging and age reversal isn't moving forward or that it's not possible to extend human life, nor does it mean that his contribution isn't valuable at all

It's fine as long as you don't spar. You'd beat up most people even without sparring anyway

Don't you have the same ideology? Subconsciously at the very least? Or are you in hurry?

He's pulling these numbers out of his behind clearly. 100 years from now will be so different it's gonna be hardly recognizable. This is a guarantee. We're not on a linear timeline anymore.

Engaging in these debates and ideas as a normal straight man is some sucker shit in my opinion. Regardless of whether you make yourself agree with this narrative or you are staunchly opposed to it. It ultimately leads to no place with sufficient measure of incentives nor truthfulllness. Any conclusion reached is just pointless, vapid and not entirely truthful. I can understand why women and LGBTQ folk views it as so important, but for the dudes it just seems like such a sucka shit to engage in, I genuinely don't get it. Must be because I lack humanity of course, the fault is always mine right LOL

I'm sorry that this happened to you. All I can say is that you shouldn't be so sure that there won't be any solutions for you in the future. This is not a regular, normal timeline we are living in right now

Agreed. Human emotions and biases get it the way of accomplishing things way too much, in fact all the time. I've started noticing and realizing recently just how many human dialog/conversation trees effectively serve no function whatsoever. This should have been obvious to me a long time ago but I wasn't attuned to it because I'm also just a human with my own inneficiencies. A.I. might sometimes or even frequently halucinate/make stuff up and it's limited by it's lack of agency and the lack of ability to genuinely experience, but the inteligence differences are there already. It's only gonna get more and more evident as the time passes

Is anti semitism in the room with us?

Not according to these graphs. In fact, the progress seems to be accelarating as per expectations https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-capabilities-progress-has-sped-up https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/eci https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/metr-time-horizons https://epoch.ai/trends https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-epoch-brief-february-2026

Do you honestly think that there is enough political will in the US for a draft to be successfull? Or in any western country for that matter? Not meant in a confrontational way but it just feels implausible to me. This is not like the WW2 whatsoever, or even like Iraq war when public had been massaged with propaganda for 2+ years before Iraq was attacked. I don't think it's a stretch at all to say that majority of people in the US now think Trump is an idiot and the war is utterly stupid and meaningless. I kind of feel like it would be a better scenario because at least these idiots wouldn't use nukes. And absolute majority of people would be trying their best to dodge draft. There's no way they'd pull this off

No, I think the situation is actually more nuanced than YOU and many of these YouTube commentators talking about bubbles (most of whom know nothing about AI or programming, nor do they have much analytical and problem solving skills) portray it. AI ITSELF is NOT actually a bubble, it’s just that some companies, mostly OpenAI, are having some existential troubles due to bad strategic decisions and the way they communicate with the public. The economic downturn, bubble, and scam allegations are just a lazy cop-out; a form of cope for luddites and people who fear change. Worker replacement is also more nuanced than how you described it, and the main thing blocking it is - and always will be - companies' and people's unwillingness to adopt AI. It’s not that the AI itself is incapable of replacing humans or that it’s less effective. We are currently in a transitional, pre-adoption period from what I can tell. Research is moving much faster than implementation and the people's willingness to implement it can keep up with. But it's going to happen eventually. I personally knew programmers who are already using AI for everything, and they’ve been telling me it’s just a matter of time. I think I'll take their word for it LOL AI is not the 17th century tulip bubble, it’s not really even the internet boom/bubble. AI is legit Industrial Revolution 2.0. I think people are forgetting that we’re dealing with a completely different beast here. But we'll see who's right and wrong. Or maybe we won’t.

@Raze I believe it is just a form of cope. If I was living in Israel, I’d probably be coping the same way, trying to make myself feel better by becoming extra liberal, feminist, etc. That’s why there’s no point in debating with these people

Trump's presidency really set a new low, like, the minimal standards are really at the Mariana trench at this point. Literaly any other canditate who'd replace him would be a relief for the world and humanity

Yeah you don't look marxist enough on those photos. You need longer hair and a moustache at least. And a nose ring so that we know you're from the 21st century

Lowkey I would probably take Jake Paul over Trump. That's how deep is the shithole in which we're all stuck

Cranked out a decent one while reading this

There aint no testudo formation for shaheds I'm afraid lol

Always nice to see a civil war between people you dislike lmfao

Just give it a handful more years, maybe 20 at most if we wanna REALLY push it. And these scarcity driven topics will no longer be relevant. Then the feminists can enjoy their soys lmfao. Or we'll all be gonezo, honestly I'm fine with either

I honestly think nothing's gonna happen but Israel is just going to continue being leveled, Tel Aviv to be specific. US will pull out eventually and Israel will just surrender to Iran's demands. Or there'a going to be a costly ceasefire (for Israel). After being threatened with annihilation by Russia and other countries for so many years, it starts to feel empty