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Jobs was Green/Orange while these old-school Japanese work culture is Blue.

I've been seeing a few of these videos, it's just sad. I don't understand how you could even do this. 3 hours of sleep every night, no off time, nothing!?

Well, if those companies would try 6-hour workdays instead of 12, then we can compare. Lots of data shows that 4-week days can be more productive than 5 etc. I doubt working people to death serves any purpose.

I love that, do you have some source for the cultural insights? I grew up with Japanese people, they're very warm and kind but I've never been to Japan (yet). But sadly what I saw in those videos doesn't look like collectivism but individualism and people being worked to death, though it's always in Tokyo (I think?) and of course wouldn't apply to everyone in Japan.

From watching the limited number of videos of these guys on Youtube, they do think of it that way, but they're trapped inside a system like you describe.

I don't think so. I saw another video where a guy explains the work culture. There's lots of strange customs, rules and seniority stuff going on. Said they're not productive at all.

The other day I posted a thread cause I heard about this article: Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now? in UK Vogue. Because THIS IS HOW WOMEN THINK OF THEIR BOYFRIENDS NOW! Have they not told you this? But it's not their fault, it's the GUYS FAULT! Today I was at the university library sitting across this girl, normal day. Her 'boyfriend' shows and doesn't know how to act and start obsessively PDA'ing her and she's really not that interested. He continues, to the point where she LEAVES THE FUCKING ROOM! Then I just peek over at the guy cause I'm like 'wtf is this' and this wimp is shaking cause he's probably having some anxiety attack or whatever. THIS IS WHAT WOMEN HAVE TO DEAL WITH THESE DAYS! And I got this confused with feminists being assholes in my previous thread. No. It's the MEN's FAULT. Fix yourselves. Become someone a woman will be proud of dating.

Do you believe that spiritual experiences are something most people benefit from? Can most people who desire to expand their consciousness? In another thread someone said something like "some people go to 10 ayahuasca retreats and nothing changes" and that is true. Some people go to 6 Tony Robbins events per year. Can we then conclude that some people simply cannot expand their consciousness in this lifetime? And does that then make a kundalini retreat or a yoga retreat or a psychedelic retreat completely useless to them? Surely it's still time better spent than being on TikTok.

Because almost everyone is conforming to the same shit, but at the same time our primal brain seeks leaders.

Merry Conformistmas

Well, here Dec 21st is the shortest day of the year and it sucks. Thousands of years ago they already came up with these mid-winter festivals. That is why we celebrate Christmas. But I think it's stupid also. I'll just be working on my laptop and ignoring it. It annoys me businesses are closed.

I wasn't really referring to Actualized.org members, we're a special breed who do all this self reflection and whatnot. I'm referring to the general population of spiritual or semi-spiritual people who go to a retreat. Do you think most benefit from this? It seems to me most go for socialization purposes, just like why people attend church. Different but related question: do you think the average modern Orange/Green hippie grows their consciousness at all in their lifetime, or is it just a bunch of air, even WITH proper spiritual practices such as Kundalini?

I really enjoyed Leo's videos on this, let me share them here again. And another interesting one about Ai replacing programmer jobs. My experience vibe coding is: I've learned how all this works and will be working with a professional developer on actual commercial projects. Share more!

Thank you for sharing these. It is fascinating just him saying relax makes me really relaxed. Just the power of someone's words that then reaches my own subconscious mind. Imagine all the other impressions throughout the day, and how they affect our subconscious.

And is this future AGI that you're describing conscious? What is your definition of an actually intelligent AI? And how can something like that run on a computer? God can run on Windows?

This happened a while ago. So I was at this 3-day self help seminar and there I met this girl. While we were both in this rush of excitement and energy we hooked up. Then we were in this very intense relationship for about 3 weeks before I broke it up. Shit was just weird looking back. It was like she surrendered to me to an extend that's not appropriate when you just know each other, or ... ever? Like there were no boundaries there at all. Her house was a total mess so I helped clean it up with her. But there was weirder things like her kid got taken away from her and put into foster care. Now that's not something the government does for no reason, especially from the mother? That's exceptional. So something was going on. At some point she was on the phone with her sister and she just turned into this evil thing and she spoke with such hatred. That spooked me and I broke up right there. Or really just walked away and ghosted her. This was all very confusing. But I also did things that would cross boundaries under normal circumstances. Like I bought her a toy for her kid (who I've never met). Remember this whole thing lasted 3 weeks. But I was really excited to buy the toy, because it felt nice to give something. While I was at the baby store I also bought another toy for the girl who's the receptionist at my co-working space cause she also has a baby (single mother). So SHE asked me: "did you go to the baby store just for me?" and I answered honestly "not just for you". But later this receptionist seemed mad at me. I also brought this "girlfriend" into my co-working space, just to introduce her to people there (it was a very informal place). But people deliberately tried to ignore us. That was really strange because they usually always talk to me. Shortly after I had to cancel this co-working space entirely because it just felt so weird, like I had done something terrible. Did they think I was pimping her or something? This girl was probably overly submissive in her body language. Seriously, things were never the same again at that co-working space. It felt like some rumor might be going around about me or something. It was awful, while things were always nice before that.

Pretty cool use of AI. The guy just used img > video models to bring old paintings to life. I never thought of it but it's a cheap way to get nice footage for historical documentaries like this one.

Brock Lesnar is a beast. Early Lesnar was roided up like a mf but man, look at that physique. Then he went to UFC and won the championship, which is totally unheard of. This man is a true freak of nature and one of my favorite WWE superstars. Also Leo would be happy to learn Lesnar is very nonconformist 😂

Your take on Ai really confuses me. So we can never get far with the LLM model, yet you say there could be agi. You mean off an entire new tech that nobody is currently working on? And do they start working on this from scratch or off the LLM technology? Or do you mean the existing infra of all those datacenters gives us the ability to propel into agi? Are these your own ideas or did you get them somewhere else? I'd really love a video on this.

Exactly. Some countries, women have a natural respect for men and lift their men up, naturally. He will behave more masculine as a result. In the West, you could be spending 20 years on a career, making money, having a nice car, and women will STILL go "idk about that". It completely flips the dynamic in the wrong direction. But it's still the guy's fault for allowing this.

Of course! If anything his WWE run held him back from more success in combat sports, but the money is great.

Yes this was helpful, thanks for the insight.

It appears to me that having an obedient wife is better but I never hear anything like that in the mainstream media. Is there any evidence that having a modern, feminist wife has advantages or is better for your spiritual development? In a relationship I'm much more interested in guiding her spiritually and empathetically correcting her beliefs. And of course helping each other achieve goals, work on a business, be there emotionally when needed. But my masculine energy and her feminine energy should be enough. Thoughts? Edit: there is a chance I am confusing 'modern feminism' with stage Orange selfishness, but what else is modern feminism BUT selfishness?

Dramatic title but I am going to reduce my usage of ChatGPT and cancel my Plus subscription. Why? Because its pre-programmed communication style is FUCKING AWFUL! using the phrase "no fluff" and “shouting into the void” constant “curious what others think” sign offs that never actually respond to anyone contrast framing everywhere, it is not x, it is y, repeated over and over fragmented, pseudo profound sentences. short. isolated. trying to feel reflective over explicit signposting, things like “here is the key takeaway” or “the important part is this” "you're not imagining it" Here's the original Reddit thread btw if you wanna have a laugh: http://reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1pmu4fc/the_em_dash_giveaway_is_gone_these_are_the_new/ Look, here's a conversation I was having about an order in my business being delayed and refunded. Look at this: Why would you say "without making it worse"? Why is this thing even suggesting making it worse? WHAT!? I never fucking said later today! Why is it programmed to talk like this? Do you know how many custom instructions I've given it already? These just get COMPLETELY IGNORED! What a useless piece of junk. Also hallucinations seem to be getting worse. It just talks with confidence until I ask it to actually look that up online and then it does a full 180. This might be because it's programmed to weigh the user's conversation style preferences heavier than factuality . Something I've not seen in Google Gemini. Now that's me talking about ChatGPT as a chatbot / companion. Of course the GPT models are great and I'll continue using the API for coding and other tasks. But seriously, they programmed the chatbot to talk to absolute morons and I'm unable to overwrite its default behavior.

Yes.