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It gives me a boner. This is a pretty common reaction I think.

This is the spiritual part of Bali. Today is my second day here and it's amazing. Lots of business here are owned and operated by local families and it really feels like my money is going back to the community. Balinese are very friendly and welcoming people and incredibly warm. Many yoga places here, massages, incredible food and rice field views. They say influencers have ruined Bali but I think it's the opposite. Service and presentation in restaurants is superb, probably because of the influencers. Today I had two ladies tickle me for 90 minutes straight. It's supposed to bring out your inner child, felt pretty relaxed afterwards

Because it would seriously reduce the quality of my life in return for a vague promise I can't even check for myself. I'd literally rather spend it on toilet paper. It's totally different if I'm making it my life purpose though and actually travel to Africa to do the work. Then absolutely I would.

Yes exactly, everyone is oriented differently so let them do as they please.

How do you know all this? Can't you imagine being married to the same woman for 50 years? Those old people don't care. If swinging spices up their sex life who are we to judge?

Ever since starting my business I've become so practical and utilitarian. For example my Muay Thai coach took me out for dinner and I immediately thought "yeah but I pay him 1000 baht per private lesson, he only paid 500 for dinner once so that's still not much". Or when service staff is being kind and friendly to me I immediately think "that's just their job". Perhaps when I was younger I was really naive with this stuff, but now I feel like I've overcorrected. Same with girls. I just think "they're only into me because of these biological reasons". It's just annoying. Like I've fallen too deeply in love with my own rational mind. And can you blame me? That is after all what's given me this lifestyle. So put simply: Young me: naive, anxious, irresponsible. Now me: cautious, self correcting, rational Future me: less rigid, gets shit done through pure magic. Proper SD Green integration.

Fantastic by not doing it. Instead of taking these volunteer jobs in Bali I decided to focus on building my own web design business instead. Now I'm in Bali with my own money, own work hours and much more freedom. And I can still go to yoga and resorts whenever I want. But that's personal. I can see these being fun when you're young. I'm 37.

Excellent question and very well put. Isn't the problem that guys like that have giant egos? You don't do arena tours just to help people (which in itself is an egoic reason) It's about the rush of being on stage, of being significant, making the business work. I've seen many NLP guys cross over into all sorts of shady stuff such as Multi Level Marketing.

This is why Elon has 8 kids.

The AI isn't the problem

We've already offloaded our brains into the computer a lot. If I were to upload all my LLM chat history to this forum you guys would know more about me than I know about myself. Social media posts and other thoughts you've shared continue to exist on servers after your dead too. Thoughts you shared in these forum posts included.

If you just work on your purpose day in and day out, it doesn't really matter how you feel cause you got bigger fish to fry.

Leo has finally replaced himself with AI

Not sure if this video has been posted already but it's worth the watch Boils down to: both OpenAi and Anthropic are deeply indoctrinated by this weird doomer religion. So everytime you hear doomsday talk about AI, now you know where it comes from.

I think I'm just being impossible with this. I just fantasize about stuff, like a hopeless romantic. I really enjoy my current life which is full of little interactions, that's mostly my social life now and I'm happy with it. Perhaps a girl to explore together with since I'm here in Thailand. But at the end my fantasies are just that. People have flaws and relationships arent perfect. For now I'm choosing to just think about these things instead 😝 What about you?