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Your 'intuition' is just your bias. A much better tool is strategy. Strategy is not a plan - it is a system for solving problems.

Nassim Taleb Tim Ferriss Daniel Schmachtenberger Peter Ralston My economics professor in university who proved how neoliberalism was dysfunctional. Watching him debate was like watching a Lion tear a gazelle apart. Total domination. He steel-manned his opponents and slam dunked them anyway. and Leo of course Also, some engineering personalities specific to my industry who are geniuses in their niche. There are lots of geniuses out there who just don't find a platform.

Fuck yeah Dems. That slaughter in the hearing was beautiful. RFK's PR training is pretty damn good, but even the best framing can't beat Truth.

https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/ The manual on how to fuck up an organisation. Or do the opposite of every point to make it great. It is a hilarious read - sabotaging a fascist regime with this book in hand would be peak human experience.

Don't overthink it, just listen to me. I am always right and everyone else is wrong. I will lead you to paradise.

Life and death is a construction.

Mind is Material. Material is Mind. All your mind is recorded into physical reality, all of physical reality is created by mind. Every thought is just a neuron firing, every neuron firing translates to inexplicable consciousness within God. Consciousness is a direct result of physical reality. Physical reality is only possible within a consciousness. That is the strangest fucking loop.

You can't improve a system without pissing everyone in it off. Be okay with resistance, and push through like a tyrant if you know you are right. But you better be damn sure you're right, because if you can't convert people from pissed off to glad quickly they will lynch you.

How so? I've only seen a few podcasts with him. He seems like the typical brilliant and neuro divergent type.

That's what George Hotz is up to right now. https://tinygrad.org/ He's quite an interesting guy to research when it comes to tech.

Crashing Out

He's not wrong. But not sure he realizes he has the unique ability to 'stop doing suffering'. It's not like people can 'just do it'. You got to have a pretty damn developed and trained mind.

Good point. But I didn't know people seriously thought Trump was a solution to that. His tariffs would directly increase inflation. That problem is bigger than what a government can handle, there's no fixing inflation with an election.

What does inflation have to do with the Trump mind virus? I don't think Trump won based on any real economic arguments, only vibes.

Oh, I'll be the first to admit how dysfunctional and ape-like I am. I take pride in my ability to do that, where Trump supporters take pride in being hateful and ignorant. That's the difference. I am privileged to be able to do that.

Sure that plays a role, but that is no excuse for backing neo-fascists, zionists, sexists, racists, religious extremists and digital robber barons. I am that twenty something straight white male struggling with money and sex in low to middle class society. I should be Trump's main demographic. I don't subscribe to that ideology because I recognise it is suicidal. I was lucky to discover self help and people like Leo at an age where I was able to rewire my brain. The tragedy of it all is that the alt right voter base in being led off a cliff like lemmings because their minds are malnourished and under educated. Also, most people are just genetically geared to be selfish little pricks. They will do anything that provides short term gratification because they literally can not operate on a timeline longer than a few weeks. It is their own fault, yet they are also victims of who and what they were born as: Ignorant, greedy hairless monkeys.

That Africia geography video has to be the only coherent content from Thomas Sowell I've ever seen. Beware the rest of his conservative bullshit.

Touché.

Agreed. Democracy worked brilliantly until the internet and social media emerged. Like an inverse bell curve, the dummies and elites consolidated too much power and the reasonable people in the middle suffered. A dummy with a vote has more impact than a reasonable person with a vote.

"You need over 1000 IQ points in order to out-perform a trial-and-error approach." - Nassim Taleb It's better to be antifragile than intelligent. "The person with the most staying power ultimately controls the deal." - Robert Ringer, in Winning Through Intimidation Don your turtle shell and get moving.

Jesus got killed for trying to teach people forgiveness and compassion. Best you can do is discover the most conscious mode of being you can muster and lead by example.

I'd never seen these published before - it's really interesting just to hear his day to day running of companies. He comes across as a normal switched-on boss who wants the best for his company. This is not to excuse him of his fascist arc - but you gotta acknowledge he's a master businessman and leader. I haven't watched the entirety of these videos, or even know if they are just a PR stunt, but it does help frame Elon in a more complete light. I also recommend reading Character Limit, if I'm giving him too much credit for you here. That will knock him back down a peg.

Humor is a survival tool! Comedy is a built-in remedy against suffering. Suffering causes depression and anti-survival patterns. Thank god we can laugh! Because it's fun and it keeps the fun going.

The only difference between Isaac Newton inventing calculus, and you learning it from a textbook, is that Newton derived it and you were taught it. One can't have true understanding of anything unless you can re-derive it from first principles. 'How did Newton invent calculus?' is a much more powerful question that 'Can you teach me calculus?'.