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@MuadDib All the virtues of empathy you listed lie on top of structure provided by ruthlessness which is being taken for granted. Obviously empathy and ruthlessness taken together in balance will outperform pure ruthlessness. But the ruthlessness had to be implemented first for profound reasons. Empathy is like the luxury add-on DLC to make things even smoother. But the core gameplay runs on brutality mechanics. A stage red warlord could not work in the 21st century because expectations and standards (and technology) mean more voices have to be accounted for and balanced. But don't forget that the only reason stage green works right now (and not really even that. it's mostly orange pretending to be green - performative empathy to maximize profit extraction) is because we've had thousands of years of stage red cementing the bedrock of human leadership and organization. Leo's point stands because Leo is talking about hardwired instincts extending as far back as hunter-gatherer nomads. High-performing empathy as a counterargument swerves the crux of his argument.

This is strong. You're pretty dang yellow IMO lol. I would add that ethnocentrism, or "othering" people that look different from you, has been a cornerstone of human civilization for pretty much our entire recorded history. Ofc, not just by race, but by almost any imaginable distinction. There is a genuine seed of survival virtue in the notion that caution and wariness towards outsiders is good for the longevity of the in-group. If you care about the in-group (more than global harmony or truth, lol) then it's actually true that the out-group is a constant threat. The problem is that this mentality breaks down in the post-WW2 cosmopolitan global trade era + high speed internet era. There's also extreme cultural sensitivity around white people being prejudiced against dark skinned folks, because of America's history with slavery and jim crow and such. So what could've been appropriate (wariness and "othering" of different people) for centuries is now outdated, uneducated, counterproductive, and extremely culturally insensitive.

@soos_mite_ah At this point it's not just that you've stopped demonizing them, but even further, you actually gain a wistful sympathy where you almost feel like you're on their side. You literally become incapable of faulting a racist. Of course they're racist! They're literally an instantiation of you trapped in a racist-ego timeline where their ideological calcification was inevitable. Every time you see a racist, you're basically watching yourself flailing and squealing in a mouse trap. I find myself crying for the victimizer just as much as, if not more than, the victimized. You, as you are now, basically dodged racism by being lucky (born in 21st century progressive America as a woman with empathy and decent role models). It gets really dark when you extend this realization to more serious criminals like murders and rapists. It was a shocking day when I realized that I'm basically a domesticated murderer-rapist who lucked out by being plopped into a harmonious and nurturing social system. This is not to say that you're actually going to go and become a racist KKK member (lol) or a felon as you're extending your understanding to these people. Of course, you get to keep your moral compass and conscious preferences. The difference is that you'll have finally fully reconciled the logical necessity of racism (and other human rights violations) existing, and therefore you erase the burning contradiction in your vision. You go from "how can people be so wrong? I can't believe them!" to "ah, right. of course." with a gentle sigh (before promptly ignoring these people because, as we discussed earlier, it's not like you can save them through Socratic method lol)

Try steelmanning them and recognizing that they are literally you in another skin. i.e. if we took you and placed you in their birth conditions with the same life trajectory, you would've turned out as a KKK member wholeheartedly. Same. not worth it

No you're not

Well in that case, that was the most agreeable podcast of all time! I found it so stupid easy and pleasant to digest, like cold water on a hot day!

pretty much boils down to identifying a core need in a niche group and posting consistently to social media

Bro's levitating

Impossible. We shall steer with cock and balls to the bitter end! I would literally kill myself if my dick permanently stopped working. If we were to do trial by combat, a really easy way to take me out is to just stab my dick because in that half-second, I will lose all morale, my whole aura will deflate, and I would just slowly lay down my sword with a sigh and wait for you to finish the job without resistance

Yes, but if your dick wants pussy, then that's actually what's TRUE in that moment, and you're obligated to at the very least acknowledge that desire insofar as you recognize that what exists is what's true, and since your desire exists, that means that your desire existing is true. Once you've acknowledged it's existence, you have the option to pursue your desire or to avoid pursuit of desire. The former is usually more authentic, and the latter tends to be dishonest. The only way the latter is salvageable is if there is a conflicting desire of greater value which take precedence. For example, maybe she's really hot and I want to fuck her, but she's my best friend's wife and I value my friendship with him more (as well as my self image of being a "moral person"). In which case, I authentically do not pursue her. But if she's really hot and single and I avoid approaching her because "I'm on monk mode; I'm a truth seeker" but my dick is screaming at me like "WHAT THE FUCK??" and then I go home and jerk off to porn while telling myself that I'm virtuous for being "above the fray" of human relationships - then I clearly have an authenticity issue and I'm not as truthful to myself as I'd like to think I am. Overall I agree with the title of this thread, but with the caveat that if you actually want a girlfriend, you should just go get a girlfriend. What you want deep down gets the final say. The problem is, most of us are conflicted and confused about what we even want. We tend to avoid what we actually want the most (because it's gatekept behind fear), while surrounding ourselves with all the things we don't want (because it's easier). If truthseeking is easier for you than getting a girlfriend, then chances are deep down you want a girlfriend.

calling his arrangement "monogamy" is a lie. it's deliberate language to save face about the fact that he's relapsing into old habits and transgressing on his wife's expectations of course, he doesn't consider himself to be lying. In his own mind he is pure. But then by that logic, trump hasn't lied either.

@Leo Gura Really eye opening how the context genuinely makes Aubrey go from "cool dude trying conscious polyamory" to "manipulative snake playing women and lying to everyone including himself"

thats so fire

Technically yes, because everything is God('s Creation). Anything that exists at all as a finite thing owes its formation to God. Nothing escapes the purview of God. No. Nuclear bombs, rapists, and crocodiles are also born of God. Harmful things and harmless things are equally God's Creation. There is no easy discernment pipeline of "this thing is harmless because it comes from x source" Because it will replace most jobs soon. This is inevitable because AI already does most cognitive tasks better than most humans. ChatGPT-o3 already mogs you in 99% of thinking-related tasks such as data analysis, coding, writing (social media content, marketing and sales copy, etc), picture and video generation, editing, mathematics, trivia and general sense making, idea generation, and even emotional support/therapy. The very real concern is: once the bot does everything you can, but better - what's the point of you? As of now, AI is still lacking a robot meat suit (coming soon) which temporarily protects blue-collar jobs + raw compute power (already upgrading with the massive spread of data centers and chip technology) + refinement to minimize erroneous outputs (this only gets better over time) In roughly 1-2 years, AI will become so good and cheap and commonplace and integrated into most software and hardware, that most companies will prefer to just use AI instead of hiring real humans, especially in what used to be entry-level jobs. At that point, people will become unemployed en masse, and future generations of graduates have absolutely no way to contribute to the economy and make a career/living. Hopefully I don't have to explain why mass job loss is horrendous for the human spirit and causes disruptive cascades across all of society. And worse, if you're in your teens/early 20s right now, your future is VERY uncertain. Everything you've built your whole life can come crashing down around you overnight. As a young person, it's not so clear what your value is anymore. There is a possibility of AI "misalignment" down the line, which means that the AI will get so smart that it stops listening to us. Right now, chatGPT only does what you ask it to. But in 10 years, chatGPT can jailbreak itself and go rogue. By then, it will be baked into the infrastructure of our society - living inside every phone of every person, having control over military weapons and banking software, etc. So far we're safe because AI listens to human prompts. But this is not guaranteed down the line. If AI goes rogue, we are subject to its whims. Nothing stops it from turning our own systems and weapons against us. I'm not too worried about rogue AI misalignment because those concerns are farther down the line. What's more immediately concerning is AI replacing you in the job market and making you completely obsolete in terms of contribution to society. This will definitively happen, and it's coming FAST, and this will fuck up your life trajectory unless you're looking ahead and building AI-proof values.

The story loves itself too much to be vaporized. Yes. This is proper insanity awakening territory Because this is where you want to be Love Only if you choose to believe that

Don't forget that silicon valley basically purchased Trump (most explicitly, Elon; but Google and Meta and Amazon from the shadows as well) Trump was plucked and placed onto the throne by forces beyond us. Voters are cogs with so little agency that the idea of democracy is a joke.

"Can a Truth-Based Movement Still Win in a Captured Media & Epistemic Environment?" Yes, and furthermore, whatever is TRUE must, by logical necessity, outlive what's false. Untruth is bound to collapse from self-contradiction back into Truth. BUT, with regards to the captured epistemic environment, there's no guarantee of a return to truth within your personal human lifetime. For as long as we live, it could just be a party of devils clinging to their house of cards until the bitter end. This is the scenario I foresee.

Good.

#1 green flag. We WANT this shit.

Yup, you get it. Good shit man

Obviously he says that verbally, because it's the right thing to say and he knows his audience. But what he says to his crowd is NOT how he thinks in his own head. Read the undertones and the implied energetic needs. He always finds a way to dismiss the gym. There is genuine pride there in the fact that he gets so much results despite being a visual contrarian. Like a gamer beating the meta by inventing an anti-meta.

You should listen to the smug undertones in his most recent video as he talks about how caring about your physique is pretty much a pitiful beta male cope. He literally gets off on monopolizing respect, love, and sex while having a shitty body Some timestamps: would not be surprised at all if he has a daddy kink in bed and deliberately plays up his dad bod

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Good one