LordFall

Thanks for explaining your side. Politics is a dirty game as it directly rules over our lives and deaths. It's natural to get heated and emotional but it will not help us solve our deep issues. I don't have an answer for you apart from making a far-off suggestion to channel your anger into productive action. I've been reading up on history and the founding of our modern states and it's been humbling. They managed to make up mostly peace and order out of far worse chaos than we have now so I wouldn't give up hope. The bonus point is we have AI to make ourselves smarter, better, and eventually reach objective truth so that's a big plus.

@integral Has he shared that in that series? First I hear of this; interesting. @Yeah Yeah If you want elaborate more on your situation and I can give you more practical advice. Do you live in a western country or a more restrictive one? Have you tried pickup? How is your social life outside of the dating scene? You can always learn to get laid. You will still be in pain afterward but at least you won't have that insecurity/shame anymore.

@Rafael Thundercat Dude yeah that's creepy as hell. There is something about deliberate evil that's so terrifying.

@Javfly33 Sexuality is very interesting, very related to your brain, psychology and "trauma." Like for me it has a lot to do with FOMO and missing out even though I don't connect intimately with many women but want to have sex with them. So I tend to be heavily into porn more than actual socializing/pickup.

@BojackHorseman Do you feel like you have a personality that's in general avoidant of commitments? You might very well be in a green is greener on the other side situation where your life is exactly how you need it to be but you have to let go of some deep-rooted fear/trauma about being trapped or something of that nature. That's what you saying you don't want kids and want to break up with a good partner to go chase young tail tells me. I think @Schizophonia is right and it's your ego. I've also felt envious of my more extroverted friends that have an easier time getting laid than I do but the more I watch it in detail and understand what's going on; the more it just seems like a dysfunctional social matrix I don't really want any part of. Like most of dating is just two people kind of storytelling to each other random nonsense and then humping for a bit to dissipate stress and then avoiding each other until they do it again with another person or do it a few times. It's not particularly deep or meaningful.

I like how you put it that he was looking for a piece of the universe that was similar to what he was. I'll contrast it to another guy I read about a few days ago(Trigger warning NSFL text) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kürten That guy went to the more extreme end of killing/raping people to feel something and he justified it as he also went through horrors. Thomas Day is but a slightly unorthodox experimenter by comparison.

We avoid pain

This makes a lot of sense. I tend to relate and have better conversations with older women but be really attracted to the younger chaotic feminine ones. Has landed me in a couple relationships with BPD type women. @Antor8188 It's part of the game brother. I've had plenty of humiliating moment in my journey as well. Here Neil Strauss talks about going on a date with a girl and she ends up making out with a random dude on a bench. Important to also identify correctly the emotions you're feeling. You're just feeling a big blow to your pride/ego. Which feels agonizing but literally gives you growth so in a strange way you actually won out in this situation.

Fascinating story; thanks for sharing. It seems like he was a mix of a rich kid and an introvert who wasn't one for social games. The feminine can be strange to grasp for a very masculine mind with its freedom from the bounds of what seems like safe logicality for some of us. Soon enough we'll have AI girlfriends; I guess that's what he wanted to have. It is an interesting case though, he didn't seem to have abused them sexually and let them go after a few months for one and a couple of years for the other. I guess his ego learned the lesson and he pondered on the meaning of freedom in his later years which led to his writings against American slavery. He also was literally killed by kindness so interesting twist: "Day was thrown from his horse while trying to break it using kindness at Barehill, Berkshire, on 28 September 1789 and died almost instantly."

Can you elaborate on your experience and what kind of symptoms you have now? I have some experience of de-relization at times after taking psychedelics which sometimes are pretty scary and anxiety inducing and at other times quite calming as I realize that my problems and life don't really have that much weight in the grand scheme of things.

@Javfly33 So what should he focus on? I feel you're just spiritually bypassing and judgmental around sex.

I'm very glad for this video, at the time he released that NFT I really wanted to buy it. I do think he works hard and is a smart guy but after watching leo's video on integrity the whole business scene is so disgusting to me. These guys could never be in the position they are without cutting corners, embellishing stuff and yeah literally scamming people. This statement is wild after people paid $5k for about nothing. Basically a dark-stage orange response. A couple years ago my dream would've been to end up being basically this guy. Glad I didn't end up going that path.

Can you elaborate on the point of this? Like what is the full fleshed-out vision you see with this? Companions in a video game? Talking to as a friend/therapist? It would be kind of cool like a superior version of the sims where you can play God to your own civilization in VR with AI characters that aren't conscious(so there is no moral grey area ) but they behave exactly as if they would be.

There is a project called Earth Species Project who aims to map all animal language and make it translatable using AI. Can't wait to talk philosophy with my cat.

@Rafael Thundercat I feel similarly. Spirituality both made suicide less taboo for me than before but also more pointless. Might as well enjoy the experience and learn to integrate the suffering. Been suicidal lately as life got hard and I'd say spirituality has helped more me than not. I would say specifically stuff like the power of now and the meditation habit that I got from you Leo have been very helpful.

Glad this is happening in the age of AI and AGI otherwise I don't really see a way out of this. Apparently, the democrats are heavily considering replacing Biden for this run so that's interesting.

@Shodburrito I see your point but you're conflating awakening and models of consciousness. Spiral dynamics for example just means you can see the world from an increasingly large perspective and the more people do that the less stuff like violence, racism, intolerance, etc will take place. Most things are relative to a point but the more we as a species increase in empathy the less we collectively suffer which I'd say is objectively better.

@creativepursuit Are you sure that this integration of Yoga and AI is anti-spiritual? Is the whole point of spirituality not to end duality and to have this sort of arrogance and reject any technology seems more like spiritual bypass to me than this being an actual bad idea.

People like him and David Sinclair at Harvard combined with AI/AGI is how we will probably develop biological immortality this century. God bless him but don't listen to him everything he says; I agree with that part of your guy's skepticism.

That doesn't make much sense to me, he would be suicidal as an introvert going out 7 days a week. All extroverts have an introverted function in the 2nd spot of their function stack so it's not like they explode from spending time by themselves necessarily. Extroverts get energized after a bunch of socialization though. I've never really felt like I gained momentum after sets like most PUAs talk about, if anything it drains me even if the successful ones less so. @VictorB02 It's a cool idea. Similar to Ivern in league of legends. He's the only jungler that frees the monsters instead of killing them because he's the spirit guardian of the forest. Our entertainment, in general, is too focused on killing, growing up I thought I would get a gun at 18 and just go assassin mode on people that pissed me off.

Made up statistic, over 60% of men have had sex in the past year. To be fair if we only take the % of single men perhaps it'd be closer to 20-30%.

Do you guys know the backstory of Owen? He was miserable and depressed living in Kingston Canada then took a Boot Camp with Mystery, took his business model, and did it himself after moving to LA. It's a cool story, but it's hard to replicate. He threw himself into this and went out 7 days a week for years according to him and I believe it. He's speculated to have an ENFP personality type so he gets energized by going out and talking to people; perfect business for him. As an INTP I've studied game for years and been around pickup coaches. Most of the people who find great success in that career are ENTJs or ENFJs like Owen. I met Mystery himself; cool guy. Engaging speaker but seemed lost in nostalgia and deeply hurt. The story of pickup will be an interesting one for humanity.

Couldn't Kamala Harris have ran? She's decently popular and has a a lot of experience.

Find friends outside of work to go out with that will accept you is what I'd say. It'll always be hard to make people accept you especially if they have an emotional bias about it.

Would your wife be open to joining the swinging scene/be into an open relationship? Just probably do a lot of self-improvement before then as she'll be way more attractive to random men then you will be to random women otherwise.