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What inspires you most about science, engineering and technology?

There is no other righteous way than to convince the people through right action though. Such as Gandhi with India. You must stand for the principle and inspire the people through devotion as otherwise you become a tyrant as well.

@NightHawkBuzz People employ different strategies to survive or maintain their identity in this world. For some people that's being obedient to the system and they get dopamine from getting validation. For some others it's the exact opposite, acting out and rebelling is what gives them a sense of identity and pleasure. Generational trauma is a good concept to encapsulate most of this. When you have an unstable home life regardless of race you don't have the option to just behave and be at peace; your life is a constant struggle and you bring that struggle with you wherever you go.

@Someone here Why do you say that?

@gambler Why are you against it now?

Well you guys have covered the sour grapes part of it; the psychology of it is pretty clear; Hate what you can't have(at the moment.) What I don't see commented much about is the masculine disliking the feminine by pure confusion and as a stranger danger type of thing. I remember I had a girl come to one of my photoshoots last year and I had a strong dislike for her even though she was cute and sweet; which confused me. I've reflected on it this past year and I realized she's one of the most feminine woman I've ever interacted with and it was deeply unsettling for me. Super free-flowing, dancing without a care in the world which is like the complete opposite of my mind which is always hyperactive with ideas and analyzing the world for danger. It's a strange dichotomy because the feminine is my favorite thing in the universe and I feel dead without it but I have a hard time feeling it too closely as I lose my sense of self and control within it.

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.