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Of course. Most business is about solving people's problems. The profit motive can corrupt that but if you're in general a high quality thinker and problem solver there are endless ways to money through that skillset.

I like the idea that the main function of government should be to provide security for it's citizens. The control part just being necessary to achieve that end. If I were to use just logic to think of a simple perfect system I think smart contracts mixed with AI surveillance will be the norm. You will have AI constantly watching earth 24/7 and your private data will be viewed by no one unless it detects that you're aiming to do something criminal and then it will counteract that either by warning you, alerting authorities or in an eventual future where we all have neura link type devices by straight up stopping you from doing it. As strange of a future as that sounds, I would argue that most problems in society today stem from us not having any technology on earth currently able to apply the rule of law universally. The UN is a laughing stock organization because they don't have military power(and for good reason) but you can picture an AI augmented UN(that also is able to monitor not only the populace but the ruling class as well) to be able to solve basically most problems of humanity. I believe that crime will disappear from our societies in the next 5-20 years very predictably. Someone like Donald Trump who's taking a sledgehammer to the US government and somehow managed to become the most powerful man on earth despite being a raging criminal from many accounts will only further highlight the necessity to having an immutable legal system and blockchain is a perfect technology for that.

It's the best time in history to make money outside of the system. It's incredibly difficult but rewarding. I've been working on it for 10 years with many successes and failure. It's a deeply personal quest as your mental blocks and passions are gonna be different than other humans. I would start watching a few business videos on Youtube and seeing what catches your fancy

Leo started out as a life coach which makes sense to me. You take your inquiry process and turn it into specific outcomes you offer people. He then used the power of social media to amplify that to the point that he could then switch to a more passive income model instead of a weekly active coaching model. The book "So Good they can't ignore you" by Cal Newport talks in depth about turning your passion into a lucrative endeavour and where common pitfalls are. I would be extremely careful with this mindset as money is much deeper spiritually that most people and seems like you included give it credit for. It's a universal account of value. Meaning it's a strong counter to delusion. You can sit in your room and ponder random stuff all day but being able to turn that into value for other humans is what makes your thoughts valuable and not random nonsense.

It's beautiful, love space. Can't wait until we explore it further.

@SimpleGuy Sure, why not? You have to be careful with the correlation not causation fallacy. You can be an unproductive member of society and not watch porn and you can be a daily gooner and be very productive.

I think it's in the first episode where he mentions one of the payoff of doing this self-actualization work is that the concepts you learn build over years and you get the satisfaction of understanding the world better than anyone else. I remember watching this series years ago before I really got into politics and it made a huge difference on my understanding of the world. Without it I would've been a way angrier person that uses divisive rhetoric accidentally instead of seeing the power of uniting people.

@NewKidOnTheBlock I believe it is inevitable. Elites fundamentally have nothing to gain by keeping this AI technology to themselves. Short term yes there will be a lot of layoffs but I believe this global UBI system is coming. Many countries have already started testing it. Saudi Arabia has an early prototype of this system where they distribute the profits of the government owned national oil company to their citizens. @Ishanga I think we've improved in the last 500 years but it's definitely not enough. I lived in Toronto for a while and it was a beautiful mix of all cultures and people from all around the world. Now Canada is facing some anti immigration sentiment but it is all economic. If we manage to fix our geopolitical issues and unite then humanity will have a bright and wealthy future ahead of itself.

Would love to live in Miami for a couple years.

Doomers and general pessimists are one of the most cringe people imaginable and I try to never associate with them if I can help it. Basically a proud version of the victim mindset. I hope you grow out of it, it's one of the most low value and disgusting mindsets in my opinion. Weakness is not a virtue, only growth and abundance are. The best example is this subreddit, read it for 30 mins and you'll get depressed like a cloud of negativity infected you. https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse Read my posts on the 5 coming infinities to get some optimism back into your life

@origin Be careful with Notion they're notoriously a hard company to deal with and they can view all your notes nothing is encrypted. Obsidian is much better. I've used Notion for 2 years now, up to 32 000 notes. It's a phenomenal software, thank you to @Leo Gura for introducing me to the notion of a commonplace book, it's taken my intellectual ability to a whole other paradigm.

This is generally a red pill topic but I find can also be deeply spiritual. Most men and a lot of the comments and the post I see on this forum come from a low value mindset and perspective. Your viewpoint thus is corrupted because the problems that you complain about are more based on macroeconomics and personal responsibility than actual dating and cultural trends worth addressing. Have a career/business that allows you some financial independence and pleasant lifestyle and work on your emotional trauma and communication skill and you'll have an infinitely abundant dating life and rise above 90% of the problems the average man has to deal with.

@Leo Gura Thanks for the tips man

@Hojo Why on earth wouldn't you pay for your dating life? Tinder platinum and a boost are like $60 and can get you unlimited dates if you have good pictures. Paying for things you find valuable is a no brainer to me. You need paid dating apps unless you're a male model and even then the guys I know that are pretty good looking are also spamming boosts so really there's no reason to not pay for dating apps unless you're broke or somehow make it an ego thing where somehow beautiful women should fall into your life without you having to expand resources to make that happen.

I think it's a very important paradigm to take on. It actually removes the pressure and self identification with your lack of results if you see it as a skill issue like a video game. Gaining or losing value then becomes a conscious choice instead of a limited identity you're stuck into. When I was in my early 20s I remember taking some upgrading classes and there were cute girls behind me talking about one of the guys she was dating and he was a fire fighter with his own place and car. At that time I had no job, was living in my dads basement with not much going on for me. People in this thread talk about delusional confidence and it does help but do you think it would be easier for me to get that girl then or now that I'm more established, run a business and known dozens of women in my city through being an event host? @NewKidOnTheBlock For sure dating and social circle and networking has lot to do with the value you offer. If you're valuable people gather around you as value is just being able to solve people's problems and make their life better. Who wouldn't want to have people like that in their life? There are also men that are chaotic entities due their lack of inner alignment and will pretty much make the life of anyone who stays near them worse. Sometimes that works with women short term but rarely long term.

@Leo Gura Most emotionally mature women don't sleep with scumbags. Depends how you define scumbag obviously but high quality women generally have especially long term relationships with high quality men. I don't know very many low level dudes banging or dating attractive and emotionally healthy women and I've been in the game community for almost 15 years.

Are you seriously saying you don't think they'll be able to? If it can even do 30% of the efficiency of what an entry level worker can do it can already be massively leveraged to not outright replace a workforce right away but most analysis from mainstream firms are predicting massive layoffs starting from 2027-2030. Unemployment in the US right now is at 4.4%, if it doubled in the next 5 years that'd be pretty drastic.

Allergic or afraid of?

@SwiftQuill Any tips for starting one? I've written a few articles on substack before and I enjoy it. If I could even get 50 regular readers that would be pretty cool. I have a decently big audience on Instagram but it's quite shallow and whenever I talk about something deeper I lose like 90% of mainstream people

Agreed I like to enjoy my life much more than he does but pioneers like him will be how we actually become immortal. I've started also playing around with using ChatGPT as a personal trainer/macro tracker and it's 20x better than my fitness pal. It's just gonna be very easy to slowly orient your life towards excellent with AI coaching. Let alone when AR glasses become mainstream and you can have it actively monitor and improve your life in real time.

I've only just watched the first 15 mins as I must force myself to go back and finish the truth one to not leave these all partially watched but I like it so far. I'm an INTP with a very strong logical mind and I run into the end of logic consistently. Like it's hard to logic your way out of my own existence being a figment of my own imagination. Excited to watch the rest of the episode and the upcoming ones. Any books in particular that touch on this topic or other sources you recommend apart from the meta rationality website?

Definitely some sort of UBI. The job market cannot keep functioning even if AI fulfills even 40% of it's promises. 2027 will be the year of massive AI layoffs to the tune of 10-15% unemployment. If you're an average dude work on your social network. UBI depending on the countries will take years to successfully implement but layoffs can happen overnight. Families used to stick together with 15-20 people in a household I think we might have a similar period. Eventually it'll lead to post scarcity and abundance for the whole of human race the even the most optimistic scenarios for that are in the 2040s.

Excited for it. What do you have against AI porn @Butters ?

I feel like that's an unfair characterization of the situation. If you read the article multiple people, Noam Chonsky included were well aware of the shady allegations and his arrest for underaged sollicitation and chose to ignore that in favour of the status they gained from being friends with him or in favor of the intellectual stimulation that being friends with an global elite provides. I mean it's an interesting argument of moral relativism. Plenty of people think themselves moral characters but support wars where thousands of children are tortured and killed. I don't think it excuses being friends with a human trafficker though.

That was really creepy for me to see yeah I think trump is two faced and will say whatever to benefit his currently agenda. Which was known before but seeing it so clearly like that is very off putting.