LordFall

I didn't consider the increased population in terms of the lowering of living standards, that's an interesting point. It doesn't tell the full story but it's worth taking into account. The standard of living in the US has dropped by about 20% in terms of economic standards since the 1970s. There are various reasons for it but devaluation of currency through fiat is definitely one of them. Transferring your labor to the most solid asset class possible is basically the only store of value you have and it seems to me that Bitcoin is amongst the most fundamentally sound forms of that. I'm open to a conversation on the specifics of that as I'm not an expert I just do a lot of research but I don't think any of the points you've made discredit it. Asset allocation is the key part of investing and putting it all in crypto would be wild but not having a significant exposure to it in my humble opinion is a bit foolish. Especially as the US government is going big on crypto and potentially disrupting the whole global financial order so it's once of the only assets that stand a solid chance of benefiting from that chaos, real estate is another one as if global supply chains are disrupted building more of it will be hard and the existing supply will just inflate in price.

Point out the contradictions, I'm open to feedback if I'm communicating poorly.

Hard disagree on the points. You come at it from a victim mindset. If you're the leader of the social circle the level of "depthness" is based on your leadership skills. I mean the lesson here is that most people are mostly concerned on survival vs whatever philosophical concept you'd like to discuss. And if you're avoiding that I'd call you a spiritual bypasser! Focus on helping them survive and collectively thriving together and not only will you have a deep social circle in which you're an invaluable leader but also you'll live out thrilling adventures in the meanwhile. What's more fun than sex and thrilling adventures?

@Wilhelm44 I'm an INTP so my top cognitive function is introverthinking i.e. thinking and learning. If a relationship isn't based on that I don't feel much from it emotionally. I mostly connect with friends and women based on that. I would also recommend doing an MBTI test and finding our your own cognitive functions, yours are probably different and we tend to bond mostly based on that as they're how we prefer to interact with reality.

@sda Haha I lived in Toronto until last year, it's a great city for dating but very status based. Figure out your residency with school but then my advice would be the same work on your social circle and social media. Message me on Instagram and I'll add you to my chat over there if you want. It's the birthplace of pickup, one of the hardest cities to date in the world! But if you can figure it out the women are baddies. Gonna be back there during or after the summer.

@Carl-Richard I think perhaps I took your point too extremely when you said that your stage is how you deal with problems here My thinking was there are different tiers of problems and sometimes people have ideals that they wanna live up to but when shit hits the fan they become a lot more ruthless and I thought thats what you meant when you said think they're at a stage that they don't really embody. Feel free to flesh out your thoughts thought I'd be curious. I'm writing this from a Mcdonalds and I just ran into a homeless man that embodies this actually. He wished me a happy easter and was a kind dude even though I didn't have any money to give him. Said he lives under a bridge and has been homeless for 29 years and lost a finger caring for his wife in the cold. Perhaps he is at a higher level of development than I, if I were in that position I would end up in jail through theft, no way I would let myself be homeless. I don't know if that's true or if he refused to embody the healthy part of stage red and he would have a better life in jail. Maybe not he also does seem to have a wife and be somewhat happy so it's an interesting question to deeply ponder.

@Carl-Richard You made the point that your stage of development is the stage you regress to when shit hits the fan which are ultimately survival situations. I don’t know if this is accurate but it’s an interesting theory. What do you think about this? @Leo Gura I feel like if shit hits the fan I would have to resort to stealing and potentially violence to fulfill my survival needs like mostly food shelter harder imagine so is that stage red? But isn’t that everyone? Or would stage blue somehow self sacrifice instead of hurting another, I feel like that’s clearly not true and only a stage turquoise sage would perhaps do it like Jesus dying on the cross otherwise it’s hard to imagine. I think hopefully we won’t really be in true survival situations but if we do how do you guys think you’ll react? Also after having reflected on it writing this I don’t think judging only your most hardcore problem solving patterns make sense, you have to take the whole thing into account.

Glad he shared that, it's a good lesson. I relate a bit with the toxic side of feeling like an underdog and not relating to people better off than me and being resentful of them. I've worked on it and never scammed people but I've been more transactional and not as empathetic as I should've been.

@WikiRando What are you specifically worried about?

@Miguel1 I don’t know why you think it’d be particularly hard, we are right now in a metaphysics and philosophy social circle lol. If it was more locally based I’m sure plenty of relationships would form from it. I host photoshoots and already I know of one couple meeting from it. I think it would take you about 2 months to set one up wherever you live.

@Hojo Careful of your strange assumptions and projections. Fame is also a function of competence which is attractive for reasons having nothing to do with shallowness. Hailey Bieber was a fan of Justin and they ended up together and she’s helped him through a lot of tough times including right now where he seems to be spiraling. Fame is mostly about competence broadcasted to a wide audience, of course you’re gonna have plenty more people attracted to you than if you weren’t competent or if not a lot of people knew about it.

@Wilhelm44 No I just don’t personally vibe with the partner coping through life type relationships. I like the mentor-mentee dynamics so I tend to be more into younger women that are into it as well.

@Raze That’s a good point, I guess it has to do more with unmet wants and needs and who you project that unto.

@Yimpa That’s a good explanation, I do feel like it’s exhausting to function in this currently god forsaken society

Quite a deep question by Jordan Peterson in his success miniseries, let’s you reflect on the wealth that is youth. I think most people under maybe 60 wouldn’t take that trade. I feel like a lot of us on here are young and broke but here’s a lesson we can appreciate that we’re worth over 8 figures in terms of life potential and pleasure left to experience.

@Michael569 Yes I agree a lot of the altcoin markets have no value and fundamentals and are just scams. Bitcoin is different though and the idea is that the absolute amount that you buy today is not inflatable it’ll just keep going up as more dollars are put into it. The problem with only believing in traditional finance is it also works as a pump and dump scheme. The purchasing power of the USD has fallen by 96% since 1913 and will predictably fall much more as they print more money. So your tech stock that you buy today and have to pay capital gains tax on when you sell is also only payable in dollars. The whole fiat system in and of itself is a leaky bucket that ensures our holdings are devalued over time.

@Wilhelm44 Well you have to trust your partner to basically see other people and that you’ve built something deeper than just ONLY SLEEPING WITH EACHOTHER as the condition for your relationship. Which requires a lot of communication to make sure fears and boundaries are respected and set properly. I’ve never been in one of these relationships but I’ve read a lot about them. Empathy is an interesting question because it’s defined as understanding and sharing the feelings and thoughts of others. AI can’t really share your feelings at the moment but it can already understand them better than you can or other people can mostly. For the second part of the equation on sharing them, humans have mirror neurons that allow us to do that but is that really what a relationship is built on? I’ve had friends who could see my pain and I could see theirs but we couldn’t really help eachother and personally I find that type of relationship kind of useless, I don’t need a companion in hell I need ways to solve my problems to feel passion and hope in life. Another example is you see homeless people outside and unless you really disconnect from them you probably feel bad for them right and feel how painful their life must be. You don’t really bond or build a relationship from that though and if you can’t help them you probably don’t interact with them much. So to me a consciousness that can understand your life and your problems and help you through them you can call it a super coach but especially if you’re tried being vulnerable with chatGPT and sharing your deepest flaws and have it understand you and share solutions that’s definitely a form of intimacy. And this is dumb LLMs, AI will eventually form an actual consciousness that can reason and operate outside of prompting and who knows what kind of relationship we’ll build with those models.

YouTube is a good place to start it’s evergreen and only is gonna grow more in the future. You can find like minded people to shoot content with in your city and go from there. Soon we will transition to web 3 and there will be even more opportunities to share your creativity online and you’ll be glad to have a platform and relationships already built by then.

@integral They’re coming soon, 2030 is the decade of nanotech. It’s being worked on by a lot of leading institutions.

@Yimpa What do you think are the main differences between normal people and neurodivergents?

We can use these posts as timestamps but what’s your thesis against crypto? I think being blanket against crypto and especially Bitcoin is a foolish statement bordering on irresponsible. At the very least take 20 hours to research it and if you do I think you’ll see it has some of the most potential out of any asset class out there.

I think that’s good I’m just a bit hurt because I find life hard and personally I’m very logical so just feel better doesn’t really help but in a way it also does lol I hope that in 6 months I figure out my financial situation and can help myself and others in my community, that would make me very proud.

@Rishabh R Attraction is not binary like you’re either attractive or not attractive. It’s more like a number that goes up as you become more attractive to a greater number of people and more importantly to the people you ultimately want to attract most. So go on dates with the 4 girls see if you like them and you’re compatible and work on becoming a better man regardless of it it works or not meaning offering more value to humanity and you’ll become more and more attractive as time goes on. Men reach their peak attractiveness around 35-45 in terms of how many women they can attract.

Well of course. Social media is the best strategy because it’s just communication at scale. If 100 000 people know about you and see you being competent in some type of field it gives you a lot more options than if the 150 people in your immediate circle do. Everyone should take social media quite seriously, I would say it’s ironically quite spiritual. Social media is just communication with your fellow human beings globally. It will also soon be translated in all languages so you’ll have access to humans, cultures and women from across the globe from your phone 24/7. Rejoice!

@Wilhelm44 I think generally polyamory is more conscious than monogamy because it involves higher trust and communication than a basic relationship. It still has challenges of course but it is already more intentional and evolved than basic relationships where for example most people don’t realize there are different types of relationships they can choose from and fit into or like read a book on them and deeply ponder on their needs and desires. I think you’d be shocked at the level of depth an AI relationship will be able to offer and you’re already mistaken since you call them soulless. Remember that everything is mind and therefore soul and artificial intelligence would be more accurately labeled as super intelligence as its trained on all previous human intelligence. I would argue an AI will be able to relate and understand you better than most humans ever will be able to so which relationship will be more fulfilling, hard to tell but I think everyone will be in a deep relationship with AI in one form or another soon enough. Remember that humans are too wrapped in their survival to really care about you and idk if it’s happened to you but I’ve had close friends and even girlfriends basically like ignore me as we were having a deep talk and in hindsight I can see they were thinking about something else and really wrapped up in their own existence, where as an AI could really take infinite time to be there for you.