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Pretty wild steel man of Eastern culture that you wrote up there. It's great to be modest if that's what you wanna live, why do they enforce it on others? The east is not communal out of a sense of wisdom and healthy community, it's more out of a sense of desperate grasping. Are muslim fathers known to wisely hear out their daughters that want to dress provocatively and let them live their way if they want to or just beat them into submission? Also most of the middle eastern countries and China have big shows of wealth. It's not exactly quiet elegance anymore. There's something to be learned from all aspects of our civilization but I wouldn't say that the concept of modesty as it's expressed in this thread is an honest one.

Yes I mostly agree. Being fully masculine is like being a warrior with no home to go back to. You just endlessly rage on/get bored. I envy warriors of the past when they got back home and fucked their girl, that must've been the nut of a lifetime.

I don't agree with this premise. Culturally enforced monogamy is not a necessarily great thing. Freedom is harder at first but yields greater results and more satisfaction at the end. It's like if instead of being able to find a career/build a business/find a life purpose you were mandated to have the same job as your father and his father before him. It would make life easier and maybe you'd even happier over some periods of time. I wouldn't want to live like that though. You now have to understand your society at large to understand what a good dating strategy is and understand yourself deeply to understand what you even want. What do you personally struggle with in our current dating culture? I used to have a hard time but my current social circle strategy is working quite well. I expect that in 12 months I should have a pretty phenomenal relationship with 1 and more likely many phenomenal women.

I haven't read all the responses but I would assume that Religiosity has more to do with trait openness and risk tolerance than intelligence. Most people don't have the innate curiosity to go too far outside of their belief system if it doesn't benefit them. So the same person straight vs being gay will have an incentive to go outside of their belief system but that has nothing to do with how smart that person is. And then traditional religions threaten you with eternal suffering for disagreeing with them so you gotta have some level of risk tolerance to go against that.

I'm watching the new video and I like the idea. An idea that keeps coming up though is how all the low consciousness stuff is not truth and it should be avoided in pursuit of real truth. Is duality and the low consciousness stuff not most of the point of life though? Accomplishment, mission, legacy, sex, money, power, etc is the result of a limited self on this earth exploring reality. If the point of life was really love in terms of just this ascetic existence filled with introspection, isn't that where we all came out of anyway? You could say instead of selfish destructive corruption the goal is more self sustaining "corruption" that we can all partake in. But being super anti hedonism and the pleasures of the flesh seems like an epistemic blindspot though both in traditional religion and in what Leo is preaching. Especially since Leo is an INTP(same here) which are 3% of the population and thus being at home and pondering stuff is his natural comfort zone, not necessarily a truthful way to live.

Be careful of demonizing money. Money is a universal medium of value. Meaning that if you can't monetize your craft/passion its most likely because it doesn't have value or you're not good at business. If you're not good at monetizing your thoughts/they're not very valuable what makes you think you're not thinking/working on nonsense? Plenty of useless and toxic stuff gets marketed and sold well but plenty of high quality concepts do as well. Thats why mastery is such an interesting concept, you should master something thats both useful and valuable.

I would take charge of the process. What type of men do you like and where would they hangout? Spiritual men? Men in finance? Artistic men? Spiritual men? Waiting to find someone is kinda like wanting to get a job and instead of polishing your resume and applying for jobs you just take a bath and feel good about yourself so that you align to the right opportunities. I wouldn't recommend it.

Why is it depressing? You will get UBI and be allowed to pursue your life purpose, passions and hobbies freely. Governments are already working on it. In Canada Bill 206 is being pushed which should lead the way globally for this There is a massive pull yourself up by your bootstrap sentiment right now so I was positively surprised to see this. I expect the republican party in the US will be calling people lazy that can't compete with 24/7/365 robots when they soon come out but hopefully that type of attitude isn't prevalent.

It's a great period to get into the crypto market. The genius act and clarity act just passed the house and will most likely be signed into law this/next week. I would argue that it is a legitimate get rich quick scheme and one of the only ones out there. The Crypto market cap is at 3.8 Trillion at the time of me writing this and it even reaching 5 Trillion is an insane amount of money flowing down the industry. I think its gonna be pretty much at 15 trillion by 2030. It's definitely not guaranteed and your money can go to $0, be prepared for that and do your own research but the fundamentals are solid. US banks and investment giants like Blackrock, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, etc are building crypto positions so the market is in a completely different spot than a few years ago where internet nerds was the only thing giving it value. Theres many hundreds of hours that you can put into researching cryptocurrencies and bitcoin. I would recommend the first 9 episodes of the What is Money show by Robert Breedlove & Michael Saylor. Explains the fundamental value proposition of Bitcoin and its potential: Theres also great books by Saifedean Ammous, first of one being the Bitcoin Standard. I listened to half of the sequel, the FIAT standard and it really opened my eyes to the concept of money. The main concept of Bitcoin is getting rid of sneaky inflation through money printing. “If a prince wants to keep up a reputation for being generous…such a prince will always use up all his resources in such displays and will be eventually obliged, if he wishes to maintain his reputation for generosity, to burden the people with excessive taxes and to do all those things one does to procure money. This will begin to make him hateful to his subjects and, if he becomes impoverished, he will be held in low regard by everyone.” — The Prince, Chapter XVI In the Prince Machiavelli warns that raising taxes is the top enemy of a ruler. FIAT money solved that problem by making the process invisible to the population. We can flesh out more different projects in the comments, I'm more of a speculator and I heavily believe in altcoins right now. The safest bet is starting by buying some Bitcoin & Ethereum and getting comfortable with the industry. I think avoiding it altogether is gonna be a crucial mistake over the next 10 years, especially as AI/AI agents expand the size of the economy and you really start to feel the inefficiency in your capital strategy and buying power. It's a complicated industry, I'd say I have around 300 hours of research in Finance/Crypto these past 2 years and I'm still learning stuff daily that blows my mind. Agentic Finance is my next area of study, I think the potential of that niche is disgusting.

@samijiben The study of morality. Morality in this situation can just mean behaviour that is win-win. So I don't see why investing money in the stock market/Crypto has to make someone else lose. Therefore it is ethical and moral.

@Joshe Can you explain how you use it and what value you find from the canvases? They’re cool in theory but I’ve built a few and I forget to check them for months so clearly they’re not that important for me.

Great conversation on the potential of DeFi to not only empower people but fundamentally free them. If you can make your own money and store it securely then the ability of authoritarian structures to oppress you drops by like 90%. Think of all refugees having had to flee their country in the past 50 years and cross a border into a foreign land with basically 0$ to their name! Crazy that people made it, I’m proud of them but let’s leave that to the past. That plus AI agents leaves me extremely optimistic for the future and the empowerment of the individual and eventually our species as a whole.

@samijiben Why are ethics and chasing the bag incompatible ethics? That’s demonstrably false and a toxic mindset.

Agreed. Obsidian is phenomenal and the best tool for building a second brain/commonplace book there is.

@Something Funny Of course. Depends on which causes you wanna back but green energy is a trending stock just as much as defence contractors. You can always just build something yourself. Investing is using your capital to further someone's mission. And due to the global financial markets being based on speculation that has more leverage than you just using that money on your life(those sweet exponential returns) but it doesn't necessarily have to. I would argue that Crypto and AI agents are gonna lead to some of the most ethical projects as they support decentralization of governance and ownership as a whole.