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I'm an avid user of artificial intelligence and use all major models on the daily basis. However, I will remain skeptical until we actual see it in use and are provided with truth, not hype and benchmarks. A company burning $10 billion a year just to keep the lights on hasn't solved the puzzle. By the time public get access to Claude Mythos, Google will be working on the next Gemini; OpenAI Spud will release and China will be trailing behind. Then AI companies have to push for another funding round and spend 5x their previous budget just to train the next frontier model. Right now, it's a loop to the bottom and that's when the bubble burst. AI has only proven to code at a high-level: it has done nothing else so far to be proven. Cybersecurity, if proven, will be their 2nd best product after years of training their model. Lets breathe and wait for AI to prove itself.

Yeah, people justify not educating themselves because AI will solve it. Brains are needed to grow AI and AI tech CEO's are trying to hide that fact, while stealing human data at scale and adding sneaky TOS and auto-approve toggles to steal data (example: Github turning on AI to train on your coding data and most people will overlook this and not toggle it off). This is where I agree with Leo: it's the devils playground. It's thieves at scale, but refuses to admit they are thieves and justify it by making their purpose to help humans, but really just an venture capital farm looking to make a profit, first. I wouldn't be surprised if AI companies starts harvesting deceased human brains for AI optimization. But, they are already harvesting digital brains and human creativity. Our intelligence doesn't need a nuclear reactor, GPU and ram to function: an apple can do a lot of creative things with our brains. Lazy written prompts are now a goldmine for AI once everything else is stolen.

If your business is to provide web development services to clients, stop focusing on just development and more on providing the client with solutions, marketing and sales. You have to be creative with your mind. Once a website is complete, clients are looking to generate sales and revenue: consultation hasn't been replaced by AI. Talk with your clients and actually understand their problems. Most web developers focus on pushing out websites and calling it a day. They care little for their clients business. Build up other skills: AI increasing your ability to be productive? Then learn something else while you produce more. Simple. If you are building a product, stop focusing on coding and start building real solutions. When developers complain about losing their ability to code or AI is frying their brain, then use your mind in another way. I've spent 15 hours per day building up a SASS product with the assistance of AI and I'm a software engineer with a comprehensive guardrail/conductor (non-AI and human quality review). Before AI, I've iterated, built and launch over 700+ websites and designs. Instead of focusing on coding brackets, I turn my focus on building products that provide value to the world. The democratizing of coding should be used to create solutions, building competing products that can be offered at a smaller fee compared to corporate monolith or finding gaps into the market. AI accelerates you there, your software engineering skills makes you better than 99% of vibe coders. Built something that's worth a damn and put your focus on that. Everything else is noise.

A controversial take based on my experience: Pro: His course (Occam's Razor, specifically) is better than majority of RSD PUA courses. It's logical and pragmatic and doesn't give fluff. His layout could be a lie, however: John Anthony is a sex addict and built his entire lifestyle around sex. His lay count is high, regardless. John is not a creep, but very controversial and sociopathic. No offense: Majority of guys here are creeps by the simple fact that you are talking about woman rather than getting laid. Getting laid = anti-creep. There is a part of him that is very scientific and fact-based (he's hardcore objective despite the ego-issues). His advice is very helpful and he's one of reasons I've taken TRT and learned about Maca root (libido). His dating advice is easy to follow and far better than people give him credit for. The reason for his: no one here bothered to even try his course and judging soley based on his ego. As mentioned above: he's very scientific and objective. His Occam's razor course, for example, is not bashing RSD and purely result-driven. very controversial: some of his critique of other PUA coaches are more objective than what he's given credit for. He has better advice than a vast majority of YT PUA coaches than what he's given credit for. Justification if we assume 1k laycount is real: If we assume he achieved such laycount: it would have came from online dating and being a sex addict: John had multiple phones and Tinder accounts (as well as other dating apps) and spent thousands on boosts and advertisements, professional photography and treated online dating as a job/marketing tool due to his sex addiction. Once dating app impressions fatigued in one state, he would travel elsewhere. Example: John most likely had over 100 Tinder accounts with a avg spend of at least 1k each per account across several years: that's $500-1.6k per month on Tinder alone. We are talking about an extreme sex addict that would do anything to get laid: it's similar to a extreme gambling addiction. He treats dating/sex like a marketing funnel (lead magnet, follow up chains and lead tracking) - he has no emotional intelligence and willing to do anything for high-volume game. Note: Most likely, it's heavily exaggerated, but it's still very high. Cons: Very egotistical: he's popular trashing RSD and built his base doing so, especially when it comes to RSD Tyler. If he didn't have such a high ego, he would be a very good coach. He used to be a heavy alcoholic: there is videos of him being drunk and weird on the streets. He used to back controversial characters, such as Andrew Tate before going against him. This was his new RSD Tyler. He goes against anyone that critiques him and willing to go against his friends for simply associating with other dating coaches he disagrees with. He's done this with a friend that did Tinder dating strategies. I've never bought his new course, but they are very deceptive (AI photography) and portrays high-value for online dating. But they do work. Has Narcissism issues: he needs validation of his laycount and/or how good of a coach he is He's slowly becoming what he bashing RSD for: attracting high-volume of men to create a PUA cash cow. Sex addict: his addiction is equivalent to gamblers who spends thousands on their addiction per month and willing to cashout their savings. He has built an entire lifestyle around sex and manipulating woman/online dating platforms. Final thoughts: A high-level sex addict with a scientific, objective and result-driven approach to game that gets countered by ego, anti-social behavior and narcissism. His Occam's Razor course is objective and result-driven, but his personality and ego is his downfall. He's turning into a self-loathing RSD cash cow, but still has game and golden nugget advice to listen to. note: spelling/grammar issues

@ExploringReality Most of them are punks. Non-psychedelic users are mostly full of shit and scared. It's easy to get comfortable with most common spiritual techniques, such as meditation and looking at your hand for 1-hour a day. It's easy to put a dress, get on Youtube and build a following and call yourself a monk. But, it's much harder to get mind-fucked by consciousness and get told that you don't know shit about God with psychedelics. It's ego-crushing.

@Leo Gura To give you further insight: simplified, probably miss a lot more information. He started in marketing within the fitness industry (coaching, client acquisition etc..) He launched his own gym and found a way to grow it through marketing and hard work. He launched Gym Launch, which is a licensing model for gym owners. Gym owners take his model in hopes to produce more leads and customers Gym Launch was successful, but I'm sure it wasn't all bells and whistles (some benefited, some failed). Possibly more failed than succeeded as which typically happens in such a hard industry. He sold majority stake in Gym Launch and went into other ventures. Of course, with GL, he was providing feedback on Youtube for gym owners, but wasn't as popular as it is today and the advice was great too. This lead to giving business advice to business owners in other industries Now, he leverages traffic from Youtube and other social media products and sell info products, educational platform (School.com) to teach business owners how to launch and acquire customers with solid advice. Funnel small % of business owners who are qualified to Acquisition.com / take percentage as mentioned above Those who are not qualified but his fans will buy at least his books, watch his videos and sign up for Skool (founded by Sam Ovens - who sold courses and other info products with a promise of growing as a consultant. Alex Hormozi and Sam Ovens appears to now be partnered in Skool.com Most likely will maximize his business-orientated platform to funnel people to sign up or sell on Skool.com And yes, I'm sure a lot is going on in the background that's untold.

I think people take Ayahuasca for granted, as well as entities. People tend to project their own experience, unto others - but not realize that people can have very different direct experiences. Yes, entities can be used to justify all sorts of bad trips - but the same justification are used for 'it's in your mind,' 'you have control,' 'it's just your subconscious mind.' Entities and Possessions can be VERY real and YOU CAN have them, even with a healthy mind and positive thoughts. You can also develop schizophrenic delusions, obsessive thoughts, uncontrolled and intense-imagination if you are not careful. These things can happen, no matter how well you think or how healthy you think you are. Saying that people are causing their trauma or issues, is the next 'woo-woo' justification - because what if the person HAD a healthy mind and couldn't stop demonic voices or being raped by demons each trip? Do we say it's their fault because they have deeply rooted trauma from childhood? What if they actually had a GOOD childhood and LITTLE to NO trauma? Do we blame their dad and mother? Not all things is rooted in trauma or subconscious mind. Sometimes consciousness just fucks you up.

Ayahuasca (DMT) takes on this ethereal/otherworldly, while adding an ancient/primordial/nature hyper-focus. Because of this, it can warp your mind into supernatural infinity, leading to weird/strange insights. It can lead to deeper self-development and inner-strength, but can lead to schizophrenic delusion if not careful.

@emil1234 Yes, feeling and embracing the trauma is often enough (worst case, a therapist or psychiatrist would suffice - possibly one that focuses on trauma healing). Intuition is keys, as it will point you in the right direction. The beauty with microdosing with 5-MEO-DMT, it'll breakdown the barriers that's holding you back and will often show you where you need to improve and heal because taking much larger, profound doses requires a healthy, mental state. You will know intuitively if you need to increase or wait, as well as how to embrance your trauma. I think you are on the right direction.

@emil1234 Yes, this is common, especially on smaller dose. Larger doses tend to be great for increased awareness, where you can explore new levels of consciousness. At that point (at larger doses), you should have taken care of your personal life, including physical and mental health. Whereas, smaller doses, tend to work on the mind and body and pushes out hidden, trapped or unexpected emotional trauma, intrusive thoughts and other spider webs of emotions you thought you got over. So, it usually happens suddenly and unexpectedly. It catches you like a trap, when you least expect it. So, the best way the move forward is to try to be deeply aware of this emotional trauma and its source. You have to face it like a warrior and forgive what's hurting or negatively impacting you. This will allow you to take higher doses and avoid bad trips, since you are building rome within yourself.

I think defining entities as just 'ego' is the wrong perspective and can be viewed as limited in a sense of understanding of what's happening. Although, i do agree that it can be a manifestation of ego, but it's being used too broadly. Entities, such as jesters are not just a manifestation of ego but apart of your consciousness, like any physical form, such as your friends and family. Of course, we are not telling our ourselves to let go of any of the latter. Non-duality is like any other form of spiritual consciousness and not the highest level of god, in my opinion. Entity consciousness. such as a jester, can encapsulate all forms of spiritual consciousness or its own unique version of god-consciousness, directly experienced. We have a habit of separating entities as these playful 'games' that ego leverages but not knowing that these can lead to higher god consciousness as well. Ultimately, Jester is another way to experience God manifestation, like any other forms of spirituality and shouldn't be thrown as just ego manifestations and lead to believe that other forms of spirituality is better.

A psychedelic that aligns with your genetic profile is the fast-lane to God and all kinds of insane-awakenings; superior to anything done natural.

@shree Yes, I believe so. If you feel even the slightest trip with a small dose, that psychedelic most likely aligns with your genetic profile. It happened to me with DMT / Ayahuasca, that even small drop(s) lead to high-level contemplation of God and superior insights. Taking more drops dissolved ego and reality, especially when waking up and seeing reality for what it is (even for a split second). Taking this amount of small doses of Ayahuasca eventually lead to other psychedelic, including THC (delta-8) to have a profound impact on how I see reality. DMT is profound and it appears 4-ACO-DMT aligns with your mind / body.

@Clarence The point is; there is of any need of order or process in the afterlife since it's all imaginary and that's the absolute order. Calling it 'magic' isn't merely a word, but a direct experience; since magic is an illusion and requires no explanation. If your mind decides that there is a process after death, you will imagine it and therefore, create the order and process because you are God. If you decide that the order of an afterlife is having a 16-inch alien penis, then so be it. These processes or orders are all just illusions for the mind and you can do as you wish. What if you controlled the order of your death based on the way you think now, since you are an infinite mind? Therefore, afterlife doesn't need a process or order since it's imagined to begin with. I agree, we don't know for sure what happens after physical death. But there is one thing we do know: we will be infinity (isn't that the process we are ultimately looking for?) Personally, i have reduced my mind to absolute infinity and nothing else really needs to be explained but directly experienced. Also, if infinite imagination was truly understood, there would no little to no questions of how thing(s) function, because that would be it. This is what I've been contemplating and struggling with. There is a possibility that no one is truly conscious or understand what infinite imagination truly entails. So, I remain humble during my spiritual journey. There is a lot of questions and little answered! Please do not take this as me being a know it all (which is a habit on a spiritual forum) or disagreeing with you but contemplating together and sharing insights. In this discussion, I'm challenging your take for more perspective for myself