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And no physical manifestation will happen. I'm confident to say and have directly experience this on Ayahuasca: God has barred us humans to from certain magical abilities. It's like we have a 'great firewall' and God won't allow for such nonsense to happen, even if you were the most conscious person on earth.

@AerisVahnEphelia SOTA (State of the art) = in comparison to other AI models, not human, since we are not yet at AGI. Lastly, I don't know if you have actually used AI for gaming, but it can definitely provide better modeling than that. AI isn't perfect and is not replacing serious 3D artists anytime soon. Here's Astra blender 3D render of a room: https://x.com/bridgemindai/status/2095993644389982294?s=20

We are not at AGI yet, but GPT Astra is a beautiful model. I've been using it every day since its release (yesterday and today). The reason people are referring to it as almost AGI: 1. Its 3D modeling is state of the art. It can scaffold a full Blender or Unity scene in minutes and reconstruct your entire room in Blender with pretty high accuracy. 2. Computer use is world-class. It can take over your computer and operate it at lightning speed, faster than most humans. 3. When coding, it can debug and harden production code with computer use, operating your entire app, finding errors and issues as it goes along. Overall, it's a beautiful model to work with as a daily driver, but it isn't AGI by any means. It did feel like we got a taste of what LLMs are capable of, and of what AGI could be capable of in the future. @OBEler If we reached AGI, we wouldn't be getting access anytime soon. Astra still needed a stateful harness to score on ARC-AGI-3. Real AGI wouldn't need the scaffolding, and it wouldn't be $200 a month. Consumers still don't get Mythos, the ungated Fable, because the labs don't trust the model with its own safeguards off. I agree with some of your points, but these AI labs still have a lot to prove, and solving gaming and coding isn't AGI.

@KosmicGeng Thank you for sharing your story! It is quite interesting and hits several core points. Just today, a Chinese company Z.ai just launched an extremely cheap model (GLM 5.3 flash): $0.15 / $0.50 per 1M, running on Chinese servers and chips. It matches Opus 4.8 on benchmark, but 10x cheaper. It was free for 7-days on Openrouter and everyone thought it was Google or a large US AI company. It ended up being GLM (ZAI). USA banning China on Nvidia chips didn't do anything but cause them to hyper-optimize their models, making them cheap and just as capable. I don't see how Anthropic and OpenAI survives if open weight models are becoming this good. Example: Anthropic Sonnet 5 ($2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens) and Google 3.7 flash ($0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, but will increase to $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens starting January 1, 2027). Deepseek and GLM are by far cheaper for Enterprise companies to transition to, even hosting their own server rakes (AT&T is already doing that). Yet, here's China making a model better than Google for even cheaper, that will become open source for US inference companies. The AI crash is very possible (NOT IMPOSSIBLE) and it'll most likely happen to US AI companies that are evaluating themselves to be worth trillions (Example: Anthropic is preparing to tell IPO investors that it sees its total addressable market (TAM) exceeding $30 trillion): yet, OpenAI and Anthropic has only solved coding, nothing else. LLMs have not proven anything outside of software development - maybe that'll change (or NOT). Google has accomplished complete dominance by embedding Gemini across multiple products for free, with a worse model than Anthropic and OpenAI. Enterprises are going to slowly transition to China tech (or other close alternatives) to avoid those big API bills. Once that transitioning starts to happen, that's when the bubble starts to pop. It won't happen to all AI companies, but OpenAI will be the first to go...pop. LLM prices are crashing to the bottom and it doesn't look like it's stopping.

I'm a software engineer and pretty much use all the AI models for coding, development and as a general tech-stack. For quite sometime, AI didn't have great outputs for code or content: but this is slowly changing. Despite having significant AI slop across the web, you can build almost any software and the content has gotten better with time. But, it does require skill, monitoring and proof-reading as you cannot fully trust AI and it has been known to delete codebases or over-engineer. GPT-models often hallucinate and you need to monitor outputs. The AI bubble definitely exist, but not the way many people think (in my opinion). The AI bubble will burst because of China open-weight models compares to or matching US AI-models: China models are very innovative in how they are built, despite being heavily distilled on US models. They do not have access to US-compute, but have figured out a way to make highly intelligent models with millions of dollars, whereas OpenAI and Anthropic are spending and draining billions to train and inference their models to consumer and enterprises. US-Enterprises are leaving the 'tokenmaxxing' (maxing token spend) era to 'What's my ROI (return-on-investment) for this API bill from Anthropic?' and recently, AT&T just started using open weight models to reduce their AI bill. They are finding that open weights are just as capable and as intelligent on many coding and agentic tasks. And once one-enterprise does it, many follow suite. This glaring issue is: Enterprises subsidizes consumers subscription prices and allows for us to get cheap inference ($200 subscription bill = $8000 in API cost). If enterprises are slowly moving to open weight models and are self-hosting open weight models in-house, this proves that Anthropic and OpenAI do not have a MOAT: it's a game of 'who has the most powerful model' and China has caught up very fast. I have used GLM, Kimi-K3 and Deepseek: the intelligence is not too far off and can handle a vast majority of tasks. The scary anti-moat is a Chinese model matching or surpassing Anthropic Mythos (Fable) and allowing it to be downloaded online. This is where US enterprises stop signing those annual contracts and start salivating on saving on costs, training their models (or using China open weight models and doing their own pre-training, like Curser did with their own AI model: Composer) - what's stopping multi-billion dollar enterprises from doing the same? Smaller models for their use-case, rather than a large model retained by devils. Openai/Anthropic have shown to be against open weights (despite them saying they are not, they are full of shit): It goes directly against their IPO and market value. Kimi-K3 already stirred the pot in the AI industry (and before that GLM 5.2 and before that, DeepSeek) and if China keeps accelerating their pace, it's going to cause a AI bubble crash (BY ITSELF) and a potential ban from the Trump administration won't stop anything. It used to be: US is better at AI and China was almost a year behind to: anything US can do, China can do (almost) as good. If it flips to: anything US can do, China can do not just good, but BETTER: US AI companies are fucked (and anyone dependent on the subsidization, such as myself). Although, I believe Google, SpaceXAI and a few other companies will survive the crash and will be able to maintain the user-base. OpenAI and Anthropic has a unforeseeable feature if they do not continue to have the best AI models in town.

Happy Birthday! Mines in a few days as well. Thank you for all the hard work over the years.

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

@Clarence Even if there is an afterlife, it is all just imaginary. There is no need of a process, function or 'order of' when it comes to death or an afterlife (or anything that happens thereafter), since it's all just imaginary and therefore, it's just magic. Consciousness is just magic and magic needs no explanation. This is one of my best ayahuasca insights. I think we have a habit of constantly seeking explanations, when there is no need of one. I got tired of seeking explaination and just allow my mind to explore.

@Rafael Thundercat Let me know how that goes, I'm interested to seeing what happens to you. This is an experiment I don't think anyone on the planet have the balls to do besides me and possibly, a few others. With hauntings, most of the spirits aren't inherently evil. These spirits also appear obsessively loving the space they are in and living some conscious loop. Spirits can also follow and love humans and their space. Evil spirits rape whoever is within their space, for whatever amoral, satisfying reason. And the fucked up thing is: it's love. I don't know if anyone seriously contemplates ghosts, spirits and evilness. And a side note: most ghost hunting shows are full of shit and dramatizes every house as evil. With a truly evil haunted house, you will not be able to stomach it for more than a few hours (or days, or months, depending on the ramp up). Once you start deeply contemplating this, you could open up a pandora box for yourself.

@Water by the River I have experienced such evil consciousness states on ayahuasca and its not suffering. Now, you could suffer when you are experiencing such state, but the state itself is not suffering. It's just loving itself and its evilness. But, you are speaking of evilness here, on earth - so karma may not apply. I'm speaking of absolute evilness experienced in an altered state of consciousness with psychedelics. And I'm sure these states remain mostly unexplored, unless done accidentally; we still don't know the permanent changes or dangers that can occur when accessing these states. But, they do exist. I also offer a challenge to anyone in doubt (or believe they are god realized): find a evil-haunted house with a known evil-spirit and take DMT. You may suffer, but the evil-spirit wouldn't.

@Water by the River i wholeheartedly disagree with a portion of what you are saying. Evil is not suffering; that's a human conception of evilness. Evilness can be absolute; a net negative of human morality. It's infinitely Immoral, but also very very loving. It's fucked up. At this point, I'm absolutely positive there is demonic consciousness and entire webs of absolute evilness and different kinds of absolute evilness. Take some DMT and find out yourself.

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