Cireeric

Dual-N-Back meaningfully increased some aspects of my cognition and the biggest difference was noticable in the first 1 or 2 months of training.

It is said that the clearest statement of his vision was formulated in his essay titled "The Straussian Moment", but the real message is between the lines and he has been quite consistent with this vision. To understand Thiels and Palantirs more recent ambitions you should read Alex Karps Manifesto: "The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West". I really liked Zizeks piece on Thiel and his philosophy: https://substack.com/home/post/p-193568266 Simplified Thiel wants to be the puppetmaster and wants to digitally control us sheeples through channeling our mimetic desire + at the same time defend and bolster the hegemony of the west.

Watched it yesterday. Insanely exciting times to come if only some of what he says turns out to be true. But so far what is happening pretty much aligns with his story.

I agree with you that it definitely makes a difference if you read the original authors and sources or reading secondary sources from Stanford Encyclopedia for example. And reading the the real work has some unique value, which you dont get from the secondary sources. But specifically Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy gets recommanded by almost all professors of philosophy and is way higher quality than an wikipedia article. Since it is quite impossible to read all the major works of philosophy these places are often the best way to get a good understanding.

Thats exactly the view that Owen Cook is deconstructing in many of his videos. If you dont get good with girls you dont get good with girls. If youre fit and financially successful you can still be socially-weird, stifled, kinda autistic etc... and then the guy comes along who is just more funny, charming, playful etc and she is way more attracted to him.

Very interesting.

Interesting I might gonna watch it, thx for sharing! If you havent seen succession you definitely should watch it to, Im sure you would like it, my absolute favourite show in the last years also on HBO.

Haha

For me it also almost always has some quality of paranoia. Also it almost always leads me to contemplate my thought-process and getting very deep insights into the nature of thought and also the capacity to turn off thoughts completely.

It seems to vary greatly for people, I know many people who can use it like alcohol to distract or just to relax and chill or others use it to function more properly in daily-activities, for me it becomes psychedelic very fast, with higher doses almost feeling like LSD.

Yes Anthony de Mello is really great. His "Way to Love" is one of my favourite spiritual books ever!

They now frame immigrants as aliens? That is completely insane.