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@Leo Gura Im with you on those points. Yes these tech assholes are wrong for stealing everyone's data, have very low moral compass, monopolize labor, and selfishly pursuing the economy's wealth to lie in the hands of a few at the expense of many. But from strictly an existential survival of the human race perspective, is there not also the case that China is also doing the same thing, on a much faster scale? I mean just imagine we let this play out over 5 years, say we follow your view that US doesn't go into this crazy nutjob AI race. Would it not be the case that China does, and therefore they have control over a lot of the world? I get how wrong AI is, but even you have said in the past AI is developing on a rate that is existential for humanity, that we are creating crazy powerful robots, etc. Imagine a world where China has that and USA doesn't. Would that not make USA severely vulnerable to China? If I had a choice, I would shut down AI today. I'm not happy with AI either overall. I really would want to shut it down today. But I know the cat is out of the bag, and Im specifically looking at the perspective of existential survival of humanity against China. If you look into the specifics of China's AI development, what they've said, etc. it's not some small thing. It's quite important. I do also see the downsides of an unregulated AI environment. That may harm us much faster. But I do also want to look at the China vs. USA perspective.

@Leo Gura Does his new AI plan change your opinion on him to a degree? Given that we are at an arms race with China. Not saying he's good by any means, but from my limited amount of understanding, I see the AI plan as a necessary step to ensure humanity's safety. Better us have it than China? Or do you have completely different meta thinking on that? What's odd with corruption, as I see with Elon, Trump and many others, is out of their own selfishness, agenda, etc. and drive for wealth, they create this sort of "boundary of survival" around America that ends up doing a lot of good, despite that corruption.

@Emerald Maybe in a club, if she comes home with the guy I could see that possibility. But imagine if a guy meets a girl at a bus stop, and has a casual conversation for some time, and he casually asks her if she'd want to go out. That is also pickup, and I'm sure there are women who aren't really crazy at all who'd be receptive to that. I think there are many versions of pickup. Not all is club-oriented. I think to say one has to be a little crazy to be receptive to it is just not true honestly. Much of mating is just a natural form of pickup. Guys pursue girls, and girls want to be approached. I think its completely normal. Pickup doesn't have to be this elaborate hardcore strategic thing, or just some club game or whatever.

@Emerald Yes, I see that possibility as well. But I'm not sure. I'm sure there are many normal women also who can be seduced by game. Every now and then when I think about all this though, I keep thinking: Everyone is different. There are so many nuances, circumstances. Every person is so unqiue in their own way. I get the value of these generalizations, but often I feel they are too limiting.

@Natasha Tori Maru Yeah, it's not just you. I also get reactive initially as well like that. Literally I do the exact same lol .. I was contemplating this one post for a day. I think also over the years, we get more comfortable with truth though. Regarding the black and white thinking though, I think thats a bit trickier. A lot of times for example, I perceive Leo's posts as black and white. But I think about it some more, and realize, how else can we talk about certain truths within reality? Often generalizations need to be made, but I guess we need to always keep in the back of our mind that it's not absolute, there are always naunces, etc.

@Emerald I sense also the possibility that Leo lives in Vegas that this could be the case. I've never been to Vegas, but it's possible that Vegas draws in a certain type of crowd, both men and women to a large degree. I don't know. But I'm sure for example there are normal girls in Charleston, South Carolina for example lol

@Natasha Tori Maru I don't think he said "in general" lol .. at least I read it a few times and didn't see that explicitly or implicitly said. But regardless, I don't think all feminine women are like that. In general sounds about right. We can look at trends in reality, but reality is full of all kinds of uniqueness, and I don't think models of reality or trends can fully accurately look at the full truth of reality. I think everyone on this forum has had their moments of wanting to get the red stilettos out on Leo lol .. hardcore truth posts can be tough to read for all of us, and it can trigger fears in us of all kinds.

@Leo Gura I've been thinking about what you said here since yesterday .. So are you saying that all young, hot women are emotional messes to some degree? Are there no chill, honest, conscious women who are young, hot and feminine as well? I ask because I hope to get married some day to a woman who is all that - a) young, hot, and feminine but also chill, not crazy, honest and into personal growth. What I'm asking really is that is what you're saying the overall trend, or does this apply to all women? Like is your intent with this post to connect this to how reality works, or is it some kind of absolute statement that all young, hot, feminine women are ungrounded, emotional messes? Can a woman not be feminine and care for truth? Also I think I sense a limit in what you're saying .. You say: "Your family's survival is not truth nor ground, it's Maya." Emerald was talking for ex. about a mother being grounded for a child, and you said that's a poor example. But why is that a poor example? Aren't you yourself not just talking about god and truth, but also just their day-to-day character, emotional state, etc. when you talk about them being an emotional mess? I don't think most mothers are an emotional mess when dealing with their child. Also when reflecting back, yes I have dealt with a lot of emotionally messy, feminine women. But also I can think of feminine women who are also emotionally grounded as well. Also what about Emma Watson for example, she seems truth-oriented to some degree, not delusional or crazy, and young, hot and feminine? I think she is also some UN ambassador, and fights for feminism and equality.

@Leo Gura even with a few drinks? I used to go out a lot in the past and whenever Id drink I wouldnt see that free-flowing spirit transfer over sober out, maybe it did not entirely sure, but for the most part it doesn't from my experience.

@Miguel1 Yeah good point. And you can even replace sex with anything else, and the post still holds well. But also after reading his post and something else he said later on the forum, my main insight is that there's falseness all around, but is the core motivator built on truth?

@Leo Gura Isn't much of life based on "falseness" though? various friendships, personality traits, etc.? Isn't a lot of that survival + conditioning + society, etc. (mostly survival)? I'm curious why you isolated sex though, because from my understanding, you, me, almost everyone has a good amount of that falseness baked into any life they build, any infrastructure they build, any business, relationship, various activities they do, etc.? Isn't it even partly delusional to expect some aspect of life you build as part of your life, to be falseness-free? To expect something to be falseness-free sounds fantastical in the first place?

@Leo Gura These books are quite fascinating though. I've always wanted to go in this direction after listening to "introduction" episodes on Joe Rogan and stuff, but never knew where to look in the vast sea of books.

@Leo Gura Much appreciated Leo. I second the notion where someone suggested to just leave the book links if the reviews aren't ready. I am curious though, why such a push to read books so deep in corruption? Wouldn't that have an inevitable effect of negatively conditioning the mind, black-pilling as you say, such that it would take away from Truth, even though it leads to a greater understanding of reality? I notice you're careful not to expose too much corruption at once, and sort of dribble it on us bit by bit lol which is appreciated, if that's what you actually do, but I'm curious why there's such a big importance on studying corruption so deeply? 56 books with corruption being a big theme is wild. Or actually is it the case that there's a higher level understanding from these books - political understanding given the state of things - and that corruption is a necessary part of the path to understanding global politics? Just curious about your overall intention with this update.

@Schizophonia I actually find it mind-boggling that someone can find ryan gosling unattractive lol .. blade runner 2049?

@Sugarcoat yeah but the face botox stuff? Idk also Ive always seen this guy as the hero in all these movies, ripped and stuff, and bro he had rachel mcadams .. every guy is in love with her lol