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@Hojo lol you might have a point ..

@Leo Gura I think there's a difference though .. I never had an issue sleeping with girls. It's quite simple to put a condom on and save yourself from 99% of issues. But I've only done psychedelics like 4x - one ended up with cops and paramedics involved. I couldve been more strategic about it, but as a 22 yr old back then, lack of guidance, etc. - I dont think psychedelics are for most people unless you get a strong foundation going in many ways.

ahh okay nice .. Im here for it all though longterm

@Leo Gura I'm not trying to misquote you or something, but when you said "My goal is to create the most advanced and clearest philosophy for mankind which synthesizes science, rationality, and mysticism" is that just one of your goals and the goals of actualized.org? Im wondering if personal development is still a big goal of actualized.org? Things like more practical fields too like creativity, investing, emotions, etc.? Honestly I try my best to learn about that stuff when you share, but I feel like it'll take me time to invest deeper into that stuff, those other areas of reality until I achieve baseline levels of self and life mastery.

@Leo Gura Well its a good thing I don't eat eggs lol But nah I hope you're wrong. Though now feels similar to the dotcom hype to crash.

@Leo Gura one big thing I've been trying to understand is if its true that "USA needs to win the AI development war so as not to be dominated by China." Eric Schmidt for example is big on this. Sometimes I can see merit to this. Other times, I question whether I have some bias here or some blind spot or some truth I'm missing. From one angle the manhattan project was just that. Us winning led partly to hitler being stopped, if I understand correctly. To add to that Trump, even though I know how incredibly corrupt he is, is activating this AI development largely. So is he doing good here? or is this whole thing grounded in falsehood. I don't even know how to derive at the truth here. It could also just be a way for America to get more power, maybe its just Eric's biased towards being identified with the US military. USA is always on a drive to get more and more power. It could just be that. It could be that these powerful people use some truth to support a largely false argument, to weaponize some truth, or it could actually be true, which maybe I'll never know without all the facts.

@Leo Gura loll yeah I can see that being possible with him, my biggest internal struggle is sorting truth from falsehood. It's frustrating at times. Reality is messy

@Leo Gura I don't think we can honestly know what is true and what is not for the most part sitting on the outside sidelines. Hype train bias? for sure. I've seen he's all AI-biased. He has an argument for every possible AI scenario being on the positive side of history. He doesn't think there's a negative scenario in AI for the most part, which sounds too biased.

@Leo Gura I know Jensen is biased actually also. The way he holds trump as god is quite off. But other times he comes off as quite honest. Who knows though? Yeah financial incentive on that level can do that kind of stuff though, so its quite possible. I'm quite put off by the AGI phenomena now. I now rarely listen to Sam Altman, Peter Diamandis, etc. Peter and his crew are so so so caught up, as it seems now from my POV, its almost shocking. They get off on the hype train. What I'm trying to do is not form an opinion on the actual final conclusion in 5 years because there are traps and lies everywhere.

Then why is most of NVIDIA employees using AI-assisted coding? (well thats what Jensen claims at least) And that phone agent video is quite spot on. I was ordering dominoes many months ago, or when I have to get a visit to the doctor, I always immediately say "Transfer me to a human right now." Not saying I like the experience, but I guess it financially does the job for companies, whether its quality experience or not.

@Leo Gura AGI is different from developments in coding. AGI is largely fantasy with some truth and evidence and direction.

@Leo Gura yes right now it can't. But the entire silicon valley right now is using a coding IDE. It doesn't code everything but most serious programmers are using cursor. Y-combinator has evidence on their batches, and they report that more than 50% are using cursor. https://fly.pieter.com/ .. this is also a video game made by Pieter Levels. I'm not saying the tech is ultra good enough to do big things. I'm just saying its far better than it was 6 months ago. If it's far better, its more and more doing more capable things. Design has improved immensely. 3D environments as well. Corporate wise, AI phone agents are now replacing many actual receptionists, and they are good. AI lead generation systems as well. The technology right now is crude yes, but its getting better and better each month.

@Leo Gura your evidence is a video of a guy who says the stuff that I experienced myself as well many months ago. I get where he's coming from. But again, just last month things changed a lot. https://geo-void-explorer.lovable.app Try this for example. It's a 3D space, with beautiful visuals, etc. I did this with a single prompt. It's fluid motion, and no errors. I literally just did a single prompt with Gemini 3 pro. Before this it was doing terrible design, buggy code on basic CRUD apps, etc. These opinions are a bi-product of the tech of where its at right now, but to react at what's there right now and think that that's the future is premature. And keep in mind, I'm not a coder and stuff. For people deeply involved, they are getting 100x more value than me. People who are frustrated just don't know how to use the tools, and are also using wrong tools, or expecting something when the tech isn't ready. They are actually improving and I constantly see that over time. To think also that it's used up all the data of the internet for training is also wrong. Clearly it used that up a long time ago so then why are many areas of application dramatically improving?

@Leo Gura Your claim that they are bad at coding is so limited. I code with them on a daily basis. It's gotten so good to the point that I can make a fully coded app front-end without a single error, in 1 shot prompting, and the design is unlike anything I see online. This was possible in the past 1 month with Gemini 3 pro release. You are talking about tech that's 8 months ago. When was the last time you actually tried coding with it, because if you didn't your opinion is out-dated and philosophical. And sure, they lie a lot, but I'm looking often at what I can see with my eyes - the laundry example in robots, the video game that Pieter Levels made with AI, etc.

@Leo Gura To even claim they're over-invested means you understand what they're working on, the convergence of these technologies, that you're deep in the weeds of seeing what's working and what's not, but can you honestly say you're doing all that? To speak from a very high level philosophical view is, in my opinion, limited and biased. To say they're enslaving, well you might be right there. I already have friends enslaved by these companies lol But if they weren't enslaved by these companies, they'd have a different kind of shittier life.