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@Princess Arabia You are defining bad game traps here. All of that happens with the least conscious and most toxic men (Machiavellian on purpose), or the ones that are severely lacking (Not being Machiavellian, just lack of experience, social awareness, very neurodivergent, etc.). All of this talk that a woman can recognize this or that in a man and be correct with 100% accuracy about their assertions is flawed. They will get some rough averages, and also, they cannot deal with the entire complexity of the man's inner states that are completely invisible, only with the external representation which will only tell to some extent about him, and will work mostly just on the average, like I said. A man can be absolutely marriage material and even spiritually enlightened, but still give bad vibes (i.e. you think someone that appears detached from results seems creepy, etc) or give too friendly vibes and not get results due to lack of experience in dating BUT ALSO, a man can be a literal psychopath that has even killed, absolutely cunning and Machiavellian, but due to his experience and control over how he displays his emotions (he can turn on and off his empathy on command), he can appear the most charming and all other parameters that wound appear natural in the interaction, while being completely premeditated in his goals (i.e. lead her to whatever, while keeping interaction unpremeditated at a visceral level). What happens is that most people are not skilled enough, neither they also are absolute masters over their inner emotions, so there is a lot of room there for creepiness or lack of success, etc. Of course, that's based on HIS OWN POTENTIAL. Compared only with men that looks similar to him.

Quoting myself retrocasually.😉

Btw, to me consciousness is different from mind. What scientific-minded people call "human consciousness" is merely describing the localized human mind, that's part of the bigger set of consciousness. I haven't seen yet infinite consciousness like how Leo says - it just looks very murky/theorical to me anything beyond my mind and what it's fabricating, but I've had a lot of deep insights on my own mind. i.e.: A la "Book of not knowing" by Peter Ralston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind I find this concept pretty close to how I can directly inspect on my own mind. Nothing new here, I just thought it was nice to share it, since I saw it being referenced on a Reddit post I found through googling about Large Language Models (LLMs).: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/10ybsjf/theory_of_mind_may_have_spontaneously_emerged_in/ It's pretty obvious to me LLMs are in PRACTICE some sort of mind, even though it's highly debatable how that emergent phenomena works (i.e. data vs raw intelligence, stochastic parrots, etc.). Well, from the field of cybernetics, we know the threshold for an "entity" can be pretty low, i.e.: human organizations. But, LLMs have passed an entirely new threshold, both in a theoretical and practical way.

Medical? I think you must be careful. I hope you know the drill about safety already. Hallucinations, fake info sounding real, etc. If a model like GPT-4 hallucinates, smaller models are hopeless for safety. You can use Kaggle free GPU beyond Google Colab for example. Beyond that, you can fine-tune on a powerful gpu your models (by paying some form of cloud compute), and deploy them as smaller fine-tuned models, that's the only way to overcome the quality-performance issue. Also, there are lots of deployment possibilities that would allow for stuff like running in a chain the model so its output would be better (in theory).: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Also, perhaps for your needs, you just need a really good local search tool, that uses an llm tech to return info from a trusted body of work. Search for that. The simplest is simply vector databases. I'd side with tech that will return text from a trusted body of work, and using the LLM just to interpret the users input, as opposed to relying on it generating. The entire Wikipedia english raw text is about 14GB for example.

Right there close to Hot Witch Girlfriend references, and the 2014 Halloween special. lol.

So everyone knows: I've seen counter-recommendations against meditating on the physical heart. I don't remember where, but I'd look it up if anyone reading this is concerned.

That's called: Cybersquatting / Typosquatting What big companies (the owners of the brand) do is to actually buy commonly misspelled versions of it and redirect them. If you are bothered all you can pratically do is to buy those mispelled/similar versions before anyone will decide on it. I've heard about someone called Michel Soft (Idk the spelling) getting sued by Microsoft. They need to be doing trademark infringements, like purposefully trying to clone you, and even then, it's an expensive legal hell. Another practical tip: DO NOT BUY ".CO" a lot of people will believe it's misspelled version of ".COM". Don't worry so much about it. Most people those days will click on links anyways.

I listened to the first 38 minutes. One of the best podcasts episodes I've ever listened. There is no way around hard work at trial and practice.

People are already looking for that, creators simply amplify their wants. Mr. Beast isn't even the worst of all. Just look for YouTube videos made towards children, it's pure "sludge", absolutely non-sensical, and actively harmful (sexuality mixed with children's cartoons). At least Mr. Beast has some sort of coherentish narrative/plot. But it's no better than the stuff we would have no traditional TV. Parts of our society already had that talk before, about the shallowness of most of the content on TV. But for example, at least in Brazil. The biggest TV channel (TV GLOBO), they have a somewhat equilibrated display of different things, but not too much, they can't put too much education of the public, because it can be too niche and people would tune out. But I've seen them trying to improve, and not being so shallow. I remember they removing certain humor that was cheap and geared towards laughing on the backs of opressed people (poor people, etc) and tuning that stuff completely out. But also on the other hand, it has been getting too politically correct. I can see changes happening in our society. Can you see we becoming more politically correct for example? But somehow it's becoming too much? Mr. Beast tries to stay wholesome as much as possible, I don't see him being cruel/tasteless or toxic on purpose beyond what's needed to give people what they want to see. I seem him as somewhat an improvement. But idk what direction mankind is going culturally. It makes me wonder, could we become so degenerate one day that we have literal porn (and the hard stuff...) on the front page of tiktok/youtube, and that is just normal? Currently, we have a lot of nudity at best. Well, actually thinking about it. The children stuff on youtube... There is minecraft "porn" on youtube basically. That shit is fucked up.

One of the only games I'd play, besides flight simulators, that I'd play just for the sake of experiencing the tech/beauty of it. But I won't waste my time grinding the online mode when it comes. I wasted too much time with entertainment for a lifetime. I'll play the story mode till the end and for the rest, I'll just chill/explore the game. Hope to put 100h at it at best.

I use Text-To-Speech to read to entire books for me. I can go on a walk with a nice comfortable 120 WPM reading to me, but I can listen up to 2x~3x depending on my attention and mood, I've read many books just by taking a walk. It's also very practical, since audiobooks can be more expensive/hard to find, they take more storage space & bandwidth. I used to use "Spritz" I can "read" up to 500WPM perhaps. But as Leo said here, it's not enjoyable. Any book that's worth of my attention is worth more processing time than input speed. So much so, that using TTS off-loads that cognitive bandwidth of having to sit down to pay attention and use my visual field to process information, and instead rely on much more comfortably listening to it. I use Google Books app, I highlight what I want. I also switch back to reading with my eyes as well whenever I want, as opposed to an Audiobook.

I already write in my common-place book/note-taking app anyway. The act of writing by itself helps me flesh out those ideas/insights. Here at least I get to have others answering from time to time. I also spend 95% of that time just consuming the content that's very specific to the issues I'm facing. I look for very specific info of the forum by searching through Google ("search site:actualized.org"). But I have to limit it, I tend to stay too much on theory.

Well, it could be fine-tuned with the transcriptions of his videos. Use "Whisper" to transcribe it, then fine-tune with it... But feeding it psychedelics is another story, lmao. Maybe, you can play with the weight of: A) 60% Most of his content B) 40% Higher weight for the videos he's speaking of his deepest experiences. C) Introduce random changes, like how the other user here mentioned. D) Play with other different parameters of the network. Play with the weights and check the outputs.

The problem is the power disparity that it creates among people. We only have power politically/societally, because humans have value for each other. Full automation of society will mean massive political changes that we might not survive well through. Our governments and way of life is very fragile. Yeah right now, so far it has been shown that it can only do so much without human input... But people are afraid of the potentials... They might be afraid for the WRONG REASONS right now, but that doesn't mean there are not very real concerns.

You can reduce your sensitivity through simply managing it like any other desire. There is an element of a dopamine pull there, beyond just our natural inclination. Why some people say that when they did "no fap" it improves their whole lives? Did it change their bodies? Not so much, it's mostly their minds being hyper-fixated on it, and they are learning to manage it. Like any other source of pleasure. Some people simply have more addiction-prone minds due to a million different reasons, and they need special efforts to manage it. But only you and you only can ever know how much is too much. If that means going cold Turkey or putting up a fight against it as much as possible, but not beating yourself when you "fail". But certainly, if biologically their bodies simply can't enjoy due to bad hormones, then there isn't much for the mind to get fixated in terms of visceral sensations, but there will be left stories and beliefs around that you will have to deal. I'd get pretty depressed if I couldn't get excited for a beautiful woman, since I love them in some many other ways beyond just sex. But also, the idea of sex in my mind is tied somehow to my self-steam as a man, therefore, even beyond the pull or sexual desire there are other stories I built around wanting to have the desire. So we need to break down those different feelings, aversions, desires and stories and see what's really there. I say it in a pseudo-Buddhist way. Having the desire is something, doing anything about it is different. We can re-wire those triggers, we can analyze that chain of causation from desire to feeling overwhelmed by those desires. Most people are pretty okay at managing it. But we can only take it so far, because of the elements I just described, that desire just becomes an all-devouring demon that completely engulfs their minds. Work on understanding yourself deeper in general, into seeing clearly the sensorial information of your senses and what are your breaking points, and how your mind will operate differently at different times. I.e. People distracted with something useful will simply not have as much time to think about it, and less likely to create a cycle of generating craving with more craving, at some point, we just feel like we are actually more in control. Even to get horny at the right time takes self-understanding if we let our other emotions and distractions stray us away from getting in the mood, at being relaxed, and so on.

I have to agree, geomax sucks... But I see it more as an extension of logistics. Being able to move across a region that I like already, i.e.: moving across the country/region if I were a digital nomad already, etc. But yeah. I do hesitate, even if it's a 1% risk of complication. I'd be very conservative in cost-benefit ratio, it really got to be worth it. A lot of people can get really unrealistic expectations of what they will get. Even if I spend half a million in surgeries, due to the size of my skull and other features (my eyes are not deep inset), I'd look as good as Justin Bieber at best. I want to focus on understanding the structural challenges first and addressing those first, the harmonization is important. But I guess for me mostly some eye-lift, adding extra material for my jawline and checkbones, beyond my teeth and fixing my tongue-tie first. I'm not fat. I'm even slightly underweight. Most folks out there need to fucking lose weight, not some fucking implant, they don't even know what's underneath LOL. Also, a lot of people want to just do facial injections/fillings, MRI scans showed that stuff stays for much longer than expected in the body, and it accumulates and makes their face puffy. There are a lot of traps like that in plastic surgery. I just don't feel comfortable with my level of knowledge yet. But for dudes that are just outliers in bad genetics and tried everything under the sun with their charisma, and game. Some specific precedures might be life-changing. But that stuff needs to be well-studied and followed true with some great surgeons. Some surgeons out there will just do pretty much anything they ask... Instead, that person would have benefited more of some other less invasive procedure to harmonize them. Sometimes, one feature gets improved, and it makes everything else look worse, etc.

I'm average-looking, lower than average due to clothing, teeth (I need some braces) and bad grooming. I've been making that math in my head for a year now. Considering if the risks of a botched surgery would outweigh the benefits, just being realistic about my expectations. My health comes first, and I'll go to doctors with the highest rates of success. A bad surgery can cost, going from average to looking a monster to the point I can't even get hired. The worst negative would be catastrophic. I've been compiling info and weighing possibilities. But at the same time, I'm happy just the way I look with myself, and the only reason I'd do it is to improve dating life after I've maxed out soft improvements, and other improvements with no risk, but that might be costly: Geo-maxing, etc. I don't know my genetic potential yet. I didn't do yet serious changes to my lifestyle and develop game. I can only judge that I had girls back in school that I found to be my type being interested in me even though I had zero game and my style and grooming sucked. I can't judge properly my own looks without experience. Because I only care about my looks as far as it gets me health, wealth and women... Some people let this shit get over their heads, and it becomes an existential threat to them, and destroys with their inner-game. I know if I want high-quality women, I must offer at least absolutely relentless self-confidence on my looks. I'm seeding that on my mind already. But I'm realistic, only hundreds to thousands of approaches will lead me there, and learning to master it like I'd master a language: Thousands of hours of listening, thousands of hours of deliberate practice. But that's different, I'll need to be going out of my home, spending money at least on logistics, dates, hotels/private place. I just see that, with enough money and free time, I can get in a healthy relationship with an 8/10, and I have somewhat relaxed standards (age, BMI levels, etc). But, I cannot truly see it shortly in my time horizon, and I can definitely sometimes see my mind coming up with Machiavellian plans to counter-balance lack of time, money and skill... Specially, lack of patience.

You might be richer than I am right now, but I make 20 bucks passively every month. Check Mate 😉 😂😂😂 Poor people trying to out-brag each other 😂. I challenge you to be richer! Can we get to 1000 dollars net worth by the end of the year? 😂 Gotta think big, right. Damn, if I were only making at least 600 bucks passively per month I'd feel like bathing on cash and I could move out of my parents home... Hell, earning 100 monthly would already give me a dating life bus ticket, coffee dates and some clothing (if I save)... Although, I live in Brazil, so think like everything is roughly 5x cheaper than the usa. Self-care: I did buy a 10 dollar sunscreen a few months ago that I'm still using sometimes, but I think it began having some break-outs. Also, I fell down 4 months ago, and I had to spend all of my money and borrow more (that I'm still paying) to buy wound treatment creams. Make sure you don't get fucked like that and don't have any spare cash for basic treatement. I had infection and it would have gotten nasty if I didn't spend 30 bucks with the cream. Hold dearly to that cash you got and don't waste it on anything but emergency.

In actuality, you did "hard work" to find a niche and positioning yourself well in the market, in the sense that it somehow made you stand in some way away from the 9-5er or run-of-the-mill internet freelancer. But that's not scalable across an entire society. There is just so many people to use the same exact funnels, keywords and traffic sources before you start seeing your business going down, but by then, you already will already have enough skills to know how to replicate whatever you did, or build on another business model that puts you are an even higher position of leverage than them. It's a mix of brute-force work and building leverage. You got a lot of leverage, so at this point it doesn't need as much effort.

When I'm making a fake smile, it can twitch. It's like if I were controlling it consciously. But I don't think it's too weird on me at least, it's very imperceptible.

That's a classic one! Even from the times of Mystery, he mentions that one. Fundamental: When approaching a girl in a group, we can't just focus on her, we need a game to handle the entire group.

Don't bother. Just appear excited, it's just the basics of persuasion, that's necessary to live well among other people. You don't have to try to bring them in into your philosophy about something this trivial if it upsets them.

It seems to be like economical theory. Economic theorists are hooked on painting the "idealized actor", but DOING business is different.

Olá! Brazilian as well. I have no idea. --- But here's a tech solution, if the issue is language. However, if you want to get a high-quality translation of his videos and translate, use Whisper for high quality automated transcription and then use Google Translate file upload. There must be some script to download everything and transcribe it. I don't know an easy way to do it, but it wouldn't be too hard for me to code it. https://github.com/openai/whisper --- But regardless, teachings like that are culturally universal.