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It's very rare that a girl I don't build a reasonable connection with over text first wants to go on a date with me

I mean generally girls who are interested put effort into texts as well. If a girl is giving me almost nothing to work with over text I move on because it's not worth the time and effort to try and squeeze water from a stone. Or rather than leaving them on read I'll just ask them out and take a more direct approach. It's worked a few times for me. You basically want to learn how to express yourself authentically, interestingly and naturally over text like you do in real life too so that conversations flow and feel natural + interesting over text as well.

I find Bumble is way worse in terms of match rate where I live. I'm lucky to get a match a week on it. But then when I was in London for a few days I got like 20 in two days which was crazy, while on Tinder there my matches dropped to zero. Meanwhile where I live I can normally maybe get 2-3 matches a day on Tinder if I'm not too picky. Dating apps are weird man. It's very tough to reason about them. I think Tinder loses some popularity in big cities like London because almost every second profile is some fucker who's 6 thousand miles away using passport and you can't hide those users from your feed with the distance settings.

The girl just coming out saying it was consensual is not final. She could easily have been pressured or bribed into saying that. And if this is what he's willing to do on camera, what do you think he does off camera? Does he strike you as the type of person who would stop when a girl thinks that it's gone too far and wants to stop? The girl's voices in both videos also seem to sound quite defeated. They don't sound like they want to be there of their own accord.

It is. I see some people including Leo say that you should aim to make texting a sideline activity at the start and keep it to the bear minimum, just use it to set up dates. But in almost every circumstance I try to use that approach it backfires, most of the time girls want to see that you can actually be fun over text/message nowadays

I've had a pretty identical experience to you. I got some results from dating apps but not anything exceptional. My adivce is just to leave them running in the background but not pay all that much attention. Get a decent profile, let the app run, swipe to your limit once a day and forget about it the rest of the time. Then use going out as the time when you know you can actually meet and talk to high quality girls consistently

Improving your dating/social life stuff is weird. The learning curve is really non-linear and you barely realise you’re learning or changing. It has lots of ups and downs that can make it very hard to see an overall trend in growth. But as a good rule if you’re not satisfied with your dating life then keep trying to improve it. There’s no way to know whether it’s your genetic limit or you’re just stuck on something minor that you can fix

Greta is so fucking savage, oh my god

You absolutely can. Especially if alcohol is involved, it’s late into a night and you are confident. I’ve done it before. I’ve seen guys who are nothing special in looks do it. I assume it’s possible without these things too, if you are skilled enough and know how to present yourself attractively as a guy, and also know how to read signals from a girl Having said that I think the scepticism that you give RSD for stuff like that is well placed. They have a lot to gain by faking it and not a whole lot of risk either. I also can’t stand Owen’s new content, it feels so grifty and manipulative

I feel like it’s a good thing to experiment with when you’re younger. Having a phase where you are pretty careless and get all the partying out of your system is maybe not a bad thing, as long as you are careful enough to not really fuck yourself over Bad diet as a whole is probably much worse for your body than alcohol

You have no idea whether something like this is a year away or 100 years away. It’s very very tough to estimate For example lots of people estimated that it would take 10+ years for an AI to be super-human at Go a few years back and that record was smashed in far far less time

Not if you force it, most likely. Some people are naturally asexual and for them it may work.

I feel like you’ll have more luck picking like one or two things as New Year’s resolutions and really focusing hard on those. Setting one single day when you’re going to turn your life around is very hard on you

What a random year to pick? Lmao

Ah ok. In that case yea, I don't see why 4 20µg tabs would be any different from one 80µg tab. Though you might find you have a pretty sizeable tolerance if you've been microdosing, I'd wait at least 2 weeks after your last microdose before doing the 80µg set of tabs

That's an even weirder amount. Where are you getting the dosage numbers from? Are these tabs meant for microdosing or something?

You’re in a pretty similar position to me. Just go out in both the uni town and the smaller town

I live in a 90k-ish town too, it has a couple night clubs. It’s also a university town. Traditional daygame where you camp out on the high street and approach 20 girls a day is generally a bad idea because you’ll build up a reputation real quick. But don’t hesitate to talk to some girls you see if they’re cute and you have decent social skills Night game is super viable though. Super crowded night clubs seem to be common in smaller towns because you have the entire population of people who wanna party crammed into one or two smaller club venues at weekends. But counter-intuitively busier clubs are good for you if you are shy or not that confident. You can just blend into the crowd. You also have plenty of people to talk to. And also take advantage of every opportunity uni gives you to meet people. I didn’t do that while I was at uni and I really regret it now I will also say that I live a 20min train ride from a 600k pop city so I go out a lot there too and it’s noticeably better, it’s easier to find people you get along with cos there’s just more varied people. Smaller towns tend to be slightly more cliquey. In the 90k town I start to run into the same people a lot after a year or so of going out there

Yes in an absolute perspective maybe. And this is probably something you just believe rather than have necessarily experienced too. For a discussion like this it’s not so useful to take an absolute perspective. You can compare the material properties and capabilities of a human brain and a neural network relatively

Language models aren't as good as humans, but the process they use to generate responses is really similar to the way human brains process information. ChatGPT probably has a lot more manual programming to generate useful responses, but GPT itself as a language model is just a big neural network that learns patterns in text. Humans are really just exceptional at learning patterns in text we read too. But we do it so well that we call it something different, creativity/originality. If you take 'an email' and 'carpet' and combine these two concepts into 'an email selling carpets', and it hasn't seen 'an email selling carpets' before, it has created something new. And it's very capable of doing that.

25µg is an odd quantity for a tab of LSD, where did you get that dosage from?

It can combine and join together information from many many different sources to produce new content. For example it knows what an email is and it knows what a car is, so it can write you an email selling a car. Or it could write you an email selling dirt or ice or some other type of sales email it very likely hasn’t seen before. That combination of abstract concepts is creativity. It’s still creating original content and it’s what humans do too for the most part, we just can just do it at such a high level that we call it something else, creativity.

This stuff is kinda hard to measure. It's probably having more effect than you realise.

@A_v_E I don’t think anything is wrong with you. It’s just that you kinda just brought up how you had no ego and are completely detached in a thread that’s totally unrelated to spirituality, and it seemed like you suggested that fact made your POV more valid. Ask yourself why that was.

@A_v_E Woaahhhh, calm down. Thats quite an overreaction Look, I get annoyed when I see people talk about how egoless they are because it’s a very egoic thing to do, that’s all. Now you’re talking about committing suicide because someone didn’t believe you don’t have an ego. That’s a sign of an extremely fragile ego, not a dissolved one I think you still have some work to do my friend