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A lot of demonization without any good arguments. It’s not clear that sex robots would increase sexual violence against women and it’s also not even clear that sex robots are bad for relationships. For example men could now be more interested in personality then sex because their sexual needs are met. I don’t necessarily agree with the child sex toy part. Yes it’s fucking weird but you have to look at it statistically. If it lowers the rate of criminal pedophiles then it’s a good thing.

One thing that prevented me from disproving the existence of a physical reality are atoms. You can prove the existence of atoms with experiments and to my knowledge you can even somewhat see them with the best high end microscopes. For some reason I thought that if we can experience atoms (through a microscope for example) that this means that the physical objective world really exists (as something outside of consciousness) because it is actually grounded in first order truth. But there really isn’t anything special about atoms. Seeing them through a microscope is just an experience like every other experience. It is okay that they exist, they totally can, it doenst prove however that they exist as something outside of consciousness. The thought that this experience (seeing atoms) is actually real (points to something outside of consciousness) is also just a conscious experience like any other. Maybe the hard thing I couldn’t wrap my mind around was that consciousness has so many layers which appear to be separate because they can’t get connected (mind matter problem) and therefore thought that it can’t all be consciousness. I remember a quote I got from a forum member: „Consciousness is both Creator and Creation. The seemingly appearent seperation is an Illusion.“ Maybe that finally sank in a little deeper for me.

Yeah basically.

Most of us have seen the potential of AI even in its early stages and it will get 100x better in the coming years. Of course you can try to outsmart AI as long as possible but in 10 years let’s say, do you think there will be more then just a handful of "axiomatic jobs“ (someone needs to press the start button on AI) left?

I think it’s exactly not that. I think it’s a direct experience which later can be conceptualized. that’s wild. With Chatgpt? I would love to try it out as well but too many user are using it already. Maybe it’s just categorical impossible. Like an eye trying to look at itself. Maybe it will just have an error when it is about to realize something mystical.

What would be an insight into the nature of reality that isn’t "human“ to you?

Oh thats interesting. A direct experience into a facet of reality like ONENESS (Self vs Other), GOODNESS (Good Intention vs Bad Intention), CONSTRUCTION (Construction vs Destruction), NATURAL (Natural vs Artificial), … I remember you saying somewhere that you philosophized yourself to some kind of mystical/spiritual experience of some kind. ?

What’s the risk of heavy metals in your greens powder?

@LastThursday AI will be able to take information from the real world instead of internet information in the future. AI can be programmed to build server and machines and power stations that would provide the energy, making AI pretty much completely independent if one wishes to do that. That’s not what I meant. My question will we create such an intelligent tool that it doesn’t need a tool user anymore because the tool gives better direction then the user himself?

You can buy a sex doll.

@LastThursday The problem that I see is that AI is already so smart that it can mimic personalities. My decision making for example in business or even in art can be predicted and improved so well that I become useless. Maybe not right now but in the near future. I think CEOs would even need to pretty much give AI all control otherwise other companies will outsmart them. AI will run itself. The first insult for humanity was the realization that the earth circles around the sun, making humans not the core of the universe. The second insult for humanity was the realization that humans evolve from animals. The third insult for humanity was the realization that humans are mostly controlled subconsciously. The forth insult for humanity will be the realization that there is no individual core that we have. We are like an onion with layers of conditioning without a core. That’s why AI can replace us. We came from being in the core of all things to not having a core at all. Maybe this is a strange loop for our understanding of our point in the universe as god.

I take both. What do I have to look out for? Can I take them simultaneously (microdosing psychedelics) ?

I feel like I was still more sleepy then the average student on 100mg ? I just became aware of how sleepy I was otherwise. But the times I didn’t dream I was so fucking fast and sharp with my brain, it was such a pleasure to think. Are you sure about the memory part though? A lot of students take modafinil but if it reduces memory that doesn’t really make sense for them, would even be counterproductive.

@zurew good points! One thing I wonder about though is that if some people would be fine with being a "femboy“/"tomboy“ instead of actually changing their gender but changing their gender works better for cultivating qualities of the other gender right now maybe in the next decade "femboys“/"tomboys“ are fully accepted in society and the surgery didn’t need to happen. Sorry if my sentence is hard to follow, I am tired. @Linda22 I think there are some parents that will screw up their child no matter what. I get your point that maybe you shouldn’t give people the option to do such dramatic things to their child because there will be some that will abuse it to feed their narcissism or whatever. But on average I think those parents are the vast minority and as zurew said, it has to be accepted by a doctor. (yes the parents can manipulate their child but this makes it a whole lot harder and therefore the cases a lot smaller)

Yes I imagine that when I zoom into any given object I find atoms and I imagine that other people exist who can do that with every object as well. It’s a pretty compelling imagination that I imagine atoms with such consistency in everything. I didn’t say that it proves the existence of a physical universe, my thread was about pointing out why it is so easy to believe that the physical universe is real which is because atoms are imagined so consistently. @Leo Gura Maybe to clear out some misunderstanding. Do we call first order truth also imagination? For example when I experience an "atom“ through a microscope (shapes and colors) is that imagination or is only the contextualization that This is an atom imagination?

Of course second order truth is part of the experience (first order truth). The thought „there is an apple“ is second order truth because in reality there is not actually an apple but „thinking there is an apple“ is an experience and therefore first order truth.

Well there is first order truth (direct experience) and second order truth [concepts about reality (first order truth)]. The point of materialists is that second order truth isn’t just a second-order-truth-concept but actually real. And atoms make it hard to debunk that theory because you can consistently make first order truth experience of atoms if you zoom into anything. So you have to drop such basic sense making of reality like „If you move forward to an object in front of you you come closer to that object“ to debunk materialism (atoms).

Well you can actually zoom into the smell particles of the skunk with a microscope and find molecules and even blurry atoms directly. That the atom state of consciousness and the outzoomed smell particles state of consciousness are connected in any way is the imagination part. (That zooming in and out is happening is imagination)

It’s a difficult topic. Basically there are legit people who want to physically change their gender and the best way to do it is at a young age. BUT kids at a young age just aren’t really mature enough to do these kinds of decisions. It’s also a question of is the kid just interested in acting more like the opposite gender but feels like it can’t because of what is expected from a boy or a girl or does the kid actually want to change its physical body. I am no expert in that field but I lean more towards the conservative side. The surgery and medications aren’t healthy, that’s just a fact and if there is a way to make people happy in their biological body that should be explored. I feel like it is easier for people to accept trans people then to accept femboys/tomboys because in the first case it actually agrees that the physical body dictates certain behaviour so it’s actually less radical then the second case.

Even though that is true, the thing that makes atoms different is, if you zoom into the smell particles of a skunk you will find atoms there. Just like with any other object you will find atoms there. It’s a consistent dream. Now explain a materialist that this consistency doenst imply truth. It’s very tricky.

I used 100mg Modvigil for the first time today. I noticed strong effects but I also have a lot of concentration problems all the time, so there is a lot of room to improve for me.

These thoughts are on my "favorite-thoughts-playlist“ at the moment.

My problem is this. I have pretty good social skills when I am used to socializing. But because I have a tendency to isolate myself because socializing is very energy draining to me I often go days and sometimes weeks without socializing. I rarely even text message with people. And after some alone time it always feels rough to get into socializing again. I feel awkward and boring and I can’t do a good conversation. I realized that this is something that I can’t allow to happen anymore because I loose so many opportunities to date, pick up, find friends, .. because I just don’t feel in my power. Even though the answer is probably really straight forward „Just integrate more social situations in your week bro“ because I think this is a very common problem that many people have I thought that some of you have a more nuanced/in depth answers/strategies to deal with this.

@Happy Lizard The drug is new to me. I ordered a sample box with 4 different ones. 10 pills of Modalert 200mg (modafinil) 10 pills of Modvigil 200mg (modafinil) 10 pills of Artvigil 150mg (armodafinil) 10 pills of Waklert 150mg (armodafinil)