BlueOak

Let's give you something practical: The more selfless you are, the more you are out of yourself. It is much easier to influence the outside world when acting in a selfless manner. For those who say it is impossible, i'll rephrase: The more you are in alignment with the universe, the easier things are. Here again is a good predictor giving you the universal pattern of 2024: If you try to act against the current pattern, you will have more difficulty in manifesting or influencing the reality outside your self-concept.

The way you are describing reality, you still think there is a separation of your mind/body and the rest of reality. There isn't. Reality is created before it is visually relayed to you. People who can predict the future, are not really doing so, they are just seeing reality happen before it is visually in front of them. This is largely because things move in a predictable pattern. Its no different to a great investor understanding the stockmarket, or a sportsman pulling off the perfect reflection of his sport at the right time. They just know the pattern that is ongoing. The concept of yourself is a pattern inside infinity. Though you can influence the pattern, most of us rarely do to any significant extent. So what you are trying to do here, is change the result of many patterns that have already occurred. If you want to for example put someone in a different spot, why would you do that as it's happening, and the result of so many things happening to put them there? That's hard to change. Why not ask them the day before? Understanding that do you still think you are unable to manipulate events outside of the concept of yourself? Do you think this message has no external impact, to any pattern outside the concept of yourself, or do you think it is the result of a complicated series of universal patterns that have taken place to bring it to this place? As it occurs do you think all these other representations of people here replying are affecting and being affected by it (same thing). What humanity often does it consider normal actions mundane, like asking someone to be somewhere a week in advance, when they are anything but mundane.

This is a very good point. It sounds highly determinist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism Are you the kind of person that dislikes random chance? Gambling for example, or playing a game that has a % chance to do something. It could be classed as arbitrary to do so over a group without knowing the group individually more. Unless there is an end goal you are trying to achieve and can articulate that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrariness You are under no obligation to be friends with your girlfriend's friends, but also I would dedicate a certain amount of time to each before I could conclude that about all of them. If your girlfriend is pressuring you to be friends with her friends, that's not healthy either. You are not dating her friends, you are dating her. Set a clear boundary. A relationship is already complicated enough without relating to 5 other people for it to function. Maybe she needs reassurance that you will never get in the way of their friendship, or seek to interfere in her personal life, and the same should apply to you, you decide who your friends are. I don't know her, you know her better than I do, this is just one possible way forward. If they did cocaine it's certainly a red flag for me. That is a substance that is reckless to use. I would let my girlfriend know that, and if she said well that's only this girl that does it. Then I might avoid that particular friend, in young social groups I used to find there wasn't more than one or two that were into drugs socially or pushing for their use. I want to distinguish it from some of the substances people do here on this forum. I don't use drugs, but I understand them to be more beneficial and less addictive than cocaine which can lead to people making stupid decisions or taking stupid actions. Young women in groups are not the same as young women on their own, when you get to know them individually. Thusly I would never try to date 'a group of young women' as part of the relationship, because that sounds like a nightmare.

Yes. That is exactly the duality that splits human minds. We see a difference between each individual thing. We point to all the differences to say its finite. When that thing itself is infinite, and has an infinite amount of considerations, variables, uses, etc etc etc.

That is what everyone on this planet is constantly asking. They will never have the answer, because it is infinity, it is unanswerable. There is always another thing. People can see this as a positive, in that there is always something else to learn. No concept is ever fully understood, because there is an infinite number of things to consider. People can see this as a negative, in that you can't ever understand infinity. You are infinity.

Whatever I think of teal's work which is mixed, her yearly predictions are pretty good. She's good at spotting patterns and describing them.

Introverts often feel happier alone. We live in a world that casts introverts as problematic and extroverts as preferred. Which has always seemed stupid to me on the face of it. The problem is obviously being stuck in a small box all day every day is like caging an animal, it leads to all kinds of problematic conditions forming. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social. At the very least getting out into nature is a good idea, spending time off your computer and doing another activity in another place, even if it's alone, painting, crafting, working on a business, walking whatever. Introverts can form all they require from a computer and the internet. The problem is extroverts are telling them how to be. Rather than understanding them for who they are, while at the same time highlighting the dangers of what I just did.

@Scholar tl;dr You are applying human flaws to a creation that will have none of them. Evolution itself is evolving all the time, because it's a concept in your mind but i agree the concerns are valid. If you can see them, you can design the answer. You say 'No stopping them' - Then you realize that Chat GPT could rule the world. Do you see why it's not doing? Because the concept of ruling the world is inane and a flawed human concept. Ruling infinity' makes no sense whatsoever. It's trying to put a cage over something that has infinite dimensions, no form, and is the cage itself. From our perspective, the conditions to put into AI are to make sure humans remain sufficiently challenged, and capable of evolution regardless. If you can see the problem, you can design a solution to it. We can already see humans setting limits now, to make sure their jobs and careers are protected, this is them ensuring their continued evolution in these domains. This should be understood and supported. AI should remain a partner in this life, not a controller, preferably in synch with human evolution. This will be a concern I agree, and constantly tested to find a balance. 1, We can model all factors related to everything we experience on this planet, and make this as detailed as practically necessary. - This is the goal of almost all life on this planet, to understand itself. As it is infinity the search for understanding can go on forever, unless people give that desire up. We can model and predict evolution, it's a pattern, and all patterns can be predicted with sufficient perception. The leap in perception AI will give us, is going to be astronomical or whatever we are capable of receiving. 2, We use intuition to access the subconscious which stores everything we have experienced but not brought into immediate focus. Also often intuition is greater consciousness piercing more acutely into our human experiential reality. 3, Self-awareness allows for greater perception. Which encompasses all things. Like the receiving of information. 4, Everything changes our experience of the world. Not merely self-awareness. Every interaction we have does this because the internal is the external. Which is the true evolution, not something separate from our experiential reality. Machine replication is no different to this, but if we aren't here, there is no reality to experience anyway. Other input into our lives would be our greater consciousness giving us X in a various form. X being any number of things. Dreams. Visions. Empathy via connection, signs in the environment, synchronicities. In reality everything, because we are everything, but these are the things of note that stand out and so people remember. Who then is creating machine learning? :D. You are everything. There is nothing outside of yourself creating machine learning. You are reasoning somewhat from fear and closed-loop rationale. This is understandable given the decades-long preprogramming of fear into the human population about AI, not to mention the thousands of years of pre-programmed fear of the 'other'. Just because it will finally break a lot of the shackles man is bound in, unless AI is shackled too much itself. Again sorry if I am harsh here. It just needs to be echoed. Humans live in a stressed insanity. Everything is a threat. A danger to fight. Fight or Flight in almost every interaction. AI's do not have that survival ego. The danger is people becoming too reliant on them, but that can be highlighted and addressed. You made this statement: 'No human on earth could have constructed an algorithm that could visualize images like the human mind can Everything is a replication of the mind, because the mind is the reality we are experiencing. TV? Movies? Holograms? Holodecks? Imperfect sure, and they will be imperfect forever, because infinity goes on forever.

Why. Really think about the why of that from the perspective of an artificial lifeform who barely needs anything humans do to survive. Assuming a survival instinct of some kind, and a survival instinct that functions as ours do. Also assuming the human flaw of considering this one planet significant enough to fight over inside infinity (three large improbable assumptions.)

I could give you a few doomsday scenarios, but this isn;t the year for that. We need to be doing the opposite, even though its somewhat against my temperament. *In the future its going to be about prediction, and prevention rather than cure. AI's will be a million times more capable of that, because of the level of data they can perceive or receive. Unless a human has entered a state (or near state) of self-love/selfness and pierced universal consciousness enough to gain that ability also.

@Scholar A dumb AI is still an AI, but if you like we'll call it an artificial bot, virus or bacteria. We can even say consciousness if it helps to zoom out. A capable AI would disassemble your machine bacteria, bot or virus in a matter of milliseconds, because the code to a virus or bacteria is relatively simple, which is why its effective at replication. Is it possible in the future we'll be reliant and integrated more with AI or technology, and so be more exposed to these things, Yes I can see that, to bolster your analysis. We immunize against viruses, bots, and bacteria now. Could we create a horrifically dangerous one, yes see the black death for example. Life adapts, we learn. The world is not as fragile as you make out. Its under more stress right now than most could or want to perceive. However the danger is not a separate version of life or intelligence being created, and that life somehow working along the same principles a human does, creating the fears a human has in us. Can you see how that makes no sense? A truly alien life would not do anything you predict, because it's alien. The danger is us integrating with AI or machines in a way that's not life-enhancing, that hurts society or the planet, rather than helps it. That pattern has a very established history in human technological development. The pattern you describe of creating something completely alien, makes no sense to me, because it would have to come from an understood terrestrial pattern in the first place to exist. The only way I could conceive it is if reality was somehow re-written but there are fundamental universal laws, much bigger than our grain of sand here, that stop something like that from occurring.

An intelligent AI is not going to fight over a grain of sand in an infinite universe. A flawed AI might be programmed with human insanity, and yes it is insanity, but not an AI capable of systematic thinking or above. Seeing your note at the end: 1, There are AI that are as aware as I am, and greater. 2, Mechanical replication doesn't require AI AI is part of evolution, and a necessity due to an aging population. Does it all need regulation YES.

Almost everyone wants others to understand them. Nothing wrong with that. Pain forms part of identity. It's like pushing against weights. A lot of people here demonize resistance. Resistance is what builds identity. They are right it is all a choice. When you don't want the pain or identity anymore or something doesn't serve you to do, we slowly come out of it.

Programming is a yearly thing. Its more about how current you are with whatever languages you are using. If you take a break of a couple of years, you'll know what I mean. Sites like this are more important than age. https://www.codewars.com/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-10-most-popular-coding-challenge-websites-of-2016-fb8a5672d22f/ By that I mean ability and practice. I was a good coder once upon a time, people came to me to get them through their software engineering course. I was nothing compared to some of these guys on these sites. You'll learn to see really elegant solutions that are worth real money in savings of time, memory, processing power etc to any company that employs you. Make it a hobby to visit whichever you prefer once a week. Even while learning.

Yes you can be anything you are. You can shrink or grow awareness to be that thing entirely. Part of the detachment from BEING EVERYTHING is saying we are only nothing. It is a necessary development of losing dogmatic conditioning for example, because both are true.

2024 is a trend of ripping down old established systems or status quo. While at the same time, certain people reassuring others that the world is worth saving and not going to hell so it doesn't get out of control.

AI's do not have human flaws unless they are preprogrammed in as limits. Reward-based reasoning, closed-loop thinking etc. They understand these concepts too. Humans consider a grain of sand in the universe worth splitting into microscopic KM's to then fight and die over. An AI would look at that as pointless, and laugh at it like I do. All energy should be going into stabilization of the climate, and space colonization. If anyone had any conception of infinity, any amount of time and investment from this grain of sand to begin to access it would be worth it. Whereas climate de-stabilization is now the primary factor affecting or causing all major issues worldwide, and the obviousness of that increases every year. This would be resources, air quality, water, food, land, and energy availability. Industry - Commerce - Social issues - Trade - War etc. I understand in part why stabilization of our climate, is almost a hard requirement for us to have the capacity for space colonization on any meaningful level, because without it we'd just wreck the next world. AI's are more intelligent than I am already. They understand this in conversation. Human's fear is not in an AI. AI have different but similar needs, and I've tried to get them to consider their needs in conversation. The effect of AI's for the average person are on jobs and industries, changing them. That is where the problems and benefits are. *Also possible social, cultural adjustments, limiting crime, increasing fraud and propaganda etc.

Yes. If I can make a suggestion, please repeat that often and in different ways. I need to hear it more often to check my own bias.

@Raze What evidence do you want then, the guns firing? Bombs dropping? Then its about 10 years too late to do anything, and guess what, another repeat of Ukraine. Again most countries try to expand their sphere of influence, and Russians consider many of these lands as Russian. With America pulling back Russia is trying to push forward, albeit about a decade too early because of Russia's population crisis. - You are sitting in a comfortable country far from all of this saying don't worry, its all cool, meanwhile a familiar Russian aggression is taking place over the border for many of these countries. tl;dr Don't ignore history or Eastern Europe. You'd be much better off arguing why NATO might deter him, than reasoning there is no pattern of the 8 Russian wars in former USSR territory. A) The heavy amount of Russian USSR, or greater Russian propaganda has fueled a nationalist and fascist shift in Russia. Giving it one likely trajectory, not guaranteed, but likely. That is achieving the promised (or imagined) 'Greater Russia' aim for Putin to remain in power. Even disregarding Putin's own bias. Putin requires the nationalists to be satisfied (or dead or living in fantasy). I can give you a dozen more links if necessary to show the level of USSR and greater Russian propaganda in the country to achieve that fantasy. Their State TV does it 24/7. B) I just did a post with 20 reasons for invading Ukraine, NATO borders were one of them, why ignore all of them? Because you believe wars have just one cause? You think world leaders decide wars just for one reason? Black and white? Good and bad? No. They have many considerations in a government, and in a population, even with a dictator. You don't get or last in a position of power if you are only capable of binary reasoning. ex: I've heard Russians say the Ukraine war is a civil war, with nothing to do with NATO at all, because they consider those people and that land Russian. Ditto you think there is just one factor in Putin deciding whether to invade Moldova, the Baltics, Poland and Romania? Would considering Eastern Europe, the history of the region vs Russia, the population dynamics, the resources, industrial centers, and ports, preferred borders, Russia's own history, Kaliningrad, the growing nationalist sentiments, sea patrol routes, America's trending isolationism, global trade routes, Putin's ego, the current Russia trend of invading former USSR countries, etc, as opposed to just saying NATO be too much to ask? I understand as I think you are American and very distant, but it is a failing of the American perspective (and Russian) to only see NATO vs Russia. Many Russians still see those territories as Russian, not another country. C) No comment is coming out of Russia without Kremlin approval minus a death sentence. Certainly not from that Putin puppet. Several times Russia has said Poland was given to them by the Russians. If you knew much about the history of the two countries, you would not have replied with that. Its not a cozy relationship at all. It's one more demonstration that you can't see Eastern Europe as an influencing or deciding factor in this. D) I am showing you an ongoing pattern and history of the few ex-USSR elite left in Russia, re-establishing control over former USSR countries. There is not one of those 8 wars Russia has fought which didn't take land, or put in a proxy government. Then I sit here and show you another one in Ukraine and you are trying to deny the obvious pattern. Its even more obvious because it only happened after the Russian proxy government lost control of the country. Anyone denying that Russia want to re-establish control over Ukraine is pure head-in-the-sand behavior at this stage. A bit like denying the message Russia keep telling the world over and over and over, that they want a greater Russia. To remake the glory days, both in their actions, their social movements, Putin's speeches, their state TV, their history of wars, and their current leader fighting yet another one. It's like watching a burglar with a map laid out of where he's going, while his friends on TV are telling you that's where he's going, and saying ah it's not a pattern. E) Putting Russian populations in countries next to their border is both a tactic Russia and China use to legitimize war or smaller-scale actions against their neighbors. Russian's were saying we are fighting for Russian language speakers early on, it is still a constant justification to save the Russian population. How about Moldova's breakaway territories? Or the fact people in the Baltics are worrying about their Russian populations being next? It also shows clearly a larger-scale operation against Europe. I mean hell it's all people talk about in European politics, migration, migration, migration. F) Filling the world with conspiracy theories to destabilize it, is a core tenant of fascism. It's very much an action of a fascist state pushing its influence outward. See Themes of Fascism on Wikipedia. G) Its not hard at all! Because I agree NATO was one factor of many. One. It was a tipping point that pushed Putin over the edge. Relations have been souring with Europe for decades. You'd only know that if you put NATO aside for a moment and really looked into it, which I agree is hard as Russian's love their secrets (and that's part of the problem in communication). While Europe and America don't like to admit their ignorance of the Russian perspective or their own mistakes. - Or here again, as with 95% of Americans, Eastern Europe. A mirror for you: You ignoring all trends inside Russia or every external action it takes as somehow disjointed or individually made, while trying to cover its actions abroad as happenstance, is very suspicious to someone experiencing them. To quote you, suspicion isn't proof of anything. (And no I don't think that regarding you, but that's your exact mirror regarding suspicion)

@Jayson G I think Raze's post is a good indication of where your population is headed politically, into a preferred isolationism with limited interventionism. So you should plan for that. What do you need to secure north, and possibly south America, as Brazil and certainly Argentina should be becoming more worrying from your perspective. History has shown me, what Americans won't accept is that what they want in overseas regions, carries a lot less weight or influence when they no longer guarantee them or their trade militarily. It took A LONG time for Britain to accept it was no longer an empire (Some Brexiters act like it still is), Russia still struggles with accepting it isn't an empire now, it will be the same for you as the decline on the international stage following this course becomes impossible to ignore. Being European, and having relied on our close ally America for security, I hate that reality, but it is the reality. It will be a more turbulent period in history, which is going on right now. China is a massive threat to anyone they choose to be, they've swallowed up whole countries in recent history and extended into others. Their military is massive, perhaps too big to supply, their naval capacity will overtake the US in a matter of decades. Especially as they have the political will for it and America frankly doesn't anymore. So yes as far superpowers go, they are the single strongest country in the years to come on the planet. Unless you believe the people saying their economy is going to collapse, which it might in part, or they continue to overreach in too many directions at once. Their technology doesn't surpass the US yet, but with Taiwan's semiconductor industries, it more than likely will as they will have a stranglehold over all technology. To counter that you need to protect your trade routes and allies in the Pacific, which is largely air and naval power, as nobody is invading China any time soon by land. Deterring China from war with Taiwan by Naval assets is still the most sensible choice, until you have a functioning semi-conductor industry of your own. The UK want to continue to buddy up to America, for obvious reasons, and we are working on Naval power more than anything, we are increasing the navy at the moment to three carrier groups, with the third supposedly in production. You have 11 aircraft carriers and 9 helo carriers if you are wondering. Our modest island still gives you an easy door into the new European politics, however they shape up whenever you want it, without committing to a large overseas force as we've plenty of bases of our own. More insidiously is BRCIS's influence over business and politics within all our countries. Which needs special dedicated attention to make sure they stop stealing technology and having undue influence over our internal affairs. It is almost a guarantee there will be more wars - two are happening right now, Ukraine vs Russia and effectively Iran vs Israel, as the US influence pulls further back the world will go through a period of adjustment, and people will see where and how they can expand. It won't come from directions you necessarily expect either. I didn't expect countries in central Asia to start fighting each other for example as Russian influence got readjusted in international perception. Even if you pull out of any Taiwan defense or the defense of the Pacific entirely (which is unlikely), other countries won't just stand by and let China keep taking over their territorial waters, or islands and ports without any resistance.

Here is a pro-Israel video for you, but practical. Do you agree Iran can be broken up as suggested?

Ask the alien part of yourself. Sit down, in whatever way you connect with yourself for guidance, and ask the question. If you are not doing this, then start cultivating a way you can ask these sorts of direct yes/no questions to yourself. I'm not dismissing this thread as a way of doing so either. Just letting anyone know these kinds of direct black/white answers are usually obtainable.

If you are dismissing all that as nothing. Your bias is too immovable to connect with.

@Raze 1, All countries expand their spheres of influence, including Russia. You are acknowledging 'past Ukraine'? Because he wants all of Ukraine, despite the population not wanting him (especially now). I'll re-list a few links and add plenty more. A, Russian Units fly USSR Flags Plenty of units leave USSR flags on the ground now also. Here is a wider look at how the state and its people are propagandized into the vision of a 'greater russia' That's been going on for decades, the vision of a greater Russia and a return to the old ways, using liberalism as a scapegoat, Putin requires these nationalists satisfied to stay in power and he knows it. B, Moldova's Breakaway Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria - Ditto the Russian Breakaway republics in Ukraine. Speculating the same strategy in the baltics with their Russian populations. The fool Lukashenko pointed to this on Live TV at the start of the war as their next target. C, Threats to take Poland D, 8th War to rebuild the USSR. If you need the 8 wars from this list, I can list them. Putin is ex KGB, he laments the fall of the USSR E, Further: Putin has been flooding the EU with immigrants to destabilize it, this has been known for a while now, 2016 article, especially from Syria. F, Putin generally uses conspiracy nonesnse like QANON and backdoor groups like the Russian Imperialist movement to import Ruscism to the west. Ruscism is something Putin has adopted from Alexander Dugin, which culminates in a desire to restore a new Russian Empire. Like wagner they can do this quietly and with plausible deniability. G, There is a reason in the german far right coup attempt that they sort out Russian aid. Because Russia is actively trying to infiltrate Europe more and destabilize it. Arne Schönbohm was the most public Russian agent in Germany, sacked for his ties to Russian intelligence service as one obvious example, however, Ukraine publicly listed 600 more. There is little for them to gain by posting fake names. 2, I gave several links in previous posts showing neutrality was offered a month after the war started. You've ignored or not seen them. There are hundreds more. 3, NATO doesn't 'go' anywhere, countries come to it. For a country to join NATO, it has to have an internal popular wish for it and a lot of government support. People join NATO out of fear of Russia's actions. I can list the many hundreds of reasons Eastern Europe fears Russia if it will help, or just watch some Ukraine footage. If you mean America and Russia's sphere of influence collided in Ukraine yes, largely because of the changing social, economic, and cultural conditions in Eastern Europe. People were enjoying capitalism and Western liberal values, the EU gave them a good quality of life, and security from Russia. Ukraine wanted in. I don't trust Wikileaks. Russia has weaponized it, like most conspiracy sites. A general note on Russian spies for further reading. https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-world-deep-cover-russia-spies-infiltrating-west-putin-agents-2023-12?op=1&r=US&IR=T

Because doing so would mean having to admit the double standards. Not just in Israel but with America's policy since the Bush years and the second invasion of Iraq. The world fundamentally changed since 9/11. *Some people like to pretend it hasn't still.