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Sounds like your describing social proof but your example sounds more like she just thought you where an interesting conversationalist. I get what you mean though.

What's preselection?

In terms of being built, I think just not being too fat or too thin is the key distinction. There is otherwise no real downsides to being built I think and it will otherwise only help in terms of attractiveness.

Men tend to want to be way more ripped than is actually attractive and women want to be way thinner than is actually attractive. Dudes who look good to dudes look like The Rock and women who look good for women are really tall, are borderline anorexic and have really masculine jaws.

When that wolf research came out and introduced that alpha-beta concept it must have been like the rapture for insecure men. That shit stuck even though it was completely wrong. The epistemology of a bodybuilder forum and its consequences. I'm pretty sure the concept of "soyboys" came from there.

Humor can be thought as simply drawing attention to contradictions. Socializing a lot can help because you learn how to play with social norms and become more familiar with pop culture. But you can also just practice it. Develop a style, etc. Just enjoying things you find funny. Getting good at drawing is mostly just practice and a little theory once in a while. What helped me get better was having a schedule where I worked with a deadline to finish a piece on regular basis. I have a log of dozens of drawings spanning back years where you can clearly see the gradual improvement. I have since switched to just drawing for a set amount of time daily since I got burned out on the previous method. As long as you just draw regularly you'll get better over time.

If I was in your shoes I would just get any job to stabilize the situation. If you wish to escape homelessness you can't be picky. This means manual labor most likely. Factory work, slaughter houses, ware houses, construction, etc. It will be much harder if you don't want to work for a company. Once your more stable and you begin accruing savings you can start thinking about higher education/training and begin aligning your life more with your values. It's a tough situation but you just gotta start climbing. You'll have made it within a decade if you keep at it and work hard. Society will reward you for providing real value.

Acting like a fundamentalist society isn't stifling to one's ability to self-actualize and self-express broadly speaking, which includes women's and gay rights, is just magical thinking. But these countries are so elementary in terms of what they need structurally that I don't think it is really productive to harp on their lack of development. They are hell hole tribalistic countries. It is never going to compare to living in a first world democracy for hundreds of years. Las Vegas is only extreme to fundamentalists. And even then thinking that Las Vegas is extreme is just a matter of opinion. The Taliban executing you for being gay is not a matter of opinion but a religious authoritarian system with serious consequences.

I found AI to be helpful with expanding my thinking and generating ideas. I found that it can soften your view on specific topics and is particularly useful for contemplating very niche topics that people aren't talking about, for example Danish politics. I don't use AI all that often however because I feel like it doesn't provide me all that much value ultimately though that could just be a skill issue. You can never trust it to tell the truth though. It will always just be an "idea". It would be a mistake to ever give it epistemic control. That is the key distinction of responsible AI use in my opinion. I never go in looking for an answer from it.

I had a phase where I drank too much and it lead to a lot of embarrassing and regrettable moments. Definitely keep it low key if you are going to drink and drink slowly. Don't think alcohol gives you a personality and don't glorify it. Only lame drunk girls do that.

Vlad Vexler on his YT channel reacts to a lot of current news that relate to authoritarianism (Trump and Russia mostly), which I judge to be quiet insightful and educational when it comes to understanding the perspective of authoritarians and how it relates to democratic institutions.

It is impossible to trust AI to be factual because it will always be making up shit to a certain extent. It's not what it is for in my opinion and I think it is problematic how eager people are to outsource their thinking ChatGPT. I think it's beneficial for you to read the news yourself. Besides, you don't need to be all that attentive to the news in my opinion nor should you rely on a single source at that. A myriad of different sources and perspectives is more optimal epistemologically.

I don't think anyone who paid attention is surprised by this. The Elon-Trump crash-out is as close to being prophecy as you could get.

Japanese are so ethnocentric that they used to have rules mandating black hair at their schools until recently (2022). If your natural hair color is something else you had to dye it and they would forcefully dye it at school if you didn't do it yourself.

Even contemplating our doom has been taken over by AI.

Is this the same Nazism ideologically from 1940s Germany or more like an inspired hyper-conservative counter-culture thing?

The right tends to be perceived as more actionable whereas the left is perceived as more idealistic and more like a collection of broad moral statements that don't have clear actionable steps. A bunch of "shoulds" essentially. In my opinion, identity politics has soiled the image of the left as identity politics isn't actual politics with clear steps but a broad debate over norms and definitions. In multi-party systems, the furthest left parties tend to be ungrounded, ineffective, unwilling to cooperate across aisle and are overly concerned with their optics relative to their moral convictions (in my opinion). The US has less opportunity to distinguish between pragmatic economic leftism and far-left ideology because of the two-party system in my opinion. The far-left isn't concerned with political pragmatism and could perhaps be considered as more experimental if given a gracious treatment. I think economic insecurity is making people lean more conservative as well as people tend to become more conservative during times of hardship at the same time that they are not seeing a strong presence of actionable left-wing calls to action.

At least in this example you lack full context to what you mean. You could easily read this as sexism being good in of itself since you don't seem to fully explain how social construction relates to survival. Like a sort of naturalism argument which is an ethical justification, but is of course not what you meant at all. It is worth remembering that for non-philosophy freaks like us concepts like levels of development, moral relativity, how the mind creates reality, etc. are completely foreign. It took years of watching Actualized stuff and your own contemplation to reach your level of understanding, so without presenting the whole context of your ideas they will tend to get lost in translation with people who's philosophy is predicated largely on cultural memes. I hope I didn't come off as too preachy. This is a suggestion as much for myself as it is for others.

Israel can't be expected to acknowledge Palestine as legitimate on a politically fundamental level due to Zionist ideology. It has to be policed by a greater power to not ethnically cleanse Palestine which is impossible. It's like a rat stuck in a room with a large cat.

He's too far gone. It's not possible to end up in Trump's state without cutting yourself off spiritually.

Tony Robbins is about self-improvement, not political analysis or collective struggle. It's about what you can do individually. What you could do collectively is a different matter entirely. He's right in that creating massive value and wealth to a certain extent depends on having certain qualities, like discipline and vision. Most people have very little vision and aren't ambitious. Individually you can accomplish a lot irrespective of your culture's center of gravity, especially if you live in a first world country. Most won't because they don't have the inkling that they even could.

No, because autism is a kind of disability depending on the severity. A lack of affect is a kind of mild disability at least since we are a social species. Severe forms of autism on the other hand are debilitating. Specialized treatment is how society accommodates for disabilities. I've seen autistic people not being able to hold a job because it was "too dusty" where they worked. How is society supposed to accommodate sensitivity to that level? By the way, when I wrote "acceptance" in my previous post, I was mainly referring to self-acceptance as a result of better self-understanding ("why am I such a weirdo?" etc.)

Try wiggling your toes to be more present. If you are more present it is easier to break the chain reaction of your thoughts causing you to feel bad. You have to recognize that thoughts themselves aren't real even though they can effect your mood and actions.

How people form relationships is reflective of a societies survival needs. Monogamy came to culturally when inheritance became a thing. In our modern society there is less strict need for monogamy which I think just means more casual situationships/boyfriend-girlfriend relationships rather than direct marriage or deliberate polyamory.

The cost of tariffs are just going to be passed on to the customer. The silver-lining is that it will hopefully lead to disillusionment with Trump and authoritarian grandstanding as people's quality of life are noticeably worsened. Everyone in the know knows it is a disaster but for Trump it is about creating an atmosphere of control where you have to bend and kiss the ring or get punished.