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He's not wrong. But not sure he realizes he has the unique ability to 'stop doing suffering'. It's not like people can 'just do it'. You got to have a pretty damn developed and trained mind.

Good point. But I didn't know people seriously thought Trump was a solution to that. His tariffs would directly increase inflation. That problem is bigger than what a government can handle, there's no fixing inflation with an election.

What does inflation have to do with the Trump mind virus? I don't think Trump won based on any real economic arguments, only vibes.

Oh, I'll be the first to admit how dysfunctional and ape-like I am. I take pride in my ability to do that, where Trump supporters take pride in being hateful and ignorant. That's the difference. I am privileged to be able to do that.

Sure that plays a role, but that is no excuse for backing neo-fascists, zionists, sexists, racists, religious extremists and digital robber barons. I am that twenty something straight white male struggling with money and sex in low to middle class society. I should be Trump's main demographic. I don't subscribe to that ideology because I recognise it is suicidal. I was lucky to discover self help and people like Leo at an age where I was able to rewire my brain. The tragedy of it all is that the alt right voter base in being led off a cliff like lemmings because their minds are malnourished and under educated. Also, most people are just genetically geared to be selfish little pricks. They will do anything that provides short term gratification because they literally can not operate on a timeline longer than a few weeks. It is their own fault, yet they are also victims of who and what they were born as: Ignorant, greedy hairless monkeys.

That Africia geography video has to be the only coherent content from Thomas Sowell I've ever seen. Beware the rest of his conservative bullshit.

Touché.

Agreed. Democracy worked brilliantly until the internet and social media emerged. Like an inverse bell curve, the dummies and elites consolidated too much power and the reasonable people in the middle suffered. A dummy with a vote has more impact than a reasonable person with a vote.

"You need over 1000 IQ points in order to out-perform a trial-and-error approach." - Nassim Taleb It's better to be antifragile than intelligent. "The person with the most staying power ultimately controls the deal." - Robert Ringer, in Winning Through Intimidation Don your turtle shell and get moving.

Jesus got killed for trying to teach people forgiveness and compassion. Best you can do is discover the most conscious mode of being you can muster and lead by example.

I'd never seen these published before - it's really interesting just to hear his day to day running of companies. He comes across as a normal switched-on boss who wants the best for his company. This is not to excuse him of his fascist arc - but you gotta acknowledge he's a master businessman and leader. I haven't watched the entirety of these videos, or even know if they are just a PR stunt, but it does help frame Elon in a more complete light. I also recommend reading Character Limit, if I'm giving him too much credit for you here. That will knock him back down a peg.

Humor is a survival tool! Comedy is a built-in remedy against suffering. Suffering causes depression and anti-survival patterns. Thank god we can laugh! Because it's fun and it keeps the fun going.

The only difference between Isaac Newton inventing calculus, and you learning it from a textbook, is that Newton derived it and you were taught it. One can't have true understanding of anything unless you can re-derive it from first principles. 'How did Newton invent calculus?' is a much more powerful question that 'Can you teach me calculus?'.

That would be nice.

I'm not sure if we can have the good without the bad. If being a lefty fed Elon's ego and companies more than being a neo-fascist he would be doing that instead. The moloch trap strikes again.

There is no body mind connection.

Cash in the mattress, canned food under the floorboards.

There is no such thing is a decentralized economy. The only reason we value money is because a state enforces it and makes it convenient through schemes, legislation, and threat of violence. In fact - money is nothing more than a proxy tool that spares us from having to use violence to get what we want. If you are advocating for a decentralized economy, you are advocating for total economic warfare held to no legal standard. All crypto value is built upon the failure to recognise this.

Tigran Hamasyan Animals As Leaders - Drummer explains the music theory My intuition says aliens would be doing some crazy Fibonacci sequence polyrhythm.

We have brains and social systems designed to operate in tribes of hundreds and thousands, not billions. Of course we are having social issues. Giving humans globalized capitalism is like giving a chimp a machine gun. The only way out is working through the tough problems now.

I am like a bird stuck in a shop. I fly from perch to perch searching for a way out. After all, everything I have ever needed to survive meant flying around. The door is open, escape is easily possible. But it would never occur to a bird like me to go to the ground to find the exit, because that's where predators lurk. I know you are like this because I am like this. How are you like this bird?

@The Crocodile Ruh roh.

https://actualized.org/insights/corruption-of-elite-education Love how honest Daniel is recognising his own privilege here. Corruption and wealth inequality seems to scale exponentially with population growth. The more people there are, the more people one can exploit. We are stuck with political and social systems designed for thousands, not billions of people. Like my Civilisation 6 games - the people are culturally retarded and technologically brilliant. Like having giant death robots in the mediaeval age. We have serious cultural and epistemological work to do. Put your computers down, nerds.

Airtable.com I've rebuilt like 3 other softwares I was paying hundreds of dollars a month for with it for $25 bucks a month. Crazy powerful if you do any sort of office work.