HughCaulk
5d ago
Sure, you can have this opinion but it sounds like a progressive complaining about wealth inequality and saying the “capitalist system is broken”. Spare me…
HughCaulk
5d ago
Best take on this site.
The dating discourse here tends towards “communism for pussy” as I’ve said before. Funny that on a mostly libertarian leaning site, many posters write screeds about the “top 20% of men”, kinda like you’d see on some socialist forum about the “top 1% of earners”. Libertarianism for what I do have, communism for what I don’t!
You want more wealth and income? Better work for it! Want more pussy? Better work for it!
Good news is that they are somewhat correlated, so you can do a two birds one stone situation here.
HughCaulk
6d ago
God damn it.
Kinda seems like a repeat of the internet and social media specifically here. Initially everyone was talking about bringing the world together, connecting communities, knowledge at your fingertips, etc. People really just use it to waste their life as they get dopamine hacked for profit.
Now these AI companies are just going to be the latest in the line of tech companies to get you addicted and waste your life away for profit. OpenAI has that who sycophancy thing going, where the AI is trained to agree with you, no matter how delusional, as this gets you to talk with it more.
Then they’re gonna add all this porn-y “AI gf/bf” stuff, AI friend, AI why wouldn’t I just be on my phone 24-7?
HughCaulk
12d ago
Yeah the AIs are incredible at coding, data refinement and visualization, among other things. Seeing all the haters here is interesting. Some people make it their brand to dismiss every new tech trend. Some are truly out of touch and tried ChatGPT3.5 once in ‘22 and have ignored it since.
HughCaulk
12d ago
I think wokism is the logical conclusion of blank slate, everyone-is-equal democracy. Blank slate meaning that everyone is born the same, there are no genetic or inborn advantages in intelligence or drive between demographics, and that everyone is equal. This is a sort of immaculate conception myth that all modern liberal democracies believe, not just woke people.
Progressives or “wokists” take this to the logical conclusion: since demographics are clearly not equal in terms of educational achievement, wealth accumulation, property ownership, etc, but since they were exactly equal at birth, it logically HAS to be some systematic form of oppression to cause these sort of disparities.
The logic is sound, but the premise is flawed. Human Bio-diversity is a thing. Ever watch the NBA or NFL? It’s predominantly black, but there aren’t many who have an issue with this. At the upper echelons of business, it’s predominantly white and Asian. Many have problems with this, and a lot of flawed programs are devised as a result like DEI and Affirmative Action.
Unfortunately, you aren’t really allowed to talk about these things in polite company, but most people fundamentally understand this.
HughCaulk
22d ago
Yeah same with alcohol bro. How many people die from drunk driving every year?
HughCaulk
22d ago
Agreed, clinical trials are just a bullshit way to approach these drugs/medicines imo.
For you personally, yeah go on a forest walk and get into nature. That’s the real way to experience these drugs and most likely to have a positive life changing experience.
If you’re really ADD and need stimulation, maybe just go to a music festival then?
HughCaulk
23d ago
Good post but bruh…
Frankly: I hate all this clinical trial bullshit around psychedelics and mushrooms. They definitely have anti depressive effects, but anyone that does drugs knows that the set/setting of these clinical trials is absolutely awful and retarded. You’re tripping and they just have you watching ig reels and tv?
Take 2 gs of real mushrooms and go for a forest walk and think about life. You’ll actually have some real insights about what’s making you that way. Treating these substances like just another pharma substance isn’t the way.
Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity!
HughCaulk
1mo ago
Great beginning to the post. I agree that with decaying pro-social institutions in the west there is a massive movement towards dropping out, and not working hard to maintain the status-quo of society. The economy seems rigged against specific demographics and jobs specifically (while making others on ez mode like software devs and crypto entrepreneurs).
Huge quibble with the post: all the blackpill “women won’t fuck me” crying is total bullshit. Women are easier at the moment than they’ve ever been. Women literally medically augment themselves (with birth control) so that sex has no consequence, and many modern liberals treat it as lightly as scratching an itch.
If you feel this way, this is a YOU problem, plain and simple. I know so many >30 yr old halfway balding dudes with desk jobs who are banging new girls every week. Even better, it’s a skill that can be learned, not just something innate that you’re born with.
How often do you work out? Are you in respectable shape? Do you live in a populated area? Can you hold a normal conversation? How many girls do you approach, or even just talk to in real life per week?
I absolutely hate this mentality. It’s communism for pussy. Blackpill turbo-online men want to be able to do nothing, not work on themselves at all, and be guaranteed sex and a mate. Sounds like some Marxist who barely tries at their dead end wage slave job and is complaining about the wealth gap and wants gibs and wealth redistribution.
Stop whining and start working on yourself. You’ll thank me later. I know some people get off on self-pity, but chances you’ll get off on pussy 10x more if you give it a shot.
HughCaulk
1mo ago
Ok then do “young married couples” payments, 25-35 yrs old + 10 years for 2+ kids.
No need to get all autistic-ragey about it…
All my peers are worried about financial pressure and difficulties with having kids. Falling birthrate is a problem, so do subsidies?
HughCaulk
1mo ago
Yup. A functioning society might instead give these sort of social payments to women aged 25-35, which renew for 10 years if you have 2+ children.
But instead we give it to the oldest generation, who also has the most wealth of any generation on average…
HughCaulk
1mo ago
Talking to the boomer/elderly people I know, the thing that outrages them the most is either when their stock portfolio goes down rapidly, or any talk of cuts to social security/medicare.
Those doesn’t really seem like benefits to the younger generation who needs to pay for gibs, besides the obvious “when you’re my age, you’re gonna need some good healthcare”
HughCaulk
1mo ago
I understand and mostly agree with what you’re saying in the first part, but blaming it on immigration in the second is a non sequitur. It seems like a multi-faceted problem and likely more of a “good times make weak men, weak men make…” more than anything else.
Also, when your country is run by 70+ year olds, all decisions are short-termist by definition. A 30 year cares about the future, a 70 year old is gonna be dead in the future!!
Everyone has their complaint and diagnosis tho. For libertarians it’s the switch off a gold standard #WhatHappenedIn1971. For progressives it’s the wealth gap and not enough gibs tearing apart the social fabric. For you, it’s brown skins ruining the inner city and tekkin jerbs.
Realistically, it’s a polycrisis and probably just what happens when an empire ages. Get a plan B and get out if things get too bad!
HughCaulk
1mo ago
Seems like E having some mental health problems. Not otherwise sure why you’d alienate a large portion of your EV customer base by going so aggressively right/Trumpist, and then burn that bridge 4 months in.
He has successfully made himself the center of attention though! 4D gigabrained play? I’m not really seeing it
HughCaulk
2mo ago
Of course not. These “rationalists” are rational as long as their takes don’t touch anything political or CW-related. Otherwise, yikes
HughCaulk
2mo ago
There’s also another ending where we all die/are reduced to slaves. Happy endings often sound fake/gay/cliche so maybe you’d like the more cynical version.
With a new tech, it’s hard to even comprehend the direction things will take. But it’s a well regarded consensus that P(doom) is high and rising, so this is an effort to write a fictional story about how “doom” happens. If you can do better it would be a great contribution to AI safety and alignment.
HughCaulk
2mo ago
Lmao that’s a great point
Hard to escape from this sort of thing these days, I guess? Shame to see very divisive topics being taught in public schools nonetheless. There needs to be a way to opt out of public school via some sort of school choice/voucher system. Competition is a good thing!
HughCaulk
2mo ago
These people are sick. Teaching kindergarteners about sexual fetishes will never be ok, whether it’s gay or straight. Unfortunately there are a lot of very intelligent pedophile/groomer men, who’ve successfully convinced suburban white women that it’s a moral imperative to ram this down children’s throats, and steamroll the wishes of parents.
Need to look into sending the kids to catholic (or other reasonable religious) school, especially in these hyper-woke areas.
HughCaulk
3mo ago
Because everyone else’s fiat currency depreciates even faster and is all around worse than the dollar. This is just how fiat currencies are designed.
The slow and steady transition to bitcoin & hard money is marching forward…
HughCaulk
3mo ago
These sort of comments are popular but don’t make sense to me. Trump is simultaneously a political genius who can win two elections with the deck stacked completely against him, and also a blathering idiot with the critical reasoning and planning skills of a 3rd grader.
Not to mention his cabinet being comprised with very intelligent people and industry veterans…
HughCaulk
3mo ago
As of now, sure. But if it’s really a trade war against China, then an obvious escalation would be tariffing any other country that trades with China. Encourage other countries to turn their backs on China to keep access to US market.
HughCaulk
3mo ago
Of course. Just give out 100 blanket pardons at the end of your term.
A lot of these earlier crypto announcements were clearly insider traded, cause you can see these crazy flows actually on the blockchain. Tradfi very opaque
Good point for sure re: far from the worst. At face value, I believe this story is totally overdone, paying 16 year olds for sex is bad, he deserved jail, but they did “consent” and it’s not like they were 10 or even 12. Majorly different classes to that sort of crime IMO.
BUT, I think there’s much deeper undercurrents here. Trumps base absolutely fucking hates that he’s “covering up” and trying to bury this story (or blame it on a dem hoax which just doesn’t make sense). He is the conspiracy candidate and he went hard on this in the campaign trail. It’s more about the fact that “releasing the Epstein tapes” means “exposing and prosecuting the Washington swamp” rather than anything specific to do with child porn/prostitution.
It also seems like Epstein had plausible connections to intelligence and Israeli intelligence specifically. Tucker Carlson is doing a huge expose on this today (yesterday?) and that’s a big deal. Tucker is the #2 pod behind Rogan AND he just spoke at the RNC like a few months ago??
While the actual facts of the story is kinda meh, this is going to be a massive problem for Trump. I wish the first major scandal was something else, like not stopping any of these wars he promised to, but ofc this is what catches on with normies & his base…
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