2024-06-04 FGP Alumni Call

AI: Artifical Intimacy

Digital mediation Mediating intimacy is rotting our humanity.

protect & preserve

Not to be a retro-luddite.

Phasor dialator Nitric Oxide - Red Bull research on physical peak performance, but it expands the aperature.

Illustration: LSD: Flip the Switch

Trickster Dobbs

Beware: psychs without the lineage. Lineage-free; low-grade stripped for export #AlanWatts

You can live a full mysto-spiritual committed life. It will still be hard (remember Stutz’s truths: pain, uncertainty, work)

How do you endure? step into your strength.

Freedom

Think: Alcohol-free vs. sober https://www.richroll.com/podcast/andy-ramage-830/

Obligated Adaptations

Not to be a retro-Luddite.

Examples:

• bipedal motion; out of the rainforest
• hunter-gatherers to farmers: 100x explosion ~ fungable sunlight
• industrial agri: no fallow fields, fossil fuels to pump with nitrogen (haber-bosch process)
• nukes
• AI
• digital narcissim

JW: Where are the brake pedals. Where is the steering?
OJP: Maybe there aren't any. It's just the setup #Rohn. Think about capitalism, circulatory.
OJP: Reduce the pollution the right inputs and let the system do its thing.

#DoItRight Purity. The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek MLK.

Means means method, material inputs, more...
e.g. effort, timing, matched to time #ProgressiveOverload #SlipAngle

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↑ racheting             ___/
  effect            ___/
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Forget about capturing wind, sun, carbon. Capturing the attention of the racheting machinery is where it’s at.

aside: digital narcissim

• captured by spiritual materialism
• psychs without the lineage
• then comes the real-experience
• go back to being fake doesn’t work. just one more doesn’t work either. there’s an oversupply of false “this one will set you free”

Lakota story; Sitting Bull (wise, adapt) and Crazy Horse (young, fight). Neither work.

“We change” “We all” vs them “Where we go one, we go all” - Qanon

Haven’t we seen this story before? Prime Directive, Borg.

We must soften our heart. Go from me/my to us/ours.

Think: Trust Equation, run it backwards temporally/causally. Use trust to create resonance with self-orientation (denominator). #TrustButVerify Go up to the edge of your ability to recover. Your zone of safety / room to play is likely larger than you think.

'reverse_causality` in Juice.superpowers[]