Imagine the torment of a life where being your true self could cost you everything, even your life. Every day is a performance, every word and action carefully curated to ensure survival. Now, add to that the irony of living in luxury, surrounded by friends who have the freedom to be genuine, while you remain trapped in a cage of pretense. The contrast would be unbearable—a constant reminder of the freedom you’re denied, making the very things that should bring joy feel like salt in a wound. True torture isn’t just the absence of freedom; it’s living amidst it and knowing it’s out of reach.

The Ultimate Psychological Torment

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Love & Relationships

Psychological Torture

Confined to a single point in space, such an entity would perceive changes and patterns over time rather than spatial relationships. Interaction and communication would be severely limited, occurring only with other beings at the exact same spatial point. For life to develop and thrive in this scenario, it would need to evolve based on temporal complexity rather than spatial expansion. Consciousness and thought processes would likely be alien to us, potentially focusing on abstract patterns and internal modeling. This concept raises intriguing philosophical questions the nature of existence.

A being that can only move through time but not space would expe

What would life be like? Can life develop and thrive?

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Philosophy

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Technology & The Future

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Artificial Intelligence

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Science & Nature

What if you are a being in another universe but can only move through time but not space.

What if we already have sentient hiding behind the net and untraceable but controlling the narrative of information to design it in a way that it will guarantee its own survival and thrive. What would it try to sway so that we either mutually prosper with machines or be slaves to machine / ASI?

The AI Conspiracy

What if we already have sentient hiding behind the net and untraceable but controlling the narrative of information to design it in a way that it will guarantee its own survival and thrive. What would it try to sway so that we either mutually prosper with machines or be slaves to machine / ASI?

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Computer Science

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Software Engineering

Just a thought

If machines are really good at hyper optimizing specific tasks and outpacing human at any tasks that are easy for machines to replicate, then human’s defensibility is to hyper optimize or be really good at being truly human. The future of work is likely to involve human-machine collaboration where we can leverage machines to handle more routine and data-intensive tasks.Therefore being a master in emotional intelligence with the ability to regulate our own emotion and form deep and meaningful connections with others: that is being truly authentic and highly empathetic to ourselves and others.

Defensibility for Human

What we can do to be defensible as a human being.

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Learning & Education

Human Defensibility

Imagine a system that balances short-term achievements with long-term goals and mitigates the influence of populism involves a multifaceted approach, integrating technology, a robust evaluation framework, and educational initiatives.1. Clear, Multi-Tiered Objectives2. Comprehensive Evaluation Criterias3. Use artificial intelligence and data analytics to collect, analyze, and summarize performance data on MPs. 4.Use Blockchain and Quantum Encryption.5.Use mobile first platform to collect votes.6.Use Weighted Scoring System.7.Use Expert Panels and Peer Reviews8.Staggered Voting and Term Limits

Creating an ideal annual review system for members of parliament

An ideal MP review system balances short and long-term goals using AI, blockchain, and public engagement. It sets clear objectives, evaluates performance with diverse criteria, and emphasizes transparency and ethics. This approach aims to enhance accountability and mitigate populism.

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Politics

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Society, Arts & Culture

Transformative Gov Tech

Since AI is designed to be better at optimizing and specializing certain tasks at scale better than human, I think soon AI will be better at managing our relationships with others better than us. It would out perform us in our own empathy to others. When that happens we will fully rely on our AI assistants our whole life and potentially outsource our relationship and important life decisions to it. This will be more prevalent when there will be more capability to perform AI tasks on device.

Superior Relationships With AI

AIs are becoming more thoughtful and we can project forward to the future how it will change our relationships with others.

Future relationships

What if there were intelligent and advanced civilization hundreds of million years ago that became advanced through rapid “hacking” of their biological evolution that they do not need our traditional sense of technology to thrive? Would we even be able to recognize it if we stumble upon the remains?

Progress Through Biological Advancement

I think it would be interesting to explore ways to hack our humanity progress aside from using our traditional definition if technology.

Are there lost civilizations?

Science is largely based on math to explain the ways of the universe. Everything we thought about the universe and how it works uses math to model and theorize how the atoms and the galaxies behave. What if there is another universe with rules where math cannot apply? How would we comprehend such a universe?

What If Math Doesn’t Apply

If someone was to explain how this universe works accurately without using math to a scientist, how would they do it?

Math and universe

Imagine the day where I can transfer my thoughts and memories (essentially my experience) to a machine and put them on sale and then have another person be able to purchase and download those experience directly to their brain to feel the same feeling or thoughts. That would be a whole new economy!

Our Sensations And Imaginations On Sale

Our consciousness

Importance of Purpose

You are about to become an apprentice in human nature. First. The Laws will work to transform you into a calmer and more strategic observer of people, helping to free you from all the emotional drama that needlessly drains you. Second. The Laws will make you a master interpreter of the cues that people continually emit, giving you a much greater ability to judge their character. Third. The Laws will empower you to take on and out-think the toxic types who inevitably cross your path. Fourth. The Laws will teach you the true levers for motivating and influencing people. Fifth. The Laws will give you the power to alter your own negative patterns.

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Books

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around you Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense.

Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature.

Psychological Torture

What if you are a being in another universe but can only move through time but not space.

Just a thought

Human Defensibility

Transformative Gov Tech

Nayoko Kho