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Should We Fear for the Future?

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If you watch the news or TV, the messaging is fear-based. Yet when you go outside in the world, it’s pretty nice out there. People from all walks of life interact with one another civilly, commerce happens, friendships are made. But there are some reasons to be concerned for the future, as people are pitted against one another in unfair ways. What are the big macro trends of the world? How can you thrive in in the world today? I talked to my friend Stefan about these issues in more, and a lengthy podcast on mindset and future trends. https://youtu.be/C3MofAOqJN8 We also discussed my new mindset master class, which you can order here.

Life Inside the Simulation

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Reality as we know it can be described in two ways – hard and soft. Hard reality is physics. If you jump from a building, you’ll break your bones. These immutable laws govern airplane travel. (Have you noticed a lot of weird stuff is happening with airplanes lately?)

Soft reality is where we spend most of our lives. Our reality is socially constructed and dictated by culture. Do this, don’t do that. Nearly every risk in the modern Western world is emotional and psychological.

The Simulation can thus be understood as being of two types – hard and soft. The hard simulation is the computer we live in. (Read, “What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?“)

Is Reality a Simulation, and if so, Does it Matter?

The Simulated Hypothesis reality, which is less scary than it seems, is an argument about whether the world came about via a Big Bang, from God (or gods), or whether some sufficiently advanced being created the world we live in. The hard simulation theory, also known as the Simulated Reality Hypothesis, goes like this:

A popular argument for the simulation hypothesis came from University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrum in 2003, when he suggested that members of an advanced civilization with enormous computing power might decide to run simulations of their ancestors. They would probably have the ability to run many, many such simulations, to the point where the vast majority of minds would actually be artificial ones within such simulations, rather than the original ancestral minds. So simple statistics suggest it is much more likely that we are among the simulated minds.

Watch: Elon Musk, Are We in a Simulation?

https://youtu.be/xBKRuI2zHp0

Discussing the Simulation draws a lot of eye rolls and sometimes even anger, which doesn’t make sense on a logical level.

God could have created the Simulation. Or some architects might have. Just as there’s room for God in the Big Bang, there’s room for God in the Simulation.

Lesser intellects dismiss the Simulation theory as nonsense. Those people aren’t to be taken seriously as they’ve never thought deeply about the issue.

Watch this video and you’ll see that dismissing the Simulation theory doesn’t show people how smart you are.

Simulated Reality

As computers grow more powerful and complex, the plausibility of simulating an entire universe grows less absurd. In fact, many now believe that our universe could be a vast computer simulation. In this video I explore the relatively new field of digital physics, the plausibility of a simulated universe, and how we may one day create our own universe.

 

How can you prove we live in a Simulation?

The paradox of the simulated reality hypothesis is that any sufficiently complex society capable of forming simulations would be able to hide the code from its inhabitants.

Scott Adams works around the paradox as follows:

If we are simulations, we should expect to see two additional qualities in the universe as partial confirmation:

1. We should expect that we can’t travel past the boundaries of the simulation.

2. We wouldn’t be able to observe the basic building blocks of our reality.

Sure enough, we meet both criteria.

We can’t travel beyond the edge of the universe without exceeding the speed of light, which is theoretically impossible. That’s what you would expect in a simulation. You would have some sort of rule of physics to keep the simulated people from traveling beyond the edges. Here I’m assuming the universe is expanding at the same rate as the light that is traveling in all directions, so we can never catch up to it.

The hypothetical creators of our simulation would also try to prevent us from discovering that we are not made of anything real. And sure enough, when science looks at our basic building blocks at the quantum level, all we have is probability and strangeness.

One issue with Adams’ reasoning is he may be viewing the fact that we don’t know something (how subatomic particle behave with certainty) as proof that we must therefore be in a simulation.

Of course there is nothing wrong with his reasoning, because none of us can prove we live in a Simulation, or that we don’t live in a Simulation. (Read, “How to know if you’re a real person or living in a simulation.”)

Elon Musk made similar posts as Scott Adams noting, in response to an article about Schrodinger’s cat, “To conserve computing power, a simulation would only render an object when it is observed.”

When asked is someone would hear a tree fall in an empty forest, Musk explained, “A simulation probably wouldn’t spend computing power on sound.”

The soft simulation is the software we are running.

“Culture is your operating system.” – Terence McKenna

When I speak about the Simulation I’m usually referring to the “soft” one, or what the post-modernists called “socially-constructed reality,” or “narratives.”

Or what Jordan Belfort called the “bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve” your dreams.

There is a Narrative About You, and you believe it.

Maybe your parents told you the narrative, or someone in school, and you believed it.

Or you had a bad experience, and this experience became your identity rather than a data point.

There’s even a term for this – Imposter Syndrome.

Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon, impostorism, fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud”. Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this phenomenon remain convinced that they are frauds, and do not deserve all they have achieved.

A person with Imposer Syndrome is running a a hardware script, and has accepted passively the beliefs of the software.

“We are all unpaid actors in some giant script that we didn’t write.” – Kanye West.

Watch, Yes, We are Living in a Simulation.

How to Break Free from the Simulation.

Your mind has been programmed by people who don’t care about you. The government which wants you to obediently die in wars. The media which doesn’t care about truth.

Or maybe your mind was programmed by people who cared about you and didn’t know any better. The parents who did their best but were clueless. The teachers who tried but never had any idea what was happening in the real world.

The first step to freedom is recognizing:

Your sense of self or “I” is a creation – or what Anil Seth calls a hallucination – of your perceptions. The sensory information coming into the brain hasn’t changed at all. All that’s changed is your brain’s best guess at the causes of that sensory information, and that changes what you consciously hear….

We don’t just passively perceive the world. We actively generate it. The world as we experience comes as much from the inside-out as from the outside-in.

 

You can break free from the Simulation by rewriting the scripts in your mind, by rewriting the stories you believe, by believing in yourself.

My Mindset Master Class is more than Gorilla Mindset. Gorilla Mindset was the beginning. The Power of Mindset Master Class gives you the skills and tools you need to break out.

We are in the pre-order phase.

A pre-order gets you the full course in one video, as well as an invitation to a private forum.

The full course will be in HD, with the video segmented into 18 parts, along with some worksheets and other add-ons.

To keep learning about the Power of Mindset Master Class, go here.

Kanye West on the Simulation

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“We are all unpaid actors in some giant script that we didn’t write,” Kanye West said on the latest episode of a late-night talk show, and the conversation gets deeper.

Well Kanye’s monologue gets deeper. The host was out of his depth, and couldn’t ask any interesting follow-up questions.

Some of you may have an opinion on Kanye, and I’d ask you to set that aside, because a lot of people have an opinion on me – one that is not only wrong, but is deliberately manufactured to be wrong.

Maybe Kanye has been lied about? Could you make room for that possibility.

A lot of people have said that Kanye is talking about subjects we discussed in this article.

Conversations about:
– The Simulation,
– Shame and fear,
– Scripts, mindset, and story telling.

Which is why I’m recommending the interview.

If you enjoy my stuff, you’ll love this Kanye interview.

Vic Berger is a Creepy Stalker who Harasses Children

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UPDATE: The stalking of my wife and daughter continues (read the article here). There’s a full criminal investigation into Vic Berger, as his behavior increased in severity and he poses a threat to himself and the children he stalks.

Read the original article below.

Stalkers are dangerous, and when you give them attention, they win. Yet I’m in a difficult position because a couple of my stalkers have friends in the media. Their media friends amplify the harassment by RT’ing them and encouraging the attacks.

One of the stalkers admitted he incited threats in an email, answering, “Hahaha Okay,” when I told him about the harassment he had incited for almost two years.

 

About 20 months ago a creepy person sent his followers to harass me. Usually that’s just Internet b.s.

I blocked him.

He then told his followers to message me about my decision to block him. Under Twitter’s rules, this is inciting harassment, but whatever. We know how that goes. I deserve it. That’s fine.

Then his followers sent death and rape threats about my child.

I reported the facts: The stalker told his followers to message me, and explained the types of messages his fans and followers sent.

He of course went to the media screaming about how I harassed him.

He said he would sue me. I told him to sue me for defamation, because then I’d get discovery into every creepy DM he sent, every email he sent, and every message he sent. I would get him under oath to discuss his sock puppet accounts.

He never sued, because he’d have lost badly. He began DM’ing my wife, as I had blocked him.

Yes, he DM’ed my wife. That’s how creepy this guy is. He DM’ed the wife of someone he had sent his followers to harass.

After my wife asked for an apology for what his followers had done, the stalker threatened to sue my wife. For what? He didn’t say, because stalkers don’t act based on rationality.

For the past 18 months this person has sent threatens and incited threats against me. He has taken it to an entirely new level.

I was doing a Periscope, my daughter entered the room. I ended the stream as she wanted me to read to her.

During the stream she said, “Minnie,” because I read “My First Look and Find: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” to her before bed. We snuggle down on a bean bag and read together.

This stalker spliced out the audio from the video stream, deceptively enhanced it, and added fake subtitles.

Again, I don’t like giving stalkers any attention, because that’s how they win.

The Stalker’s History Goes Back Almost Two Years.

This hoax is spread by people who have sent their followers to harass my family for almost two years. Their followers have threatened to kill my daughter. One sent a DM, captioning a photo of me with my daughter, “Cum.” The picture of us together said, “BAD BABY.”

(I cropped out my daughter’s image.)

This hoax isn’t a harmless prank, it’s a campaign of harassment involving the kind of people who send pictures like what you see, above.

They also called in death threats to a venue that was going to host a mindset seminar.

They threatened to attend a private happy hour my wife was co-hosting.

When I was in Philadelphia, someone who I had blocked told his followers to message me for a private event my wife and I were hosting.

He then threatened to crash it, and given his history of unstable behavior, we wondered if he would shoot up the venue.

The stalker admitted he has harassed my family.

One stalker would continue to email me despite my issuing him a no-contact demand. In his latest email, he conceded to every allegation I made.

When I wrote, “Your followers continue to send death threats to my wife and threaten my child,” he replied, “Hahaha Okay, Weird Mike.”

 

These hoaxers have friends in the media who amplify their harassment scheme.

I’d think we could all agree that you shouldn’t say, “Cum” when talking about newborn babies. Don’t threaten wives. If you’re blocked, don’t tell your followers to ask about private events.

To the left-wing media, what has happened is acceptable.

Many people in the mainstream media think the death threats are funny. If the rules are that it’s OK to threaten my daughter’s life, then God help everyone, as that’s not a world any of us should live in.

Others will ask me why I haven’t sued. I want them in prison and am working with law enforcement.

One of their close friends tried murdering a Jewish man outside of an event I hosted. Their friend David Campbell faces 3-10 years in state prison.

 

999 out of 1,000 times, ignore stalkers.

When you give them attention, they win.

But I’ve tried ignoring them, and rather than leave, they are targeting children.

 

Night of Terror – How a Far Left Wing Group Organized a Violent Attack on Social Media

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UPDATE: Domestic terrorist David Campbell was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his attack. Read the full report here.

—Original story below—

A 56-year old Jewish man was carried away in a stretcher after a 30 year old white male pounced on him. David Campbell, who faces 3 to 15 years in prison, sucker punched the man as he was leaving an event. He then tried strangling him to death. When police intervened, Campbell put a police officer in a head lock.

Here is the aftermath of the attack via the NY Daily News, which reported on it.

 

Here is the statement issued by NYPD after the attack.

On Saturday, January 20, 2018 at approximate 2230 hours, police received a pick up job of a 30 year-old male punching and choking a 56 year-old male at the corner of 50 Street and 11 Avenue within the confines of the 18th Precinct (MTN). Officers intervened and arrested the perpetrator. EMD responded and transported the victim to Bellevue Hospital and is currently in stable condition. Charges are pending.

The man who was attacked wasn’t politically active, and certainly wasn’t “alt-right,” although even endorsing an attack like that on bad people is going to take the country in a bad direction.

He heard there was an event from a friend, and showed up. When police warned him against walking towards black-clad ANTIFA members, he shrugged it off. “They are just protesters, there’s nothing to worry about,” he told an officer on the scene.

Coming from another generation, he hadn’t learned the difference between the Woman’s March (peaceful) and ANTIFA, and one might also lay blame for his attack on the media, which refuses to accurately report on the hundreds of violent attacks committed by masked men.

The attack happened because people doxed the venue, and directly incited and encouraged violence.

I kept the location secret. Only people who purchased a ticket were sent the venue address, and the address wasn’t sent out until 5 p.m.

The email read:

Please DO NOT share this address with anyone, even a friend, and do not post it on social media.

No one who doxed the venue can claim they didn’t know about ANTIFA’s violent past, and none can claim the event was public.

Some have said they didn’t “dox” the venue because it was public. That’s a lie. The ticket said on it: “Please DO NOT share this address with anyone, even a friend, and do not post it on social media.” The event was private.

Someone bought a ticket in order to get the address. They then forwarded the address out, and the dox was amplified on social media.

ANTIFA showed up to commit violence, and they almost murdered a man.

All of this happened in the open.

Claude Taylor, for example, told ANTIFA to attack me. His account remains verified, and no action was taken, and his threatening Tweet (Archive) is still up.

 

Claude Taylor can try playing games with his “kiss” line, but his followers got the message. One of them was overt.

“If you’re in NYC with nothing to do tonight, here’s a chance to punch a nazi. Dress to impress, but wear something that you can get bloody nose mess out of.” (Archive.)

Again, the man who was attacked was Jewish. Not that it should matter, no one should be sucker punched and nearly choked to death for simply walking home. But that detail goes to show how blind ANTIFA’s rage is.

ANTIFA organized a violent mob on Twitter, and were explicit in their aims.

They wanted to make “racists afraid,” and yet tried killing a Jewish man. ANTIFA uses violence for sport, and have no actual values or principles.

The man who was attacked had relatives killed by Nazis.

The ANTIFA thug who tried killing a Jewish man after a mob was organized on Twitter faces 3 to 15 years in prison.

30-year old David Campbell faces multiple felony charges, including attempted aggravated gang assault, which carries a considerable prison sentence. (Public court records are here.)

The New York Post captured a picture of Campbell during his arrest.

 

ANTIFA threatened children.

While “protesting” outside of the event, several unidentified members of ANTIFA said they wanted to murder my child. My child wasn’t at the event, and whatever one thinks of me, that seems to be over the line.

 

ANTIA threatened a journalist.

Although we often hear about a war on the free press by Trump and his supporters, actual violence is from one direction. Jon Levine, who was reporting on the aftermath of the violent assault, was threatened by ANTIFA.

This entire Night of Violence was organized on Twitter.

My question is this: Why doesn’t the media report on ANTIFA violence?

Shouldn’t accounts that organized an actual violent attack be banned? Where is the media scrutiny? Where are the media calls for these accounts to be banned?

ANTIFA directly incited violence. They doxed a venue. They told people to commit violence. They threatened children. They threatened a journalist. One of them is facing a lengthy prison sentence for the attack.

This isn’t a hard case where one needs to connect dots or find loose associations between people and groups.

  • ANTIFA bought a ticket,
  • Doxed the venue on social media,
  • Told people to commit violence,
  • Showed up to the event,
  • Attacked a 56 year old man.

This is a clear case of social media being used to organize violence. Yet if you turn on CNN or MSNBC or follow verified journalist’s accounts on Twitter, you won’t see any mention of this.

Online harassment happens, and sometimes it turns violent. In this case, there were no dog whistles, they used loud and blood bull horns.