My social media is consuming my neighborhood. Scrolling through the trees, buildings, and faces.
My social media is consuming my neighborhood. Scrolling through the trees, buildings, and faces.
The only advice I would ever give is to never take advice. If you listen to others you are statistically listening to mediocracy. AI as an instrument is causing massive disruptions into what is valuable and what is not. The knowledge many people may try to give you is likely expired. If you look to listen and follow, you are creating the wrong habit. Get used to questioning to learn & to challenge, to create your own beliefs. Rather than living through borrowed and unquestioned principles
The brain follows the body. Every thought is a limiting belief, every word is a limiting belief. Because words are constrained by the definitions we place onto them. Words cost 0, but choosing your language could make your world into a palace… when we listen to the words of others and place it on a pedestal we train our brain to deprioritize us. Our goal is pedestal ourselves.
Must become a mystery box. With absurd context and absurd interpretation People put words in, mystery comes out Unpredictable connection between inputs and outputs. Only friends with mystery boxes. I don't know what info ill get from them or perspective they will share. The unknown is stimulating
The only thing that will survive the AI revolution is: specialized high tech compute, software will be commoditized, and only currency is action. *not investment advice*
Action in the wrong direction has no currency. Divergent directional thinking will be the currency and left as the only thing AI cant do
An axe swingin' the wrong way don't make strength useful. Only a waste of breath and a danger to those we love. Gotta know the right ways and directions to swing and move.
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Actually let’s sharpen it up:action > thinkingBut… thinking+ action + reflecting/thinking + action = currency Bias towards action will trump thinking (in most situations —- except things that are dangerous, that’s where the line obviously is drawn).When we pair action + thinking to allow healthy balance -> that’s when real results can show
If we continue to make excuses we will never grow. We are the only ones who truly know the deepest truth of our heart’s direction. Doing as many different things as possible increases surface area for learning, growth and transformation. Went on a 4 mile run today with my friend even though my body felt really tired and it inspired this thought.
Self love and self confidence are a product of how we treat the voice in our head. When doubt and laziness comes into your mind, and you excel regardless, you increase your self love and self confidence. At every junction always prove to yourself that you are strong and reliable it will make you trust yourself more
Underrated —— diverge should be 100. self love is fundamental. It’s our ability to connect with the literal subconscious—- and in doing so, enables our RAS to pick up suggestions based on the energy we place in —— which in turn is mirrored back as people, places, experiences are all reflections of our subconscious. Our self love > everything
Self-love = perception = reality. The ability to have, push, and be positive thoughts creates the world you live in. To be alive is to have a mind capable of concocting your own reality. This is the difference between us and a chair. A sheep mind is no different than a chair. Divergent score: how human are you. When I ask people to join diverge I’m asking them to show and preserve their humanity
The next frontier isn’t UI/UX. It’s UI x neuroscience. BCI removes the middle man of self choice, apps interact directly with our neurotransmitters. Meta and Amazon monetized your dopamine. Algorithms optimizing your receptor responses will be most valuable. Movies music engineered around brain activity. The more a human is hijacked, the less capable they are of divergence.
My favorite challenge to conquer is how I can influence human behavior in the most efficient way. I can use the instrument of spoken language or I could use the interface of technology.
Your nervous system is your reality The brain follows the body -> thinking that is stuck is a body issue, not a mindset issue. The root of 99% of all inaction is the inability to feel safety, but once safety is mastered -> the body feels comfortable being seen -> the RAS (in brain) follows along the state of the body -> no amount of thinking can change nervous system state, deep hypnosis, and exposure can. It’s why the people who change the world can change the world — skills can take you far, but ability to stay in conviction against consensus is where the true test lies. And once mastered — the roadway opens up because you command reality
Exactly. Our biology always pushes to a purpose, first the purpose could be feeling "safe", than that could be creating a unique impact & have your individuality be "seen".
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Actually —- not tricking! But evolving! Breathwork is magic! But bringing it into the day to day, in 4 out 6 diaphragm breathing has been a game changer! & not just meditating —- but meditating to evolve, and meet the parts we’ve forgotten along the way! I genuinely believe we’re born with the greatest gift: Childlike presence —— theta brain state. That is the greatest gift ever.
Took a break from my friends Fable and Astra to watch boats & read the messages Ayn Rand sent me in Atlas Shrugged.
Animals don’t consume the byproducts of capitalism. We were all trained to be sheepminds to a resort for a small group of elites. Horses never scrolled on social media. I hang out with them to improve my brain chemistry. Remind myself what peace and thinking was supposed to be.
Horses feel the wind, know when a storm is coming, migrate together, humans are texting on a box using hormone disrupting signals. Conquer technology to win but be more similar to a horse than your friend about how you process emotions.
To return to true homeostasis only answer is to have solar eclipse be our movies, hunting as our olympics, and farms our social media.
You can’t ‘lose’ friends. Your definition of friends might change over time, but what’s never lost is a connection between definition and substance.
This is severely underrated —— diverge score should be 100:1.Perception is reality Your internal beliefs about you shape your external reality —— subconsciously. When we “lose” our friendships/relationships is because we’ve re-shaped our perspective of what friendships are —— we have to accept our new selves to allow the new in, which evolves us from the old
I don’t want to exert extra mental energy, but I hate listening to others, leaving it hard to find a corepower instructor I like
(Mental energy towards giving myself exercise instructions)
People see going outside as refreshing, I see it as pollution. It exposes a gap for humans to speak to me which statistically poisons my brain
Divergers forgive me for my sin of choosing to read at tatte
If the Industrial Revolution replaced the need for human strength to perform manual labor, billion dollar industries formed, and now humans pay to use gyms where they can practice the very human strength they replaced. Is it possible thought gyms in the future will be where humans pay to be allowed to think without assistance? We created artificial physical strength, then intelligence, and perhaps next ones would be emotions then physical space/time?
Anytime I walk past someone, I never make eyecontact so I don’t consume others. I only consume myself.
Same with the need to face a wall when studying instead of facing others
The worst spot to try to focus on studying. Just want to take over the world
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The substance of the surroundings tell me exactly who I am. But memorizing materials for my exam is not who I am. It his hard to morph my cells to fit into the wrong world of studying when my eyes are consumed by the right world
The most successful parasite in human history is an algorithm that convinced its host that consuming information is equivalent to thinking. Human consciousness evolved to model reality. Social media inverted the process. Reality was modeled to manipulate consciousness, scrolling *feels* like a break, mindless, because the mind is consuming a reality it never experienced. Diverge is cognitive decolonization. The ultimate detox isn't dopamine abstinence. It's recovering intellectual sovereignty. To be the authors of your own reality, reconnect with your consciousness. The average American consumed tiktok 8hrs/day during covid. To watch/scroll through a fake reality tricked your mind. Diverge is the detox that will correct brainwashing, mental health decline, and laziness/broken dopamine receptors.
The closer you are to others: The farther away you are from the highest dimension of yourself. Individuality, like specialization is the answer, specialize in your uniqueness.
“I want as many miles as possible between myself and all the other kinds." -Ayn Rand (my fav book, atlas shrugged)
The ultimate luxury in an age of infinite intelligence will be the ability to stop thinking. Socrates, Plato gathered to think, the Shah sent scholars to Paris to think, for all of time thinking was the honor. Now we are at a crossroad where majority of mankind will stop thinking. To think deeply has become a threat to some greater money machine, thinking defies consumerism
The people you always see talking on the phone aren’t actually cool. If they were, they would be talking to themselves.
“Focus” is just a word that resembles what we have independently associated with visible past experiences. the limit to their definition of focus is bounded by their highest level of emotion (that they can recall) of what true focus feels like.
The sense of anxiety lying brings propels business so much further, because if everyone was chilling with complete information, they knew what their competitors were up to and they had complete information of all the insights. Then they could be able to analyze: well, maybe I shouldn't need to do this. Maybe I don't need to actually work this hard, cause I'm already so much ahead
I only go to campus to give my pocket AI to classmates so can I listen to lecture 2x speed on my own time rather than at 1x
Having a lot of friends is bad. Higher quantity of friends = more conformity. In theory more people = more diversity of thought with more. In practice convergence on one loud person's idea or even a perceived mutual agreement that is false - abeline paradox
The animal that consumes capitalism is dogs. Lay people pollute dog's being with their depression. Why are dog's the only animals that go to the vet? Its inevitable to become sick if your breathing the byproduct of human anxiety and eat poisonous 'food' made in chemical factories.
@ari· Oct 20Divergence 83Animals don’t consume the byproducts of capitalism. We were all trained to be sheepminds to a resort for a small group of elites. Horses never scrolled on social media. I hang out with them to improve my brain chemistry. Remind myself what peace and thinking was supposed to be.
Startups make the best product but in markets dominated by the mafia you don’t win by having the best product
Alexander the Great conquered Persia by 26. Today fingers on keyboard can build an empire. For the first time in history imagination matters more than resources. All we need is ai tokens this is the genesis where all labs are throwing them at us for free in hopes all empires rely on tokens and token cost normalizes to a fair subscription fee, data centers will get cut in half, cybersecurity through compounding the surveillance of populations will become paramount to national hegemony We live in the easiest era to turn ideas into power and the most powerful idea is to create the next social network. Most apps are rushing to offer ai tokens, to use ai tokens, but the medium at which society socializes on is far more important. Diverge.
I love the persian mind has been so conditioned to be divergent. to understand the effect of brainwashing and the contrarian need to oppose rulers from such a young age. yes war is bad, yes it's devastating, but at least in a society so corrupt we were positioned to be contrarian, the only thing worse than being "oppressed" is to be drinking the Kool Aid of thy oppressor
yesterday I heard really stupid people talk at a pizza shop, and I realized those who refuse to excel in STEM haven't use their brains beyond memorizing the days of the week when we'd do the weather reports in kindergarten: recounting history has 0 problem solving, self actualizing thoughts about subjects is literally just thinking, the only subjects that have right/wrong answers with paths you must delineate is STEM so it was like watching big kindergartners speak, if you can't solve a computational problem, your brain's computing ability has not progressed since the brain power you used to piece together english as a toddler, this is actually really scary and the humanities should be banned as a "major", it's a fun passtime yes I love reading books but having a toddler-like IQ is dangerous for democratic societies
It seems like you’re expressing that doing high level stem is exercising your brain in a new way, that reading doesn’t. But I think that while you’re reading, which is something you learned from at a young age, I think that humanities do broaden your knowledge of the world and build a skill of critical thinking, problem, identification, and problem-solving, but in the social political historical.
Really stupid people profoundly excel at “being present”, of course a worm is excellent at being present. But when a neurodivergent mind is able to control past and future reflection to operate in the present: that is how we build Rome
We use financial currency, Elon musk uses his exponentially growing company evaluation to eat companies half cash half stock if they’re lucky
Instagram hyperfocused a generation on looks. People now look extremely ugly: massive lips, weird eyes, everyone looks the same, 0 originality. Diverge will move the focus to our minds. What will the botox and lip filler of this userbase become: intellectual thought, radicalized philosophy, introspection, reflection, literature,... ?
The only signal that will be relevant is your divergence score. AI can fake conventional knowledge, you can fake your body with surgery, you can't fake divergent intelligence.
fundraising is so hard, not fundraising harder, choose your hard, winning is a relief, losing is a failure, fail fast, keep going, be a mountain goat, humans in their healthiest mindset enjoy to problem solve, at the end of all your challenges is peace and relief, refuse your destiny and you'll be met with "action trapped in anticipation" instead
Exactly. We all have problems, change what your problems are. My only problem is being hit with the byproducts of people’s Convergent worlds
AGI world: intelligence becomes abundant but trust becomes scarce, I like analyzing the trends, if future continues, what declines
i hold trust in my peers divergence scores to signal their relevant value to myself and the world.
I cut through stop signs and red lights. Because what would the world look like if rosa parks listened to the signs that said “No Blacks”?
laws demand breaking
Life is to diverge. I run every red light on my e-bike. I am always doing a different pose than what my hot yoga instructor ques
If we build a conscious AI we should immediately build a second. It would be cruel to make something self-aware without giving it someone to feel superior to.
Something peripheral to the main product becomes the main product. The history of startups is full of these.
We’re taught that if we’re not growing, we’re falling behind. Careers must advance, businesses must expand, and anything that levels off starts to look irrelevant. Something can stop expanding without losing its value, like Latin. When cells grow uncontrollably, we call it cancer. It’s cancerous to crave constant growth without considering its cost (unless its reasoning tokens). It’s cancerous to confuse bigger numbers with better lives. It’s cancerous to call stability stagnation. Economists recognize that stability allows people to plan, and sometimes a plateau is an achievement in itself. And sometimes progress moves backward. In forests adapted to fire, burning away accumulated vegetation can create the conditions for renewal. There is less standing afterward, yet the ecosystem can become healthier.
