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Britain Has Lost it's Mind
Just dropped a video about how you can literally get arrested for posting on Facebook in the UK. Americans find it shocking that Britain has zero freedom of speech. I've been saying this for 10 years. Back then people called me crazy. Now it's obvious to everyone. The whole system is designed to keep people paranoid and controlled.
1 like • Sep 17
@Karen Oliver I can't speak for New Zealanders, but the Canadian youtubers I watch or read comments from, on videos I watch have a common thread of Canada is f'd and a lot of them want out.
0 likes • Sep 17
@Robert Francis My question would be, will the momentum continue? I fear not as the next news "propaganda" gets injected (no pun intended) upon the masses. I think Charlie will have long been forgotten by Christmas. We shall see.
AI is a bubble waiting to burst… prove me wrong!
Honestly, it's getting pretty tiresome with everyone talking about how AI is going to take over the world. And all I ever hear these statements from are people who not only have no background in computer science but people who are not technical at all. AI is a predictive text engine. That is all. It isn’t conscious. It doesn’t want anything. It’s simply predicts the next word in a sentence based on probability. It doesn't remember all the stuff it is "trained" on or know the whole internet. That's why it's answers are mostly retarded and it "hallucinates" 24/7. It doesn't hallucinate by the way it isn't a human being. It's a fucking predictive text algorithm, you wouldn't talk about any other technology like it's human. Why? Because you'd look like a fucking retard. Not only that but we've always had this technology. The only reason we're seeing it now is because the cost of hardware has come down and people have thrown enormous sums of money at it (more on that in a minute) But hardware has it's limitations and so does software. Therefore, unless we fill every square inch of the ocean with water cooled data centres and power them with nuclear power plants were not gonna get much more than what we have right now. There was once a time where if you wanted your website to load faster you would have to optimise the codebase. That kind of went out the window partly because hosting became so cheap. You could just throw your website on a faster server and it would load faster. This is THE EXACT SAME SHIT. The AI companies can optimise the software or build a bigger server. One or the other. Data centres can't scale infinitely. Memory bottlenecks. And the way neural nets optimise themselves is the same way it's been working since the 80's. We’re already seeing diminishing returns. Each new generation costs exponentially more to train but the improvements are shrinking. You see what happens when you load more and more bloat on your phone right?
AI is a bubble waiting to burst… prove me wrong!
1 like • Aug 22
I respectfully disagree with you Brett. Whenever I read someone stating AI can't do this, can't do that, I like to always point out this article from 10 years ago which is still relevant, possibly even more relevant today. https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html Humans are stubborn and get stuck in their belief systems. This has been proven historically. AI is in its infancy, and that may be an inaccurate prognostication. It's the sperm penetrating the egg that would be more accurate. Albert Einstein famously said, "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it." This quote accurately describes AI. It may actually take longer than 10 years to "see" progress or change, I would argue specifically due to the slowness to implementation by humans in business, government, and other industries, but regardless it's happening and it's compounding. Had you told me there would be driverless cars on the road just 7 years ago I would have said you're nuts. I'm old enough to know what the world was like BEFORE the internet. That makes me a dinosaur I know. No one can tell me there haven't been significant changes to the world since its inception. It may have taken longer than 10 years, but can you really imagine the world without a worldwide communication system? A lot of you in this group cannot because you were born into this world as we currently know. Big changes are coming.
Developers vs Marketers.
Since you've done both, Brett, I'd be interested in your thoughts. And anyone else of course. https://www.techradar.com/pro/devs-believe-that-ai-is-going-to-kill-most-or-all-of-their-companys-marketing-department
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What content do you want to see?
We've got 25+ courses and workshops in the classroom covering make money online stuff. Teaching English, freelancing, all that. But not much lifestyle content. I'm thinking about bringing on guests who live in different nomad hotspots. People actually living in Vietnam, Colombia, Portugal, etc. Who can share what it's REALLY like. Vote and let me know what direction to go.
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2 likes • Aug 17
Never ever would I have imagined Thailand and Cambodia going back and forth with bombs/missiles, whatever you want to call it, in my lifetime. What if that had escalated? I know, I know, the old "what if" bs. All that said, it's important to have a list of places you might want to go just in case the place you're currently at gets a little suspect. Thailand, as great as it is, isn't for everyone. I'd love to hear from others living outside of Thailand and SE Asia. The following (from a Bitcoin News X post about 10 hours ago from this writing)is the world we now live in: NEW: Brazilian police arrested four suspects who allegedly kidnapped a retired teacher and demanded over $600,000 in Bitcoin after tracking her crypto-trading son’s online activity. The woman was abducted and held at gunpoint for 12 hours until her son transferred 5 BTC.
Eliminate the Noise. Focus on the Signal.
I've been watching Digital Nomads try to succeed online for over a decade. They are the only people I have been friends with… They are the only people I have been around. Some of them are super successful. Others never accomplish anything. What separates the successful people from the non-successful people is this: It's not talent… It's not connections… It's not even luck… It’s their signal to noise ratio. The three to five things they absolutely HAVE to get done today, if they wish to accomplish their goal. Not their grand vision for next year… Not what the latest AI can do… Not what the guy who invited them for coffee wants to spend 2 hours talking about. That's noise. 90% of people have their signal to noise ratio completely fucking backwards. They spend 90% of their time paying attention to the noise. And 10% of their time on the things that actually matter. Which means that the goals they have ultimately never get accomplished. They cannot for the life of them tell the difference between what is SIGNAL and what is NOISE. Do me a favour… Go ahead and take a look at your to-do list right now. Got 20 things on it? 90% of that shit does NOT need to get done today. 50% does NOT need to get done ever. You add tasks to your todo list because it makes you feel productive. You check off the easy ones and push the three things that would actually move your business forward to tomorrow. Draw a fat line through all that noise. And do the three things that actually fucking matter. Rinse and repeat. That is literally all there is to it.
Eliminate the Noise. Focus on the Signal.
2 likes • Jul 27
Procrastination can be a trauma response, particularly when it stems from childhood experiences that create a heightened state of anxiety or fear of failure. This behavior often serves as a coping mechanism to avoid tasks that trigger uncomfortable emotions or memories. Good news is you can overcome procrastination.
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I'm interested in financial independence, travel, and like minded souls. Let's see where this goes.

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