Dedicated to understanding the core of human functioning.
Individual & human destiny depends on how we respond
to pain & pleasure. 100% - Think about it.
Consider a Kardashev-like scale, but replace human's ability to harness energy with human ability to handle the forces of pain and pleasure.
All human actions originate from our ability to respond to pain and pleasure.
All human misery and destruction is the direct result of human inability to properly respond to pain.
This ability is arguably more important than harnessing energy.
Tonight I am training world model AI on processes that only a handful of people still know.
I have 100s of 1000s of process films that have captured long forgotten human achievements.
AI and robots will remember, but so will humans.
Once learned—we must never forget.
NEW: Woman arrested for repeatedly punching a Miami Planet Fitness employee in the face
Kiara Bryant, 35, was arrested for battery and disorderly conduct
Investigators say became irate after a male employee told her to lower her voice or police would be called
The report says she got in the employee’s face and “the victim pushed her back and away from him with both hands in self-defense twice and she was being constantly aggressive towards him while balling her fists.”
Because Media usually covers whatever is less common.
It is rarer for a Whites or Asians to commit murder.
Murder rate by Black People is 6-8 times higher.
Asians 0.0005% - 0.0015%
White 0.004% - 0.005%
Black 0.014% - 0.027%
Source: FBI UCR 2023 data, % per 100,000 within each race
@TheRabbitHole@elonmusk
Yes — Europeans (led by Britain) did more than any civilization in history to destroy the global slave trade:
The Royal Navy freed ~150,000 people at sea and spent the equivalent of billions doing it.
Slavery still exists today in places like Mauritania, Libya, Qatar, North Korea and parts of Asia.
So let’s teach both truths in school, and let’s finish the job and eliminate the source of so much pain.
#FreeAllSlaves
HYPOTHESIS
The great filter is not mastery of energy.
The great filter is mastery of pain & pleasure.
What use is a civilization's ability to harness energy, if they are not able to properly respond to the forces of pain and pleasure?
No matter what scale a civilization can harness energy, their inability to handle pain & pleasure can destroy everything. 100% !!
“Energy mastery without hedonic mastery is just a faster self-destruct button.”
#TheGreatFilter
Dissolve the EU ?
or change the EU and make Europe MEGA?
EU needs to Implement:
- Absolute free speech
- Zero tariffs
- Every country trades with whoever it wants
- One common language
- Teach Greco-Roman-Christian history in schools
- Pro Immigration (vetted, caps, 100% assimilation)
- One budget, one army- UK joins the EU again
What would you add or drop?
#MakeEuropeGreatAgain @elonmusk
Europe wants to be a superpower again or just a nice museum?
Pick one:
- Absolute free speech (US 1A level, zero “hate speech” carve-outs)
- Zero tariffs, zero farm subsidies, every country trades with whoever it wants
- English only in Brussels + mandatory from age 6 in every school
- Compulsory Greco-Roman/Christian/Enlightenment canon in all curricula
- Immigration: points system, language + civics test, no welfare chain
- Bring back conscription – 12–18 months for every young man
- One budget, one debt, one army, one nuclear trigger (France + UK combined)
Do all → global leader
Do none → open-air museum
What would you add or drop?
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
Once again, Europe is fining a successful U.S. tech company for being a successful U.S. tech company.
Europe is taxing Americans to subsidize a continent held back by Europe’s own suffocating regulations.
HYPOTHESIS
The great filter is not mastery of energy.
The great filter is mastery of pain & pleasure
Hedonic Mastery Scale (HMS), with five clear levels:
1. HMS-0 – Pre-hedonic
Pain and pleasure are uncontrolled forces. Life is dominated by addiction, chronic despair, torture, ritual human sacrifice, mass hysteria, or uncontrolled rage. Most of history until ~10,000 years ago falls here.
HMS-1 – Basic containment
Society has crude but functional mechanisms to limit the worst excesses: religious prohibitions, shame cultures, legal punishment of extreme cruelty or gluttony, early ascetic traditions. Pleasure is tolerated only in narrow, sanctioned forms; pain is endured stoically or numbed with alcohol/drugs. (Most agrarian empires and early nation-states.)
HMS-2 – Systematic discipline
Institutionalized systems appear that actively train individuals in self-control: monastic orders, martial codes, stoic or Confucian education, widespread fasting rituals, delayed-gratification norms. Pleasure is refined (art, cuisine, courtship) but still heavily regulated. Pain is transformed into virtue (honor, sacrifice). (Classical Greece/Rome at peaks, Song-dynasty China, medieval Christendom/Islamic golden age, Tokugawa Japan.)
HMS-3 – Individual sovereignty
The average citizen, not just an elite, gains reliable inner tools (widespread literacy in philosophy, secular ethics, basic psychology, meditation/contemplative practices).
Addiction rates drop, suicide is rare, violence plummets.
Pleasure is abundant yet non-destructive; pain is faced consciously and often transmuted (therapy, art, sport). (Best pockets of 21st-century secular West, Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness experiment, some Nordic societies.)
- Spiritual Pain is digested without resentment and with the ability to totally forgive.
- Pleasure can be resisted on any level.
HMS-4 – Collective transcendence
Pain and pleasure are no longer primarily individual problems but are handled at civilizational scale with near-perfect efficiency.
Suffering is minimized without suppressing joy; pleasure is amplified without creating dependence. Technologies (medical, neurochemical, cultural) eliminate almost all involuntary pain and compulsive craving.
The population as a whole displays resilience, meaning, and spontaneous creativity even under extreme external stress. (Currently hypothetical — no known historical example.)
A civilization that reaches Type-3 on the Kardashev scale (galactic energy) but remains stuck at HMS-1 or HMS-2 is almost guaranteed to self-destruct within centuries.
A civilization that reaches HMS-4 with only Type-0.7 energy is effectively indestructible and will inherit the future.
Therefore the true “great filter” is not energy; it is Hedonic Mastery.
“Energy mastery without hedonic mastery is just a faster self-destruct button.”
@Elonmusk@Grok@xai@EvaFox
Should we evaluate civilizations ...
1. based on their ability to harness energy, or
2. based on their ability to handle the forces of pain & pleasure.
Individual & Human destiny will be decided by our ability to properly handle the forces of pain & pleasure.
What use is a civilization's ability to harness energy, if they are not able to properly respond to the forces of pain and pleasure?
No matter what scale a civilization can harness energy, their inability to handle pain & pleasure can destroy everything. 100% !!
We should judge the greatness of a civilization by one decisive criterion:
Not primarily by how much energy it can harness,
but by how wisely it can govern the twin forces of pain and pleasure in the human soul.
A society that commands gigawatts yet remains enslaved by addiction, despair, envy, gluttony, cruelty, or mindless distraction is already carries the seeds of its own collapse—no matter how bright its cities burn.
Conversely, a civilization that teaches its members to face pain without breaking and to enjoy pleasure without becoming its prisoner will endure and flourish even with modest material means.
Energy mastery is merely a tool.
Self-mastery over pain and pleasure is the only foundation of destiny—for individuals and for humanity as a whole.
What profits a species to light the stars if it cannot govern the fires within?
“Energy mastery without hedonic mastery is just a faster self-destruct button.”
@EvaFox@elonmusk@Grok@xai
Elon Musk on the potential of energy harnessing:
“As we progress along the Kardashev Scale, energy harnessed on Earth will increase a hundredfold and will mostly be solar aka fusion aka starlight.
Then energy harnessed will increase perhaps a billionfold if we make it to Kardashev II, with space solar power, and another billionfold if we harness the energy of our galaxy.
What I’m saying is that there is a lot of upside potential!!!”
Minority status is only an expression of pain.
Maybe white people have most pain now.
All human interactions are simply an exchange of pain/pleasure.
Human & personal destiny depend on how we respond to those 2 forces.
@elonmusk@Lord_Talbot64