"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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Immortality, Robots and You

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An article on Ray Kurzweil, one of my favorite inventors of all time.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/16-04/ff_kurzweil?currentPage=all

Kurzweil has a fascinating view of the future, chock full of practical science fiction. From robotic organs to immortal human intelligence and evolutionary singularites, Ray maps out the transition to a bizarre and intriguing tomorrow.
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Fame! I'm going to live forever.

If I can project I may live to be 125 then I don't have to feel so old at 31 I suppose. Interesting stuff.
 
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immortality is a myth, it ain't ever going to happen in my opinion.
 
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Let's just see if you feel the same way when you're 250 years old, youngin'.
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Dude I saw that the other day. Scared the crap out of me.
 
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Honestly, I'd never WANT to live forever. I think it'd be awful.

It'd be so tiring, and I kinda want to see what death holds.
 
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Don't want to live forever? Pick the day you want to die.

for most people it's always sometime in the future unless they are ill and in unbearable pain or mentally ill or something.

I want to live forever. I want to see the day when my corporeal body is composed of state of the art nano-bots that can do marvelous magical things and when my consciousness doesn't depend on any one corporeal housing.
 
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I want to see they day when my corporeal body is composed of state of the art nano-bots
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lookin' good kid!
 
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I really want to see what the future holds. Especially within the field of technology etc. That Boston robot was sick! Check out Akimo on youtube too. Its insane that they have this technology already.
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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But can a robot savior lead us in war?
 
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Holy **** that dog thing is so sweet. I didn't know we were anywhere close to making something that can actually walk and run on four legs intelligently. The way it recovered when slipping on the ice was very impressive.

Couple more years and that thing will be on two legs.
 
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I'm conflicted.

I want the 2017 model that looks like an anatomically correct Winona Ryder, age 20, but I fear that the Army already has 3 with guns on them somewhere in New Mexico, practicing their marksmanship.
 
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