ERIC KIM

Super fucking cool! https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/11/we-robot-elon-musk-cyber-optimism/

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Cybercab

Fun exciting future

Cars are only used 10 hours a week

With autonomy you get your time back!

Elevator operator

Solver insanely big societal problems?

Cheaper

Safer because it is superhuman

Be a glorious future!

Doesn’t get tired or text

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We prefer to see real human beings, charismatic leaders behind the thing?

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AI & vision --> vision is the future?

What cities will look like in the future?

This is the world we *want*

Parking lot out of park lot

5-10 cents a mile

The future should look like the future!

Cyber optimism

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What humans can apply from AI

Anyone can own?

The biggest product of all time

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Age of abundance! ***--> cost of goods and services so nominal

Mind is fucking blown!

Real power: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/07/power-5/

Virtuous Greed, Unvirtuous Greed? 

Greed is good

So our best friend Gordon gecko tells us that greed is good. 

Greed means to have, to hold. 

So funny thought; to be greedy with money isn’t necessarily to gain more, but simply to hold what you already got? 

I think the hard thing is once again… The main detriment to modern day times and thinking is so much of America is stunted and held back by weird morals and ethics. 

Once again, this paradox of ethics in America… Honestly none of it really makes sense. And the more I think critically about it, the more bizarre and confusing it gets. No wonder why so many Americans are so miserable, society is giving them all these mixed signals that makes no sense.

Whenever people think that they want to become a millionaire, what do they mean to think is I want to spend $1 million. But, nobody ever wants to hold onto $1 million. 

I have a crude analogy, I call it like semen retention for money. To blow your load is not desirable, even though it might give you some sort of short term pleasure. 

 my personal thought is actually, the true best strategy here is to conserve your spunk to the maximum, to never blow your load. Essentially the strategy is each and every time you blow your load, you lose power. And it is kind of true… To produce a child is very physiologically expensive; a woman would never understand how much energy and force is expended after a man ejaculates.

It looks like all these women want the semen of Elon Musk. If Elon wanted a funny prank, and to maybe raise some money for some of his endeavors, she would actually just open source of semen, or donated it all to a semen bank, and have people auction it off, and use that money for some sort of good causes, or investing in certain businesses etc. 

It does seem factual that there may be some sort of hierarchy in terms of quality of semen. For example, if you’re a 4 foot two man, very high likelihood that your children will be kind of short. But, if you were yelling, and 7 foot something, very likely that your children will be very tall. 

So I think the funny bizarre trend is all these guys, they are essentially giving away their seaman for free; and there is this weird strategy in America that somehow… Women are seen as the more beautiful and desirable sex. But what if it were opposite; in the animal kingdom, the male is the more beautiful animal. It goes with ducks horses, peacocks and the like. 

The moralization of greedThe difference between spending $1 million and holding onto $1 millionThis semen ain’t free!

How to Get Super Fucking Jacked Arms: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/07/how-to-get-super-fucking-jacked-arms-2/

Wow, looking recently at my arms, my arms are super amazingly fucking jacked! Even without flexing, they look amazing! Very very full in the triceps, the biceps the shoulders and other parts of my body, which I cannot really notice.

And also, after getting a fresh haircut, from Cindy… Very very simple, shaving the sides clean, and just getting some cheap gel and slicking it back, Cindy calls it my “Lamborghini haircut”,-- and also, this might be the lowest body fat percentage in my life! I think currently I’m at around 4% body fat, naturally without any weird stuff. And note, I might be the only weightlifter or bodybuilder or power lifter or strong man on the planet who doesn’t even take protein powder! Let alone loser creatine, which is the century just pulverized meat, why not just eat the meat?

And also, am I the only one on the planet who fast before weightlifting? Certainly the only one on the planet, may be out of all 8 billion of us, who was able to successfully lift 1000 pounds, that is over 10 1/2 plates on each side of the barbell, successfully, once again, without steroids, unnatural substances, and also no loser belt, wraps, knee wraps etc. 

## Rack rack city bitch

Very simple; rack pulls are your best friend. Imagine like doing a dead lift, but you just put the barbell on the power rack or the squat rack, at around waist level, in between your knees and your hips, experiment at your height level, whatever feels comfortable, chalk up, and just lift the barbell off of the rack, even for half an inch or so! Literally after doing it with eight plates, I felt the good soreness in my biceps, my upper back, my traps etc.

Honestly the only reason people don’t do it is because people lack some sort of innovative mindset and creativity. People are still stuck on this loser thinking by analogy school in which everyone is just giving fellatio to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and all these loser bodybuilders on social media, for all injecting their assholes with steroids.

In fact, I’ve discovered a really really huge secret, the only reason you see more African-American and Caucasian people in the NFL professional sports etc., even I symbolize the NBA… Is all these guys are just using steroids! The only reason why you don’t see as many Asian guys in professional sports isn’t some pseudo racial things; genetics is fake; anyone who talks about genetics is essentially talking about he who is able to best use steroids and not get caught, or, to best use steroids with a stack of other strange drugs, to not have their breast tissue turn into “bitch tits” etc.

Finishing reading pumping iron  the original book I think in 1973, and with an updated afterward in 1980, when Arnold was 34 years old, super rich and successful, with his $700,000 house in Santa Monica, and just fresh shooting Conan the barbarian with a $15 million budget, and note, adjusted for inflation these numbers are huge, this was 1980! Which I think was 44 years ago? Wow. That’s even longer than I was alive; I’m 36 years old born in 1988.

Anyways, even back then -- in this so-called “golden ages” of bodybuilding… 1973, now I do the math, it is 2024… This is about 50 years ago! Holy moly I’m 36 years old right now, if I added 50 years to my age, I’d be 86!

Anyways, just thinking consider if in 1973 all these dudes are already injecting their buttholes with steroids, anabolic steroids which at the time they didn’t even think that it was dangerous, or bad, imagine how much steroid technology has progressed in 50 years, to today.

# Clone Mentality? https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/05/dont-be-a-clone-3/

PDF. https://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Clone-Mentality-2.pdf

One of the really big issues with clones being a clone clone mentality is that it is so centered around being a clone. For example, You’re taught and made to think that being a clone, like a clone of Jesus or whatever, is virtuous and good. As a consequence, one is not permitted to simply create a model of himself. Anything which is similar to Jesus is seen as good and virtuous, anything which is seen as dissimilar to Jesus is seen as bad and evil.

And is a consequence, I think the general ethos and mentality of America is bad because it is too centered and focused on notions of imitating Christ, being a clone etc.

> “Y’all ninjas my clones!”

For example, in fashion life etc.… We seek to just emulate people that we already see in the limelight. For example, Kanye West, Jay-Z, all these modern-day rappers, Arnold Schwarzenegger etc. 

For example, ultimately what I discovered was my desire for a Lamborghini, with this is the doors, all matte black murdered out, was simply my desire to emulate Kanye West! His Lamborghini Mercy song, very influential to me.

## Thinking Arnold

So I just finished reading the original pumping iron book, the one that preceded the influential pumping iron documentary, and ultimately what was very very interesting was unraveling and revealing how essentially, or no Schwarzenegger invented bodybuilding, modern day bodybuilding and beyond.

What’s the weather in about the book I think the original was written in the 1970s, a little bit added in the 1980s was a lot of the terms and the verbiage and the words typically used outside of the traditional context.

For example, mentally retarded, midget, giant, even referencing or no Schwarzenegger‘s Austrian German accent being a “Nazi” voice. I think what is so fun and interesting at least in the context of the 1970s and 80s is that people were much more relaxed, and less grammar Nazis or less politically correct, than they are now.

Also, the reason why I kind of enjoy this is that ultimately, if you have ever lifted weights, done bodybuilding or weightlifting… We are all essentially children of Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the one who essentially invented and promoted modern bodybuilding and weightlifting as we know it, and all of his contemporary, all of them have been forgotten, only Arnold remains.

pdf, https://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Manly-2.pdf

Post https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/03/money-talks-words-weep/

1. Political Lobbying and Money in Politics: The text critiques the influence of money in politics, asserting that those with the most financial power—like Bill Gates, James Cameron, and Arnold Schwarzenegger—often dominate the discourse. Using Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX as an example, the writer explains how political influence can be bought, with money being used to shape public perception, even to manipulate ideas like environmental consciousness in the crypto space. The writer highlights that whoever has the most advertising budget typically has the most power to sway opinions.

2. The Power of Money: The idea is reiterated that “money talks, words weep.” This highlights how in modern society, financial capital largely dictates outcomes in almost all fields, from politics to social movements. With tools like ChatGPT and advanced search engines, the text claims, it’s easier now than ever to trace political donations and uncover the true motivations behind political and corporate behavior.

3. Conspiracy Theories: A significant portion of the discussion centers on the importance—or lack thereof—of conspiracy theories in everyday life. The text challenges the reader to ask whether certain theories, even if true, actually matter in their personal reality.

4. Negative Commentary and Online Bots: The text explores the notion of toxic online discourse, suggesting that many negative comments people encounter online might be generated by bots rather than real people. This leads to the conclusion that if all such negativity came from malicious or automated sources, people’s reactions would likely change, making the hostility seem less personal or impactful.

5. Burning the Ships Behind You: The author urges readers to metaphorically “burn the ships” of toxic influences or bots behind them. This imagery of ships filled with malicious technology corporations or bots highlights the idea of cutting ties with things that only weigh people down in the digital age. The writer suggests the futility of engaging with bots, either in debate or conflict, because the battle is unwinnable.

6. Appreciation of AI but Limitations: Despite being a supporter of AI and tools like ChatGPT, the text also acknowledges limitations. The example given is that AI tools like ChatGPT might not allow for the writing of provocative or edgy content, such as a South Park script, due to restrictions on crass or offensive language.

7. Importance of the Outdoors and Personal Well-Being: Transitioning into a more personal narrative, the writer emphasizes the importance of spending time outside, linking it to physical health and well-being. They reflect on how tanning and exposure to sunlight can be beneficial due to melanin, vitamin D, and positive effects on mood.

8. Personal Happiness and Success: The writer credits personal happiness to financial security (especially through Bitcoin investments), a supportive relationship, and past professional experiences. They reflect on their early career, including an internship that helped them start a blog and build a career in photography and content creation.

9. Advice for Remote Workers: The text offers advice to people working remote jobs in tech, encouraging them to view this situation as a huge blessing. Economic security, in the author’s opinion, provides the freedom to innovate and pursue creative endeavors without fear of financial instability.

10. Making Play Cool Again: The final message revolves around the idea of bringing fun back into life and work. The writer points out that not all pursuits need to have an economic payoff. Sometimes, doing things simply for the joy of it—playing for play’s sake—can be fulfilling and lead to genuine innovation.

# Manly: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/03/manly-3/

Maybe Bill Gates , James Cameron, and Arnold Schwarzenegger are the issues here?

## Political lobbying

Also, he or she with the most amount of dollars to throw at advertising, shall win.

For example something interesting that I uncovered after the whole Sam Beckman free issue with FTX is that he essentially bribed all these politicians sports athletes, crypto influencers etc. to save that bitcoin was bad for the planet whatever, and to get the FTT token or other versions of it was “for the planet“.

## Follow the money

**Money talks. Words weep.**

Essentially the idea that when it comes to almost anything in modern day times, just follow the money. Now that we have ChatGPT, and search capabilities, the very very easy thing you could do is tap late and search the political donations of a certain political candidate, and you could tie it to a certain incorporation etc. I think this is amazing because it’s squashes all these Ridiculous conspiracy theories.

In fact, I truly do believe that ChatGPT might be one of the greatest boons to humanity of all time. Why? Because you could’ve sent you a search all the conspiracy theories, and discover whether they are true or not, and also… The implications of it.

For example, take any YouTube theory or podcast theory, plug it into ChatGPT the paid premium one, search it… And see what you get.

For example let us say it is true that the Ross Childs or whatever or this whole conspiracy theory of the Jewish making system exist, the more important question... does it matter?

Assume everything was true. Would it matter? Especially in your own personal lived reality life?

Then the second more difficult thought, what if all the conspiracy theories were 100% false? And they were just promoted by some weird 400 pound obese man, living in his mom‘s basement, high off of marijuana and shrooms, and all he does is play World of Warcraft, if that were the case… Would it matter?

Or another version of ERIC‘s razor, assume all of the negative toxic comments you have ever read in your life, whether on your own website or blog, via email or text message, phone call, YouTube comments, Facebook comments Twitter comments Instagram comments, whatever… What if all of the negative toxic comments and even the critiques on other websites, or blogs, were in fact, 100% malicious bots? Would this change your opinion on things?

Obviously it would!

# Why Apple Is Not Sustainable: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/02/why-apple-is-not-sustainable-2/

So thinking about the market in the future etc., especially 30 years from now ;

First, issue here is the laws of physics. Even if Apple has $1 trillion, there is only so much you could do to the laws of physics to make the iPad thinner, lighter, more compact, also even the iPhone; it looks like it has already hit peak physics; can’t really make it that much bigger, the iPhone Pro Max is as big as it will ever get, and the whole foldable notion is a poor idea.

Also, seems that Apple is on an addition rampage, adding stuff adding features, adding buttons etc. For example, I think the new quick draw camera control in the bottom of my corner is a good idea, but the whole slightly squeeze it and to go through the Settings is an insanely terrible idea. Why? I tested it out, and it is lower, More unintuitive, and inferior to use than the traditional camera layout, which is fast, smooth and slick.

To me the most bizarre thing about the new iPhone is technically the previous generation, the action button the top left, wasn’t that supposed to be the quick draw camera function? So now, the baffling question; why would you have a dedicated camera button in the bottom right corner, but also, Have an action function in the top left corner to also open up the Camera app? Makes no sense!

If anything, I think what Apple should’ve done was trying to come up with more ingenious ideas on making the camera control more intuitive. For example, I have this very very good idea for you Apple; essentially make it where when you immediately drop your camera, you could turn on an optional feature in which when you’re raised to your iPhone, it automatically takes one or two photos, and then you could decide with privacy, whether to keep it or not. To me this would be an insanely great innovation because ideally, let us say that you’re playing with your kid or you’re out on the streets or whatever. And you see something you want to photograph, technically the ideal is just raise it and take it out of your pocket and lift up the camera, I mean the iPhone, and it automatically takes one or two pictures. However in order to prevent dick pics and the like, you can make it a private function; like if you’re using your iPhone while you’re taking a piss, you won’t accidentally reveal your penis photo to others in your camera app library. 

## Why innovation is dead at Apple 

I just got the new iPad Pro M4 chip, and for the most part it is a perfect device, good job Apple iPad team. But, the one really really terrible thing you guys did, are you guys brain dead? Putting the Face ID camera on the right side of the tablet? If Steve Jobs was still alive you would’ve immediately fired whoever made that brain dead decision.

First, for us real iPad users, us true pros, first, we do not use a stupid pencil, Steve Jobs would have hated it. Second, no loser keyboard; the purpose of an iPad was to get rid of the features of the physical keyboard, not to add it. I find it a shameless thing; inventing some sort of keyboard to try to make it into a mini laptop; you just have to bifurcate it -- if you need a physical keyboard just buy a laptop, if you want an iPad iPad Pro, you should be using it without a case, just handholding it, holding it vertical.

The reason why the new camera design is so poor is that when you are actually holding an iPad vertically, natural realistically you’re right thumb will block the Face ID true ID. And as a consequence, it really really disrupts your workflow!

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## The vibes?

A nice quote that I got from Michael Saylor, via Nicola Tesla, --

> If you really want to understand the universe, think in terms of vibration, frequency, and energy. 

Impractical terms, the way that I interpret this is you could feel human emotions as vibrations, or the feeling in the air. The “boon-hwee-gge” in Korean -- the feeling of the environment in the air of a place.

Maybe in the past, there was a sense of jubilant, going to an Apple Store. Now it is dread some; everyone looks super unhappy, even the apple employees used to be super happy Chip and chewy; all look dark morose, tired. No more passion.

## Where is the new passion?

Anyone who is a bitcoin, Michael Saylor fan, and now micro strategy, this is the real economic opportunism, the real economic optimism! 

For me, I have embedded in my mind, this 55% API notion in my brain; if I do the maths, assuming that my $1.1 million worth of bitcoin hasn’t a PI of 55%, you’re over a year, that means within 15 years I should be a billionaire! Worth 1.2 billion.

And to me this is insanely optimistic because then, if you can know the future with some level of precision, then you could actually start to plan your life! What that means is learning how to live today, expecting a very glorious future!

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# The Philosophy of Passion : https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/09/30/the-philosophy-of-passion-3/

And also, what will actually “improve“ your life? 

Some morning reflections:

So something that I wrote on pursuing your passion, part of an edited volume written by Terri Anderson, probably the most influential teacher I’ve had of all time, at UCLA sociology, essentially what I wrote at the time, being either 20 or 21 years old, was the virtues of following your passion.

So it looks like, nearly 15 years later, I was right. With a long enough time scale, 15 years, age 21 to 36, I guess I was right.

## Why?

I think the trouble that a lot of people have is pursuing their passion because it is not immediately apparent how we could have an economic payoff. Ultimately because we all live in a capitalistic society, what it comes down to is money making, or money making potential. But if you already have $2 million in the bank, and you know that you’re a bitcoin is going up 55% APY, year over year ,,, in theory indefinitely ... then what?

I just did some math with ChatGPT, $5M -- $10,000 USD, with a 55% APY with bitcoin,  will be big! Once again, that $10,000 you put in it today, assuming that 30 years from now that it could be worth 5 million, wouldn’t it be worth it?

## The $615,000 iPhone Pro

Another big thought, let us say that the new iPhone Pro cost you $1200 USD. With a 55% APY, that $1200 iPhone is going to run you $615,000, about two Lamborghinis, in 30 years! 

## Why is it so hard to think long-term and ahead?

Obviously it does not natural. This difficult to think and predict 30 years from now. Yet, I am shocked… Brad Pitt I think it’s almost 25 years my senior? I think Brad Pitt just turned 60 years old, I’m shocked. I’m 36, so 30 years from now, I’m going to be about the age of Brad Pitt?

I saw a little bit of the new Apple TV WOLFS movie, and the bromance between Brad Pitt and George Clooney was cute. George Clooney looks fantastic, and he is 63 years old! I almost feel like George Clooney is aging in reverse? He is maybe the ultimate anti-fragile handsome actor; the older he becomes, the more handsome and charming he becomes? I’m not 100% sure about the controversy, but I think NASSIM TALEB may have called him out on Twitter a while back being some sort of fake activist? Maybe Clooney was accepting money from the saudis or something? Not 100% sure, but still, objectively George Clooney looks fantastic! 

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## The ethics of following your passion

This is my personal read on things; I think the critical issue here is that ironically enough… Passion following your passion, or even being passionate has fallen out of Vogue? What that means is we are living in a new age of Malay; all these fake ass woke activist, many of whom are on these Ridiculous plant-based diets, maybe they have a bunch of tattoos, they’re always on Instagram and on their phones, pretend to not care, drink fruit smoothies from Erewhon, kind of try to get into working out, say that eating meat is bad for the planet in the carbon footprint, yet they have a dog, which might be 1 trillion times worse for the “carbon footprint“?

Anyways, my general critique is whenever you meet these strange individuals in the flesh, all of them tend to be quite short, not very attractive, not very good looking, overfat, and actually… Really into fashion? Their fashion choices are very bizarre, it is a will towards uglification,  -- their virtue is ugly, being ugly, and continually self-abnegating themselves to forever become ever more fat, self pitiful and ugly

The E sauce: - https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/09/29/big-d-energy/

LUMIX S9 is like a mini Godzilla on steroids

Thoughts, https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/09/29/lumix-s9-vs-film-leica-mp/