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On the rare occasion that I cook dinner, I throw a piece of meat into a frying pan and the come back about 7 minutes later to eat it. Adding vegetables would be a waste of time, of course.

It left a strange taste in my mouth for the rest of the day

I ate cheese doodles for breakfast a few days back

The only thing I understood here was that being an asshole is good.

The basic problem for AI is that the world has a temporal dimension, and that if we are to think of ourselves as learning algorithms, we have 5 million years of learning behind us. The past is gone but the relevant data of that past is encoded to our genes and we use that information to make...

To me, the problem with interpreting "self-discipline" as both the necessary and sufficient condition for achieving advantageous things in life, and avoiding bad ones, is that I have seen many examples, and consider myself to be one, of people who have next to zero self-discipline yet work their...

If I combine your type with your astrological sign, this is the reading I get: today you might face a challenge, either a small one or a big one or somewhere in between. Someone you know might call you to talk about something. Slightly before dinner you might feel a sense of hunger.

Obviously there is utility in it, but is it justifiable from an aesthetical point of view? To me there is a conflict between being free and having self-discipline and I always end up rebelling against my own rules

women with small dogs are usually slightly crazy.

If, say, your heart stops beating for 20 seconds, is it moral to try to restart it?

I think it’s a trend started by the bing bang theory

Drums, bass and guitar but no keyboard? Your band sucks, dude

Porngrenades?? I guess that could work, yes

you gotta think outside the box. Try to desperately seek eye contact with everyone and smile creepily every time you talk to someone. Maybe even invite them to your home at the end of every conversation too. You’ll have people avoiding you in no time.

I think time + death = life

I think another trap people can walk into is to think that sociability is a general parameter of you as a person. They look at, say, ESFJs and think: these guys are killing it socially. Yet you've probably seen more ESFJs whose guts you hate than INTPs – which is the whole point. Sociability is...

yes exactly. People tend to be very forgiving of mistakes in the content of what you say, but very unforgiving of lack of fluidity. I feel like that's even true for myself who spends most of his days in hyper-logical mode. At the end of the day, who gives a shit what you say, as long as it adds...

I have obviously no clue what I'm talking about but to me that sounds like a noradrenaline issue (or some other neurotransmitter relating to focus). What happens if you drink coffee?

can someone explain to me why on earth people like hot weather. I feel sleepy and lazy all the time, cannot think clearly, and cannot sleep. It's great.

Obviously the primary purpose of climate change is its role as a political weapon. Lots of political careers have been built on rhetoric about the environment, climate change and other goofy stuff that the masses suddenly find important in their lives.

What I want to see is the coming generation, i.e. kids in the 7-11 age bracket, being educated in the issues of climate change. That's how we make real change – we need to weaponize these stupid-ass kids and have them marching for this cause.

I definitely favor action over thinking when it comes to these things, but at the same time I disagree, because rigorously thinking about these things and then trying out your ideas in practice is what actually leads to improvement. Indiscriminate action very rarely leads to anything of value...

Presumably it is a common notion that logical types struggle socially because social stuff doesn't lend itself to logical analysis too easily. It's messy and chaotic. A logical type initially tries various rules: say he's heard that people like it when you show interest in them, so now he starts...

man, that video took a wild turn at the end there, with the AI stuff. Is it hard to believe that an AI can start generating narratives and controlling the world populace? Yes, that is hard to believe. To create narratives, you need to create meaning, morality, and understand human incentives and...

Stuck in what sense?

I think it’s when your brain works as a recurrent neural net. I.e. when you have a thought in your brain, that thought can go back into your brain for assessment, and then that assessment can be assessed and so on. I.e. you don’t need another person to respond to your thoughts. A wacky thought...

I feel like that’s an idea everyone of us sometimes gets - the anticipation that a bum has wisdom since they have been living on the street and observed the world, accumulated deep insights. In reality they are just dumb-ass bums, and that’s why they are living on the street to begin with lmao

To me, social interaction needs to revolve around some purpose, like if you have a common goal with someone. I don’t know how to just “hang out” with people. I don’t even see the point in chatting with randoms that have common interests with me. It just feels like fluff and a waste of time, and...

I just take principles from people I consider to be my role models and combine them with my sense of aesthetics. There’s no logic, just aesthetics.

What sort of crimes are you looking to do? Robbery, car theft, drug trafficking, or perhaps something more subtle - wire fraud, insurance fraud etc?

not sure if I follow that one

I know, but when I'm speaking of "I" I mostly mean my consciousness. I obviously cannot know for sure that my body exists, so what I'm claiming is that in order for anything complex (like my consciousness) to exist, its parts must be able to exist apart from each other. Space is what allows for...

http://panamath.org/testyourself.php I guess I did pretty average, but it should be mentioned I have a significant amount of alcohol in my bloodstream atm:

I would guess that the concurrency nature of the human brain would make it quite different from a Turing machine. A Turing machine would be a perfectly deterministic input/output machine, whereas in a brain signals are processed by millions of neurons simultaneously and one signal can go through...

People prefer to have some answers to no answers even if the answers have no basis to them. I see a lot of it in my profession, except you swap out astrology with statistics - with the latter often having as much validity as the former, only with vastly larger consequences when misused.

Marvel is the McDonalds of films Edit: that’s a joke btw, I haven't seen any marvel movies

Even a slave has all kinds of freedoms - he can rebel against his master, maybe even kill his master, or maybe even kill himself. Freedom is almost invariably a state of mind.

@DoIMustHaveAnUsername? nice, thanks for clarifying. I kept wondering what sort of definition of “consistent” one would be using to make that particular sentence work.

Does it have men starring as goats?

If you wouldn’t have space, then nothing could exist because everything would be located at one point, a singularity. So since I exist then geometrical space must exist. Did I just obliterate all of Kant’s work?

I fuckin hate cooking food. It's such a goddamn waste of time

Btw what sort of math did you do for your masters?

we better ask ourselves what typical INTPs don't find themselves doing, for example cleaning their room or removing food from the fridge which expired 2 months ago. If you have food which expired 2 months ago (I have it), then you're probably NT

I read some book about skill acquisition a while back, where they showed that e.g. at the highest level of chess, skill level was negatively correlated with IQ. Skill is 99% practice and experience. I find IQ, and the belief that you measure "intelligence" with it, without having even defined...

anyways... to get back to the topic, we obviously only have bits and piece of information here, and without knowing anything more I would take a stab in the dark and guess that you quit your computer job and went to you father's company because it was the easy way out? In that case it's a...

Well “tough” is relative. It’s a matter of what the expected error rate is. ML for ocr is a classical problem though, I would be very surprised if it’s not possible to get a decent precision.

Completely off topic but algorithmic reading of handwritten text is usually done by OCR combined with machine-learning algos like neural nets. Preferably they are trained with the specific data you have at hand, depending on whether your text contains a specific word/character set and formatting

Machines have taken over all jobs, the only way people can make money is to receive universal basic income. Thus there is no point to doing anything, so I wake up in the morning, put on my virtual-reality goggles and watch 3D porn all day. All food has become liquid and is transported straight...

the proof still looks like gibberish to me. When a conclusion is "consistent" with a set of observations, is it consistent with the conjunction of that set or the disjunction, or something else? I assume it's the first, but then the claim that "Cj is also consistent with Ci because Cj is...