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  1. INTPf/INTPx Trivia Contest 2019

    chess one: bishop at 2F to C8 black rook at E1 to B1 white pawn at D3 to C3
  2. INTPf/INTPx Trivia Contest 2019

    lbloom is a beast. in the stars & galaxies question, does "sets with the same number of elements" mean sets with non-unique element count? E.g. if you have a collection of sets with cardinalities 2, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, then the number of non-unique counts would be 0
  3. INTPf/INTPx Trivia Contest 2019

    nun?
  4. INTPf/INTPx Trivia Contest 2019

    triathlon: 11.069 time on land: sqrt(9 + x^2)/10 time in water: sqrt(9 + (8-x)^2) / 2 where x is point along x-axis where you enter the water. add them, differentiate wrt x and solve differential = 0.
  5. INTPf/INTPx Trivia Contest 2019

    the numbers can be expressed as e.g. 1001001 = 1000000 + 1000 + 1. Dividing each term by 3 leaves 1/3 as remainder for each, which sums up to 1.
  6. INTPf/INTPx Trivia Contest 2019

    there is no such prime number, because these numbers can be generated as multiples of 3, in particular 367 * 3 = 1101 3667 * 3 = 11001 33667 * 3 = 101001 etc very cool questions btw, thank you for putting them together
  7. INTPf/INTPx Trivia Contest 2019

    The raft one: according to my calculations, yes, it's possible (blue points are the daughters): calculated center of gravity to be origin (0, 0) as follows: if vector of weights is w = [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1], then sum( sin( k* pi/6) * w[k]) for k = 1, 2, ... 12, is the center...
  8. INTPf/INTPx Trivia Contest 2019

    Billy on a 2D plane one: yes, he can see white: if y = bx represents his line of sight, then he can pick b as an irrational number between 0 and 1, e.g. 1/pi. Then there is no integer x that y = bx is an integer, i.e. such a line doesn't intersect any of the points (x, y) where x, y are integers.
  9. INTPf/INTPx Trivia Contest 2019

    Didnt fully understand the rules. Only the first person counts? So if I'm first and get 1 question right, I win?
  10. Silicon Consciousness

    I can sympathize with your view of these things – sometimes I read academic papers and think to myself: "how in the fuck did they come up with that". But to me it's just a result of very smart and creative people directing their focus and effort, over many years and many generations, to specific...
  11. Silicon Consciousness

    I grant you a silicon microchip is a pretty impressive invention – but it's not as impressive as requiring alien intervention to come into existence. A silicon chip is just a bunch of logic gates implemented electronically. Von Neumann designed the same sort of logic gates but he used vacuum...
  12. Bobbity Beep

    say no to drugs, kids
  13. The Random Thoughts Thread

    do you have an opinion on anything yourself or do you spend your time mostly trying to shut down anyone with an opinion? and yes, I think criticism of ideologies is a vital component of human life. After all, I, like everyone else, is a member of a society. Societies are built on ideas and...
  14. The Random Thoughts Thread

    Making enemies of ideologies – you're damn right I am.
  15. If INTPs had a slogan, what would it be?

    I haven't had a healthy sleep cycle since I was in elementary school
  16. What is the hardest video game you have beaten?

    I believe I became a master at the game called Achtung die Kurve back when I was in high school. Always played this with my classmates in computer class and became a dominant force
  17. The Random Thoughts Thread

    I keep thinking about leftism and trying to figure out what exactly about it I find disagreeable, and I think I am beginning to understand now. Because I'm not against things like helping the poor, public health services and so on, but here's the thing: leftism, at least in its current form, is...
  18. Type Switching

    although there is a great deal of homeostasis in both our physical state and mental modes, I fully agree with the notion that you can change personality over time. That can either be done by a conscious and disciplined effort, or by changing in your external environment, the people you surround...
  19. what do you look most forward to in 2019

    fit for what?
  20. what do you look most forward to in 2019

    I don't wanna get too much into detail, but it's related to AI
  21. What are you currently playing?

    started playing GTA online a few months back due to a lack of recreational activities. It's a highly toxic and anti-social virtual environment, but amusing nonetheless anyone else playing?
  22. Blabbering

    there were two women at the gym yesterday – these women were Blabbering (that's a capital B). I was thinking of various ways to make them stop, like walk over and hit on them in a creepy way (like asking if I can smell their armpits or something). But imagining that scenario amused me so much...
  23. Let's psychoanalyze our mothers

    onestep disappeared after I asked him about the sun swallowing earth. I assume he's somewhere rethinking his whole existence right now
  24. Blabbering

    at least in my experience, a nice and concrete way to improve one's communication is to become good at making analogies – i.e. make a guess as to what sort of concepts the counterparty is familiar with and then explain it in those terms.
  25. Let's psychoanalyze our mothers

    why ask that about evolution in particular though? Why not any other natural phenomenon in the universe, say, the process in which our sun becomes a red giant and eventually engulfs earth? Why is it important for someone that our planet will get fucked up in the end? I'm curious– what would...
  26. Let's psychoanalyze our mothers

    I think that if one asks "why" (in the sense of "for what bigger purpose") certain aspects of organisms on earth – ours or any other's – have evolved, one is contesting the current scientific understanding of evolution and the world. Would you agree with that? (I'm not familiar with Bergson btw...
  27. Does overpopulation affect our purpose in life?

    yes it's pretty simple, really. There are facticities and then there are things you can change. Meaning is created within the scope of what you can change.
  28. Let's psychoanalyze our mothers

    to me that's a different question than why one has such emotions – I guess it's a question of why humans have consciousness/qualia at all? I mean you can ask the same question about, say, hunger: i.e. why do we have qualia associated with the feeling of hunger. It's fully a question of the...
  29. Let's psychoanalyze our mothers

    am I correct in assuming that you are assuming emotions cannot have a rational* cause behind them? because otherwise, my answer is still the same – just that you insert emotions between the biological incentive and the resulting reproductive actions. The emotions are various chemical reactions...
  30. Let's psychoanalyze our mothers

    clearly, the relationship between a mother and a child is usually based on emotions. There's no "mental component" to it beyond that. It's not like the reason mothers take care of their offspring is that they came up with an ingenious philosophical reason as to why they should do that that's a...
  31. Let's psychoanalyze our mothers

    @onesteptwostep um.. have you heard about this thing called evolution? anyways.. I thought this thread would be about us psychoanalyzing our actual mothers. in that regard, not much to say –I was mostly raised by a single father who was a former soviet military guy. that's how Serac became the...
  32. Blabbering

    I think it's a matter of making a good assessment of how the counterparty thinks, so as to not bore them with details they already know, but also not saying stuff that goes over their head because they lack the context for the information. i.e. theory of mind but also probably not being afraid...
  33. Let's psychoanalyze our mothers

    because the offspring carries her genes? in some species, mothers eat their children. why do they do that? it's all a matter of allocating resources optimally to ensure survival of one's genes I've referenced the research earlier on this forum, but it's has been shown that when a mother...
  34. SMDH: The Thread

    all the time. the only way I avoid cringing to death from it so realize that if one sees it as stupid shit, it means one has learned something it also makes me appreciate how tolerant people have been of my stupid shit
  35. SMDH: The Thread

    long have I wondered.. what is this dark force out there that perpetuates the evil of pizza pineapple. Deadly. Vicious. Yet elusive and imperceptible to the eye. but now I know.. I stand today face to face with it
  36. SMDH: The Thread

    all this confusion can be traced back to when someone put pineapple on pizza. That was the "big bang" of facepalming and shaking-one's-damn-head
  37. you need at least 5 years of practice to be competent at a skill

    dunno about that, I've met a lot of dumb high-IQ people on the 10,000 hour rule: it all depends. For skills that have structured and well-developed methods for learning, like playing the violin, or chess, it's probably a good rule of thumb. Other things, which don't have that, yet are...
  38. The Random Thoughts Thread

    leftists just don't see the beauty in competition. I don't know if it's because they never won in anything, or if it's because they're just born with a non-competitive mindset, I don't know. Anyway they have an instinctual aversion to it, and just want to turn the world into a boring-ass...
  39. SMDH: The Thread

    so you trying to, for example, clean your desk.. or preparing a sandwich.. results in you facepalming?
  40. Financial Independance

    Im not sure how youre getting the 1.105 number, but regardless, what youre essentially doing is borrowing money to leverage your investement in stock or whatever. The car itself is sort of irrelevant in this case. If buy the car with cash, then borrow money to put into stock, the result is...
  41. SMDH: The Thread

    what sort of stuff have you attempted to do?
  42. Financial Independance

    I misread your earlier post, didn't realize you were talking about a scenario where you already have the cash to buy the car at the outset. yes in that case it's just a matter of finding an investment that has a higher return than the interest. The only problem with stocks, of course, is that...
  43. Financial Independance

    a car is not an asset, it's a liability... so you will be paying 5% interest + the depreciation of the car, and you will not get any of the return which the market provides. The car is not going up in value like the markets, it's going down i.e. it's not a good idea to buy a car on credit...
  44. Financial Independance

    you read my post way too literally and corporate debt is obviously a completely separate thing. There's a difference between a company issuing bonds and someone having personal debt. my point is that the only way you can justify personal debt is if you are using it to generate a return, within...
  45. Financial Independance

    yes, debt is pretty much the opposite of financial independence. debt is justified only if you can make an educated prediction about the near future; say, betting on a rigged boxing match.
  46. Psychoanalyse the Avatar above you

    I never understood coconut water
  47. Why Three?

    I'm the one who's driving earth and keeping it in orbit. It's a fuckin boring job and pays very poorly
  48. Psychoanalyse the Avatar above you

    that was very good actually
  49. Frontiers: Open access peer reviewed articles

    openreview.net is a similar thing one example, where you can see comments and reviews and stuff: https://openreview.net/forum?id=ryMQ5sRqYX
  50. Psychoanalyse the Avatar above you

    this is the scene:
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