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People can yap as much as they want about solipsism. An easy test of whether they actually adopt such a stance in practice is to see what they do when their skin is in the game. Say, you need to have surgery. Do you pick a professional surgeon with a long track record of successful surgeries, or...

I think you're talking about solipsism. What's the implication of solipsism? I dunno – get depressed and read a lot of Schopenhauer?

Well, we do actually have a cognitive apparatus which is mostly aimed at operating in a world we don't know much about. I've used this example before, but if you for example notice something moving behind a bush, your brain is not very interested in coming up with the most precise objective...

For nicotine I'd recommend "snus" from the Nordics. Virtually no increased chance of cancer. I use tobacco-free snus. I have colleagues who have this stuff under their lip 100% of their waking hours, getting a constant stream of nicotine throughout the day.

Does nicotine alleviate the symptoms? I've heard it does so for ADHD. I drink energy drinks every day :eek:

Usually take it after lunch, so I guess that would be with food and PM. And I do it 7/7 days. Hadn't noticed what you wrote before about how to take them. Btw where you do get the selank/semax stuff?

Yes, but you'd be surprised how well they manage to undermine this fact by means of their horrible photographic skills.

Nope, everyone in question was speaking their first language and came from the same culture. I think I just got caught off-guard. You know, as an introvert and all I would have to prepare mentally before having my ego (and hand) fondled by a stranger like that.

off topic: I just scrolled through a ton of online-dating profiles – as a woman, looking at men. Folks, I gotta say it's looking grim. Statistically, 80% of men manage to reproduce which is fucking incredible when I look at these profiles. About 3/100 looked decent. On the other hand, at least...

As in nationality?

I just recalled this one incident which is sort of amusing and interesting from a psychological point of view. A while back I ran into an old friend of mine, whom I hadn't seen for a long time. He had his girlfriend with him, whom I had never met before, so we were introduced and shook hands...

I'd say the best products are sold by people who claim to have the key to the best kind of pain.

No offense but the bit on Ti vs Te made no sense whatsoever. What are "objective facts"? You seem to create a dichotomy of "abstract thinking" vs "objective facts" which to me doesn't mean much. Ti might be more interested in abstract systems, but ultimately, doing inference in the real world is...

Well, I can definitely say that compared to myself a month ago, my focus has greatly improved. Have better energy level physically as well. But – it should be said that I've done two other things as well: 1) I've been on vacation for 2 weeks, and 2) I've cut the nicotine. But maybe I was able to...

Just heard about this test and took it

"Bring out the gimp"

Well, if, say, in one instance I shame someone for lying, and then in the next instance I lie to someone myself, do I have any values? I would say no, I just pick actions as I see fit based on circumstances. I see values as axioms. Obviously one can change one's axioms, but that must be a...

What on earth.. I didn't know women could make noises like that.

Well, that's not really values. That's just impulses. And these impulses change based on circumstances and various stimuli.

The problem for most people is not that they choose their values based on feelings. It's rather that they don't have any values at all and choose actions based on feelings – resorting to use their rationality to validate their actions post-hoc. That's quite different from saying: I carefully...

This one ditsy Swedish girl decided to protest the deportation of an Afghan convicted criminal (link) from Sweden by making a scene inside an airplane. Now she faces criminal charges herself because, well.. when you mess with airplanes you can expect repercussions. But of course, she doesn't...

Dude, we're never gonna kill a single feeler. We won't have to. We'll simply destroy their society from the inside, starting with infusing their curricula and academic institutions with all kinds of fucked-up ideas like Marxism, feminism, "equality", etc. Feelers are gonna be suckers for this stuff.

Praising people who passed away is just management of facades for hypocrites. It's the easiest thing in the world to do – cheap signaling.

@Pyropyro I guess you have to make a choice then. I'm not gonna claim to know which one is best because I don't know the intricacies of your life. But at the very least, you seem to see the situation quite clearly yourself. Were you doing biology and now want to do computer-science? As far as...

Indeed. In fact, in my experience, letting rage run free is not really "taking it out" as much as simply fueling it, and making it easier for that reaction to reappear in the future. It simply becomes a habit (a very unhealthy one at that). In general, following the logic of "letting out"...

they just show up at the end

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Thin people over Fat people Quite true I'm afraid Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Young people over Old people. Also true, although I prefer milfs over young girls.

What sort of validation (or alternatively, the lack thereof) you're getting from other people, including your sweetie, should have no bearing whatsoever on what you think of your own self-actualization and whether you are achieving the things you want to achieve in life. Most people's instinct...

There was so much bigotry in your scores that the test malfunctioned

that doesn't make sense

What on earth can feelers do against thinkers in a war? Charm them to death?

To me it just sounds like you're dealing with the combination of the usual teenage-insecurities and a somewhat toxic environment. Trust me, it gets better.

Gender -Science: Your data suggest little or no automatic association between Female and Male with Science and Liberal Arts.. Boom. That's because I'm a feminist, baby!

I did the happiness/sadness test Your implicit data suggest that you strongly identify more with HAPPY than SAD. edit: wtf.. now when I click the link this test is no longer there

I agree with OP in the sense that ad-hoc solutions after the fact won't work unless you have a good set of ethics and principles to live by to begin with. I've read a bunch of stoic and existentialist philosophy which helps me deal with bad shit. When bad shit does happen, I look at it in terms...

It actually sounds like you're living with people who don't have a sense of humor nor much interest in understanding you. Funny examples though. Experiment with raws eggs in bed – that's some next-level INTP shit

If you're making obvious mistakes then it can be quite conspicuous and not so subtle. But beyond that, it's quite subtle indeed. Like Hado wrote above, it's a sophisticated dance. And different styles can work for different people. So it's impossible to distill it down to a checklist. Maybe if...

Body language is a part of it. By no means all of it. It's generally all aspects of communication that can signal intent and your attitude towards the counterparty. People are generally much more sensitive to that than the semantic content of your words.

I guess this is a good example actually, because here you come off as a douche, probably without realizing it yourself. My advice is: learn sub-communication

Do you have any examples? I might be familiar with what you're talking about though. I used to have this problem sometimes back in the day when I thought that conversations with people were about the semantical content, as opposed to how you say things or what the implicit intention behind the...

@SlipperyQ I'm not in this business of trying to put people into these boxes based on whatever silly little ideas some woo-woo crank had in his mind. I'm looking at this from an epistemological perspective, according to which rigorous and scientific principles don't exclude any of the goals...

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Yes. It simply takes superficial facts about history and interprets them in light of its own value system and various new-age concepts.

That's correct. So since this model has both explicit and implicit moral judgments, it's not really science.

:facepalm: Rational atheists don't believe "science is absolute truth". Science is just a method of critically interrogating one's beliefs with the maximal amount of epistemic humility, maximal amount of consistency, and minimal amount of arrogant claims which are not empirically testable and...

I know, I know. It's because I'm in the beige stage.

So far the only answers people have given to why this stuff is not nonsense is 1) It cannot be expressed in scientific terms (despite the original claim that it was a scientific theory) 2) If you don't get it, you are not sophisticated enough So there's not much to "understand". I understand...

I get it that it feels nice to think that you have unlocked the mysteries of the world, that you have the key to all truths, and that you are on the highest plane of existence. That way, not only do you possess that, but you can tell anyone who questions your ideas that they are not enlightened...