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I guess the majority of my last couple of hundred posts have been semi-shitposts written either on the subway (like this one) or while I'm at work waiting for some computation to finish

Engage in practicing puzzle-solving for a year and do some caffeine + glucose right before the test; I bet you can add 20 points to your IQ score

That's good. But I guess one can always claim that the beings who run the simulation have super powerful computers capable of running exponential-complexity algorithms. Nevertheless it is a good argument against naive Elon-Musk style reasoning like "our video games are so realistic, surely...

I guess the point is that every trans person is kooky in each their own particular way? It is an artifact of human physiology to believe oneself to be more unique and less predictable than one is. PS I know next to nothing about this stuff. Just supplying the daily dose of cynicism.

Attack the whole thing head-on. Don't try to hide. Take control.

To me it seems all of TMBs posts could be distilled down to just one post without losing any information: I have a garage band and I have lost my virginity. I guess the wellspring of posts repeating those points in slight variation and with very bad grammar has already satisfied the needs of...

Flying bus? You mean an airplane? Anyways, how about: +25 cure for cancer +30 cure forAIDS +35 4d printer +40 printer than can print silicone sex dolls +45 A VR machine that allows you to live a virtual life consisting purely of snorting cocaine and banging prostitutes +50 a chip implant in...

That actually looks like a lot of fun

I have tried stuff like meditation. I don't really see the point. For me it's enough to take a couple of deep breaths and maybe distract myself with some stimulus like music or reading the news. I'm usually reset after that. In some extreme cases I might rely on a smoke.

Currently it's low-level programming languages like C. I consider this "real" programming as opposed to for example Python which essentially is just a scripting language. With C you cannot really program without knowing how a computer works - how its RAM operates and so on. To me there is...

Alright, folks. The results are in:

We clealry disagree on what "deductive" means. What is the next number in this sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 That has nothing to do with deduction. As with IQ tests, the problem is not to deduce the answer but guess what the creator of the test had in mind. If your answer was 7, you are wrong...

No, there isn't. As with any inductive problem, there are multiple solutions that fit the pattern. All of them are aimed at generalizing patterns; inductive by definition.

All 8 of them are based on inductive thinking, not deductive logic. It's a cool idea though

I see those sub-100 IQ animals on the subway every day. It's repulsive. Thought for the day: if we kill all the sub-100 IQ people, we raise the mean IQ of the world to 112.

1. This is true for the most part. As I wrote before somewhere, there is a conflict of interest even between a mother and a phoetus in her womb - they both compete for resources and they are evolutionarily designed to act according to some equilibrium strategy. In general, the members of your...

I know a dude who wanted to work in finance just so that he could wear a suit to work. I do pretty much the opposite. I try to look like a bum. I call it "business bohemian" I feel that the moment you put on a suit, you become constrained in your behavior as well as your thought. People who...

In Norway you have good-for-nothing bureaucrats driving ferraris. About 1/3 of the population in the capital are working for the state. These people are just sucking money out of the system and doing nothing worthwhile. They are just generators of activity. This is all financed via insane taxes...

Folks, you gotta ask yourselves what the hell the dominant function of an introvert has to do with the way they are perceived from the outside. Even by mbti theory that doesn't make sense. The whole thing sounds like the classic misguided interpretation of what introvert means - that it...

Introspection is masturbation

Maybe I'm not reading your posts how they are intended to be read, I dunno. Anyways... I love ya like a brother, and I'm looking forward to trading more insults with you.

Google "denying the antecedent"

It obviously doesn't hurt to have assets and resources, but you also obvioulsy cannot rely only on that to attract a mate. But it's also a good setup for getting an ugly wife who can cook and clean and do your laundry. As the Chinese proverb says - an ugly wife is a great asset in the house...

The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller It's an extremely well-written exposition on how sexual selection shaped the human mind. By reading this I realised how little I knew about evolution, and how much of the talk on evolution, even among various intellectuals, is severely misguided. For...

Utilitarianism was never about maximising immediate pleasure. Otherwise you could solve moral problems by simply handing out cocaine to everyone.

Haha :phear: I guess we are all guilty of that

Why do you expect goals to descend on you from heaven? You have to sculpt your goals yourself. Pick something you are good at and just commit to that.

Not even an executive summary, dawg? I'll give my opinion without seeing the video then: leftist ideology is an elabotate system of narratives similar to a religion. Humans are very succeptible to narratives, so this system of ideas will always be exploited by charlatans for their personal...

Plot twist: men have nipples because in the old days men used to have milk in their tits to feed babies On a serious note Why are people so obsessed with making the "correct" classification of things? It's similar to IQ - what do we achieve by assigning these measures and classifications...

Organic inspiration, incentives induced by hormones - that, to discipline, is what a 5000-horsepower locomotive is to a bicycle Work on cultivating obsessions instead

Haim is right. Ants is a bad comparison, because they cooporate for completely different reasons - namely that each male ant carries the same copy of DNA and thus all males in a colony are essentially one individual. Humans, on the other hand, are all individuals but we have managed to make a...

I find it a soothing and happy thought that I wil not need to exist forever. One day we will go back to being stardust in the big, indifferent univese. All the silly little problems we invent for ourselves will be swiftly forgotten. That is not to say I don't enjoy life - I actually try to live...

Distinguish between what can and cannot be improved. Most things belong to the former, so just work on that.

The specifics are not that important. The point is that it's a highly fragile strategy to let people store data on you. E.g. recently, the Swedish govt managed to accidently leak large amounts of sensitive data on its citizens. Then you have all these other threats like hacks etc, and the...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-15/equifax-hack-your-social-security-and-identity-are-for-sale "but I don't care if institutions and corporations are gathering data on me -I haven't done anything wrong"

In some cases, like tomatos, you get more antioxidants from heating it. Other than that, boiling rapidly destroys the vitamines in the vegetable. Ya fuckin vegetable-boiling hoe

Boiled vegetables. Why the fuck do people boil vegetables? You achieve only two things: destroy most of the nutrients and make them taste like shit.

In case it's unclear btw, Im only being a cunt to you because I think you are a cool guy and I know you can handle it

Pmj is a pure GIMP type :cool:

Jung reserved the CUNT type exclusively for the most exceptional NTs

If only my type could be revealed to me! I would know how to act, what character to have, and what to believe.

Huh. Shadowlands wrote a post without mentioning the word 'succubus'. What is going on here?

Well, one of the main goals of sites like that (but also sites like youtube) is to maximise the time you spend there. In fact, they use that as one of their main metrics by which they measure their profitability as a business. Obviously bigger network means you'll be getting a more intense...

He would make the best flash games for smartphones ever

Google "survivorship bias"

Dafuq are you talking about, sir? Where have I made distinctions between archetypes and qualities generating popularity?

Ya can't talk about what made a winner win without looking at the cemetery of losers. That cemetery just happens to be filled to the brink with stories just like HP. It's randomness, folks.

User statistics, location, the network of the first-level contacts (his friend might not be connected to anyone on his recommendation list, but maybe that friend is connected to people who are) and loads of variables go into the recommendation system. Would people be shocked to hear, for...

A mexican standoff with me and some charlatans