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Another definition is someone who's identity is built on the betrayal of common good or common values. Someone who is ideologically opposed to altruism, because their remaining tolerated by people at large relies on the idea that there is no such thing as unselfish action, and that the evil...

Sometimes you have to go beyond the narrative that makes you feel the most special, and gives you the most license to tell people they're stupid for not thinking like you. When someone says something and you don't see the point of it, that doesn't mean they're crying out for you to show them the...

Well IQ tests measure your ability and interest to focus on small, subtle patterns, and to get in gear for a test, so someone with the same general mental ability that does worse on an iq test might do better at something that requires more diffuse focus or more sustained efforts, or lower...

Should-be-enemy-of-all.

Fuck I just came back to delete that. But none of that is advice. Some of it is an attempt to be motivational, some of it is just ideas thrown out, some of it is pointing out where you seem to just be objectively wrong about stuff, and some of it is an interesting website recommendation.

Have you heard of lesswrong? You probably have but you should totally go on lesswrong.com if you haven't. There's like a million words of genuinely valuable infotainment on there, well not really infotainment, just well written exposition of stuff that should be obvious but isn't always. 95% of...

First off I partially concede the original point: I had this pegged as a totally non hardcore forum where people play skyrim and stuff and I was trying to make a point which does not hold at the highest level of competition in the way I meant, except for in the sense that everything has a...

My aim is horrible (read: average) I can't even compete on quake live. Doesn't change anything. the challenge lies in playing better than your opponent. Maybe that's less about thinking in Halo at a high level but then part of the challenge is maintaining focus in a bad environment. You can...

What's wrong with it? It looks straightforwardly true from where I'm standing. I'm not saying that some axes of engagement aren't more worthwhile than others but some people like every kind of challenge. Some games are deep only as challenges of mechanical skill or precision but there's nothing...

Multiplayer games, with rare exceptions, are as shallow or deep as you want them to be. The exceptions are when a game is really hard to learn or just has no depth at all. In any other kind of game, you're playing people, the game just determines along what axis you're engaging with people...

Cosmiccrush wasn't giving you advice they were just posting some theories. Is someone gonna ban bemused? NO HE DOESN'T HAVE A MICROPENIS. HE IS A WOMAN. Pretty sure harrasment is a standard bannable offense. Micropenis is a horrible (in both senses) metaphor. Low Fe is in some ways an...

The world is a shithole and whether it takes a hundred years, ten thousand, or a million to improve it has to because it's the only remotely acceptable course of development. If the world exploded right now you'd be putting a lot more people out of their misery than destroying worthwhile lives...

n't played this game in a while. I'm gonna see if i can at least beat 85. Does the score get recorded on here when I play via that link? edit: got 106 but apparently it "wasn't submitted from the game" so wasn't saved. edit2:same error message again. edit3: w00t. 180-something.

"They don't dominate concepts" dominate is not normally used this way in english though your meaning is pretty clear. Apparently brazillian education is particularly bad for rote memorisation. ttp://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education so don't feel bad thinking the whole world works this...

Except that it wasn't a scientific paper. It's a text analysis, where the only facts are going to be just exactly what the paper said and the rest is going to be what you think about it. Btw dark I don't think you have proclaimed yourself to be a genius, I just really dislike the standard...

"Why all the negative comments directed at dark" Someone mentioned, "formal, objective structure". It's objective in that there is a way you are told to write things, but it's not objectively a good way to write things "don't say I think or your paper will be bad" is not objective...

Re: Bird it's lobstrich's thread. Who is this "we"? About conflict: conflict isn't debate. Your (lobstrich) post explaining why you like conflict seemed to explain why you liked discussion and debate. Did you just mean a conflict of opinions type thing? Or do you think conflict is good in...

just posted in the type me thread and have been going through my posts here. Realised i didn't reply to you. necro time. "Use 'advanced' and 'smart' words when one could just as easy say "I think it's about this because of that" (Weird example, I know. Couldn't really come up with anything)"...

type me plx

If anyone wants someone to play with PM me and i'll add you or i can give you my username so you can add me. "I definitely recommend it. People should be warned, however, that the community is almost totally unforgiving of new players." It's not just new players. Just mess up or play badly...

"Proxy wants him a woman." I just want you to know that hovering over the thread title in the main forum and seeing that "As the title states." was, (I presumed) the entire content of the OP just made me so happy and has cheered me up significantly.

"This is what I am talking about. It is now even more clear to me you've never met anyone who would be considered a genius. That's fine, not all of us have that privilege, but it shows. Intelligence has an obvious definition. If you ever meet anyone who can expand at length about limnic...

if police police police police, who polices police police? police police police police police police.

I actually tried a similiar tactic to the OP. There's a thread somewhere in the school and work subforum. I think intpforum is a bad place for this though. You're going to be getting a lot of impartial analysis and very little buck up you pathetic worm. Primarily to cheese: ty for this...

re: 1 Dude you're ruining my placebo. Anyway it can't be worse than not promising a bunch of strangers on the internet. re:2 Iunno. First exam is at 9 on some days which means I have to be in at 8:45 and I want to be able to revise in the mornings. the smiley is the same as this one which I...

just checking in. I haven't jumped ship. Thanks for the replies. Now so I can pressure myself into doing this shit I'm gonna write a load of stuff here for all to see: I'll go to bed at 10 tonight, 9 the next night, 8 the next, possibly etc. No computer for an hour before bed. (is an hour...

Basically I'm not revising, and I want to be revising. Over the last 4 weeks I've done three 1hr sessions total. It's not like I've been particularly busy either. The best way I can think of putting it is that I can't seem to muster up enough care to work. My ability to push myself to do thngs...

Doesn't that put them at a disadvantage in timed tests?

counter clockwise and I have massive trouble getting it to spin the other way. I think I saw this a few years ago and I could. edit: I wonder what it takes to make the image change direction. Is it just a matter of distracting yourself? Anyone have a technique?

not gonna do the test right now but I'm quite sure it's type: intp ideal: intp attracted to: females

Basically my preference is being at home or doing something. I don't like socialising for the sake of it and I don't enjoy dancing (no really, scheurmann's + terrible flexibility actually makes it painful not to mention the sheer indignity of it all.) I may not enjoy it but I think it's useful...

I think zago was saying no to your statement that people are different. Zago I don't know if you'll read this but I guess this can go out to anyone who does this. Previously holding opinions, and then changing your mind does not make the opinions you previously held worse. Or more...

Link to the article? If this is the really long test with blue and yellow dots I did this a while ago (was posted on intpc) and think I got 91% right and I thought I got 96th percentile but I now see 91% corresponds to 97th percentile.. Anyone else feel like they weren't doing much more than...

Most annoying and easily fixable thing: No regen or health packs, if there are respawns. Why? Unless you can totally avoid taking damage, every time you take someone on head on you take permanent damage.

afaik hyperfocus just means that the task has their complete attention. Flow type thing. Not that an ADDer suddenly changes their processing style. I'm going to bed so I won't find it now but I remember there being an mbti thread on some add forum and I'm pretty sure people with add don't test...

I was confusing intelletualism for pseduo intellectualism. Either wayrest assured I don't think knowing the name einstein makes you smart or open minded. "I think it's about this because of that" (Weird example, I know. Couldn't really come up with anything)" This is a great example.

does anyone know if the descriptions they give are backed up well or is it just test-retest reliability + predictive value? If so you could replace the category "extroversion" with "cookie monster" and get the same results. Anyone know where they get their descriptions? Afaik it's not supposed...

"If your idea has merit, it can withstand the critics who freely speak. Do you think the best idea wins out by virtue of being the best idea? If not what do you mean by this? The most convincingly presented idea wins out. Convincingness is by far more a function of rhetorical skill and the...

What about "pretty"? Also, "beautiful goal, catch, shot, jump, etc etc" Beautfiul=aesthetically appealing. Hot has a vaguely leering element, also has connotations that the usually a girl in question is steamy, sexual etc. This may be different outside of England but generally when someone...

I (like to) think this is reason I'm so bad at essays.

"I use difficult words" lol. Extroversion||||||||||40%Orderliness||||||||||34%Emotional Stability||||||||||||||56%Accommodation||||||||||34%Inquisitiveness||||||||||||||||||80% I think my emotional stability and extroversion scores are too high.

I don't think mental masturbation, as it were, is the same as intellectualism. Isn't mental masturbation thinking too hard about simple things and intellectualism saying things like like "thusly", and looking down on people who don't read a lot?

proviso. slute. not really. Edit: not a single word but I really like as it were so to speak edit2: bear faced lie

Do you think it's fair to say the Guy saved himself by jumping off the roof. I think it was more a matter of the guy deciding he couldn't live with himself (and so seeking relief) than him believing he didn't deserve to live.

hardcore shit here. YouTube - The Postal Service - "We Will Become Silhouettes" Sub Pop Records ( don't know how to embed) ... so people actually like death metal for the music? Not just background music to shoot your school/workplace/city up by? My main issue is the near...

I might have this. Either way it'd be cool to get myself some concentration drugs.

"halfway between bitterness and nihilism" Endorphins were released when I read this. Personally I have come up with (mostly when I was younger 9-17 [now]) "We can't know anything" "inevitability theory," "it's all atoms man" "Nothing, like, fundamentally matters" "Where does the universe...

"I enjoy myself when I'm extremely sleep deprived, because I have cool looking eyebags, and because my overanalytical compulsions aren't there as much to cause retardation." Me too!!!11!onewonwunI'moverdoingitnow. "Again all decisive actions are done by controlled conscious thought, with...

Basically, a philosophy degree shows that you're smart. A lot like a maths degree, except you can't do maths related things. You will probably get fucked out of jobs by jackasses who think it's all ivory tower bullshit though. Fyi if I get off my ass and study I'll be doing undergraduate...

Hi. I'm confused by a lot of what you are saying. This will mostly be me trying to figure it out. What makes you think this aggression is fundamental? Do you mean you have literally 0 aggression? or some specific type of aggresion, like "killer instinct"? "lack of a direct and quick...