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I'm not here to argue with you Cog. This is an advice thread and my advice was not to follow your advice because it's bad. You bring too much baggage and bullshit. He is courting a woman, not the concept of women as per the red pill. He should seek to understand the woman, not some low...

To clarify, I think Cog you have some top-down ideas about women, rather than treating them as individuals. For example, it's pretty naive to think that all women want rough sex, to make you a sandwich, or are bad communicators/pathological liars. You don't know this person. You might be right...

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The more transparent you can be the better. I've had similar issues in the past and the big hurdle is having both of you understand the difference in needs, the difference in predispositions, and the amount of compromise you both have to spend on adjusting. Personally, I have areas where I'm...

I think in predicting what happens with the tariffs, we need to know what the intention is. Personally, I don't think it makes sense for Trump to be genuinely trying to revitalise the economy. Altruism isn't in his history and the tariffs are so heavy-handed I don't think they're the result of...

I use AI for summarising readings and as a study-assist. It saves enormous time and deepens learning, but you need to know enough to be able to tell whether it's bullshitting you. I have it cite all references it uses and check that the sources are real, for instance (It's about 75/25 depending...

I don't trust billionaires. Not just because they're out to sell you something. By nature of being so powerful, they attract people that tell them what they want to hear. They're generally going to be smart people, but they're in an inescapable bubble.

Yeah I'm doing it because I want to be healthy, but the real driving force is I want to be better at badminton. It would be easier to get better through badminton specific training but that doesn't have the general life benefits and looks miserable.

I don't do new years resolutions (ironically it's a form of procrastination, putting off improvement until the next year). But I do have goals. + Lose 10 kg (started at 5, completed early so shifted to 10). + Once I've lost weight, do something for flexibility (e.g. pilates, yoga...

Who is saying this? Mostly I hear about how AI is going wrong (like this thread). The pro-AI people I talk to tend to appreciate the memes or what it can do for them personally, but I don't hear anyone talking about an age of utopia and abundance anymore. Also population growth is slowing or...

I'll share something that works for me but it's very targeted to my specific situation. Through socratic questioning I arrived at an implicit and irrational belief I genuinely hold: If I can't see improvement, improvement isn't occurring. This applies to skill acquisition, but also to task...

An interesting approach. I don't think it will work for you long term. It's not sustainable. You're doing shock therapy but your mental will suffer if it becomes your routine. Changing your surrounds does help. If your previous routine of procrastination was attached to one room, then...

It helps people with some components of IQ tests but it isn't IQ. I explored more about aphantasia the other day and I'm thinking mine is worse than I at first thought. I don't have much issue with spatial reasoning but the assumed visual navigation is not occurring, or at least, I'm not...

I wouldn't worry too much about it birdsnestfern. To date, you haven't posted a single political rant thread I'm aware of. So the chances of you overwhelming the community with your polarising political rhetoric are low.

Gentle reminder not to bombard the forum with political rant threads. One per person per weekish is reasonable. Don't start a second before anyone's even engaged with the first.

You should watch it, it was a great episode. Jerry didn't go to the planet because he was compelled to by some burden of intellectual rigor. He was abducted by the oil lobbyists and then stayed on Pluto because the role they gave him propagandising against the environmentalists served his need...

Okay. Just FYI I've enjoyed this discussion and have seen it as a genuine exploration rather than a debate. But I think this is where it ends because if you can't see chimps/humans as plausible, then obviously there's no curiosity for more complicated evolutionary adaptations like the divergence...

I am addressing this: You respond with this: I'm not talking about hooves and you weren't either. You are switching out the argument before conceding anything. The human and the chimp have the same skeletal structure. They both function the same way etc.. What reason do you have not to...

Read the post again. I'm not stating an intention, I'm stating a fact. You quoted me and started talking about me not understanding your argument, but the quote you posted had no mention of your argument as it wasn't addressing it. It's just a miscommunication. Let's start from what I think we...

There are clear assumptions I'm making. I think they're reasonable and this is where my expectation would be set. There may be factors I'm unaware of, but he hasn't made me aware of them. It felt as if this was the obvious assumed expectation, and he didn't give an alternative for what our...

Not always but this isn't uncharacteristic. Long time users are quite familiar with each other and this can result in impatience for one another's patterns. Old Things tends to care a lot about bolstering the credentials of anyone he sees as useful in his ongoing apologetics for his faith. You...

Oh I think I messed my math :/ It's still big though. I'm not big mathly so grain of salt this. Assuming both mutations are independent then: We assume the probability of mutation A is 1/100,000,000 based on experiment A P(A)=1/100,000,000=10^-8 We assume the probability of mutation B is...

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Great. To be honest some of this is pretty good. Possibly the most convincing arguments I've read for the position. I liked the visualisation on the whiteboard capturing the difference between the two claims. I think the argument from criteria of science is strong. I don't read any of...

I found this channel a month or so back: Moonic Productions He does mixed covers of old metal bands (e.g. what if SoaD wrote a korn song). You might enjoy it. Maybe not.

I was talking more in-person. The charming ones tend to be a bit more introverted and gentle-natured. The frustrating ones tend to be more extroverted and inflexible. You two can extrapolate from there whether we'd get along I guess. This tends to be my preference for neuroptypicals too, but...

That's pretty insightful. I think it's important to diversify whether you're a generalist or a specialist. Know at least one thing quite well, but not to the exclusion of all others. People who don't know anything particularly well don't understand how much there is to know within any...

I tried a screener and I worked out I had approx. 5% chance of getting an ASD diagnosis if I went in. That said, the line between having it and not having it seems a bit arbitrary to me once you're distinguishing between high functioning and neurotypicality. I tend to get on pretty well with...

What do you think about it? Who do you think was right? Why? I'm not here to listen to your playlist I'm here to talk to you!

Bro it's 80 minutes long and you haven't commented. This is part of what I mean when I say this place has devolved to propaganda. You share content without comment, criticism, how it affected you... anything. You're just regurgitating media that affirms your view from your feed onto ours...

Cog is right about people's needs. If you accurately identify and meet people's needs, things tend to go well. I'd argue it's easier to properly understand someone's needs if you pay attention to them, rather than some abstract profile of what their needs should be. But his advice is pretty...

If you want to respond to what I say, go ahead. If you want to speculate about me, go to the thread specifically designed for it.

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If you want to attack my character, go to the thread that is specifically made for that.

I'm talking about specific research methodologies. You can't shoehorn a book into being a particular methodology just because you happen to like it. Books aren't all the same, but if I look your boy up I find that his work is generally considered apologetic rather than academic, and that while...

Thankyou for finally stating the evidence you are talking about for the first time in this thread. It's really, really easy to be dismissive of unstated evidence. It's a passive ability of mine. I don't believe it. That's not a bias in favour of one conclusion over another, it's an epistemic...

Old Things I'm being flippant because I see myself as already having put in more effort than you. You aren't substantiating what you believe, just dismissing alternative perspectives as "bias", which is ad hominem. Hume is lazy and I'm biased therefore you don't have to contend with the...

When I said this, did you think I was claiming that only other people are biased? Why are you even talking about this? They do be lyin' QED

You talk about evidence and call opposing arguments lazy, then claim the evidence is unverifiable and I should just trust you bro.

So the supernatural is real because it's clearly observable, but by definition the supernatural is what cannot be reliably observed?

I haven't read Hume and wasn't citing him. I don't really feel as if you addressed what I said. I didn't say anything about God healing some people and not others. I said if supernatural acts of healing occur they should be measurable and repeatedly observable. They should be distinguishable...

That this is a non-systematic observation, a cherrypicked sample, and if it were representative we wouldn't need doctors. If something works it can be observed and implemented systematically. The threshold for a treatment working is when it predictably outcompetes placebo.

I am not married to the notion that everything that exists is matter, space, or energy. There could very well be other things that we're yet to systematically observe. But if we found another component of reality, I fail to see how it would be above nature. Systems have clear scope for ease of...

I think it's best defined by gendered prescription. It might be the case that some masculine traits are genetic but until they're prescribed based on gender they're not part of masculinity. Likewise, it's possible for something to be masculine without it having any genetic basis at all.

I don't think humility should be about what other people think. I see humility as knowing yourself without favoritism. I see a lot of false humility used in the name of smoothing social relations, but it's obvious that these people say one thing while thinking another. The type of humility I...

Generally scores are taken with a hidden +/-5. Your true score is 95% likely to be within 5 points of your performance. So I wouldn't worry too much about it. IMO what you're saying is analogous to car speed being determined by the gear box. It's certainly true to some extent, but if you point...

Morally wrong? Huh.

The thalamus isn't easy to measure because it's a deep brain structure. Electroencephalography takes measurements from outside the head and is usually used to measure cortical (outer brain) activity. Even then, it's got limited spatial resolution. EEG is limited by the scattering of the signal...

I think helicopter parenting and general over-protectiveness have always existed. Is it worse now than ever before? Yeah maybe. It's likely that the parents themselves have neurotic tendencies, which they're now passing on through both genes and nurture. In Australia resilience is one of the key...

I don't have those sorts of powers rn sorry. If Kuu or Higs drop by it might be worth asking them.