cameron_vale

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a new pill. It turns you into a zombie. Everybody takes it. Refusing the pill means eternal social isolation. Do you take it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ho ho. Yes, the backbone of every good community is a rigid orthodoxy.

  That was sarcasm.

  Go piss up a rope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a new pill. It turns you into a zombie. Everybody takes it. Refusing the pill means eternal social isolation. Do you take it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. Present your argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a new pill. It turns you into a zombie. Everybody takes it. Refusing the pill means eternal social isolation. Do you take it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you sure?

• There's a new pill. It turns you into a zombie. Everybody takes it. Refusing the pill means eternal social isolation. Do you take it?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking less genetic and more cultural. That by good education, communication, government, diet, art… we might grow beyond our monkey nature.

  But maybe the 99% will always be a monkey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a whole universe between “hostile reaction” and “bow down and worship”.

  We call it “polite conversation”.

  You should try it sometime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider them the same topic viewed from 2 different angles

• In the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us?
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• Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did it work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well there’s the optimal way to do it for individuals working alone. And there’s also the optimal way to do it when working in a group. They can be pretty different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That depends on experience. Plenty of people have seen religious stuff while tripping, meditating, NDE etc.

  And plenty of people believe stuff just because it’s popular too. Which is just as bad, even if the belief is useful or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Paradigm crushed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like some kind of low hanging fruit convention.

  Give me one that all the normal, smart people like you and me are guilty of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You could throw a bit of “sunk cost fallacy” in there (he bought an anti-dragon whistle, he’s spending his time and energy blowing it),

  And popularity bias (if anti-dragon whistles are popular)

  And convention bias too of course (everybody knows that anti-dragon whistles keep dragons away. It’s right there in the name).

  And authoritarian bias (if the authorities are recommending anti-dragon whistles)

  Also, any evidence-based assertion-maker could be accused of making his assertion on insufficient evidence. Which might be the case here. But as opposed to what?

  Hmm. What else? Specious reasoning?

  But what we want is examples. Speak to me, awakened ones. Tell me what fools these sheeples are.

• What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there something that helps digest a cheese pizza?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Piranha solution works good for that.

  www.youtube.com/shorts/c0D-MVWAtOc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so sexist. I am appalled that you “people” aren’t more appalled than you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So hostile. I actually think I have a pretty good point. Browse the thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Peruse the thread. My opinion of thinking is not as high as yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh don’t be that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or so the dogma of the hour goes. Tomorrow all the smart guys will be thinking tiny dwarves and elves parasailing down your energy channels.

  But there is infinitely more to the world that the shadowland of thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, smarter generally means better at brain stuff. Better thinking. Having a lot of good knowledge stored in your head too.

  But there is infinitely more the the world than thinking. And having ideas about the world is a pretty shallow form of understanding. Ideas are like shadows.

  So a better kind of smarter would give you better understanding of this larger world. That’s the kind of smarter I’m looking at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't I argue against claims of suffering?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you feel trolled?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that mental stuff is useful but, in the big picture, just a toy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that simplifies your end of the conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that thinking is not as central in importance as you make it out to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Perspective is your view of the world. This tapestry of sights, sounds, thoughts, etc

  Your intellect is a mess of memories, opinions, interpretations, habits of thought, conscious thought processes etc. Within your perspective.

  Your awareness is like a flashlight in a dark room. Shining here and there. Illuminating this but not that. Moving to this, then moving to that. What it illuminates is your world. What it does not illuminate is invisible and outside consideration.

  Your awareness illuminates the tapestry. One item on the tapestry is your intellect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  reading is overrated.