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Not really claiming that CBT doesn't generally work. To me it sounds like it's one of the best methods currently used. But I'm dubious that it could f...
January 31, 2020 at 15:02
This I disagree with and it is also pretty much in disagreement with the OP since the whole premise of the OP was that I have found it very hard to ch...
January 31, 2020 at 14:39
I pretty much use "emotion" as anything "that feels like something" in ones experience in this context. As there is no universally accepted technical ...
January 31, 2020 at 13:51
For example: I have logically thought conclusions about the world with quantum mechanics, our perception and the multiverse I'm serious about. Then I ...
January 31, 2020 at 13:32
Fundamentally, you can be wrong about anything - even about your existence no matter whether it makes logical sense or not since fundamentally even lo...
January 28, 2020 at 07:32
To me, it is a logically necessarily proven point. But to me the fact that we can never prove that we have evaluated our proofs correctly, trumps all ...
January 28, 2020 at 07:16
It doesn't. That was just an example to demonstrate that a processor that could simulate a more complex thing than itself in real time would cause abs...
January 11, 2020 at 19:41
The problem with "zero-nothing" is that, it always contains information in the sense that it is a limited possibility within all possibilities. If one...
January 10, 2020 at 15:51
You seem to be thinking of experience as a computer game, where after simulation one has to render that simulation. I disagree. I think experience com...
January 10, 2020 at 12:47
It doesn't actually assume hardcore causality since the uncertainty of a probability based world requires even more processing power. The probability ...
January 09, 2020 at 23:36
If a simulation leaves anything that affects ones observations in any way irregardless of how indirect not processed, then that could be observed and ...
January 09, 2020 at 01:42
If "highly sexualized schoolgirls" is the general impression one has about anime girls, it is a false impression. If that impression is acknowledged a...
January 09, 2020 at 01:04
The main point of the text is that most people have this exact false impression about anime. Even in most of the "bad ones", the sexualized anime scho...
January 08, 2020 at 00:25
I can't since the main point of this text is about feminism ignoring the advances anime has made. I only said that feminists seem to hate anime since ...
January 04, 2020 at 03:58
1. Not lucky enough? just use hacks. 2. Too lucky? New game - hard mode - speedrun - no deaths allowed. 3. klapaucius or rosebud 4. Too self-aware... ...
January 04, 2020 at 02:10
Edit: I was drunk. Was not a very useful comment from me, so I removed it.
January 03, 2020 at 23:10
I pretty much agree with this way of summing it up as I understand it. And I also pretty much agree with this, except the fact that I'm no expert on a...
January 03, 2020 at 22:42
Not disagreeing with you here. I'm just relatively angry with the fact that the internet made personal critical evaluation of information so easy that...
January 01, 2020 at 02:49
I'm starting this thread because of a couple of current threads start with a text that has almost no content by itself and just says to read a couple ...
December 30, 2019 at 16:45
But you probably wouldn't refuse to describe the argument by yourself if asked. Then it would be to reinforce your argument. And I was talking about a...
December 30, 2019 at 16:37
No, you are not giving them. Your points are in your sources and people are asking for you to give examples or anything that make your sources interes...
December 30, 2019 at 14:34
Well, you could at least say in your title and text that this topic is mainly about these specific sources, since people seem to get the wrong idea th...
December 30, 2019 at 14:04
No one complained to you because you had links in your text, Catherine. People complained that your topic mostly asked people to go through a huge amo...
December 30, 2019 at 13:53
Just trying to help the guy in the improbable case he is actually not just promoting and actually interested in discussion since the topic isn't compl...
December 30, 2019 at 06:41
I might just be relatively new to this forum or something, but I have been through quite a lot of of threads... What is it with this particular thread...
December 30, 2019 at 06:20
You probably should read yourself other threads in this forum. They are mostly high quality enough unlike this thread and this thread isn't working be...
December 30, 2019 at 05:42
Fuck you, 90% of mankind!
December 30, 2019 at 04:22
Those, who have started to emphasize things like intuition on their evaluation of their sources instead of the critical evaluation of the easily avail...
December 30, 2019 at 04:19
It seems like you are trying to prove something that is way more complex than what a single thread can handle. Almost no one will go through all your ...
December 30, 2019 at 02:57
Internet has forsaken us! We gave it for all people through the social media. And I thought: everyone will make smarter decisions since information is...
December 30, 2019 at 02:47
At least, by heterosexual action as I understand sexuality, yes. Male sperm needs to impregnate a female. Not taking into account some weird developme...
December 30, 2019 at 02:27
Well, all I can answer for that is that nothing seems black and white in psychology. Is any homosexual purely homosexual? We know that many men have t...
December 30, 2019 at 02:25
Just realized: forcing homosexual people to act heterosexual increases the amount of "homosexual genes" in the gene pool. Maybe the widespreadness of ...
December 30, 2019 at 02:17
If this was genetic and not learned, then according to this theory, the genes that made him be like that would increase the changes of the other sex t...
December 30, 2019 at 02:10
So, it's besides the point. Hard to say these things efficiently without compromises, but technically you are right. Sans death ;)
December 30, 2019 at 01:57
I just added to the text: So, sorry for that. But evolution in the long term takes pretty much all "easy" mutations into account. What we know of evol...
December 30, 2019 at 01:55
thx for you too... don't know how long it would have taken me to realize what I just realized without this conversation :)
December 20, 2019 at 22:29
I kind of agree with this... while we can clearly see in nature in quantum mechanics that there doesn't seem to be any bias towards certain possibilit...
December 20, 2019 at 22:12
Then we agree - logic gives no new information. It is just a tool to analyze and understand information. But since there are many unintuitive or philo...
December 20, 2019 at 22:07
I do agree that emotions are part of everything that means anything to us, but that is not universally accepted and is not the point of this thread, s...
December 20, 2019 at 21:52
Well, as I said in the foreseeable future. If everything gets automated and no one has to work justifying anything would be quite hard. Still, technic...
December 20, 2019 at 21:35
Ok, I see we have different definitions of information. For me, information is a limitation of the possible worlds we are in. Like if a number is betw...
December 20, 2019 at 21:26
I did start with zero information. I said that even without information we can see that most humans in most possible worlds don't have golden fists in...
December 20, 2019 at 19:31
We can always start from zero information - a state where every logically possible world is equally possible. We can for example immediately see that ...
December 20, 2019 at 19:09
The psychological reasons I agree with, but not with that there are things we can't give probabilities for. The idea of a simulation or any given god ...
December 20, 2019 at 18:49
Well, we have the welfare system of the Nordic countries. They have been taxing the rich to give the poor the certainty in life to take risks and inno...
December 20, 2019 at 18:38
I agree, but the problem I have in the special case of "truth" is that our own reliability (the actual effectiveness of the pill) is not ever certain....
December 20, 2019 at 17:39
Saying that someone needs to be the arbiter of rationality for an idea to have merit is a big claim. This is not true about someone starting a discuss...
December 20, 2019 at 17:29
No. I haven't even given a definition of rationality. I consider that very open to discussion. The biggest proposition I have made about rationality i...
December 20, 2019 at 17:10
Please, demonstrate. Do you mean that that it is sometimes easy to manipulate people who think they are rational?
December 20, 2019 at 16:56