Nilsi

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  1. Theo Von always cracks me up.
  2. What even is this lol. First thing I do in the AI metaverse is imagine a teletalk show with Leo and Frank Yang debating Buddhists on God and Consciousness.
  3. *Whoooosh* ^ the sound the joke made as it went over your head.
  4. I think everyone would agree that perspectivalism and the demonstration of relativity, concerning cultural norms and customs, is very insightful (and most certainly funny) - well, maybe except closed-minded dogmatics whose intellectual posturing is threatened by serious inquiry and deconstruction.
  5. The ultimate introvert anthem Caroline Polachek consistently restores my hope in humanity - such an incredibly passionate artist and overall person.
  6. I agree. It's easy (and perhaps inevitable for someone with high standards) to focus on all the little imperfections and totally neglect all the great stuff that's already there. I really enjoyed this episode and found myself grinning from ear to ear and getting teary eyed throughout it - and I know no one that puts me into this state as reliably as Leo. So yeah, credit where credit is due.
  7. The problem being that he only had two shots.
  8. I recommend "How to Make Love All Night" by Barbara Keesling. That one is much more practical and to the point. The title says it all - that's what we're here for after all, no?
  9. This is like drawing the target around the arrow.
  10. Nice. Can you do it though?
  11. Figure it out! - I thought you were an idealist?! We live in the 21st century. There has to be some way to monetize this. Creating a personal brand and building an audience on social media would be a low hanging fruit, but I'm sure there are dozens of ways to pull this off.
  12. If you can afford it, sure. If not, not. If I know I make 10x the money she does, I would have to be an absolute douchebag not to treat her.
  13. I prefer Isabel Briggs Myers book "Gifts Differing" to this. The author of your book doesn't even talk about cognitive functions once in the whole thing - actually does more harm than good, if you want to understand MBTI from first principles. Actually, while you're at it, just go back to Jung's "Psychological Types" and take it from there.
  14. Become a rogue scientist and study whatever you want to study without being tied to institutional corruption and archaic methodology.
  15. Depends on your goals: psychedelics for right brain, creative, synthetic cognition stimulants for left brain, narrow, task oriented cognition I always loved coffee and cigarettes for routine intellectual work - not the most holistic choice though, obviously. Qualia Mind is probably your best bet for everyday type cognition.
  16. Punk-Rock. Leaving puberty.
  17. Rationality basically. With the advent of modern science, people started to question more and more of the dogmatic foundations of Christian doctrine. If you question something for long enough it starts to lose its magic - now the genie is out of the bottle, God is dead and there is no going back to naive pre-modern dogmatism. What's so ironic about this is that the Bible has warned us about this fall from grace - being thrown out of the garden of Eden - all this time. Yet it was completely inevitable.
  18. Instead of this nonsense, you should spend your time thinking about how to create methodology that isnt so liable to manipulation and perverse incentive. Academic science is such a shitshow, its incredible.