Carl-Richard

"Is it possible to be enlightened like Buddha or Jesus, what does it entail, and have you met any of these people?"

You have to start somewhere.

I'll wait for the miracle cure with zero possible side effects invented by some AI

I generally try to avoid things my body doesn't need.

Heh. I don't even drink coffee ?

Well, that was not autistic at all ? Jking. Well, many of us have experienced that and let it inform our worldview.

One definition of genius is somebody who has done something that nobody has done before. By this metric, Rendi is certainly a genius. He is behind the Level 3 Combat Fire Cape (also thanks to the friendly competition with Xzact; a testament to the power of "opponent processing"), and now, the Level 3 Combat Infernal Cape. The former was of course a completely legit means of obtaining the cape, but the latter is full-fledged balls to the wall bug abuse (which considering the game knowledge and effort employed is honestly just as impressive). If you're just a causal player from back in the day who hasn't interacted with the game in many years, prepare to not understand a single thing that is being said (in either video, but definitely the last one). Regardless, if you understand the gravity of the achievements in question, the genius is undeniable. Fun fact: I used to have Rendi's account "Rending" on my friends list back in 2013 and remember exchanging a few PMs with him about obby pures (as I was a member of his obby pure clan). I seem to have these weird connections with famous people (Aurora, Alan Walker and now Rendi), but maybe everybody does to some extent considering it's a kinda broad definition of "connection". I thought about making a list about geniuses in the OSRS sphere. B0aty comes to mind (he invented or at least popularized the ironman concept which later became its own game mode in tribute to him), Woox (insane PvM feats, holds many world's first records). Other names that come to mind (KempQ, Settled) don't really fit the true genius title (they're more spin-offs on existing concepts and certainly not the progenitors of what they popularized, i.e. variations on the "snowflake ironman": adding more restrictions onto the existing ironman restrictions).

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Things become recontextualized.

Give an example.

I honestly don't know what makes you different from us "hyperrationalists".

You're so condescending When is the blog post coming out?

Rationalizing away your "social ineptitude"? ?

@Scholar Speaking of social awareness, I've noticed (for a long time actually) that you have a tendency to frame an argument as a personal confrontation (e.g. "you are so trapped in it", or "you are just missing how human beings work"), when you could've framed it as an impersonal one (e.g. "being trapped in it entails...", "missing how human beings work entails..."). So you're very often risking to rile people up emotionally when that is maybe not needed. It's possible to communicate an idea without necessarily making it about someone. And you can maybe use this to make sense of past interactions: is this why Forestluv doesn't seem to like you? Maybe he is not being "overly logic-brained" in his interactions. Maybe you're just being socially unaware. And to demonstrate my own point, do you see how emotionally cutting this comment is?

Don't be afraid of engaging in logic-brained rationalizations. That's all this is.

@Scholar I'm not denying that he is a crybaby. But you can still try to give logical explanations for why someone is a crybaby (like you're doing now btw). And the explanation you happen to land on doesn't have to be the only correct one (or correct at all). I think I'm taking this less seriously than you are.

My brain melted.

I like how you don't make any arguments though

Do it for Young Earth creationism.

Of course. Everything is irreducible non-duality for you I'm very aware that I'm defending somebody I like.

@UnbornTao Of course he got emotional. That is conceded territory. He is explaining why.

As he said in his blog post, he wasn't referring to or insinuating anything about the person in the conversation. He was responding to the ideas of his intellectual opposition in response to the question Curt asked him. It was Tim that took it personally. He didn't know anything about Tim's work before the discussion. He didn't know he was such a fan of the theories he was criticizing, and you shouldn't just assume that, as not everybody is a fan of those theories (even among real physicists, which he is not by the way ?). If anybody is being social inept, it's you guys ? But sure: 18:07 "[...], and probably, it's a flat-out appeal to magic". What is more insulting to a naturalist than that? And again, he gives a principled reason for calling it that (this time explicitly). But do you care? I mean, if it just comes off as insulting, it surely must be socially unaware behavior, right?

I mean, Bernardo routinely says stuff like that in all of his live appearances. It was only Tim that responded that way. So you can flip it around that way too.

I think "extremely ugly" would also be fitting for what Bernardo was describing. You can't get any more extreme than zero empirical evidence.

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