Carl-Richard

Have you applied to Glovo yet?

Terrence Howard = retarded. Q. E. D.

That video was actually hilarious 😆

Intuition is good. The universe teaches you regardless.

I added another example to his idea that philosophers' conclusions are basically a mirror of their personal lives. When you believe in questioning repression and being open about one's emotions as Gabor Maté does, it's not surprising that he will sometimes let his emotions loose a little too much, which he recognized himself at the very end of the video.

And Gabor Maté is a histrionic crybaby who lets down all restraints and lashes out emotionally at people and then apologizes afterwards, expressing the addictive cycles of the breakup-makeup dynamic of abusive relationships. Just like the ideas he is enamored about.

Stop eating junk food and do some exercise.

Kill me in a video game.

You're not Beige. You were Beige as an infant.

That it applies to all people all over the world, that Turquoise has a solid empirical or conceptual basis.

Here is a story: I tend to go to the gym late and generally have to rush to get out on time before the gym closes. One day, I was just about to leave within the last minute of closing but I had to pick up some piece of fruit I had dropped down to the floor underneath, and I quickly asked the staff for permission if I could run down and quickly get something, and they responded kindly with "of course". I felt like I came off like a caring and conscientious person. The next week or so, just before closing again, I was about to start my last set but I noticed I had been looking at a clock on the wall that was running approximately 3 minutes too late, and when I decided to do the set, the time was just seconds past closing. So I finished the set with tremendous effort and gusto, probably so that all the staff could hear me. I ran down the stairs to get my stuff from the locker and ran back up to wish the staff goodbye. Then the girl behind the counter (very young and probably under pressure from her father or boss standing next to her) said "we closed 4 minutes ago 😒". And I was currently in a rather aggressive state of mind and you could probably hear it in my voice and the way I was moving, and I thought I must have come off like this kind of arrogant, blunt, "thinks he is tough" kind of guy while I was like "sorry yes, it became a little late" in a semi-pissed off voice. And I'm still planning to tell the staff that they have to fix that clock because I felt offended by that. So how you come off to other people can be very up to the particular circumstances they meet you in.

Tariffs on all YouTube videos posted on the forum. SD-related videos get 125%.

Until Leo makes the admin position of the forum up for democratic election, I will not consider him Yellow

And I bet you if I had framed this thread as "contemplating the limitations and pitfalls of identifying Tier 2", i.e. Tier 2 larping language, everybody would throw themselves at it and provide lists upon lists of spectacular examples and just a free flow of creativity. But because I have this disagreeable tone, I have not primed the Tier 2 larp, and instead people react with their "inner Tier 1", their true self, feeling that their identity, their "single limited perspective", has been attacked and needs defending (being a bit hyperbolic of course; some of you kept it up despite it; and also of course, I know about the power of emotional cuing, priming, framing, so I don't blame you 🥰).

Yes ok, substitute "great actor".

Also, people who are just temperamentally careful, agreeable and not very comfortable with taking firm stances, who always qualify their statements with degrees and ifs, "maybe", "probably", are so extremely good at pulling of the Tier 2 larp. What better identity for someone who prefers to not stand up for anything at all than "there are just different perspectives", "you shouldn't be so critical or fight so hard with other perspectives", "people grow at their own pace, be kind".

Do you think Leonardo DiCaprio could pull off a good Tier 2?

Yeah, but you get the point: reducing reality down to something smaller or simpler, that's what an explanation is. And I get your point: you can sometimes treat the end of the reduction as what is "most real". However, I don't think that is the only thing we tend to call reductionism. I think reductionists often get criticized merely for just reducing a large number of things down to one or a few things, irrespective of any claims of realness. It's the idea that they're missing the bigger picture, epistemologically, rather than making a specific claim ontologically. The classic example is explaining everything with "capitalism", or reducing a complex problem down to simply "capitalism". There, the critique isn't necessarily that they're claiming that capitalism is more "real" than e.g. atoms, but simply that they are using it to explain essentially everything (or really complex problems), and that this is very simplistic, or reductionistic.

Yes, as we all know, friends and community are purely an Orange phenomena, and nobody needs to make a living or form ties with people of similar interests.

Easy: you look at the before and after the larp has begun, before learning about SD. Were you talking about roughly the same things, or did you suddenly get fixated on a new set of beliefs? Was there always a principled and embodied stance underlying it, or is it pure identity? I remember maybe a couple of weeks before my friends introduced me to weed at 16-17 (and I had no knowledge that it would happen then), I had a conversation about drug criminalization with some other friends, and I was speaking critically about it and claimed that maybe weed is not as harmful as it's portrayed and that punishing people for using it makes little to no sense. And then after I was introduced to weed, I felt a sense of pride of having held that position before I was introduced to it and before it became a part of my identity. I had sort of reasoned it out of myself. This is sort of the same dynamic I'm pointing towards: is it really you, or is it something you have to believe now because of your newly adopted identity? And yes, as everybody is pointing out, I acknowledge pretty well that learning about the right ideas can facilitate development. But I'm getting more and more wary of the cases where it doesn't.

Go for a walk.

So again, it's about work, wordly occupation, doing things in the world?

So you don't know if any celebrity intellectual you haven't personally spoken to is Yellow?

How do you know when it has changed how somebody's mind works and that they're not just larping?