Carl-Richard

Yet it exists to describe when you're creating non-sense. I got a suggestion: Most things exist relative to some set of assumptions. So it's generally much simpler to start by saying that things exist, and then you can choose to state the underlying assumptions if that is needed for clarification. Then you avoid the laborious process of repeatedly contradicting yourself ("it doesn't exist, but it's just a way to..."). For example: You: "Atoms exist". Them: "But atoms are only a fiction!". You: "Yes, that is true. Atoms exist relative to a certain interpretation of modern physics". It's easy to over-complicate things using skepticism.

Bro you're literally me from 10 years ago; viewing everything through the lens of pharmacology/physiology

Leo said he doubts that he will even understand the question that I wanted OP to ask him, due to a lack of conceptual understanding (e.g. he would answer something like "the Enlightenment is the intellectual revolution that happened in Western Europe in the 17th century"). Of course he is not actually enlightened.

It doesn't just refer to autism (or ADHD). Yes.

That's not what Leo means

Nuh-uh. Norway currently has a male prime minister But Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Estonia and Lithuania (i.e. most of "Northern Europe") currently have female prime ministers.

I guess if WW3 happens, blame Scandinavia?

The arrow of causality definitely goes both ways.

And the Barnum effect isn't?

I've played guitar since I was 11, so sure. I think of it as being on the "psychosis spectrum". Almost all the symptoms seem to fit me to some degree, although it's become milder over the years.

Why don't you watch the first video I linked?

Not autistic, not ADHD, but maybe a little schizotypal.

Another one: He likes to talk about it in general terms like "spiritual/religious experiences" that don't just address one tradition (because that is what psychologists do; I've read that literature myself). But I'll see if I can find him talking about "enlightenment" as in the Buddhist conception of it. Nevertheless, I think it would be highly strange if he is clueless about that. Here:

It's as if you guys think that enlightenment as a concept is somehow endemic to the internet Advaita community. Well-read openminded people like Jordan Peterson are some of the most likely people to have heard about it and seriously entertained it. Watch the last few minutes of the video I posted. He is quite explicitly alluding to the idea of enlightenment.

I remember around 10 years ago, I was watching a program from my own country called "Mesternes Mester" ("The Master of Masters"), a competition where top athletes from different sports compete against each other in different challenges. I had a pretty strong reaction to finding out that they used different weights for men and women for some parts of the competition, even though they were all competing against each other. Their intention was obviously to make it fair, but it still seemed unfair to systematically penalize the men in some of the challenges, because there are possibly other challenges were women might be better in some way which would not be corrected for. It just seemed to destroy the point of the competition, which was to show which of the athletes were the "best of the best". Anyways, the first point is that the notion of fairness is fundamental to the concept of competition. If there are rules set, and you start messing with the rules, you destroy the competition. Secondly, you don't have to rigorously define what a "man" or "woman" is to determine what is fair. You can just judge by people's reactions (like 15 year old me). And what do people generally think of as unfair in the context of transwomen in sports? Well, it's when somebody who is obviously physically stronger as the result of having been born male, enters a competition made for females. Again, you don't need a deep philosophical discussion about sex and gender to see that. And it is about what people think. A competition is when people come together and agree on what is fair. So if you want to create a competition for big-brained, socially conscientious, trans-inclusive liberals, you can go do that. But that is not the world we're currently living in. I'm not saying that is how the world ought to be. It's just how it is. Nevertheless, generally speaking, you'll destroy most people's idea of fair competition by letting transwomen compete in women's sports.

Let's see what he answers.

You think a fruity psychology professor who has done psychedelics, has personally had sober mystical experiences, talks about the power of the mystical experience, and has studied different world religions, doesn't know about enlightenment? I think that is just cynical.

"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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