Carl-Richard

Reminds me of this video I watched a few days ago where the #1 PvP streamer on OSRS found out some new tech while testing out a new weapon (or shield) in PvP. This guy is a sensor for sure by the way: 18:14-20:16 If you have no idea what is happening, he found out a new weapon has an indicator that coincidentally can help you predict the next hit you take from the opponent 0.6 seconds before it happens (because the indicator processes the same time the hit is calculated and for some spans of time the hit shows up 0.6 seconds later because that is simply how the game is designed for PvP, it's called PID - Player IDs). And that allows you to get an edge with respect to "vengeance" which is a spell that returns some of the damage that you take. Essentially he can now predict when vengeance will deal damage to the opponent so he can use special attacks and go for the K0 at that moment which drastically improves the chances of winning a fight. When you said sensors see the world in slow motion, that's what I thought of (being aware of details and contingencies that happen in just 0.6 seconds). What also struck me about this guy is he has always been very aware of who has "PID" in a fight ("not having PID" means your hit shows up 0.6 seconds later if both players hit each other simultaneously). I've done PvP for many many years and I've never been as aware of PID as him (I never really payed attention to it meanwhile he has a whole strategies based on who has PID; it's probably because I always PvPed more casually and didn't do risk fights like he did where you're heavily incentivized to get any edge you can get).

Meaning and purpose creates your very perception. To say they are "human concepts" like they're something you can just disregard and live without is a bit mistaken. They are more like human mechanisms. Meaning and purpose was required for you to write your sentence.

3:00-3:32 That guitar stuff in the background and the ambient atmosphere is brain-meltingly psychedelic: Perhaps even more powerful if you listen to it in context of the entire song (if you dare).

It's not supposed to be anything. It's literally what you get if you fit x out y symptoms on a diagnostic chart given by your psychiatrist. The fact that it has to have been a problem since early childhood could pull it in the direction of genes, but don't forget that childhood or development didn't start at 3 years old. There is a whole field that studies early parent-child interactions (e.g. attachment theory) and ADHD is linked to insecure attachment styles which can be driven by the environment and the parent-child interactions. There is also the concept of "relational trauma" in this context where the parent fails to give proper care and support for the child's emotional regulation (within a Western and scientific frame of course). Arguably most people think of trauma in an older "veteran PTSD" type of frame (usually involving life-threatening, violent, life-shattering events) but people like Gabor Mate think of them also within a relational frame. Chronic PTSD (C-PTSD) is for example a new diagnosis that tends to be associated with interpersonal trauma (perhaps more in the direction of domestic and verbal violence and abuse than simple lack of emotion regulation support from the parent). ADHD and C-PTSD are strongly linked.

I don't think they are actually, it's such a wide term even if you want to be rigorous about it. That it becomes even more wide colloquially is just a symptom of that. I think the way you described your idea of bias (involving judgment, which seems to imply "thinking" rather than more implicit mechanisms) is strictly limited to "cognitive bias", but feel free to expand on that. By the way, just a general PSA, I've noticed when you ask AI to compare two things (like a person has done in this thread) and it makes a chart where it compares similar and different traits in the two things, it tends to produce something you'll likely interpret through false dichotomies (it will say "usually/generally" but the table format conflicts with this). That's actually an example of cognitive bias: when things are presented in firm dichotomizing formats like tables, it will promote a dichotomizing understanding of the things. Since AI has trouble understanding context, it will often put things that require nuance in dichotomizing formats leading to a misleading picture.

Please watch, the madness starts at 3:00 (current timestamp is for lead-up) and ends at 4:39 (not really but that's the moment). I started howling "noooooooooooo" when I realized it.

Usually when you reference the brain in a non-casual intellectual way like this, you're referencing science and not your personal feelings.

Preference is a synonym for "I like". "I like strawberry ice cream" means you will deviate from other forms of ice cream in favor of that one; i.e., you're not neutral with respect to what ice cream you would like to have. The narrowing of perception towards one source of information over another is called focus, attention or attentional bias. It's a kind of perceptual bias and a driving component of many kinds of perceptual biases. Now, if I focus on one thing over and another and that thing happens to be more relevant to focus on than anything else, is that a pure con? Obviously no. If you weren't attentionally biased towards a very small selection of things that are highly relevant to your survival, you wouldn't be able to wake up and walk to the toilet. Attentional bias of course makes you ignore potentially relevant things which is a con, but it's also a pro because you can get to the point without requiring an infinite amount of information to get to the point. Trying to magically grasp the meaning of words by "contemplating" about them (with or without AI, although AI certainly adds fuel to the fire) is often meaningless or certainly inefficient (like having to process infinite information instead of just focusing on what is relevant). Just look up some definitions and take it from there. Pros of bias right there.

Definitely your taste for strawberry ice cream, that shit's wack. I don't know, up to you. I already put forth some of the "cons" of insularity. Whether you care enough about that to act on it is again up to you.

I remember I sat in a car once on an excursion trip with our biology class at uni with three other people and the driver put on Cannibal Corpse - "Make Them Suffer", which he put on ironically and said "it sounds entirely fucked haha, imagine listening to this as if it's normal". And that was before I had started listening to like really heavy metal, and I was thinking "yeah it does sound fucked, but I'll probably listen to it in a few years seeing the trend of listening to heavier stuff over time". And wouldn't you know it, I've listened to some Cannibal Corpse more than a few times the last years. And there was of course things about the music I didn't get back then that I get now, both from a more purely aesthetic and feelings-based level (resonating with the sounds) but also just from reading through the music history and the evolution of metal as a genre. And that is constantly evolving: even just as recently as a week or so ago, I started to understand where CC's sound (and more generally "brutal death metal") really originated from (which is the band Suffocation). And it was if some jigsaw puzzle rearranged itself in my head after that and I started to "get" the sound in yet another new way. All in all, tons of added perspective changed how I perceive the music.

Which words are you talking about? It's clear that "cognitive bias" involves bias in judgment, "perceptual bias" involves bias in perception, etc. So what is bias then? A distortion. What does the distortion fundamentally come from? Partiality. Where can we expect distortions due to partiality? Preferences, likes vs dislikes, making a judgment, forming an opinion, seeing things from a perspective over another. And it's not just "expect" as it's a potential: it's a constant, only about degrees and types. Seeing something from one perspective literally limits you from seeing it from the other perspective (unless you take the other perspective at another point in time). Seeing the front of your hand means you cannot see the back of your hand. You can't see them both at the same time. And while that is a perceptual example, abstract cognition is an abstraction of, you guessed it, perception. Taking on a perspective cognitively can involve seeing say the concept of child labor from the perspective of biology or from the perspective of 21st century societal norms. You will see that thing from quite different perspectives, and what you see will be quite different. You can't see them both at the same time (unless you're say some systems biologist that integrates the two fields). They give you a limited, a partial, picture of reality.

Ask it what a perceptual bias is and if all perception is at some level inherently biased. And then ask it whether preferences influence perception and thus bias. Also, the fact that I prefer food and not shit for breakfast is not really something I choose.

Not gonna lie, that "coincidence" (I was watching so much Sadhguru and other spiritual teachers at the time) made me think like it was some kind of plan.

My definition includes yours, it's just a gradient. What we call a highly biased person is just an extreme version of ourselves. Mental illness is an extreme version of normal behavior. We make things illegal that offends most people. "Everything is illusion, hallucination, bias, survival". I'm biased towards Leo's way of unifying everything, and gradation/statistics. Many people might think of biases as "cognitive biases" as in biases of judgment like you're pointing out, but "perceptual bias" is also an entire field in psychology (how our perceptual faculties by virtue of being limited distort our perception of the world).

I was gifted Sadhguru's Inner Engineering by a guy in university first year. He just happened to buy it because he was interested in engineering and thought "inner engineering" sounded cool. I read it a bit, until I had to put it down because I was getting insta-awakenings just reading it.

Mhm. Why is "word" a separate word if it can be used to describe multiple words? The distortion is a result of the partiality. The fact that my perception is limited distorts my perception of reality. The fact that my preference is for one thing over another distorts my relationship to those things. The fact that I hold an opinion over another distorts my relationship to either opinion. Bias just tends to be used more often in cases where the distortion is so obvious or normative that it becomes seen as negative. But bias in itself is ubiquitous and part of our limited existence. Saw this before I came on here: Merely having the thing and being excited for it can distort someone's perception to the point where they think they could be biased.

Holy shit he got absolutely blasted right there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias Hence a preference is a bias, perspective-taking is a bias, opinion is a bias, perception is a bias, etc.

Klein Eleventh, Kleintober Seventh. See I can also be a dad.

Bias is inherent in perspective-taking, in having an opinion, in the very act of perception.

Lack of collaborators, allies, identity with a larger movement. Creates insularity and lack of feedback. Also limits reach. And one-off interviews don't count.

dafuq does homelessness have to do with Ethan Klein

I have a feeling antidepressants may have contributed. There is a thing about SSRIs leading to affairs, but there is not really data on it.

Pop music that only sing about partying and drinking are also Stage Red. It also tends to be incredibly simplistic musically (e.g. Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" or Rebecca Black's "Friday"). Metal music that sings about gore (e.g. Cannibal Corpse) is also Red, but some metal music with gore lyrics is also relatively complex musically (e.g. Necrophagist, Suffocation). So again we can distinguish between aesthetic (and expression) and actual cognitive complexity. Even if I wanted to write a classic brutal death metal album, I would still be the cognitive complexity I am. My relationship to the music could be perhaps also ironic or nostalgic rather than a honest/authentic expression of the values in the music. More classic examples of Red in music: lyrics about sex and women in 80s hair metal (e.g. Guns and Roses "Welcome to the jungle", essentially every Whitesnake song). Satanism in music, e.g. some early "black" metal (Venom) and thrash metal (Slayer), death metal (Morbid Angel), Norwegian black metal (Mayhem, Emperor, etc.; some of these people actually killed people and burned down churches so you could say they lived the expression of the values). Most of the honest expression of Red you see happens in teenage years (which is where the examples you've listed and also my examples tend to originate from). You could say teenage years (in the West) is a time where you're authentically Red-Blue and being encouraged by the surrounding society to transition to Blue (authentically) while downward-assimilating code from that society (Orange and Green). People who are seemingly jumping from Red to Orange might actually only have adopted a simplified version of Orange consistent with their cognition and true code at Blue or so. True authentic expression of Orange might happen later (or earlier depending on what kind of person you are). That's also an explanation for the "Red-Green conflation" phenomena I've described before: teenagers downward assimilating Green code ("just be free yo") to fit their Red true code and cognitive complexity.

I have the habit of going on a 10-minute walk after every meal, and if I don't and I sit down and try to work, I'm all over the place, complete chaos lord, can't gather my thoughts, jumping tasks, can't commit to a task, can't find a structure to follow. I think many people with ADHD symptomatology could actually be helped by simply lowering their blood glucose after a meal. The idea that kids get hyper after eating sugar is perhaps not such a big myth. Imagine what you think is an illness could just be about feeding your body carbohydrates and trying to fight the impetus you've created for moving your body after putting it in such a state. Blood glucose and adrenaline are essentially parallel processes. If you think you're restless because it's just innate to your genetics, maybe first try to calm down your nervous system by stabilizing your metabolism.