Carl-Richard

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We know people with high IQs (Mike Israetel *erm*) tend to be very quantitatively impressive, in that they can produce many thoughts very fast and hold many of them in their head at one time, and of course they become better problem-solvers as a result. However, as Mike also has demonstrated (sorry if you're not keeping up), having a quantitatively impressive mind does not necessarily make you immune from having not so smart thoughts. Because you can have many thoughts and handle them well, but what if your thoughts are shit? Which things influence or determine the quality of a single thought? What if you can have a relatively low IQ but consistently have very great thoughts pop into your mind at the right place and the right time, with immense precision, like bullets? So yeah, which things influence or determine the quality of a thought? Which things cause you to have high or low quality thoughts? Which things predict or lead to an increase or decrease in the quality of thoughts? I'll add my own thoughts later (let's see how precise they are ;P) but I'm curious what you think.

Humans ask questions, humans reflect on what they are. Find me an animal who does these two things.

Not at all an ad hoc argument, at all.

Yet it makes everybody on the forum Tier 2 😂

It's not. A lot of it is taken straight from Graham Hancock's work.

It shrinks, as if that's relevant. There is a reason why elephants have huge bones and thick legs while an ant has skinny legs.

Not if they are 200 pounds 🫠 Look up the square-cube law.

It's intelligent to create something which can rebel against itself.

Is it a new term if you use it to say something which has been said for 30 000 years?

@Joshe @NewKidOnTheBlock Abstracting a general term is not hard. You do it all the time.

Epistemic sovereignity is always nested in epistemic dependence. Without a surrounding environment, you wouldn't get beyond 0 years old.

I would think high volume low intensity training is actually worse for this (with respect to joints). I believe Mr. Mike has commented on this. For you, yes, but for Mike, he has explictly said the words "slowww slowww slowww" when coaching a guest with his masochistic techniques, and I did not register that as merely not letting the weights free fall. There is an element of controlling the weight in my lifting (and really any lifting), but it's not about "slowww slowww slowww" (except maybe for the very end of the set if I'm doing microreps at the stretch). Controlling the weight for me is about feeling like the weights are under control and not unstable (and also applying more steady pressure to the muscle). For example, if you do dumbell presses and your movement is absolutely unhinged — you bounce and wobble the weight, symmetry suffers, etc. — then that's a safety concern and it just feels better to be more controlled. Mike's incline smith benches are still giving the anal-clenching vibes.

Thanks to creators such as Dr. Mike Isratael and Jeff Nippard, "thinking about lifting" has become more important than lifting itself. Commandments: - Listen to the mind first, listen to the body second. - Rely on a summation of studies with dubious generalizability first. Figure out what works through experience second. - Rely on counterintuitive, awkward and kinetically stifled movements first. Maximize flow and intensity second. Rick Bugenhagen has accurately identified the problem:

@Someone here Because Charles Manson. Of course 🙂‍↔️

How do you know that if nobody knows anything? 🤪 😉

Fair enough 😂

You're rebelling at a microcosm of a larger space though. This community, this world, this universe. Welcome.

Rumination vs conscious problemsolving. It's the difference between an unenlightened mind and an enlightened mind. I think enlightenment can definitely dial in your thoughts. It reduces the oscillations of the wave and produces pristine, silent, clear sight. If avoiding substances and glucose-unstable/spiking foods is the biological side of reducing the oscillations, transcending cyclical and emotionally charged/spiking throughts would be the psychological side.

@NewKidOnTheBlock What quality in a human best predicts high-quality thoughts?

Will one be able to achieve sanity through this teaching? @Elliott

You say the most basic shit and make it sound profound. "Nobody knows anything" is so basic. Losing your mind over that fact reflects your own neurosis and inability to handle reality, not the reality of reality. And I'm not saying that this neurosis cannot be serious. I think everybody has had it to some extent. But to say it necessarily and intrinsically leads you to insanity to recognize the fact that nobody knows anything, that's itself the insanity. You project your neurosis and inability to deal with reality onto reality and call it reality.

Last night, I had a dream that I was being chased by several tornadoes. Then today I read about the tornado incident in Kentucky with an estimated death toll of 100 people, which is the worst tornado event in the history of Kentucky. About two weeks ago, I had a dream where PsychedSubstance got kicked out from his own house. Today he released this video: The night my dad's boss died from drowning, I had a nightmare where I was being chased by a ghost, fearing for my life. I usually never have those types of nightmares. What is this?

No it doesn't. It suggests reality is psychic.

Yesterday, I dreamt me and my brother were walking up a long car road towards a cabin in the summer, and when we reached a summit, my brother realized he hadn't had any water for a long time and he was about to pass out, so I had to stop a passing car and ask if they could give him water. The zoom-alphas in the car were like "no, you can't have the water" and I was like "are you serious? He's about to pass out from dehydration". Then he gave it to my brother and I yoinked a sip as well. This dream occurred at the same time as when my brother was out on the town (I was sleeping, he was out). And he was drinking, and I figured after I woke up and saw he was out in the town, maybe he was dehydrated at the same time as he was dehydrated in the dream. And I asked him today if he was dehydrated out on the town (as he is usually is), and he implied it by saying when he got home he was very dehydrated and drank a lot of water.