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- Suncloud
- It's interesting the views of xsnlx
- I wouldn't doubt he said something like 'I am not the topic of conversation'
- This is why intellectual integrity is important
- Imagine if you said to him, after he made an argument, That he blows chunks
- Which was his argument against all of gender feminism
- So, that argumentation is valid against entire movements
- But if there is *a guy* in the channel you're addressing that comment to, then it's excessively personal
- drPer
- i've never seen xsnlx contribute anything meaningful to any conversation ever
- Suncloud
- I have
- He seems like he has pretty high intelligence
- Though, he doesn't seem to have a super data-driven worldvie
- And his emotions overwhelm his intellectualism often, it seems
- drPer
- he'll make an insipid college-freshman comment once in a while like "donald trump is crazy"
- Suncloud
- I have seen him say things like 'The burden is on you'
- i.e., 100% of the epistemic burden is on his opponent
- drPer
- the point is - he's not that smart
- you need to find potentially formidable opponents to argue with
- Suncloud
- Contrary to Chris Hitchens, it is extremely rare for the epistemic burden to ever been more in excess of about 70/30
- drPer
- not chumps
- Suncloud
- People describing others as "crazy" is a predictor of an underdeveloped theory of mind
- drPer
- don't waste your titanic intellect fella
- Suncloud
- 'I can't figure out this person's motivations. Therefore, there is no imaginable basis for their motivations. They're crazy.'
- I feel you may be attempting to troll me
- drPer
- well you're a tard too but at least you're interesting
- Ignoring drPer!*@*
- Suncloud
- Our conversation ended.
- Though I am talking about other people and their relative abilities, it's not about establishing dominance
- I am discussing other people and their properties like I would a computer system, or a planetary nebula
- That is, I am using the same methodology on human objects as I would on non-human objects
- As this methodology has been shown to be very effective
- Understandably, there are some challenges when studying humans as they react to your measurements in ways that many objects, such as planetary nebulas, do not
- I think this gets confused with the more common social orientation of our species to establish dominance
- I have an analogy by story
- There is a video of Dawkins on youtube interviewing a human from Africa who is Catholic and has black skin
- He ask him, Are you an ape, sir?
- In the comments many viewers interpreted his "ape" reference as a reference to racism
- This is how they understand why somebody would reference a human with black skin as an ape
- This was not Dawkins' intention, naturally
- He was discussing evolutionary theory in which humans are apes
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