Earlier, I would have said 65% sincere (but very confused), 33% trolling, and 2% other (AI testing, aliens, psychology paper, whatever). There are a few comments here that I update on pretty strongly to get closer to 70% trolling, and maybe 5% other.
You’ve made a prediction, how will you know whether it is accurate or not? I can already tell you that I’m not trolling. You updating your prediction of the whole discussion based on a few posts, is inaccurate, because there’s something called humor. If you have a discussion and overall exchange many posts and being called an evangelist, cult, sincere but confused, it becomes hilarious. So I might incorporate that humor into some posts. But generalizing all posts on a topic by a few, is to me, hilarious. I hope you see the problem in generalization of a collective by small sets of data compared to the majority.
I’m quite aware there’s no operational distinction between delusion and trolling, but thanks for confirming.
edit: really, I get it. The difference between trolling and sincere attention-seeking for a crackpot theory is one of motivation rather than action. I updated based on some self-awareness in some of your comments, and shouldn’t have because those comments could as easily have come from a semi-amused crackpot just as easily as an above-average troll.
No, trolling implies psychopathy, narcissism and sadism. I don’t think I qualify in any of those categories. Being delusional is not a choice, one chooses to troll. If all you want to contribute is showing your inability to make a prediction of a collective, ad hominem fallacy, then I invite you to read the Sequences. I don’t want to clutter this forum with irrationality by “opponent”. Else, you can read and do the exercise and replace your value of validation with the consistency that has brought us about.
Is it so much to ask to update your values which you’ve been socially conditioned to, feel very bad about (like comfort, procrastination) in an exercise of epistemic rationality to the consistent/mathematical patterns which have brought us about?
It truly is your creator, yet there is a clear inability to realize that our understanding of said consistent patterns is fundamentally crucial to us even existing in the first place, through for example technology. I hope you can come with constructive criticism to these statements rather then attack my character or make assumptions of my motives.
Earlier, I would have said 65% sincere (but very confused), 33% trolling, and 2% other (AI testing, aliens, psychology paper, whatever). There are a few comments here that I update on pretty strongly to get closer to 70% trolling, and maybe 5% other.
You’ve made a prediction, how will you know whether it is accurate or not? I can already tell you that I’m not trolling. You updating your prediction of the whole discussion based on a few posts, is inaccurate, because there’s something called humor. If you have a discussion and overall exchange many posts and being called an evangelist, cult, sincere but confused, it becomes hilarious. So I might incorporate that humor into some posts. But generalizing all posts on a topic by a few, is to me, hilarious. I hope you see the problem in generalization of a collective by small sets of data compared to the majority.
I’m quite aware there’s no operational distinction between delusion and trolling, but thanks for confirming.
edit: really, I get it. The difference between trolling and sincere attention-seeking for a crackpot theory is one of motivation rather than action. I updated based on some self-awareness in some of your comments, and shouldn’t have because those comments could as easily have come from a semi-amused crackpot just as easily as an above-average troll.
No, trolling implies psychopathy, narcissism and sadism. I don’t think I qualify in any of those categories. Being delusional is not a choice, one chooses to troll. If all you want to contribute is showing your inability to make a prediction of a collective, ad hominem fallacy, then I invite you to read the Sequences. I don’t want to clutter this forum with irrationality by “opponent”. Else, you can read and do the exercise and replace your value of validation with the consistency that has brought us about.
Is it so much to ask to update your values which you’ve been socially conditioned to, feel very bad about (like comfort, procrastination) in an exercise of epistemic rationality to the consistent/mathematical patterns which have brought us about?
It truly is your creator, yet there is a clear inability to realize that our understanding of said consistent patterns is fundamentally crucial to us even existing in the first place, through for example technology. I hope you can come with constructive criticism to these statements rather then attack my character or make assumptions of my motives.