I fucking hate philosophers. It is so unbelievably easy for literally retarded people to push deepities as useful insights.
What you are watching here is a midwith struggle to understand the basics. This fucking douchebag cannot comprehend that in order for anything become scientifically testable all you need to do is figure out how to measure it.
The moment you can measure it is the moment you have access to repeatability, testability and the scientific method.
I have developed, what is new to me, a way to look at the world and judge people around me. While I primarily look for reasonable measures of competence in a person, what I am REALLY looking out for with each individual that I deal with is to try to figure out this:
WHAT GRIFT IS THIS PERSON PLYING THEIR TRADE IN? WHAT ANGLE ARE THEY WORKING.
We think of our world as being made up of mostly normal people working normal jobs and then the occasional pickpocket or scam artist once in a while stealing something. I have started to notice that a HELL OF A LOT of people are actually out there working scams, grifts and angles. We are all watching the entire legal, medical and political infrastructure fully of NOTHING BUT individuals grifting their way to a pay cheque.
This is what is happening in this clip. The tell in this specific clip is that he needs 14 minutes to explain one statement: If you can measure it it is accessible to science.
And the galling thing about people like these? They aren't even smart enough to understand that we can see through their bullshit. If it was a really clever and well executed grift, I could even respect that. But this guy? These fucking people? So fucking dumb that most of them are convinced of their own brilliance and even utility.
I fucking hate philosophers. It is so unbelievably easy for literally retarded people to push deepities as useful insights.
What you are watching here is a midwith struggle to understand the basics. This fucking douchebag cannot comprehend that in order for anything become scientifically testable all you need to do is figure out how to measure it.
The moment you can measure it is the moment you have access to repeatability, testability and the scientific method.
I have developed, what is new to me, a way to look at the world and judge people around me. While I primarily look for reasonable measures of competence in a person, what I am REALLY looking out for with each individual that I deal with is to try to figure out this:
WHAT GRIFT IS THIS PERSON PLYING THEIR TRADE IN? WHAT ANGLE ARE THEY WORKING.
We think of our world as being made up of mostly normal people working normal jobs and then the occasional pickpocket or scam artist once in a while stealing something. I have started to notice that a HELL OF A LOT of people are actually out there working scams, grifts and angles. We are all watching the entire legal, medical and political infrastructure fully of NOTHING BUT individuals grifting their way to a pay cheque.
This is what is happening in this clip. The tell in this specific clip is that he needs 14 minutes to explain one statement: If you can measure it it is accessible to science.
And the galling thing about people like these? They aren't even smart enough to understand that we can see through their bullshit. If it was a really clever and well executed grift, I could even respect that. But this guy? These fucking people? So fucking dumb that most of them are convinced of their own brilliance and even utility.
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