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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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[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Unfortunately even otherwise intelligent people fall into this trap. A great example is Roger Penrose. An otherwise brilliant mind, but then he strays from his lane and starts talking absolute nonsense about consciousness.

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That is an amazing example. I started to notice that as well over the last bunch of years.

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These people are easy to exploit and manipulate. Their grift is that they want to be seen as smarter than they really are. They are insecure about being seen for what they are: midwits at best. A great contemporary example is the testimony of Grosskreutz at the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Grosskreutz wanted to look smart for the audience and even invited his friends into the courtroom to show them how he was going to own the defense. This backfired spectacularly because lawyers are keen to such weaknesses and readily exploit them. The defense got him to testify to things that were immensely damaging to the prosecution's case. A person who is trying to maintain an undeserved image of being intelligent will do and say things that are greatly detrimental to them just to maintain that image. It's why the first thing a cop asks you when they pull you over is "Do you know how fast you were going?" Or "Do you know why I pulled you over?" People are reluctant to say they don't know for the fear of appearing stupid. They would rather confess to a crime than look dumb.

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I really wish more of our people understood everything you wrote. It is critical to be able to see a grift and call it out I feel that it could be on of the type of thing that could help our people unify without having to burden them with religious and other frameworks. Just developing a culture of seeing the grift, calling it and broadly being able to make predictions would go a long way to solidify a kind of shared experience that would be incredibly useful to our survival.

Just having a bunch of our people aware and with a look understand what is going on in a grift would be tremendous. We would be looking for rats in the field together, so to speak.