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by mistermann 1076 days ago
> The first misunderstanding lies in not recognizing that the comment that started this whole thread is, in fact, making two claims and disguising those claim as questions.

I absolutely love this comment, because it is literally and necessarily an opinion, but it explicitly claims that it is a fact.

This is what I was anticipating when I said: "The effect these questions have on even the very best minds is amazing, I wonder what will happen here..."

> The rest of the comment, i.e. the non-question parts, reveals the true nature of those "questions".

This one's great too - let me guess, you believe that in "the non-question parts, reveals the true nature" it is solely the words themselves doing the "revealing", am I right? Or, would you prefer to maybe not discuss that topic in detail? :)

> Implying that "even the very best minds" are somehow unable to discuss these questions is a cheap rhetorical device.

It is also true, and some might even say mean.

> It's what the Internet clumsily, but accurately, calls "debate me, bro".

Yup, and this is what keeps your culture permanently locked into Maya: the world as dream (like above where you literally can't distinguish between the necessarily subjective and objective - and this is under asynchronous conditions, imagine how you'd perform in realtime).

> The second misunderstanding requires fewer words to describe: Russell's teapot.

lol, what does this even mean?

By the way: Russell's Teapot is not a proof, but it certainly may appear as such to those afflicted by Normative Cognition.