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by techblueberry 191 days ago
You didn’t give me a lot to go on. I think it was the most generous interpretation from what was available. Give me more! What drives you? How am I so off base?

This is genuinely a philosophical question I am deeply interested in, what is individual thought?
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ekjhgkejhgk 191 days ago
Why do you care so much about me? Re-reading our conversation, you were the one that asked "do you think you're an independent thinker", as if hoping for a yes so that you can then attack it. All I said is schools are mostly childcare.

If you care, go check my comment history and ask about something specific.

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techblueberry 191 days ago
Do you think independent thought and deep thought are correlated or uncorrelated? When you say most people copy their perspectives do you think that’s bad?

A lot of the thinkers I’ve been interested in lately seem to deeply embed their thoughts in a tradition, so I’ve been thinking that in order to have better thinking I should copy more.

> why do you care so much about me?

Sad question, but what is life but a series of attempts to connect to other people. Having a discourse makes it real. Tell me I’m wrong! Maybe having independent thoughts has real value. Usually “think different” is about as deep as an apple ad.

Yes yes, I started this as a bit of a gotcha, I have a bias against people who proclaim to be independent thinkers, and decry others as sheep (“copiers”), but I would love to be wrong!

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ekjhgkejhgk 191 days ago
> Yes yes, I started this as a bit of a gotcha, I have a bias against people who proclaim to be independent thinkers, and decry others as sheep (“copiers”), but I would love to be wrong!

Yes, I got this sense. I'm not what you're looking for.

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techblueberry 191 days ago
> I'm not what you're looking for.

I very much doubt that, alas, good day to you sir.

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