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Are you just going to keep repeating yourself like a stuck record? Yep: There is no psychology involved and it takes only rudimentary philosophical skills to conclude that someone who whines like a little pissant at the slightest provocation is a whiney little pissant that loses their shit at the s...

My working hypothesis for why you did is that you are a whiney little bitch that loses their shit at the slightest provocation. My working hypothesis is that you are even more incompetent at psychology than you are at philosophy. I don't have to be good at either. There is no psychology involved an...

When you keep having to manufacture the criterion and the evidence after the fact ... I didn't manufacture the evidence. It was you who wrote this: You dumb, dismissive, uncharitable sophist! and this: You are supposed to shut the fuck up... and this: You want to suck the cock while getting fucked ...

You are still in the process of learning what your desired outcome is. Because you don't know! That's not entirely true. As someone who is familiar with the Socratic method, the desired outcome is partly improved critical thinking. Granted that's not very specific and I don't have particular target...

(given how much you like sucking Socrates' cock) Not as much as you: I think Socratizing the Socratizers is far more fitting as means to "unwind". See, you aren't even smart enough to realise I am mocking, not admiring Socrates (and his idiot-followers). Too good a joke to pass up. You'd ...

(given how much you like sucking Socrates' cock) Not as much as you: I think Socratizing the Socratizers is far more fitting as means to "unwind". Naturally. You simply aren't smart enough to have coherent and explicit criteria for smartness. Is it beyond you to realise that to work with ...

This is the crux of the criterion problem in epistemology: You have absolutely no idea what would convince you of anything. About anything. Socratizing the Socratizers doesn't work. But you want me to figure it out. You're a bit late. Socrates figured it out over two thousand years ago. In the spir...

...you are so dumb you can't even tell who you are winding up. You make it obvious when you say things like this: You dumb, dismissive, uncharitable sophist! Or this: You are supposed to shut the fuck up... Or this: You want to suck the cock while getting fucked by it too, eh? OK.. spread them chee...

120 on a good day. Get yourself a girlfriend; you get very wound up when you're unwinding. You couldn't even wind up a clock at this rate... Lets wrap this up. I agree with 120. 120 above yours. Well 120 points of a useless metric is useless. I suggest a more accurate measure of mental acuity: wit....

Realistically confirmation bias runs a spectrum from "not at all prone to CB" to "extremely prone to CB". The more prone to CB the more likely to not to learn from it. Ask yourself what characteristics make one most prone to CB. When I do that, the answers are characteristics I ...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 6:35 pmShame. You seem way more concerned about my IQ than I am.

Just pull a number out of a hat! Or I'll meet you half way if you want. How's 140?

120 on a good day. Get yourself a girlfriend; you get very wound up when you're unwinding.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 5:41 pmI mean you aren't very smart, but it's not because your IQ is low.

You are reasonably bright. An IQ of 170 is an absurd claim. Like I said, about 110. You just need to get your rocks off.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 5:33 pmOpen Google. Type "test-retest correlation". When you understand what that is try to figure out why the test-retest variance on IQ is up to 20 points.

So that's a range of 90 to 130. Where do get the other 40 from?

...IQ is junk science. It's a meaningless number - a statistically unrigorous metric. But if you reject those preimises, and you accept the science then... you should totally bow down to my IQ. Which is actually above 170. Meaningless number or not, your IQ is not 170. Whatever you think of the met...

I thought I grant myself a license with words, but seeing as you've put "reasoning abilities" on your license I've come to realise I am far too modest. Which again shows the strength of your reasoning abilities. Thank you. Sadly, you are in no position to recognize them. Metaphorically sp...