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Adams had a normal range of beliefs. Postulating that they arose from some extrinsic and extra-personal source is a condemnation of your own limited views. Pe
by georgeburdell 9mo ago
Adams had a normal range of beliefs. Postulating that they arose from some extrinsic and extra-personal source is a condemnation of your own limited views. People get older and begin to care less about conformity, including keeping controversial thoughts to themselves, as society loosens its reins as your needs are met (to make money, to find a partner, to have a family, etc.)
- loki49152 9mo agoA lot of the people who comment here are techie provincials who literally have no understanding that the things they believe, or at least the things they recite as their beliefs, are ideas that might be analyzed and judged against reality.
- gopher_space 9mo agoWhat’s normal about bigotry? It’s brain damage.
- DaSHacka 9mo ago> What’s normal about bigotry? uh I don't know, try asking almost any person who was born pre-1960? Doubt they all had brain damage. Not that it was necessarily a good thing, but it was certainly 'normal' in many eras throughout time.
- ceejayoz 9mo ago> try asking almost any person who was born pre-1960? Doubt they all had brain damage. Actually, they probably did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
- antonymoose 9mo agoLeaded fuel existed for a few short decades. Bigotry and tribalism have existed since time immemorial.
- ceejayoz 9mo agoSure. But those born from the 1920s to the 1970s got a touch of brain damage, as a treat.
- tim333 9mo agoSadly it's quite common in the human population.
- GaryBluto 9mo agoThere's some very, very rich irony in your comment.
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- account42 9mo agoPattern matching is very much a defining trait for humans.
- nemomarx 9mo agoThe law of attraction / master persuader/ I can hypnotize large audiences stuff isn't that normal, I think? If you want an explanation for why he would try ivermectin for cancer treatment he had a lot of beliefs in that vein for a long time. I consider that tragic for him.
- kritiko 9mo agoHe was into NLP (the hypnosis theory) from way back. James Hoffman, the coffee YouTuber, had an interesting comment on how he tried to use that in one of his 90s barista competitions, but seemed skeptical of it now. Scott remained a believer.
- diydsp 9mo agoIt's a communications skill, like, say, making powerpoint slides. If you get good at it, you will swear by it. But if can't gain skill, it's easy to think it's bogus. If you're deeply interested I can go into detail as to what it's about and not about. Or you can buy some books, get a trainer, or take a class. Tl; dr: it's about adding a second layer to your communication which attends to the subconscious, not unlike art. It was originally for therapy, but unfortunately a lot of businessdorks in the 90s got into it and perverted it.
- kritiko 9mo agoI’m interested. Especially if you can point to moments in your career or projects where it has worked.
- soulofmischief 9mo agoSocial manipulation has been around a lot longer than the books and movements attempting to redress it as "hypnosis".
- tim333 9mo agoI've pondered awhile on what hypnosis is. My current model is it's like prompting LLMs, the hypnotic commands are just stuff in the context window but not currently being talked about.
- ActorNightly 9mo ago>Adams had a normal range of beliefs. Manifesting things into reality through writing them often enough is FAR from a normal belief. Dude was a bit looney from the get go
- pureagave 9mo agoI think the commentor was talking about Adams's support for Trump. While maybe not normal on Reddit, HN or San Francisco, it's normal enough that more than half the voters agreed with Scott Adams.
- tonymet 9mo agoHackernews readers have a habit of downvoting descriptive comments because they read them as normative
- nobody9999 9mo agoLess than half. 49.8%, in fact.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...
- ActorNightly 9mo agoNo Im talking about the ending chapters of Dilbert Future. Some real interesting stuff in there.
- parineum 9mo agoPrayer is basically that isn't it? Also, "the secret."
- unwise-exe 9mo ago>>> Manifesting things into reality through writing them often enough is FAR from a normal belief. Hey, propaganda is a thing and it works. That's totally and example of manifesting things into reality through writing them often enough.
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- mr_toad 9mo ago> Adams had a normal range of beliefs. You’re probably thinking of politics. You may not have read some of his more philosophical and metaphysical works, which were downright kooky. For example he thought that the universe was the dust of a god that had killed itself.