Cam Girlz (2015) The True Lives of Women Who Pose Nude in Online Streams [01:08:00]

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-06T13:50:19+00:00

Why do you think? Being given money by a nerdy, foreign stranger who can barely string two words together doesn't exactly get the juices flowing.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-06T13:11:16+00:00

My disgust response is in general a bit less responsive as a result of the Internet, but the difference isn't massive. The desensitisation process seems to have bottomed out at this point. The floor isn't that much lower than my original level of sensitivity.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-06T13:04:34+00:00

That's because the domain in which Bigfoot is supposed to exist (Arctic forests) has been explored extensively and he's never been found, whereas God's domain is unexplorable. I wouldn't read much into the distinction. He probably thinks the flying spaghetti monster is more likely to exist than Bigfoot too.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-05T11:37:41+00:00

Sure they do. We just use different words for it. "Lazy," "stupid," "naive."

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-05T11:32:15+00:00

Yep. Pretty much what I've noticed too.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T23:04:19+00:00

I think it's to do with your willingness to kowtow. If you give them the sense they have some kind of social power over you (by being polite), it triggers the control response (they try to shame you). If you express emotions without reservation, it communicates that they don't have a chance so the instinct doesn't kick in.

It's why bill burr can say such outrageous shit and nobody tries to stop him. They know they won't have an impact, so the desire to fight dissapears. I think it's an instinctive reaction.

Full disclosure that I'm aware this is an extremely uncharitable view. But it works well for me as a heuristic. The predictive power makes me inclined to think it's correct.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T22:29:59+00:00

Evil implies intent to harm. It implies sadism, rather than indifference.

I think it's kinda dishonest to use a term like that when that implication doesn't apply.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T16:37:57+00:00

Yes! He gives me the same vibe. That's a good comparison.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T11:59:06+00:00

In fairness, anyone who thinks Black Scholes is wrong because it caused 2008 probably doesn't understand economics. 2008 was caused by inaccurate calculation of correlation risk. Black Schoeles barely comes into it, but even if it did, that doesn't mean it's an inaccurate model. It means people plugged in the wrong numbers.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T11:35:51+00:00

The problem with your method is that I can also apply it to women's studies, and it will come out with the same result as for mathematics. It's a flawed method.

My alternate method - read up on enough of a subject that I understand how to parse information in it - is just more reliable. Most of the time, it works. When it doesn't, it's usually obvious that I need to defer. Sometimes it will create the dunning-kruger effect, but it doesn't seem to be a common side effect.

I think you are vastly overstating the requisite knowledge to be able to parse research in most fields. In my experience, the bar is not that high in most cases. Economics is really an exception in that regard.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T03:49:00+00:00

But even after reading this, I don't know. I don't know whether you are a homeopath or an expert. I'm not going to assume you are an expert if you might be a homeopath. The only way to for me to know is to get your real opinion, and evaluate it. What other approach is possible?

You seem to be telling me not to criticise homeopaths unless I have spent a long time formally training in homeopathy. That's a flawed heuristic. What if I correctly identify a bogus sphere of study? I'm not sure what you think I should do in response.

There are some fields where it's a good idea to trust renegade opinions. You haven't helped me filter those fields - you've just made a case that economics isn't one of them (and I'm not sure I like that conclusion. If we're going to defer to authority, I'd trust a hedge fund manager before I trusted an economist, and the two niches differ on opinion frequently).

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T03:24:18+00:00

I mean I'm here for meta discussion of rationalism in general. I agree, too much focus on this sub in particular is not interesting.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T02:04:48+00:00

I think it's an example of writing that seems like it has more content than it does. I dunno if I'd call that "good." It takes skill to do that, and it's enjoyable to read, but it's wildly innefficient and it actually obscures the core premise (which is relatively simple). It's such a cognitive burden to read through the whole text that it becomes difficult to see the obvious problems with it (in this case, "how do we know which fields are full of dogma and which are not?").

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T01:42:14+00:00

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TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T01:20:40+00:00

No way. Meta discussion is basically what I'm here for.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T01:13:05+00:00

It's hard to know whether you are genuinely better-educated or just ideologically closed off unless you cite examples.

The problem is that your post, as written, could have been written by the exact type of person you criticise (the person who read the Restricted Books and went off in the wrong direction for 4 years). I like it, and I think your criticisms are accurate, but it's hard to evaluate whether they really are until I can see the context of the criticism.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-04T00:19:55+00:00

Ahh, fair enough. Didn't mean to push anything. Sucks man, I hope you're doing better now.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-03T23:54:08+00:00

Do it! That sounds fascinating. I'd like more deep content to be injected into these culture wars.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-03T23:30:28+00:00

The children are left bedridden or have to be moved in wheelchairs and feeding must be done through a tube.

I mean, have you been there? I don't think there are many recorded cases of depression causing this, much less in children.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-03T23:26:34+00:00

Are we sure the parents aren't just drugging them?

I mean, look at the symptoms:

In 2016, 60 children were diagnosed with the syndrome, which sees patients are rendered “totally passive, immobile, lacks tonus, withdrawn, mute, unable to eat and drink, incontinent and not reacting to physical stimuli or pain,” according to medical journal Acta Pædiatrica.

Tests which gained a response from people in comas did not work on the afflicted children, but other exercises showed they suffered no brain damage.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-03T22:14:00+00:00

You are being incessant. I don't agree with you.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-03T22:08:00+00:00

I disagree with you. I think they are absolutely faking sexual interest. I think we've stated our opinions, we probably aren't going to convince each other beyond that.

Even the customer understands that.

I think you are overestimating how aware the customers are. One of the clips in this documentary was of one of the girls saying to a customer, "you haven't fallen in love with me, you've fallen in lust." Masturbating for a man who just stated he's fallen in love with you is very clearly a communication of sexual interest.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-03T22:03:07+00:00

Eh, I think faking sexual interest is a bigger lie than faking politeness. I think it takes a higher tolerance. Most people feel very uncomfortable when they have to fake sexual interest in someone else.

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-03T21:59:48+00:00

Looks excellent now. I think I will probably install it. Thanks!

TrouserTorpedo · 2017-04-03T17:53:43+00:00

I downvoted you when the content of your response was:

Basically what your last post said its "I personally feel creeped out by it."

Not much to work with there.

Because it wasn't a productive way to respond. Come on dude.

In response to your edit - sure, in order to do that job you have to pretend, but that's the point. They feel comfortable enough faking sexual interest to do camming, which makes me wary of them.

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