I feel this. Thought I had full on alexithymia for a long time. Then "How Emotions Are Made" kicked me in face (brain?).
Most of those cliché exercises are like trying to diagnose engine trouble in car that's wrapped around a telephone pole. Yeah. It's not running. That's not really the problem.
Most of those cliché exercises are like trying to diagnose engine trouble in car that's wrapped around a telephone pole. Yeah. It's not running. That's not really the problem.
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I feel this. Thought I had full on alexithymia for a long time. Then "How Emotions Are Made" kicked me in face (brain?).
Most of those cliché exercises are like trying to diagnose engine trouble in car that's wrapped around a telephone pole. Yeah. It's not running. That's not really the problem.
Most of those cliché exercises are like trying to diagnose engine trouble in car that's wrapped around a telephone pole. Yeah. It's not running. That's not really the problem.
I recently learned about Valve's employee handbook that went public in 2012. It seems to describe a culture that is more closely related to a worker owned cooperative than anything traditionally corporate. If it's to be believed they deeply value intrinsic motivation. Seems to show.
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I recently learned about Valve's employee handbook that went public in 2012. It seems to describe a culture that is more closely related to a worker owned cooperative than anything traditionally corporate. If it's to be believed they deeply value intrinsic motivation. Seems to show.
Easy to understand as in "predictable"? You are looking for a complex and twisty story or a confusing read that challenges comprehension?
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Easy to understand as in "predictable"? You are looking for a complex and twisty story or a confusing read that challenges comprehension?
If the root of suffering is wanting reality to be other than it is... then this looks like a lifetime of intense suffering. They must be looking for a very specific state of mind and nothing they encounter can put them into it. Must be horrible.
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If the root of suffering is wanting reality to be other than it is... then this looks like a lifetime of intense suffering. They must be looking for a very specific state of mind and nothing they encounter can put them into it. Must be horrible.
I hope I am, because It looks like you are saying the objectionable parts of the word are at the center of your solar system and your primary source of illumination.
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I hope I am, because It looks like you are saying the objectionable parts of the word are at the center of your solar system and your primary source of illumination.
Comparing opinions you dislike to the sun gives them a lot of metaphoric power.
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Comparing opinions you dislike to the sun gives them a lot of metaphoric power.
Blocking people feels like rose tinting my own glasses. I want to see what's out there, even if it don't like it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Blocking people feels like rose tinting my own glasses. I want to see what's out there, even if it don't like it.
Pretty sure he wasn't asking for a tutorial. Probably ment that you should demonstrate the block function by using it on him.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Pretty sure he wasn't asking for a tutorial. Probably ment that you should demonstrate the block function by using it on him.
Like Effective altruism? That's some bullshit. You are the one calming I am "not seeing the other side" and saying that 3 basic psychology text books, a classic on how fascists came to power, the sociology of disaster, and a neuroscience primer are "shit" lol
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Like Effective altruism? That's some bullshit. You are the one calming I am "not seeing the other side" and saying that 3 basic psychology text books, a classic on how fascists came to power, the sociology of disaster, and a neuroscience primer are "shit" lol
Sure, It has value. However. I am not going to model my approach to social situations or governance based on Les Misérables, The Standford Prison Experiment, or Cats. They don't tell me anything useful about real people.
October 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Sure, It has value. However. I am not going to model my approach to social situations or governance based on Les Misérables, The Standford Prison Experiment, or Cats. They don't tell me anything useful about real people.
Has about as much value as any other theatrical production. What part of your world view is leaning so heavily on this?
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Has about as much value as any other theatrical production. What part of your world view is leaning so heavily on this?
Which side of the "psychological aisle" am I on, and what does the other side look like?
October 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Which side of the "psychological aisle" am I on, and what does the other side look like?
Delicious, please tell me more about how they are all shit
October 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Delicious, please tell me more about how they are all shit
I don't take Bregman in isolation
Fromm - Escape from Freedom
Solnit - Paradise Built in Hell
Wallin - Attachment in Psychotherapy
Sapolsky - Behave
Berrett - How Emotions are Made
Kain, Terrell, Levine - Nurturing Resilience
Not much of what he says in Humankind is new or unexpected.
Fromm - Escape from Freedom
Solnit - Paradise Built in Hell
Wallin - Attachment in Psychotherapy
Sapolsky - Behave
Berrett - How Emotions are Made
Kain, Terrell, Levine - Nurturing Resilience
Not much of what he says in Humankind is new or unexpected.
October 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I don't take Bregman in isolation
Fromm - Escape from Freedom
Solnit - Paradise Built in Hell
Wallin - Attachment in Psychotherapy
Sapolsky - Behave
Berrett - How Emotions are Made
Kain, Terrell, Levine - Nurturing Resilience
Not much of what he says in Humankind is new or unexpected.
Fromm - Escape from Freedom
Solnit - Paradise Built in Hell
Wallin - Attachment in Psychotherapy
Sapolsky - Behave
Berrett - How Emotions are Made
Kain, Terrell, Levine - Nurturing Resilience
Not much of what he says in Humankind is new or unexpected.
So we should take our understanding of reality form contrived fictions that everyone believes is science and continue doing capitalism without trying anything else?
I have not read "Utopia for Realists" but I suspect that you haven't either.
I have not read "Utopia for Realists" but I suspect that you haven't either.
October 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
So we should take our understanding of reality form contrived fictions that everyone believes is science and continue doing capitalism without trying anything else?
I have not read "Utopia for Realists" but I suspect that you haven't either.
I have not read "Utopia for Realists" but I suspect that you haven't either.
My issue is referencing this "science" as if it offers some kind of insight into how people behave in real world situations.
It's worthless theater.
Whatever bias you think Bregman has his suppositions are far better researched than either of ours.
It's worthless theater.
Whatever bias you think Bregman has his suppositions are far better researched than either of ours.
October 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
My issue is referencing this "science" as if it offers some kind of insight into how people behave in real world situations.
It's worthless theater.
Whatever bias you think Bregman has his suppositions are far better researched than either of ours.
It's worthless theater.
Whatever bias you think Bregman has his suppositions are far better researched than either of ours.
Not my characterization. The evidence of that experiment being trash is well documented. Attempts were made at replication, they failed so hard it formed a commune.
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Not my characterization. The evidence of that experiment being trash is well documented. Attempts were made at replication, they failed so hard it formed a commune.
The issues with this experiment run much deepr than a lack of diversity. The book Humankind by Rutger Bregman goes into considerable detail about how the entire thing is bullshit. More of a theatrical performance than an "experiment"
October 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The issues with this experiment run much deepr than a lack of diversity. The book Humankind by Rutger Bregman goes into considerable detail about how the entire thing is bullshit. More of a theatrical performance than an "experiment"
The results were never replicated because the whole thing was bullshit.
Zimbardo was the "warden" and coached his guards exactly how to behave. It's disgusting that they still teach this crap.
Zimbardo was the "warden" and coached his guards exactly how to behave. It's disgusting that they still teach this crap.
October 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The results were never replicated because the whole thing was bullshit.
Zimbardo was the "warden" and coached his guards exactly how to behave. It's disgusting that they still teach this crap.
Zimbardo was the "warden" and coached his guards exactly how to behave. It's disgusting that they still teach this crap.
They tried that. It failed.
From Humankind:
From Humankind:
October 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
They tried that. It failed.
From Humankind:
From Humankind:
I have been experiencing this a lot recently in a professional setting. Making contextual connections to the current conversation seems hard for people with shallow understanding. It seems like verbally dumping every remotely relevant thing they "know" is a kind of self soothing behavior.
October 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I have been experiencing this a lot recently in a professional setting. Making contextual connections to the current conversation seems hard for people with shallow understanding. It seems like verbally dumping every remotely relevant thing they "know" is a kind of self soothing behavior.
Living up to his name?
July 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Living up to his name?
No. Never. Only most strictly rational and factual information ever comes from the lips of our saint like politicians.
July 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
No. Never. Only most strictly rational and factual information ever comes from the lips of our saint like politicians.