Open Thread, Aug 29. - Sept 5. 2016

Elo

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You couldn't respond [...]

No, I didn't, which is not the same thing. But yeah, it's hard to respond to because it's not clear what you're saying. Any given thing anyone says can be called a "map", which tells us nothing about the particular thing or the particular person who says it. So if there's a specific criticism you're making, would you care to make it clearer?

Which is not the target audience

Quite likely not. But it's the audience here, to which you brought the video and asked "what do you think?".

Which less obvious claims without any sort of justification and why are they false?

I already listed some in an earlier comment. You did reply to that comment but not in a way that gave me much reason to hope for constructive discussion.

That's what I am looking for to learn.

I hope you will forgive me for saying that I don't get the impression that you are here to learn at all.

Ok, how does this apply to any of the arguments made?

I'm sorry, but I don't understand the question. The things I was describing aren't arguments; my comment applies not to the arguments (of which there are actually rather few in the video) but to the maker's repeated comments about how people who consider themselves rational are so far beneath his level of "awareness".

No, I didn't, which is not the same thing. But yeah, it's hard to respond to because it's not clear what you're saying. Any given thing anyone says can be called a "map", which tells us nothing about the particular thing or the particular person who says it. So if there's a specific criticism you're making, would you care to make it clearer?

"The map is not the territory" Is a map. You are using maps for your argumentation. That's what you base rationality on. Reality is arational, rationality/irrationality is within it. It's a parado... (read more)