Carl-Richard

What exactly is the UOL? Is it more like a physical thing or merely a conceptual thing? What exactly makes up the UOL?

"Paradigm" has a technical definition per Thomas Kuhn (with different interpretations), but you can generally think of it like a type of super-category that contains a large amount of sub-categories, and that the sub-categories themselves are interconnected in such a way to create a cohesive and self-consistent higher-order pattern. What is meant by Kuhn's concept of "incommensurability" is simply the statement that these higher-order patterns in their fullest form cannot be derived in any other way. In other words, when you view something from the perspective of one paradigm, the types of explanations that you are able to generate will not feasibly translate to or be readily accounted for by other paradigms. Any translation would be superficial at best or lead to a significant loss of information. For example, you can take a Freudian analysis of religion and say that it's driven by an unconscious projection of one's past relationships to one's father, which expressed as a mix of fear and admiration, and then you can take a Humanistic analysis and say that religion is driven by one's desire to elevate one's level of self-expression to higher and higher heights (self-actualization and self-transcendence). These two paradigms seem to be very much at odds with each other, but if you remove a lot of the details and reduce it to something like "the desire for meaning", then you might start to see a connection, but of course that removes a lot of the explanatory power of each paradigm. There does seem to exist some loopholes to this process (partial ones), namely systems theory, where different paradigms that at one time seemed to be incommensurable are partially united under a larger category (I say "partial" as there is much more to these paradigms than their systemic properties).

If people are really making that leap, I guess you're making the point that no one should ever talk about the scientific validity of anything on Twitch, as the chatters are generally just too ignorant to parse out the limit and scope of such statements. Like if I'm talking about some clinical anecdotes of the slipperiness of banana peels and claim that they might hurt you, people will jump to the conclusion that there is empirical evidence that bananas are dangerous to eat

We already do that, just after they're posted.

Nah that's too lax. We should have to send all posts by email to Leo for verification. Fuck it – snail mail, pigeons. Fuck it – only peer reviewed papers from top scientific journals.

Yes.

Omg ?

I don't think so. It's disanalogous because Ivermectin is definitionally a treatment method (even if it has 0 effect). It's not a prognosis. It's more like you're asking him to say "don't kill yourself" after bringing up a statistic about how likely you are to commit suicide if you have x personality type.

Yep, I was just agreeing with you if that's ok ?

I guess this applies more to white, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic cultures (i.e. well-off Russians, albeit a bit more on the conservative side). Language difficulties also become virtually negligible at that age. When you look the same, speak the same, wear the same, and think nearly the same, there is not that much discordance between home (parents) and outside (school, society etc.). I would like more practical examples of that though. They exist for a reason, but they're also problematic in many ways. If you interact with a person while holding a lot of stereotypical assumptions about them, it will leak into the conversation and they will notice very quickly.

What does that mean in practice?

I'm sure many of us are aware of the Crimea situation. I was quite young back then so I didn't think much about it Sure. Still, growing up to Russian parents still makes you a cross-cultural kid. There are many different flavors of cross-cultural kids, and it's never as simple as "you're this one culture." That doesn't seem quite charitable, although I can't speak for your intel-understanding. Russia seems pretty Blue to me. I don't quite understand what you mean by that.

Maybe an implication there is that you don't want to experience being against the US

Did he really say that? I thought he said his colleges could predict something about COVID using some Ayurvedic personality typology, not anything about using Ayurveda as a treatment for COVID. It's a statement about prognosis, not treatment.

Don't shoot yourself in the foot there pal

What am I supposed to take from this?

He gave an anecdote. What's the big deal?

Are you aware of any other people out of the ~70 interviews on the channel? Leo's interviews don't even hit top 20 in terms of views.

If his invasion is successful, then it's at least less stupid. It doesn't look like that though.

Putin's failed invasion is stupid.

Abolishing NATO would be a bit like abolishing government.

Yes.

This thread will go bye-bye if you guys don't start behaving soon.

On the contrary, eating healthy food, doing heavy exercise and even doing your work on time can be experienced as maximally desirable and beneficial in the immediate short-term. It just depends on your preferences, which can be changed drastically. I'll use myself as an example: I used to be a full-time stoner back in my late teens; potato chips, pizza, porn and energy drinks 24/7. Then when I discovered meditation and quickly got my first non-dual glimpse, I noticed a couple of days into this new existence that the level of enjoyment I got from eating a pizza had become rather empty. It was such a drastic effect that I'll never forget it. It literally felt empty (they don't call it discovering emptiness for nothing ). Then after years of integrating this understanding into my life, my approach to food, physical exercise and even work itself has completely inverted. It's based on a shift from preferring impulsive and explosive bursts of indulgence (hedonism) to preferring a stable, subtle and refined state of consciousness. It's not really reducible to the dichotomy of long vs. short term: the pleasurable effects of eating healthy food is felt both immediately in the moment, as well as the hours, days and weeks afterwards. It's both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, short and long-term benefits. Same with exercise and following work schedule. Exercise for me has become more and more like a perpetual flow state. There is really no struggle or suffering associated with it. Body and mind are completely aligned, everything is working at optimal performance, effort is pleasure. Similarly, doing work on time fulfills an energetic need in the body. Ignoring work poisons the mind with fear, worry and anxiety, which in turn poisons the body. The distractions, the explosive indulgence, is no longer seen to be the primary desire. That isn't to say they're not experienced in some form or another, but no longer in transaction for baseline health, but rather as a way to complete it.

70% of Norway's terrain is mountainous, half of the country is too far north to grow anything.