I think there are god-like things that interact with humans
Crazy people and trolls exist. Some of them are eloquent.
So why do you talk about it at all when it just makes you seem crazy to most of us?
Are you looking for confirmation or agreement in others’ hallucinations? Or perhaps you suspect your kind of experiences are more common than openly expressed?
I assume I’d take seriously your crazy experiences if they were mine. Is there anything at all you can say that’s of value to someone like me who just hears crazy?
So why do you talk about it at all when it just makes you seem crazy to most of us?
When it comes to epistemic praxis I am not a friend of the mob. I want to minimize my credibility with most of LessWrong and semi-maximize my credibility with the people I consider elite. I’m very satisfied with how successful my strategy has been.
Or perhaps you suspect your kind of experiences are more common than openly expressed?
Indeed.
I assume I’d take seriously your crazy experiences if they were mine. Is there anything at all you can say that’s of value to someone like me who just hears crazy?
I am somewhat proud of the care I’ve taken in interpreting my experiences. I think that even if people don’t think there’s anything substantial in my experiences, they might still appreciate and perhaps learn from my prudence. Interpreting the supernatural is extremely difficult and basically everyone quickly goes off the rails. Insofar as there is a rational way to really engage with the contents of the subject I think my approach is, if not rational, at least rational enough to avoid many of the failure modes. But perhaps I am overly proud.
Thanks for answering that as if it were a sincere question (it was).
“Maybe this universe has invisible/anthropic/supernatural properties” is a fascinating line of daydreaming that seems a bit time-wasting to me, because I’m not at all confident I’d do anything healthy/useful if I started attempting to experiment. Looking at all the people who are stuck in one conventional religion or another, who (otherwise?) seem every bit as intelligent and emotionally stable as I am, I think, to the extent that you’re predisposed to having any mystical experiences, that way is dangerous.
Crazy people and trolls exist. Some of them are eloquent.
So why do you talk about it at all when it just makes you seem crazy to most of us?
Are you looking for confirmation or agreement in others’ hallucinations? Or perhaps you suspect your kind of experiences are more common than openly expressed?
I assume I’d take seriously your crazy experiences if they were mine. Is there anything at all you can say that’s of value to someone like me who just hears crazy?
When it comes to epistemic praxis I am not a friend of the mob. I want to minimize my credibility with most of LessWrong and semi-maximize my credibility with the people I consider elite. I’m very satisfied with how successful my strategy has been.
Indeed.
I am somewhat proud of the care I’ve taken in interpreting my experiences. I think that even if people don’t think there’s anything substantial in my experiences, they might still appreciate and perhaps learn from my prudence. Interpreting the supernatural is extremely difficult and basically everyone quickly goes off the rails. Insofar as there is a rational way to really engage with the contents of the subject I think my approach is, if not rational, at least rational enough to avoid many of the failure modes. But perhaps I am overly proud.
Thanks for answering that as if it were a sincere question (it was).
“Maybe this universe has invisible/anthropic/supernatural properties” is a fascinating line of daydreaming that seems a bit time-wasting to me, because I’m not at all confident I’d do anything healthy/useful if I started attempting to experiment. Looking at all the people who are stuck in one conventional religion or another, who (otherwise?) seem every bit as intelligent and emotionally stable as I am, I think, to the extent that you’re predisposed to having any mystical experiences, that way is dangerous.