Mhm

just in a mental facility instead of an actual prison

Sure

i think thats to prevent insanity pleas from being abused

prove temporary insanity and only get 6 years instead of life in prison. america doesnt take too kindly to that

Well it's actually probably a matter of confirmation bias

They did an experiment once where they had perfectly healthy people pretend to be mentally ill for a week, enter a mental hospital at the start of said week and then go back to normal behaviour after it

And the staff were recording their normal behaviour as symptomatic

oh yea i think i watched a ted talk on psychopaths about something similar

a catch 22 basically

Psychology in general is in this sort of middle ground

Where people either tend to put too much or too little faith in it

yea thats pretty typical of the soft sciences

I think it's especially annoying for psych because it backs up onto neuroscience but is still somehow attached to mysticism

thats similar to mathematics and philosophy

on the one end you have propositional logic, boolean algebra, set theory, and on the other you have crap like solipsism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

I have met far too many solipsists in Seattle ;_;

It is very popular in the tech industry

haha especially after a fresh batch coursing through your veins

is it really? with techies?

Yes, it is very popular with techies, not a majority opinion, but you will find far more techies into it than the general populace.

thats a trip. and here i thought it was some esoteric mind fuck for philosophy majors

I think part of it is a way to abnegate responsability in not partaking in the real world more, because everything might only exist in my head.

but then again techies are into nootropics, so i guess i cant be too surprised

ah so a coping mechanism for being narcissistic

But there is a lot of weird ideas in tech that are self contradictory, like being anti-capitalist, but all of their success and pursuits pertain to capitalism.

ah dude tell me about it. im a CS undergrad at UC Berkeley

its all over the place

You are at Berkeley and are not dead yet?

im great at blending in 😛

they think im some progressive lefty, while i have a maga hat in my closet

I am in San Diego, one of the saner cities of Commiefornia.

i dont even have to say anything, they just assume everyone around them is /theirguys

Escaped Seattle.

Just get a multicolored wig and some fake-ass earrings, you'll fit right in

Then you can put the hat on top of the wig, and you can blow some fucking minds. XD

Also gages, gotta get some bigass gages XD

i used to live in WA too

ive got my ears pierced, but not gauged lol

fuck that shit