@ToastMcGhost But i want to be realistic. I dont want to be dictated by personal beliefs

@Punished Korgoth are you basically asking 'how do i filter through the bullshit'?

Yes

gotya

Then that is your personal belief, being realistic to your circumstance

Alroight

Feeling the mindfuck yet? @Punished Korgoth

@hel Its doing my head in

Anything we say is simply a belief, a perspective

whenever something is said you don't understand. make sure you understand all of the small pieces that make up the point made - you'll often find that by working from first principles that a lot of 'preloaded' logic is actually flawed

@Punished Korgoth china also switched leader 3 times already in recent years, they are oligarchy, not dictatorship

so i guess, work from first principles - i mindmap all of my programming stuff and realise how little there actually is to know

@Victortze Ah

and i can tell when someone is bullshitting

Nothing is true, everything is permitted

most of the time atleast

the thing with text based conversation is the lack of understanding of that persons background combined with the lack of emotional cues and body language.

Assassin's Creed

it can get confusing very fast.

@JDB can you give an example of working first from principles?

sure, would you like to see my python mindmap?

@Xychotic That's how Ezio works

you will need a software called 'XMind' - it's a free download

@Punished Korgoth china politics is not as simple as just titles, Deng Xiao Ping had no title in his late year and he was still considered the leader of the country by everyone.

@JDB I doubt I will comprehend it lol

@Punished Korgoth It was Altair.

ok i will summarise

@Xychotic oeps

politics is pointless, the conversation doesnt reach a meaningful solution.

in general - you should base all knowledge to a root understanding that can not be decomposed anymore - for physics most ppl should start from f = ma

then you any knowledge you build has to stem from that

It's a deep quote imo. Nothing is true = Everything is an opinion, not a fact. Everything is permitted = There are no morals. Only actions and consequences.

you will learn to categorise any knowledge into over arching branches

I hope I learn fast

getting ur foundations takes time

but once there

@hel It's also patently wrong.

you learn extrmeely fast

@Robin song YES! But if we move forward at least 0.0001% we're still moving forward

but take ur time tho, that reinhard guy was the classic showoff who wants to make everything a race - learning should be something intimiate and really take ur time with it

there is no race