Again, all of this is mainstream science. If you want to be a science guy, this is just what science tells us

I don’t have the energy for this autism

Just assume that you at 18 years old is not going to have the same opinions that you will at 21, or 30, or 60. At least hopefully not. You should be able to grow

The feeling youre experiencing is cognitive dissonance

But you can keep rejecting science is you want

Up to you boo boo

But everytime I keep proving you wrong you run away and make snide comments like "youre such a normie"

that's not an argument. It's an admission of defeat

Not to say that what you’re saying isn’t correct, but that doesn’t sound like a scientific finding at all. It’s a philosophy of optimism if anything

Which, is exactly how I expected the conversation to go. And once again, I'm right.

I love winning

You have a problem with my "filter" on life which is fine. Everyone has their own filter

You get to choose your own filter

What makes a good filter is if it can

1.) Make you happy and
2.) predict future events with relative accuracy

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So I'm an optimist. Aboslutely. Because life is much better that way and generally it gives me a good predictor of how things are going to be

I don’t have a problem with you having that outlook, my only problem is trying to give it some sort of objective legitimacy by calling it science

In fact it’s a good outlook

You don’t need to call it science

You can come to whatever conclusion you like, butmy position is science based absolutely

And I proved it. Honestly I don't even see what's so optimistic

Its just realism

Proved it with the paragraphs of that psychologist saying that defining intelligence by only one metric is “egotistical?”

You have to look into the field of cognitive science. It will challenge everything you know about the world

Egotistical means self centered. So a culture that has different priorities is going to value things differently.

None of these are scientific concepts

Lol sure they are

You don't undesrtand what science is then

And I agree with most of what the psychologist was saying

Science is making judgements based on observations

It’s just not a rigorous science.

No it isn’t.

Yes it is

You have an arbitrarily narrow view of what science is

Science isn't only lab coats and chemicals

Not saying it is.

Science is a system of figuring out the material world around us

You can apply a scientific mindset to most things, but not everything. Anytime you get into philosphy for instance, science is useless because there's no experiement you can do to prove a concept.

Science is a meticulous, falsifiable and repeatable process. Otherwise it’s observational philosophy

And you also cant prove a negative

We don't disagree