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Almost entirely one commenter's repeated citation as evidence on unconscious thinking and flawed reasoning.

A short clip, titled Orwell Comes to America, on reasoning and perception. One HN user links it repeatedly as the science showing human minds are bad at reasoning and do not see reality as it is.

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@Umn55 Oct 2015 Recommends
on HN thread White Hat Hackers Would Have Their Devices Destroyed Under the TPP
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First realize what is going on and why, watch the science video, then manufacturing consent then the rest. The elites fear political awakening, thats why all this is happening. First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning: [this video] The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor. [link] Brezinski at a press conference [link] The real news: [link] [link] [link] [link] Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference. [link] Wikileaks [link] Manufacturing consent: [link] [link] The Citibank memo [link] [link] [link] US distribution of wealth [link] [link] The Centre for Investigative Journalism [link] Some history on US imperialism by us corporations. [link] From war is a racket: "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown B
Science on how poorly brains handle reality and thinking.
@Umn55 Oct 2015 Recommends
on HN thread White Hat Hackers Would Have Their Devices Destroyed Under the TPP
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"Empires are not monolithic." First see the science on reasoning, your brain is not the reasoning god you think it is: [this video] Which is meaningless, what is the evidence of the US imposing laws on countries that are not of the US? AKA are corporations getting their way? If we go by evidence, there is no democracy and their power is quite monolithic. Consider that these laws have been growing in power for 200 years almost, so don't buy the 'the creators are hurting and the evil pirates are stealing' argument, the public domain is completely destroyed (aka freedom to own, modify, repair software, own and update video games, etc). AKA ownership is being taken away completely from you in a one sided deal where they have total control. [link] Crisis of democracy [link]
Science showing brains are not the reasoning gods people assume.

Citations, criticism and jokes

@Umn55 Dec 2014 Cites it
on HN thread Why women are leaving the tech industry in droves
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>Why is it then that over the entire industry, over the entire world, women are under-represented? Because women are smart and weak, and I don't mean that in a negative way. Women's evolutionary history over time was to find a strong man who has resources, hence women's evolutionary programming isn't geared for technological trenches of insane work hours and dedication of 20 something youths. Women have an ovulatory cycle, and the enlightenment was wrong about human reasoning and human functioning. Most of our surface behaviour is controlled by unconscious processes. See here about reasoning: [this video]
Cited as science on human reasoning.
@Umn55 Nov 2015 Cites it
on HN thread News is bad for you (2013)
"Media organizations have several proven strategies to push our buttons: voyeurism, outrage, greed, fear, prurience and envious aspiration are at the top." Goes way beyond that... First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning: [this video] Manufacturing consent: [link] [link] The corporate attack on education: [link]
Cited as science on human reasoning.
@Umn44 Nov 2015 Cites it
on HN thread The Psychology and Neuroscience of Curiosity [pdf]
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"So, my question, what is this feeling? How does the brain recognize that it should have this feeling?" If we take the idea seriously that the universe is unified and all knowledge is unified, then it would be safe to treat the universe as a single entity. AKA everything is related to everything else in a whole host of mundane and non mundane ways that human beings are not aware of given the limits on the human brain/body and the time and energy required to process that information. AKA all the truth is there (the universes structure and its relationships). Rather our mind is busy highlighting things that are interesting, it's just the brain buildings models and finding interesting links unconsciously and when its done we get an update. AKA most thinking is done all the time unconsciously without our awareness of it. See the science: [this video]
Cited for unconscious thinking.
@Umn44 Feb 2016 Cites it
on HN thread German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens
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>There is a lot of evidence that we should be very afraid of the state if you look at Verfassungsschutz activities. It goes way beyond that, all elites of all nations are afraid of their publics and are basically already implementing soft versions of martial law behind the scenes. The media being complicit. You should, the elite are locking down the planet and most people are too stupid and uninformed. Most won't believe it because it goes against belief in corporate ideology. Science on reasoning: [this video] The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor. [link] Brezinski at a press conference [link] Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses. [link] Important: [link]
Cited as science on reasoning.
@Umn44 Feb 2016 Cites it
on HN thread This is why people fear the Internet of Things
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" is that as IoT devices become more and more ubiquitous, I'll probably still end up with some kind of quasi-surveillance garbage in my house." This is the natural result of free market capitalism and private property, property owners (corporations) want to protect it and their profits from the plebians. So they buy the governments and strip plebians of their rights. Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning: [this video] The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor. [link] Brezinski at a press conference [link] Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses. [link]
Cited as science on reasoning.
@Umn44 Mar 2016 Cites it
on HN thread Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism
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"It's so disappointing to me to hear a quote like that from the President." Then you need to get informed how democracy works... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest. Science on reasoning: [this video] "Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role." Crisis of democracy [link] [link] Democracy Inc. [link] Testing theories of representative government [link] Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference. [link] Energy subsidies [link] Manufacturing consent: [link] [link]
Cited as science on reasoning and manipulation.
@Umn44 Mar 2016 Cites it
on HN thread Neil deGrasse Tyson: pedantry in space
Then we should provide context about america and whether it is really a democracy Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning: [this video] Overthrowing other peoples governments [link] Testing theories of representative government [link] Democracy Inc [link] "Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role." Crisis of democracy [link] [link]
Cited as science on reasoning.
@fudgepack99 Oct 2017 Cites it
on HN thread Comcast Tries to Derail Fort Collins Community Broadband
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Your post is so full of inaccuracies. The rich have always preached free market to the masses while taking state subsidies for themselves. The human mind does not see reality as it is, see the science: [this video] Energy subsidies [link] Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way [link] Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference. Testing theories of representative government [link] [link] From war is a racket: "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10] "War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24] General
Cited as science on how the mind perceives reality.
@fudgepack99 Dec 2017 Cites it
on HN thread Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
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>working as intended then ? Yes... the whole of education is to make society ignorant of reality. See here: [link] Then below... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning: [this video] Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference. [link] Manufacturing consent: [link] [link] "Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role." Crisis of democracy [link] Education as ignorance [link] Testing theories of representative government [link]
Cited as science on reasoning.
@fudgepack99 Dec 2017 Cites it
on HN thread Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
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You don't understand what is happening, the elites are at war with all citizens of their respective states because they fear the free flow of information through their society. That is why are collecting everything. Go view the privacy video and skip to 1:02:30 and watch. So hear it from national security advisor of the united states. If you are the non fraction of the 1% you are the enemy, aka spying is aimed at politically controlling your perception because they know your brain doesn't see the world as it is. See the science: [this video] Every citizen called a "global menace" here by Zbig: [link] Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference. [link] Government does not work for you [link] Book: [link] Privacy video [link]
Cited as science on perception of the world.
@monster99 Aug 2019 Cites it
on HN thread Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]
Because the mind doesn't see the world as it is, you see things in that paper that their minds simply can't grasp. The enlightenment view of reason is not correct... Check out the science: [this video]
Cited as science on how minds perceive.
@som33 May 2020 Cites it
on HN thread Omega-3: Intervention for childhood behavioral problems? (2015)
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I wonder how much self deception exists in western society when the evidence suggests you live in a lawless oligarchy, one example from endless copyright extension. [link] But first HN, you can be told the facts and the figures and you won't reason to the right conclusion see the science: [this video] Does the upper class and the business community believe in Free markets? [link] IMF subsidies for the rich and their corporations [link] subsidies So looking at all that free cash from the state, did the upper class really "earn" all that cash or could it be they own the government and can just rubber stamp whatever they like because the average HN poster and person on our planet is illiterate and well indoctrinated?
Cited as science on facts not leading to right conclusions.
@som33 May 2020 Cites it
on HN thread Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat with eels
>This is my biggest pet peeve with news in general. Why does a high school paper have more rigor in terms of citations than the average post from a major news organization? Because news is not meant to inform, it's meant to indoctrinate and keep you passively under the thumb of the rich. [link] >It makes digesting political news all but impossible. The question is do you know the upper classes know your brain doesn't see the world as it is, you can be told the facts and not reason to the right conclusion? [this video]
Cited as science on perception.
@som33 May 2020 Cites it
on HN thread We need more video games that are social platforms first, games second
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>I can't be bothered to even unpack some of this loony RMS-level cutesyness, like that WoW is "stolen from the public" because it's a server-client game. I can tell you the facts and you won't reason to the right conclusion, see the science: [this video] You don't seem to get, that before world of warcraft, UO and everquest, we were getting PC RPG's with single player and multiplayer inside the same game. To think that wow and eq are "different" or "special" and require "corporate ownership" means you are gullible and stupid beyond all comprehension, you can't put two and two together on how your market signal effects the entire videogame market in a networked world. Neverwinter Nights 2002 on gog is a "persistant world oyu controlled" that has the dedicated server functions included inside the game and you own and control it. World of warcraft was a tax on the stupid. You don't seem to get what your market signal told every company on the planet, as soon as you buy ANY piece of software that is client server in a world that has internet, ANY game is now going to be forced to be made that way, that's why we lost Diablo 3, Fans of diablo 3 wanted diablo 3 with level editors, modding, etc. Fans of Quake 3, unreal, wanted modding nad dedicated servers to continue.... oh shit we got quake champions a totally locked down game with no level editor and basic functions like skins and colors locked behind paywalls. You don't get that the plan for the corporate world was to make every piece
Cited as science on reasoning.
@som33 May 2020 Cites it
on HN thread In Defense of Inclusionism (2009-18)
> I see year after year, decade after decade that they keep being discussed, with the same points being made over and over again. Is there a name for these? Because human beings don't see reality accurately, see the science: [this video]
Cited as scientific evidence that humans do not perceive reality accurately.
@shm33 May 2020 Cites it
on HN thread How to disable the built-in Windows 10 ads
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MMO's were a scam, they were just rebranded PC RPG's, you don't seem to get you are the gullible one here. If you buy ANY piece of software in an internet enabled world that you don't own or ontrol, you have just broadcast to the entire corporate world that you are gullible. They will try to client-server EVERY game and EVERY piece of software, what the hell do you think mobile is? Steam is by definition an irrational piece of corporate malware that shouldn't exist, up until 2004 we were getting complete local applications, or honestly coded PC games. That is why as you go backwards in time before internet penetration reached the computer illiterate, we had level editors, server exe's and dedicated servers embedded inside the main game exe. Descent 3 came with server executable. MMO's are just RPG's where the server exe isn't given to you. You can see this "MMO" racing game you can play completely "offline" proving that mmo's were a scam. Need for speed world was just a fork of most wanted and rewritten to be client server, AKA a scam. Think of this, you can run Need for speed world entirely from your PC without monthly fee or micro-transactions, then that means that paying a monthly fee for software you don't own is irrational. [link] Anytime you see a login screen on a piece of game or other software you're seeing stolen software buddy. You don't get they've already won, the battle was won between 1997 and 2004. Ultima online and everquest were trial balloons to undermine s
Tangential citation in a long rant; video's role is unclear.
@stuu99 Mar 2022 Cites it
on HN thread Google will always do evil
"It's not that hard to grasp. We live it everyday. It is, the human mind doesn't see reality as it is, see the science: [this video]
Cited as science showing the mind does not see reality as it is.

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