Posts by Jacob Cooper5

Amanda Allen4 said:That is a bizarre explanation that makes zero sense, IMO.

If you oppose a country because you disagree with its policies, you aren't suddenly an enemy of its people—the state and the citizenry are two entirely different categories!

For instance, if you disagree with the policies of the USA, does that mean you hate all Americans? Of course not. If you *do* hate them because of their government, then there is something fundamentally broken in your logic. And if your logic *is* sound, then you're essentially just a racist in the broadest possible sense of the word.

Listen, I'm not against Jews, I'm against the politics of Israel. That is the entire point of my thread. Zionism is this political drive to settle territory with Jews at the expense of kicking families out of their homes. All I'm saying is, I couldn't care less who you are—you don't have the right to shove people out of their houses just to flex your own ego... even if you were once a victim of Hitler. By the way, the West basically invented Zionism...

Henry Sanchez2 said:Personally, I think you're totally swinging and missing with that "macro perspective" argument.
Intelligence doesn't necessarily have anything to do with ethics or psychopathology.

Look, ethics isn't just some abstract concept for philosophy professors to argue about in ivory towers—it's practical. It's survival. Humans survived because of intelligence, unlike other species that just rely on raw biology. We don't have thick fur to shield us from an American winter, we aren't fast enough to outrun predators, and we definitely don't have the teeth or the sheer strength to go toe-to-toe with a grizzly. Our edge? Intelligence. It allows us to band together and build complex, organized systems.
And a system works best when the people inside it actually feel like they're getting something out of the deal.
Sure, nobody is ever 100% happy, but you can judge how stable a society is by how satisfied the majority feels.
Where you see a massive, dissatisfied majority, that's where you find the rot—the corruption. Corruption is a systemic killer because it bleeds resources dry through petty individual greed while the entire structure starts to crumble under its own weight.
In a way, ethics is both the cause and the result of a functioning system. The basic idea of "don't screw over your neighbor, help them instead" is the bedrock upon which our laws are built, creating a justice system that eventually protects you from the bad actors.
To see things from that vantage point, you need real intelligence. I’d call it "forest-level" intelligence—because you have to look at the woods, not just the individual trees...

Nancy Lee84 said:I'll admit, I only catch bits and pieces of what you're saying.

Was that "srategiya" a typo or just a side effect of whatever I was rambling about?
🙂

A slip of the pen.
I actually laughed out loud and grabbed my head like, "Nooo... this is going to turn out the exact opposite of what I intended!"
My bad, definitely just a typo.

Man, brother...

hollowpuma762 said:That’s just a tiny slice of actual intelligence mixed with some shallow "paradise" ideology.

You hit on the core issue, though you did oversimplify what’s actually being analyzed here.

Now this is actually starting to get interesting.

Nancy Lee84 said:About fifty years ago, Hannah Arendt wrote this book that pretty much hits on what you're talking about... it's called 'the Banality of Evil,' and she wrote it after watching the trial of Adolf Eichmann firsthand.

If we buy into her conclusions—and I'm taking a bit of a liberty with how I interpret them here—it means basically anyone could be evil, regardless of whether they're a genius or a total moron.
The only thing that actually matters is the "banality" within a person. In this sense, being banal is just a fancy way of saying someone lacks the guts to actually think about what it means to be human or how to actually live as one. She argues that evil is committed by people who have no identity, no real motives, and no sense of "self." It's like Musil said—people without traits... or like Elias Canetti described it, just a featureless mass of dough.

Intelligence is just potential, right? It doesn't mean someone actually uses it, and honestly, most of the time, they don't.
Heidegger says you only really start thinking when you're alone... standing on your own two feet, surrounded by nothingness (again, my own take on it). So, the whole *ex nihilo nihil fit* idea doesn't always hold up. Humans basically emerge from ignorance and a lack of selfhood just to eventually exist, though that's a controversial point and a whole different rabbit hole.
Most people just try their hardest not to think at all; they just lean on whatever opinions are already floating around, just pure imitation. That kind of opportunism doesn't require any real effort, so it's not even weird that a smart person can totally deny themselves, fail to grow, and end up being both banal and evil...

This is so incredibly beautiful and logical it’s basically checkmate. Please, teach me your ways...

Jessica Miller51 said:Looks like you're playing philosopher on the psychology forums. 😛
Intelligence is just a broad term for human cognitive or intellectual ability. Since even psychologists haven't reached a consensus on what intelligence actually is, there isn't one universally accepted definition today, despite various individual theories.

Smart people can be killers and psychopaths just as easily as they can be PhDs, astronauts, or even uneducated laborers. An intelligence test isn't asking a person to act like a computer, nor are the solutions purely mathematical. It sounds like you might be a bit misinformed about what these tests actually do, since math plays a very minor role in them.

IQ tests don't MEASURE intelligence; they provide an ESTIMATION based on the results. So, the limitations of these tests are clear, yet people seem perfectly fine with getting a rough approximation.

Essentially, an intelligence test evaluates:
- Verbal skills
- Numerical skills
- Figural/spatial reasoning
- Memory and logical reasoning capabilities

There’s nothing computerized about this. I don't know how you're jumping to that conclusion. 😵 You really think you can peel back the layers of a mass murderer's psychology based on something you barely understand? 😲

Does an intelligence test assume a person can connect cause and effect?

There are people out there with above-average intelligence who do nothing but cause massive damage to society.
Just look at some of the infamous criminals:
Edmund Kemper: IQ 145, serial killer, necrophile
Charlene Gallego: IQ 160, involved in serial killings and keeping sex slaves alongside her husband
Jeffrey Dahmer: IQ 145, serial killer, necrophile, cannibal
Ted Bundy IQ 135: serial rapist and brutal murderer

Now, these are just examples from the extreme end of the spectrum—but there are plenty of others who find success in high-society jobs while being absolutely devastating to everyone around them.

The whole thing about measuring intelligence relies on standardized testing, and honestly... that’s where the potential problem lies.
Those tests basically boil down to a mathematical principle of problem-solving. It's almost as if they were designed for a computer.
But even with computers, you have to feed them every single parameter involved in a situation to actually solve it. That’s impossible for humans because recognizing all the variables and their complex interactions during a process requires something much deeper than just computational efficiency.
What we *can* do is make the best possible use of the information available to us. I really think that should be the deciding factor when evaluating true intelligence.
The criminals I mentioned didn't grow up in some isolated jungle, cut off from information. Their intelligence should have been more than enough to connect their actions to the actual meaning and consequences within their own environment. The "meaning" here is that you're doing things that make people miserable—and the consequence is that unhappy people become prone to aggression and all sorts of socially destructive deviations that spread like a disease through your community. And let's be real... do you really think you'll be spared once that sickness starts spreading?

Wouldn't it make more sense to evaluate intelligence through both micro and macro perspectives? It's hard for me to accept that someone can be "above average" in intelligence if that intellect doesn't include the basic math of multiplying misery—creating an unhappy society where your own risk of becoming a victim of violence increases.

What do you guys think?

Windows is doing its job just fine when it comes to going into standby mode. If it isn’t happening, then you’ve definitely got some rogue program running in the background and hogging all the resources.
Sometimes, it’s even a driver acting up... those things can be a real headache.

Jack Alvarez said:So, I’m messing around with this prehistoric Sony Vaio laptop of mine, and I keep hitting this error message. But the real kicker is when I try to pop in a Windows 7 DVD, I get hit with this instead:



Does anyone have any bright ideas on what might be going on here?

Just take that drive over to a buddy's place and test it there. If it works fine on their rig, then you're looking at an issue on your end. If it still acts up there too, then yeah... the drive is toast.

Jacob Cooper5 said:Spirituality is basically just a guarantee for evil in this world. Why? Because nobody can actually give you a straight answer on what spirituality even is—everyone’s got their own little theories, sure, but they all seem to agree on one thing... killing and abusing minorities in the name of "spirituality."

The damn algorithm can't even tell when a sentence ends.

Spirituality is basically just a guarantee for evil in this world. Why? Because nobody can actually give you a straight answer on what spirituality even is—everyone’s got their own little theories, sure, but they all seem to agree on one thing... killing and abusing minorities in the name of "spirituality."

This is some heavy, messy stuff. I honestly don't even know where to start... We can try to piece together some kind of coherent picture in our heads based on whatever info we have—even if most of it is probably wrong. It reminds me of how we were as kids, totally convinced the world worked one specific way, right up until we got hit with enough new information to create that massive gap between childhood innocence and the harsh reality of being an adult. New discoveries always end up shattering that simple, unquestionable reality we thought we had...
Understanding is really just a human trait at its core. It’s more about community and the things we claim to believe than it is about the actual failures of the people searching for some ultimate, absolute truth.

At the end of the day, all we can really do is act within the limits of what we're actually capable of. But now? I feel like I've gone and opened Pandora's box.

Let’s be real—there isn't a single successful guru out there who doesn't have someone else ready to jump out from the shadows and claim they're the exact opposite of whatever that guru is peddling.

If you dive into the settings for the Tampermonkey extension in Chrome, it actually gives you direct links to various script repositories. I think there’s even a shortcut tucked away in that little dropdown menu next to your address bar...
I messed around with it for a bit recently and decided to click through those links just to see what the fuss was about. Honestly? I wasn't exactly blown away. Most of the scripts I stumbled upon look ancient—just old, abandoned code sitting there gathering digital dust. And my biggest gripe is the lack of oversight; it feels like nobody is actually vetting these things for security, which means you could easily end up downloading something malicious without even realizing it...

ironcyclist58 said:There are extensions that handle this—honestly, I don't think you can pull it off without one.

Look, I've already wasted time messing around with extensions... and it's always the same story. Every single one of them wipes everything clean except for Google Chrome - recently closed tabs. Just great.

Bryan Rivera83 said:Wait, isn't there an incognito mode for this?

Sure, there is, but that totally misses the point. In Firefox, I shouldn't have to resort to incognito just to keep my history from being recorded...

John Cook72 said:I don't see why you wouldn't just stick to Task 2—you basically set it up as a recurring job that fires every night at midnight to handle the shutdown if necessary... so, it just runs itself on autopilot once a day.

Fair point. I was overthinking it—I went straight for the "On Idle" trigger instead of just setting that specific requirement under the "Conditions" tab like a normal person would...

wearymason4 said:...aren't you kinda late to the party? It's been days since this was even relevant.

ps: Those SATA drivers for Windows won't do squat here because the BIOS isn't even picking up the drive at all.☕

He put "BIOS" right there in the title, but then doesn't even mention it once in the actual post. I didn't even bother looking at the photos...

Try reinstalling those SATA drivers from scratch. First thing you need to do—and don't skip this part—is grab an image of your C drive just in case things go south... then head over to the Device Manager and uninstall the IDE ATAPI controller. Give the machine a reboot. Once it comes back up, you should see the standard Windows driver pop up in its place, and that's when you can finally install the latest SATA drivers specifically for your motherboard.

I honestly can't believe I've spent half an hour scouring the web and still haven't found a way to kill this registration process entirely.
I'm seriously considering ditching Firefox for Chrome—the raw performance, the security tech, and those deep-dive settings (the flags) are actually pretty impressive...

But here's the kicker: while privacy is just baked into the DNA of Firefox, in Chrome, you basically have to be a hardcore enthusiast to even attempt it. 😵
With Firefox, you just uncheck "remember history" and boom—it actually works. In Chrome, an option like that doesn't even exist. They give you this "clear data on exit" thing, which is about as effective for privacy as a screen door on a submarine.

Is there any way to tweak Chrome so its privacy levels actually stack up against Firefox?