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According to this guy you're the smartest board on 4chan.
Congrats.
>>>/v/79426731

>> No.1306290

Isn't that like being the thinnest person at a Weight Watchers meeting?

>> No.1306292

>>1306290
Sorta I guess.
This is my first time here. What do you guys do over here? Write stories and stuff?

>> No.1306293
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1306293

I'm okay with this.

>> No.1306296

>>1306292

Nah, there are very few writerfags around here. We just read shit. Or pretend to read shit and then pretend to discuss it, so that our anonymous personae appear more well-read to other anonymous personae. Not unlike Camelot, it is a silly place.

>> No.1306301

>>1306288
Fitting that /new/ isn't there. That board is 99.9% white power racism and .1% legit news.

>> No.1306303

of course i'm perfectly aware that everyone on 4-chan is a dumbass, but i did notice that troll attemps on /lit/ usually lead to absolutely nothing.

>> No.1306309

>>1306303

There's a certain tier list that at one point was being posted every single day, by the same person. It's blatantly obvious to anyone with more than half a braincell that it's a troll list, but it ALWAYS gets at least several dozens of replies. /lit/ is one of the easiest boards to troll, probably because people who come here don't really wonder off onto the other boards.

>> No.1306311

>mfw power rankings on /v/ and not on /sp/ where they belong

>> No.1306313

probably because there's more women on /lit/

>> No.1306317

>>1306309
What are you talking about? Your trolling.

>> No.1306330

>>1306309

wait, wait, wait. you mean OPs list isn't an official list that was made by the international internet intelligence agency's independent and qualified members?

well thanks for clearing that up for me! i almost got trolled.

>> No.1306335

>>1306317

My trolling what?

>> No.1306382

>>1306296
So, you're like /v/? Do you guys also hate everything that is relatively well-liked?, as with /mu/?

>> No.1306383
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1306383

We really are lucky to be /lit/izens.

The trolls are at least semi-intelligent.

The trolling is often times ignored and kept to a minimum.

In other words, WE ARE THE SMARTEST BOARD IN THE CESSPOOL OF IGNORANCE THAT IS 4CHAN FUCK YEAH!

>> No.1306391

Trolling on /lit/:

Anon posits that subjective concepts are defined by the instances in which they occur.

Trolling on the rest of 4chan:

Tier lists and white supremacy.

>> No.1306399

Giant ego: the thread

>> No.1306425

>>1306391
>Anon posits that subjective concepts are defined by the instances in which they occur.

how is this trolling? makes perfect sense

>> No.1306433

>>1306425

Green is not adequately defined as "the color that a lime is", because it doesn't overcome the problem of individual perception.

In other words, we can both agree a lime is green, but we have no way of knowing if 'my' green is 'your' green.

>> No.1306438

>>1306433

You need to read up on science, because there is a way, and they are.

>> No.1306441

>>1306425
NO WE'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS FUCK

>> No.1306449

>>1306433
my green is the only green that matters

>> No.1306452

>>1306438

Maybe, but there's no way I can believe it if I don't want to. The lime is blue.

>> No.1306457

I just realized i just created a circlejerk thread.
Great.

>> No.1306459
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1306459

>/lit/ can't even have Ayn Rand
>thinks they're the smartest

>> No.1306461

>>1306452
what would a blue lime taste like? Chicken?

>> No.1306462

>>1306452
>>1306449
>>1306441
>>1306438
>>1306433
>>1306425
>>1306391

There you go

What's that ? Proof you say ? Oh no I give you the universe

>> No.1306469

I'm not going to say we're not smart, but I will say that, per capita, /lit/ is the most trolled board on 4chan. We're the kind of intelligent that knows a lot of things, but couldn't find its ass with both hands, and still thinks it's hot shit. Not a thread goes by when constructive discussion isn't undermined by idiots or trolls. All it takes is one faggot with a name drop and a glittering generality, and we all dogpile onto the thread derailment.

>> No.1306468

>>1306462

I don't need your universe I have my own.

>> No.1306467

I don't trust a list that lauds /d/ as intelligent. Like...what?

>> No.1306471

>>1306433
I'd like to make an addendum to this anon's post.
This is NOT the "oh dude what if like, we all see different colors but we've been conditioned to like, call them all by certain names. like that chair is blue but for you is red but we both call it blue" or any of that. That has already been disproven.

What he IS talking about is, for example, similar shades of green. To some people a shade of green might seem like yellow instead of the shade of green you define as still being green.

>> No.1306500

>>1306469

>dogpile onto the thread derailment

Yes, but these derailments often contain big words and correct punctuation.

>> No.1306504

>>1306471
>>1306433
science has objectively defined colors by the use of light waves. we may see them as different but that is because of our own subjectivity. still a green lime is a green lime because of the light waves that bounce off of it

>> No.1306508

>>1306471

I used to have a pair of grey jeans that I loved until everybody told me they were green and I threw them out. Green jeans suck.

>> No.1306510

>>1306471
This phenomenon has been examined scientifically while testing the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Two groups of people, one set of English speakers, and another Zuni speakers (who have one word for both green and blue), were asked to identify a variety of colors. The Zuni had more trouble remembering shades for which they had no name than English speakers who did, but both were quite capable of recognizing the difference between the shades, and seemed to classify them mentally in the same way.

What this means for discourse is that the perception of colors is not subjective, but the way that one talks about them may be. In conversation, one need only occasionally clarify what one means by "blue" or "green" to be able to discuss them clearly.
tl;dr: Language games of the type played on /lit/ are common, but don't display true perceptual subjectivity.

>> No.1306513

>>1306504
Indeed, but for people who are not well-versed in the exact name of each color and their shades, there is still room for their subjectivity, so they can say what they consider yellow and what they consider green

>> No.1306515

>>1306504

I don't believe you. You don't even exist. You're the asshole centre of my brain.

>> No.1306519

>>1306469
>we're the most trolled on 4chan

You haven't spent much time in /sci/...

Also /r9k/, if you're talking about thread derailment by trolls. C'mon, man.

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1306523

>/fa/
>Anywhere but the lowest tier.

>> No.1306528

>>1306515
then the asshole center of your brain must be fucking genius. you should listen to it more often.

>> No.1306535

>>1306469
Honestly, I would rather have SMART trolling than just "HRHRURHURHUHUHRUR LOOK AT ME I AM SO DUMB I AM NOT EVEN TRYING TO HIDE I'M A TROLL HURRRRRRRRRRRRRR".

At least in the case of a well-disguised troll, I can admire his wit and the fact he managed to fool me.
The obvious trolls are just waste of space.

>> No.1306542

>>1306513
and yet even though they may have a subjective definition it has already been objectively defined, therefore, if they do not agree with the standard definition they are wrong. that is the reason why we have standard definitions.

>> No.1306547

>>1306542
That is actually a really good point.
I should make a mental note of that.

>> No.1306738

/new/ is the new /b/

>> No.1306783

>>1306542

I don't like it.

>> No.1306842

so, methinks the person who made this has never seen a liberal arts degree thread

this board becomes fuckin' RETARDED

>> No.1306843

>>1306842
>>1306842
>>1306842
>>1306842
>>1306842

>> No.1306849

>>1306783
it's like a prison rape. you don't have to like it, you just have to take it.

>> No.1306864

>>1306288

>/v/

fucking lol

/v/ doesn't even know about video games. I'll remind them of this BLUNDER OF THE CENTURY every time they start calling good games shit.

>> No.1306865

>>1306842

What is liberal arts?

>> No.1306872

>>1306849

Uh uh. Imma fight. I may be objectively wrong but subjectively there is no objectievely so I win and will never be convinced otherwise.

>> No.1306938

>>1306865

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts

Most commonly associate with stuff like English, History, Philosophy...

>> No.1306971

>>1306433
>>1306438
>>1306449

etc. People that want to read more about this should read:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/color/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-inverted/

>> No.1306983

>>1306864
tell me about your favorite video games arc

>> No.1306989

>>1306983

CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS, MY DROOG

>> No.1307217

>>1306872
did you open your chakras and find power animal?