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Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
« on: June 16, 2013, 02:34:55 am »
An unsuspecting individual is arrested and brutally interrogated with questions about Georg Cantor for all eternity
An unsuspecting individual is imprisoned until he proves or disproves the generalized continuity conjecture. He is not given a keyboard capable of typing aleph.

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Literate Chaotic / Re: Things that RAW was wrong about
« on: June 15, 2013, 08:00:43 pm »
RAW has repeatedly said "I'd be a feminist if feminism meant equal treatment for men and women, instead of meaning that all men are fucking all women over consciously all the time", which I think makes him a feminist with a poor grasp of terminology (or at least, a fellow traveler). I'm not really sure how he managed to maintain his idea of feminism while Arlen was in Women's Lib, other than being inundated with wackos.

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Literate Chaotic / Re: Things that RAW was wrong about
« on: June 13, 2013, 07:17:11 pm »
One of the things it took me quite awhile to realize was that RAW often didn't believe half the stuff he wrote. Often he was more interested in the mind set of the believers than the belief.

Also, sometimes I think he just intentionally fucked with his readers.
He also said some shit that was completely wrong, and probably not on purpose (his statements about feminism come to mind specifically here -- if he understood mainline feminism he would probably count himself as an adherent of it).

In some cases, it's difficult to tell whether he was legitimately wrong or if he was trying to fuck with people, but it doesn't much matter in situations where people cite him as an authority on things where what he wrote was very warped (his descriptions of QM and of information theory come to mind here).

There are also notable instances of what seem to be running feuds. While so far as I can tell his annoyance at James Randi is justified, Carl Sagan often comes off as being primarily in agreement with RAW, and RAW ascribes to him some ideas that in retrospect don't seem to be his -- so RAW's statements about Sagan just generally shouldn't be trusted.

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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII
« on: June 13, 2013, 12:32:49 am »

The problem with natural language interfaces


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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII
« on: June 13, 2013, 12:15:38 am »

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Literate Chaotic / Re: Things that RAW was wrong about
« on: June 12, 2013, 08:43:54 pm »
If you look for cake on street pavements long enough, you will eventually find it.

:lol:

I'm going to try this.
And pass it off as profound wisdom to whomever will buy it first.







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Literate Chaotic / Re: Things that RAW was wrong about
« on: June 12, 2013, 04:51:22 pm »
Bless RAW's heart, but what I don't understand about the people who perceive him as some kind of a guru is why they don't look at his sources and come to their own conclusions? It's like they missed the whole "think for yourself" portion of the lecture.

If he were still alive I can't imagine he would encourage them to just take everything he said for gospel, but there they go doing it anyway. It's sad.

Congratulations. You have derived the purpose of the thread.

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Literate Chaotic / Things that RAW was wrong about
« on: June 12, 2013, 03:38:42 pm »
Feminism
Information theory
Waveform collapse
The academic standards of the authorship of Holy Blood, Holy Grail
The academic standards of the authorship of The Sirius Mystery
Carl Sagan's views on epistemology
Carl Sagan's views on pot
The conditions surrounding Tim Leary's first arrest
The Burroughs-Wheeler Many-World Interpretation
Some members of CSICOP
The cost/benefit analysis of long term habitation of deep space
The ease with which one can train gorillas

(Citations added by request; please add to the list as you see fit)

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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII
« on: June 12, 2013, 03:13:28 pm »



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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII
« on: June 11, 2013, 11:44:00 pm »

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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII
« on: June 11, 2013, 12:22:41 am »

Steve Mann & cohort. From the model, I'd guess early 90s -- that's the 80s rig Mann's sporting, and one of the other guys has a twiddler, so I'd estimate around 1993.

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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII
« on: June 10, 2013, 11:07:43 pm »
Go into the light.

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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII
« on: June 10, 2013, 08:32:50 pm »

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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII
« on: June 10, 2013, 04:53:25 pm »

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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII
« on: June 09, 2013, 08:22:38 pm »
*nod* Shintoism is very different from even western polytheistic and animistic systems.

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