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You're wrong. There are serious people working, as I write, on implementing the author's vision.

by miriam 17y ago

pook 17y ago
"Mathematicians notwithstanding, a computer is a class of automaton known as a behaving machine. As such, it must not be seen as a function calculator that takes input arguments and returns an answer. It should be seen as belonging to the category of machines like brains and neural networks" from http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2010/02/computer-scientists-created-parallel.html http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2010/02/computer-scientists... I am sure there is meaning in this, but I am not sure it is a meaning that yields readily to rational thought. Hence my classification of the blog as noise.
- miriam 17y ago
  You are being disingenuous or purposefully obtuse since the author explains what he means in the same sentence. It's not rocket science.
  - pook 17y ago
    http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/nasty.htm http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/nasty.htm Do I need to spell out the similarities with Time Cube, or enumerate John Baez's Crackpot Index in an oddly self-referential strange loop? It is indeed not rocket science. Or much of any science. edit: "We are all accustomed to believe that everything is made of something. We are taught that matter consists of molecules and that molecules are made of atoms which are themselves made of even smaller components. This line of reasoning makes sense initially but, as seen below, it cannot be sustained." if you think I am merely being obtuse.
    - miriam 17y ago
      You are worse than obtuse. You are plain dishonest. You are picking stuff up out of context in order to appear to make a valid disparaging point but you are just being an a*hole. And you know it.
      - pg 17y ago
        Would you two please stop?
        tsally 17y ago
        It's time for this I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1142045 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1142045. Personal reprimands from you are effective in snapping otherwise reasonable people out of the mindset that sometimes results from anonymity, but it's just a stop-gap measure. I know you already know this, but it's worth pointing out. Tangential anecdote: the last 10 or so uncivil comments I've read have been from throwaway accounts and accounts with small post counts/karma. I suspect most of these accounts are proxies for more active ones. Not sure if this metric can be leveraged in some way without producing too many false positives. Using machine learning to enforce civility is kind of ironic actually. Still, might be worth investigating.
        pg 17y ago
        I'm going to start trying things fairly soon. I'm just too busy with YC right now.

You're wrong. There are serious people working, as I write, on implementing the author's vision.

by miriam 17y ago

You're wrong. There are serious people working, as I write, on implementing the author's vision.

pook 17y ago

"Mathematicians notwithstanding, a computer is a class of automaton known as a behaving machine. As such, it must not be seen as a function calculator that takes input arguments and returns an answer. It should be seen as belonging to the category of machines like brains and neural networks" from http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2010/02/computer-scientists-created-parallel.html http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2010/02/computer-scientists... I am sure there is meaning in this, but I am not sure it is a meaning that yields readily to rational thought. Hence my classification of the blog as noise.

miriam 17y ago
You are being disingenuous or purposefully obtuse since the author explains what he means in the same sentence. It's not rocket science.
- pook 17y ago
  http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/nasty.htm http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/nasty.htm Do I need to spell out the similarities with Time Cube, or enumerate John Baez's Crackpot Index in an oddly self-referential strange loop? It is indeed not rocket science. Or much of any science. edit: "We are all accustomed to believe that everything is made of something. We are taught that matter consists of molecules and that molecules are made of atoms which are themselves made of even smaller components. This line of reasoning makes sense initially but, as seen below, it cannot be sustained." if you think I am merely being obtuse.
  - miriam 17y ago
    You are worse than obtuse. You are plain dishonest. You are picking stuff up out of context in order to appear to make a valid disparaging point but you are just being an a*hole. And you know it.
    - pg 17y ago
      Would you two please stop?
      - tsally 17y ago
        It's time for this I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1142045 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1142045. Personal reprimands from you are effective in snapping otherwise reasonable people out of the mindset that sometimes results from anonymity, but it's just a stop-gap measure. I know you already know this, but it's worth pointing out. Tangential anecdote: the last 10 or so uncivil comments I've read have been from throwaway accounts and accounts with small post counts/karma. I suspect most of these accounts are proxies for more active ones. Not sure if this metric can be leveraged in some way without producing too many false positives. Using machine learning to enforce civility is kind of ironic actually. Still, might be worth investigating.
        pg 17y ago
        I'm going to start trying things fairly soon. I'm just too busy with YC right now.