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I don't know much about his work but I know he sometimes makes remarks that are paranoid, contradictory, and nonsensical when properly analyzed. This indicates

I don't know much about his work but I know he sometimes makes remarks that are paranoid, contradictory, and nonsensical when properly analyzed. This indicates to me that he either knows that such remarks drive a lot of engagement on social media or he doesn't. Either way, I think people should stop paying attention to whatever he's saying since it is often neither insightful nor productive in any meaningful way.

loceng 5y ago
Do you have a link/timestamp to a video with such a reaction? I've seen him get frustrated or bored and then challenge people to try to think harder or differently, more deeply. "Either way, I think people should stop paying attention to whatever he's saying since it is often neither insightful nor productive in any meaningful way." Should we do the same with you? How ridiculous.
- holonomically 5y ago
  You can peruse his Twitter feed. It's full of nonsensical statements. I like to think what I write makes some modicum of sense and when I do make claims that don't make sense then someone would be willing to say so and explain why. Weinstein put out a mathematical paper with disclaimers that it is for purely entertainment purposes. If that's not nonsensical and contradictory then I don't know what is. This is why I don't pay attention to him. He's not a serious and sincere person because a serious person wouldn't publish a mathematical paper with disclaimers about it being nothing more than entertainment. So his actions make him look like either a troll or someone going senile. In both cases it doesn't make sense to pay attention to someone like that. He also likes to encourage conspiratorial thinking among his followers which is again a sign of someone that is not operating in good faith and trying to achieve any positive outcomes. It makes him seem like someone that enjoys stoking fear and paranoia in order to grow his clout on social media. If you have references for any worthwhile work that he has produced then I'm actually curious to see it because whatever I've seen from him indicates what I already wrote.

loceng 5y ago

Do you have a link/timestamp to a video with such a reaction? I've seen him get frustrated or bored and then challenge people to try to think harder or differently, more deeply. "Either way, I think people should stop paying attention to whatever he's saying since it is often neither insightful nor productive in any meaningful way." Should we do the same with you? How ridiculous.

holonomically 5y ago
You can peruse his Twitter feed. It's full of nonsensical statements. I like to think what I write makes some modicum of sense and when I do make claims that don't make sense then someone would be willing to say so and explain why. Weinstein put out a mathematical paper with disclaimers that it is for purely entertainment purposes. If that's not nonsensical and contradictory then I don't know what is. This is why I don't pay attention to him. He's not a serious and sincere person because a serious person wouldn't publish a mathematical paper with disclaimers about it being nothing more than entertainment. So his actions make him look like either a troll or someone going senile. In both cases it doesn't make sense to pay attention to someone like that. He also likes to encourage conspiratorial thinking among his followers which is again a sign of someone that is not operating in good faith and trying to achieve any positive outcomes. It makes him seem like someone that enjoys stoking fear and paranoia in order to grow his clout on social media. If you have references for any worthwhile work that he has produced then I'm actually curious to see it because whatever I've seen from him indicates what I already wrote.