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> Regarding "Alien Message", I don't find that story particularly convincing. I think it's muddled and contrived. Well, yes. it's from Eliezer Yudkowsky. The k
by SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
> Regarding "Alien Message", I don't find that story particularly convincing. I think it's muddled and contrived.
Well, yes. it's from Eliezer Yudkowsky. The kind of people who who generally find him persuasive, will do so. Those who don't find him convincing or even find him somewhat of a crank, like the other self-proclaimed "rationalists", will do do. "muddled" is correct, he lacks rigour in everything, but certainly brings the word count.
- kragen 1y agoYou're the guy who in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517647 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517647 I demonstrated was a physics crank: unskilled and unaware of it, dismissing the Alcubierre metric as "fantasy, nigh nonsensical and self-contradictory", unlike actual physicists. And, when I presented the evidence that that's not what actual physicists say about it, you responded by heaping personal abuse on me. Perhaps you posted this comment later as an additional form of ego defense, since it implicitly calls me a crank, by implying that I'm a "rationalist"?
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y agoThose are odd claims, but they don't interest me. You have not and are not demonstrating anything outside of your own fixations. Project much?