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Don't we have too many normal people out there already, saying the same stuff in their lookalike blogs...? (or maybe _why IS one of those guys as well, uh?)

• mapleoin 18y ago
  I wish people would say this more about other eccentric people. Some people aren't this tolerant with RMS for example...
  • Zev 18y ago
    _why is eccentric in a completely out there way, its pretty hard to argue there's someone like him. RMS is a archetypal hacker from the 70's who remained that way in the 2000's. There's no doubt that they both do great things, one's just more then slightly more unique and the other is intimately known.
    • trevelyan 18y ago
      I love archetypal 70s hackers. Just add rock.
• shiranaihito 18y ago
  The thing is, each and every one of us is unique, by virtue of being born. People just happen to have converging tendencies, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's no need to Be Different. I'm not saying you shouldn't find your own thing and do it. It's just that being different doesn't require any effort on anyone's part. Besides, anyone could pick up _why's Quirky Shtick and sound roughly the same.
  • herval 18y ago
    I wish I could... ;-)
• jamesbritt 18y ago
  "Don't we have too many normal people out there already, saying the same stuff in their lookalike blogs...? " False choice. There are smart, innovative thinkers expressing themselves with a notable lack of quirk, and a better signal-to-noise ratio.
  • herval 18y ago
    so does one thing have to eliminate the other?
    • jamesbritt 18y ago
      No, of course not, but they seem to be related in the mids of many people. There's a great collection of short stories, Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder, that has (as I recall) a tale of some institute that was hiring mathematicians. The candidates affected assorted behavioral quirks so as to come off as sufficiently bizarre, and, hence, brilliant. It seems a common stereotype.