How true and ironical. The author manages to prove exactly his inability to think logically by misunderstanding what Block was saying. And then he goes on being

How true and ironical. The author manages to prove exactly his inability to think logically by misunderstanding what Block was saying. And then he goes on being reactive instead of providing any meaningful arguments, even against his straw man... I see this mode of thinking very often in people that I call "mud-minds" (shortly, people incapable of clear, cold, abstract and detached thinking, or at least incapable of performing thinking in a way that exhibits all these 4 attributes simultaneously, without loosing their intuition while they do this), even the well educated ones with probably high IQs: they totally fail to understand the real meaning of a message, and attack strawman ideas or follow dead-end reasoning paths, even if they do this with great skill and intelligence and the arguments they use may actually be very logical. The sad thing is that seeing someone with a CS and math background think this way destroys my hope that exposing children early on to technical, abstract and logical thinking can prevent them from becoming "mud-minds". This even makes me pessimistic about humanity's future :(