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Nice segue from 'a crackpot' to 'them'. They have labels pasted all over them so no difficulty in crossing to the other side of the street.
by vixen99 12y ago
Nice segue from 'a crackpot' to 'them'. They have labels pasted all over them so no difficulty in crossing to the other side of the street.
- bitJericho 12y agoWell crackpots are different from me, in that I don't believe I'm one, so yes there is indeed a difference between myself and "them". Sorry if I'm not politically correct enough for you. Just to clarify, I have no issue with crackpots, mentally ill people, whatever you want to call them. My only point is that trying to convince someone that they are a crackpot is not going to work, at least over the internet!
- JadeNB 12y agoI think the claim is not so much that you are or might be a crackpot, as that it's too easy to misdiagnose a genuine revolutionary as a crackpot. The canonical example for mathematicians is Ramanujan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan); Hardy would have been perfectly justified in thinking him a crackpot and throwing away his letters, and one of the most valuable collaborations in number theory would never have happened.