Google it and you land on a promised book by Howard Bloom, which also promotes “heresies” like “a does not equal a” and “one plus one does not equal two”, as a way to understand “how a godless cosmos creates”.
So these are deliberately paradoxical slogans, being used to hype what may be quite mundane insights. “Entropy is wrong” could just mean “despite the second law, growth and evolution are possible”.
So these are deliberately paradoxical slogans, being used to hype what may be quite mundane insights. “Entropy is wrong” could just mean “despite the second law, growth and evolution are possible”.
So they could have said… “There is plenty of neg-entropy out there. Burn it to make fun stuff happen!”?
Google it and you land on a promised book by Howard Bloom, which also promotes “heresies” like “a does not equal a” and “one plus one does not equal two”, as a way to understand “how a godless cosmos creates”.
I really hope this piece of crackpottery does not reach its target.
ETA: Well, it did, which I guess was inevitable. I just read the Kickstarter TOS, and I can’t see any prohibition against gaming their system for publicity instead of raising money, by donating to your own Kickstarter to reach its target, then getting most of your own money back. So it wouldn’t be libellous to speculate if this had just happened.
Google it and you land on a promised book by Howard Bloom, which also promotes “heresies” like “a does not equal a” and “one plus one does not equal two”, as a way to understand “how a godless cosmos creates”.
So these are deliberately paradoxical slogans, being used to hype what may be quite mundane insights. “Entropy is wrong” could just mean “despite the second law, growth and evolution are possible”.
Fundraising is the mind-killer.
So they could have said… “There is plenty of neg-entropy out there. Burn it to make fun stuff happen!”?
I really hope this piece of crackpottery does not reach its target.
ETA: Well, it did, which I guess was inevitable. I just read the Kickstarter TOS, and I can’t see any prohibition against gaming their system for publicity instead of raising money, by donating to your own Kickstarter to reach its target, then getting most of your own money back. So it wouldn’t be libellous to speculate if this had just happened.