Are you asking because you don’t know, or because you want to know which ones BohemianCoast noticed?
Most of the world is wrong. Formal education is overrated. The world as we know it is may cease within a century. Lots Of Math. Simultaneously mentioning the word quantum and talking about psychology. For that matter, mentioning the word quantum.
Those are just the ones off the top of my head, and I’m not BohemianCoast. But a lot of stuff written here (and in the “Sequences”) is true despite setting off nutcase detectors, not without setting them off.
Most of the world is wrong. Formal education is overrated. The world as we know it is may cease within a century. Lots Of Math. Simultaneously mentioning the word quantum and talking about psychology. For that matter, mentioning the word quantum.
There Isn’t That Much Math, Really. And none of the cargo-cultish use of mathy writing as impressive-looking gibberish that tends to mark nutcase stuff. Agree with the rest though. Oh, and also: The scientific method is poor and needs to be improved. A central notion on physics held by most practicing physicists is fundamentally misguided.
And none of the cargo-cultish use of mathy writing as impressive-looking gibberish that tends to mark nutcase stuff.
I’ve seen plenty of nutcase-stuff in which the math wasn’t gibberish—it was correct as math but was simply window-dressing for the nutcase argument. Sometimes, it seems that EY is just using it as garnish for his arguments as well. So, I think that there is a kernel of truth in what GuySrinivasan said about the mathiness of the site. It fits the pattern.
Which is not to say that EY is a nutcase. Those nutcase detectors may be returning false positives. But that doesn’t mean that the nutcase detectors are defective.
Are you asking because you don’t know, or because you want to know which ones BohemianCoast noticed?
Most of the world is wrong. Formal education is overrated. The world as we know it is may cease within a century. Lots Of Math. Simultaneously mentioning the word quantum and talking about psychology. For that matter, mentioning the word quantum.
Those are just the ones off the top of my head, and I’m not BohemianCoast. But a lot of stuff written here (and in the “Sequences”) is true despite setting off nutcase detectors, not without setting them off.
There Isn’t That Much Math, Really. And none of the cargo-cultish use of mathy writing as impressive-looking gibberish that tends to mark nutcase stuff. Agree with the rest though. Oh, and also: The scientific method is poor and needs to be improved. A central notion on physics held by most practicing physicists is fundamentally misguided.
I’ve seen plenty of nutcase-stuff in which the math wasn’t gibberish—it was correct as math but was simply window-dressing for the nutcase argument. Sometimes, it seems that EY is just using it as garnish for his arguments as well. So, I think that there is a kernel of truth in what GuySrinivasan said about the mathiness of the site. It fits the pattern.
Which is not to say that EY is a nutcase. Those nutcase detectors may be returning false positives. But that doesn’t mean that the nutcase detectors are defective.
CronoDAS definitely knows that Eliezer is not a nutcase. He’s very rational and well-informed.