Fellow crank here. You might be making mistakes which aren’t obvious, but which most people on here know of because they’ve read the sequences. So if you’re making a mistake which has already been addressed on here before, that might annoy readers.
I have a feeling that you like teaching more than learning, and writing more than reading. I’m the same. I comment on things despite not being formally educated in them or researching them in depth, I’m not very conscientious, I don’t like putting in effort. But seeing other people confused about things that I feel like I understood long ago irks me, so I can’t help but voice my own view (which is rarely understood by anyone).
By the way, there is one mistake you might be committing. If you come up with a theory, then you can surely find evidence that it’s correct, by finding cases which are explained by this theory of yours. But it’s not enough to come up with a theory which fits every true case, true positives are one thing, false positives another, true negatives yet another, and false negatives yet another. A theory should be bounded from all sides, it should work in both the forward and the backwards direction.
For instance, “Sickness is caused by bad smells” sound correct. You can even verify a solid correlation. But if you try, I bet you can think of cases in which bad smells have not caused sickness. There’s also cases where sickness was not caused by bad smells. Furthermore, germ theory more correctly covers true cases while rejecting false ones, so it’s more fitting than Miasma theory. When you feel like you’re onto something, I recommend putting your theory through more checks. If you’re aware of all of this already, then I apologize.
Lastly, I admire that you followed through on the payments, and I enjoy seeing people (you) think for themselves and share their ideas rather than being cowardly and calling their cowardice “humility”.
Thank you for this anwer. I agree that I have not visibly been putting in the work to make falsifiable predictions relevant to the ethicophysics. These can indeed be made in the ethicophysics, but they’re less predictions and more “self-fulfilling prophecies” that have the effect of compelling the reader to comply with a request to the extent that they take the request seriously. Which, in plain language, is some combination of wagers, promises, and threats.
And it seems impolite to threaten people just to get them to read a PDF.
Fellow crank here. You might be making mistakes which aren’t obvious, but which most people on here know of because they’ve read the sequences. So if you’re making a mistake which has already been addressed on here before, that might annoy readers.
I have a feeling that you like teaching more than learning, and writing more than reading. I’m the same. I comment on things despite not being formally educated in them or researching them in depth, I’m not very conscientious, I don’t like putting in effort. But seeing other people confused about things that I feel like I understood long ago irks me, so I can’t help but voice my own view (which is rarely understood by anyone).
By the way, there is one mistake you might be committing. If you come up with a theory, then you can surely find evidence that it’s correct, by finding cases which are explained by this theory of yours. But it’s not enough to come up with a theory which fits every true case, true positives are one thing, false positives another, true negatives yet another, and false negatives yet another. A theory should be bounded from all sides, it should work in both the forward and the backwards direction.
For instance, “Sickness is caused by bad smells” sound correct. You can even verify a solid correlation. But if you try, I bet you can think of cases in which bad smells have not caused sickness. There’s also cases where sickness was not caused by bad smells. Furthermore, germ theory more correctly covers true cases while rejecting false ones, so it’s more fitting than Miasma theory. When you feel like you’re onto something, I recommend putting your theory through more checks. If you’re aware of all of this already, then I apologize.
Lastly, I admire that you followed through on the payments, and I enjoy seeing people (you) think for themselves and share their ideas rather than being cowardly and calling their cowardice “humility”.
Thank you for this anwer. I agree that I have not visibly been putting in the work to make falsifiable predictions relevant to the ethicophysics. These can indeed be made in the ethicophysics, but they’re less predictions and more “self-fulfilling prophecies” that have the effect of compelling the reader to comply with a request to the extent that they take the request seriously. Which, in plain language, is some combination of wagers, promises, and threats.
And it seems impolite to threaten people just to get them to read a PDF.