I didn’t downvote you, but I think such downvoting as you’ve received has been not just because you were speculating but because you were making what on the face of it is a very implausible suggestion without any indication of why it might be true. That’s kinda rude: if you have some reason for thinking it’s likely to be true, why aren’t you at least hinting at it? and if you haven’t, what’s the value in telling us?
Ken Wilber’s site is annoying. The link you gave, rather than just serving up the damn PDF file, s it in the page, which means that on my (admittedly slightly weird) system I can’t read it. And his front page is Flash-only, ditto. However, I grabbed the file at http://www.kenwilber.com/Writings/PDF/SS-Walsh.pdf and also looked at his Wikipedia entry; from these, my own estimate of his likelihood of being one of “the most advanced rationalists” is extremely low. (Not that you need care what my estimate of that likelihood is.)
I didn’t downvote you, but I think such downvoting as you’ve received has been not just because you were speculating but because you were making what on the face of it is a very implausible suggestion without any indication of why it might be true. That’s kinda rude: if you have some reason for thinking it’s likely to be true, why aren’t you at least hinting at it? and if you haven’t, what’s the value in telling us?
Ken Wilber’s site is annoying. The link you gave, rather than just serving up the damn PDF file, s it in the page, which means that on my (admittedly slightly weird) system I can’t read it. And his front page is Flash-only, ditto. However, I grabbed the file at http://www.kenwilber.com/Writings/PDF/SS-Walsh.pdf and also looked at his Wikipedia entry; from these, my own estimate of his likelihood of being one of “the most advanced rationalists” is extremely low. (Not that you need care what my estimate of that likelihood is.)