Reposted, will some spelling errors corrected. I am a professionally published award-winning Science Fiction and Fantasy author...
Protip: if you’re going to make claims like that, and then spend several paragraphs bashing another author—don’t be a coward. Post proof of your identity. In fact, post proof of every claim you make. You can’t* declare people ‘academically suspect’ without providing a citation. You can’t declare people irrational without providing at least a quotation of irrational thought.
An example of irrational thought: “The people I know in person (especially professional Physicists and Mathematicians and computer programmers in areas such as A.I.) who insist that they are entirely rational, all of the time, have at times annoyed me, especially when, for example, their pose breaks down and they leap and yell for joy while clapping their hands at Sarah Palin speeches (as one ex-FermiLab JPL neighbor of mine does), or turn red-faced and yell at me.”
First, you draw conclusions about all from a very small survey. Next, you dismiss all the pursuit of rationality because it is inherently unreachable. There is a difference between 5% and 95%, and while neither is 100% one is much more than the other.
P.S. The audacity of posting on a website run by Eliezer and declaring yourself to be ‘censored.’ Well, it speaks volumed.
P.P.S. “Edit” button exists for a reason. See this post as an example of how to use it. I reported your duplicate post, I suggest you delete it.
*You can, be be prepared to be laughed at and ignored.
Protip: if you’re going to make claims like that, and then spend several paragraphs bashing another author—don’t be a coward. Post proof of your identity. In fact, post proof of every claim you make. You can’t* declare people ‘academically suspect’ without providing a citation. You can’t declare people irrational without providing at least a quotation of irrational thought.
An example of irrational thought: “The people I know in person (especially professional Physicists and Mathematicians and computer programmers in areas such as A.I.) who insist that they are entirely rational, all of the time, have at times annoyed me, especially when, for example, their pose breaks down and they leap and yell for joy while clapping their hands at Sarah Palin speeches (as one ex-FermiLab JPL neighbor of mine does), or turn red-faced and yell at me.”
First, you draw conclusions about all from a very small survey. Next, you dismiss all the pursuit of rationality because it is inherently unreachable. There is a difference between 5% and 95%, and while neither is 100% one is much more than the other.
P.S. The audacity of posting on a website run by Eliezer and declaring yourself to be ‘censored.’ Well, it speaks volumed.
P.P.S. “Edit” button exists for a reason. See this post as an example of how to use it. I reported your duplicate post, I suggest you delete it.
*You can, be be prepared to be laughed at and ignored.