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Martian law rules! All hail the red planet!

This doesn't make any sense at all.

Anyway, have a blast with this article. Michael Shermer is a better author than I:

http://skepdic.com/illuminati.html



I'm not looking at anyone at the moment.



No, I don't know all the facts.

But if you bring nothing but incoherent BS to the table, it's not hard at all to gain the upper hand in terms of factual knowledge.

My greatest strength is having incompetent opponents.



No, I understand what you are saying perfectly. However, the burden of proof is on you, not me, to demonstrate that the mystical BS you believe in is real. It's just that simple. You can't spin some vague theory out of thin air without any kind of justification and then expect other people to believe it by default. It doesn't work that way.



That's not the issue. The issue is whether my arguments are valid or not. You seem to have overlooked that point.



'Seething hatred' would be a more appropriate description.



No.

Chever why do you post on a message board if you hate everyone? Is there anyone who enjoys reading your negative blasphemies?.. all you do is interfere with civilized debate, and instantly try to debunk any original thought just to set some kind of unhealthy balance..

It's a classic example of someone who is so far behind they think they're first. He's barely out of high school, let him be... he'll figure it out on his own in time.

He still doesn't realize or acknowledge how autism is affecting the way he views the world.

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I do not debunk any old original thought ... only BS. You appear to adhere to the doctrine of 'originality through incompetence'. Ideas are not good only by virtue of being 'original'. More frequently, they are noise, pure and simple.



Most people who are well known in the skeptical community are in their 30s, at least, which kind of makes sense.

I'm more than two years out of high school btw.

most people in their 30's are past the learning phase of their life and have adapted to the distractions and culture around them nd usually have a family to take care of, and they simply dont like re-learning something that proves their views to be wrong. So I guess you're passed that stage aswell

On the contrary, most skeptics are intellectually ravenous all the time.

For example, as I said earlier, I'm learning Common Lisp. It upsets a lot of expectations I have from using Python, Perl and C/C++. I noticed the Common Lisp standard has a lot of BS in it, too; I look for BS everywhere. But overall, it has a lot of good ideas and is nearly as good as Haskell, but a lot easier to use.

It seems you have mistaken discerning BS for being unwilling/unable to learn.

I didn't say you were unable to learn, I said you were unable to RE-learn something that you previously thought to be true.. you've showed no signs of flexibility in your mind.

I previously believed generic functions were a sh***y way of implementing an object system, but I've been shown to be wrong.

See, I only reconsider things I already consider to be correct when someone has evidence that demonstrates I'm wrong.

You do not have that kind of evidence, so please can this mystic Yoda BS.

see but that's the very thing.. you are black and white.. unflexible.. you cant let an original thought inspire thought in your head unles it has a 100 page essay and susbtantial proof attached to it.. you can't think for yourself. You rely on 'proven' data.

I really appreciate formal proof and want to get better at it but for now I'm more into 'hands-on' material and things making sense intuitively.



I'm a programmer and mathematician in training. Creativity is one of the most important tools in the box for us.

For example, there is a very large part of graph theory that was originally only about finding out how you can color a map such that no two adjacent countries have the same color. It has since been abstracted to any situation where there are agents (represented by vertices) 'competing' for resources with certain constraints (represented by edges), and the problem is to find out how many units of the resource to allocate so that all the agents can coexist. The solution is to color the graph in these cases.

For my part, I am interested in analyzing traffic patterns with Markov chains so that stoplights can be made more efficient. Here again, Markov chains are very abstract and general structures that can be used in a lot of different ways, and you need creativity to use them.



Yeah, that's a real character flaw, huh? I need quote-unquote 'evidence' to believe something.

I'd love to hear some of your original thoughts, because there aren't any in facts and figures and tbh the whole refuting everything just to piss people off under the guise of skepticism is getting a little boring. So are the ridiculously stupid responses you give to things you don't understand, I'd expect that out of a 2 year old but you're not.

Honestly, take a chance and put your own stuff out there, with a mind like that you must have something original in there to offer. For starters, instead of just being negative and rude, why not tell us why you're so pissed off and why you have such a hatred for whatever it is you actually hate because to me the whole profile of what you're doing here looks like a cry for help.

You haven't offended me and I have no cause to dislike you so whenever you're ready to get real don't hesitate, I won't be picking your posts apart. There's a lot of support here from people that have been through it, I'm pretty sure you're not here just to pick on the mentally and socially handicapped to prove your massive intellect.

I expounded on that earlier.

Most of my original ideas are about some kind of technology.

That was a duck and cover.

So what's an original idea you have about technology that can't be found in any book or off the shelf source?

I'm not being facetious, I'd really like to hear it.

I mentioned a proposal for analyzing traffic with Markov chains earlier, that I can hopefully spin into my thesis.

Briefly, traffic lights should always be run in proportion to how many cars are going to head through one side of an intersection vs. the other. The probabilistic model should be updated on a regular basis, several times a day, or according to special conditions such as public festivals and road work. On my way to the library, there used to be a section of road that was shut down for pothole repair. The traffic lights would stupidly insist on acting like anyone might come through the intersecting road despite all the damn construction equipment there, and people sat there and wasted a whole bunch of gas.

I was relieved to find out that the technology exists to implement the kind of detection necessary and is pretty widespread. (see here http://www.splatco.com/tips/loops.htm)

There is some research into these kinds of things already, but my model, when I have enough education and research data to carry it out fully, will probably differ from the existing models in some respects. There are a lot of little details that need to be taken care of, like balancing efficiency vs. not aggravating the motorists. It might be possible to train the traffic control system according to a random sample of motorist opinion, but the real efficiency still has to be considered and take priority. I also wonder about how I'll need to balance autonomy vs. input from engineers and whether somewhat different models would be more appropriate for different kinds of areas. There is a huge amount of data I'll need to look at to realize the plan and it should be quite a challenge.