If an idiot and a genius disagree, the idiot generally thinks the genius is wrong. He also has lots of idiot reasons to back his idiot belief. That's how the idiot mind is wired.
It's fair to say you disagree with Adams. But you can't rule out the hypothesis that you're too dumb to understand what he's saying.
And he's a certified genius. Just sayin'.
also
what if gravity wasn't real and things were just getting bigger? lol lol it's just a thought experiment
but seriously what if gravity wasn't real and things were just getting bigger
IIRC he kept going with it, because he is very smart and wow all those small-minded science-believers can't handle his open mind and won't even entertain the concept that gravity isn't real and things just keep on getting bigger instead.
also The Secret
gonna do nlp at you until you admit that i i mean scott is the smartest person
edit: good lord I don't know if i'd read this piece before https://www.scottadamssays.com/2015/08/17/wizard-wars/
the paragraph beginning "Now, for perhaps the second or third time in history," is worth the pain of reading the bits leading up to it
Wizard wars was hilarious and sad, hilarious that he just grabs all kinds of scientific and non scientific fields, and various people (with a nice selection of 'winners bias') and goes 'this is wizardry'. (Also hilarious are the super obvious rhetorical/psychological tricks he performs in his writing, it isn't subtle at all) But then sad because people actually believe him.
Ideas like "search for American inventor in Google Images" and "Type 'Biden has d' into Google and see what autofills" are definitely above my pay grade. I leave big issues to genius folk like Scott.
I’ll allow it this time because it was my birthday yesterday and I’m
too hungover to reliably find the ban or remove buttons, but generally
not this Scott
Maybe it's a bridge too far, but I envisioned this as more of a sneer-with than a sneer-at. A fairly common sneer around here is Bayesianism unhinged from informed priors. Which is analogous to what Dilbert is doing.
Maybe I'm missing the point, since I thought the point of this sub was to make fun of people who sneer at other people thinking they're intellectually superior, rather than for us to sneer at other people/things.
Right, I've read the sidebar, I thought the sidebar was talking about reactionary atheist/"rationalist" assholes who "sneer" at leftists. I apologize for the misunderstanding.
The name is taken from Yudkowsky talking about his critics. It's been adopted here as a criticism of him. The sidebar is a quote from Yudkowsky.
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sneer_Club
I thought it was some sort of hyper-intellectual literary trick employed with the purpose of filtering people who can't get it. From that assertion I deduced that asking: "are we the sneerers or the sneerees", was some sort of rite of passage of the intellectual left.
Oh, this is the wingnut Scott.
I’ll allow it this time because it was my birthday yesterday and I’m too hungover to reliably find the ban or remove buttons, but generally not this Scott
All the Scotts. Scott is just a cursed name.
I think I’m missing the point; what am I supposed to be sneering at here?