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I would appreciate it if you stopped attributing to me things like the following. Thank you very much.
the lonely-at-the top vibe, of having been initiated and seeing the ideas oversimplified for us dummies down on the plain, how pure it is up there, and how tiresome it is to see those presumptuous idiots trying to will themselves up

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i see that you feel this blog might be denigrated by serious people if posters use it too much as a playground for abstractions

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people with your level of knowledge and understanding actually enjoy trying to share it, which was clearly not the case

On the latter point, this guy brodix doesn't seem actually interested in learning modern physics. He has enough with popularizations which he then uses as straw men to attack the theory he doesn't understand. Shadows in the cave, truly. And I did say I'd sit down with anyone to teach them GR from scratch. But they have to be willing to learn, which brodix is not - he's too attached to his "common sense".

The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 13th, 2009 at 06:10:12 AM EST
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Shadows in the cave, truly.
Is that a Plato reference?

he's too attached to his "common sense".
It's a very anthropocentric view, that the fantastically complex universe from the tiniest subatomic level to entire galaxy clusters should be aligned with what is considered "common sense" in the human (scale) experience.

A theoretic subatomic or galaxywide "creature" would probably have a quite differing view on "common sense" than we have...

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon Jul 13th, 2009 at 07:23:07 AM EST
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Yes, it is a Plato reference. The shadows are the metaphors from popular science.

The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 13th, 2009 at 07:25:39 AM EST
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Yeah, I thought so... You're quite the renaissance man and I'm looking forward to actually meeting you in person at some future meetup. :)

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon Jul 13th, 2009 at 07:31:05 AM EST
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