That guy went by the handle Caledonian in the days of joint EY/RH blogging at Overcoming Bias and the handle Annoyance after LW was created. He also managed to annoy PZ Myers into banning him from Pharyngula years ago.
Yeah, I knew that blogger was Caledonian. I never understood the cause of the feud between him and Eliezer, though.
Getting banned by Myers isn't exactly difficult, though. The man is extremely prone to righteous anger.
Link.
To provide some background: Kimiko, the main character, is moving to Nephilopolis, where all empiricism is strictly regulated by the Department of Inquisition: "You couldn't so much as make an observation based judgment without a license." Since her bag is lost, she has no references, so she was rejected and is attempting to appeal.
My first reaction was that the Department is acting ridiculous. But on further consideration, given the futuristic setting, it would actually be quite plausible that she's a hologram or an automaton or something of the sort (I do wonder why they don't mention this hypothesis).
So, discuss! Just how ridiculous are they being? What do you think of this "credibility score" idea? Or, if you were to implement such a score, how would it be determined and how would it be administrated?
This comic was also a convenient excuse to offer my apologies for delays getting started on the sequence I posted about. I've been having a really rough time with some house issues, though it looks like the worst of it may blow over in the next day or two. I'm going to cautiously say the first post will be out early- to mid-next week.