AndrewHickey comments on Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don’t Implement Themselves - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimFreeman 10 May 2011 09:40:12PM 4 points [-]

The Tipler/Obama/aether connection seemed bizarre enough that I looked it up:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-vs-einstein/

Some quotes:

  • Einstein’s general relativity is just a special case of Newtonian gravity theory incorporating the ether

  • Hamilton-Jacobi theory is deterministic, hence quantum mechanics is equally deterministic

  • There was absolutely nothing revolutionary about twentieth century physics.

I agree on the "random" part.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 May 2011 09:59:41PM 3 points [-]

That's nothing. Read the full paper - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1271310 . Forty-five pages of the most gloriously wrong thinking you'll ever come across in your life.

But then he'll come out with a piece of utterly lucid reasoning on applying Bayes' theorem to the Born probabilities like http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0611245 . Very, very strange man.

Comment author: gwern 11 May 2011 01:58:12AM 3 points [-]

I think this is a relevant rationality quote: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2ev/rationality_quotes_july_2010/28nw