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What was the project about and why was it obviously hopeless?
Here is the relevant kickstarter. It's a kickstarter for a media campaign to promote an already-written book.
Ugh, it puts a review of itself at every pledge level.
Shoot me now. No cryonics.
Seven people have put in $700 each. I'm hoping it's the author putting in money to make the project look good, but I have no strong reason to think that's the case.
What's really annoying is that "how a godless universe creates" is actually a question that probably needs to be answered more times, or at least I was explaining to a friend that there's no evidence that life needs more than time and randomness to come into existence.
"Entropy is wrong" is where I stopped reading the Kickstarter.
Wow. What can that phrase even mean?
... morally :P
Good point. Screw entropy. :P
Uhm, time should run backwards?
Philip K. Dick did say that it should run backwards! I forgot how his line went, though.
Google it and you land on a promised book by Howard Bloom, which also promotes "heresies" like "a does not equal a" and "one plus one does not equal two", as a way to understand "how a godless cosmos creates".
So these are deliberately paradoxical slogans, being used to hype what may be quite mundane insights. "Entropy is wrong" could just mean "despite the second law, growth and evolution are possible".
Fundraising is the mind-killer.
So they could have said... "There is plenty of neg-entropy out there. Burn it to make fun stuff happen!"?
I really hope this piece of crackpottery does not reach its target.
ETA: Well, it did, which I guess was inevitable. I just read the Kickstarter TOS, and I can't see any prohibition against gaming their system for publicity instead of raising money, by donating to your own Kickstarter to reach its target, then getting most of your own money back. So it wouldn't be libellous to speculate if this had just happened.