wedrifid comments on Configurations and Amplitude - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 16 April 2012 03:53:37PM 5 points [-]

It is not that I am dull, it is that my questions and ideas are a threat to your religious world view.

You overestimate the threat that you pose. Your ideas are mostly harmless. Actually I believe having you here for a little bit was a net benefit to us. Trying to explain things across overwhelming inferential distance (and to people who are not @#%$@s) is useful. As is seeing other people attempting to do the same.

All the experimenting with imaginary numbers will not explain a thing about reality. It is relgion plain and simple.

Didn't anyone tell you? We Believe that Eliezer is the reincarnation of Pythagoras come to share the Good News about imaginary numbers and complex amplitudes.

Well, I was going to describe a hypothesis and rationally explain a theory to you that answers all questions and unites everything. Yes, you heard right, a Grand Unified Theory....but my GUT tells me you prefer "point-less" discussions.

Teehee. You have a Grand Unified Theory that doesn't use mathematics. That's adorable.

Comment author: TimS 17 April 2012 01:41:45AM 4 points [-]

As evidenced by his response to your comment, we are well into feeding-the-troll. Please stop.

I admit that this wasn't clear earlier in the discussion, which made the conversation worthwhile. (especially when he agreed to consider the community argument for empiricism by reading the first sequence) But enough is enough.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 May 2012 05:55:23PM 2 points [-]

Actually I believe having you here for a little bit was a net benefit to us.

Is this still true?

Comment author: Monkeymind 04 May 2012 10:44:34PM 0 points [-]

Well, I hope it has been a benefit to some. I'm just testing ideas out and wanting to learn and I have learned some things... so great!

Judging from the lack of counterarguments, accusations, dodging, strawmen, shifting of goal posts, and so forth, the ideas I am sharing strike at the heart of folks belief system.