Imagine a group of 100 world-renowned scientists and military strategists. Could such a group easily wipe away the Roman empire when beamed back in time?
Imagine a group of 530 Spaniards...
At the risk of confirming every negative stereotype RationalWiki and the like have of us...have you read the Sequences? I'm reluctant to write a full response to this, but I think large parts of the Sequences were written to address some of these ideas.
I'm afraid I had the same reaction. XiXiDu's post seems to take the "shotgun" approach of listing every thought that popped into XiXiDu's head, without applying much of a filter. It's exhausting to read. Or, as one person I know put it, "XiXiDu says a lot of random shit."
If a book exists in PDF on the web somewhere, I estimate a 90% of chance of finding it by at least one of the following four methods, which altogether take only a few minutes if you're practiced at it:
Hi, The post is short, sweet and get's the point across. However I feel it could be better with a little bit more information including multiple sources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
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I think it may be time for Less Wrongers to begin to proactively, consciously ignore this troll. Hard.