Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI
by magicalist on Thursday April 27, 2017 @01:38AM
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> Try to discuss this and the usual conduct of "true-believers" is NOT to show where your thinking is wrong, but to simply call you an idiot.
They say "give me evidence", because so far they have an enormous mountain of evidence that SR and GR describe reality well.
That doesn't excuse people being jerks -- science should be welcoming, not alienating -- but it does mean "well, have you considered X" is almost always coming from a place of ignorance, not well informed skepticism. Some impatience with the cranks of the world has to be excused.
They say "give me evidence", because so far they have an enormous mountain of evidence that SR and GR describe reality well.
That doesn't excuse people being jerks -- science should be welcoming, not alienating -- but it does mean "well, have you considered X" is almost always coming from a place of ignorance, not well informed skepticism. Some impatience with the cranks of the world has to be excused.