The “skeptic” opens by remarking about the crazy true believers and wishful thinkers who believe in X, where there seem to be a surprising number of physicists making up the population of those wacky cult victims who believe in X. (The physicist-test is not an infallible indicator of rightness or even non-stupidity, but it’s a filter that rapidly picks up on, say, strong AI, molecular nanotechnology, cryonics, the many-worlds interpretation, and so on.) Bonus point losses if the “skeptic” remarks on how easily physicists are seduced by sci-fi ideas.
This seems like a bad metric. Perhaps if it was changed to “domain experts”.
Physicists are not domain experts on everything and can have some nutty beliefs about fields outside of their area.
This seems like a bad metric. Perhaps if it was changed to “domain experts”.
Physicists are not domain experts on everything and can have some nutty beliefs about fields outside of their area.