Your search—“nanotech is pseudoscience”—did not match any documents.
Again, I’m looking for examples. I have heard many criticisms of nanotech—specific, science-based criticisms. You can’t be talking about those. But I’m not aware of others. Google was no help. (That wasn’t my only search term BTW, the other ones I tried also failed, that particular search term simply makes the point.)
What I want to guard against is tarring valid criticisms of nanotech and nanotech advocates by associating them with a made-up, straw man attack.
...STRAWBOSS: No one has ever proposed picking up individual atoms, and what can be done in nature to transfer groups of atoms from one molecule to another.
Fact: As written in my 1999 − 2000 emails and as written in my proposed event....… planned for 3-21-2006, at the ‘African-American Research Library and Cultural Center’, my research and development of my interface formula and ‘Astral (Fractal) Analog Attractors Subatomic Reactors’, is specific in it’s expression of enabling “analog attractors” which are used to attract or pick up individual atoms (and act on) “subatomic reactors”. This can only be encountered and performed by my interface formula “Energy =Motive x Force”.
The 2006 event proposal stated quote, This study will be an advanced understanding of new scientific discoveries such as fractal geometry, attractors, and quantum physics, as visitors seek the connection between these new scientific discoveries and Ancient Egypt’s Sacred Geometry. unquote. As myself being the presenter and instructor of this workshop, it is would be reasonable to think I should know more than what can be understood all at once. However I never proposed anything to anyone in any commercial industry nor the commercial industry itself. 2006 Proposal
http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!17!C8!0357B8537E1D/ITRC3/AARLCCITRC/
STRAWBOSS: original strawman drafted 3rd and 4th generation technology, Apps, Ipods, and all other new revolutionary forms of electronics that resulted in new interfaced operating systems since discovering the nano interface enabling nanotechnology since 2005.
Fact: When my copyrighted “analog attractors subatomic reactors” are added to my interface-formula “-/+Energy =Motive x Force” and both are interfaced and iterated it creates a new generation of technology. From my stolen and black marketed research is where all these ideas come from.
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STRAWBOSS: No one has ever proposed a macro to nano interface.
Nanotechnology is a strawman.
Fact: The formula that enables the interface that enables the nano interface that enables nanotechnology is my 1999 − 2000 copyrighted
“-/+Energy =Motive x Force”. Every aspect of the new revolutionary discoveries in the behavioral characteristics of the nano scale since 2005 are included in my copyright.
Before 2005 no new nanotechnology product ever existed or was ever heard of. And as you know that since 2000 I have had emails that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am the sole owner, author & designer of the formula th...at enables the interface that enables the nano interface that enables nanotechnology & my research & development of astral fractal analog attractors subatomic reactors that enables 3G, 4G, Wii, Apps. etc.
So-called nanotechnology actually takes my formula out of context since my technology is not limited to just the nano scale.
However, as explained in my 2000 copyright & recently discovered since 2005, on the nano scale “force” is equal to “distance & time” instead of “acceleration” as shown in the video below.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4CjZ-OkGDs
My formula & research belongs to the Kings ministry & since 1997 has remained under the guidance of the governance of the Parliament of World Religions: Declaration Towards A Global Ethic as signed by my uncle H.H. King Oseijeman Adefunmi I. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/globalethic.html
In 2005 while planning my event at the ‘African-American Research Library&Cultural Center’ with Alicia Keys as the host, to promote my research, my i-formula was discovered & “hijacked” & black marketed by “Star”, Troi Torain, host of ‘Clear Channel Communications’ 103.5 The Beat, ‘Star&Bucwild Show’ radio spy show scandal. This quickly became a conspiracy to black mail and frame me to steal my interface-formula.
Unlike E=MC, my interface formula is the first formula that doesn’t break down on the quantum level. My interface is the “Unified Field Theory” UFT Einstein looked for but never found.
in 2006 Jay-Z suddenly became a humanitarian & went on a MTV Documentary as the leader of a United Nations campaign to use new nanotechnology products to bring clean drinking water pumps to poor people in Africa.
This was in response to us & my formula. In response to the c.d. ‘Diary of Alicia Keys’&‘Tears For Water’, Jay-Z titles his MTV United Nations Campaign ‘Diary of Jay-Z, Water For Life’.
UN Watch Dog Report On Jay-Z Water For Life Campaign questions his motives & why he’s suddenly posing himself as a humanitarian in what seems to be a scam,black mail,& corporate world corruption. http://www.innercitypress.com/unhq080906.html
In the clip below the ABC News Nightline reporter expresses doubt in Jay-Z’s sudden amazing rise from Jay-Z To Mr. UN advisor on water. Jay-Z claims he chose water basically for the hell of it, but failed to explain anything else. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gzm15nFdi0
5- 06 My mother tried to give me a letter she reiceved. It was a “thank you letter” that said ‘thank you for being a great benefit & service to your community’ I had not done anything to receive such a letter. The event I had planned never got off the ground. I’ve been harassed by the world ever since.
...STRAWBOSS: No one has ever proposed picking up individual atoms, and what can be done in nature to transfer groups of atoms from one molecule to another.
Fact: As written in my 1999 − 2000 emails and as written in my proposed event....… planned for 3-21-2006, at the ‘African-American Research Library and Cultural Center’, my research and development of my interface formula and ‘Astral (Fractal) Analog Attractors Subatomic Reactors’, is specific in it’s expression of enabling “analog attractors” which are used to attract or pick up individual atoms (and act on) “subatomic reactors”. This can only be encountered and performed by my interface formula “Energy =Motive x Force”.
The 2006 event proposal stated quote, This study will be an advanced understanding of new scientific discoveries such as fractal geometry, attractors, and quantum physics, as visitors seek the connection between these new scientific discoveries and Ancient Egypt’s Sacred Geometry. unquote. As myself being the presenter and instructor of this workshop, it is would be reasonable to think I should know more than what can be understood all at once. However I never proposed anything to anyone in any commercial industry nor the commercial industry itself. 2006 Proposal
http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!17!C8!0357B8537E1D/ITRC3/AARLCCITRC/
STRAWBOSS: original strawman drafted 3rd and 4th generation technology, Apps, Ipods, and all other new revolutionary forms of electronics that resulted in new interfaced operating systems since discovering the nano interface enabling nanotechnology since 2005.
Fact: When my copyrighted “analog attractors subatomic reactors” are added to my interface-formula “-/+Energy =Motive x Force” and both are interfaced and iterated it creates a new generation of technology. From my stolen and black marketed research is where all these ideas come from.
STRAWBOSS: No one has ever proposed a macro to nano interface.
Nanotechnology is a strawman.
Fact: The formula that enables the interface that enables the nano interface that enables nanotechnology is my 1999 − 2000 copyrighted
“-/+Energy =Motive x Force”. Every aspect of the new revolutionary discoveries in the behavioral characteristics of the nano scale since 2005 are included in my copyright.
Before 2005 no new nanotechnology product ever existed or was ever heard of. And as you know that since 2000 I have had emails that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am the sole owner, author & designer of the formula th...at enables the interface that enables the nano interface that enables nanotechnology & my research & development of astral fractal analog attractors subatomic reactors that enables 3G, 4G, Wii, Apps. etc.
So-called nanotechnology actually takes my formula out of context since my technology is not limited to just the nano scale.
However, as explained in my 2000 copyright & recently discovered since 2005, on the nano scale “force” is equal to “distance & time” instead of “acceleration” as shown in the video below.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4CjZ-OkGDs
My formula & research belongs to the Kings ministry & since 1997 has remained under the guidance of the governance of the Parliament of World Religions: Declaration Towards A Global Ethic as signed by my uncle H.H. King Oseijeman Adefunmi I. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/globalethic.html
In 2005 while planning my event at the ‘African-American Research Library&Cultural Center’ with Alicia Keys as the host, to promote my research, my i-formula was discovered & “hijacked” & black marketed by “Star”, Troi Torain, host of ‘Clear Channel Communications’ 103.5 The Beat, ‘Star&Bucwild Show’ radio spy show scandal. This quickly became a conspiracy to black mail and frame me to steal my interface-formula.
Unlike E=MC, my interface formula is the first formula that doesn’t break down on the quantum level. My interface is the “Unified Field Theory” UFT Einstein looked for but never found.
in 2006 Jay-Z suddenly became a humanitarian & went on a MTV Documentary as the leader of a United Nations campaign to use new nanotechnology products to bring clean drinking water pumps to poor people in Africa.
This was in response to us & my formula. In response to the c.d. ‘Diary of Alicia Keys’&‘Tears For Water’, Jay-Z titles his MTV United Nations Campaign ‘Diary of Jay-Z, Water For Life’.
UN Watch Dog Report On Jay-Z Water For Life Campaign questions his motives & why he’s suddenly posing himself as a humanitarian in what seems to be a scam,black mail,& corporate world corruption. http://www.innercitypress.com/unhq080906.html
In the clip below the ABC News Nightline reporter expresses doubt in Jay-Z’s sudden amazing rise from Jay-Z To Mr. UN advisor on water. Jay-Z claims he chose water basically for the hell of it, but failed to explain anything else. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gzm15nFdi0
5- 06 My mother tried to give me a letter she reiceved. It was a “thank you letter” that said ‘thank you for being a great benefit & service to your community’ I had not done anything to receive such a letter. The event I had planned never got off the ground. I’ve been harassed by the world ever since.
For example, starting your post with an all-caps sentence asserting that something is “undisputedly” true makes you look like a crank. It might be obviously true, or indisputably true, but if it were actually undisputed then why would you need to point it out? It would be like saying “THE SUN IS UNDISPUTEDLY BRIGHT AND HOT”. This statement is true, but why does it deserve the all-caps treatment?
Similarly, “challenging” people to dispute an assertion sounds like you’re setting up your arguments as soldiers to defend territory against enemies, which is generally frowned upon around here.
Your comment seems to be hovering around 0 with multiple upvotes and downvotes. I suspect this is because you replied to an individual who appears with great certainty to either be a troll or to be someone with a mental illness (I don’t know if being a general crank is a mental illness per se). This individual is 1) claiming that he has revolutionary ideas relating to ancient Egypt 2) claiming that some of his ideas have been stolen from him by a popular rap-artist, 3) writing “E=MC” when he apparently means “E=MC^2″ 4) claiming that his ideas are “copyrighted” 5) claiming that nanotechnology is some sort of UN plot. Given those data points one can conclude with a high confidence that interacting with the individual will not produce any useful results and is likely to simply damage the signal to noise ratio.
Wait, how does interacting with a troll damage the signal to noise ratio? Whose signal? Whose noise?
EDIT: It has been pointed out to me that the relevant signal-to-noise ratio is in the Recent Comments feed, which makes plenty of sense. I have been convinced, and will not interact with people I perceive as trolls. Note that at no point did I reply to anything Shoga said, nor do I defend Shoga’s views, nor do I welcome Shoga’s participation on Less Wrong. I was simply trying to understand Joshua Z’s comment.
There’s an interesting point to be had here, actually: there’s an awful lot of signaling where the cost isn’t correlated with the truth of the signal. It takes just as much effort to dress up true ideas is scientific-sounding language as false ones, for example. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that the distinction is usually drawn between cheap vs. costly signaling, rather than empty vs. demonstrative signaling.
Cheap signaling of undesirable qualities is indistinguishable from failure to expensively signal desirable qualities. (Edit: not really, but it’s close enough for rock’n’roll.)
From Google:
Your search—“nanotech is pseudoscience”—did not match any documents.
Again, I’m looking for examples. I have heard many criticisms of nanotech—specific, science-based criticisms. You can’t be talking about those. But I’m not aware of others. Google was no help. (That wasn’t my only search term BTW, the other ones I tried also failed, that particular search term simply makes the point.)
What I want to guard against is tarring valid criticisms of nanotech and nanotech advocates by associating them with a made-up, straw man attack.
STRAWMAN
http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/strawman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVvC7bj26aU&feature=player_embedded
...STRAWBOSS: No one has ever proposed picking up individual atoms, and what can be done in nature to transfer groups of atoms from one molecule to another.
Fact: As written in my 1999 − 2000 emails and as written in my proposed event....… planned for 3-21-2006, at the ‘African-American Research Library and Cultural Center’, my research and development of my interface formula and ‘Astral (Fractal) Analog Attractors Subatomic Reactors’, is specific in it’s expression of enabling “analog attractors” which are used to attract or pick up individual atoms (and act on) “subatomic reactors”. This can only be encountered and performed by my interface formula “Energy =Motive x Force”.
The 2006 event proposal stated quote, This study will be an advanced understanding of new scientific discoveries such as fractal geometry, attractors, and quantum physics, as visitors seek the connection between these new scientific discoveries and Ancient Egypt’s Sacred Geometry. unquote. As myself being the presenter and instructor of this workshop, it is would be reasonable to think I should know more than what can be understood all at once. However I never proposed anything to anyone in any commercial industry nor the commercial industry itself. 2006 Proposal http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!17!C8!0357B8537E1D/ITRC3/AARLCCITRC/
STRAWBOSS: original strawman drafted 3rd and 4th generation technology, Apps, Ipods, and all other new revolutionary forms of electronics that resulted in new interfaced operating systems since discovering the nano interface enabling nanotechnology since 2005.
Fact: When my copyrighted “analog attractors subatomic reactors” are added to my interface-formula “-/+Energy =Motive x Force” and both are interfaced and iterated it creates a new generation of technology. From my stolen and black marketed research is where all these ideas come from.
x369 x639 x999
STRAWBOSS: No one has ever proposed a macro to nano interface. Nanotechnology is a strawman.
Fact: The formula that enables the interface that enables the nano interface that enables nanotechnology is my 1999 − 2000 copyrighted “-/+Energy =Motive x Force”. Every aspect of the new revolutionary discoveries in the behavioral characteristics of the nano scale since 2005 are included in my copyright.
Message from the StrawMan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVVAAk5EE2A&feature=player_embedded
Before 2005 no new nanotechnology product ever existed or was ever heard of. And as you know that since 2000 I have had emails that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am the sole owner, author & designer of the formula th...at enables the interface that enables the nano interface that enables nanotechnology & my research & development of astral fractal analog attractors subatomic reactors that enables 3G, 4G, Wii, Apps. etc.
So-called nanotechnology actually takes my formula out of context since my technology is not limited to just the nano scale.
However, as explained in my 2000 copyright & recently discovered since 2005, on the nano scale “force” is equal to “distance & time” instead of “acceleration” as shown in the video below.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4CjZ-OkGDs
If left to a free world market my formula will destroy all mankind.http://www.logictivity.com/blog/nano-weapons-of-the-future/
My formula & research belongs to the Kings ministry & since 1997 has remained under the guidance of the governance of the Parliament of World Religions: Declaration Towards A Global Ethic as signed by my uncle H.H. King Oseijeman Adefunmi I. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/globalethic.html
In 2005 while planning my event at the ‘African-American Research Library&Cultural Center’ with Alicia Keys as the host, to promote my research, my i-formula was discovered & “hijacked” & black marketed by “Star”, Troi Torain, host of ‘Clear Channel Communications’ 103.5 The Beat, ‘Star&Bucwild Show’ radio spy show scandal. This quickly became a conspiracy to black mail and frame me to steal my interface-formula.
The event included children workshop that explains my research & development of my formula for ‘astral fractal analog attractors’ & to inspire it’s progress on the nano scale. http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!17!C8!0357B8537E1D/ITRC3/AARLCCITRC/
Unlike E=MC, my interface formula is the first formula that doesn’t break down on the quantum level. My interface is the “Unified Field Theory” UFT Einstein looked for but never found.
in 2006 Jay-Z suddenly became a humanitarian & went on a MTV Documentary as the leader of a United Nations campaign to use new nanotechnology products to bring clean drinking water pumps to poor people in Africa.
This was in response to us & my formula. In response to the c.d. ‘Diary of Alicia Keys’&‘Tears For Water’, Jay-Z titles his MTV United Nations Campaign ‘Diary of Jay-Z, Water For Life’.
Diary of Alicia Keys, Tears For Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s5qXTKTGvk
Diary of Jay-Z, Water For Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbgz_mfj_0g
UN Watch Dog Report On Jay-Z Water For Life Campaign questions his motives & why he’s suddenly posing himself as a humanitarian in what seems to be a scam,black mail,& corporate world corruption. http://www.innercitypress.com/unhq080906.html
In the clip below the ABC News Nightline reporter expresses doubt in Jay-Z’s sudden amazing rise from Jay-Z To Mr. UN advisor on water. Jay-Z claims he chose water basically for the hell of it, but failed to explain anything else. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gzm15nFdi0
5-3-06 Shawn Carter BKA Jay-Z, black markets my research by introducing himself to Bill Gates. Even the blog writer senses something odd. http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/103195.asp
5- 06 My mother tried to give me a letter she reiceved. It was a “thank you letter” that said ‘thank you for being a great benefit & service to your community’ I had not done anything to receive such a letter. The event I had planned never got off the ground. I’ve been harassed by the world ever since.
5-12-06 Star is arrested in NY for offering his radio audience $500 to stalk & scandalize 4yr old daughter of a rival DJ & endangering her life. This also happened to me. http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2007/12/hey-black-america-where-is-your-outrage.html
6-8-06: Jay-Z’s introduced to HP & land an HP commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyI5OnECBoM
11-16-06: Jay-Z’s introduced to Dr.Peter Gleick,Co-Founder of Pacific Institute&worlds water editor. http://www.pacinst.org/publications/online_update/dec_2006_online_update.html#headlines
Jay-Z Underworld alibis ain’t matchin up BS catchin up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9eDdWCw2FE&feature=related
I CHALLENGE ALL THAT DISPUTE THESE FACTS.
NANOTECHNOLOGY IS A STRAWMAN AND A U.N. RACKET.
STRAWMAN
http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/strawman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVvC7bj26aU&feature=player_embedded
...STRAWBOSS: No one has ever proposed picking up individual atoms, and what can be done in nature to transfer groups of atoms from one molecule to another.
Fact: As written in my 1999 − 2000 emails and as written in my proposed event....… planned for 3-21-2006, at the ‘African-American Research Library and Cultural Center’, my research and development of my interface formula and ‘Astral (Fractal) Analog Attractors Subatomic Reactors’, is specific in it’s expression of enabling “analog attractors” which are used to attract or pick up individual atoms (and act on) “subatomic reactors”. This can only be encountered and performed by my interface formula “Energy =Motive x Force”.
The 2006 event proposal stated quote, This study will be an advanced understanding of new scientific discoveries such as fractal geometry, attractors, and quantum physics, as visitors seek the connection between these new scientific discoveries and Ancient Egypt’s Sacred Geometry. unquote. As myself being the presenter and instructor of this workshop, it is would be reasonable to think I should know more than what can be understood all at once. However I never proposed anything to anyone in any commercial industry nor the commercial industry itself. 2006 Proposal http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!17!C8!0357B8537E1D/ITRC3/AARLCCITRC/
STRAWBOSS: original strawman drafted 3rd and 4th generation technology, Apps, Ipods, and all other new revolutionary forms of electronics that resulted in new interfaced operating systems since discovering the nano interface enabling nanotechnology since 2005.
Fact: When my copyrighted “analog attractors subatomic reactors” are added to my interface-formula “-/+Energy =Motive x Force” and both are interfaced and iterated it creates a new generation of technology. From my stolen and black marketed research is where all these ideas come from.
STRAWBOSS: No one has ever proposed a macro to nano interface. Nanotechnology is a strawman.
Fact: The formula that enables the interface that enables the nano interface that enables nanotechnology is my 1999 − 2000 copyrighted “-/+Energy =Motive x Force”. Every aspect of the new revolutionary discoveries in the behavioral characteristics of the nano scale since 2005 are included in my copyright.
Message from the StrawMan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVVAAk5EE2A&feature=player_embedded
Before 2005 no new nanotechnology product ever existed or was ever heard of. And as you know that since 2000 I have had emails that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am the sole owner, author & designer of the formula th...at enables the interface that enables the nano interface that enables nanotechnology & my research & development of astral fractal analog attractors subatomic reactors that enables 3G, 4G, Wii, Apps. etc.
So-called nanotechnology actually takes my formula out of context since my technology is not limited to just the nano scale.
However, as explained in my 2000 copyright & recently discovered since 2005, on the nano scale “force” is equal to “distance & time” instead of “acceleration” as shown in the video below.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4CjZ-OkGDs
If left to a free world market my formula will destroy all mankind.http://www.logictivity.com/blog/nano-weapons-of-the-future/
My formula & research belongs to the Kings ministry & since 1997 has remained under the guidance of the governance of the Parliament of World Religions: Declaration Towards A Global Ethic as signed by my uncle H.H. King Oseijeman Adefunmi I. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/globalethic.html
In 2005 while planning my event at the ‘African-American Research Library&Cultural Center’ with Alicia Keys as the host, to promote my research, my i-formula was discovered & “hijacked” & black marketed by “Star”, Troi Torain, host of ‘Clear Channel Communications’ 103.5 The Beat, ‘Star&Bucwild Show’ radio spy show scandal. This quickly became a conspiracy to black mail and frame me to steal my interface-formula.
The event included children workshop that explains my research & development of my formula for ‘astral fractal analog attractors’ & to inspire it’s progress on the nano scale. http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!17!C8!0357B8537E1D/ITRC3/AARLCCITRC/
Unlike E=MC, my interface formula is the first formula that doesn’t break down on the quantum level. My interface is the “Unified Field Theory” UFT Einstein looked for but never found.
in 2006 Jay-Z suddenly became a humanitarian & went on a MTV Documentary as the leader of a United Nations campaign to use new nanotechnology products to bring clean drinking water pumps to poor people in Africa.
This was in response to us & my formula. In response to the c.d. ‘Diary of Alicia Keys’&‘Tears For Water’, Jay-Z titles his MTV United Nations Campaign ‘Diary of Jay-Z, Water For Life’.
Diary of Alicia Keys, Tears For Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s5qXTKTGvk
Diary of Jay-Z, Water For Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbgz_mfj_0g
UN Watch Dog Report On Jay-Z Water For Life Campaign questions his motives & why he’s suddenly posing himself as a humanitarian in what seems to be a scam,black mail,& corporate world corruption. http://www.innercitypress.com/unhq080906.html
In the clip below the ABC News Nightline reporter expresses doubt in Jay-Z’s sudden amazing rise from Jay-Z To Mr. UN advisor on water. Jay-Z claims he chose water basically for the hell of it, but failed to explain anything else. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gzm15nFdi0
5-3-06 Shawn Carter BKA Jay-Z, black markets my research by introducing himself to Bill Gates. Even the blog writer senses something odd. http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/103195.asp
5- 06 My mother tried to give me a letter she reiceved. It was a “thank you letter” that said ‘thank you for being a great benefit & service to your community’ I had not done anything to receive such a letter. The event I had planned never got off the ground. I’ve been harassed by the world ever since.
5-12-06 Star is arrested in NY for offering his radio audience $500 to stalk & scandalize 4yr old daughter of a rival DJ & endangering her life. This also happened to me. http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2007/12/hey-black-america-where-is-your-outrage.html
6-8-06: Jay-Z’s introduced to HP & land an HP commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyI5OnECBoM
11-16-06: Jay-Z’s introduced to Dr.Peter Gleick,Co-Founder of Pacific Institute&worlds water editor. http://www.pacinst.org/publications/online_update/dec_2006_online_update.html#headlines
Jay-Z Underworld alibis ain’t matchin up BS catchin up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9eDdWCw2FE&feature=related
You’re signaling poorly for this community.
For example, starting your post with an all-caps sentence asserting that something is “undisputedly” true makes you look like a crank. It might be obviously true, or indisputably true, but if it were actually undisputed then why would you need to point it out? It would be like saying “THE SUN IS UNDISPUTEDLY BRIGHT AND HOT”. This statement is true, but why does it deserve the all-caps treatment?
Similarly, “challenging” people to dispute an assertion sounds like you’re setting up your arguments as soldiers to defend territory against enemies, which is generally frowned upon around here.
Your comment seems to be hovering around 0 with multiple upvotes and downvotes. I suspect this is because you replied to an individual who appears with great certainty to either be a troll or to be someone with a mental illness (I don’t know if being a general crank is a mental illness per se). This individual is 1) claiming that he has revolutionary ideas relating to ancient Egypt 2) claiming that some of his ideas have been stolen from him by a popular rap-artist, 3) writing “E=MC” when he apparently means “E=MC^2″ 4) claiming that his ideas are “copyrighted” 5) claiming that nanotechnology is some sort of UN plot. Given those data points one can conclude with a high confidence that interacting with the individual will not produce any useful results and is likely to simply damage the signal to noise ratio.
Wait, how does interacting with a troll damage the signal to noise ratio? Whose signal? Whose noise?
EDIT: It has been pointed out to me that the relevant signal-to-noise ratio is in the Recent Comments feed, which makes plenty of sense. I have been convinced, and will not interact with people I perceive as trolls. Note that at no point did I reply to anything Shoga said, nor do I defend Shoga’s views, nor do I welcome Shoga’s participation on Less Wrong. I was simply trying to understand Joshua Z’s comment.
It clutters up the Recent Comments feed. We’d rather it contained neither trolls nor responses to trolls.
Thanks.
Signaling is not the problem here. Communication of inability to think clearly was quite reliable.
There’s an interesting point to be had here, actually: there’s an awful lot of signaling where the cost isn’t correlated with the truth of the signal. It takes just as much effort to dress up true ideas is scientific-sounding language as false ones, for example. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that the distinction is usually drawn between cheap vs. costly signaling, rather than empty vs. demonstrative signaling.
The salient question is, signaling of what, not signaling in what sense.
Cheap signaling of undesirable qualities is indistinguishable from failure to expensively signal desirable qualities. (Edit: not really, but it’s close enough for rock’n’roll.)