And to some extent you know that your heuristics for identifying cranks is not going to solely pop out at people who are forever lost to crankdom because you haven’t just abandoned the conversation.
I liked your old posts and your old research and your old ideas. I still have some hope you can reflect on the points you’ve made here, and your arguments against my probes, and feel a twinge of doubt, or motivation, pull on that a little, and end up with a worldview that makes predictions, lets you have & make genuine arguments, and gives you novel ideas.
If you were always lazy, I wouldn’t be having this conversation, but once you were not.
No it doesn’t. I obviously understood my old posts (and still do—the posts make sense if I imagine ignoring LDSL). So I’m capable of understanding whether I’ve found something that reveals problems in them. It’s possible I’m communicating LDSL poorly, or that you are too ignorant to understand it, or that I’m overestimating how broadly it applies, but those are far more realistic than that I’ve become a pure crank. If you still prefer my old posts to my new posts, then I must know something relevant you don’t know.
I liked your old posts and your old research and your old ideas. I still have some hope you can reflect on the points you’ve made here, and your arguments against my probes, and feel a twinge of doubt, or motivation, pull on that a little, and end up with a worldview that makes predictions, lets you have & make genuine arguments, and gives you novel ideas.
If you were always lazy, I wouldn’t be having this conversation, but once you were not.
A lot of my new writing is as a result of the conclusions of or in response to my old research ideas.
Of course it is, I did not think otherwise, but my point stands.
No it doesn’t. I obviously understood my old posts (and still do—the posts make sense if I imagine ignoring LDSL). So I’m capable of understanding whether I’ve found something that reveals problems in them. It’s possible I’m communicating LDSL poorly, or that you are too ignorant to understand it, or that I’m overestimating how broadly it applies, but those are far more realistic than that I’ve become a pure crank. If you still prefer my old posts to my new posts, then I must know something relevant you don’t know.