sam harris is easily the worst horseman. Hitchens, Dawkins and Dennet all at least made useful contributions to science or to thought more generally. Sam Harris is just pseudo-intellectual smugness personified
Someone can be smart in some ways and not in others and there is a reason people should retire as they get into their 60’s. Linus pauling had this thing about vitamin C curing colds and doing other things after the age of 65. He was a very smart person though. dwarkins is in like his 80’s now.
And also, people tend to confuse their expertise in one field with expertise in other fields.
For example, I remember reading about a scientist saying climate change is no big deal because it’s only a zero point something relative increase of temperature in Kelvin.
yeah the pauling thing was funny to because this periodical decided that they would publish things without peer review for established folks in the filed figuring they no longer needed to be checked.
yeah im not really up on athiest drama per se. Im a long time agnostic who finally got off the fence but not super connected to it as a community although I do like tst.
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Dawkins may very well be the worst thing to have happened to atheism
possibly unpopular opinion: sam harris is runner-up or at least in the running
sam harris is easily the worst horseman. Hitchens, Dawkins and Dennet all at least made useful contributions to science or to thought more generally. Sam Harris is just pseudo-intellectual smugness personified
The 4 new atheists and their neck bearded fedora wearing edgelord movement, basically
For someone so ostensibly smart, his elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.
Someone can be smart in some ways and not in others and there is a reason people should retire as they get into their 60’s. Linus pauling had this thing about vitamin C curing colds and doing other things after the age of 65. He was a very smart person though. dwarkins is in like his 80’s now.
And also, people tend to confuse their expertise in one field with expertise in other fields.
For example, I remember reading about a scientist saying climate change is no big deal because it’s only a zero point something relative increase of temperature in Kelvin.
Of course, they were a physicist.
yeah the pauling thing was funny to because this periodical decided that they would publish things without peer review for established folks in the filed figuring they no longer needed to be checked.
Sounds like a terrible publication.
on hindsite yeah. But I think it was good in that it did a good job of idendifying how important peer review is.
Mostly I was just trying to make a double-meaning sort of joke about "Elevatorgate" and how fucked up his part in that whole thing was.
yeah im not really up on athiest drama per se. Im a long time agnostic who finally got off the fence but not super connected to it as a community although I do like tst.
no gods, no masters,
only computer
that's what's funny to me. we cant even prove consciousness in people
Go to any Walmart on a Sunday afternoon and tell me any of those people are conscious
I spent 3 days trying to persuade myself I have consciousness and failed.
failure: success
Error: error?
Did you really create this content?
god no!
you mean "claude no!"?
daddy claude
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