Kook Index
David B. Held
"kookability" of some of the more regular posters here.
Low means "not kook" and high means "very kook". Here's
a tenative list with my votes (in the order in which I happen
to remember the names):
David Longley: 6
Glen Sizemore: 3
Curt Welch: 3
patty: 1
Eray Ozkural: 1
Ken Collins: 8
Arthur T. Murray: 10
Lester Zick: 4
David Held: ? (go ahead and give me a 10 if you like ;)
Neil Rickert: 1.5 (for not buying into Fredkinism ;> )
These are just people whose posts I've actually read now
and then, which is why I don't include other posters that are
obviously prolific. Feel free to add names if you have an
opinion.
Dave
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qw6
Yet this NG is still the dullest I've seen. 0 less kooks in this NG
as I am leaving.
George Bush
JPL Verhey
My subjective, totally untestable and unjustified intensional scorelist,
based on posts that made most sense to me, sound sensible or provoked more
interest in a subject:
David Longleg: 4
Darth Sizemore: 8
Curt Welch: 6
patty: 2
Eray Ozkural: 2
Ken Collins: 5 (a pitty he doesn't have it-all on some website??)
Arthur T. Murray: dunno
Lester Zick: 1
David Held: 2
Neil Rickert: dunno
qw6: 1,5
"David B. Held" <dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> wrote in message
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ken
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> "kookability" of some of the more regular posters here.
> Low means "not kook" and high means "very kook". Here's
> a tenative list with my votes (in the order in which I happen
> to remember the names):
>
> David Longley: 6
> Glen Sizemore: 3
> Curt Welch: 3
> patty: 1
> Eray Ozkural: 1
> Ken Collins: 8
> Arthur T. Murray: 10
> Lester Zick: 4
> David Held: ? (go ahead and give me a 10 if you like ;)
> Neil Rickert: 1.5 (for not buying into Fredkinism ;> )
>
> These are just people whose posts I've actually read now
> and then, which is why I don't include other posters that are
> obviously prolific. Feel free to add names if you have an
> opinion.
'sorry' -- no 'fish', here.
k. p. collins
John H.
penultimate freak, just ask my friends. I take offence at not recording a
level on your kookometer. Unacceptable conduct on your part, you are now my
arch enemy, I shall hunt you down and machete you to death for excluding me
from such a prestigious list. Give me a rating or I'll hunt you down like a
wild dog.
John H.
"David B. Held" <dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> wrote in message
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Neil W Rickert
>Just for fun, I thought we could vote on "kook credibility" or
>"kookability" of some of the more regular posters here.
>Low means "not kook" and high means "very kook". Here's
>a tenative list with my votes (in the order in which I happen
>to remember the names):
>David Longley: 6
>Glen Sizemore: 3
>Curt Welch: 3
>patty: 1
>Eray Ozkural: 1
>Ken Collins: 8
>Arthur T. Murray: 10
>Lester Zick: 4
>David Held: ? (go ahead and give me a 10 if you like ;)
>Neil Rickert: 1.5 (for not buying into Fredkinism ;> )
Your score for Longley is way too low.
Your score for Arthur is too high. At least he is able to laugh at
himself now and then. Sizemore's score should be higher than that of
Zick. Hmm, Ken's score should also be higher than Zick's.
ken
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It's 'hilarious' - my 'score' is higher than Zick's :-]
Give me "1000".
It'll make no difference with respect to what I
post, nor with respect to the fact that there's
been only one forced-correction to anything
that I've posted, and that only because I act-
ually wasn't discussing what was corrected.
So, if I'm a "kook", then what does such
absence of correction say about everyone
else? :-])
ken
Lester Zick
<dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>Just for fun, I thought we could vote on "kook credibility" or
>"kookability" of some of the more regular posters here.
>Low means "not kook" and high means "very kook". Here's
>a tenative list with my votes (in the order in which I happen
>to remember the names):
>
>David Longley: 6
>Glen Sizemore: 3
>Curt Welch: 3
>patty: 1
>Eray Ozkural: 1
>Ken Collins: 8
>Arthur T. Murray: 10
>Lester Zick: 4
>David Held: ? (go ahead and give me a 10 if you like ;)
>Neil Rickert: 1.5 (for not buying into Fredkinism ;> )
>
>These are just people whose posts I've actually read now
>and then, which is why I don't include other posters that are
>obviously prolific. Feel free to add names if you have an
>opinion.
>
Ah. The one true universal antikook pronounces judgment. The problem
is that we're all kooks. Some of us have just made greater progress
remediating the kookiness.
Regards - Lester
Lester Zick
<p...@nospamwhatsoever.nu> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
> Thank God you left me out ;)
>
>My subjective, totally untestable and unjustified intensional scorelist,
>based on posts that made most sense to me, sound sensible or provoked more
>interest in a subject:
>
> David Longleg: 4
> Darth Sizemore: 8
> Curt Welch: 6
> patty: 2
> Eray Ozkural: 2
> Ken Collins: 5 (a pitty he doesn't have it-all on some website??)
> Arthur T. Murray: dunno
> Lester Zick: 1
> David Held: 2
> Neil Rickert: dunno
> qw6: 1,5
Certainly makes sense to me.
Regards - Lester
Lester Zick
comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>Oh come on David, this is insulting, how come I'm not on the list? I am the
>penultimate freak, just ask my friends. I take offence at not recording a
>level on your kookometer. Unacceptable conduct on your part, you are now my
>arch enemy, I shall hunt you down and machete you to death for excluding me
>from such a prestigious list. Give me a rating or I'll hunt you down like a
>wild dog.
>
>
>
>John H.
I wondered the same. You probably just need more at bats.
Regards - Lester
Curt Welch
> Just for fun, I thought we could vote on "kook credibility" or
> "kookability" of some of the more regular posters here.
> Low means "not kook" and high means "very kook". Here's
> a tenative list with my votes (in the order in which I happen
> to remember the names):
>
> David Longley: 6
> Glen Sizemore: 3
> Curt Welch: 3
I'd give this idiot at least a 5!
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David B. Held
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> [...]
> My subjective, totally untestable and unjustified intensional
> scorelist, based on posts that made most sense to me, sound
> sensible or provoked more interest in a subject:
Hey, we only want exacting logically-derived scientific
judgements here. There's no room for waffling or fudging on
this list!
> David Longleg: 4
> Darth Sizemore: 8
> Curt Welch: 6
> patty: 2
> Eray Ozkural: 2
> Ken Collins: 5 (a pitty he doesn't have it-all on some website??)
> Arthur T. Murray: dunno
> Lester Zick: 1
> David Held: 2
> Neil Rickert: dunno
> qw6: 1,5
Hahaha! qw6 isn't a kook, he's a troll. That's why I added him
to my killfile (well, OE doesn't exactly have a "killfile", but close
enuf). Anyway, the fact that you give Lester Zick a 1 tells me
that either A) your score must match Lester's, or B) you *are*
Lester! Anyway, Curt is flaky, but I wouldn't say he's gone into
full-blown kookdom yet. He's just a bit over-enthusiastic. At
least he can still laugh at himself. The way Longley takes himself
so seriously, on the other hand, demands a higher score, if you
ask me.
My guess is that you give Glen a high score because you lock
horns with him a lot. But I don't think that justifies a high kook
score. I disagree with Rickert on a lot of stuff, but I wouldn't
call him a kook. Since I gave Lester a 4, that implies I should
give you a 4 as well, but your posts don't seem that far out in
left field. I'd have to give you a 2, probably.
Dave
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David B. Held
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> Oh come on David, this is insulting, how come I'm not on the list?
I haven't read many of your posts. My kookmeter registered
"insufficient sample". Anyway, you should join the fun and
cast your votes. Maybe an average of everyone's votes will
say something interesting about the group.
Dave
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David B. Held
> >David Longley: 6
> >Glen Sizemore: 3
> >Curt Welch: 3
> >patty: 1
> >Eray Ozkural: 1
> >Ken Collins: 8
> >Arthur T. Murray: 10
> >Lester Zick: 4
> >David Held: ? (go ahead and give me a 10 if you like ;)
> >Neil Rickert: 1.5 (for not buying into Fredkinism ;> )
>
> Your score for Longley is way too low.
I think Longley is more of a parrot than a kook, but that might
be splitting hairs.
> Your score for Arthur is too high. At least he is able to laugh
> at himself now and then.
Yet at other times, he can be very bombastic, and in an oh-so-
serious way. That bumps up the kook-o-meter by my
calibration. And if what the Mentifex-expose site says is true,
I believe Arthur is the only one who has paid to have a kook
book published. That's one-up on Longley, even! I mean, have
you *seen* the ASCII art? Have you *seen* how convinced he
is that those are drawings of *real practical value*? Arthur is
a nutcase through and through.
> Sizemore's score should be higher than that of Zick.
Perhaps you can explain Lester's "differential mathematics"
to me. It certainly doesn't look anything like differential equations
from calculus. I especially want to know how the "distance
between 'apple' and 'orange'" is a number. Whenever people
invent their own math, and do so very poorly, I have to bump
their kook score. Something so fundamental usually builds
a rotten foundation for bigger ideas. That's also why Ken
gets a high score (though for other reasons besides).
> Hmm, Ken's score should also be higher than Zick's.
And on my scale, it is. Not only does Ken have a non-
mainstream view of math (which has not been shown to
be useful or even consistent), he also has some flaky
ideas about physics. And his bizarre posting style and
emotional outbursts indicate a fair amount of kookocity
to me.
Dave
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David Longley
<dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> writes
you travel much? Note how concerned you are to make alliances....
If you like this kind of "activity", you should look up "Personal
Construct Theory" (originally by George Kelly, first created remarkably
close to when "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" was published back in 1951).
They even got round to using computers! I'm not sure how popular it
still is, but they used to get clients to generate a whole load of
bi-polar constructs and elements and then subject this Repertory Grid to
multi-dimensional scaling, principal components analysis etc to show how
one made sense of the world! Much loved by organisations intrigued by
what their employees think.
But note - all it basically tells one is how one is disposed to verbally
behave, and in your case - there's no need for PCA* etc - it's obvious.
You're just showing is what an arrogant and ignorant you are prepared to
be. Don't kid yourself that having an education in some areas in any way
protects you from behaving that way elsewhere!
* As I've said elsewhere, use of this sort of statistical technology in
mentalistic contexts of propositional attitude (other than de dicto) is
highly dubious to the point of being pseudo-science.
--
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David Longley
<dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> writes
>"John H." <johnh@faraway.> wrote in message
>news:408b...@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>> Oh come on David, this is insulting, how come I'm not on the list?
>> [...]
>
>I haven't read many of your posts. My kookmeter registered
>"insufficient sample". Anyway, you should join the fun and
>cast your votes. Maybe an average of everyone's votes will
>say something interesting about the group.
>
>Dave
No, it will just tell you something about their current verbal
dispositions. But that is what some of us have been saying needs to
change as part of a more general repertoire that needs change.
Looks like your metering is far too limited a practice by the way.
--
David Longley
Neil W Rickert
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>> Sizemore's score should be higher than that of Zick.
>Perhaps you can explain Lester's "differential mathematics"
>to me.
Lester cannot explain that himself. I have tried several times to
draw out an explanation.
But you are right. I withdraw my disagreement on the relative
position of Zick and Sizemore.
David Longley
<ricke...@cs.niu.edu> writes
You won't get matters any clearer playing politics Rickert. You've tried
that before and all you got was a bad dose of hysteria! What you really
need to do is look into why you've stopped learning.
Maybe you should have a chat with Minsky on that score - he's interested
in the same question apparently (albeit perhaps more widely). You
clearly don't listen to what I have to say, or any other teachers aka
"dogmatists" (on the planet Rickertia).
--
David Longley
Arthur T. Murray
>
>> Your score for Arthur is too high. At least he is able to laugh
>> at himself now and then.
>
> Yet at other times, he can be very bombastic,
> and in an oh-so-serious way.
http://www.nanomagazine.com/i.php?id=01_10_24
http://www.sl4.org/archive/0205/3829.html
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/307824.307853
> That bumps up the kook-o-meter by my calibration.
> And if what the Mentifex-expose site says is true,
> I believe Arthur is the only one who has paid to have
> a kook book published. That's one-up on Longley, even!
You meant to say "cook book", right? AI4U = "AI Cook Book".
http://isbn.nu/0595654371 -- hardbound AI4U textbook sources;
http://isbn.nu/0595259227 -- paperback AI4U textbook sources;
http://robots.net/person/AI4U/ -- personal info about author.
> I mean, have you *seen* the ASCII art? Have you *seen* how
> convinced he is that those are drawings of *real practical value*?
> Arthur is a nutcase through and through.
What if your ostensible "kook" is a messenger from the future bringing
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ai - solution to artificial intelligence?
What if the following Cognitive Architecture is the Seed AI you need?
Artificial Life of the Immortal Robot Mind (Main Alife Mind Loop)
--- Security
--- --- HCI (Human-Computer Interaction)
--- --- Rejuvenate (for cyborg immortality)
--- --- psiDecay
--- --- Ego
--- Sensorium
--- --- Audition
--- --- --- Listen
--- --- --- --- audSTM (auditory Short Term Memory)
--- --- --- --- --- audRecog (auditory Recognition)
--- --- --- oldConcept
--- --- --- --- Parser
--- --- --- --- --- Instantiate
--- --- --- --- Activate
--- --- --- --- --- spreadAct (spreading Activation)
--- --- --- newConcept (machine learning)
--- --- --- --- enVocab (English Vocabulary)
--- --- --- --- Parser
--- --- --- --- --- Instantiate
--- Emotion
--- --- Cognitive Component
--- --- --- Physiological Component
--- Think
--- --- Activate
--- --- --- spreadAct (spreading Activation)
--- --- English
--- --- --- Ask
--- --- --- --- wtAuxSDo (whatDoSubjectsDo?)
--- --- --- --- --- Speech
--- --- --- --- --- --- Reentry
--- --- --- negSVO
--- --- --- --- auxVerb
--- --- --- --- --- Speech
--- --- --- --- --- --- Reentry
--- --- --- SVO (Subject+Verb+Object)
--- --- --- --- nounPhrase
--- --- --- --- --- Reify
--- --- --- --- --- Speech
--- --- --- --- --- --- Reentry
--- --- --- --- --- Activate
--- --- --- --- --- --- spreadAct
--- --- --- --- verbPhrase
--- --- --- --- --- Reify
--- --- --- --- --- Speech
--- --- --- --- --- --- Reentry
--- --- --- --- --- nounPhrase
--- --- --- --- Conjoin
--- --- --- --- --- Speech
--- --- --- --- --- --- Reentry
--- Volition
--- Motorium
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ken
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> "Neil W Rickert" <ricke...@cs.niu.edu> wrote in message
> news:c6gi4m$h6b$1...@usenet.cso.niu.edu...
> > [...]
> [...]
> > Hmm, Ken's score should also be higher than Zick's.
>
> And on my scale, it is. Not only does Ken have a non-
> mainstream view of math (which has not been shown to
> be useful or even consistent), he also has some flaky
> ideas about physics. And his bizarre posting style and
> emotional outbursts indicate a fair amount of kookocity
> to me.
No fish here.
k. p. collins
Neil W Rickert
>What if your ostensible "kook" is a messenger from the future bringing
>http://freshmeat.net/projects/ai - solution to artificial intelligence?
He isn't.
>What if the following Cognitive Architecture is the Seed AI you need?
It isn't.
David B. Held
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> [...]
> > That bumps up the kook-o-meter by my calibration.
> > And if what the Mentifex-expose site says is true,
> > I believe Arthur is the only one who has paid to have
> > a kook book published. That's one-up on Longley, even!
>
> You meant to say "cook book", right? AI4U = "AI Cook Book".
LOL!!! Yeah, they're right. At least you can have a laugh
now and then. You're still a nutcase, though.
David B. Held
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> [...]
> No, it will just tell you something about their current verbal
> dispositions. But that is what some of us have been saying
> needs to change as part of a more general repertoire that
> needs change.
>
> Looks like your metering is far too limited a practice by the way.
Do you know what the word "laugh" means? Are you familiar
with that funny sound other humans make sometimes when
you say something? The one that sounds kinda like chimps
and monkeys? That sound means: "Don't take it so seriously",
and I seriously hope most people are making that sound when
they read this thread.
David Longley
<dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> writes
>"David Longley" <Da...@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> [...]
>> No, it will just tell you something about their current verbal
>> dispositions. But that is what some of us have been saying
>> needs to change as part of a more general repertoire that
>> needs change.
>>
>> Looks like your metering is far too limited a practice by the way.
>
>Do you know what the word "laugh" means? Are you familiar
>with that funny sound other humans make sometimes when
>you say something? The one that sounds kinda like chimps
>and monkeys? That sound means: "Don't take it so seriously",
>and I seriously hope most people are making that sound when
>they read this thread.
>
>Dave
>
>
I'm trying to imagine you as a baboon - - - - - - yep.............. got
it.
I'm not sure your encouraging me to think of you that way is in your
long term best interests though. Still, if you think it will help in the
short term, I'll do my best.
--
David Longley
Eray Ozkural exa
> Just for fun, I thought we could vote on "kook credibility" or
> "kookability" of some of the more regular posters here.
> Low means "not kook" and high means "very kook". Here's
> a tenative list with my votes (in the order in which I happen
> to remember the names):
>
> David Longley: 6
> Glen Sizemore: 3
> Curt Welch: 3
> patty: 1
> Eray Ozkural: 1
> Ken Collins: 8
> Arthur T. Murray: 10
> Lester Zick: 4
> David Held: ? (go ahead and give me a 10 if you like ;)
> Neil Rickert: 1.5 (for not buying into Fredkinism ;> )
>
> These are just people whose posts I've actually read now
> and then, which is why I don't include other posters that are
> obviously prolific. Feel free to add names if you have an
> opinion.
While this post may look fun, it does not seem to serve much
purpose... Was your intention to warn Arthur and David, who would
easily qualify as kooks, or did you just mean to offend every frequent
poster?
For the less serious minded, what about all the people who are not on
the list, or not even on this group? Where would they wind up on your
scoring system, I wonder. There are many famous people with eccentric
ideas such as Roger Penrose, Jack Sarfatti, David Chalmers, Hacker,
and so forth...
--
Eray
David B. Held
> [...]
> I'm not sure your encouraging me to think of you that way is in
> your long term best interests though. Still, if you think it will help
> in the short term, I'll do my best.
If thinking of me as a baboon makes you laugh, then go for it!
I have nothing to lose. You have no power over me, so nothing
you do affects my "long term best interests". However, laughing
will almost certainly be good for you.
patty
I think a more interesting list could be constructed by ordering people
according to who they respond to and who responds to them. Of course
that might be a bit too extensional for this crowd. But in any case, i
am happy to have made the list :)
patty
David B. Held
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> [...]
> While this post may look fun, it does not seem to serve much
> purpose...
Well, if you didn't have fun thinking about it, then it failed.
> Was your intention to warn Arthur and David, who would
> easily qualify as kooks, or did you just mean to offend every
> frequent poster?
Why should I warn Arthur and David? Warn them of what?
Offending posters? Well, if they don't realize that they have
non-mainstream ideas, I don't see how they would realize
they ought to be offended. And I didn't even name every
frequent poster. Just the ones where I've read more than
1 or 2 posts.
> For the less serious minded, what about all the people who
> are not on the list, or not even on this group? Where would
> they wind up on your scoring system, I wonder.
That's my point. It's not *my* scoring system. I think it would
be more fun if everyone gave their own scores. In fact, it's
obvious that some people I think are kooks, others think are
normal, and vice versa. That's the type of information that I
was trying to uncover.
> There are many famous people with eccentric ideas such
> as Roger Penrose, Jack Sarfatti, David Chalmers, Hacker,
> and so forth...
Yes, they should all be added to the list. I would rank these
three, at least:
Roger Penrose: 5 (I read both his popular books on AI, and he
isn't so much a kook as someone desperately hanging onto
an idea)
Frank Tipler: 9 (I read The Physics of Immortality, and this guy
has gone well off the deep end)
David Chalmers: 3 (he isn't a kook, just a philosopher; if
Chalmers is a kook, then so are all philosophers)
David B. Held
> [...]
> Here we see you up to your "redneck" ignorant political games
> again. Do you travel much?
I leave the house, which would probably constitute "travel" in your
world.
> Note how concerned you are to make alliances....
> [...]
LOL!!! I criticise anyone and everyone I disagree with. The idea
that I come here for political intrigue is hilarious! You're almost
as paranoid as Ken!
In case you haven't figured it out, I've exhausted my patience with
your nonsense, so I'm just going to stick with "fun" replies to you.
Michael Olea
pat...@SPAMicyberspace.net wrote on 4/26/04 1:02 PM:
Are you kidding? Eray loves graph theory, cluster analysis, and kernel
methods. He's probably already worked out a c.a.p. diffusion kernel -
support group cluster vectors...
> But in any case, i
> am happy to have made the list :)
Did it reveal anything interesting?
>
> patty
Lester Zick
exa) in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
Oh well, I expect a little comic relief is welcome. Innovators always
start off as kooks. Unfortunately kooks don't consider themselves as
such. Which probably defines the subject to begin with and why nobody
agrees. There must be some theory of kookery that applies.
Regards - Lester
Acme Diagnostics
"David B. Held" <dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> wrote:
>"Eray Ozkural exa" <er...@bilkent.edu.tr> wrote in message
>news:fa69ae35.04042...@posting.google.com...
>> [...]
>> While this post may look fun, it does not seem to serve much
>> purpose...
>
>Well, if you didn't have fun thinking about it, then it failed.
It *is* fun and entertaining! If you ever want to see a productive
work-group disintegrate fast, just have each member rate
the other members, then publish the results. But of course
a good lawyer would argue that "productive" is a fact not in
evidence. But then who listens to lawyers.
Larry
David Longley
<dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> writes
>"David Longley" <Da...@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> [...]
>> Here we see you up to your "redneck" ignorant political games
>> again. Do you travel much?
>
>I leave the house, which would probably constitute "travel" in your
>world.
>
>> Note how concerned you are to make alliances....
>> [...]
>
>LOL!!! I criticise anyone and everyone I disagree with. The idea
>that I come here for political intrigue is hilarious! You're almost
>as paranoid as Ken!
No - you're just naively unaware of how you're behaving. They're
operants you know. In terms you understand, you want social approval.
>
>In case you haven't figured it out, I've exhausted my patience with
>your nonsense, so I'm just going to stick with "fun" replies to you.
>
No - you've just exhausted your rather shallow repertoire of verbal
behaviours in this area. I see you're busy doing some homework
elsewhere, but you're cramming and it isn't working. You're now having
to resort to even more primitive mentalistic rhetoric as a defence.
You should seriously consider giving up and just do some reading as
advised.
--
David Longley
John H.
"David B. Held" <dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> wrote in message
news:c6jo4j$mic$1...@news.astound.net...
> "David Longley" <Da...@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:ZZcdJcV5...@longley.demon.co.uk...
> > [...]
> > I'm not sure your encouraging me to think of you that way is in
> > your long term best interests though. Still, if you think it will help
> > in the short term, I'll do my best.
>
> If thinking of me as a baboon makes you laugh, then go for it!
> I have nothing to lose.
You may learn something though:
Darwin's M Book:
"Origin of man now proved. - Metaphysics must flourish. - He who understands
baboon will do more towards metaphysics than Locke."
qw6
> Bush=Hitler Cheney=Bormann Rumsfeld=Goring Ashcroft=Himmler
> Paul Bremer = Hans Frank; Ahmed Chelabi = Vidkun Quisling;
> Fallujah=Guernica Halliburton=Krupp Guantanamo=Auschwitz
New world order is Bush's perestroyka. Forced freedom is like a
machine. Bush is a machine.
qw6
>
> "JPL Verhey" <p...@nospamwhatsoever.nu> wrote in message
> news:408b9243$0$41759$5fc...@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl...
> > [...]
> > My subjective, totally untestable and unjustified intensional
> > scorelist, based on posts that made most sense to me, sound
> > sensible or provoked more interest in a subject:
>
> Hey, we only want exacting logically-derived scientific
> judgements here. There's no room for waffling or fudging on
> this list!
>
> > David Longleg: 4
> > Darth Sizemore: 8
> > Curt Welch: 6
> > patty: 2
> > Eray Ozkural: 2
> > Ken Collins: 5 (a pitty he doesn't have it-all on some website??)
> > Arthur T. Murray: dunno
> > Lester Zick: 1
> > David Held: 2
> > Neil Rickert: dunno
> > qw6: 1,5
>
> Hahaha! qw6 isn't a kook, he's a troll.
I am a machine animal.
qw6
Compai philosophy. Qwoo qwoo, chin cho wai chi.
David B. Held
> [...]
> No - you're just naively unaware of how you're behaving.
> They're operants you know. In terms you understand, you
> want social approval.
I get social approval from real life. Usenet is for learning and
fun. And when it comes to you, all fun.
> [...]
> No - you've just exhausted your rather shallow repertoire of
> verbal behaviours in this area.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! I certainly hope I am not the only
one who sees the enormously hilarious irony of this comment!!!
> I see you're busy doing some homework elsewhere,
How did you know I was doing homework? Maybe you're
stalking me! Actually, I'm writing a linguistic parser in CLIPS
right now. It's a lot more fun than I thought it would be.
> but you're cramming and it isn't working.
Well, I don't need to "cram". I've got the class completely
under my direct control (as one of my more bizarre friends
would say).
> You're now having to resort to even more primitive mentalistic
> rhetoric as a defence.
Heh, heh..."primitive mentalistic rhetoric"...that's another for the
"Longley Lexicon". Google, here we come!!!
> You should seriously consider giving up and just do some
> reading as advised.
I read a lot. That's how I learn. But I also read carefully. Yeah,
I like to read kook books now and then for fun (hence, The Physics
of Immortality and Shadows of the Mind). But that's because the
kook books *are* fun. Kook books that would not be fun are
"AI4U" and "Fragments of Behavior - The Life and Times of
David Longley". I don't read boring kook books, because that
is a waste of time.
David Longley
<dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> writes
>"David Longley" <Da...@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:6+vlwMG3...@longley.demon.co.uk...
>> [...]
>> No - you're just naively unaware of how you're behaving.
>> They're operants you know. In terms you understand, you
>> want social approval.
>
>I get social approval from real life. Usenet is for learning and
>fun. And when it comes to you, all fun.
Seems to me you rather arbitrarily define whatever you like to suit
whatever short term self-interested goals you have. Try entering:
nefarious rhetoric Quine
into Google groups. Perhaps you can learn something from that.
>
>> [...]
>> No - you've just exhausted your rather shallow repertoire of
>> verbal behaviours in this area.
>
>Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! I certainly hope I am not the only
>one who sees the enormously hilarious irony of this comment!!!
>
That's the trouble with so much that you say, you either contradict
yourself or just reveal yourself to be an obnoxious twit who has no
insight into where he's going wrong, even when it's pointed out!. That's
*why* you're so irritatingly ignorant and arrogant. It's behaviour all
too characteristic of young, immature primates and it's a function of
limited experience. Others *can*, and will, see through it you should
know.
The truth is, you're just another snake-oil peddling deluded idiot on
the take. I hope you'll grow out of it.
--
David Longley
JPL Verhey
> In article <c6kurf$592$1...@news.astound.net>, David B. Held
> <dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> writes
> >"David Longley" <Da...@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:6+vlwMG3...@longley.demon.co.uk...
> >> [...]
> >> No - you're just naively unaware of how you're behaving.
> >> They're operants you know. In terms you understand, you
> >> want social approval.
> >
> >I get social approval from real life. Usenet is for learning and
> >fun. And when it comes to you, all fun.
>
> Seems to me you rather arbitrarily define whatever you like to suit
> whatever short term self-interested goals you have. Try entering:
>
> nefarious rhetoric Quine
>
> into Google groups. Perhaps you can learn something from that.
>
> >
> >> [...]
> >> No - you've just exhausted your rather shallow repertoire of
> >> verbal behaviours in this area.
> >
> >Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! I certainly hope I am not the only
> >one who sees the enormously hilarious irony of this comment!!!
> >
>
> That's the trouble with so much that you say, you either contradict
> yourself or just reveal yourself to be an obnoxious twit who has no
> insight into where he's going wrong, even when it's pointed out!. That's
> *why* you're so irritatingly ignorant and arrogant.
<g> "It takes one to know one" </g>
David Longley
Verhey <p...@nospamwhatsoever.nu> writes
OK, I'll call you on that. Tell me why *you* think that. Or do you think
that a psychologist (or anyone else) must have "problems" themselves in
order to be able to identify them in others. Note the equivocation.
--
David Longley
JPL Verhey
If it were an absolute truth.. no gigle-tags were needed, Long. I always
thought humor lives by the virtue of contradiction. And that's NOT funny.
Neil W Rickert
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"David B. Held" <dh...@codelogicconsulting.com> writes:
>I read a lot. That's how I learn. But I also read carefully. Yeah,
>I like to read kook books now and then for fun (hence, The Physics
>of Immortality and Shadows of the Mind). But that's because the
>kook books *are* fun.
Yes, those were fun.
I'm not so sure about both being kook books. I got the impression
that Tipler was having fun writing "Immortality", while Penrose was
deadly serious about "Shadows".
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Eray Ozkural exa
> "Eray Ozkural exa" <er...@bilkent.edu.tr> wrote in message
> news:fa69ae35.04042...@posting.google.com...
> > [...]
> > While this post may look fun, it does not seem to serve much
> > purpose...
>
> Well, if you didn't have fun thinking about it, then it failed.
>
I did as I implied above, the problem is that meta-discussions,
meta-meta-discussions and meta-meta-meta discussions like this one
never have much use in the end. I've myself done that in the past, and
I don't think I derived any benefit except for inciting more trolling.
It adds up to the noise, unfortunately.
> > Was your intention to warn Arthur and David, who would
> > easily qualify as kooks, or did you just mean to offend every
> > frequent poster?
>
> Why should I warn Arthur and David? Warn them of what?
Kookery and violation of netiquette.
> Offending posters? Well, if they don't realize that they have
> non-mainstream ideas, I don't see how they would realize
> they ought to be offended. And I didn't even name every
> frequent poster. Just the ones where I've read more than
> 1 or 2 posts.
You are right. I think we ought to realize that our ideas are
*necessarily* off the mainstream as I implied later in my post.
> > For the less serious minded, what about all the people who
> > are not on the list, or not even on this group? Where would
> > they wind up on your scoring system, I wonder.
>
> That's my point. It's not *my* scoring system. I think it would
> be more fun if everyone gave their own scores. In fact, it's
> obvious that some people I think are kooks, others think are
> normal, and vice versa. That's the type of information that I
> was trying to uncover.
I see. But telling people to score other didn't seem to me a very
productive idea.
> > There are many famous people with eccentric ideas such
> > as Roger Penrose, Jack Sarfatti, David Chalmers, Hacker,
> > and so forth...
>
> Yes, they should all be added to the list. I would rank these
> three, at least:
>
> Roger Penrose: 5 (I read both his popular books on AI, and he
> isn't so much a kook as someone desperately hanging onto
> an idea)
>
> Frank Tipler: 9 (I read The Physics of Immortality, and this guy
> has gone well off the deep end)
>
> David Chalmers: 3 (he isn't a kook, just a philosopher; if
> Chalmers is a kook, then so are all philosophers)
>
LOL :))) I had Chalmers' zombies on my mind, I didn't know Frank
Tipler but since he got 9 on your scale he must have a competitive
edge.
BTW, I think with my multism theory I certainly deserve more than 1,
maybe as much as Chalmers and Penrose, though I take caution to
indicate that I do not fully support the theory, it's a philosophical
experiment mainly.
Best Regards,
--
Eray Ozkural
bob
> Just for fun, I thought we could vote on "kook credibility" or
> "kookability" of some of the more regular posters here.
> Low means "not kook" and high means "very kook". Here's
> a tenative list with my votes (in the order in which I happen
> to remember the names):
>
> David Longley: 6
> Glen Sizemore: 3
> Curt Welch: 3
> patty: 1
> Eray Ozkural: 1
> Ken Collins: 8
> Arthur T. Murray: 10
> Lester Zick: 4
> David Held: ? (go ahead and give me a 10 if you like ;)
> Neil Rickert: 1.5 (for not buying into Fredkinism ;> )
>
PI = parrot (repeat ad nausem) index
longmore: 200
sizely: 198
welch: 25
patty: 25
ozkural: 50
collins: 150
murray: 175
zick: 50
held: ?
rickert: 25
bob: 250 (parroting longmore parroting himself)
davie wanna cracker.
awwwk.
davie wanna cracker.
awwwk.
Eray Ozkural exa
>
> Are you kidding? Eray loves graph theory, cluster analysis, and kernel
> methods. He's probably already worked out a c.a.p. diffusion kernel -
> support group cluster vectors...
LOL I was actually thinking I could use SV clustering to categorize
the threads by subject. Which kernel I'm not sure, probably these neat
algorithmic kernels. Hmmm.
Best Wishes,
--
Eray Ozkural
Lester Zick
comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
Cute. I like it.
Regards - Lester
ken
> "David Longley" <Da...@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:SkuPmcIz...@longley.demon.co.uk...
> > [...]
> > Here we see you up to your "redneck" ignorant political games
> > again. Do you travel much?
>
> I leave the house, which would probably constitute "travel" in your
> world.
>
> > Note how concerned you are to make alliances....
> > [...]
>
> LOL!!! I criticise anyone and everyone I disagree with. The idea
> that I come here for political intrigue is hilarious! You're almost
> as paranoid as Ken!
>
> In case you haven't figured it out, I've exhausted my patience with
> your nonsense, so I'm just going to stick with "fun" replies to you.
It's you who hasn't figured out what's
going on between Longley and 'me'.
At least that stuff has some significance.
You're still just 'stabbing in the dark', Held.
k. p. collins
