Saturday, January 11, 2014
Refreshment
I'm feeling a bit EMBATTLED AND BELEAGUERED this week by deadline pressures and bad weather and short sleep.
Thus it's a refreshing treat to see a strong and sane response by scientifically literate people to a piece of standard wacked-out insanity. Some bizarre alien creature named Max Shapiro (alias Max Tegmark) writes a standard predictable piece of toxic schizophrenic word salad in Anti-Scientific Anti-American.
It's good old genocidal tyrannical Plato as always: "The universe consists of math." I was preparing a cogent response until I started reading the comments. Almost unanimously the commenters crush Shapiro/Tegmark's nonsense from every possible angle. The crush is so comprehensive and decisive that anything I could add would be a net subtraction, because it would dilute the force of superior writers.
Good, by god.
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