tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post9133769690914649759..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Genius and InsanitySabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-79356836636901104962007-05-19T01:17:00.000-04:002007-05-19T01:17:00.000-04:00Boy Who Wants to Live Forever here. I just checke...Boy Who Wants to Live Forever here. I just checked and can report that I am blatantly not insane, in fact most of what I say is well thought-out. Cryonics is a real option and most of the stated objections do not hold water.<BR/><BR/>I am not insane in the least. Only genius here.<BR/><BR/>With a sufficiently large infrastructure, there'd be no problem at all with freezing many millions of Michael Anissimovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06217926458888484768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-78234831829949252502007-05-10T21:07:00.000-04:002007-05-10T21:07:00.000-04:00"Delusion - religious belief in a single set of do..."Delusion - religious belief in a single set of dogma and expect total comprehension."<BR/><BR/>"Genius - Sees A when all others sees B, then proceeds to see C and use it to falsify B."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-82795901741468531222007-05-09T15:33:00.000-04:002007-05-09T15:33:00.000-04:00Maybe in the future people will marvel at today's ...Maybe in the future people will marvel at today's frozen people in the same way we marvel at frozen whooly mammoths?Rae Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239791074376508016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-74610208482999957082007-05-09T12:36:00.000-04:002007-05-09T12:36:00.000-04:00Hi Amara,It didn't sound crazy to me.The technolog...Hi Amara,<BR/><BR/>It didn't sound crazy to me.<BR/><BR/><I>The technology, as it is today, can do nothing else.</I><BR/><BR/>That's the point I was trying to make. You rely on future generations developing the technology. This might happen. But it definitely requires that development and research is supported today and in the future. <BR/><BR/><I>Why would I want to hear the music again of my Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-78588685009882749172007-05-09T12:14:00.000-04:002007-05-09T12:14:00.000-04:00Aubrey de Grey is probably the best-known person w...Aubrey de Grey is probably the best-known person working on longevity. The author in the article dismissed him, but I wonder if she ever heard him describe his ideas and work. Doesn't sound crazy at all. YouTube has some of those interviews, for example: This video: (excellent answers to common questions) <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q2M8SPg4iM" REL="nofollow">(CBC Canada Now)</A> (amaragrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15769062084934190681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-91247585728072019972007-05-09T08:20:00.000-04:002007-05-09T08:20:00.000-04:00Hi Amara,I too found that interesting, though it d...Hi Amara,<BR/><BR/>I too found that interesting, though it didn't fit too good into the context of the article. There are definitely stranger versions of afterlife that much more people believe in. It seems to me though that such attempts crucially rely on the conviction that scientific knowledge does never get lost, and that progress goes on, esp. for those who want to be frozen in with the hopeSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28919875186612827502007-05-09T02:17:00.000-04:002007-05-09T02:17:00.000-04:00Thanks for the article, Bee. I was/am more interes...Thanks for the article, Bee. I was/am more interested in the topic of the title and what I discovered on <A HREF="http://psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20070227-000001&page=5 " REL="nofollow">page 5</A>. Pleasantly surprised, in fact. The immortalists/ longevitists/ transhumanists (there many labels) are in, of all places, Psychology Today! And the author did not paint them/us asamaragrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15769062084934190681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-16915949242700332592007-05-08T23:26:00.000-04:002007-05-08T23:26:00.000-04:00If I remember correctly you (Bee) said in one of y...If I remember correctly you (Bee) said in one of your comments to me that "knowledge is not identical to intelligence." I agree. There is no evidence that genius knows more than not genius. <BR/><BR/>Genius, and its cousin fame, is the criteria the Big Media uses to classify humans because fame is the only quantity the Media understands. Hard work and effort and honesty are more important Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-62977083785121452702007-05-08T22:26:00.000-04:002007-05-08T22:26:00.000-04:00Klaus beat me to it, but clearly Einstein also dea...Klaus beat me to it, but clearly Einstein also dealt with classical probability, e.g., it is not insane to keep throwing dice and expecting different results, so by results here,Einstein included probability distributions.Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451666670728177970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-58276983656732823812007-05-08T21:35:00.000-04:002007-05-08T21:35:00.000-04:00Hi,“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over a...Hi,<BR/><BR/>“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”<BR/><BR/>Was Albert hinting on quantum physics? with this remark..<BR/><BR/>QP never seemed to be his favored cup of tea!<BR/><BR/>Greetings<BR/><BR/>KlausAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-81545227744221792192007-05-08T18:31:00.000-04:002007-05-08T18:31:00.000-04:00I've got my relativistic gravity simulator running...I've got my <A HREF="http://www.gaugegravity.com/testapplet/SweetGravity.html" REL="nofollow">relativistic gravity simulator</A> running. It gives demonstrations of various gravity things like the stability of orbits around black holes. And you can stop it and change the initial conditions.<BR/><BR/>As a known crackpot, despite the above simulations, of course I don't believe in even special CarlBrannenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17180079098492232258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-37746114315433459802007-05-08T18:04:00.000-04:002007-05-08T18:04:00.000-04:00Genius and insanity are both "anomalies" of the br...Genius and insanity are both "anomalies" of the brain. That they often occur together isn't too surprising. Both manifest in greater than average creativity in thinking, but the trick, which is harder than it appears to many, is to know if your creativity is "reality" based or not.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure Uncle Al is some kind of genius because 75% of the time I don't understand him. ;-) Well, I Rae Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239791074376508016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-50244349593820670952007-05-08T11:52:00.000-04:002007-05-08T11:52:00.000-04:001) Einstein never suffered Wincrap XP. I'ts like ...1) Einstein never suffered Wincrap XP. I'ts like plugging leaks in cheesecloth stuffed with cat hair.<BR/><BR/>2) The divergence between genius and insanity includes a)literature references, b) reduction to practice, c) consistency with all prior observation. <BR/><BR/>Is the vacuum <A HREF="http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz4.pdf" REL="nofollow">anisotropic (pdf)</A> toward opposite parity Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com