tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post9033512001563805276..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: BlablameterSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-20365061052052281712017-01-26T18:28:42.930-05:002017-01-26T18:28:42.930-05:00Blablameter does not do what it claims to do. It i...Blablameter does not do what it claims to do. It is flagging certain words as "bullshit" and penalizing the writer for including them, even if they are in fact the correct words to use. I am taking the time to post this comment because of the time I have wasted under the assumption that Blablameter is a useful tool. It is not. Here is a demonstration. <br /><br />The following paragraphAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00125931707800649747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-7770712690409524962016-08-15T14:13:07.319-04:002016-08-15T14:13:07.319-04:00Boy, this is hilarious! For those who need a littl...Boy, this is hilarious! For those who need a little boost with the allusions of Eliot:<br /><br />http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Poem.htm<br /><br />That's a hypertext version of an analysis of Eliot's use of allusion in his work "Hollow Men." It's really quite a wonderful piece of work and I have often wished the author would create something similar for Joyce's PonderSeekDiscoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00913503952284529871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1562725183763324812011-07-29T10:08:34.630-04:002011-07-29T10:08:34.630-04:00Hmm. I'm afraid the BS Meter needs a good twea...Hmm. I'm afraid the BS Meter needs a good tweaking. No WAY does the Turboencabulator (an inside Electrical Engineering joke) deserve a BS rating as low as 0.37, because it's ALL BS.<br /><br />HOW in God's name does the following nonsense deserve a 0.37, and if I'm allowed a follow-up, has anyone tried a Lewis Carroll poem, hmm?<br /><br />Work has been proceeding in order to Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-314595195342494782011-07-28T06:55:26.606-04:002011-07-28T06:55:26.606-04:00Thanks Phil and Thanks Bee for the Fun:)
The Plat...Thanks Phil and Thanks Bee for the Fun:)<br /><br /><a href="http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2011/07/platos-cave-study-does-bullshit-truly.html" rel="nofollow">The Plato’s Cave Study: Does Bullshit Truly Baffle Brains?”</a><br /><br />Best,PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1001031227292092622011-07-27T08:48:49.471-04:002011-07-27T08:48:49.471-04:00From Macbeth (and I'm not saying this is the b...From Macbeth (and I'm not saying this is the best monologue from that most gruesome of Shakespeare's plays, and my favorite of his plays (well, after A Midsummer's night's Dream, of course: PUCK: What fools these mortals be!" Yes, quite.)), spoken by Macbeth:<br /><br />I will not yield, <br />To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet, <br />And to be baited with theSteven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-88568015204308784692011-07-27T06:07:36.891-04:002011-07-27T06:07:36.891-04:00Hi Bee,
I checked out Shakespeare’s Hamlet, more ...Hi Bee,<br /><br />I checked out Shakespeare’s Hamlet, more specifically the “to be or not to be” soliloquy and it scored 0.07, which is in the lowest range; not surprising however as what Hamlet was attempting to have decided is if he should continue to put up with all the bullshit;-) <br /><br /><i><b>”To be, or not to be: that is the question:<br />Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferPhil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-45428033213068570842011-07-26T22:54:01.417-04:002011-07-26T22:54:01.417-04:00Previous post.....
Your text: 1246 charactes, 236...Previous post.....<br /><br />Your text: 1246 charactes, 236 words<br />Bullshit Index :0.14<br />Your text shows only a few indications of 'bullshit'-English.<br /><br /><br />hmmmm.....which indications?:)PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-46634317810089133942011-07-26T22:51:46.803-04:002011-07-26T22:51:46.803-04:00Dada Engine.
I certainly do not think that what C...<a href="http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/" rel="nofollow">Dada Engine.</a><br /><br />I certainly do not think that what <a href="http://cms.web.cern.ch/cms/Physics/StandardPackage/index.html" rel="nofollow">Cern puts out</a> in any way is of the ilk that would distort the truth as signs of bullshit. I believe they are at the frontier now, of many years of waiting. <br /><br />Of course I would PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-53988776861108637422011-07-26T08:30:08.207-04:002011-07-26T08:30:08.207-04:00The things like the BlahBlah meter and/or Crackpot...The things like the BlahBlah meter and/or Crackpot index are just never versions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum" rel="nofollow">Malleus Maleficarum book</a>, in which establishment attempted to fight with unpleasant ideas by their form without bothering about their actual content.<br /><br />In this context the usage of <a href="http://blog.vixra.org/2010/09/13/Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-87167019778352615752011-07-26T08:02:52.987-04:002011-07-26T08:02:52.987-04:00Hi Bee,
I would like to see a study where they co...Hi Bee,<br /><br />I would like to see a study where they compare the scores regarding theoretical physics research papers to the citations they receive. Not to suggest it would help in finding better ways to discovering the truth, yet rather if bullshit and the perception of truth have any correlation. We might call it, “The Plato’s Cave Study: Does Bullshit Truly Baffle Brains?” :-)<br /><br Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68829578565169509522011-07-25T23:06:11.556-04:002011-07-25T23:06:11.556-04:00I found something we can test. I was thinking of t...I found something we can test. I was thinking of the Sokal incident.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/" rel="nofollow">Textual Narratives: Subcultural theory and postcultural materialism</a><br /><br />Make sure you go to bottom of page and read....<i>The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator. To generate PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-52582954834206295502011-07-25T22:48:28.867-04:002011-07-25T22:48:28.867-04:00The standard package
The theories and discoveries...The standard package<br /><br />The theories and discoveries of thousands of physicists over the past century have resulted in a remarkable insight into the fundamental structure of matter: everything that has been directly observed in the Universe until now has been found to be made from twelve basic building blocks called fundamental particles, governed by four fundamental forces. Our best PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-61362169140996834812011-07-25T22:44:19.608-04:002011-07-25T22:44:19.608-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-61505522162748198752011-07-25T16:45:44.939-04:002011-07-25T16:45:44.939-04:00(drumroll) ... and the BS index for this article i...(drumroll) ... and the BS index for this article is ...NKMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733726381927151064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-21748848297131580082011-07-25T01:55:44.747-04:002011-07-25T01:55:44.747-04:00Hi Len,
Yes, I was trying to find out some detail...Hi Len,<br /><br />Yes, I was trying to find out some details on exactly what the algorithm looks for, but there's very little information on the website, because they "don't want to tell all the details." Generally not advisable if you want to convince people you're doing something scientific. In any case, it says there<br /><br />"Wie funktioniert das BlaBla Meter?<brSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-13836661256264771002011-07-25T01:42:19.285-04:002011-07-25T01:42:19.285-04:00Hi Arun,
Your first comment got stuck in the spam...Hi Arun,<br /><br />Your first comment got stuck in the spam queue, sorry. I am duly impressed by IBM :o) Best,<br /><br />B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-79089532441742720972011-07-24T23:48:17.823-04:002011-07-24T23:48:17.823-04:00Hi Bee,
In taking up your challenge I plugged in...Hi Bee,<br /><br />In taking up your challenge I plugged in what I consider as one of the most important statements made by Albert Einstein having it found to show virtually no signs of it being bullshit. Interestingly enough it was meant as a warning of what the consequences in reading such could turn out to be. That is to suggest, that like it’s been said we are what we eat is correlated to Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-13870076455101882462011-07-24T23:20:11.154-04:002011-07-24T23:20:11.154-04:00Hi Bee,
A most humorous post that had me to plug ...Hi Bee,<br /><br />A most humorous post that had me to plug some of my own blathering in to report my lowest score to be 0.O8 and my highest 0.27. I however would have it pointed out that there is a difference between something lacking in bullshit and what represents to being truth. The instrument which we currently use to make this determination is science, yet it appears at present to be not Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-60548241899454506882011-07-24T23:16:33.395-04:002011-07-24T23:16:33.395-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-64848523374285573952011-07-24T17:51:54.054-04:002011-07-24T17:51:54.054-04:00Since Ilse Burisch doesn't provide any hint at...Since Ilse Burisch doesn't provide any hint at the nature of the Blablameter algorithm, we have to treat it as a black box, and try to understand it from input/output relationships".<br /><br />Since all discourse is driven by motives ('good' or 'bad'), when the motives are hidden to try to convey extreme objectivity, useful communication is often degraded. Unfortunately,Len Ornsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04568887650614008628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-73041037427901749362011-07-24T17:12:18.723-04:002011-07-24T17:12:18.723-04:00http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/turin.htm
Bullshit...http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/turin.htm<br />Bullshit Index: 0.05, 3086 characters, 533 words<br /><br />http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz4.htm<br />(Geomeric parity Eotvos experiment explained at length) <br />Bullshit Index: 0.20, 4152 charactes, 589 words<br /><br />http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/textbook.htm<br />(The worst of 45 essays analyzed)<br />Bullshit Index: 0.37, 3380 charactersUncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-64991340123868959522011-07-24T14:30:38.257-04:002011-07-24T14:30:38.257-04:00http://www.biblepath.com/beatitudes.html
Mathew 5...http://www.biblepath.com/beatitudes.html<br /><br />Mathew 5 to the bottom of the page <br />Your text: 13559 charactes, 2647 words<br />Bullshit Index :0.03Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451666670728177970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-25425077275183094622011-07-24T14:13:36.229-04:002011-07-24T14:13:36.229-04:00Goes in nicely with a recent comic from Abstruse G...Goes in nicely with a recent comic from Abstruse Goose: http://abstrusegoose.com/380.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-71530484487021170202011-07-24T14:00:27.718-04:002011-07-24T14:00:27.718-04:00http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/ww...http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/<br /><br />Einstein's 1905 paper translated to English "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" - first 3 paras has a BS score of 0.24<br /><br />First 4 paras of Paul Krugman's essay here: <br />http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/DISINTER.html<br /><br />give a BS score of 0.09.Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451666670728177970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-83372447354384887072011-07-24T13:50:26.857-04:002011-07-24T13:50:26.857-04:00Dunno what happened to my comment.
The first 3 par...Dunno what happened to my comment.<br />The first 3 paras of this IBM page on business agility<br /><br />http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/business-agility/index.html<br /><br />gets a Blablameter score of 1.2Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451666670728177970noreply@blogger.com