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>>11576227

>>11576227
I like Yudkowsky and the guys at lesswrong are genuinely into philosophy and thinking about the hard problems

>>11576235
>peer reviewed and accepted for publication
Fails to meet the definition of crank.

>>11576282
This. I see a lot of people trying to shit on them, but their arguments are often solid and seriously tackle a number of philosophical issues quite well.

>>11576296
>peer reviewed
Wow, those must be some excellent peer reviewers to be able to follow hundreds of pages of dense esoteric math that the world's greatest mathematicians have been unable to understand.

>accepted for publication
By the author's own journal.

You forgot to mention a few minor details.

>>11576227
Actually this is proof that being a jew allows you to talk whatever bullshit you can think of out of your afternoon microdosing session and still get a pat in the back.

Yudkowsky's cool. A bit full of himself sometimes, but who isn't? Clearly not you, OP.

>>11576282
>genuinely into philosophy and thinking about the hard problems
STEMcels (and bad ones at that) doing this just makes them more crankish

>>11576350
not the guy, but my bet is that he's memeing. Are you this ez to b8 m8?

>>11576227

>>11576750
lost

>>11576227
>>11576282
>>11576697

>>11576227
Op

Georg Spencer-Brown.
Interesting theories, but a crank in the end. Claimed to have proven Riemann, Goldbach and Fermat I think :).

>>11576697
>A bit full of himself sometimes, but who isn't?
Ah, yes, classic narcissistic equivocation, everyone is a bit full of himself therefore it's okay to be a raging narcissist like in >>11576875
You drink coffee? Why, it's the same thing as me shooting up fentanyl every morning

>>11576875
DNP and Tren

>>11576888
what a wizard

don't google Roko's basilisk

https://vixra.org/pdf/1612.0123v1.pdf

>don't google Roko's basilisk

>>11577561
based

>>11576235
He snapped and went crazy, don't bully him. He used to do good work

>>11576750
He's just an ultrafinitist

Abel
>Abel sent a paper on the unsolvability of the quintic equation to Carl Friedrich Gauss, who proceeded to discard without a glance what he believed to be the worthless work of a crank

>>11577754
Abel's life history is just sad. He died in poverty a few days before the news that he got a high paying job an University could reach him. He died thinking nobody cared about his work.

>>11577755
That's what you get for making a deal with the devil to become a genius.

>>11576875
what's wrong with exercise if not diet?

>>11577755
Yeah, that's what you get for being a Lutheran

>>11576875
y = mechanism that empties the fat cells
x = the substance that triggers it
solve for x and y. fucking brainlet

>>11576296
>Fails to meet the definition of crank.
>crank definition: 1. a person who has strange or unusual ideas and beliefs
Reminder that plate tectonics was considered a crank theory