Is this the man that is going to turn us all into Vulcans?

[Jetfire]

My IQ is 0.

 

[Checkmate]

Comments to PM. For real, this time.

Maybe you should follow your own advice. Really need to bring it up multiple times?

Fuck you and this forum. Ban away, fuckwit. :eyeroll:

 

[scotpens]

I think the guy needs counseling and maybe he is kinda schizophrenic. He needs help.

Being “kinda schizophrenic” is like being “kinda pregnant.”

This guy's just plain batty.

. . . Being a bouncer is one out of several ways to get to know people. Just think about all the drunk idiots he have handled. This might be one of several places were its cool to be smart.

Panhandling on the street is also a great way to get to know people. The drunken derelict asking for change in front of the 7-Eleven must be a fucking genius!

The old greeks claimed that people needed to live balanced lives, mixing fun, physical work, intelectual work, sports and play.

They also thought pederasty was a great thing.

 

[Top41]

Comments to PM. For real, this time.

Maybe you should follow your own advice. Really need to bring it up multiple times?

Fuck you and this forum. Ban away, fuckwit. :eyeroll:

This will be a shocker: warning for flaming.

Everyone else, please stick to the topic at hand! Thanks.

 

[Urge]

Kind of cool to see how everyone hates the guy:-)

I wonder what makes it so. A lot of smart people are aware of them selves being smart, even folks like Einstein - who everybody diggs.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I think the guy needs counseling and maybe he is kinda schizophrenic. He needs help.

This. Funny how he doesn't seem to realize how he's creating all of these adversarial situations for himself. I suppose he's a good example of how people can be intelligent but still be blind to their own self-created problems.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I'll grant that this guy seems brighter than average--he seems aware of things the average pink has never given any thought--but most of what he discusses is incredibly basic philosophy and economics, nothing remotely revolutionary or insightful.

I've read some of the stuff on his site, and that's basically it. He seems pretty smart and well-read for a common Joe, and his knowledge is pretty large compared to the kind of hyper-specialization we see in academia nowadays. Yet, there is nothing really new or noteworthy in his ideas. Especially his pompously dubbed "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe", which is a pastiche of basic cosmology and teleological philosophy. It's pretty much a reiteration of the Omega Point theory: personally, I've nothing against it, and it's pretty much the best interpretation of "God" I've seen. I don't see any reason to believe in it, but it's as sound as any theory involving indemonstrable assumptions could be, I guess. So, again, nothing really revolutionary or exceptional.

And that's to say nothing of his "anti-dysgenics" plan and his notion that people should have to meet some standard (one set by him and like-minded individuals, of course) in order to earn their freedom.

And this is worse. Apparently, it's true that "superior ability breeds superior ambition", because his vast knowledge convinced him that he's got the right to tell everybody how to be. I mean, I've got an ego with the size of a small moon, but even I recognize that I can't have all the answers, and that being smart is not the same thing as being wise.

Which brings me to the 3rd point...

I mean, wow. I also like how he claims to have had all these brilliant ideas but he never started a business, never patented anything, never found a way to make one red cent off of his somehow immense intellect.

Exactly. What is thing guy doing with his super-brain? Wrote a couple of books? That's pretty neat, but for someone who is supposedly the smartest man alive, you would expect something more.

People might dislike him because he sounds like a jerk. But, as someone who is most often annoyed with stupid people myself, I could excuse that. The really damning thing is that, for someone who is supposedly so brilliant, he's actually quite dull.