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Captain_Maclaine posted:
Niall Ferguson may be a hack but he's a successful one because he's an easily digestible hack.
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May 7, 2014 01:22
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Let's not say things we can't take back, dude.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:
Well, Niall Ferguson is demonstrably wrong about a lot of things and is generally an rear end, but having said that: 1) He actually completed a history PhD, which is not something you can bullshit your way through unless you're an absolutely world-class bullshit artist, like to the point where you're so good at bullshitting people you'd be more likely to be using your talents for something far more lucrative than a fancy humanities degree. 2) Before becoming a lazy limelight-chasing contrarian hack he apparently wrote one decent book. 3) He writes in complete, coherent, grammatical sentences that are comprehensible to the vast majority of the English-literate world. 4) He doesn't use Google Glass, or list a failed cry for money to hire someone else to create a "game" for Google Glass as a major academic accomplishment. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 01:44 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 01:37
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SurgicalOntologist posted:I'm genuinely curious where you picked this up. As someone familiar with the scientific side of these questions, the thesis seems reasonable but entirely unremarkable from scanning it. Although the reference list is embarrasingly short and misses a number of (perhaps most) perspectives on self-organization that would be illuminating. I'd like to think I'd know of it already if it was foundational to the philosophy of complex systems science. Yeah, that was a weird printing issue. The copy I had up was also somehow missing all footnotes. I've updated the copy on academia.edu to fix those issues. Eripsa just told me that y'all have been talking about my dissertation on here. I just defended it today (and passed! hooray!), so I have no interest in thinking any more about it right now, but I'm genuinely interested to see what you have to say. I'll say that I'm definitely NOT sympathetic to anything new-agey, and I've got a significant graduate-level background in math and physics here at Columbia. The chair of my exam committee has a PhD in theoretical physics, and is one of the biggest critics of that stuff. I think it's crap, just as he does. The first chapter is (of course) very general, particularly at the beginning. Don't read that. The most interesting stuff is in the last two sections. Chapter Three, I think, is the most interesting in the whole work. Anyway, I'm busy getting drunk. I'll come back at some point, maybe.
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May 7, 2014 03:07
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DoctorDilettante posted:I've got a significant graduate-level background in math and physics here at Columbia. ...?
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May 7, 2014 03:24
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Gregor Samsa posted:...? "I took some electives"
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May 7, 2014 03:28
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:1) He actually completed a history PhD, which is not something you can bullshit your way through unless you're an absolutely world-class bullshit artist, like to the point where you're so good at bullshitting people you'd be more likely to be using your talents for something far more lucrative than a fancy humanities degree. I'm not sure how you could be in academia as long as you seem to have been and still think this is the case.
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May 7, 2014 03:31
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CheesyDog posted:"I took some electives" I mean, I actually know the guy, and don't have the same opinion of him that this thread does, but I quoted that cuz it's not (to my knowledge) true.
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May 7, 2014 03:31
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Gregor Samsa posted:I mean, I actually know the guy, and don't have the same opinion of him that this thread does, but I quoted that cuz it's not (to my knowledge) true. Maybe he read some books in a graduate library. Would that count?
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May 7, 2014 03:37
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Ogmius815 posted:I'm not sure how you could be in academia as long as you seem to have been and still think this is the case. I'm speaking purely of people I know who've completed history PhDs, which admittedly is a narrow sample and I may just have been lucky so far because there's plenty of lovely historians who can schmooze and write superficial but bestselling trash.
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May 7, 2014 03:46
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DoctorDilettante posted:Yeah, that was a weird printing issue. The copy I had up was also somehow missing all footnotes. I've updated the copy on academia.edu to fix those issues. Congrats! I think your thesis is pretty good but not as novel as you portray it (of course that could be said of many dissertations). Your insights are solid but are anticipated by a bunch of approaches to self-organization I feel you should have mentioned, notably
These all contain the general idea, to varying degrees of emphasis, of circular causal relationships: activity of the whole being caused by the parts but also constraining the parts. Based on your thesis, I think you must have encountered some of these, but if you're unfamiliar with any of these approaches and genuinely interested I can recommend starting points. Here's some recent work that borrows from many of the above: Ecological Psychology 24(1), (2012): Special Issue: On Intelligence from First Principles I: Dissipative Structures, Impredicativity, and Intentional Dynamics Ecological Psychology 24(2), (2012): Special Issue: On Intelligence from First Principles II: Formalizing Autocatakinetics, Physical Pattern Formation, and Plant Perception-Action To put my cards on the table, I'm a Gibsonian psychologist (have you read Tony Chemero's book? It's a natural next step from Clark) and my advisor is a statistical physicist trained by Haken.
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May 7, 2014 03:54
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Back by popular demand, it's the Eripsa Thread! Starring... Strangecoins! Cyborgs! Autism!
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May 16, 2014 15:35
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XyloJW posted:Back by popular demand, it's the Eripsa Thread! Starring... Strangecoins! Cyborgs! Autism! The documentary record of my e-legacy, preserved.
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May 16, 2014 15:40
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Hey, I remember you from your thread now. It's nifty, because there's rarely a week that passes where I don't encounter something that reaffirms that I think you're wrong. However, your theory is at least a real, actual theory, with testability and logic and no inherently self-defeating aspects, so please don't think I'm comparing you to Erpisa.
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May 16, 2014 15:53
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SedanChair posted:The documentary record of my e-legacy, preserved. The Great Work can now continue. We poor alchemists, lost in darkness and ritual, can only stare at the mighty wonders of Eripsa's
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May 16, 2014 15:55
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Xylo -- Oh, well that was nice of you. Thank you for doing that. Maybe Eripsa will start storing his Strangecoin docs somewhere else now that he knows how spontaneous modaction can be.
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May 16, 2014 18:00
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Did anyone save a copy of / link to that short story about the end game of an attention economy? (it involved a giant mech battle between the two richest attention barons, someone who filled a warehouse with cats and cameras vs a pornographer)
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Dec 9, 2014 09:33
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Panda Time posted:Did anyone save a copy of / link to that short story about the end game of an attention economy?
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Dec 9, 2014 09:40
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Thread delivers in 7 minutes. Now that is a service which you wouldn't otherwise find in the strangecoin economy.
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Dec 9, 2014 09:46
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XyloJW posted:Back by popular demand, it's the Eripsa Thread! Starring... Strangecoins! Cyborgs! Autism! Question: Is the attention based economy allowed?
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Mar 2, 2015 19:24
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Question: Is the attention based economy allowed?  Seriously, what made you think digging up a year old Eripsa thread was a good idea?
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Mar 3, 2015 01:10
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Caros posted:
We must never forget Our Friend Eripsa
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Mar 3, 2015 01:19
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Well, Niall Ferguson is demonstrably wrong about a lot of things and is generally an rear end, but having said that: Who the gently caress did that?
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Mar 3, 2015 01:22
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Crowsbeak posted:Who the gently caress did that? Eripsa wanted to make a game called Swarm!
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Mar 3, 2015 01:25
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Of course it's about ants. Eripsa has a freakish obsession with reducing humans from complex individuals down to ants. I can only imagine what these thread would be like if he had a more mainstream "hobby" like trains.
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Mar 3, 2015 01:31
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5qthqBaajI
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Mar 3, 2015 01:32
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Everybody's moved on from Strangecoin guys! It's all about Synereo!!
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Mar 3, 2015 01:36
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Of course one of them has a fedora.
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Mar 3, 2015 01:37
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I'd like another Eripsa thread but it needs more Eripsa content than the last one.
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Mar 3, 2015 01:37
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he's on schedule for a new thread/manic episode this month
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Mar 3, 2015 01:38
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Crowsbeak posted:Of course one of them has a fedora. The little icon for "be who you want to be" on Synereo's front page seems to be a person with a fedora, giant sunglasses and oversized trenchcoat.
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Mar 3, 2015 01:54
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It looks like they vanished Eripsa from the Synero stuff. Wonder if he got too crazy for them.
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Mar 3, 2015 04:25
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Wee Tinkle Wand posted:It looks like they vanished Eripsa from the Synero stuff. Wonder if he got too crazy for them. He's still tweeting about it.
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Mar 3, 2015 04:27
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emfive posted:Everybody's moved on from Strangecoin guys! It's all about Synereo!! http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-429...s8iKRA-1-1&ws=1
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Mar 3, 2015 04:42
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they have a mathemagician, I don't think I can take this anything other than seriously
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Mar 3, 2015 05:41
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hey I've taken a bunch of math classes and can probably bullshit a bunch of stuff that impresses executive types, will they hire me?
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Mar 3, 2015 05:48
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spoon0042 posted:hey I've taken a bunch of math classes and can probably bullshit a bunch of stuff that impresses executive types, will they hire me? IDF hackers turned *coin grifters? Probably.
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Mar 3, 2015 07:51
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Maybe if we come up with a new marble-based wealth distribution scheme we can summon Eripsa back from inactivity.
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Mar 3, 2015 08:23
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spoon0042 posted:they have a mathemagician, I don't think I can take this anything other than seriously Magic is deadly serious. Why do you think Hogwarts keeps medical staff on hand at all times? 
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Mar 3, 2015 15:08
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http://themeforest.net/item/brooklyn-creative-one-page-multipurpose-theme/6221179
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Doctor Spaceman posted:He's still tweeting about it. Erpisa is that one friend who could never take a hint that you were sick of him and wanted him to leave, only cranked up to 1000.
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