Re: Robust Algorithms

From: Kent Paul Dolan (xanthian_at_well.com)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:57:12 +0000 (UTC)

"David Longley" <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> You need to learn a lot of things but here are a
> few to be getting on with:

You need to learn a lot of things, but here are a
few to get you started.

> 1) learn the difference between insults and
> criticism.

Learn the difference between criticizing a moron,
and being a moron.

> 2) learn what scientific facts or truths are, and
> how that relates to 1).

Learn how to avoid crossposting into newsgroups
where your habitual idiocy will offend people who
have no compunction about calling you the moron you
are.

> 3) learn about the various forms of the genetic
> fallacy.

Try to use a vocabulary outside the narrow frame
of reference of your narrow mind, when talking to
audiences who don't share your obsessions.

> 4) learn something about behaviour analysis and
> behaviourism.

Learn that psychology != philosophy, and that drivel
about behaviorism, a defunct and superseded theory
that was once the best psychology had to offer, but
is now merely a boat-anchor impeding scientific
progress in the illumination of mental processing,
has no business being posted to a philosophy
newsgroup, much less a computer theory newsgroup,
and hasn't for all the time you've been criticized
for posting it there.

Learn not to ride your hobby horse in public places
where it has no license to travel.

> Try to see what 1 - 4 have to do with your recent
> posts (and those of others).

Try to see that your several _years_ of off-topic
postings are the behavior that earns you the
universal and strongly expressed scorn of others.

Actions have consequences, and the responses you
receive are a direct consequence of the misbehaviors
you commit.

> Finally, try not to get so excited - you usually
> end up posting rather idiotic things when you get
> excited.

No, Eray posts idiocy because he is too lazy to
learn the subject matter before trying to act as an
expert on the subject, a perfect reflection of your
refusal to keep up with the field of psychology for
over 20 years, yet continuing to insist that your
twenty-years-stale knowledge is all anyone could
possibly need or want or even be allowed to know.

You two might as well be twins, and like most
siblings, despise each other.

How nice that each of you is so worthing of being
despised that there are no injured parties in the
transaction.

> that there's something you really aren't very able
> to deal with - rationally.

Much like your inability to deal rationally with
behaviorism having fallen out of favor as theories
with better match to reality, and better explanatory
capabilities, superseded it.

Much like your inability to deal rationally with the
simple and well documented fact that you were driven
out of all the psychology discussion groups because
you had nothing of interest to say and people among
whom saying it evoked _professional_ refutations of
your drivel. Instead of just shutting up and
going back to catch up on 20 years of scientific
advance in psychology that somehow escaped your
notice, like a person with a sense of ethics would
have done, you instead chose to find a group of
non-experts you hoped your incessant bludgeoning
with reams of inane off-topic postings would convert
to your way of thinking.

It's a shame how that isn't working for you.

HTH

xanthian. 

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