(looks up meaning of WP:AGF)

... Yeah, that site is probably not the right hobby for me.

(looks up the LessWrong discussion page)

My God, it's full of smeg

In the first Foundation story, there's a weird mention of applying symbolic logic to human language that comes from nowhere and goes nowhere. Campbell insisted upon it because

he felt in our discussions that symbolic logic, further developed, would so clear up the mysteries of the human mind as to leave human actions predictable. The reason human beings are so unpredictable was we didn't really know what they were saying and thinking because language is generally used obscurely. So what we needed was something that would unobscure the language and leave everything clear.

Clear being a fortuitous choice of wording on Asimov's part there, given, well.

TESCREAL and Scientology don't just share methodology; they both descend directly from "Golden Age" science fiction. In this essay I will

It's still hard to beat the dck pck

This one?

There's a longish section about the physicist John Archibald Wheeler. I know people who worked with Wheeler. I've read Wheeler's unpublished notebooks. Get John Wheeler's name out of your mouth.

The very first thing that section says is

John Wheeler is a famous physicist who coined the term "black hole".

No, he didn't.

Buh bye now.

And yet my crossovers of Daria with The Sandman, They Live and the Amelia Peabody series all remain without a TVTropes presence. Where's my uncritical adulation?!

🎶 I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes / Priors all updating until my darkness goes 🎶

progressives’ desire to shift control to the big banks

[citation needed]

If I were inclined to be charitable, I'd wonder who he was talking to that honestly thought in terms of "elan vital" and "game balance". Like, take the question "Why is flesh soft and diamond hard?", and ask somebody without a science background. I'd guess that the typical response would go something like, "I'unno, it just is." Or, "I've never thought about it, why?" Or, "Heh heh heh, you said hard". I suspect that Yud is making up a layperson of his own invention, a mythical audience upon whom his Educate spell is perfectly effective. He refuses to admit any challenge to his mental model of how the process of explanation works.

source: trust my dick, bro

If you spend as many words as Yud does, you could actually teach quantum mechanics. But his goal isn't to teach physics; it's to convince the reader that physicists are all wrong about physics. It's cult shit disguised as a science lesson.