Making Light :: Commonplaces :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001495.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Fri, 01 Nov 2002 17:37:34 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.261 Commonplaces Heard from Avram Grumer: "Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from believing that everyone else is psychic."... Heard from Avram Grumer: "Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from believing that everyone else is psychic."... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001495.html Commonplaces -- comment #1 from John Farrell comment from John Farrell on 17.Oct.02 Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from believing that everyone else is psychic.

This sounds delightfully like Strong Bad's "A One that is not a Cold One, is Scarcely a One at All."

]]> <p>Posted October 17, 2002 12:35 PM by John Farrell</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001495.html#7668 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001495.html#7668 Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:35:29 -0500 Commonplaces -- comment #2 from Stefan Jones comment from Stefan Jones on 17.Oct.02 Similar in spirit too:

A sufficiently advanced stupidity cannot distinguish between technology and magic.

]]> <p>Posted October 17, 2002 5:32 PM by Stefan Jones</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001495.html#7678 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001495.html#7678 Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:32:10 -0500 Commonplaces -- comment #3 from Emmet O'Brien comment from Emmet O'Brien on 18.Oct.02 I've always thought Clarke's Third Law was topologically identical to the Turing Test, it just depends on the angle of observation; Stefan's observation kinds of fits halfway along, though I would call it trusting nature rather than stupidity. After all, ATMs pass the Turing Test to the extent that I've seen little old ladies thank them.

It's the same sort of isomorphism as "Information wants to be free" has with the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

]]> <p>Posted October 18, 2002 4:53 PM by Emmet O'Brien</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001495.html#7705 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001495.html#7705 Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:53:05 -0500 Commonplaces -- comment #4 from Jeremy Leader comment from Jeremy Leader on 1.Nov.02 If information wants to be free, what does freedom want? To be informed?

]]> <p>Posted November 1, 2002 5:37 PM by Jeremy Leader</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001495.html#7964 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001495.html#7964 Fri, 01 Nov 2002 17:37:34 -0500