So in Joe Rogan's show (like everywhere) there's some noise besides the signal. Terrence Howard is noise. But I hope you agree with me that Roger Penrose - a top level scientist who has been praised for decades despite some unconventional ideas , eventually winning the Nobel Prize in Physics - is signal.
The noise is the price that one has to pay for the signal. I think this is a fair deal, and I prefer to hear more noise if I can find important signals hidden in the noise. Joe Rogan brings to the attention of the public the ideas of some scientists who do excellent work (think of our own Ben Goertzel) but might not reach the public at large otherwise. In these days of thought policing, cancel "culture" and forced political correctness, I think the Joe Rogans of the world are very much needed. Back to Terrence Howard, I didn't watch the episode with him and don't intend to. I think what he says is BS, and why should I want to waste my time with BS? But given the choice between Howard AND Penrose, OR no Howard and no Penrose, I choose the former. And I think if many people want to listen to a person then, regardless of what you and I think of that person, that person must be given a platform . On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 2:19 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Giulio Prisco wrote On: > > No, science doesn’t have a problem with Joe Rogan > > Well, some of the guests on Joe Rogan's show certainly have a problem with > science. For example Rogan invited the actor Terrence Howard to promote his > crackpot ideas about mathematics and physics, ideas he says he got from a > being that visited him in a dream: > > Terrence Howard insists that 1x1=2. > > Terrence Howard insists that the very idea of the square root of 2 is > nonsense. > > Terrence Howard insists that 2 is not a prime number even though the > definition of a prime number is a number that is only divisible by itself and > the number 1. > > Terrence Howard insists that the Luminiferous Aether exists, even though it's > a theory that Einstein put out of its misery 120 years ago and that had been > in intensive care for 50 years before that. > > Terrence Howard insists scientists introduced uncertainty and "all this > bullshit" because they were only thinking in 2-D but he found the truth > because he was thinking in 3-D. > > Terrence Howard insists that "cartesian space don't allow curvature". > > Terrence Howard insists that "Gravity is just electricities draft". > > Terrence Howard insists that he was not the one who came up with all this > stuff " I didn't invent it, an angel gave that to me". > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > xrj > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "extropolis" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/extropolis/CAJPayv1ueHH%3DEJV-jQLYbEs5gHfqx6nAA8x7W4Hk-UBXz3ZtCQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAKTCJyde1qo43xdqJnbsNnZZp8U_V8wBYTq3JSJJqW%3DJP01Z3Q%40mail.gmail.com.
