I was thinking of asking if any of you, here, had run across or read EricW's puffed up ToE:
Geometric Unity: Author's Working Draft, v 1.0 Eric Weinstein https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric_Unity-Draft-April-1st-2021.pdf But, despite my mathematical ignorance, various criticisms seem to suggest it's akin to Nobel disease <https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_disease>, where someone who might HAVE BEEN credible in some domain at some point, offers some rhetoric fundamentally dependent on appeal to authority. Of course, it helps if it's deeply hermeneutic, to better befuddle the laity. Luckily, Weinstein's never won the Nobel ... so no risk of diagnosis from a distance. So I decided not to ask y'all. But then this popped up: The Most Important Amicus Brief in the History of the World Parody is being threatened right when we need it most. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/anthony-novak-parma-ohio-onion-scotus-parody/671697/ And it piqued my vacillation regarding accusations of Bad Faith, 5Ws, steelmanning, postmodernism, fake news, Gish gallops, etc. In the olden days, when Joe Sixpack didn't check Facebook 100 times per day, parody *worked*. Those capable and willing to actually read, but too dumb to recognize The Absurd, didn't have the free time or energy to act on whatever mistaken impression they got from the parody. The proportion of people in the position to act on their impressions, that were too dumb to recognize parody *outed* themselves as being dumb enough to make that mistake. (And then we further divide them into those humble enough to admit their mistake vs. the really toxic dissembling ones.) But *now*, the proportions are wildly redistributed. SCOTUS *wives* are prolly amongst that toxic population, along with Secretaries of State, Marjorie Taylor Greens (Marjories Taylor Green?), etc. You know, the kind of people who might believe EricW (or Bret) when they say they deserve Nobel Prizes. So the question is do you think parody is still effective? Or is it just another arm of Machiavellian psyops? Maybe the Onion is really run by the Illuminati! Hail Eris. ⇒⇐ -- ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
