OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Since you [Jed] know him so well, please explain this dichotomy > > in rossi's relationships with people; what makes a person > > a snake and a clown and what makes a person a valuable friend. > > A razor's edge. > Exactly! It might also be compared to quantum entanglement. All of us who try to deal with Rossi play the role of Shrodinger's cat. It is impossible to know -- even in principle -- whether you are presently alive or dead to him. After a while you stop caring, which is why, for example, I am typing this message. Or . . . am I?!? See also: Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field -- http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Reality_Distortion_Field.txt "A reality distortion field. In [Job's] presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around . . . ". . . [J]ust because he tells you that something is awful or great, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll feel that way tomorrow. You have to low-pass filter his input. And then, he's really funny about ideas. If you tell him a new idea, he'll usually tell you that he thinks it's stupid. But then, if he actually likes it, exactly one week later, he'll come back to you and propose your idea to you, as if he thought of it." This is the mark of genius and also of a sociopath. Jobs was both. - Jed
