Horace Heffner <[email protected]> wrote:
> The question though should be which premise is more consistent with > Rossi's behavior, he believes his own claims, or not?" > The premise that best fits his behavior is the same one that fits Harrison, Patterson, William Shockley, and many other people with a personality similar to Rossi's. They are intensely possessive. They want to micromanage every aspect of the technology. They consider it their baby, and they cannot bring themselves to allow others to develop it. they think they know best and they refuse to listen to anyone else's ideas or advice. This kind of behavior is widespread. You can find countless examples in biographies or the history of technology, or science, or for that matter commerce or war. This is how generals lose campaigns even when they have a large advantage going in. I have seen many programmers like this as well. Most of them work for corporations and they are not allowed to act on their desires. If Shockley had had his way, the transistor might never have emerged from the laboratory. He failed at every subsequent venture because he thought he knew best and he insisted on micromanaging. See: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtransistor.pdf Rossi also wants to micromanage people, including me. - Jed
