Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote: Your answer is wise and cool... > >
> after digging into the horse manure of LENR history, I have some desire to > be nasty and non-professional. > Naturally. Who wouldn't feel that way! Notice that Huxley was ridiculing the Archbishop in his response. It is contradictory to ridicule someone when you are telling them "don't ridicule!" There has been a great deal of ridicule directed toward cold fusion. The most famous example is Lindley, the editor at Nature calling for "unrestrained mockery, even a little unqualified vituperation." http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LindleyDtheembarra.pdf > After some studies of behavioral economics, reading Taleb, Benabou, > Roubini, I rationally think this nasty instinct is simply... useful > darwinian selected behavior . > I think so too. You seem to think highly of Taleb. I read only one of his books, "The Black Swan." I was not so impressed. He gave many example of events or technical problems that he claimed the experts ignored. I myself knew about nearly all of his examples. Experts did not ignore these things. They anticipated them, and warned against them. Taleb has a high opinion of his own intelligence. He thinks he knows things that the rest of us overlook, or that we are blind to. I disagree. He makes some good points though. - Jed
