I Just Gave All My Money
To Alex's remarkable project. He is solving every philosophical problem at once (and helping out with political ones, too).
posted by Andrew at 11:52 AM
An unwieldy name for unwieldy thoughts.
posted by Andrew at 11:52 AM
3 Comments:
Hey... um, sorry, are you being facetious with this post? (other than obviously about giving away all your money) Cuz I've spent a LOT of time poking around this site, and while it clearly has value (as witnessed by the many hours I've spent reading it), I think Alex Rohde is a bit of a nob. Do you?
In all seriousness, its super interesting and I've got plenty to say and plenty of questions, particularly if you don't think Alex is a nob, so I just wanted to know if you were being sarcastic in your support before I went for it...
~ Gordon
Funny you should ask. I was being 100% facetious. But I guess sarcasm doesn't translate perfectly in writing.
Funniest part of his page is a tie between the "debate me" page and the PayPal donations button.
Also funny:
debates in progress:
Ben Gorman
debates finished:
[none]
That said, I haven't "read the site through as many times as necessary to fully understand it" and I don't know what a pertainee is really, and I am probably "too emotional to refrain from character attacks" so I should probably just shut up. Still pretty sure he's a nob.
Oh good, then we're agreed! Sorry, shouldn't have had to ask.
Yeah, I particularly love Ben Gorman's response of 7/6/06, in which my favorite aspect of Alex's site (the Pterodactyl Porn Dilemma) rears its head in a most humerous and rather damning point by Ben.
Its obsurd that he refuses to reword the thing about solving all philosophical questions.
My 2 favorite ben quotes:
1. "...you discount any human being who desires answers to questions which are not testable. Since any thinking person can come up with questions that are not testable, all human beings fall into your category of irrational people. Thus, the system might clear everything up, just not for any human being. Thoughts?" (7/2)
2. "I would argue that your system sometimes resolves philosophical questions, if, by resolves, you mean that it seeks to clarify those questions or beg for clarification." (7/26)
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