The Glade 4.0

The Economist doesnt appear to be fond of the book:

http://www.economist.com/node/16990802

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

It doesn't mean its false and if it serves as a way to create a model that works better than the previous one it doesn't really matter if thats they the universe "is".

Other than that the existence of pluto was based on observable evidence of interaction - not a possible explination of interactions that could never be proven because they are by definition unobservable.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

That's a poorly worded and/or dubious objection to the book.

Win.

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It... it all makes sense now:

It's not strings that vibrate in N dimensions, but spaghetti that do! Spaghetti Theory unites everything!

Unified theory of everything AND religion combined! I need to get this published.

Just wanted to say I picked up the book. Might post impressions when I'm done, but iPhone Kindle reading in-between jobs doesn't afford much time :p

To be honest, if anyone should have a chip on their shoulder about there being a God or not, this guy should.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

And yet he doesn't. While he certainly has expressed some negative words about the church itself, one of his best friends is a Bishop, and when asked directly, several years ago, whether he believed in God, he paused longer than usual before he answered "If I say yes, you will misunderstand what I believe about God, but if I say know, you will think that I do not have faith. Therefore I decline to answer that question."

He's a pantheist, from what I understand. And the chip on his shoulder you'd expect from someone who has lived with his disability for so many decades isn't there. Not much, anyway. He has a rather healthy view of his illness. He has lived for nearly 40 years with a disease that was expected to kill him in 2 or 3. And he believes he owes his success in his field to the fact that he really has had to focus inward, since his body was essentially useless, his mind was all he had.

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