Who is the Greatest Genius Alive Today?
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Who is the Greatest Genius Alive Today?
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Originally Posted by wandererandshadow
My vote goes for Edward Witten
Htt://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Witten
Excon, just ask him.
You beat me to it!Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
Hello w:Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
I'd like to thank the academy and my agent. Mom and dad, too. They always encouraged me. Curlyben gave me my first audition. But, most of all, I want to thank Wondergirl, because she keeps excellent track of my apostrophe's.
excon
Hey!
That was great, excon! Congratulations on your achievement!
Hey Wondergirl, does "apostrophe" need an apostrophe here? I didn't think so. All that gray matter is a curse sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by excon
Hello again, jm:Quote:
Originally Posted by jmjoseph
Being the genius that I am, I can't b'e bothere'd with apostrophe's.
excon
I k'n'o'w.Quote:
Originally Posted by excon
It's a close call between me and Stephen Hawking, but I'll go with me ;)
Scott, are you a digjam? Which means "Damn, I'm good, just ask me."
I think its Al Gore. After all what can you say about a guy that discovered global warming and invented the internet in one lifetime :)
Hello again, dad:Quote:
Originally Posted by califdadof3
Yeah, and he was elected president too.
excon
Jon Stewart.. just kidding..
Bill Gates and Exy.
He also recently wrote a new chapter of 'Love Story ' .Quote:
I think its Al Gore. After all what can you say about a guy that discovered global warming and invented the internet in one lifetime
I'm not titled "Renanissance Man" for nothing <eg>Quote:
Originally Posted by jmjoseph
Bill Gates made two extremely smart business decisions in his life. First, to get in on the ground floor of personal computing and second, to license DOS to IBM rather than sell it to them. Other than that I would hardly put him in genius category. He's not even a very good programmer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitkat22
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Originally Posted by ScottGem
Grigory Perleman
Carl Sagan. But he's dead unfortunately.
You missed one. He let someone else open the door in a lawsuit that allowed the creation of windows.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottGem
I want to be like that when I grow up.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottGem
Is that even spelled right, Scott?
C'mon dude, you've got a reputation to uphold.
I would say Stephen Hawking, Warren Buffett, Mark Steyn.
I'd like to see Ex debate Glenn Beck for the championship. Needkarma to moderate. Advertise it as "The Histrionic event of the Year."
Hello again, Cats:Quote:
Originally Posted by Catsmine
You think I'm histrionic?? ME?? Maybe I'm a little melodramatic at times, but HISTRIONIC? Like the Beckster?? Booo, hoooo...
excon
You could handle it.Quote:
Originally Posted by excon
Sorry ex, I spoke too soon on nominating you. Peter Singer has the answer to everything:
Brilliant.Quote:
Here is a thought experiment to test our attitudes to this view. Most thoughtful people are extremely concerned about climate change. Some stop eating meat, or flying abroad on vacation, in order to reduce their carbon footprint. But the people who will be most severely harmed by climate change have not yet been conceived. If there were to be no future generations, there would be much less for us to feel to guilty about.
So why don’t we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required — we could party our way into extinction!
I think Professor Singer is expressing what a lot of pessimists and skeptics feel about the state of the world at the moment, and perhaps more importantly the direction in which things are headed. Singer is putting forward a nihilist position which points to the slow but inevitable disintegration of society and its moral values. There is a fear that future generations will be left with a society in which life is 'nasty,brutish and short'Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
One needs to be personally satisfied with one's life and feel that we are able to contribute to the betterment of society. If we end up thinking it is better to be a pig satisfied than a human dissatisfied then we have embraced a nihilist position.
What Peter Singer fails to recognize is that a society with no loyalties and no purpose doesn't always ' party its way to extinction ' .People in such a situation may find pleasure in mindless destruction and killing.
It would seem that a nihilistic society could be very similar to the society he is trying to avoid. Professor Singer might object by saying that one final nihilistic society in better than many future nihilistic societies.
Tut
To me it's as simple as this, who am I to deny future generations the opportunity to love and be loved?
No doubt his medical records show he is leading by example.Quote:
So why don’t we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required — we could party our way into extinction!
Tut and Steve ;Great observations of the Singer essay.
I wonder if the NY Slimes will find an op-ed to give a counter-point ? Interesting that they give valuable space up in their publication to a 21st century eugenicist (he has in the past has advocated the infanticide of disabled infants) .
Of course the west has been acting out his vision for some time now with a vengeance. Many already have adopted a zero growth philosophy ;and some murder their children ,mostly because they would be an inconvenience. In the US alone 50 million + babies have been snuffed since Roe . We are in numbers now that have been equated with the most notorious tyrants of the 20th century. (this is a really strange position for a son of parents who barely escaped the holocaust)
Singer of course suffers an Al Gore-like hypocrisy . He has fathered 3 children into his dystopia .When his mom was in a nursing home being kept alive it was pointed out to him that he was a hypocrite . He said it's different when it's your mom.
Wonder what other exceptions he would make. Maybe he envisions an uber-race of Princeton graduates ?
Poor OP, he/she asks a question only to be pummeled with some abortion diatribe.
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