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Describing the steps that scientific theory goes through, the famous geneticist J.B.S. Haldane said...
Four stages of acceptance: 1) this is worthless nonsense; 2) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; 3) this is true, but quite unimportant; 4) I always said so.
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Brilliant! :-)
Has someone sent this to Smalley?
Posted by: Janessa Ravenwood | August 10, 2004 at 04:42 PM
There's also Eliezer Yudkowski's take on this: http://yudkowsky.net/sing/shocklevels.html
Both are wonderfully useful, IMO.
-John
Posted by: John B | August 10, 2004 at 06:29 PM
Very nice, a four step plan to true wisdom.
Posted by: todd | August 10, 2004 at 06:40 PM
hello Chris, just checking in any the word on the Russian diamond mechanic chemistry paper the Internet lists cost for paper at around $900 as I'm poor I will not be getting my own copy but I was hopeing you would review and comments on the paper in a timely manner as I'm sure we're all very interested in what the Russians are up to. :)
Posted by: todd | August 10, 2004 at 06:44 PM
We don't have space in our budget to spend $900 on the report. If we manage to get our hands on a copy, we'll be glad to review it.
Chris
Posted by: Chris Phoenix, CRN | August 12, 2004 at 06:34 PM
I'm not sure a lot of people are aware about this, but while the government has publicly declared MM to be an impossible fantasy, it has actually funded a program mentioned in the following website:
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/
If the bureaucrats have any understanding of basic science, I cannot imagine how on Earth they could have such a program and at the same time dismiss molecular nanotechnology enough to refuse to perform a feasibility study on it, unless they have some secret political agenda.
Posted by: nano123 | August 19, 2004 at 10:44 PM
I'm not sure a lot of people are aware about this, but while the government has publicly declared MM to be an impossible fantasy, it has actually funded a program mentioned in the following website:
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/
If the bureaucrats have any understanding of basic science, I cannot imagine how on Earth they could have such a program and at the same time dismiss molecular nanotechnology enough to refuse to perform a feasibility study on it, unless they have some secret political agenda.
Posted by: nano123 | August 19, 2004 at 10:46 PM
My apologies for accidentally posting my comment twice. The internet was working too slowly, so I clicked on "Post" twice and did not expect this to happen.
Posted by: nano123 | August 19, 2004 at 10:50 PM
"If the bureaucrats have any understanding of basic science, I cannot imagine how on Earth they could have such a program and at the same time dismiss molecular nanotechnology enough to refuse to perform a feasibility study on it, unless they have some secret political agenda."
The explaination is simple: The government is made up of more than one person, and they're not obligated to agree with each other. One hand does NOT have to agree with what the other's doing, because they're connected to different brains.
Posted by: Brett Bellmore | August 20, 2004 at 06:07 AM