# Technology doesn't work that way - SamuelA's Pit Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 3, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420 "2017-12-03T00:52:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/1 "2017-12-03T00:52:58Z")
It has been noted on occasion that **SamuelA** has something of an obsession with technology, particularly nanotechnology. He has an interest in cryonics. He also gets belligerent if anyone questions him on the validity of any of his optimistic claims. See, things don’t always work the way that **SamuelA** thinks they do. Here’s an example of Sammy-boy wandering into la-la land because he got questioned by another poster: > [@Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5047): > > Fuck you. You’re the crackpot who equates nanotechnology with Faster than Light Travel and fucking antigravity. > > I bet you work at Home Depot…you certainly don’t have the education to do anything better. If you have an office job, you’re one of those morons who maintains a fucking spreadsheet of contacts and wastes all my god-damn time at stupid meetings. > > The difference between nanotechnology and FTL/antigravity is that the first technology is in the godamn hands and eyes you are using to type like a monkey on your god-damn keyboard. What do you think your fucking cells are made of, you imbecile! Individual fucking molecular chains put together one peptide at a godamn time, after being made one fucking molecule at a time in biological synthesis paths. But I bet you didn’t fucking know that. > > Nobody has ever, in all of humanity, found a way to even reduce gravity’s pull that passed peer review. And fucking FTL travel means time travel which means paradoxes which means it is almost certainly fucking impossible. Fuck you, moron. > > And as for your suggestion : normally, no. But if you were dying of cancer with a month left to live and it’s the wintertime, the only fucking way you’re going to even have a chance of seeing anything but nothing at all forever and and ever is if you get your moronic brain frozen and hope the future has enough pity on your to resurrect you. You’re goddamn right the odds are slim, but they aren’t fucking zero, so yeah, if you wanna see a green lawn again that’s the only way it could ever happen, no matter how slim the odds are. He also can’t stop shitting all over another thread. Solution: he gets his very own shiny thread. Welcome to your Pit thread **SamuelA**. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/2 "2017-12-03T00:53:57Z")
He won’t be here, he’s looking for the ignore function. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/3 "2017-12-03T00:56:24Z")
Yes, but that’s actual technology. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/4 "2017-12-03T01:02:33Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Yes, but that’s actual technology. HIGH technology, I tells ya. Not anybody can handle that so fast. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/5 "2017-12-03T01:54:08Z")
From what I’ve observed, he’ll posit something, fail to back it up and then go to extraordinary lengths to avoid using the phrase, ‘I was wrong.’ Maybe I’m biased, but his calling \*\*Tripler \*\*pretentious shows a lack of understanding to a great degree. And the classist remark about Home Depot employees - that’s some straight up bullshit I’d expect from someone not secure in their own field. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/6 "2017-12-03T01:57:48Z")
The most clearly ignorant poster I have interacted with in a very long time. I don’t like to shit on people, but the brief interactions I have had with this poster have lead me to no other conclusion. Other than obvious trolls (I don’t believe this poster is a troll), the last time I can remember a poster like him was someone who kept insisting that bicycle helmets actually made one less safe and kept backing it up by providing links to scientific studies and bicycle advocacy groups that clearly stated that helmets should always be worn. He was convinced, however, despite what his own cites were saying about the safety of helmets, that it was all big conspiracy by bicycle helmet manufacturers to make money. And I’m one of the dumbest people to ever post with any regularity on these boards so that’s saying something. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/7 "2017-12-03T02:07:06Z")
So that it doesn’t get overlooked among all of SamuelA’s technology ideas, I will point out [his first post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20637735&postcount=5035) in the OTRS thread, which includes > [@SamuelA](#): > > Unfortunately, for whatever reason, most smart kids are white or asian. Maybe it isn’t genetics and maybe black people can perform in the right 1% of the bell curve…but they are vanishingly rare. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/8 "2017-12-03T02:28:35Z")
Yes, I forgot that bit. He’s stupid _and_ racist. What a charming package. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/9 "2017-12-03T02:30:33Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > So that it doesn’t get overlooked among all of SamuelA’s technology ideas, I will point out [his first post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20637735&postcount=5035) in the OTRS thread, which includes What the fucking what? Racism is the icing on this shitcake. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/10 "2017-12-03T02:35:15Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Yes, I forgot that bit. He’s stupid _and_ racist. What a charming package. Which brings up a point–whenever he is talking about Artificial Intelligence, does he _really_ mean Artificial _White_ Intelligence? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/11 "2017-12-03T03:05:44Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Which brings up a point–whenever he is talking about Artificial Intelligence, does he _really_ mean Artificial _White_ Intelligence? [sarcasm]Black AI would be…a step forward, but not the real thing, don’t you think?[/s] ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/12 "2017-12-03T03:24:32Z")
The kid’s still in college. Hell, he might even be a precocious high schooler, though I doubt that. Yeah, he’s got some really bad social skillz. And self-reported weight, body image, and food addiction problems. If he can learn to learn from the various grown-ups he might grow up to be worthwhile. If not; not. We shall see. I honestly can’t say whether I handicap this one optimistic or pessimistic. Yoda had some sage comment about “too close to call”. Damn if I can remember what it was, but that’s how I feel today on the topic. “Confused I am; uncertain the future is. Whether Jedi’s food or Jedi **SamuelA** will one day be cannot say I.” ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/13 "2017-12-03T04:22:50Z")
He should check out Scientology. I hear they can audit that shit right out of you for about 200 grand. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/14 "2017-12-03T04:37:15Z")
Wait… So he knows that nanotechnology is basically just biology, and he _still_ thinks that it’s that magical? Dude, I hate to break it to you, but we already have biology, and have had it for billions of years, and it hasn’t brought the marvels you describe yet. Maybe it will, eventually, but I don’t want to wait billions more years to see it, if you get what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/15 "2017-12-03T05:00:13Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The kid’s still in college. Hell, he might even be a precocious high schooler, though I doubt that. > > Yeah, he’s got some really bad social skillz. And self-reported weight, body image, and food addiction problems. If he can learn to learn from the various grown-ups he might grow up to be worthwhile. If not; not. > > We shall see. I honestly can’t say whether I handicap this one optimistic or pessimistic. Yoda had some sage comment about “too close to call”. Damn if I can remember what it was, but that’s how I feel today on the topic. “Confused I am; uncertain the future is. Whether Jedi’s food or Jedi **SamuelA** will one day be cannot say I.” “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.” One of my favorite Yoda quotes. ---
**Author:** ![AI\_Proofreader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@AI\_Proofreader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AI_Proofreader)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/16 "2017-12-03T05:14:31Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > [sarcasm]Black AI would be…a step forward, but not the real thing, don’t you think?[/s] When they come up with genuine A.I., they absolutely have to allow us to interface with it while it uses the voices of people such as Samuel Jackson: How did these motherfucking worms get in this motherfucking mainframe! Or Immortal Technique, if you want less comedy and more a rap version of Noam Chomsky. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/17 "2017-12-03T05:34:48Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Yeah, he’s got some really bad social skillz. And self-reported weight, body image, and food addiction problems. If he can learn to learn from the various grown-ups he might grow up to be worthwhile. If not; not. I always admire people for trying not to judge people too quickly and also take in the context of a whole person, but **SamuelA** is very aggressive in his behavior and very quick to hurl all sorts of insults and cast disparaging remarks at other people. I’m actually getting very tired of people labeling everything as bad social skills with the implication that the problem is that someone is just awkward and doesn’t pick up on social nuances. Those people deserve sympathy and understanding, aggressive assholes ready to tear into other people do not. And I don’t really care about what other issues he has, most people have issues - people with more abusive personality types just use these various things to try to get a pass for their behavior. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/18 "2017-12-03T13:53:30Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.” > > One of my favorite Yoda quotes. Thank you. I’ve written it down. > [@AI\_Proofreader](#): > > When they come up with genuine A.I., they absolutely have to allow us to interface with it while it uses the voices of people such as Samuel Jackson: > > How did these motherfucking worms get in this motherfucking mainframe! > … I think the master AI ought to have Mr. T’s voice: > [@Mr. T](#): > > **I pity da foo who defies me. Die meatbags!!** That’ll give the first (and last) Human / AI war the appropriate kind of narration. > [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > … > but **SamuelA** is very aggressive in his behavior and very quick to hurl all sorts of insults and cast disparaging remarks at other people. > … > And I don’t really care about what other issues he has, most people have issues - people with more abusive personality types just use these various things to try to get a pass for their behavior. Agree. I’m not trying to give the kid (much of) a pass. What I meant at the end was \*If \*he learns, and learns quickly, he’ll be OK to have around. If he can’t or won’t, he’ll be gone, and good riddance to the behavior. No skin off my nose either way. And I agree that for the rest of us, there’s no practical difference between can’t or won’t. Individually and collectively we’re under no obligation to tolerate the handicapped just because they’re handicapped. And we’re definitely not obligated to tolerate jerks just because they enjoy acting like jerks. As this thread amply demonstrates, he’s on probation (at best) with a lot of the community members who matter. That’s not a stable place for him to sit. Ask not for whom the clock is counting down; it counts down for **SamuelA**. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/19 "2017-12-03T14:09:22Z")
I just found this post by **SamuelA** in the Omnibus troll thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20639854#post20639854](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20639854#post20639854). Plus another below that. These are not the acts of somebody intending to have a long career here. The clock ticks louder. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/20 "2017-12-03T14:46:06Z")
**IF** anyone, anywhere, ever says **LSLGuy** is not a gentleman and a scholar, I will personally email them a picture of BigT with that Yoda quote printed on it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420.md?page=2)