# 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:** 15
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/281 "2017-12-28T22:04:07Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > Alright, if you think **LSLGuy** hasn’t pitted himself, why not think a little bit more about the advice he has given you? Because he’s wrong. But at least he came to his conclusion via evidence and explained it. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/282 "2017-12-28T22:07:26Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Where I’m coming from is that I can estimate the impulse imparted by hot gas as much as anyone else. Publicly available sources show 3 kilotons/kilogram is achieved in the best optimized devices. > > What “illuminati response”. Who’s they? I stated specifically that “they” are bullshitters if they can’t produce empirical evidence? How the fuck is that a conspiracy belief? That’s, like, the opposite. > > What I’m hearing is that you’re a fucking moron. You’ve been riding a desk for the last 10 years telling other people to finish their TPS reports. You sound about like a C student as well. But hey, I’m just thinking that. I don’t have enough evidence to conclude I’m right. Just a hunch. > > But by your reasoning, you’re the kind of poindexter where if one of your subordinates comes in with some calculations that say the weapons in your bunker are unstable because the explosives are degrading, and they come in with a sample of the suspect explosive, you’ll pull out the manual, find it isn’t mentioned, and call high command. Their “expert” with more credentials than your subordinate with the evidence in his hands says it’s impossible, and you continue mismanaging your unit. > > Thinking like that [lead to this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_involvement_in_the_Chernobyl_disaster#Anatoly_Dyatlov). Also the Challenger disaster, come to think of it. > > What I’m hearing is that because I don’t have a degree in aerospace engineering, just 2 different stem degrees, I can’t make comments, in your mind, on ablative nuclear propulsion. Which, by the way, obviously works at least a little, but you should realize that claiming the “orion drive would work even in vacuum” and “the orion drive lets you reach interstellar travel velocities” are enormously different things. Something you’d know if you even had your claimed credentials. > > What smoke and mirrors am I hiding behind? I’ve not claimed to be in aerospace. I’ve done some basic math. Maybe you’re a fucking liar, so I asked for you to do some calculations that would take about 3 minutes if you really passed aerospace engineering. You have no experience. You’re basing arguments off a textbook. _ **Bottom line** _: What is your pedigree to make your assertions? You’ve done basic math, but you expect me to accept your “solution” for a non-rigid body revolving around three axes at astronomical speeds with ten years’ warning using nuclear weapons that have not been vetted or tested? Seriously? Might as well ask me for a telepathic young man with a saber made of light to solve all of your problems. I will ask a **sixth** time your pedigree before you are taken seriously by the adults. Tripler Really, we have Engineers here. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/283 "2017-12-28T22:07:48Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Where I’m coming from is that I can estimate the impulse imparted by hot gas as much as anyone else. Publicly available sources show 3 kilotons/kilogram is achieved in the best optimized devices. > > What “illuminati response”. Who’s they? I stated specifically that “they” are bullshitters if they can’t produce empirical evidence? How the fuck is that a conspiracy belief? That’s, like, the opposite. > > What I’m hearing is that you’re a fucking moron. **You’ve been riding a desk for the last 10 years telling other people to finish their TPS reports**. You sound about like a C student as well. But hey, I’m just thinking that. I don’t have enough evidence to conclude I’m right. Just a hunch. When you’ve defused a few IEDs, let us know. If you survive. As far as the “impulse imparted by hot gas”, the jokes just write themselves. ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/284 "2017-12-28T22:09:17Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I didn’t accuse you of having Asperger’s, you reading-impaired moron, and I mentioned “tenant” and “per say” because your idiotic blunders were funny. That wasn’t the point, comprehension-impaired fuckwit. The point was the correlation between competence and intellectual humility, or lack thereof, and where you are on that distribution. Where you are [on this curve](https://graphpaperdiaries.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/dunning-kruger-chart.jpg?w=676), specifically. Which is very high on the Y-axis “confidence” scale, and very close to the left, or zero, on the “competence” scale. Which is, in fact, fairly typical of the Dunning-Kruger symptom, as **LSLGuy** very kindly tried to tell you in what I predicted would turn out to be a misplaced sense of compassion. I’m serious: if someone put you in a room with Noam Chomsky, you’d fucking argue with him and tell him why he’s wrong about generative grammar because it’s all so simple, dammit, if you’re just smart enough to understand the basic principles! > > P.S.- You misspelled “mispelt” (alternately “misspelt”). 😃 > > No, it’s the damn brain circuits, Scotty! I dannae if she can take any more, Captain. **SamuelA** [tells us that](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20517089&postcount=43): > … the brain is the effect of thousands of physical computational circuits > **SamuelA** ’s brain has almost 2,500 individual circuits. But a normal human has about 100 billion neurons each of which is able to connect with up to 20,000 others, so we see that **SamuelA** is at a distinct disadvantage here, no doubt accounting for some of his eccentric pontifications. Furthermore, the intellectual strain causes his neurons to overheat and short-circuit with a loud pop. More than 800 of them have already short-circuited. Most have safely blown fuses but a few hundred are actively emitting sparks and smoke, which is being vented out of his earholes. Keep that in mind when reading his posts. Has it ever…occurred to you…that maybe I meant to say “computational subsystems”? A neural network built today for vision recognition is a table of thousands to millions of weights, right? But couldn’t you then treat that single network as a module? And wouldn’t you put together many of those modules if you were trying to build an artificial brain? That’s what I meant. Don’t remember the context when I made that quote, but I was trying to say that if we build artificial brains, it’ll be thousands of \*subsystems \*that were originally built and tested separately. Our DNA obviously encodes for thousands of subsystems. Not millions. Not billions. Thousands. Each subsystem is an area of the brain where the rules are distinct enough that in neuro-anatomy you get a distinct functional area you can see. There’s a reason why it’s not millions, it’s only thousands. I bet you can figure it out, you can do it! Tell me why our DNA doesn’t have enough information to specify the exact wiring layout of every single neuron. Go on, I’m waiting. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/285 "2017-12-28T22:12:11Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > There’s a reason why it’s not millions, it’s only thousands. I bet you can figure it out, you can do it! Tell me why our DNA doesn’t have enough information to specify the exact wiring layout of every single neuron. Go on, I’m waiting. What qualifies you to judge anyone’s response? ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/286 "2017-12-28T22:18:49Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > You have no experience. You’re basing arguments off a textbook. > > _ **Bottom line** _: What is your pedigree to make your assertions? You’ve done basic math, but you expect me to accept your “solution” for a non-rigid body revolving around three axes at astronomical speeds with ten years’ warning using nuclear weapons that have not been vetted or tested? > > Seriously? > > I will ask a **sixth** time your pedigree before you are taken seriously by the adults. > > Tripler > Really, we have Engineers here. You’re continuing to dig yourself deeper. Most adult scientists are quite familiar with the following concepts. For homework, read them and learn them, you’re going to need them to be taken seriously in fields like aerospace. Turns out, there’s been a new innovation in the field in the last few centuries. If you want to find out if an idea might be feasible, you can use a [simplified model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_modelling) and see if the math checks out. You don’t have to waste millions of dollars of taxpayer money! Before you spend thousands of dollars paying someone for your simplified model, you can just [estimate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem). No simplified analysis proves an idea will work. So don’t go too far from actual [empirical data](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv5y6iHUM)! Finally, if a person presents an argument and they aren’t a world class expert in that particular area, it’s ok to check over their work. Turns out, even[non acknowledged experts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority) can be right sometimes, you don’t have to always wad up what they write! For some fields, nobody is an expert because the field is new! Remember, before you come and insult someone, try not to make a fool out of yourself! ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/287 "2017-12-28T22:20:45Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What qualifies you to judge anyone’s response? I don’t have to! The beautiful thing is that the answer to this riddle uses well accepted principles of math! I wouldn’t want to give away the answer, but I’ll give a hint. Did you know that a binary message of a given length encodes a finite amount of information! It turns out there are limits to even compression! Shocking, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/288 "2017-12-28T22:24:27Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > I don’t have to! The beautiful thing is that the answer to this riddle uses well accepted principles of math! I wouldn’t want to give away the answer, but I’ll give a hint. Did you know that a binary message of a given length encodes a finite amount of information! It turns out there are limits to even compression! Shocking, I know. But that just ignores the greater riddle: _What the flying fuck are your academic qualifications?_ ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/289 "2017-12-28T22:29:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > But that just ignores the greater riddle: > _What the flying fuck are your academic qualifications?_ He already told us up thread, somewhere. He has half a degree in machine learning. (no, seriously) He has completed another advanced degree in something he didn’t mention. I’d go find his post, but screw it, this thread is making me think I ate a THC laced gummy bear or two. post 266 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/290 "2017-12-28T22:29:23Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I don’t think you have Asperger’s, Sam. Fixates on specific subjects: check. Excessively pontificates on said subjects: check. Refuses to stop pontificating on said subjects when prompted by others: check. Won’t acknowledge that there are more knowledgeable people on said subjects present: check. I’d be very surprised if he’s not on the spectrum somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/291 "2017-12-28T22:31:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > But that just ignores the greater riddle: > _What the flying fuck are your academic qualifications?_ I mentioned it before. A bachelor’s in comp engineering and a half finished master’s in computer science/machine learning. Also I have obviously read an enormous amount. I was pointing out that arguments \> “credentials”. Stranger on a train claims to be an aerospace engineer with decades of experience, yet he routinely makes serious factual errors. Maybe he simply lied about his credentials. Tripler claims to be a formal military officer with a master’s degree. Yet all he does is blow smoke and claim any specific details are “classified”. He doesn’t appear to be able to apply the ideal rocket equation to a problem to even see if an orion drive starship passes a pencil test. He just endlessly wants to demand “my credentials” and unless I claim I’m a fellow at Rand with a PhD he’s going to claim his are better. Oh, and he recently decided to pull the “experience, not textbook knowledge” when no one alive today has built an orion drive spacecraft. Also very few people alive have even detonated a nuke. I guess Tripler’s “experience” pushing a desk for the military counts for a lot, huh. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/292 "2017-12-28T22:32:02Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > {…} Now if you said “SamuelA is a crackpot, all his posts are nonsense”, that would be a sweeping insult worthy of becoming the 6th ignore list entry. Well, if you’re gonna make it that easy; **SamuelA** is a crackpot and all of his posts are nonsense. **SamuelA** is a crackpot, his posts are nonsense. **SamuelA** is a crackpot, all he posts is nonsense. Hopefully three times is the charm . . . and I’m a grammer\* Nazi! (\*Spelling is not correct, All Hail **Gaudere** ) Done and done! (I will not be denied my entrance into the cool kids club . . . not _this_ time!) CMC fnord! > [@SamuelA](#): > > {…} Humans are stupid, what can I say. [“Oh, you’re a bad pony and I’m not gonna bet on you. You see, in my trade, this is called, what you did, you cracked out of turn. You crumbed the play. ‘Humans’.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPv4C6gIdOo) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/293 "2017-12-28T22:34:48Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > I mentioned it before. A bachelor’s in comp engineering and a half finished master’s in computer science/machine learning. Also I have obviously read an enormous amount. I was pointing out that arguments \> “credentials”. Stranger on a train claims to be an aerospace engineer with decades of experience, yet he routinely makes serious factual errors. Maybe he simply lied about his credentials. > > Tripler claims to be a formal military officer with a master’s degree. Yet all he does is blow smoke and claim any specific details are “classified”. He doesn’t appear to be able to apply the ideal rocket equation to a problem to even see if an orion drive starship passes a pencil test. He just endlessly wants to demand “my credentials” and unless I claim I’m a fellow at Rand with a PhD he’s going to claim his are better. Oh, and he recently decided to pull the “experience, not textbook knowledge” when no one alive today has built an orion drive spacecraft. Also very few people alive have even detonated a nuke. I guess Tripler’s “experience” pushing a desk for the military counts for a lot, huh. You forgot to put “so-called” before your own supposed credentials. If you ask a moderator, I bet she/he will fix that for you. ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/294 "2017-12-28T22:35:40Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Fixates on specific subjects: check. > > Excessively pontificates on said subjects: check. > > Refuses to stop pontificating on said subjects when prompted by others: check. > > Won’t acknowledge that there are more knowledgeable people on said subjects present: check. > > I’d be very surprised if he’s not on the spectrum somewhere. Seems like a reasonable argument. Oh, wait. Now we’re playing the “who claims more experience and degrees card”. I mean, I think you’ve established with fairly convincing evidence that maybe I have some Asperger’s. I’d tend to agree with you, except you don’t have a phd in clinical psychology and lots of experience with patients, right? This means you can’t attempt to diagnose me, you can’t use your brain to read something and reason, you aren’t certified in that area! ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/295 "2017-12-28T22:37:14Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Done and done! > (I will not be denied my entrance into the cool kids club . . . not _this_ time!) > > CMC fnord! > [“Oh, you’re a bad pony and I’m not gonna bet on you. You see, in my trade, this is called, what you did, you cracked out of turn. > You crumbed the play. ‘Humans’.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPv4C6gIdOo) I checked your post history. You actually made a reasonable point in a reply to me. Sorry, you don’t get ignored. Gotta be an ass for dozens of posts and follow me around like Darren does. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/296 "2017-12-28T22:40:46Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > {…} Sorry, you don’t get ignored. {…} “I got a rock. :(” CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/297 "2017-12-28T22:41:44Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Has it ever…occurred to you…that maybe I meant to say “computational subsystems”? A neural network built today for vision recognition is a table of thousands to millions of weights, right? But couldn’t you then treat that single network as a module? And wouldn’t you put together many of those modules if you were trying to build an artificial brain? That’s what I meant. Don’t remember the context when I made that quote, but I was trying to say that if we build artificial brains, it’ll be thousands of \*subsystems \*that were originally built and tested separately. That isn’t the point, notwithstanding your attempt to backtrack on your idiotic claims, and your digression about DNA is even less on point. The point is that you claim that the brain is “thousands of physical computational circuits” and consciousness is simply “the collective activity of millions of neurons working collectively”. As opposed to what, the _individual_ activity of millions of neurons working collectively? 😃 The first statement is a typical **SamuelA** bloviation, oversimplified to the point of near-meaninglessness, and to the extent that it even means anything at all, it’s almost certainly wrong. And the second statement is simultaneously both a truism and _completely_ meaningless. In short, you appear to know nothing about most things, in keeping with near-zero competence on the Dunning-Kruger curve, you can’t write, your vocabulary is shit, and you’re intensely fucking annoying. Whether cognitive processes are computational is a very controversial area, but those who argue that many such processes can be shown on the basis of experimental evidence to be apparently computational also understand the limits of those conclusions and the contradictory evidence of other processes and the vast realm of the unknown. Computational theories of mind don’t mean even remotely what you think they do. They relate to evidence that some cognitive processes appear to act like syntactic operations on abstract symbolic representations, which is arguably a very important part of a viable theory of cognition. No one with the slightest bit of competence in the field would argue that it’s anywhere near being a complete explanation of cognition, and only a complete moron like you would describe brain function as (self-evidently) a couple of thousand fucking computational circuits. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/298 "2017-12-28T22:42:49Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > I checked your post history. You actually made a reasonable point in a reply to me. Sorry, you don’t get ignored. Gotta be an ass for dozens of posts and follow me around like Darren does. _someone_ has to follow the ass in the parade with a shovel. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/299 "2017-12-28T22:46:52Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > _someone_ has to follow the ass in the parade with a shovel. "What? :dubious: And leave show business? 🆒” I’ll take “Punch Lines From Old Jokes” for 500 Alex. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/300 "2017-12-28T22:47:40Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Seems like a reasonable argument. Oh, wait. Now we’re playing the “who claims more experience and degrees card”. I mean, I think you’ve established with fairly convincing evidence that maybe I have some Asperger’s. > > I’d tend to agree with you, except you don’t have a phd in clinical psychology and lots of experience with patients, right? This means you can’t attempt to diagnose me, you can’t use your brain to read something and reason, you aren’t certified in that area! Active but odd: check. NB: I _am_ on the spectrum and I see it in your posts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420.md?page=16)