# 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:** 9
**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, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/161 "2017-12-28T16:55:13Z")
How bad are your eyes if you need a 4K screen to see buttons? ---
**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 28, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/162 "2017-12-28T17:02:26Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > I don’t mind being argued with. I like being reasoned with. I don’t like being blithely dismissed in 1 sentence or called a crackpot when **most of what I am posting you can just read about in scientific american yourself…** Well, that explains a lot. You’ve started reading _Scientific American_. Now that you have a superficial understanding, you’ve begun bloviating instead of doing actual research, all mixed in with your obsessiveness about life after death and nanobots. I’d ask you to come back when you have a clue, but don’t. Fuck off. ---
**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, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/163 "2017-12-28T17:05:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > How bad are your eyes if you need a 4K screen to see buttons? Guess they must be pretty bad. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > You \*really \*don’t grasp the concept of a pit thread, do you, you condescending, patronizing, self-aggrandizing delusional racist asshole? I’m human like anyone else. I’m no doubt all of those. I just stepped in here to clear up the criticism that isn’t **true**. Yeah, I said something racist on a thread. (don’t remember doing it, but it is what it is). Maybe being confident that p=mv and the rate of total progress is accelerating makes me condescending, patronizing and self-aggrandizing when I point out to you people when you’re definitely, 100% wrong because reality says you’re wrong. But you’re worse. I think most people, if they even read your posts in this thread, would agree you’re just pitting yourself. You have added little to nothing of value, made sweeping conclusions without evidence, and are just generally a dick. There’s a reason you’re one of the only 2 people I have ignored. ---
**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, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/164 "2017-12-28T17:06:28Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > How bad are your eyes if you need a 4K screen to see buttons? I apologize-You were referring to _nano_-buttons, weren’t 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, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/165 "2017-12-28T17:06:48Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Well, that explains a lot. You’ve started reading _Scientific American_. Now that you have a superficial understanding, you’ve begun bloviating instead of doing actual research, all mixed in with your obsessiveness about life after death and nanobots. > > I’d ask you to come back when you have a clue, but don’t. Fuck off. ignore list is now 3. The straw here is that you are being lazy. Instead of claiming my understanding is superficial, pick an important point and justify why _your_ understanding is more in depth. ---
**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, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/166 "2017-12-28T17:08:04Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Guess they must be pretty bad. > > I’m human like anyone else. I’m no doubt all of those. I just stepped in here to clear up the criticism that isn’t **true**. Yeah, I said something racist on a thread. (don’t remember doing it, but it is what it is). Maybe being confident that p=mv and the rate of total progress is accelerating makes me condescending, patronizing and self-aggrandizing when I point out to you people when you’re definitely, 100% wrong because reality says you’re wrong. > > But you’re worse. I think most people, if they even read your posts in this thread, would agree you’re just pitting yourself. You have added little to nothing of value, made sweeping conclusions without evidence, and are just generally a dick. There’s a reason you’re one of the only 2 people I have ignored. Are you beta-testing a new “reality” that the rest of us don’t have access to? ---
**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, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/167 "2017-12-28T17:10:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > How is it any more impossible than the crap you’ve been peddling? +4. This is too sweeping to bother paying attention to you. First, I haven’t peddled shit. If you believe I have, find a post where I name some foundation I want you to donate to or some store I want you to buy stuff at, something. Hell, I haven’t even mentioned some society that is for the advancement of nanotech (is there one?). Second, some of my ideas are less scientifically certain than others\*, but all are based on real, working principles, and to dismiss them all as crap reveals you are too ignorant to pay attention to. \*for example, we don’t _know_ we can cut apart a frozen human brain and recover the data, but given we have electron microscopes and have cut apart smaller brains from smaller animals and build emulators, we probably could in fact do it with humans. So the uncertainty exists but we have proof of concept. We don’t \*know \*that self replicating nanotech is possible but since we appear to be constructed of it, it probably is. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/168 "2017-12-28T17:12:06Z")
Samuel, if half of what you say is right, then your visionary brilliance is wasted going on about it on an Internet forum and working for your father in some low yield job. Perhaps you should publish in journals or work in firms working in nanotechnology or the other wonderful things full of potential you keep telling us about. ---
**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 28, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/169 "2017-12-28T17:12:58Z")
This thread looks quite different when \*\*SamuelA \*\*is the one on Ignore. And better by a magnitude of thousands, naturally. ---
**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, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/170 "2017-12-28T17:13:52Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > This thread looks quite different when \*\*SamuelA \*\*is the one on Ignore. And better by a magnitude of thousands, naturally. Well that’s an insult worthy of ignoring you. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/171 "2017-12-28T17:17:59Z")
Maybe you can invent a self-replicating nano-bot to manage your Ignore list. Regards, Shodan ---
**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, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/172 "2017-12-28T17:18:42Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Well that’s an insult worthy of ignoring you. You do realize that you are in a BBQ Pit thread dedicated to Pitting you, right? You are going to end up with a record-breaking “Ignore” list before this runs its course, dipshit. :rolleyes: ---
**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, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/173 "2017-12-28T17:24:21Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Samuel, if half of what you say is right, then your visionary brilliance is wasted going on about it on an Internet forum and working for your father in some low yield job. Perhaps you should publish in journals or work in firms working in nanotechnology or the other wonderful things full of potential you keep telling us about. How many of those jobs do you suppose exist, vs ‘code monkey’ positions that are generic? In order to do what you are saying, I’d have to be 10 years younger, I’d have to have richer parents so I could afford SAT prep courses (I missed some points on the math section, ironically), maybe if people didn’t bully me in high school I would have had better grades. Jobs like you are describing basically require a PhD from MIT or Stanford and a shit-ton of luck. There’s only one Ray Kurzweil, and he was ignored for a very long time, and he spent his whole life shilling dubious predictions\*. Has it occurred to you that there are probably many people like me, but society at the present time lacks interest in such visionary efforts? Remember the post I felt the most passionate about? There’s a very real (from a “laws of physics view”) possibility we could be preserving human brains right before death in a way that works. Other people with far more reputation than me have pointed this out. They have mostly been ignored. Not with arguments based on fact, generally, but mainly a bunch of tired ideas that are bullshit…but most people believe them. Ideas like “if people didn’t die, the earth would be overcrowded”. “if people didn’t die, no social justice progress would be made”. “you’ll never see heaven if you remain alive”. And other total malarky. So we let a million people a year die and spend 600 billion year on a gigantic military to “protect” our citizens from possible death from foreign attack. Oh and even more than that on medicare, which shovels money to institutions to “memory care” for patients who are steadily degrading from dementia. You call \*me \*a crackpot for proposing brain preservation. “memory care” is literally a medical treatment that doesn’t work at all. It does fuck all. The dementia patients keep getting worse. You can give an elderly person physical therapy so they can use a spoon again and then they’ll just forget it. At least if you froze them, there’s a chance. So yeah, I wish I could do more with my life. But I can’t. And it’s probably only a little my fault. ---
**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 28, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/174 "2017-12-28T17:24:24Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Maybe being confident that p=mv and the rate of total progress is accelerating makes me condescending, patronizing and self-aggrandizing when I point out to you people when you’re definitely, 100% wrong because reality says you’re wrong. No, when you are being condescending and patronizing is when you have implied that maybe Stranger on a Train and Sunny Daze are really lying about being authorities in what they claim to be, and then saying that if they were _really_ that intelligent they would see that what you are saying is obviously true. You are a poster boy for “mansplaining.” ---
**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, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/175 "2017-12-28T17:26:29Z")
Sammy. Sit down, listen to me. Okay? You’ve put some really good people on ignore today. That’s totally unnecessary and will result in you missing some good posts by those folks. If you can’t stand some anonymous person calling you names on the internet, you’ll never get your gold class internet merit badge. If we weren’t all bozos, we wouldn’t be on this bus. So quit trying to drive our bus in fucking circles. Just sit down and listen. Fit in a little better. first person to mention licking the bus windows gets an STD from the hooker in his boat thread. ---
**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, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/176 "2017-12-28T17:26:36Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > ignore list is now 3. The straw here is that you are being lazy. Instead of claiming my understanding is superficial, pick an important point and justify why _your_ understanding is more in depth. You actually think being on you ignore list is a _punishment_? it’s actually a relief, nanodick. ---
**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, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/177 "2017-12-28T17:31:49Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Sammy. Sit down, listen to me. Okay? > > You’ve put some really good people on ignore today. That’s totally unnecessary and will result in you missing some good posts by those folks. > If you can’t stand some anonymous person calling you names on the internet, you’ll never get your gold class internet merit badge. > If we weren’t all bozos, we wouldn’t be on this bus. So quit trying to drive our bus in fucking circles. Just sit down and listen. Fit in a little better. > > first person to mention licking the bus windows gets an STD from the hooker in his boat thread. > [@running\_coach](#): > > You actually think being on you ignore list is a _punishment_? it’s actually a relief, nanodick. Yeah I think this guy deserves his slot. ---
**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, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/178 "2017-12-28T17:35:01Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Yeah I think this guy deserves his slot. _does victory dance_ ---
**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 28, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/179 "2017-12-28T17:35:05Z")
How long before Sammy’s ignore list is longer than the absent idle\_thoughts’ friend list? ---
**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, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/180 "2017-12-28T17:39:31Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > How long before Sammy’s ignore list is longer than the absent idle\_thoughts’ friend list? A while. I only put complete waste of space posters on it. The guy who claims to work at Stanford who claims that letting a patient rot until they are braindead is “good” while freezing them before then is definitely murder is “evil”? At least he was willing to consider each argument independently. He didn’t sweepingly just call me a shill for some unspecified idea or company like running coach has or claim that 100% of everything I have posted is crackpot like you did. That’s the reason you are on ignore and he is not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420.md?page=10)