Like, totally. Barf me out! Gag me with a spoon!
I mean, there’s this total betch, SamuelA, and he, like, completely corrects people on stuff they are, you know, experts on. It’s so gnarly reading his posts, i’m like gag me with a spoon. But then, you know, to be called an idiot by this guy is so totally grody to the max. And he’s not even a Baldwin, just some guy who is so not cute. As if!
Apparently his “Ignore” function does something ours can’t. I am on “Ignore” in this thread, but he responds directly to a post I made in another:
An excellent and thoughtful post as usual, LSLGuy (last paragraph bolding mine). I was going to respond to it when I saw it last night, but I was too tired. What I wanted to say at the time was that, as insightful and well-intentioned as your post is, you were unfortunately probably wasting your time, considering the subject to whom your observations were directed.
My prediction would have been that SamuelA would not only totally miss the point, but he would start arguing with you. And so it has proved. In the intervening hours that’s exactly what happened. At least, I think he was arguing; perhaps someone could translate this into English: 
You realize that what you are talking about there are terms where some of them nearly infinitely times harder than others.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20689410&postcount=157
This is, incidentally, the same post in which SamuelA succinctly summarizes artificial intelligence for us: “just big mathematical algorithms that explore a solution space”. There you go. But I would expect no less from the same genius who also brilliantly summarized for us the architecture of the brain and explained for us how cognition and consciousness works, as I cited over here.
The point here, of course, is that although the greatest minds of our times struggle with understanding these things and pushing forward the bounds of discovery, SamuelA struggles with nothing. The point, in other words, is the one that Qadgop made here about Dunning-Kruger – as you did, too – and SamuelA’s unique place on that curve.
I’ve had the privilege of knowing a number of world-class experts in their fields of research, and you’re absolutely right about intellectual humility. They may be impatient with obvious fools and some are masters of sarcastic barbs, but they know the limitations of their own knowledge and in the face of it are often humble and even self-effacing. Yet when they do have something to say they’re usually both insightful and correct. The bloviating moron who is the subject of our observations here is the antithesis of all of those things. He would argue with these people and tell them why they’re wrong – it would be, dontcha know, because the principles are really quite simple and they just don’t get it. But SamuelA does. The only thing that might ever change that – maybe – is the passage of a great deal of time and the onset of maturity and, hopefully, some measure of actual competence in something.
“Obdurate” is not an obscure word. But even if it was, “tenet” certainly is not, as it’s not only a common word but one with special significance in science and philosophy. You didn’t know that one, either. And few would consider the expression “per se” to be obscure, even in everyday writing. You got that wrong, too. And of course, in all these cases you must insist that “my answer was still correct” and, most remarkably of all, “I’m using tenet correctly” despite hilariously thinking it was a homonym of “tenant”! Because, of course, you can never be wrong.
That you knew none of these things yet lay claim to genius is consistent with all your asinine techno-babble and is yet another testament to your full participation on the left-hand side of the Dunning-Kruger distribution.
I wonder if Sammy has been checked for Asperger’s.
Sam, people don’t like it when you curse out other people and drop f-bombs. They just don’t like profanity. That’s why I’m damn sure I never do any fucking shit like that. Maybe you should back off a tad with it.
What’s an error of magnitude or two between friends when you’re on a mission to Mars?
I’m hoping he comes back and tells me I used “variance” wrong. 
I’m sure he’s fully qualified to do his own psych evaluation and diagnosis, TYVM.
I think it’s dust mites.
I did use tenet correctly. I just mispelt it in a way that the spell check didn’t warn me about. And you’re accusing me of asperger’s when you’re trying to use a single mistyped character is “evidence” in your argument that you know things I don’t, and I should have some humility.
You just pitted yourself. If you were smart, you’d actually compare hypotheses instead of jumping to conclusions.
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Hypothesis 1 : SamuelA doesn’t know the word tenet, despite using the word “tenant” in exactly the same context the word “tenet” would be used. Therefore I can use this evidence as proof that for topics I know nothing about, SamuelA is wrong.
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Hypothesis 2 : SamuelA mistyped tenet as “tenant” because he’s a human being and has flaws like any human being.
If you were intelligent, you’d be able to pick which of these hypotheses has better empirical support.
Holy shit on a shingle. I go away on vacation for a few days for the Holidays, and it. . . it just doesn’t stop? SamuelA, why do you keep on continuing to dig your own egotistical and intellectual grave? Listen man, I really need you to step away from Mom’s computer for a second, go upstairs, and get some sunshine. We all need to collectively have an intervention with you.
It seems that over the Christmas, your ego raided your father’s liquor cabinet at night, and passed out on the front lawn. It was found the next morning curled up in the cold, wearing nothing but unbuckled galoshes, boxer shorts, and a trenchcoat while mumbling something about “Mom’s meatloaf.” Your integrity and reputation were nowhere to be found. Your imagination however, was on top of the roof, equally fucking smashed, riding your Mom’s Santa display by trying to fuck Rudolph from behind “because his shiny nose is proof he’s got nanobots!” Seriously man, we need to reign in your personality elements just a skosh before you take this ‘Holier Than Thou ALL’ attitude too serioulsy and you do something ‘kinetic’ to Mom’s computer that ends up bad for you.
I’ve tried to read through your posts from the past few days, but your technobabble proves to me that while English is in fact your preferred method of communication, your primary languages are ‘fanciful imagination’ and ‘wishful thinking.’ I’ve asked, but you haven’t provided any iota of evidence of any professional certifications or academic training that makes you even remotely qualified in the comments you have on the topics and hand; and frankly, you’re still playing with smoke and mirrors to find a technology that will either A) support a flimsy argument, or B) you can rest your laurels on to “prove” that you’re right. Remember that whole “Atomic Act of 1946” thing you tried to pass off as fact? C’mon man, there are people here that know what they’re talking about, and you can’t baffle us with bullshit [sub](not all of us)[/sub].
It’s okay to be wrong brother, but the first step is admitting you have an egotistical problem that clouds your judgement. I am the first in line to say I’m not an expert in lots of things, but I do know an airplane in a flaming tailspin towards the ground when I see it. Perhaps your autopilot is still engaged and stuck on ‘descent.’ You need to “aviate, navigate, and communicate” the way out of your situation.
Tripler
Seriously, all you have to do in the first step is take a breather.
I quoted an article stating I was right about the Atomic Energy Act. It clearly stated and supported the conclusion I reached. Turns out, the Washington post was not a correct primary source, my bad. I acknowledged I shouldn’t have trusted them without doing further research…in thread. I quoted the article. You called me a lier and said that even though the post where i mentioned their conclusion but linked something else, I must have just been lying. Without producing my browser history in a way that can’t be faked, guess I can’t disprove your “lying” hypothesis…though it is also poorly supported by evidence.
Do you have any other support for your “technobabble” hypothesis? Or is the only topic you feel qualified to comment on? You know there was a long thread about using nukes to redirect asteroids, and I did some solid work there. Must be something you can nitpick. All you did was jump in and claim long distance tightbeam nuclear shaped charges won’t work…which isn’t something that I claimed.
TLDR, no bullshitter, you’re the bullshitter. What you just posted is steaming bullshit, and an impartial intelligent observer would acknowledge that.
I don’t think you have Asperger’s, Sam.
I think you’re just a common, everyday, arrogant, know-nothing, argumentative asshole who found himself a forum with a captive audience.
Personally I think Tripler just pitted himself. Do I have it right? I’m trying to figure out what goes into the determination of an assessment that one has pitted themselves.
He is handing you your ass, and you are asking him to run it through a Veg-O-Matic first?
Captive how? All you have to do is leave this thread, leaving me with the last word. You’re pitting yourself. You obviously are so argumentative that you’re posting here to justify your own idiocy. You must have these same qualities.
Tell me you don’t find this entertaining. It’s 4:19 on a Thursday during the holiday season, there’s no other game in town.
Is anyone else reminded of Shagnasty? Trying to impress people on a forum by going into fits of fancy then digging ever deeper when challenged.
Step away for a week and replace forum posting and sci-fi fantasizing with exercise and meditation. Or dig deeper.
He pitted himself because he posted a wall of bullshit where he calls another poster a bullshitter. It’s bullshit because when he claims “technobabble”, he’s just revealing his own ignorance and lack of ability to discern the difference between “technobabble” and real ideas. A person who’s ignorant can’t tell the difference between “magnetic refrigeration” and “remodulating the phaser banks”. It’s all just “technobabble” to them.
He uses as “support” for his argument a thread where he argues as himself as a primary source against the Washington Post. And then claims I was the bullshitter for assuming the newspaper was a more credible source than him, who I thought was just a hand jamming bomb diffuser, not a guy who’d know anything about nukes other than how to disarm one.