Trolling, Trolling, Over the Seven Seas...

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A play in one act, performed everyday across the world.

BLOGGER: When we examined moon rocks...

TROLL: The moon is made of cheese! You are such an idiot.

BLOGGER: Well, no cheese is a joint product of milk-producing animals and humans and since neither exist on the moon...

TROLL: Just because all the cheese YOU know of comes about that way, you think all cheese must. It's people like you who block the path of science.

BLOGGER: Well, per Occam's Razor...

TROLL: Oh, please! Like some medieval idiot who believed that the moon was a perfect celestial sphere has anything to say about modern science!

BLOGGER: Surely we have to be careful to separate the philosophical issues from the scientific...

TROLL: 'Philosophy' is just a word for areas science hasn't conquered yet.

BLOGGER: Isn't that itself a philosophical statement?

TROLL: That is just the sort of attitude that would have stopped the Wright Brothers from ever flying!

[The above continues for as long as BLOGGER will keep going. Trolls are apparently immortal and can dilate time. Finally, one day...]

TROLL: So, why don't you humor me, and show me what is wrong with my claim that the moon is made of cheese?

BLOGGER: No thanks.

TROLL: I knew it! I knew it! You have absolutely no counter-argument to my contention that the moon is made of cheese! It's just a dogmatic belief of yours. Wheeeeee!

Comments

  1. Silas Barta5:09 PM

    Yep, that looks exactly like our recent iteration of your "machines will never think" profundity, you sure got me there!

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    1. gcallah5:37 PM

      Silas, to see what I mean, contemplate this: I have never, ever made any claim remotely like "machines will never think."

      You ignore what I actually say, make up things I have never said, address them, and then complain when I finally get sick of pointing out "You are not remotely addressing what I said."

      Again: no thanks. I am a very busy man, with real books and papers to write and whatnot.

      Delete
    2. gcallah5:47 PM

      Bye-bye, Silas!

      Delete
  2. Silas Barta5:49 PM

    Can we see your latest paper, or do you still paywall them in case someone might want to see what you spend your time on?

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    1. gcallah5:52 PM

      Silas, your day is rapidly sinking into such idiocy that I think you'd better go to sleep quickly and hope tomorrow is better: You really think the *author* of a journal article gets to decide if it is behind a paywall or not?!

      Delete

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