Moving cables around killed dynamics for days anyone else experience this?

audiozenology "You are too wrapped up in your own high sense of self worth"


You are simply going to have to eventually accept that not everyone agrees with you, that you are not always right, and that this forum has rules.

" The post I am responding to was clearly made in an attempt to denigrate and embarrass me"

Hey moderator, can you give me some license here. Someone decided to attempt to insult me with a Nassim Taleb quote, so I would like to expand on his (Taleb's) quote. Let's look at who he considered "Intellectual yet Idiot". There were maybe 15 points, but I thought these were the most salient.

• doesn't know that there is no difference between "pseudointellectual" and "intellectual"  (cough cough)
• has mentioned quantum mechanics at least twice in the past 5 years (cough cough)
• has attended more than 1 TEDx talks and watched more than 2 TED talks
• never curses on twitter  (how about we interpret that as always trying to police other's language on audiogon? .. cough cough)
• has The Black Swan on his shelves but mistakes absence of evidence for evidence of absence
• has a cousin who worked with someone who knows the Queen   (or maybe name drops higher ups at Shunyata repeatedly ... cough cough)

My "intuition" does not suggest otherwise. A huge base of knowledge, experience, and actual scientific/engineering facts w.r.t. cables and the effects of what can/cannot happen with a cable when you connect it, disconnect it, and move it around rules out stated effects. I appear to be the only person actually "thinking" and trying to help the OP out with what is highly likely an issue as opposed to "ya, that must be it".

Perhaps if you were not so pedantic, misinformed and misdirected, you would stop your trolling, obsessive, and compulsive behaviour and stop misstating, misrepresenting, and misquoting me, in a failing attempt to discredit, embarrass, and denigrate, while only repeatedly kidnapping threads.

clearthink1,067 posts01-06-2020 2:11pmAudiozenology I heartily suggest you Google "scientific method" and read some authoritative information on its standards, theories, and practice because you can not with a broaad sweep of you’re hand rule out a factor as being an influence simply because you’re intuition suggests otherwise.

Posting some of Nassim Taleb’s definitions again. You know that guy who wrote a book considered one of the most influential in the 20th century, and has held many distinguished posts, not some guy who has no science training, never worked in the sciences, and has no scientific accomplishments, but seems upset that actual scientists don’t take him seriously so wrote a blog only geoff quotes. Now let’s look at who Taleb considered "Intellectual yet Idiot". There were maybe 15 points, but I thought these were the most salient.

• doesn’t know that there is no difference between "pseudointellectual" and "intellectual" (cough cough -- remind anyone of someone we know??)
  
• has mentioned quantum mechanics at least twice in the past 5 years (cough cough -- remind anyone of someone we know??)

Confucious say, "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
I am sure you will attempt to come back with some "witty" retort, but I did not write those words, Taleb did ... oh, and so did you. Guilty by your own actions. You also quoted someone who is literally a joke within any "normal" community, i.e. one that is not laden with tin-hat conspiracy theorists. I didn't quote him, you did. Guilt by association. If that is the type of person you want to be associated, have at it. It's far more a compliment to me than an insult.