Essay talk:Thoughts on libertarianism and ego

We have an article on the Dunning-Kruger effect. -  π    04:18, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Two cents

 * 1) Luther was not the pioneer of the institution of the self-ordained prophet; he believed in the magisterium, state churches and (to a limited degree) the apostolic succession. The Puritans and Methodists were more responsible for that "individualistic" approach.
 * 2) Note that there are many who extend their believed authority with respect to interpretation to what many of them believe to be also a divinely-inspired text, namely the Constitution of the Unuted States of America, at least up to the post-{Civil War} amendments. ('Original'ists, for their part, can be agnostic or atheist as to its origins, and in fact deny that they are really doing any sort of interpretation at all, much as a spirit-medium merely conveys the plain words of a more general class of dead people.) (LIES (talk) 16:40, 5 September 2022 (UTC))
 * 3) I understand that there are other areas to computer science beyond the a priori theory based around Turing machines; artificial intelligence, for example.
 * 4) Connecting economic self-sufficiency with epistemological solipsism is a bit of a stretch.  05:36, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Mensa effect
Heh, I like it. I'll plug Keith Stanovich as usual -- he has done a good job at demonstrating that intelligence != rationality. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 06:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks interesting, especially since my lab rat Eric loves using IQ to justify racism and cutting social spending. EVDebs (talk) 06:28, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Holy shit, you know a talking rat?!  06:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh lawd, a scientific racist? Check some of the sources on that page for debunkings, esp. Flynn's work. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 06:34, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * BTW, what kind of lab are you working in where someone can get away with spouting such archaic nonsense? Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 06:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The kind where the Roger Clemens effect attaches in an unhealthy manner to people I used to respect who turn out to be complete wastes of DNA. EVDebs (talk) 08:02, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Roger Clemens effect? Does this involve steroids? Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 08:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)