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Nice example. Here's another: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Magicicada http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.ms.cicada10may10,0,563814...

>You can't do what you suggest in an open, collaborative model. It's too susceptible to malicious actors. Sure you can. All you need is a suitable counterintelligence and counter-d…

What gets me is that what Anonymous is doing isn't terribly sophisticated. Imagine if they had an overarching military-like strategy and intelligence system to back them up, rather…

Thanks.

Ok, I think I might understand what you are getting at. I seem to be confusing two different forms of knowledge: reasoning and memory (where reasoning can be used to produce other …

I'm not saying that problem solving and understanding aren't important (see Bloom's taxonomy). I'm saying that you still need memory to justify whatever domain your knowledge is in…

Thanks. That's a great response.

Can I ask you a question? Why is rote memorization frowned upon in math? I'm a second year math student about to enter his third year. I enter a lot of the definitions, theorems, e…

I'm confused, which manifesto did you read? Half of Kaczynski's manifesto is a rant against modern leftism. What's your reasoning behind him being a subset of the left, when he cle…

Also check out the book "The Thinker's Toolkit" by Morgan Jones. He was a former CIA analyst. It contains 14 different analytical tools in the book that were taught to CIA analysts…

Ad hominem was originally a rhetorical technique used to undermine a person's ethos (their moral character). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos#Rhetoric It was used to undermine a …