Subject: Re: LISP and AI From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 2000/05/10 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3166928025031321@naggum.no> * Courageous <jkraska1@san.rr.com> | To wit: they were annoying to *you*. What a brilliant piece of insight! I'm glad you're helping us figure out these difficult things. Some real wit: "Questions" that are followed by a denial of any possibility of accepting an answer are inherently destructive. Yes, I find that annoying. People who ask "questions" only so they can pick a fight with people annoy me. People who have a track record of listening only to themselves talk also annoy me. But you know all about this, already. You've been reasonable lately, however, and you have seen me answer your questions with care and interest. _You_ should know by now that if you want to be stupid, you get what you deserve from me, but if you want to be productive and you listen to other people's opinions and ideas when you ask them questions, I answer with care and interest. Erann Gat doesn't have any interest in what he's asking. He's out to deny that I have said anything worthwhile (see his replies for specific clues to this motivation), which has been on his agenda for a long time, and he's told me, face to face, that he thinks it's productive to employ an amazingly unintelligent copycat version of what he _doesn't_ understand that I'm doing in order to shut me down. Yes, that's very annoying. Erann Gat is an annoying parasite as long as he is in this mode, and he doesn't get out of it by himself. When I answered Espen Vestre's followup questions, Erann Gat proved that he didn't read it at all, only continued to pick a fight, which is his real goal. Yes, that's quite annoying. He can be quite productive and interesting when he gets over his personal problems, however, like a few other people who can't deal with my rejecting their silliness. Now, consider whether you want to help Erann Gat on his mission from the Gods or whether you want to help shut him down before he makes his usual rounds of insane accusations. He's been known to accuse people in his typical roundabout ways of Holocaust revisionism when he doesn't understand what they say, and I found that pretty damn annoying, too. #:Erik