Wall for Ron Maimon

What difference does it make if I approve or disapprove? If you have a new idea, you should be confident enough in it to persist no matter what anyone else says. Your idea has merit, pursue it, and if you get good models and so on, show me I'm stupid. It might be possible to make a symmetry along the lines you suggest, but the counting you do is totally premature, and the paper is mostly discussing this unjustified counting rather than the interesting new idea.

Well, no issues, you have not obligation to put time on it, of course. I have seen that sometimes you are flogged by the comoderators about being too harsh (which really is a problem in online forums). But I'd say that in this case the problem was the opposite: you were so polite in the first criticism that I thought you approved the rest of the content!  The optimum is somewhere in the middle, surely.

I have no interest in your paper, I just don't want it on this site. I didn't do anything a-priori. I read the text very quickly (the same as I would a paper by anyone else), and then decided it doesn't deserve close attention, because I understood every idea in it well enough to judge. I looked at it, saw the state counting, reproduced the basic idea, and understood exactly what you are doing. It doesn't take long. I never reject anything a-priori.

Of topic: It is fascinating that you have put such interest on my paper -and I thank you for it- and that at the same time you have read so lightly the text. I guess that it was a prejudiced reading, either because the arxiv notes had already been discussed and dismissed time ago, or because you labeled it "a priori" as an extraordinary, and thus wrong, claim.

Ok, moved to hep-th; you can do this through "move to different parent" from Admin/Categories/categoryname

Oops!! Thanks. It's a consistent brain glitch, like "Polchinsky". Maybe I should call him "Terry" from now on. Spelling is not my strong suit.

Hey Ron. Looks like you keep misspelling Terence Tao as Terrance Tao. Not sure whether intentional, just thought you might care.

Do I have to repeat myself?

You have misunderstood me (or my explanation was not clear): You have not offended me at all.

I was just asking JonLester to focus on the meat and to ignore your particular internet style ("moron", "bullshit", upper case letters,  and so on).

I did not delete anything (so far), but explicitely calling people names is not needed to show the physics proof do wrong, if it is wrong.

Not even Lumo does this when discussing outside TRF ...