Admin1: The Big Media controls Alphysics.
Doctor Gravytee: From a business point of view Alphysics Doctors are free content providers for the Big Media. We get pitiful academic salaries and let the Big Media use what we produce in outrageously priced peer reviewed journals, and textbooks.
A1: And in bestsellers.
Dr. G: There is an immense imbalance of distribution of wealth in Alphysics. Big Media selects one star to be the face of Alphysics and the star gets an unfair share of the scholastic wealth produced by rank and file who gets nothing.
A1: The content of science is defined by the Big Media.
Dr. G: The entire scientific agenda is defined by the Big Media. By creating artificial rivalries among Alphysics Doctors the Big Media keeps science divided. Rivalries sells more books.
A1: Science is not sports.
Dr. G: Looking at String theory wars we see that the Big Media reduced Alphysics down to the level of sports.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
A grotesque racket
Admin1: "The contrast between the grandeur of the words "Theory of Everything" and the meager information delivered becomes grotesque" says the Nobelist Alphysics Doctor Frank Wilczek.
Dr. Gravytee: For every Doctor of Alphysics who claims that Theory of Everything exists there is a Doctor of Alphysics who claims that Theory of Everything is Theory of Nothing.
A1: The Big Media wins.
Dr. G: Both camps of Doctors, pro and con, work for the Big Media.
A1: The Nobel Prize certifies a Doctor of Alphysics as a certified authority to sell books on scientifically flavored science fiction.
Dr. G: In order to sell more books there needs to be a reactionary group of Alphysics Doctors. And they contribute their own reactionary reactions to sell more books.
A1: Are you forgetting the Not Even Wrong camp?
Dr. G: You cannot even be joking. Not Even Wrong is the standard third state which Doctors of Alphysics use to sell even more books.
A1: Doctors of Alphysics are very predictable.
Dr. G: The ritual of right, wrong and not even wrong is sacred in Alphysics. You can see that any alphysics theory goes through this evolutionary process. Today it is happening faster than before that's why it became visible.
A1: Alphysics is a profitable racket.
Dr. G: Considering the level of academic salaries how can you blame us for corrupting science by selling more books.
Dr. Gravytee: For every Doctor of Alphysics who claims that Theory of Everything exists there is a Doctor of Alphysics who claims that Theory of Everything is Theory of Nothing.
A1: The Big Media wins.
Dr. G: Both camps of Doctors, pro and con, work for the Big Media.
A1: The Nobel Prize certifies a Doctor of Alphysics as a certified authority to sell books on scientifically flavored science fiction.
Dr. G: In order to sell more books there needs to be a reactionary group of Alphysics Doctors. And they contribute their own reactionary reactions to sell more books.
A1: Are you forgetting the Not Even Wrong camp?
Dr. G: You cannot even be joking. Not Even Wrong is the standard third state which Doctors of Alphysics use to sell even more books.
A1: Doctors of Alphysics are very predictable.
Dr. G: The ritual of right, wrong and not even wrong is sacred in Alphysics. You can see that any alphysics theory goes through this evolutionary process. Today it is happening faster than before that's why it became visible.
A1: Alphysics is a profitable racket.
Dr. G: Considering the level of academic salaries how can you blame us for corrupting science by selling more books.
Friday, December 29, 2006
What is Science
Admin1: Who defines science?
Doctor Gravity: Big Media defines science.
A1: What is science?
Dr. G: Science is what sells.
A1: How do we know it is science.
Dr. G: Go to science section.
Doctor Gravity: Big Media defines science.
A1: What is science?
Dr. G: Science is what sells.
A1: How do we know it is science.
Dr. G: Go to science section.
Friday, December 15, 2006
The Invisibility of the Org
Admin1: It is fascinating to realize that we only notice some things only when they start to crumble.
Doctor Gravytee: Traditionally humans experience difficulty to perceive organisms which are too small to perceive with unaided eye and also things which are too big to perceive.
A1: Like bureaucracies?
Dr. G: Yes. Bureaucracies are organisms as real as computer programs or viruses. But humans cannot perceive them.
A1: But we know that there exists something called "the media."
Dr. G: Media is a giant organism. The media exists because they have a protected monopoly on the database of knowledge. This database may be called "news." Giant media own the database and sell it to their customers. They control the channel of distribution as well as the database itself. Gathering of information, creation of database, and the distribution are all controlled by the giant media.
A1: Today citizens have access to the database. We can blog, we can take our news photos...
Dr. G: True. People perceive some kind of change but we have been under the influence of the media so long that we still believe in the standards of the media.
A1: Such as?
Dr. G: The media is a professional industry. Any professional industry is based on authority. In order to add value to their product the media invented a concept of impartial reporting of the news. They pretended to despise conflict of interest. They claimed editorial departments and advertising departments did not know about each other.
A1: Isn't this a good thing?
Dr. G: Not at all. This idiotic notion of impartiality makes sense when the media controls the flow of information. When the information is available for anyone to review the customer no longer cares about the separation of editorial and the advertisements.
A1: Why?
Dr. G: Today, top bloggers still make sure that they disclose for instance that they do not own any shares of a startup they are writing about. Why do I care if they own shares or even if they are paid by the company they are writing about. They are not the only source of information. I could read at least a dozen reviews of a new product in half an hour. If a reviewer is biased and skewed by his association with the company he is reviewing he would lose credibility.
A1: You are saying that the burden lies with the customer not with the professional.
Dr. G: Of course. The professional is free to hype, to exagerate, to lie and to be an evangelist of the product he is trying to sell. It is the customer's duty to decide to believe or not to believe. It is the old way to treat the customer as a baby and as a retarded idiot who cannot tell the hype from an impartial review.
A1: When the media controlled the source of information they sanctified the concept of impartiality in order to gain authority. When they had authority then their customers believed their stories and reviews. Customers had no way of checking the information they had to take the authority of the media because the media claimed fair reporting.
Dr. G: Today we don't need this authority thing anymore. When information is freely available to anybody, the professional better be credible or the customer will simply check the data for himself.
A1: How do all this relate to Alphysics?
Dr. G: Alphysics is a similar kind of con game. The media corresponds to the scholastic hierarchy. The database is alphysics code. The professionals are the alphysic doctors. The customers are the buyers of books and believers who buy into the cosmogonic scenarios of Doctors of Philosophy.
A1: Once we perceive that scholasticism is a real profession, the oldest bureaucracy in existence, and a corporate entity as real as GM or IBM then we see that scholasticism is no different than these companies.
Dr. G: There is no difference. The fact that scholastic corporation does not have a corporate identity in the form of a logo does not make it a non-corporation. For profit corporations at least create value since they produce and sell a product people can use. Doctors of Philosophy who work for the giant scholastic corporation produce nothing useful.
Doctor Gravytee: Traditionally humans experience difficulty to perceive organisms which are too small to perceive with unaided eye and also things which are too big to perceive.
A1: Like bureaucracies?
Dr. G: Yes. Bureaucracies are organisms as real as computer programs or viruses. But humans cannot perceive them.
A1: But we know that there exists something called "the media."
Dr. G: Media is a giant organism. The media exists because they have a protected monopoly on the database of knowledge. This database may be called "news." Giant media own the database and sell it to their customers. They control the channel of distribution as well as the database itself. Gathering of information, creation of database, and the distribution are all controlled by the giant media.
A1: Today citizens have access to the database. We can blog, we can take our news photos...
Dr. G: True. People perceive some kind of change but we have been under the influence of the media so long that we still believe in the standards of the media.
A1: Such as?
Dr. G: The media is a professional industry. Any professional industry is based on authority. In order to add value to their product the media invented a concept of impartial reporting of the news. They pretended to despise conflict of interest. They claimed editorial departments and advertising departments did not know about each other.
A1: Isn't this a good thing?
Dr. G: Not at all. This idiotic notion of impartiality makes sense when the media controls the flow of information. When the information is available for anyone to review the customer no longer cares about the separation of editorial and the advertisements.
A1: Why?
Dr. G: Today, top bloggers still make sure that they disclose for instance that they do not own any shares of a startup they are writing about. Why do I care if they own shares or even if they are paid by the company they are writing about. They are not the only source of information. I could read at least a dozen reviews of a new product in half an hour. If a reviewer is biased and skewed by his association with the company he is reviewing he would lose credibility.
A1: You are saying that the burden lies with the customer not with the professional.
Dr. G: Of course. The professional is free to hype, to exagerate, to lie and to be an evangelist of the product he is trying to sell. It is the customer's duty to decide to believe or not to believe. It is the old way to treat the customer as a baby and as a retarded idiot who cannot tell the hype from an impartial review.
A1: When the media controlled the source of information they sanctified the concept of impartiality in order to gain authority. When they had authority then their customers believed their stories and reviews. Customers had no way of checking the information they had to take the authority of the media because the media claimed fair reporting.
Dr. G: Today we don't need this authority thing anymore. When information is freely available to anybody, the professional better be credible or the customer will simply check the data for himself.
A1: How do all this relate to Alphysics?
Dr. G: Alphysics is a similar kind of con game. The media corresponds to the scholastic hierarchy. The database is alphysics code. The professionals are the alphysic doctors. The customers are the buyers of books and believers who buy into the cosmogonic scenarios of Doctors of Philosophy.
A1: Once we perceive that scholasticism is a real profession, the oldest bureaucracy in existence, and a corporate entity as real as GM or IBM then we see that scholasticism is no different than these companies.
Dr. G: There is no difference. The fact that scholastic corporation does not have a corporate identity in the form of a logo does not make it a non-corporation. For profit corporations at least create value since they produce and sell a product people can use. Doctors of Philosophy who work for the giant scholastic corporation produce nothing useful.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
The Greene Religion
Admin1: Your predictions are coming true, the most famous Doctor of Philosophy Doctor Greene has turned himself into a movie star.
Doctor Gravytee: String theory predicts that if it can be special effected then it is predicted by String Theory and it gets the stamp of approval of the most famous Doctor Greene.
A1: Why is this religion?
Doctor Gravytee: In the millennia old turf wars between Doctors of Philosophy and Doctors of Theology who are fighting to save the souls of the same innocent people to fatten their stomachs and pockets each group of Doctors claims to represent the true authority and insults his counterpart as being an ignorant and unfaithful moron with a defective authority to support his far fetched cosmogonic claims. Doctor Greene will never get tired of comparing creationism and the String Theory. This is what his constituency wants to hear.
A1: We know this from politics.
Doctor G: Yes, politicians are also professionals who use the same trick on their constituency.
A1: So are you saying that both standard religions of Doctors of Theology and the alphysical religion evangelicized by the Most Famous Doctor Greene are religions?
Dr. G: Exactly. Doctors themselves created this duality which does not exist. Most famous Doctor Greene the String Theory evangelist claims that creationism is religion but String Theory is science.
A1: This sounds right. The most rigorous String Theory is based on absolutely true and rigorous mathematicism and makes exact predictions in the form of special effects which are then experimentally proved by Doctor Greene who successfully reenacts them in his movies. Creationism on the other hand is based on the authority of a book written in a dead language two thousand years ago by sandal wearing peasants who never heard of special effects and therefore did not know about science and believed in not reproducible special effects such as people coming out of their graves three days later still smelling myrrh.
Dr. G: Yes. Cosmogony is religion. The claimed authority for cosmogonic speculations is not relevant. Whatever authority Doctors claim to sell their cosmogonic scenarios their cosmogonic scenarios are still cosmogonic scenarios sold as religion.
A1: I see. If it is cosmogony it is religion. It doesn't matter what authority Doctors use to support their cosmogonic lies.
Dr. G: Each cosmogonic religion is fraud. To substantiate their fraud so that they can sell more books Professional Doctors need an authority that people will trust.
A1: This makes sense. Two thousand years ago for the illiterate Mediterranean peasants the written word was the authority. If the Word said that the dead was raised from the dead they believed it. They never heard of mathematical String Theory which predicts raising of the dead by time travel.
Dr. G: True. For today's illiterate citizens the mathematics is the absolute authority. This is why they believe the String Theory and the scientific claims of dead routinely raised by Doctor Greene during his travels in various spacetimes.
A1: Doctors of Philosophy are so clever that they keep raising the illiteracy bar. As their constituency wise up and learn about their obscurantist tricks Doctors make the language of authority more and more complicated and proprietary and hidden so that they can define their constituency as illiterates. People finally learned to read but now they are defined by Doctors as mathematically illiterate.
Dr. G: It is amazing how such a simple fraud still works. Not much changed in two thousand years.
A1: Except the medium in which the Doctors screw their constituency.
Dr. G: Yes. Doctors of Alphysics are pretty much controlling the Internet and they are transitioning to the movies.
A1: Nothing surprising here. Doctors of Alphysics have been writing scenarios for the last 75 years or so. It is about time that they turned those scenarios into movies.
Dr. G: Doctors are now defining the popular culture and they are hip. The most famous Doctor Greene, the new face of modern religion for the masses, knows that today fiction becomes truth only when it is fictionalized in a movie.
A1: Another String Theory revolution cannot be far off.
Dr. G: Who knew that the M in M-Theory stood for the Media.
A1: That explains all.
Dr. G: True. The M-Theory is the Theory of Everything and the Media explains it all.
Doctor Gravytee: String theory predicts that if it can be special effected then it is predicted by String Theory and it gets the stamp of approval of the most famous Doctor Greene.
A1: Why is this religion?
Doctor Gravytee: In the millennia old turf wars between Doctors of Philosophy and Doctors of Theology who are fighting to save the souls of the same innocent people to fatten their stomachs and pockets each group of Doctors claims to represent the true authority and insults his counterpart as being an ignorant and unfaithful moron with a defective authority to support his far fetched cosmogonic claims. Doctor Greene will never get tired of comparing creationism and the String Theory. This is what his constituency wants to hear.
A1: We know this from politics.
Doctor G: Yes, politicians are also professionals who use the same trick on their constituency.
A1: So are you saying that both standard religions of Doctors of Theology and the alphysical religion evangelicized by the Most Famous Doctor Greene are religions?
Dr. G: Exactly. Doctors themselves created this duality which does not exist. Most famous Doctor Greene the String Theory evangelist claims that creationism is religion but String Theory is science.
A1: This sounds right. The most rigorous String Theory is based on absolutely true and rigorous mathematicism and makes exact predictions in the form of special effects which are then experimentally proved by Doctor Greene who successfully reenacts them in his movies. Creationism on the other hand is based on the authority of a book written in a dead language two thousand years ago by sandal wearing peasants who never heard of special effects and therefore did not know about science and believed in not reproducible special effects such as people coming out of their graves three days later still smelling myrrh.
Dr. G: Yes. Cosmogony is religion. The claimed authority for cosmogonic speculations is not relevant. Whatever authority Doctors claim to sell their cosmogonic scenarios their cosmogonic scenarios are still cosmogonic scenarios sold as religion.
A1: I see. If it is cosmogony it is religion. It doesn't matter what authority Doctors use to support their cosmogonic lies.
Dr. G: Each cosmogonic religion is fraud. To substantiate their fraud so that they can sell more books Professional Doctors need an authority that people will trust.
A1: This makes sense. Two thousand years ago for the illiterate Mediterranean peasants the written word was the authority. If the Word said that the dead was raised from the dead they believed it. They never heard of mathematical String Theory which predicts raising of the dead by time travel.
Dr. G: True. For today's illiterate citizens the mathematics is the absolute authority. This is why they believe the String Theory and the scientific claims of dead routinely raised by Doctor Greene during his travels in various spacetimes.
A1: Doctors of Philosophy are so clever that they keep raising the illiteracy bar. As their constituency wise up and learn about their obscurantist tricks Doctors make the language of authority more and more complicated and proprietary and hidden so that they can define their constituency as illiterates. People finally learned to read but now they are defined by Doctors as mathematically illiterate.
Dr. G: It is amazing how such a simple fraud still works. Not much changed in two thousand years.
A1: Except the medium in which the Doctors screw their constituency.
Dr. G: Yes. Doctors of Alphysics are pretty much controlling the Internet and they are transitioning to the movies.
A1: Nothing surprising here. Doctors of Alphysics have been writing scenarios for the last 75 years or so. It is about time that they turned those scenarios into movies.
Dr. G: Doctors are now defining the popular culture and they are hip. The most famous Doctor Greene, the new face of modern religion for the masses, knows that today fiction becomes truth only when it is fictionalized in a movie.
A1: Another String Theory revolution cannot be far off.
Dr. G: Who knew that the M in M-Theory stood for the Media.
A1: That explains all.
Dr. G: True. The M-Theory is the Theory of Everything and the Media explains it all.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Wrong is Cool
Admin1: I love the synergy between the media and Alphysics.
Doctor Gravytee: Media is our best friend.
Admin1: We know that Alphysics is part of the entertainment/publishing complex but I didn't know that Alphysics belonged to the fringes of entertainment at the level of what used to be called the burlesque:
Cosmologists know there is something seriously wrong with the standard Big Bang cosmological model. The magnitude of the cosmological constant—a mathematical representation of the energy of empty space—predicted by this theory differs from the measured value by a factor of 10120.
Dr. G: This quote is typical Alphysics. There is not one single meaningful statement in this quote. This statement is not even wrong in terms of punctuation.
A1: You mean it is so wrong that it is not even grammatically wrong.
Dr. G: Yes. "Mathematical representation of the energy of empty space!" This is sad stuff.
A1: I cannot stop laughing. I am sorry. The predicted value of the cosmological constant differs by the measured value by gigantic factor...
Dr. G: Funny stuff. The writer is a good Alphysics reporter. The average reader would say "Wow, look at the difference between the theoretical and the measured value," and be awed for a moment and continue to the sports section. But the punchline is the word "measured." Measured value of "cosmological constant?" What a joke! Now you see why Alphysics is so entertaining.
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