[Noisebridge-discuss] Why do so many crackpots go for "crypto"?

[travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 05:33:12PM -0700, travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:07:55PM -0700, Christie Dudley wrote:
> > Yes, they just released a TED talk on this very thing.  Apparently, the
> > problem is dopamine and what it's doing floating around there in your brain:
> > 
> > http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_the_pattern_behind_self_deception.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-06-15&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email
> 
> Watch that movie, and then check this out:
> 
> http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/email/paranoia.txt

Hmm, just got a message back fro Michael, and apparently it's just a
coincidence, or rather an instance of multiple discovery:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

Interesting that E=mc^2 was actually independently discovered by four
people; Poincar'e preceded Einstein by 5 years.
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