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- Jan 16, 2017
Lucas is an idiot of the "anything I don't understand is easy to do" school of thought. They can be some of the most infuriating people to deal with, especially if they're your boss or client.I guess you could summarize all of this as the Dunning-Kruger effect: Lucas is too stupid to realize how stupid he is and sounds. Actually smart people know that in any given field (theoretical physics, philosophy of religion, biology, cooking with food bank ingredients) there are other smart people that came before them who spent their lives thinking about these subjects and wrote books on them, and that to meaningfully contribute you have to read at least some of the existing material and engage with it. When has Lucas ever once mentioned the title of a book or the name of a scholar? In classic low-IQ narc fashion he wants you to think he thought of everything himself.
Sure, Lucas, you don't need an education, to have studied the ideas of geniuses who dedicated their entire life to that area of study, or to be able to string a coherent sentence together. You just need a can of Red Bull, whatever shit sandwich you just pulled out of the toaster oven and to lie on your fat ass in a diabetic near-coma to come up with new ideas in mathematics and physics. I don't like appeals to authority or academic gatekeeping myself, but at the very least to explain why the other guy's ideas are invalid you at least have to demonstrate that you understand what they are.