Who Has Made More Halfwitted Posts?

[The Old LefHook]

Bring back the friendly voice of Bobby Czyz.

[smeck]

Czyz was a decent commentator. Shame someone hasn't given him another shot at doing that.

I'd rather listen to him than someone like Mauro Ranallo.

MAMMA MIA, you are SO RIGHT about Mauro. I was watching some old Tyson fights, and Bobby was accurate, cool and analytical despite Mike being pretty out of control at some moments. Another broadcaster would've gotten emotional and critical.

I hope that, perhaps quietly if that's best, one of the well-heeled boxing promoters he worked with, or somebody at one of the networks he worked with, can get him a dignified position somewhere, or slip him a check. He shouldn't have to go the GoFundMe route or stay bagging groceries (unless, who knows, he finds it a relaxing, low-pressure way of spending the day!)

[billeau2]

It hurts to even hear that about Bobby. He was so gregarious and likeable. Punches to the head took it away.

As for Chris Langan, I have wondered about him for years. For a guy with the claimed IQ of Leibniz, he has exactly no accomplishments, which is a first hint to consider. He wrote a book (possibly still unfinished) which is 99% unreadable. I have seen parts of it. I would be more impressed with an actual accomplishment in a field he claims to love and work in, rather than his statement that his head is too large for any baseball cap he can find.

You cannot prove an IQ of 200 with glibness. Langan is mainly just glib as hell. He talks fast like Czyz did.

The truth appears to be that both he and Marylin of "ask Marylin," worked for Mega IQ societies and learned their routines well. They memorized the tests, taking them multiple times until they achieved the scores that satisfied them, scores they claimed said they were the smartest people who ever lived.

I like Langan but I think your take has merit. These tests identify a type of intelligence. I myself am literally an idiot savant... my verbal reasoning scores are off the charts, but I have no special math ability lol.

But Lefty, why does a high IQ mean that someone should achieve anything? Many bright individuals become reprobates, drop out of a society that looks at achievement as a good job and a big house... Bobby Chaz probably does not care so much what people think of him. He probably does not care about status at all, if he cannot apply himself as he did. Langan was a bouncer for much of his life because it allowed him to think his ideas through on the clock, as long as he trained himself to watch for potential trouble.

By the way Langan's work has parts that are genius, I do think despite what he says, and the fights he has with traditional logicians, that he would benefit greatly from an education in philosophy. He does make some errors not knowing what has been done in the field. On the other hand, he does come up with insights that challenge conventional epistemology. I went through a similar thing doing graduate work in Toronto... Teachers who were fat in the head, not wanting to look at fresh ideas that had any real complexity.

In my case I actually won the best paper for the entire West Coast Regional meeting for the American Academy of REligion. That means getting picked out of like 4,000 plus students.

I am mentioning my accomplishment because I, unlike Langan had some clout when I went into the University of Toronto Doctorate program: It didn't matter. No one cared about an original idea Lefty, the profs were horrible to me. I was recruited by Israeli Intelligence at Santa Barbara lol...I turned that down.

My point is that I really emphasize with Langan regarding the status quo academics. he has some good material and needs to edit it and learn about some of the traditions he applies in his analysis. Proof is, some of the other smaller papers he has written are well reasoned and written.