08 Aug 2007, 1:37 am
TheMachine1 wrote:
In many ways this is just a computer simulation. No one on WP do I know for a fact is real. This could all be a figment of my imagination, I could have undiagnosed schizophrenia, this could be an AI project ran by the US Department of Defence or I'm just a simulation to in this computer.
But none of that changes my opinion on who I think Alex is. He is the super users that created WP that makes him God.
But I think people are holding him to way too high of a standard. If there is someone on WP that could and is willing to do a better job I have yet to meet them. Most that think they can do better are the biblical equivalent of Satan. Which usually means they have a distorted view of what better is and/or they have exaggerated their own abilities to themselves and others to execute on their ideas.
But none of that changes my opinion on who I think Alex is. He is the super users that created WP that makes him God.
But I think people are holding him to way too high of a standard. If there is someone on WP that could and is willing to do a better job I have yet to meet them. Most that think they can do better are the biblical equivalent of Satan. Which usually means they have a distorted view of what better is and/or they have exaggerated their own abilities to themselves and others to execute on their ideas.
Existentialism is not your strong point, is it? I use a modification of the Cartesian principle, (excuse the bad Latin) Vito ergo sum. I live, therefore I am.
I have compared Alex to God in the past, but facetiously, as I noted that, like God, he is all-powerful (almost) on WP, yet doesn't answer any correspondence.
Of course people hold him to too high a standard. He's younger than me, and expected to do so much. Is it any wonder he can't answer much correspondence?
calandale wrote:
Wait, are you saying that there are SANE people
here?
here?
Yes, and surprisingly in the majority. That is if you take sanity to be in the 95% section of a bell curve of a statistical population.
Sedaka wrote:
well.... i can meet alex in person so i know he's real...
but god doesnt seem to like that sort of thing
so i dont see how this analogy works.
but god doesnt seem to like that sort of thing
so i dont see how this analogy works.
Excellent point. I also have met three other WP members, so at least three of you aren't just AIs (unless they have created GEAILs).
calandale wrote:
Kilroy wrote:
f**k no
if he did make me why'd he make me bi
then tell his peons I am a sinner just by being born?
if he did make me why'd he make me bi
then tell his peons I am a sinner just by being born?
Silly boy, Alex didn't create you.
Don't mock the poor sod, calandale. I'm sorry you feel that way kilroy.
Flagg wrote:
Trust me, Alex is no "God" in any sense of the word. As an ex-mod for WP I have personally learned about his insanity and ego issues. I'd worship the Christian "god" before I ever I worked for Alex again. He wouldn't give us any clear guidelines and treated us like figureheads. He even sat on his hands while we tried to deal with alcoholics and crackheads. I have NO trust or belief in his abillites to lead WP.
This is the 16 year old Flagg talking, not the one whom I thought was in his 30's. How much work do you think Alex has to do, as well as WP? And give me an actual instance of insanity OR ego issues. I know that your complaints about guidelines, figurehead issues and crackheads (mortuis nil nisi bonum, Flagg, remember that) are valid, but where was the insanity and ego issues?
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Quatermass wrote:
Sedaka wrote:
well.... i can meet alex in person so i know he's real...
but god doesnt seem to like that sort of thing
so i dont see how this analogy works.
but god doesnt seem to like that sort of thing
so i dont see how this analogy works.
Excellent point. I also have met three other WP members, so at least three of you aren't just AIs (unless they have created GEAILs). .
I've met God. Oh wait no, I AM God.
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calandale wrote:
Kilroy wrote:
f**k no
if he did make me why'd he make me bi
then tell his peons I am a sinner just by being born?
if he did make me why'd he make me bi
then tell his peons I am a sinner just by being born?
Silly boy, Alex didn't create you.
Don't mock the poor sod, calandale. I'm sorry you feel that way kilroy.
I rather think that Alex can handle such mocking.
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Flagg wrote:
Trust me, Alex is no "God" in any sense of the word. As an ex-mod for WP I have personally learned about his insanity and ego issues. I'd worship the Christian "god" before I ever I worked for Alex again. He wouldn't give us any clear guidelines and treated us like figureheads. He even sat on his hands while we tried to deal with alcoholics and crackheads. I have NO trust or belief in his abillites to lead WP.
This is the 16 year old Flagg talking, not the one whom I thought was in his 30's. How much work do you think Alex has to do, as well as WP? And give me an actual instance of insanity OR ego issues. I know that your complaints about guidelines, figurehead issues and crackheads (mortuis nil nisi bonum, Flagg, remember that) are valid, but where was the insanity and ego issues?
Oh come on. It's not like you haven't made the same kinds
of complaints, even in the open. I'm glad you're finally seeing
that he DOES have more to his life than running the site, but taking
it out on Flagg, who was demodded for trying to intervene too much,
and has some gripes, seems a bit unreasonable, no?
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