the brain doctor loves AI

[Kim Malo]

At 01:22 AM 7/2/2006, Kestas wrote:
> >
> >Sigh. What's the quickest way to discredit anything Danny does?
> >Mention, even in passing, or as above, with a lot of hedging (I'm
> >told... apparently has... -and does anyone know how much Danny really
> >values this stuff vs how much everyone says he does), that the self
> >appointed Brain Doc is involved.
> >
>Danny doesn't value it at all, he just likes how Niednagel makes coffee
>for him.
>
>Seriously...Look, why the hell would  this scamster be in this position,
>making a very nice mint from duping incredibly scientifically naive
>ex-jocks, if Danny and Kevin and other miseducated rubes didn't believe
>in this crap?
>  I don't know about you, but to me believing in  this stuff and being an
>intelligent  person, let alone an NBA GM, are fairly incompatible. Not
>to say Ainge is a complete moron, but it's kind of like a having the
>chief executive claim that a "higher power" tells him what to do...
>irrational and really scary, given the power this person holds.

Sure, but despite the impression you're trying to create with the 
coffee comment, I didn't claim that they didn't believe in him at 
all. Hell, I don't know what's in their minds. Which is also part of 
why I simply questioned assumptions about the degree of influence he 
actually has. It may be enormous, as everyone seems to assume. But I 
don't know that. And since I don't think Danny is stupid, and agree 
with you that swallowing the marketing major's pseudoscience con 
whole is stupid (of course I also have issues with the whole 
personality testing industry, even when practiced by those trained 
for it and without the scamster's pseudodobiological 'basis' for his 
flavor of it ), I'm inclined to wonder if it's as simple as that. 
Maybe the Brain Doc doesn't have a ton of direct influence and/or 
Danny doesn't wholly swallow the schtick, but does feel the 
scamster's comments trigger useful activity in his own brain. I'm not 
saying that's the case either, simply saying that it's easier for me 
to consider the possibility of something like that than accept at 
face value an explanation based on Danny being a drain dead idiot 
when the rest of the evidence is that he isn't one. Yes people tend 
to believe in ridiculous things and belief by definition has little 
to do with rational evaluation, but sometimes that belief is about 
other things like security blankets rather than intellectual 
acceptance of what's being believed in.

> >I agree about his being a scam, but if he really is as involved in
> >these decisions as everyone makes out then surely it's Danny who is
> >fleecing a salary since the self styled Brain Doc is the real one
> >doing all the work...
> >
> >
>Oh, so you think we're doing great so far?

HUH???? Where on earth did you get that out of what I said, which I 
also thought it was pretty clear was sarcasm.
Kim