[FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

[Roger Critchlow]

Jon --

I agree, they could work to fix the software problem, but they're not
interested in fixing the software problem.

I think their intention is to gamergate the corona virus, spreading FUD
about expert opinion.

With due respect to Marcus, I do think they're trolls, they think that all
of reality is one big con game, that the pandemic is a fraud, and that
acting like simpletons who believe that unit testing is sacred is the con
that they are called upon to play today.

And if github does anything about it, that just plays back into the Bill
Gates conspiracy theory.

Meanwhile, we have
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-criticize-stephen-wolframs-theory-of-everything/
working
the same angle:

So why did Wolfram announce his ideas this way? Why not go the traditional
> route? “I don't really believe in anonymous peer review,” he says. “I think
> it’s corrupt. It’s all a giant story of somewhat corrupt gaming, I would
> say. I think it’s sort of inevitable that happens with these very large
> systems. It’s a pity.”


Might take that as the conservative troll manifesto:  corruption is
inevitable, you may be all wrong in all the details but your heart will be
in the right place.

-- rec --

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:02 PM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> Roger,
>
> It seems to me that because this is open source software,
> any individual who wishes to fork the repo and write unit
> tests can. Doing so would be a kind of verification replicability.
> That the trolls are attempting to toxify and politicize the very
> space where the open source community establishes
> work-to-be-done is concerning. If jMyles wishes to object
> to the lack of unit testing in an albeit long-winded rant, fine.
> That others, many of whom are suspicious actors in that
> they have have little to no commit histories or repos to
> speak of, are attempting to *upvote* this same idea by creating
> new issues (in a GitHub sense) is in bad faith. GitHub issues
> do not function the same way as YouTube comments, but
> here the (dare I say) metaphor is being attempted.
>
> Jonathan Zingale
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