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> As, of course, is jwz.

I have their RSS feed just for the updates to the xscreensaver and the occasional interesting topic, but mostly ignore. I see some drama happening there quite frequently and I really don't want anything to do with it.

> Smart people who we admire for their thinking and writing on technology can be embarrassingly shallow when it comes to other domains [..]

That rings very true. I always got nervous when I saw one of the heavy weights such as Stephen Hawking weighing in on topics such as AI or alien biology. Or Richard Dawkins commenting on politics.

I think people generally are interested in how they may apply their minds in other topics, and when they give the crowd what they want, they fall short.