alt Hacker News> Timecube was an incoherent stream-of-consciousness website filled with bizarre cosmological claims.
Was? Timecube.net will outlive any and all faddy Silicon Valley cults.
> Timecube was an incoherent stream-of-consciousness website filled with bizarre cosmological claims.
Was? Timecube.net will outlive any and all faddy Silicon Valley cults.
OP's take seems to be unfairly critical. I wasn't at the MIT or Georgia Tech lectures (Gene Ray spoke once at each) but it sounds like the audience was pretty respectful, all things considered. He was given uninterrupted time to explain his ideas, then question and answer. No shouting.
Ray didn't convince anyone. No surprise. But he apparently wrote to someone "They treated me like Einstein" so it can't have been too unpleasant.
A quote from the Georgia Tech student paper, from a participant: "I’m glad we live in a society where people like Gene Ray are not locked up and beaten, but instead respected in their own way."
Honestly it sounds like the best possible case for someone with seriously nutty ideas (and possibly some mental illness). Bit of a modern day Emperor Norton. The rationalists did ok here.