It may be the way I was brought up, but, you know, the guy is dead. He can't defend himself. Especially from nameless attackers. Just leave him alone.
This guy, being my conational that I never heard of, I got into a bit of digging and discovered a really creepy couple of blogs of women with CS PhDs that talk about him like some kind of cult leader and at the same time apparently the man regularly had 4chan level public discourse. What's up with that? Does anyone have info on this? Maybe the blog authors could even clear it up in this thread! But instead the thread gets buried because speaking of the dead (that did not lead a publicly known degenerate lifestyle apparently) is frowned upon.
News of death can be a good trigger to uncover knowledge. Choosing ignorance and shutting down speech because of cultural afterlife superstitions is not productive.
This dude was pure human scum. Straight up shit of the Earth.
McAfee was actually a pretty fun eccentric to watch & wasn't an utterly terrible person by any real measure of the meaning.
That's not "uncovering knowledge".
What should be brought up is why does GP have such strong feelings towards the guy? And why does he have this strange following?
http://web.archive.org/web/20200922180636if_/http://trilema....