<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Jun 14, 2018, at 9:55 AM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font size="4">>> Given that Preskill is one of the world's leading experts on quantum information and is the Richard J Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology</font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">> ...<i>is an appeal to authority, and says nothing about the statements to which I objected.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">An appeal to authority is not always without merit. If a professor of physics at Caltech says something about physics and Adrian Tymes says he's dead wrong and is just spewing pablum I think it is a tad more likely that Mr. Tymes has misunderstood the professor than that the professor has misunderstood physics.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Imagine it were a professor of philosophy at, say, Oxford and John Clark says said Professor is dead wrong and is just spewing pablum, isn’t it a tad more likely that Mr. Clark has misunderstood the Professor than that the professor has misunderstood philosophy? <div><br></div><div>Couldn’t resist that. ;)<br><br><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>