Dear John,
But I never really thought of it as a piece of "terminology" that I "introduced". I've never used in any published paper, for example. I've always thought of it as a JOKE.
In the future I'll try to avoid telling this joke in the presence of people who find it upsetting.
I am not offended personally. You are free to repeat the "joke" ad nauseum, but who is laughing? Some of your followers are taking the "joke" quite seriously: http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/evil You wrote:
I'm not working on pure math anymore, except for a few projects that I'm trying to finish up.
You are a good mathematician. You have made important contributions to higher category theory. I am sure you can make further contributions. I hope you will not leave math. Everybody likes your web pages on maths and physics. You wrote:
I'm working environmental issues.
I applaude to your involvement: http://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/Azimuth+Project I agree that the planet is presently heading for an ecological disaster. You wrote that the situation about climate change is hopeless. I can understand your pessimism, but how do you really know? You also wrote that not all human beings will die. Is this a source of optimism? Who should be saved? Who can be abandoned? You also wrote that we should consider using geo-engineering. How different is your position from Bjorn Lomborg's? http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521138567 http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/01/the-lomborg-deception/ http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/08/a-biased-economic-anal... Best, André [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]