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- I remember reading this in high school when I was up late the night before some major paper was due.
- At the time I was blown away by how well-structured and clear the writing was. I thought it was extremely well-written.
- I still think it's better-written than most writing out there. I have learned that mathematicians often write very well-structured prose because of their experience writing mathematical proofs. Timothy Gowers is another example of a mathematician who I found to write some brilliant prose.
- I also now see ways in which this manifesto could have been written better.
- One of the first ideas that I came up with for my senior philosophy thesis in college was to write a response to this essay, since I found the ideas in it interesting. I ended up having a meeting with the head of the department (I don't remember why him, since he wasn't my adviser), and he said something to the effect of, "Oh, those ideas have already been debunked", so I kept looking for something else. But then at the end of the academic year, during the philosophy-department graduation ceremonies, the topics of each of our theses were announced to all of the parents while we were receiving our diplomas, and I thought, "Oh, this would be a good reason to not want a student to write a response to that essay..."