Sergey,
I received notice on my essay's blog that you had rated my essay. I'll copy my reply here since you are not likely otherwise to ever see it:
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Sergey,
Thanks for your notification, I guess. Not that it makes any real difference, since, unlike some others, I haven't been mass marketing my essay to the rest of the community, soliciting ratings (some even hinting at Quid pro quo). As a result I could see that mine would not be in the top 35 essays as rated by the community.
However I should inform you that, with my background in information systems analysis, I find that my essay's position within the list ordered by community rating dropped precipitously following your rating notice. That indicates two conditions: my essay had not been previously rated by many members of the community and your rating was substantially lower than previous ratings.
Again, all this rating stuff is meaningless since my essay would not have ever been one of the finalists (unless perhaps I had very successfully promoted it with an intense marketing campaign). However, more important to me than knowing you rated my essay would be to better understand why you might have given it a low rating, presuming that your rating was based on some specific evaluations of my essay. With no animosity, I would be very interested in understanding your assessment of my essay. Please do explain further!
Sincerely, Jim
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I have not rated your essay, but I must say that if I had done I would have given it a low rating, since it violates the principal intent of this essay contest. Please see FQXi ESSAY CONTEST: Introduction section II "EVALUATION CRITERIA" under "Relevant:"
"(Note: Successful and interesting essays will not use this topic as an opportunity to trot out their pet theories simply because those theories reject assumptions of some other or established theory. Rather, the challenge here is to create new and insightful questions or analysis about basic, often tacit, assumptions that can be questioned but often are not.)"
Good luck in promoting your grand theory.
Sincerely, Jim