> From: David Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Holy incestuous Feedback Batman! > > > > It'll never work. Heisenberg had it right. > > > SO you are saying that nobody is right more often than > other people?
Possibly. Or is it that some people are wrong more often than other people? The people who tend to be right have this habit of also tending to be ignored. The people who tend to be wrong tend to not be ignored. > > Or that some people do not deserve more credibility > than others, for being right more often? Hm. Unique. I was mostly reffering to the bit from the first paragraph about the markets. But it's similar. You can't know you're right until after the fact, in which case you can't predict who will be right without effecting positively or negatively whether they will be right. All of society is one big nested group of nested feedback cycles (a human is really just a system of feedback systems). It reminds me of this one episode of Logans Run where this guy invents time travel and comes to the future, but the future is that dystopia of the Logans Run Movie / Tv Series. So he goes back in time in order to try and prevent that future dystopia from happening. In the end it turns out that his very going back to try prevent it was what caused it to happen. But I digress, I was mostly reffering to the market bit. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
