Thus spake Marcus G. Daniels circa 09-09-15 03:20 PM: > glen e. p. ropella wrote: >> Can you really distinguish between communication, entertainment, and >> manipulation? > > I can recognize that Penn Jillette excels at all three, but I also > recognize he won't get Nobel prize for it.
Pick a more difficult example... say Paul Krugman? Is he an entertainer? A manipulator? A communicator? All three? Or perhaps we should try your distinguishing measure on Al Gore? I really don't think it's very easy to distinguish these 3 processes. And even if you can distinguish to some degree, the distinction is very fuzzy and open to debate in every case. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
