On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:17:21PM -0400, Fred wrote: > On Thursday 27 July 2006 15:23, Ben Scott uttered thusly: > > SET self-appointed net.cop mode = ON > > > > Could we take the China/US/whatever debate off-list please? > > > > SET self-appointed net.cop mode = OFF > > > > Please note that I am empowered to speak only for myself. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- Ben > > "Sorry about that". But to bring it back "on topic", I look at geopolitics no > differently than I look at computer networks, the human body, or any other > complex dynamical system. The large human societies form transcendental sets > of immense complexity and dynamics. One of the reasons I am currently > interested in Lisp is so I can model these dynamics and see if I can pull > off a few impressive predictions that will help put transcendental sets -- > and me -- on the map. > > I have heard many in the past claim that humans can't be predicted by > mathematics. I say they're all wrong. :-) The real irony is that I wish I > were wrong, because their are far-reaching and deep implications -- all of > which scares the willies out of me -- if I'm right.
You've read Asimov, right? Foundation trilogy? (Note - trilogy has become a marketing term for how many books can we sell using the same characters? :) > > Of course, I could just be a wise-ass spewing forth total BS. But I'm having > a hard time convincing myself that's the case. :-) > > -Freedom Fred > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
