Robert Cordingley wrote:
> Unfortnately, neither business management nor governing is a total
> disclosure game. [..] I wonder, what hope is there of computationally
> solving problems involving millions of agents in dozens of countries
> acting in myriads of ways (for example)? May be that wa
Unfortnately, neither business management nor governing is a total
disclosure game. Even if it was, it's likely to be as complicated or
more so than say Go (a great total disclosure game). Even the strongest
Go players eventually have to resort to what 'looks good' or 'feels
right' because th
Hi Phil,
> It's a step in the right direction to try to distinguish objective fact
> from subjective opinion, but there are lots of things for which that
> isn't easy.
It would be interesting to evaluate a model of political violence by
populating an imaginary world with an ensemble of individu
Just a note that the Princeton Webcasts have several new additions:
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
The Madeleine Albright was fine, but the David Gross triple is a very
nice summary of the past, present and future of particle physics,
including a better than average string theo
Markus,
It's a step in the right direction to try to distinguish objective fact
from subjective opinion, but there are lots of things for which that
isn't easy. What, for example, is objective evidence where the
subjects themselves are subjective???
One kind of objective evidence in that com
Phil Henshaw wrote:
> it does point to one of the grand properties of human
> perception, and I think emergent complexity generally, that every
> observer feels 'in their guts' that their own perception provides the
> one correct model of the universe!
Another view is that the perceptions shared by
the great laugh, of course, was that Bush probably didn't get the
joke...
But seriously, it does point to one of the grand properties of human
perception, and I think emergent complexity generally, that every
observer feels 'in their guts' that their own perception provides the
one correct mode
