On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Warming? Is for the birds. Will at most kill a billion.
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> What. An. Awesome. Quote.
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I think Eugen is being too optimistic.  We're already probably fried because
we're paralyzed by idiots and the people that hire them (who may be idiots
themselves). But in addition to the normal human idiocy we have active noise
generators (like Fox news) that broadcast misleading information with such
frequency that it becomes the standard wisdom.

Permitting the bots in the loop basically cuts off one of the possible
avenues of feedback on the internet.. which is the only communication
mechanism I see that isn't completely dominated by corporate 'free speech'.

But how likely are we do use this feedback when we've not acted on it for
decades? Probably not very.



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