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: > > > Warming? Is for the birds. Will at most kill a billion. > > What. An. Awesome. Quote. > 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. > > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > >
