Translating the 'equation' (which I'm perfectly capable of doing) just leads to Comedy Gold. No, really, the Comedy comes when we translate the pseudo-math into the alleged "Reality" that it represents.
Hint: if you throw Pi into the mix to bake your cake, chances are, you're a fucking idiot.
]]>If you want to understand why I consider the Stanford "Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences" to be rather pernicious little knids, it's simple.
It's a form of the US Army School of the Americas (sorry, now rebranded as Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).
It's also funded by the same people.
Which is fine, if your end goal: a) doesn't destroy the biosphere, b) is robust enough to create a flourishing society and c) leads to a maximal number of happy humans.
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Whelp, fuck all that, fucked that one up.
But, hey, as long as you enjoyed the brief energy / resource boom that drained the last 3,000,000,000 years of life on the planet...
And you still bitched and moaned during it.
]]>Meta-Meta. [+1 Meta if you know who the Author we're discussing is].
No, (((pernicious little knids))) is not anti-Semitic, it's a riff off Roald Dahl and Alex Jones / David Icke.
Grow up.
And yes, Dahl was pretty racist, not the same thing at all.
Building a giant wall around your country, a la "World War Z", yeah.
I've NO IDEA about how the utter Racist and Fascist Political landscape of Israel could possibly be ever criticized without being a member of Storm Front though.
Oh, unless we Trump'd it up.
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Basically your Reality is a bit shit and you should feel ashamed.
]]>And apparently the U. S. Navy will be reading Walter Jon Williams. I assume in order to get an edge over the Army's antiquated Heinlein modules.
Myself, I am mostly catching up on old stuff I missed, like the later Taltos novels and P.C. Hodgell.
]]>Do they know that Heinlein was a Navy guy? grin
]]>If a response to an innocent: "Well, I thought the earlier works had more substance, and here's something else" is "GRAAAR FALL BEFORE OUR GIVEN TITLES AND REWARDS" with an added bit of snark dissing one of the authors as 'unworthy'... it's all just very silly. (And yes, Goldstein isn't exactly a WASP surname).
There's also some bits of historical politics in there.
CASBS was founded by the Ford Foundation (yes, that pro-Nazi Ford), and has had some interesting proteges (e.g. Harold Garfinkel, J Rawls, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Thomas Kuhn) many of whom would view Prospect Theory as severely bunk filled nonsense.
But yes, CASBS has been fairly slanted towards Israel in the past. The punchline is that many of the aluminae/i shared the sense of existential horror at what Israel had become (citations can be provided).
But at the same time, CASBS is 100% part of the MIC sphere of influencing the world. Whether-or-not many of the products knew it at the time.
It's just neepery / meta-jokes. The wrapper is Trumpian because unlike the naked High Priest, sometimes there are depths to be plumbed.
]]>Both of which illustrate a lack of cross discipline communication. Sad. I hope that it has since been corrected.
]]>[1] They could consider asking, or more precisely, finding/training up a bunch of subjects [to be] aware of their own cognition including decision processes. That way, they could get their questions answered directly, and as a side effect have a bunch of test subjects aware of their own mental processes and able to rapidly adjust them (within reason), including on demand. Would make experimentation easier. Would also be an interesting social experiment. Would not answer questions about non-human animal cognition.
[2] He also ruined probability for me. That's an entirely orthogonal story.
]]>Reading Transmetropolitan because it's been 4 years (again) and elections just keep getting stupider.
Reading Infomocracy by Malka Older. Holy crap these elections, I gotta have more crazy fiction to take the edge off.
Taking a break from the Sword Art Online light novels. Fuuuuck you Reki Kawahara, book (redacted) didn't have to end like that. Fuck you in the neck.
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