http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14821 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:41:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14821#post-40219 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:25:56 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 40219@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>P.S.: whatever the outcome, the best you can get from it is a laugh. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14821#post-40218 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:25:18 +0000 Mr Target 40218@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I have to admit that I'm always a bit reluctant to click on your links in case it turns out to be a load of French words popping up. Aarggh!</p> <p>Reminds me of all those goatse.cx links people used to send each other back in the day. (shudder) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14821#post-40213 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:12:57 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 40213@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well: there's swing trade between the dollar and the Euro, bailed-out US banks have not poperly documented the loans they sliced and diced to multiple investors, the principal title-insurance companies have announced that they will not insure MERS Trusted loans, there are too many dollars (T-Bills) on overseas bank's balance sheets and T-Bill auctions are running dry.</p> <p>I had been hoping for some good comedy writing to emerge from "Received wisdom pontificating" and I find this piece extremely amusing. Especially about Pierre Teillard de Chardin's "hive mind" and the oosphere: it's the kind of thing which entertains me. I had hoped merely to share it with those of similar disposition..</p> <p>The Hallowe'en horror is the collapse, sudden and irretrievable, of capitalism, drowning in the shallow mirage of it's virtual oasis.</p> <p>The sun is over the yard arm somewhere: Chin chin. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14821#post-40207 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:43:35 +0000 sauce 40207@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hunter, being a <strike>bear</strike> <strike>menopausal woman</strike> psycholbiologist of very little <strike>brain</strike> sleep, I'm always slightly flummoxed as to WTF you are on about, hon.</p> <p>I tried to read the article. Parts of it make sense; parts of it are possibly in need of research/evidence other than received wisdom; most of it could be more clearly written.</p> <p>*<em>wanders off to find coffee</em>* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14821#post-40191 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:18:39 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 40191@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/bageant10292010.html"><strong>Nailed!</strong></a></p> <p><blockquote>One thing for sure. Most people in the (over)developed world think the connectivity and speed of the algorithms behind the cyberhive are worth it. Even teachers teach to a standardized test so students will conform to an algorithm, and if that ain’t hive mind, I don’t know what is.</p> <p>Besides, if the worship of algorithms is not worth it, it does not matter. Whether we be Tanzanians ala Darwin’s Nightmare, or some Stanford professor writing economic algorithms, the people who control all our lives in the globalized economic world believe they are.</p> <p>For example, bankers and investment houses believe intelligent algorithms (Big Al) can calculate human risk in making loans. That an algorithm can predict whether a 35-year old lawn sprinkler installer in Tuscaloosa will be able to steadily make $2,300 monthly payments on his $220,000 twice refinanced “snout-house” (so-named because of the four-car garage sticking out the front) for 30 years. Most of us would be more than happy to make that prediction for them, and with far greater accuracy, for a fraction of what they paid the pinhead to write the algorithm.</blockquote></p> <p>Not laughing yet? Read it aloud to your cat. No wonder he treats you like a mechanical device for opening food packages and doors. </p>