Another story indicating that socially shared information is not necessarily good information. Tweeted by Dave Gurteen on LinkedIn, this Wired Science story based on this National Academy of Sciences paper. Good also that it acknowledges the misnomer in the “wisdom”of crowds having nothing whatsoever to do with wisdom, more a matter of objective statistical accuracy in [...]
Entries from May 2011
Information Socially Corrupted
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May 17, 2011 at 3:05am
by Psybertron
Never Say Never
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May 13, 2011 at 5:38am
by Psybertron
Irrelevant to the Bin Laden context I reckon, but a worthwhile piece from Baggini on the idea of torture being an absolute no-no as some matter of principle. Of course like all rules, it’s the exceptions we need to be talking about – the old adage that “Rules are for the guidance of wise men [...]
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Farenheit Quality
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May 1, 2011 at 9:44am
by Psybertron
Read the 5oth anniversary edition of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 “Farenheit 451″ the other day and noticed this passage: There is nothing magical in [books] at all. The magic is in what [they] say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn’t know this, you still [...]
