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Re: Beware geeks bearing formulas for more than economics

Ansury — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:01:51 GMT

fakename:

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of the Hoover Institute invented a model to predict historical events

He's a game theorist (no wonder).

Heh, that's the guy I just mentioned.

Re: Beware geeks bearing formulas for more than economics

Ansury — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:01:22 GMT

I saw a similar type of guy last night who was claiming to be able to use game theory to improve the decision making process (seemingly for governments) by prediction.

Yeah, ooookay, I thought. It was probably appropriate that it was either the same night or same show as a Nostradamus special. he he

Oh, here's the guy:

http://digg.com/d1o9iD

Kinda scary when he talks about "changing people's behavior" and such.

Consultant to the CIA and the Department of Defense -- they never mess up, right?

Re: Beware geeks bearing formulas for more than economics

fakename — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:28:46 GMT

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of the Hoover Institute invented a model to predict historical events

He's a game theorist (no wonder).

Re: Beware geeks bearing formulas for more than economics

DanielMuff — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:19:29 GMT

Don't worry about geeks and their formulas. The UN decided that "global climate change" existed by voting on it.

Beware geeks bearing formulas for more than economics

lostinwilderness — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:01:10 GMT

Michael Barone warns against allowing geeks with formulas to dictate global warming and health care policy for the same reason formula's can't be used to desribe our economy. I hadn't thought of climatology as a social science, but since man does impact climate, not in the way Al Gore wants us to believe, it has become a social science.

It's human nature to break problems down into smaller, simpler chunks so we can solve them, but not such complex systems. Unfortunately, phony science is a new religion, and it's used to lead around true believers by the nose.