You Have To Be Somebody Before You

Facebook Says, 'privacy Is Theft,' Because They're Selling Your Lack Of Privacy To The Advertisers Who Might Show Up One Day.

We Imagine "pure" Cybernetic Systems, But We Can Prove Only That We Know How To Build Fairly Dysfunctional Ones. We Kid Ourselves When We Think We Understand Something, Even A Computer, Merely Because We Can Model Or Digitize It.

The Wisdom Of Crowds Works When The Crowd Is Choosing The Price Of An Ox, When There's A Single Numeric Average. But If It's A Design Or Something That Matters, The Decision Is Made By Committee, And That's Crap. You Want People And Groups Who Are Able To Think Thoughts Before They Share

Is War An Inevitable Outcome Of Competing Interests In A Complex Society? In Other Words, Would War Be The Same Even If Human Nature Were Very Different? There Are Mathematical Models Of Large Groups Working Together That Lead To Conflict On A Reliable Basis. So There's A Whole Other View Of War That Is Not Psychological At All.

There Is Nothing More Gray, Stultifying, Or Dreary Than Life Lived Inside The Confines Of A Theory.