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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Uses Games To See the Future

Posted by timothy on from the shall-we-play-a-game dept.

parallel_prankster writes "Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a professor of politics at New York University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California. In his new book, The Predictioneer (The Predictioneer's Game in the US), he describes a computer model based on game theory which he — and others — claim can predict the future with remarkable accuracy. The website also has a game page where he provides an online version of the game and information on how to play." The (semi-paywalled; may need to register) New Scientist has a story on de Mesquita, too; a snippet: "Over the past 30 years, Bueno de Mesquita has made thousands of predictions about hundreds of issues from geopolitics to personal problems. Overall, he claims, his hit rate is about 90 per cent."

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  1. Re:If he isn't already rich then he's lying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you spell like a nigger. you probably smell like one too.

  2. Irrelevent - English is dead by dbIII · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's been killed with doubleplusgood words like "predictioneer" because neither the author, editor or a string of others could be bothered to notice that dictionaries exist.
    USA - stop teaching fucking ebonics and teach your children how to read and write English instead. It's not just the poor in LA that got shafted by Reagan and everyone since on education, it's the whole lot of you.

    1. Re:Irrelevent - English is dead by HungryHobo · · Score: -1, Troll

      oh fuck off you ignorant pedantic troll.

      The english language has no governing body.
      If a word or phrase is used by a decent portion of the general population then it's english.
      No ifs.
      No buts.
      The oxford english dictionary is just a private organization with no power to say what is and is not english.

      It doesn't matter if your enlish teacher thinks different, that just means he's been too lazy to keep up with the changes in the language.

      As such every single fucking time some moron on slashdot tries convince people that against all the evidence he has a triple digit IQ by piping up with pedantic drivel about how something isn't popper english he does nothing but demonstrate his utter ignorance of the matter.