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If You Thought Studying History Was Bad, This Math Professor Is Making It Harder
Raven writes:
New research out of Streeling University aims to make planning for the future much easier. The work, led by professor Seldon, tries to set probabilistic values on future events, and then weigh those probabilities against each other to figure out what combination of events is most likely to happen. Describing it under the unlikely moniker "psychohistory," Seldon seems to think planning even 10,000 years into the future might be possible. (Seldon also seems to be a bit of a doomsayer, so this is likely exaggerated.) Nevertheless, it'll be another tool for government planners to consider when developing new colonies.
this is more in the line of a slashdot april fools
I laughed, I cried, I remembered what day it was, I sighed.
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
While being in sector Wye.
One link on a wiki about fictional psychohistory? 10000 years into the future is incomprehensible and whoever exists in that time will laugh at us. Just write sci-fi instead.
This is just another play for increased grant funding with less oversight. Convenient that the program managers won't be able to evaluate anything until well after the money is spent.
...Where Seldon is heard,
A discouraging word.
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People will actually pay you for this if you call it scenario planning. It's all in the marketing.
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
a Foundation!
If they're going to continue with April Fools' Jokes, at least this one was subtle and appropriately geeky... the way it should be done. If you're gonna do it, do it this way...not the way you did with Dune and Star Wars already.
Wow, Psychohistory is true!
Your response comprises of history on the past articles, the sociology behind those said articles and sequential counting of the articles to supply the mathematical statistics to predict future history!
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
Not only does a circle have no end, so does the the /. "jokes." This is a good one, though. Why don't they just bring back ZOMG PONIES! and be done with it?
Have you never read Slashdot on April first? This happens every year........the best was OMG-PONIES
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Maybe you should read Foundation.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
It would be tolerable if the jokes were, oh, I don't know... Funny?
Maybe we can make a 1,000 year plan to improve the jokes. Maybe we can start with an encyclopedia to be the Foundation of your education!
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
You should be ashamed! However psychohistory is alive and well! This is the year of the sheep, and human behavior can be predicted with perfection - show people Fear and they will beg to have their liberty taken away! B
I already know what's going to happen in the year 2525 and beyond. And, well, the year 9595 doesn't look good. Why bother planning for it.
...and Hari Seldon is his prophet.
Maybe we can come up with jokes that are less tedious and irritating than a 4 year old telling knock-knock jokes*.
* I didn't come up with this comparison. Someone in another story did. But it very accurately characterizes the "jokes" being posted today.
Can we please stop with the idiotic stories? One was funny. Two was meh. Three was dumb. At this point it's gone past annoying.
Nah, this one is actually OK. It might even introduce new readers to the original Asimov material. All of us old hats have read it, but the young'uns might not.
Actually, if they could use the joke posts to highlight some lesser known works, that would be ideal.
Maybe you can get a sense of humor. Room 101 has just what you need, I suggest passing by there for some re-education. The ministry is happy to help.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Yea, it sounds good in theory, but only if you assume human nature is determinate. All it would take is a single incident or individual, a mutation perhaps, to totally derail any such prognosis. What are you going to do, hide a secret society of "psyco"-technicians among the populous to try and pull events back on course when the inevitable happens? Please, pull the other one.
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