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lunedì 20 ottobre 2003

Dicono che non ci interessano le cose intelligenti. Che gli "eventi mediatici" sono solo le isole famose, i grandi fratelli, i drive in. Che non c'è mercato per le cose intelligenti. Eppure. Su Boing Boing leggo che per una conferenza di Stephen Hawking (che non è propriamente un fotomodello) i 1100 biglietti sono andati esauriti in pochi minuti, e c'è gente che ha fatto la fila tutta la notte. Niente effetti speciali, frizzi, lazzi, ballerine nude e presentatori urlanti: Each sentence of his lecture is therefore preprogrammed into his computer, and Hawking controls the pace of its delivery through his limited hand movement and the cursor. Even this is a difficult feat for him, and sometimes three or more minutes would pass between sentences, as he slowly manipulated the computer. At times the silence dragged out so long, it was hard to believe that he was not asleep. I wanted desperately to shout "Wake Up!" or run on stage and slap some smelling salts under his nose, just to make sure that he hadn't died on stage as we watched, and nobody was any the wiser. Yet after what seemed like an interminable pause, his computerized voice would start up again. La conferenza ("Gödel and the end of physics") non è particolarmente complicata e molto interessante. E' quel genere di cose che mi piacerebbe che un giorno la televisione trasmettesse al posto di santi, miracoli, telecinetici, maghi e compagnia. Io credo che aspetterò un pezzo. 10:31:40 PM      comment [] trackback []   Bel post? Si No Aaron Swartz ha richiesto ai suoi lettori liberisti di spiegargli perché sono contro le tasse di successione [...] Anyway, there’s a fundamental contradiction in the theory that bothers me. Take two people, the homeless man pushing a cart in San Francisco, and the rich corporate mogul flying around the world in his jet. Now, arguendo, let’s grant the premise that the homeless man is homeless because he’s a worthless grunt who doesn’t contribute to society, and the rich man is rich because the market has determined he’s worthwhile. The homeless man shouldn’t get money from the state, because that would make him dependent and even less likely to seek out work. But what about their children? Rich man’s son will live in luxury his entire without working a day. It’s pushing it to say that this was OK for his father, but can you truly say it’s fair because the market is rewarding him for choosing excellent parents? Le risposte e le discussioni sollevate sono in sè interessanti. Ma la parte divertente è che il sondaggio è stato ostacolato da un problema tecnico, il filtro bayesiano antispam, provando antipatia per il libero mercato, ha tentato di sabotare il sondaggio: First, I have to apologize. A filter glitch caused my Bayesian spam filter to think that nearly all the responses to this post were spam. Sorry for the bounce emails claiming your messages were spam. I think a bug in one of my scripts caused this, since before this the filter only had one false positive. (When I investigated, the filter thought that “freemarket” was highly indicative of spam for some reason.) Again, my apologies. Ha proprio ragione B. i sabotatori comunisti si annidano dappertutto. 8:27:11 PM      comment [] trackback []   Bel post? Si No

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