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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a
nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a
"Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed
considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense
initiatives more successful? Can such an application of
science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable,
necessary or impossible?
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lchic
- 11:51am Mar 18, 2002 EST (#
668 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Decision making/tree, expert systems ... often a decision
is common sense .. when a framework is required then :
http://www.eskimo.com/~mighetto/lstree.htm http://www.fammed.ouhsc.edu/robhamm/cdmcalc.htm http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/mcdonald/decisions.html
http://www.mindtools.com/media/Diagrams/Ct6_1.gif http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCT_06.htm http://www.mindtools.com/dectree.html
http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/ROAD/MCDM/
Keywords: Decision theory, Bayesian networks, Bayesian
methods, rationality under bounded resources, decision
analysis, influence diagrams, decision-theoretic inference,
probabilistic inference, expert systems, explanation.
In: Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Special Issue on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2:247-302. Also,
Stanford CS Technical Report KSL-88-13.
Book
title: Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems
Society : http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/daweb/
lchic
- 11:56am Mar 18, 2002 EST (#
669 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Hunting the boondoggle : http://www.abc.net.au/arts/interact/comp/fanning.jpg
rshow55
- 12:01pm Mar 18, 2002 EST (#
670 of 17697) Can we do a better job of finding
truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have
done and worked for on this thread.
We are special animals -- and capable, often enough, of
unbelievable brutality, duplicity, and ugliness.
We'd be safer if we were clearer about that.
Still, just now, I feel like posting some beautiful things
from museums and artistic sites, mostly Russian, collected by
lunarchic last year.
We need to remember both the ugliness, the danger, and the
good -- and do as well as we can, without lies that mislead,
brutalize, and endanger us.
Images of Culture : http://www.artist.omsk.ru/omskgo.jpg
http://www.artist.omsk.ru/butterfly.jpg
http://www.artist.omsk.ru/treeaple.jpg
http://www.craftscenter.org/mainbot.html
http://www.asianart.com/mongolia/intro.html
http://www.zeroland.co.nz/art_country.html#mongolia
http://www.jagger.com/russia.html
http://youth.unesco.or.kr/youth/english/atlas/sub5.asp?code=031
http://www.penrose-press.com/IDD/pub/eeur.html
http://www.bazaar.ru/cover_may.jpg
http://www.uar.ru/av/images/ris1a.GIF
http://www.pran.ru/ http://www.msu.ru/english/images/msu-logo.jpg
http://www.ineos.ac.ru/images/ineos_photo1.jpg
http://www.hmscossack.freeserve.co.uk/images/COSBDGsm.gif
http://www.yerf.com/ruggscot/data/rokhan04.jpg
http://www.costumes.org/history/20thcent/1900s/1903ball/plate31.jpg
And while we're considering warfare -- lunarchic cited
another kind of warfare (that the US, and countries in complex
interaction with the US, might well consider, both defensively
and offensively.)
Marketing Brand Warfare: 10 Rules for Building the
Killer Brand by David F. D'Alessandro and Michele Owens
McGraw-Hill, 2001 ~ Stock your arsenal with brand weaponry
Leadership, Strategy & Competition How
to Compete Like a Judo Strategist ! Movement, balance, and
leverage: Savvy executives use these principles to compete
every day. In this excerpt from their new book Judo
Strategy: Turning Your Competitors' Strength to Your
Advantage, HBS professor David B. Yoffie and research
associate Mary Kwak reveal five techniques of the masters.
It isn't wise for a nation state to become identified with
lying. That's a source of leverage -- but a motivation for
"disinformation disarmament" as well. Lies are
unstable.
We are animals. All the ugliness we see is real. MD648
rshow55
3/17/02 6:45pm - - and especially THE UNIVERSALITY
OF INCEST by Lloyd DeMause at http://www.psychohistory.com/
(scroll down to article) . The "inherent goodness or mankind"
can't be usefully considered, without remembering the
animality, ugliness, and deceptiveness, too.
But the potential for beauty is there, and is often
realized, as well. If we play some things straight, and don't
cling to fiction-boondoggles like "missile defense" -- we can
be safer and more comfortable than we are.
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