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Error bands, or why models will be models (of the mathematical variety)
In response to our article on the Social Progress Index (SPI) and prediction markets, the Social Progress Index folks asked why we didn’t just stop at optimizing the SPI. Two reasons, we said: (1) There’s an unfortunate tendency of people to believe (math) models are reality. They’re just models with error bands. (2) There’s going to be politically-motivated suspicion of any model (as well as political-motivated attempts to manipulate models and their interpretation). [For our readers coming over from our fashion design section, or our earlier article on virtual reality fashion models and modeling, we are talking about mathematical models here.] So how do models go bad? Let’s use the Social Progress Index as an example. We talked elsewhere about the tension between things like freedom of press and national security in a model like this. (In general, such tension will exist in an useful economic or financial model. If the tension did not exist, there would be nothing interesting to optimize, and so need for such a model in the first place.)… Read the restGoogle Glass: Confessions of a New Cyborg
Google Glass, Cyborgs, and the Singularity Does Google Glass turn you into an awesome Terminator-like Cyborg with a web browser inside of your brain? Or does it just frighten the horses? Will you become a so-called “Glasshole”? Is the software still limited and flawed? Or is the built-in Chrome browser all the Cyborg software you need? In this article, we take a look at some of the pluses and minuses of Glass. #Glass turns you into an awesome Cyborg with an in-brain browser? #throughglass Click To Tweet Frequent readers of this blog will note our fascination with theory of the Singularity, as exemplified in Ray Kurzweil’s series of books. (We’ll note that the forthcoming science-fiction movie Transcendence is one way the Singularity might play out. That is, if it actually happens in the first place.) At least two decades ago, Kurzweil and others predicted Google Glass (“special glasses” as Kurzweil called them) would hit the market right about now.… Read the restRecent Posts
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