Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <0001HW.C247C4B80000F7E7F02845B0@news.nw.centurytel.net>,
Charlie Springer  <RAM@regnirps.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:44:37 -0700, Michael J. Mahon wrote
> (in article <KLydnfZS8JKXe7zbnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@comcast.com>):
> 
>> In any strategic planning situation, this would be quite telling.
>> An inorganic intelligence could compute 10 "moves" ahead while a
>> human was still pondering the first.
> 
> At some point up the intelligence/precision scale conflict must depend on 
> introducing random processes. Without it, the opponents will find they can 
> predict each other's actions. Hiring human commanders could be a good way to 
> completely screw up the opponent's plans :-)

Sometimes there are counteractions against that too.  For instance, during
WWII, the British military hired an astrologer to try to predict what
moves Hitler would make, since Hitler was an astrology believer....

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Schlyter,  Grev Turegatan 40,  SE-114 38 Stockholm,  SWEDEN
e-mail:  pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se
WWW:     http://stjarnhimlen.se/