Archive for April, 2010


NEWLY PUBLISHED

The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future

Testing the Selectorate Explanation of the Democratic Peace
Access the paper dempeace_bdm
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

The Dyadic Selectorate Model
The theory shows that leaders who require a large coalition to remain in office favor spending resources on public goods rather than on private benefits for their coalition of supporters (…). Leaders who rely on a small winning coalition, such as autocrats, hold power by spending resources disproportionately on private goods to reward their backers.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Wiki

CIA acknowledges Bruce is twice as accurate as they are in predicting,
with a 90% accuracy rate.



Bruce Bueno de Mesquita demonstrates his techniques on the future of Iran

Predictably the other side of the story, those reviewing Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Riz Khan – The art and science of prediction

The Singularity is near!

THE SINGULARITY IS NEARING


  • Dr. Barney Pell
  • is an SIAI Advisor and co-founder and CEO of Powerset, a San Francisco company working to build a transformative consumer search engine. In this interview, Barney talks about advanced AI, progress in the AI field, Powerset, his involvement with SIAI, his robotics work at NASA Ames, the dangers of AI, the importance of foresight, and more.

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  • North Korea – Some Statistics and Raw Facts…

    The lights are still not on

    Lorin Maazel, the music director of the New York Philharmonic

    Ordinary Lives in North Korea

    Obama handles defense of Japan

    Access the facts at: * North Korea Advisory Group Report to The Speaker U.S. House of Representatives *

    U.S. Bomb Shipment Raises Iran Attack Fears

    The Folly of Attacking Iran: Lessons from History

    Chossudovsky: US will start WW3 by attacking Iran