Well yes, I'm using the term prediction meaning that the prediction corresponds to what ends up actually happening. Forecasting in the horoscope sense, where you make up something appealing although what ends up actually happening is completely different, I agree you can certainly do that.
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Tim Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/12/2012 22:17, Russell Wallace wrote: > > > Even if we believe in technological determinism, it only asserts > > that the future is approximately _deterministic_; it does not in > > any way suggest that it is _predictable_. Per Turing et al. > > we know that there is in the general case no faster way to predict > > the outcome of even a deterministic complex system than to run it > > and see what happens. > > I think you are using the term "prediction" in a strange technical sense. > I just mean forecasting. > > Any suggestion that you can't forecast outcomes faster than the system > itself produces those outcomes is bunk - we have large forecasting > industries that prove that. > -- > __________ > |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] Remove lock to reply. > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
