Greetings Economists, On Mar 11, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
For the survelleince Video, a filter is a sufficiently strong "exception".
Doyle, One sort of filter used in public spaces is face recognition. However, the assumption is with face recognition one is just searching for a face that is meant to be caught and punished. In fact face recognition is one aspect of the network properties of ordinary human work. But this face recognition algorithm represents an automation of the process. Though the gatekeeper analogy seems to be in place, you are not resolving the infinity issue by bringing this up. You are merely saying that an automation can do more work than an ordinary observer. As is well known about face recognition applications they are not 100% accurate. Sandwichman's feral continent or the network properties of knowledge work are not in my view concerned with enhancement of the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper for protecting profit by fencing in the network is actually trying to deal with the thermodynamic properties of information production. Something like the issue of global warming arises in which as the network is larger and more significant upon the finite resources of say this planet the infinities that arise in the gatekeeper paradigm make it fail. On Mar 11, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: But if you are engaged in serious research you will turn to some source you trust to find out what the heck this Wikipedia thing is. Or maybe you will develop your own test - check out a few subjects you know something about to see what kind of accuracy you find. Doyle, Trust is a knotty problem. Let's take for example hunter gatherers. Do you trust their social network? Usually they are an isolate these days. They just don't know what is contained in the global system. Yet the chemical drug companies come down into the hunter gatherer network to find new drugs. If you see what I am talking about, trust, is a flexible variable that is not so rigid as you imply above. Trust is a kind of knowledge work process which is deeply tied to entropy type questions applied to knowledge. Can we trust the information meaning is within a container (a container these days is a code surrounding information making it trustworthy) the knowledge is intact not contaminated? In most cases with Wikipedia, trust is raised in terms of is so and so further refinement done, or is so and so standards met. In any case trust is a network property not a gate keeper property. Like I said in a previous note the gate keeper is plagued by infinities. thanks, Doyle
