http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Game-theorists-hope-to-solve-world-s-crises-tp4100321p4103290.html
Glen, I LIKED THIS. I particularly liked it, though, because of the odd
usage of convicted (for convinced). Was that a sllip of the fingers, or
Nicholas S. Thompson
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> From: glen e. p. ropella <
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> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> Date: 12/2/2009 3:04:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Game theorists hope to solve world's crises
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> Quoting Nicholas Thompson circa 09-12-02 01:32 PM:
> > So, I live in a pre keplerian village. On a hill in the middle of
> > the village is a monastery where lives a monk who rings a bell at
> > sunrise every day. A model explanation circulates around the village
> > that the sun is attached to the Monk's bellrope and that it is his
> > ringing the bell that raises the sun. Many people in the village
> > take this model to be "true" (wetftm) and conduct their lives in
> > accordance with it. Are they WACKO?
>
> Just because they act as if they believe it doesn't mean they are
> convicted to the belief.
>
> In any distribution of people who act as if they believe something,
> you'll find that some are true believers, some have doubts, and some
> just act that way because it's socially the easiest/best thing to do.
>
> Those that were true believers were wacko. Those that sometimes doubted
> the belief were sane. Those that just did it because everyone else did
> it were also sane (though perhaps weak-minded).
>
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