[extropy-chat] Re: Bad Forecasts!

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Patrick wrote:
> 
> > Really what do individual predictions show? Its hard to predict the
> 
> > future. Some people make optimistic predictions and some make 
> > pessimistic predictions. Many optimistic predictions don't work out
> 
> > either. A lot of people are still waiting for Christ to return. The
> 
> > question is whether Extropians will be waiting for their own
> personal 
> > saviour for another 2000 years.
> 
> Yep. People laughed at Christopher Collumbus but they also laughed
> at Bozo the clown. 
> 
> Predictions are really beside the point. Projections and plans on the
> other may be weighted and critiqued and sometimes falsified.

I hereby predict that the inaccuracy of predictions will continue to
expand at exponential rates....

=====
Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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