Re: [sd-2] Fwd: Re: (SD2) Q@A/ The experts decide who an expert is.
MARC HILL sensaru at yahoo.com
Tue, 5 Apr 2005 06:08:50 -0700 (PDT)
The best decision is not always the most correct one.
The fastest way is not always the shortest path.
--- Mark <parashakti108@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --HighIQSingles@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" wrote:
> --"Ryan Mathew Parr" wrote:
>
> >R: You don't recognize the innacuracies a bottom-up
> system makes.
>
> -M: [From post 18818]
> ---------------------
> -M: So, are you still advocating the Bushmonkey
> algorithm?
>
> >R: No, I believe that the founding fathers were
> onto something.
> -----------------------------
> -M: A bottom-up system is what a
> democratic-republic("democracy") is.
> SD2 is not competing with top-down hierarchies
> since most aren't
> algorithmic. SD2 can be used by top-down hierarches,
> but SD2 won't be
> controlling over the hierarchy itself.
>
> >R: At the same time, a bottom-up system is exactly
> the kind of
> system that voted Bush in office. Look at all the
> red necks! You are
> ignoring the very things that contradict your
> proposition, as those
> contradictions make more sense. How else do you
> presume it to work?
>
> -M:1. Democracy MUST be a bottom-up hierarchy.
> 2. Democracy MUST have voting as a data input.
> 3. This data MUST be processed by an algorithm.
>
> -M: I simply want people to entertain the
> plausability that PageRank
> may be a better algorithm to process voting data
> than *in-degree* is.
> PageRank in SD2 is intended to counter the
> Bushmonkey problems that
> you mention.
>
> >R: There are heuristics throughout any
> organization. People will
> view from whichever side they are at, and not
> everyone comes in
> contact with each other. There are reasons a
> supervisor is accounted
> for in looking at everything within the system
> beneath them. There
> are reasons brigadier generals make decisions. There
> are reasons a
> leutenant doesn't plan major decisions in battle.
> Ryan M. Parr
>
> -M: Ok, Ryan, there are reasons that people make
> decisions, agreed.
> Now - who makes the BEST decisions? This is what SD2
> intends to find.
> The PageRank algorithm allows for *local* knowledge
> to extend
> *globally*, so people in a network only need to know
> a few people.
>
> -Shanti
> -Mark, International Social Organizer, SD2
> -Seattle WA USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-2
> --- End forwarded message ---
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