[FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 38, Issue 3

[Robert Cordingley]

Unfortnately, neither business management nor governing is a total 
disclosure game.  Even if it was, it's likely to be as complicated or 
more so than say Go (a great total disclosure game).  Even the strongest 
Go players eventually have to resort to what 'looks good' or 'feels 
right' because they lack the (perhaps expressible) analytical skills to 
deduce a correct answer.  I guess, we hope that our intrinsic value 
system (gut feel?) matches with our chosen political leaders who make 
decisions we are likely to favor regardless of whether we know or not if 
it is the right choice in the short term, the medium term or the long 
term.  In fact, even the relatively highly constrained environment of Go 
has not been solved computationally, and performance of the best program 
doesn't approach anywhere near the same level as the best Chess 
programs, so, relucantly I wonder, what hope is there of computationally 
solving problems involving millions of agents in dozens of countries 
acting in myriads of ways (for example)?  May be that wasn't the question.

Robert

Jochen Fromm wrote:

>Perhaps the best way to solve complex problems is to
>let your guts decide ? What did Stephen Colbert say 
>at the White House Correspondents Dinner ? "..That's 
>where the truth lies, right down here in the gut", see
>http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879
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>-J. 
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