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An interesting blog I came across ...
pwhodges:
Indeed. Fortunately the story-telling was better than the science!
Skewbrow:
Quite.
<nerd alert>
On a related note a junior colleague is often bemoaning about the CS, EE majors who (after learning about the cosine and wavelet transformations) come up with various and sundry "magic transformations" that allow universal data compression to exist. In spite of him proving as the last theorem of his course that this is trivially impossible.
</nerd alert>
Olymander:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 22 Jan 2011, 13:21 ---Didn't all of psychohistory depend on the fact that Hari Seldon figured out that the Galactic Empire could be modelled with a much smaller piece of itself - Trantor? If all of psychohistory goes out of the window, then we're doomed to have a longish period of chaos, when the empire falls.
--- End quote ---
It's been over a decade since I've read those, but didn't most of psychohistory get thrown out the window when the Mule started "messing around" with things anyway? Not to mention the whole Second Foundation to "keep things on track" and all the other things.
Skewbrow:
IIRC the Mule did represent a serious threat to the Seldon plan. May be the plan is a stable equilibrium point, so as long as the Second Foundation manages to keep the perturbations small enough, then such disturbances would eventually be dampened out. Gaia OTOH...
Wiregeek:
the only nit I have to pick is her disregard of Dora as having "thin privilege as Faye's boss".. Boss privilege can be pretty damn thick!
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