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                                             February  19, 2010
                                             September 14, 2013

   There's a syndrome where
   a faction's poor record
   of prediction is always
   shrugged off...                                   On the subject of A.I.

   Krugman and Co have been                              MIND_PENROSE
   pointing out for years
   that their opposition is
   consistently wrong, and
   yet persistently regarded         And few of the pro-Iraq
   as the Very Serious People.       war people seemed to have
                                     learned much...

                                         "How can the self-proclaimed sensible
   A famous example is                   centrists continue to regard
   environmentalists and                 themselves as sensible, when they were
   the hard resource                     wrong about Bush, WMDs, financial
   shortages we're                       deregulation, and so on?  Only by
   expected to hit:                      becoming even more disdainful of the
                                         unwashed ruffians who got it right."
        PEAKED
                                               -- Paul Krugman, July 19, 2010
                                                  http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/loona-bimbertons-of-the-world-unite/





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