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What should be the Book Club pick for December 2018?
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday September 16 2018, @07:05PM (3 children)
All taken from here [soylentnews.org]. Conveniently, there were 8 suggestions, and a maximum of 8 options for a poll.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash [wikipedia.org]
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1) by Dennis Taylor
https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ [amazon.com]
Dawn (Xenogenesis #1 or Lilith's Brood #1) by Octavia Butler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith%27s_Brood [wikipedia.org]
The Metropolitan Man by Alexander Wales
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10360716/1/The-Metropolitan-Man [fanfiction.net]
(Freely available.)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow [wikipedia.org]
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecasting [wikipedia.org]
(This is about the Good Judgment Project [wikipedia.org].)
Makers by Cory Doctorow
https://craphound.com/makers/download/ [craphound.com]
(Free to download.)
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18139 [gutenberg.org]
(Public domain.)
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday September 17 2018, @12:30AM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday September 17 2018, @12:59AM
I participated in GJP for a while. Mainly 2-option questions are posed with a slider. You get lots of points for a correct answer made with strong confidence, less points for a correct answer made with low confidence/high uncertainty, less points lost for wrong answer made with low confidence/high uncertainty, and more points lost for a confident/certain wrong answer. The service tries to get you to consider your biases and confidence level, and you have to balance them.
There are a broad range of topics you can make predictions about, likely to include topics you know little about or topics on which your guess is as good as anybody's. They say GJP is more accurate than "experts", but that may be overstating the value of predictions (predicting the future correctly is still hard, who would have guessed). At the end of the day, you are probably relying primarily on the mainstream media to make your guesses. Theoretically, you could act as a one man (or multiple participant) intelligence agency, finding out shit, calling people, or whatever, to get an edge. bellingcat [bellingcat.com] comes to mind.
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(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday September 26 2018, @10:16PM
Read the Bobiverse at the beginning of this year on my Kindle. I was very good as well as quite funny and creative. I'd also recommend anyone check out Michael Anderle and friends. The joint Kutherian Universe they've put out is nothing short of fantastic.
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