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  Matt, 30 Sep 2003 @ 2:39am

  
  

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  but surely the game itself has a "box" that they think outside of, so unless they get some rabid fundamentalist to create the game's ultimate framework (within which is the "box" for a democratic western nation) this will be no training at all?

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  Anonymous Coward, 30 Sep 2003 @ 2:49am

  
  

  Simulation vs Prediction

  Need to be a little carefule here. Poindexter's plan was probably put forward in response, not to studies suggesting a greater knowldge known by a group, but to actual open-ended futures markets that operate in other parts of the world. Certainly the best indicator of the 9/11 attack were short selling in our very own legalized gambling futures stock market. Open-ended futures markets are merely a method by which signal can be extracted from noise.
  
  Anyway, this is very different from a simulation in which you have automatic feeds from various signals intelligence sources (ship lications, international cellphone/fax usage, location of known red-force operatives, targeting data, etc.) If they're trying to model the emergence of groups with common goals via a sims based model, I think they're just going to be wasting taxpayer dollars (something that they've become very good at lately).
  
  Funny thing thought... all the teen-geek news sites carried the story eventhough it has very little to do with gaming as the average person knows it.

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