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From: D.M. Procida on 11 Jun 2010 04:53 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > > Yes well, there's a great deal that is better than that or than the book > > reviewed. The book itself presents nothing new and appears to offer no > > unique insights. > > > > It was done better a long time ago by Giancarlo Livraghi in his book > > "The Power of Stupidity". > > That would be the one published in May, 2009. Obviously a long time > before 2007. > > > http://gandalf.it/stupid/chapters.htm > > I wonder if there's a book called "The Power of Rancor". Do leave him in peace. Daniele
From: Sak Wathanasin on 11 Jun 2010 06:03 On 10 June, 22:02, real-not-anti-spam-addr...(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote: > I'd read the book if I were you - it's a lot better than my review. The best kind of review - made me order it straight away.
From: Pd on 11 Jun 2010 07:06 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Yes well, there's a great deal that is better than that or than the book > > > reviewed. The book itself presents nothing new and appears to offer no > > > unique insights. > > > > > > It was done better a long time ago by Giancarlo Livraghi in his book > > > "The Power of Stupidity". > > > > That would be the one published in May, 2009. Obviously a long time > > before 2007. > > > > > http://gandalf.it/stupid/chapters.htm > > > > I wonder if there's a book called "The Power of Rancor". > > Do leave him in peace. If only it were peace. -- Pd
From: D.M. Procida on 11 Jun 2010 07:16 Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > On 10 June, 22:02, real-not-anti-spam-addr...(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. > Procida) wrote: > > > I'd read the book if I were you - it's a lot better than my review. > > The best kind of review - made me order it straight away. Thank you. For a book like that it was a real pleasure to write a review, but one always wonders whether anyone's actually reading them. I think that for me one of the most important things the book did was offer the first explanation of systematic atrocity that I could really accept, even though this explanation came with some other discomfiting consequences about the kind of people who end up participating in atrocity (i.e. people exactly like us, not like those other people who participate in atrocity). I'll be interested to know what you think about it. Daniele
From: Pd on 11 Jun 2010 07:22
Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > On 10 June, 18:36, Tim Streater <timstrea...(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > > > Not really. A statistically tiny sample. Another example of blasted > > doctors with no training in mathematics; see: > > > > http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/goodcures.html > > You might be interested in Gerd Gigerenzer's > Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty > for more examples on how doctors and maths sometimes don't mix well. I've just come back from my doctor, and was surprised that the treatment he recommended was none at all. He actually said the risks of treatment were higher than the inconvenience and potential risks of just leaving well alone. Respeck. My doctor through childhood didn't feel he'd done his job properly unless he prescribed something. Grazed knee? Antibiotics! Migraines? Antibiotics! Broken toe? Antibiotics! He's probably responsible for half the MRSA in the world today. -- Pd |