R help - Jul 2009 - predictive punishment module (was: Re: Simple cat statement - output truncated)

>>> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> 15/07/2009 15:04:29
>>>
>* R has a new predictive punishment module.  It punishes you for
things 
>it knows you will do later.
Dang! Does that mean it'll return errors for the statistical idiocy I
haven't yet got around to committing? 

;-)

Steve E

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On 15-Jul-09 14:45:26, S Ellison wrote:
> 
>>>> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> 15/07/2009
15:04:29 >>>
>> * R has a new predictive punishment module.  It punishes you for
>> things it knows you will do later.
> Dang! Does that mean it'll return errors for the statistical idiocy
> I haven't yet got around to committing? 
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Steve E
It is even more twisted and sadistic than that.

Being an Expert System on Human Psychology (how else could it succeed
so well in putting the user on the wrong foot), it knows that the user
will interpret the punishment as being related to the correct thing
that the user just did, even though the punishment is for the thing
that will be done later. Users will therefore develop an inhibition
in respect of correct actions, and will be driven into incorrect
behaviour.

The incorrect thing that will be done later will be punished anyway.
Since the complement to {an incorrect thing} is
  {correct thing} union {all the other incorrect things}
the user will end up
a) Confused
b) Increasingly likely to do incorrect things, therefore increasingly
   likely to be punished, finally being punished on almost all
   occasions of action (predictively or not).

So, now we know ... :(
Ted.

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