Comments on: Tragedy of the Commons http://www.juliansanchez.com/2008/05/10/tragedy-of-the-commons/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Ike http://www.juliansanchez.com/2008/05/10/tragedy-of-the-commons/comment-page-1/#comment-4513 Ike Tue, 13 May 2008 02:50:30 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=2388#comment-4513 Written by a committee, was it? Who was it who said that a committee is the only known form of life having many stomachs and no brain? Q.E.D. Written by a committee, was it? Who was it who said that a committee is the only known form of life having many stomachs and no brain? Q.E.D.

]]> By: Clyde Mays, Jr. http://www.juliansanchez.com/2008/05/10/tragedy-of-the-commons/comment-page-1/#comment-4510 Clyde Mays, Jr. Tue, 13 May 2008 01:05:38 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=2388#comment-4510 This makes me happy that I never tried my "wikiscript" idea. This makes me happy that I never tried my “wikiscript” idea.

]]> By: mtc http://www.juliansanchez.com/2008/05/10/tragedy-of-the-commons/comment-page-1/#comment-4508 mtc Mon, 12 May 2008 07:40:20 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=2388#comment-4508 I dunno, I can believe that excerpt was someone's serious attempt at prose. A lot of people seem to think the ability to use a thesaurus is all it takes to be a good writer. I dunno, I can believe that excerpt was someone’s serious attempt at prose. A lot of people seem to think the ability to use a thesaurus is all it takes to be a good writer.

]]> By: von Laue http://www.juliansanchez.com/2008/05/10/tragedy-of-the-commons/comment-page-1/#comment-4504 von Laue Sun, 11 May 2008 04:17:50 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=2388#comment-4504 Are we to assume that all the contributors' motives are pure? Seems to me, and I'm just hittin' fungoes here, that this is a huge win for distributed (or popular, or crowdsourcing, meeeeaah!) intelligence boosters. It's a spectacularly "hilarious" Phish-covers-Eazy-E sort of result, the sarcasm of a thousand Subarued souls, singing along with Trey at the University of Connecticut to "Automobile" . Just because the project initiators didn't mean for shithouse writing to happen...well, that's just more proof of the value of distributed intelligence! Or, it's proof that it sucks, or worthless mere anecdotes, or fucking intarweb-retard noise, depending on what one already thought about all that. Are we to assume that all the contributors’ motives are pure?

Seems to me, and I’m just hittin’ fungoes here, that this is a huge win for distributed (or popular, or crowdsourcing, meeeeaah!) intelligence boosters. It’s a spectacularly “hilarious” Phish-covers-Eazy-E sort of result, the sarcasm of a thousand Subarued souls, singing along with Trey at the University of Connecticut to “Automobile” .

Just because the project initiators didn’t mean for shithouse writing to happen…well, that’s just more proof of the value of distributed intelligence! Or, it’s proof that it sucks, or worthless mere anecdotes, or fucking intarweb-retard noise, depending on what one already thought about all that.

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