Swatting at the Swarm, Part III: Making an Asch of Us All

[peristaltor]

Unhappily for us all, we are surrounded by corporate accomplices willing to influence our hearts and minds. I gave you a taste of this in Part II. In at least three of the four examples I provided we find a strong fiduciary incentive to warrant the noted shenanigans, obvious reasons why the participants would go to such misinformation extremes.

Comments

[bleaknemesis]

Still working my way through "The Wisdom of Crowds". I would like to comment on at least one statement you made near the end of your journal entry. You said

[peristaltor]

Could it be that there is not enough diversity at the top rungs to effect wise decisions?That's exactly what I'm thinking

[bleaknemesis]

Sorry about the look of the above post. I had paragraphs and spaces but they all disappeared when I posted. What did I do wrong?

[peristaltor]

That is weird. I just viewed the page source, and could see where you inserted your paragraph breaks. Strangely, these are hard breaks, gaps in the response that show up in the code itself. That's not normal; LJ usually inserts the html code (br /) for a break when you hit return.

It seems your comments did not paginate regularly. Maybe you're using a strange, strange computer.

[mcfnord]

i think this can be suppressed.

i clicked don't auto-format.

and i bet it ditches all my CR's (cuz they aren't converted to BR's)

re:

[anonymous]

thank you