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Critics versus creators...who's in the right?
Game studio, Digital Homicide is suing game critic Jim Sterling. But who is right? Creator or critic?
by Engela Snyman
About a week ago, news broke that indie game development team, Digital Homicide was suing gaming critic Jim Sterling for assault, libel, and slander -- a lawsuit which accumulates to a grand total of $10 million in damages.
This inevitable confrontation has been building over the course of two years, ever since Jim Sterling reviewed the absolutely terrible Steam game The Slaughtering Grounds. He called it a 'worst game of the year contender' and pointed out the painful asset flipping in the game.
Since then, the Sterling and the developer have been butting manly horns. Digital Homicide would make a game, Jim Sterling would cover it, say how bad it is, and Digital Homicide would flip its shit - rinse and repeat.
The situation isn't as far-fetched as some would believe. Creators and critics have been butting heads since the dawn of time, or at least since Steam opened its doors to any sort of vomit people could throw up.
But now the question is; who is right? The critic or the creator?
The critic's side
First off, what is a critic?
"A person who judges the merits of literary or artistic works, especially one who does so professionally."
"A person who expresses an unfavourable opinion of something."
Most critics would say the fall into the former category. They are judging the merits of a product -- like movies, games, books, and music -- and are not really expressing an unfavorable opinion of everything they encounter. With that covered, where do they stand?
From a critic's standpoint, critiquing a game is just another day at the office. Games are just products that are easily forgotten in the tidal wave of content they deal with daily. They don't always care what they're looking at, they just want to play it and move on. So it's not surprising to find many critics develop a very cynical, and perhaps snooty attitude.
Being disappointed every day, and having people berate you for being so, can't be a lot of fun. To an extent, it's their right to get a little pissed off when developers keep bombarding them with sh*t and expecting golden reviews.
However, critics are protected by the DMCA act -- which ensures that freedom of speech is translated into a digital medium. This means that a critic's review will always be seen as Fair Use, so long as they add something new to the footage they are using, like a review or general opinion.
So according to the law, and popular opinion, Jim Sterling should be safe. But are critics really critiquing games?
Critique or criticism?
There is obviously a big difference between these two. Critiquing a game is in accordance with the definition above: discussing its merits, how it can be improved, and explaining where the developer went wrong in a constructive way. Criticizing is -- in essence -- destructive, because you are breaking down what a person has built or created.
Many reviewers have been sliding down the latter slope, rather than climbing the former. Because at the end of the day, it is easier to criticize than to give thoughtful critique.
Calling a game a 'worst game of the year contender' is neither constructive nor productive for the gaming industry. But it is entertaining for your viewer, which is why most Youtubers, and critics alike, actively look for bad games.
Legally, most of them should be okay. It is not illegal to bad-mouth a game, if it is true. But does that mean the critic is morally right?
The creator's side
What is a creator?
"A person or thing that brings something into existence."
In this context, we replace 'something' with 'games' and we're good to go. It doesn't say it needs to be 'good', which literally means anyone can be a creator of something. So where do they stand?
From a creator's standpoint, the game they make is their life, and sometimes their livelihood. It is -- in cliche terms -- their baby.
Oftentimes hours, days, and years are poured into it, along with blood, sweat, tears -- and a lot of midnight pizza money. For developers, the criticism hits home, and it's even more troubling for indie developers because their games are so near and dear to their hearts.
It's unsurprising, then, to see these people get angry -- really angry -- when people harass, attack, and even laugh at them for trying to make a game.
Bad-mouthing games is damaging to a developer's reputation. And famous YouTuber comments can have a ripple effect, as shown by the whole Pewdiepie debacle, and the bro-army harassment.
To rub even more salt in the wound, YouTubers make money from these reviews, and it just makes the developers even more frustrated. Their games are being torn apart, they are being insulted, laughed at, they are losing sales, and to top it off, the YouTuber is raking in the cash off their misery. Is it any surprise developers are getting a little pissed off by this?
Behind every game, story, artwork, sculpture, and song is just another person, who believes in their work as wholly as we do in ours. It is easy to form an opinion, but it takes effort to make something for people to enjoy.
So do creators have the moral high-ground? Not entirely.
Attitude problem
Independent creators can be some of the most pompous, arrogant and self-indulgent pricks we've ever come across in the gaming industry. They are sensitive, often overly so, and they have absolutely no idea how to take any sort of criticism without running to mummy.
Anyone remember Phil Fish?
This is, of course, not representative of all indie game developers. In fact, most of them are well-balanced and pretty cool individuals. But like they say, one bad game can crash an industry, and people are getting pretty tired of these big babies.
Teenagers and inept coders often try their hands at something, because it's a wish or a want. Being made of fun of, harassed, and attacked can turn the nicest of people into indignant assholes. Is it an excuse? No, but it something to keep in mind when sending hate-mail to a developer.
So who's wrong and who's right?
Both are to blame for this.
Critics have the law on their side, that's a given. However, they seem to have forgotten what the difference is between critiquing and just plain criticizing. Their reviews of bad games are inherently negative, and sometimes downright vindictive.
Beating a bad game into dust for 'entertainment' is not productive.
But the best thing about honest, critical reviews is quality control. If enough reviewers pan a game, then most creators will take this to heart and try NOT to do this in their own game. It doesn't always work, of course, but in general, public opinion has forced the industry to grow into what we see today. I'm not saying it's perfect -- there will always be companies like Konami, Ubisoft and EA that will give people what they hate, simply because they can. But there is no denying it does have an effect.
Indie creators, in turn, are continuously pushing the boundaries of the industry. Their ideas are not shackled by companies, and the more they make, the greater the potential is for the industry. And they have a right to feel insulted when projects they have worked on for years, are completely torn apart by a smug YouTuber.
But creators do need to grow a thicker skin, they need to be able to take criticism from their players, and run with it. Having an arrogant attitude, ignoring the problem, and pretending you're in the right won't win you any favors -- it just makes you look like a d*ck.
And if you want to get good reviews, make a good game. Learn from others' mistakes, and for heaven's sake, learn from your own.
Digital Homicide handled their situation poorly. They didn't think their reactions through, and they steamrolled right through a wall they can't fix. Just another Phil Fish. The moment you put a game up on Steam, you need to prepare yourself for criticism, no matter how much you love that cliched-baby.
Will Digital Homicide win the case? Personally, I hope not -- that would be a huge blow for reviewers and critics alike, and they have enough problems with YouTube's copyright system at the moment. On the other hand, it might just give reviewers license to be even more criticizing, cynical and negative than before.
We can only hope it works out for the best.
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Published Mar. 22nd 2016
Auverin Morrow
As much as I think Sterling crossed some lines into personal attacks on the developers themselves, I think this whole spectacle is a case of Digital Homocide forgetting the first basic rule of the Internet -- don't feed the trolls. That's all Sterling is really doing here. He's trolling DH because they're an easy target that keeps buying into his crap and putting out more terrible games.
Honestly, this all feels like watching 2 trolls argue on the web. Neither of them is really right, both of them are a**holes, and none of this is productive.
That's actually very true! Two big ol' trolls yelling at each other, and shaking their clubs with vigour. It does make for a good spectators sport XD
I think both just need to back up and reassess their situation, perhaps take a deep breath and calm down. But that probably won't happen :\
| Narz |
I love this article! Some people feel their 1st amendment gives them right to be douches but if you present findings as ways to make a product or game better and not barrage developers it could be enlightening.
Thank you. I find it refreshing that so many people agree. The current state of 'game-reviewing' is turned on its head. Reviewers need to clean up their act, or we're going to see more and more people sue them.
I find it ironic that when critics are being hit with copy-right strikes, they always play the card "I don't have a leg to stand on" but when they directly insult, belittle and harass developers, they peg it down as "Free Speech,"
Mathenaut
Not alot of sympathy for Sterling in this. I can understand the desire to protect open criticism, but he pretty clearly crossed some lines and opened himself up to this.
Companies are always chomping at the bit to do stuff like this. He baited them and they bit. Hard.
I agree! I like Sterling, he has a good sense of humor, and his Let's Plays are funny. But if you want to be protected from being sued (and keep being protected), then make sure you keep your nose clean. Insulting people, and harassing them just because they're upset, doesn't put you in a good light.
I just honestly wish that Digital Homicide had acted with a bit more decorum, right now they don't have a lot of sympathy :\
I have my opinion on Digital Homicide like just about everyone else. Not really relevant, though.
Granted, it's a dick move (and I'm sure DH's may face some future stigma for it); but this case is a simple question of 'is it valid', and the answer is 'yes'.
This isn't something that really puts other reviewers at risk, because other reviewers don't cross those lines normally. Consider much of Yahtzee's work. Scathing, but those lines are not crossed.
DH isn't some grand, faceless corporation that doesn't flinch when some guy takes the piss. Sterling dwarfs them, and that piss wasn't just on the game, it was on those people - for kinda serious claims not related to the game that aren't true.
That last part needs to be underlined, because if it was just honestly because of a bad review, this wouldn't even be a case.
That's a good point, I should have added that not all reviewers abuse their right to Free Speech, just as most developers are not always big cry babies.
In this case Sterling make videos about them to draw attention to their "melt-down", and because his audience liked it, he kept doing it. The problem is when a decently famous YouTuber makes a video like his, he needs to understand that his audience will respond.
Their excuse is always "I don't have control over them" but they don't always actively discourage them either, which can result in months, if not years of consistent harassment from fans, just because it's fun or funny.
As wrong as DH was, Sterling can't deny he fed the flames, even if it was just for views sake.
Jeffrey Rousseau
I really liked this. Honestly I feel that there's a clash of entitlement and lack of some objectivity. I just hope both sides learn from this and move on accordingly.
Thank you! On the one hand I hope that the developers lose the case, because if they win the Critics will have an even more uphill battle. But I am hoping the judge (if this does end up in court) does at least address the issue of malicious criticism.
At least then the developers will have something to point to when reviewers get completely out of hand. But we'll see how it plays out.
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UK (England): Planned Badger Cull By the Government Now Stopped After Massive Protests – Another Government U Turn.
Posted on October 24, 2012 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The UK government has announced it will delay a planned cull of badgers in England until next summer, after widespread protests against the scheme. As with so many political issues in the UK at the moment, the government is doing more U turns than there are on an Alpine pass !
The government is avoiding the issues of vaccination – a major recommendation for solving this problem.
The government is also refusing to give any real time to the issue of cross-country animal transport; an issue that welfare campaigners have spoken about for years. In their opinion it is much easier to just kill all the badgers as the justification for solving the issue of Bovine TB. The welfare campaigners argue that if you transport cattle from Southern England to the North, and one may have BTB, then the disease may be passed into a previously un-affected area. What do the government say ? – kill the badgers in the North; they must be the carriers.
It is not a simple solution; but vaccinations is one way to prevent further disease spread. So why are the UK government not doing it ? – MONEY, one has to ask.
British people love Badgers – they are a protected species in the UK – protected that is, until the Cameron government decides it is going to cull thousands. British people also do NOT want cattle killed because they have BTB –
The vast majority of British people want badgers AND cattle vaccinated.
The British people have reacted and the cull has now been stopped for a year at least. Yet another government U turn; though they would say otherwise.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/23/badger-cull-postponed-2013
The Badger Trust Home Page = http://www.badger.org.uk/Content/Home.asp
Why are badgers implicated in spreading TB?
A: Scientific evidence has shown that bovine TB can be transmitted from cattle to cattle; from badgers to cattle and cattle to badgers; and from badger to badger. Badgers are thought to pass on the disease to cattle through their urine, faeces or through droplet infection, in the farmyard or in cattle pastures. However, it is not clear how big a role badgers play in the spread of bovine TB since the cows can also pass the disease on to other members of the herd.
Article Links UK Press:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19637936
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/23/badger-cull-policy-bovine-tb
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-mccarthy-the-badger-cull-failed-because-defra-insisted-farmers-pay-for-it-8223144.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9627975/Badger-cull-delayed-as-minister-blames-weather-and-Olympics.html
Stop the Cull e-petition & House of Commons debate
The Stop the Cull e-petition has now attracted more than 160,000 signatures and the issue has been accepted for debate in the House of Commons this Thursday, 25 October. It is very important that as many MPs as possible attend the debate and vote against the badger cull. You can help:
Sign the Stop the Badger Cull e-petition and encourage your friends and family to do so too.
If a citizen of the UK; Urge your Member of Parliament to attend the debate and vote against the badger cull. Please contact your MP today.
ABOVE – 'Queen' rock band legend guitarist and Badger fan Brian May speaks out in defence of the badger with all his campaigning – WELL DONE BRI !!!
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Ticket Price: £21.80
I hadn't heard of the Tusk Festival before but it would seem to be right up my street. It runs over three evenings at the Sage in Gateshead but with everything I had going on it was clear that I wasn't going to be able to go to all three nights so I was glad to see that they did day tickets so I bought one for the Sunday.
The band I wanted to see was Nurse with Wound who I have been listening to for a while but I especially wanted to go as Jim Hill who I used to go and see in Hand of Stabs in Kent was also appearing with them. The gig was part of a larger event called Tusk Festival which had been running all weekend and seemed to have lots of music that I would quite like. In many ways it seems like the sort of music scene that I have been looking for since moving up here and it felt quite ironic that I should find it because of someone who was involved in that sort of scene back down in Kent.
As soon as I got there I bumped straight into Jim who was talking to Stephen Stapleton from Nurse with Wound and I got introduced and asked how I knew Jim!! I chatted for a few minutes and then wandered off to find a drink as I knew the Wylam Brewery had a pop up bar there. I then wandered into the auditorium to see the first act which was Brigid Mae Power who sang some lovely songs accompanied by herself on guitar and piano.
The next act was Beatrice Dillon who when she started I thought "no this isn't for me" and was seriously considering going and getting another beer but in the end I gave it a few minutes and slowly found myself getting drawn into the music especially the rhythms. I stayed and watched it all the way through in the end and was disappointed to find the pop up bar had gone by the time I came out!
Nurse with Wound were excellent – I thoroughly enjoyed it, a sonic feast for the senses as they say! Probably the best gig I've been to this year! There were three of them underneath a big projection screen and Jim was standing out front with his drum and a microphone for his Worsicles and flute. The performance started off slowly but built and built until it was really rocking by the end! It finished about 12:30 and then I had to walk back to the car and drive home again. I got in at about half one, dirty stop out and on a school night as well!


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Q: SQL Count Number of Occurrences for a Multi-Row Distinct, By Multi-Row Distinct I have a query that sums all values from the "Total" column and aligns them to their unique combination of storename, year, make, and model (via a Group By):
    select storename, year, make, model, sum(total) as [Sum]
    from #TempTable
    group by storename, year, make, model

An example of the results:
    StoreA 2009 TOYO    AVALON  1039.95
    StoreB 2005 CHET    TAHOE   1039.99
    StoreC 2010 MAZD    CX-9    1040.07
    StoreD 2007 DODG    CHARGER 1040.09
    StoreE 2003 ACUT    MDX     1040.17

What I want to do is add another column to this query that counts how many rows exist in each Group. For example, I know there are 5 instances of a 2009 TOYO AVALON at StoreA, but I want the script to figure out how many there are for each unique combination of storename, year, make, model. And I want it displayed as an extra column [CarCount] to the right of [Sum].
There must be a way, but I have not been able to find a solution. Thank you for your help!

A: Unless I misunderstood, you need the count on the existing grouping. Just use COUNT to get it.
select storename, year, make, model, sum(total) as [Sum], COUNT(1) as CarCount
    from #TempTable
    group by storename, year, make, model

A: Add count(*) to the query it will count the number of instances in that group
 select storename, year, make, model, sum(total) as [Sum], count(*) carcount
    from #TempTable
    group by storename, year, make, model

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In my first encounter with Dan Hoffman, he gave me encouragement. In my second semester at Penn, my instructor in a first-year creative writing seminar suggested I show Dan a poem I had written for the class. I nervously made my way to his office in Bennett Hall, knocked, and explained myself. Dan looked the poem over (it was called "Kelp," and written in pentameter quatrains) and, to my surprise, read it aloud. It was satiric and intended to be morbidly funny. Dan chuckled, maybe politely, then suddenly said, "Why don't you send this to The Nation?"
I had never submitted—never thought of submitting—my writing anywhere but my high school litmag, so this floored me. I barely knew what The Nation was, and though it turned out that the magazine had far less enthusiasm for my poem, I felt immensely gratified by a serious poet who didn't know me at all taking my work seriously.
Her tercets shake the bars of their narrow cage.
I remember the exclamation point in my brain, the thrill at the realization that you could do that—screw around with line length and rhyme in a supposedly formal poem. Dan as teacher, poet, and critic continually introduced ways of participating in tradition without being suffocated by orthodoxy. At the end of the workshop, a valedictory session at his home culminated in his own offering for each of us, an inscribed copy of Broken Laws, the first time I had ever received such a gift from the poet's own hand. It is one of a number of gifts I have received from Dan over the years—most of all that never-flagging gift of encouragement, the idea that I might someday call myself a poet as well.
some meat around the seed.
the fruit is for the seed.
after she squanched the burning of the day.
At least fifty years separate these poems, the first from Hoffman's debut Yale Younger Poets book, An Armada of Thirty Whales (1954), the second from one of Beyond Silence's handful of new poems. They are not the same—the new poem is more flexible and colloquial, the early poem more self-conscious in its rewriting of Keats and the inversion of "Earthward plunge the tendrils"—but they identifiably come from the same hand, sharing a sharpness of eye, a precision of ear, a pleasure in satisfied memory, and a delight in language that extends to onomatopoeic coinages ("squush" and "squanched"). Neither embarrasses the other; rather, Hoffman's poems gain illumination from their new thematic contexts. . . .
A little boy is putting in the shoots.
He's naked in the sunlight. It's my son!
Stop! Stop! We cross another paddy.
He's there, he's fallen in the mud, he moans my name.
it would be on your head.
You should've stopped them, he said.
This sonnet plays with the formal borders, shrinking its lines after the opening pentameter, and rhyming when it needs to, evolving from slant-rhymes ("How" / "you" / "saw"; "thought" / "what") to the only full rhyme, to end the poem with an appropriate knock on the head. Many subtleties make the poem vivid: the ordering of speech patterns, the idiosyncratic phrasing of the old man's question, the poem's shift from past tense into present for its brief description of the violent act, a cameo of epic heightening. But it wittily deals with one of a poet's demons, the ornamenting of an actual event for poetic purposes, only to have the work of art taken for truth. And further, it raises the fascinating question of whether we are morally responsible for the universes we create—whether we must lie in the beds we have lied to make.
In "Summer," from his fine 2002 volume Darkening Water, Hoffman continues to be obsessed with the simultaneous power and impotence of poetry to shape our experience.
To cleave the darkening water.
The breeze, recalling Wordsworth's literal inspiration in The Prelude, is here tentative yet loving, profligate yet cautious. This late version of Hoffman's muse gives and takes away. The new poem becomes a ship, its prow cleaving the water as a plow—and Hoffman's career-long sensitivity to sound calls up the rhyming association unmistakably—cleaves the earth in order to bear fruit. Yet the poem plows only water, and ominously "darkening water" at that, upon which it is launched with a hint of despair like that plaguing Keats, who feared his poems were "writ on water." The poet finally must be bold in launching the proud, full sail of his verse, but also despairing, ultimately working without hope.
The loving acceptance, touching but unextraordinary, of each other's changing bodies works towards the glory still concealed within, set off brilliantly by the sudden formality of the little quatrain and its clinching rhyme. Literally and figuratively, the two lovers become translated, transformed into pure analogues of each other, defined by their ability to read and understand each other thoroughly. They inhabit a pre-Babel world in which everyone speaks the same language, a world before any tower has yet collapsed. Hoffman has poetically imagined us back to the formal garden, his Eden, and it is a garden of love.
Excerpts from "Formal Gardens with Real Poets in Them," reprinted from The Southern Review, vol. 39, no. 4 (Autumn 2003). Copyright © 2003 by Jay Rogoff.


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If you're comfortable translating the ruthless pursuit of excellence as 'greed', I guess this counts as trying.
(I'm qabbalistically joined at the hip with Ayn Rand, so objectivism on the topic is beyond my reach.)
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Brett Stevens Says:
Objectivity and subjectivity are both illusions anyway.
I never liked Rand, but the point is this: we either reward performance, or we subsidize everyone equally.
That latter method does not work.
Therefore Rand, distasteful as some of her ideas may seem, is both correct and morally correct while the rest of the herd is pursuing an emotional goal that is not realistic and always ends badly.
Communism was tried. It failed. Socialism was tried… it failed… then was hybridized with capitalism in order to keep the state going. Now all these states are going bankrupt and importing third worlders to try to make up the difference.
Soon, we will view liberal democracy and social welfare as being just as failed as Communism and National Socialism.
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Rohme Giuliano Says:
Ayn Rand on the Nazis: "They were altruists!"
Lucian Reply:
This is the same as Land attacking "hot collectivities" in the name of "cold collectivities" – the problem with Nazis was they were too loyal.
Rohme Giuliano Reply:
This is something Rand said during a televised interview and, for all the things one could say about the Nazi's attempt at combating modernity, calling them altruists is a very strange reprobation.
Racism as altruism in the form of primitive collectivism: that is Rand's line of thought.
Of course, Rand's more principled than a liberal. She scorns the reverse racism of a minority doting over their 'ethnic pride' as much as a majority doting over their supremacy.
Apologizing for one's supremacy is not in her wheelhouse. Believing oneself superior because one belongs to a collectivity is the highest breech of her ethics.
Artxell Knaphni Says:
In a way, it's the deepest of ironies, that "rugged individualism" should require any political expression. Collective persuasion, of others, ought to be irrelevant. Can't be very 'rugged' if it requires any kind of cooperation, or coercion; that wouldn't exactly be self-reliance, would it?
The characteristic theme that keeps emerging, in various areas and ways; is the need for simplification ( i.e., "what you could see in front of your eyes", or "Objectivism"). It's very telling, that the theoretically challenged should always seek such simplicity of references. As is the taste for uncomplicated narrative celebration of singular solutions in heroic form.
All of this is yet more nostalgia; whether all the object philosophies, like OOO, etc., these are all cults of simplification, akin to Scientology, a relentless faith in the fevered phantasms of sluggish minds, forever fearful of not being able to always inhabit their own slime.
I quite take your point.
Can Rand's ideas advance an accelerationist discourse?
Was she simply writing a palimpsest over "The Fable of the Bees" without Mandeville's scandalous wit?
My lust is garnered in Baudrillard's eppigram: 'Communism will come from the death of the social.'.
Also, remember Bentham's covenant: 'The community is a fictitious body…The interests of the community then is the sum of interests of the several members who compose it.'.
Both statements are auguries of each other.
One is an uncristened communism, looking nothing like it did in the oneirism of its Teutonic author; communism in the most paradoxical of senses. Sublative, communism, from a privation of community, will emerge in the reeling of its loss.
The other is the basis for theoretical capitalism, or orthodox economics, a 'technology' as Mr. Land calls it, deterritorializing and recoding organic communities into mechanical ones and beginning the process of the former.
Do you disagree, Mr. Knaphni?
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[Rohme Giuliano] "I quite take your point.
{AK}: If I understand it correctly, it's an interesting line of thought.
"The community is a fictitious body"
"the oneirism of its Teutonic author"
Interesting lines.
I've only watched a couple of videos of Rand; I was able to infer her limits from that. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
One can construct all kinds of casuistical systems of the Social, based on whatever principles one chooses. They'll all 'work', to varying degrees. Combining systems, too, is interesting. Without 'genuine commitment', however, whatever that is and however it comes about, all coagulations of community eventually dissolve.
I'm going to say that conventional political ideologies, largely based on social divisions and functions of prior developmental stages, will lose the kind of central relevance that they once enjoyed. Living on, as cultural-historic references, they will no longer quite fit or express the already emerging conditions consigning them to this marginal relevance.
Notions of the organic and mechanic are not so easy to distinguish in absolute terms. Whether grafting alleged figures of organi(city) onto alleged technological artificiality; or converting communities from the hegemony of organic signs to rational signs, to technological signs, and then to a techno-organic playpark of cyborg nostalgia; all of that is happening anyway. But it's not the main event or attraction going on.
Right now, the key figure is the oneiric. I've written a little about it, this century, here and there. Back in the early 1990s, it was the best, most convenient and suitable, way of producing, or eliciting, the most insight, out of all conceivable prophecies of extremity. All prior conceptions of extremity have been normalised. But a fresh, as yet entirely unheard of, set of notions, has already begun to exercise its effects.
Thank you for your pith.
When we view organic and mechanic as representing different linguistic models of the world we come close to absolute terms.
The organistic: proemiac, anthropomorphic, naturemorphic, sanative.
"Society is a body with a health and well-being."
It's problematics are parasitological/hemmorhagic.
The mechanistic: partitive, incorporeal, artifactual, cartographic.
"Society should run as a machine."
It's problematics are operational/optimizational.
Both counterpositional models coexist within the same society, often within the same person.
Can you tell me more about your notion of the oneiric? I am intrigued and unfamiliar.
G. Eiríksson Reply:
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» Many people think that genetic engineering will change everything, even our very bodies and minds. It will, eventually. Right now, however, attempts to apply new genetic knowledge are having profound effects, not on our bodies, but on how we understand our bodies. They are revealing that our central metaphor for the body is fundamentally flawed. The body is not a machine. It is something very different, a soma shaped by selection with systems unlike anything an engineer would design. Replacing the machine metaphor with a more biological view of the body will change biology in fundamental ways.
The transition will be difficult because the metaphor of body as machine has served us well. It sped escape from vitalism, and encouraged analyses of the body's components, connections, and functions, as if they were the creations of some extraordinarily clever cosmic engineer. It has yielded explanations with boxes and arrows, as if the parts are components of an efficient device. Thanks to the metaphor of the body as machine, vitalism has been replaced by an incredible understanding of the body's mechanisms.
Now, however, genetic advances are revealing the metaphor's limitations. For instance, a decade ago it was reasonable to think we would find the genes that cause bipolar disease. New data has dashed these hopes. Bipolar disease is not caused by consistent genetic variations with large effects. Instead, it may arise from a many different mutations, or from the interacting tiny effects of dozens of genes.
We like to think of genes as information quanta whose proteins serve specific functions. However, many regulate the expression of other genes that regulate developmental pathways that are regulated by environmental factors that are detected by yet other bodily systems unlike those in any machine. Even the word "regulate" implies coherent planning, when the reality is systems that work, one way or another, by mechanisms sometimes so entangled we cannot fully describe them. We can identify the main players, insulin and glucagon in glucose regulation, the amygdala in responding to treats and losses. But the details? Dozens of genes, hormones and neural pathways influence each other in interactions that defy description, even while they do what needs to be done. We have assumed, following the metaphor of the machine, that the body is extremely complex. We have yet to acknowledge that some evolved systems may be indescribably complex.
Indescribable complexity implies nothing supernatural. Bodies and their origins are purely physical. It also has nothing to do with so-called irreducible complexity, that last bastion of creationists desperate to avoid the reality of unintelligent design. Indescribable complexity does, however, confront us with the inadequacy of models built to suit our human preferences for discrete categories, specific functions, and one directional causal arrows. »—Randolph Nesse, professor of Life Sciences
John Hannon Reply:
"The characteristic that keeps emerging, in various areas and ways; is the need for simplification."
In Atlas Shrugged (p 978), Rand writes –
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
Reminds me of that old song – "Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and don't mess with Mister In-between."
Not going to get you very far in quantum computing.
@Artxell Knaphni
This is a sagacious assessment, G. Eiriksson.
May I here-forth call you Son of Erik in our correspondences?
Naturally, the real exceeds our mechanomorphic modelings of it.
I don't see genetics going beyond its physicalist foundations for if a geneticist says there is no 'life force' except the organizational matrix of genes, the nucleotide sequence of the human genome, then the game is a methodological cartography of halving halves and mapping the partitive interrelationalities until that system is incorporeal, is it not?
Am I to take there is indeterminacy at the heart of genetics, similar to quantum indeterminacy for physics?
At what level is there indeterminacy? In the entelechies of genotype?
I quote Merleau-Ponty from 'The Structure of Behavior': "One needs to introduce an active principle of order, an entelechy, only when one tries to compose the organism by means of the summation of separated processes. For it is then that the whole, with its remarkable constants, seems to demand an ordering factor which maintains them."
If you look at genes closely enough, you can see the 'life force' returning with all the negative fecundity of wonderment and puzzlement.
Also, I don't mean to counterpose linguistic frames of mechanic and organic wrongly. They coalate quite nicely in medicine, etiology, agriculture (GMO's) etc.. The collation is not so beneficent when adopted into political languages: a mechanistic system (global capitalism) and an organistic system (nationalism).. a crude thought.
I'll await from you further edification.
One more thought, Eiriksson. A coda, if you please.
Taking the organistic and mechanistic metaphors further, how do countries enter into wars?
Usually on the naturemorphic concept of predation, no? "The nation is under threat. We must do it for the survival of our people and our way of life." The nation's 'survival' is equated as the individual's survival transmitting an anthropomorphic understanding of a nation in mortal danger.
But the United States, is after all, an apex predator, and the American public understands, even if obtusely, wars are expropriative and, in a liberal-hypocritical fashion, bemoans wars which will surely happen without their approval.
Now here's a thought.
The American public, in a thirst to accumulate, demands a quorum be held for the purposes of determining the next country to invade for resource extraction and sourcing of cheap labor. Experts assay the material wealth of a country measured against the cost of its invasion. The public votes on the most profitable country: mercantilist social democracy, a bellicose welfare state.
Here, the democratic content and the rentier agenda of the state are 1:1, as it was with the anthropomorphic image of the state in a mortal danger. The entire social body moves in unison of a fluid operational logic of predation, from its highest caste to its lowest caste, a super-organism.
What interests me is, jumping back to real life, how a state's operational logic differs entirely from the expressible democratic content, like the function of repression, as if state and polity were each other's unconscious. They rely on each other, but in entirely different modes of disavowal.
Yes, you may call me that — naturally. Also just Erik, or if you need to identify me to people who might have met me, a few people have known me as Guðjón (Godjon, Godjohn, Guthjon), Big G, Guido; and Goth Ericson; or simply G. I prefer Erik.
As for bios: I think you know more about these aspects of biology than me. Have you checked out quantum biology?
Ok, Erik. 🙂
No, I have not! I don't think I would know where to start either.
I'm currently reading Fanged Noumena and enjoying it. Have you read our dear Mr. Land's collected writings?
You might then also be curioused by defanged noumena, aka Ray Brassier's 'toothless critique of Nick Land'.
Wagner Reply:
This link works: https://therealmovement.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/noumena-defanged-ray-brassiers-toothless-critique-of-nick-land/
"Land, says Brassier, is neoliberalism on steroids:"
I *knew* that I smelled monkeypanic when Walker Storz asked Nickpuppet how he differed from a neoliberal on the neoreaction-for-dummies post last month.
Dale Rooster Says:
I fell in love with her work my senior year of high school. Who knows if I would have majored in philosophy had it not been for her influence. Then I found Nietzsche (amongst Kierkegaard, Camus, Dostoyevsky) in college. She had her faults, of course. But her life and work, like Nietzsche's, will always be an inspiration to artists, writers and poets.
Usually I wouldn't quote encyclopedia dramatica but this is funny:
"Nietzsche was a cranky, curmudgeonly crazy man who thought people sucked and there was no reason to not be an asshole.
Aleister Crowley read Nietzsche and didn't get it, so he created a fucked up version of Nietzsche's already fucked-up ideology and called it Thelema.
Ayn Rand read Nietzsche and Crowley and didn't get it, so she created a fucked up version of Nietzsche's and Crowley's already fucked-up ideologies and called it Objectivism.
Anton LaVey read Nietzsche, Crowley and Rand and didn't get any of it, so he created a fucked up version of those already fucked-up ideologies and called it The Church of Satan."
Michael Rothblatt Reply:
Ayn Rand was a deeply conflicted figure. She hated religion yet deeply admired Thomas Aquinas (whilst loathing Kant), perhaps unsurprisingly:
"[…] there are many indications that Aquinas adhered to the common view of the Churchmen of his and previous times that the just price was the common market price. If so, then he could scarcely also hold that the just price equaled cost of production, since the two can and do differ. Thus his conclusion in the Summa was that "the value of economic goods is that which comes into human use and is measured by a monetary price, for which purpose money was invented." Particularly revealing was a reply Aquinas made as early as 1262 in a letter to Jacopo da Viterbo (d. 1308), a lector of the Dominican monastery in Florence and later archbishop of Naples. In his letter, Aquinas referred to the common market price as the normative and just price with which to compare other contracts. Moreover, in the Summa, Aquinas notes the influence of supply and demand on prices. A more abundant supply in one place will tend to lower price in that place, and vice versa. Furthermore, St. Thomas described without at all condemning the activities of merchants in making profits by buying goods where they were abundant and cheap, and then transporting and selling them in places where they are dear. None of this looks like a cost-of-production view of the just price.
Finally, and most charmingly and crucially, Aquinas, in his great Summa, raised a question that had been discussed by Cicero. A merchant is carrying grain to a famine-stricken area. He knows that soon other merchants are following him with many more supplies of grain. Is the merchant obliged to tell the starving citizenry of the supplies coming soon and thereby suffer a lower price, or is it all right for him to keep silent and reap the rewards of a high price? To Cicero, the merchant was duty-bound to disclose his information and sell at a lower price. But St. Thomas argued differently. Since the arrival of the later merchants was a future event and therefore uncertain, Aquinas declared justice did not require him to tell his customers about the impending arrival of his competitors. He could sell his own grain at the prevailing market price for that area, even though it was extremely high. Of course, Aquinas went on amiably, if the merchant wished to tell his customers anyway, that would be especially virtuous, but justice did not require him to do so. There is no starker example of Aquinas's opting for the just price as the current price, determined by demand and supply, rather than the cost of production (which of course did not change much from the area of abundance to the famine area).
A piece of indirect evidence is that Giles of Lessines (d. c.1304), a student of Albert and Aquinas and a Dominican professor of theology at Paris, analyzed the just price similarly, and flatly declared that it was the common market price. Giles stressed, furthermore, that a good is properly worth as much as it can be sold for without coercion or fraud.
It should come as no surprise that Aquinas, in contrast to Aristotle, was highly favorable towards the activities of the merchant. Mercantile profit, he declared, was a stipend for the merchant's labor, and a reward for shouldering the risks of transportation. In a commentary to Aristotle's Politics (1272), Aquinas noted shrewdly that greater risks in sea transportation resulted in greater profits for merchants. In his Commentary to the Sentences of Peter Lombard, written in the 1250s, Thomas followed preceding theologians in arguing that merchants could ply their trade without committing sin. But in his later work, he was far more positive, pointing out that merchants perform the important function of bringing goods from where they are abundant to where they are scarce.
Particularly important was Aquinas's brief outline of the mutual benefit each person derives from exchange. As he put it in the Summa: "buying and selling seems to have been instituted for the mutual advantage of both parties, since one needs something that belongs to the other, and conversely."
Building on Aristotle's theory of money, Aquinas pointed out its indispensability as a medium of exchange, a "measure" of expression of values, and a unit of account. In contrast to Aristotle, Aquinas was not frightened at the idea of the value of money fluctuating on the market. On the contrary, Aquinas recognized that the purchasing power of money was bound to fluctuate, and was content if it fluctuated, as it usually did, more stably than did particular prices."
It's where that virtue ethics of hers comes from. Of course, she didn't get Aquinas. If she did she would have hated him for being a 'collectivist.'
Wut I didn't know he wrote commentaries on Aristotle. Researching now it looks like he wrote zero on Plato? Why? Aristotle is "The Philosopher" and Plato is chopped liver – what is the meaning of this? Any idea, Rothblatt? Did he do it because it made it easier to control philosophy (the minds of the people) in the war between Reason and Revelation?
M.G. Zhang Says:
@Brett Stevens
I doubt very much you, by which I assume you meant the masses, will view Social Democracy with the disdain afforded National Socialism. Your Western Elite are quite stable in their position and solidifying their power at pace. As with our governing caste in China, you will find that the modern conception of the ruling ideology will simply take new shapes with old nomenclature. In China, Communism is a word describing our National Capitalism which is rapidly evolving into Colonial Mercantilism by way of our African projects. So too will your ruling class make Social Democracy into a term that describes International Capitalism and Soft Imperialism.
Power is being consolidated in the West. Ideologies are not being eroded or erased, but re-purposed for the task ahead: uniting the empire by way of sacrificing the universally hated white prole.
You would be noticeably happier if you ignored what the Guardian is doing.
At least put warning:Guardian tags on so I know not to waste my time.
nyuk… 🙂
Posted on April 11th, 2017 at 11:19 pm Reply | Quote
I think you're joined at the hip with a different female jew, but that's just me.
On another note, I'm watching Conan the Barbarian for the first time and am wondering–while looking at frogtwitter–if the phenomenon "Moldbug" would have happened if the Sovereign of California during the years of UR had been a mindbuilder instead of a bodybuilder. Makes you think.
Blogospheroid Reply:
By mind builder ,d o you mean an AI programmer?
No, does my brow look low to you? You guys should consider seeing Land as a priest promising you that Robo-Jesus is going to come someday and save you all from your sins.
An Fomoire Reply:
I for one welcome the coming of
sins.mult(0);
return Jesus;
Frank Reply:
That would be left-accelerationism. Land's prophesy is more like, "Robo-Anti-Christ is going to come someday, and put you all in a zoo, next to your cousins; and you'll be too dumb to understand the fact that you're a zoo animal, which is why you deserve it."
Posted on April 12th, 2017 at 5:27 am Reply | Quote
>(I'm qabbalistically joined at the hip with Ayn Rand, so objectivism on the topic is beyond my reach.)
It's an INTJ thing.
(yes, I'm aware INTJs don't believe in silly things like personality archetypes)
Nope, nor do INFJs (like Jung himself). Gay, gay, and gay. Folk psychology.
'I must create a folk psychology or be enslaved by another man's' – Curtis Yarvin
G. Eiríksson Says:
» The BBC made a 16-episode TV series in 1965 entitled Hereward the Wake, based on Kingsley's novel. Hereward was portrayed by actor Alfred Lynch. However, not one episode of this BBC series has survived, according to the archive records. »
Uriel Fiori Says:
the qabbalistic connection was rather fun to find out (a few months back). but what are your opinions on, generally, virtue ethics and Aristotle (which seem to be the guiding thread of Rand's Objectivism)? I had spotted similarities before, but this is more endorsement than I had previously expected.
@RG: or you can even call me simply GE, which stands for G (as in 'gee') and is my initialism (of Goth Ericsson).
To answer your q, I have read some of Land's essays in F.N.
If see anything you find salient, do post ad libitum.
I'm excited to read the book he's working on now, which contrary to popular opinion isn't on bitcoin, but is titled "How I Jewed the Alt-Right". Surely to make it to the New York Times bestseller list.
Pseudo-chrysostom Says:
Too bad 'individuals' are but contingent strata for beings so much greater at the limit anyways.
Racial Holy War is always the game of existence. Leftoid transhuman advocates are fain to imagine a 'post-categorization' future; such is a vain hope. Far from obviating 'noticing', the acceleration of techne will draw it out in stark relief, *intensify* the tendency; wondrous new tribal gods will join the fray, and as always, 'muh values' remains a contingency in the face of essential re-production and expansion of the race.
Like a fungus in macro, essentially self re-producing forms inevitably dominate their space, and come to infiltrate other spaces with other forms, that might lack the same ontological 'stickyness' it does. The form of race wins the Race. *Merely* memetically coordinated forms, inevitably replaced, even through memetic capture, even through completely honest fealty and conversion; such after all was the fate of Rome.
This plane is a war zone, and armies win wars.
Get some sun, you little wanker.
Pseudo-chrysostom Reply:
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Great information that the meetings are coming to Europe :) Is there any chance that one of them will be held closer to Poland ?


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Star-Crossed TV Show Review
Day by day, Netflix has been a growing obsession. I always look though my recommended section to discover the most popular and liked TV shows, and that's when Star-Crossed popped up as one of the options. Alien boy meets human girl? Been there, read that. I took this show as any reader would— so cliche and we've seen it before. Boy, was I wrong. Star-Crossed is a unique and elaborately put together TV show with a great story that will keep you on your feet. And no, this is not some cheesy alien TV show!
In this alien romance series, aliens are no longer trying to conquer Earth or take over the mind and body of the human race. The humans have started a program where they attempt to assimilate the alien race—the Atrians— into their society. I liked the concept and how the entire story revolved around them trying to build a world in which aliens and humans co-exist. It's all about the love!
Star-Crossed follows a group of aliens, called Atrians, that crash-land on Earth. 6-year-old Roman, the main alien, escapes when the humans come to hunt them down but hides in a young girl's shed because he is scared. When the young girl, Emery, finds him hiding out in the shed, she takes care of him by feeding him and giving him blankets. This illustrates the first time a human has ever showed kindness to an Atrian. The story continues on 10 years later when the government decides to start a program to integrate the aliens and the humans. Roman is put into a group called the Atrian Seven, who are somewhat like guinea pigs The two, Emery and Roman, meet again in high school and he thanks her for saving him all those years ago, but we all know where this leads.
Swoony Guys. The thing I look for most in the TV shows are swoony guys. It's imperative that if producers and directors want me watching their shows, they need to put hot and swoon-worthy guys into their shows, haha. So in Star-Crossed, there's these super hot and buff alien dudes that are from a different planet. Can if get anymore swoon-worthy than that? The main alien, Roman (such a swoon-worthy name), is like a walking, living god. Roman played by Matt Lanter.
An Internal Conflict Between the Same Race. There is some early conflict in the show, and not just between the humans and the Atrians. Although there are some issues with the humans, there are also inner-tribes in the alien race working against the integration of aliens and humans, and they're called the Trags. They will just do anything to make sure the human race suffers and that they get revenge. This aspect was so compelling throughout the show!
A stubborn and pretty heroine. Emery is our heroine, or main female protagonist. She's a stubborn tough, little cookie. She's super smart and drop-dead gorgeous, just really the perfect role to be matched up with Roman, the super hot alien. She is stubborn at times because she will do whatever it takes to protect her friends but that's a commendable trait. I actually liked her role in the movie!
Star-Crossed is not just some intergalactic space movie, it's a compelling science fiction, space TV show specifically geared for teenagers to enjoy something with a nice story and heart-breaking romance. But unfortunately, all good things must come to and end as Star-Crossed was canceled after its first season. Hey, don't leave! Just because it was cancelled doesn't mean it's a bad show and actually, it's better than some of the current shows on TV. Just give it a try and you'll see. Trust me as your TV councilor! It just arrived on Netflix and it's a show you won't want to miss!
For Fans of...
Alienated by Melissa Landers
The Host by Stephanie Meyer
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
I hope I have more time in the future to watch some more TV shows to review. I'll get back to you guys soon but in the meantime, enjoy Star-Crossed, my new Netflix obsession.
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MGM Home Entertainment will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the United Artists studio with an 18-month worldwide catalog promotion that kicks off next month.
MGM will release at least two collector's or special-edition DVD titles each quarter, along with anniversary-branded gift sets in commemorative packaging, through March 2009. In addition, each quarter will focus on a particular aspect of UA's filmmaking history to honor the films, directors, actors and music that represent the studio's heritage.
To launch the promotion, MGM on Dec. 11 will release the "United Artists 90th Anniversary Prestige Collection Gift Set," consisting of 90 classic UA films, including eight that won best picture Oscars: "Marty," "The Apartment," "In the Heat of the Night," "Annie Hall," "Rocky," "Rain Man," "West Side Story" and "Midnight Cowboy." The set, housed in a Plexiglas case, will sell for $869.98, making it one of the most expensive gift sets ever.
Also out Dec. 11 is a three-title "Essential Collection" gift set.
The fourth quarter also will see the release of "Rocky: The Complete Saga," with all six films in the franchise; the 21-title "James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set"; and a 30th anniversary edition of "New York, New York."
MGM also has released a three-volume "Best of United Artists" collection, with each volume containing four films as well as two movie tickets for the theatrical release of the new UA's first film, "Lions for Lambs," directed by Robert Redford and starring Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise.
"We are very respectful of the United Artists tradition and look forward to continuing the studio's rich creative legacy," UA CEO Paula Wagner said. " 'Lions for Lambs' is the first in a wide range of films that will revitalize UA and enable the next generation of filmmakers to thrive and see their visions realized."
"The rebirth of UA spurred the greater MGM family to look at the breadth of films and the tremendous legacy of the studio," MGM COO Rick Sands said. "Our home entertainment group at 20th Century Fox saw this as an opportunity to bring back to the consumer consciousness the impact that this library has had on pop culture, entertainment and the artistry of filmmaking."
MGM is spending $20 million in marketing, promotions, publicity and advertising to fuel what it is calling the largest catalog event in home entertainment history. Highlights include partnerships with Panasonic Consumer Electronics and the American Film Institute.
Panasonic will cross-promote the UA anniversary with its own in a yearlong partnership that includes a national sweepstakes and joint retail and marketing efforts focused on Panasonic Blu-ray products.
The AFM promotion includes the fourth-quarter 2007 launch of more than 50 UA films previously honored by the film advocacy group in its "AFI's 100 Years … 100 Movies" series, branded accordingly.
"The 90th anniversary campaign is designed to provide retailers around the world with all of the tools necessary to take part in this extraordinary celebration," said Eric Doctorow, worldwide general manager of MGM Home Entertainment.
Upcoming UA 90th anniversary DVD titles to be released in 2008 include anniversary editions of such classic UA titles as "In the Heat of the Night" (40th), "Last Tango in Paris" (35th), "Rain Man" (20th), "La Cage aux Folles" (30th), "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (30th) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (40th).


English Abstract: Agent are active computational entities situated in complex environments, where they utilize available resources to undertake assigned tasks. In simple cases, individual agents are capable enough to implement very meaningful applications. However, to fully exploit agents' potentiality (especially in a distributed, autonomous, and open environment), we need group of agents which could coordiante their behaviors and be functioning together. Almost all the coordination and cooperation activities amongst agents involve, in one way or another, the agents' ability to communicate in speech-act languages. Speech-act communication is playing the role amongst agents what human speech is playing amongst a group of people. This thesis is a study of multi-agent system from the very perspective of speech-act communication. As the communicative aspect of agents is the focus of our work, the other aspects of agents are necessarily treated as of lesser importance. So, the multi-agent systems under study by us are also called agent communication systems. As a broad outline, we can say our work on agent communication systems is carried on in the following five respects. 1. We introduce a semantics framework based on conversational observer's mental state four understanding and designing speech-act languages, and have used the framework to give an operational semantics for a light-weight exemplar speech-act language, SAIL. 2. We make it clear that, just as there are some inherent structural principle underlying human conversation, agent communication should as well abide by some structurzation rules. Among these rules are, the turns-taking system of a conversation, the nested occurrences of topics, and the protocols regulating communicative behaviors within a topic. All these and some other things around conversation collectively comprise what we called ARC Model for agent communication. 3. Agent systems (esp. large-scale multi-agent systems) usually have very complex organizational relationships within. To structure these relationships, we propose a flexible and scalable construct, scope, as the basic organizational unit for agent communication systems. Scope can not only organize a collection of roles around an agent, it also organize a group of agents within an organization, which may function just like an agent by participating in conversations. Scopes, organizations, agents and roles collectively comprise what we called Organizational Scope Theory. 4. To support the development of agent communication systems based on ARC Model and Organizational Scope Theory, we need a modeling language tailored specifically for the specification of agent communication system. As a result, in this thesis, we have designed the ASML language to fulfill this requirement. 5. The development of agent communication system faces many methodological challenges, especially in the aspect of dynamic system communicative behavior. To alleviate the situation, we develop a suite of methods for analyzing, designing, and verifying communicative behavior within an agent communication system. These methods help us to extract conversation structure from example conversation scenario, help us to check the semantic validity of the communicative act (i.e. Speech-act) occurring the scenario, and help us to verify that different implementation strategies adopted by different agents indeed conform to the protocols they need to comply with. As a whole, our work has followed a software engineering approach to investigating agent systems. Therefore, as a conclusion of our work, we finally apply our languages, models and methods to the analysis and design of a realistic distributed application system. The outcome of the analysis and design is evaluated, and our methods are also compared o many other methods coming from both traditional software engineering field and from the emergent agent-based software engineering field, illustrating their relative merits and drawbacks, and pointing the directions for the future improvement.
王栩. Agent系统通讯理论及组织结构的研究[D]. 中国科学院软件研究所. 中国科学院软件研究所. 2000-01-01.


Great post, Bobby! He really should put his book out as an eBook now. I bet many people would love to revisit it in light of all going on now.
Gentlemen, thank you both so very much for reading and responding. This one means a lot to me. I'm most grateful.
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Q: A poker hand contains five cards. Find the probability that a poker hand can be.... a) Four of a kind (Contains four cards of equal face value)
So for this one, we want four cards that have the same face value, different suit. And the last card can be any remaining card.
There are 13 ranks, (A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K). We have $\binom{13}{1}$ ways to pick 1 rank out of 13. For each of these ranks, we want to pick 4 cards that are all the same rank (and it is forcefully implied that these 4 cards will differ in suits). So $\binom{13}{1}\binom{4}{4}$, and for each of these ways, we have $\binom{48}{1}$ way to pick 1 card out of the remaining deck of 48 cards, because we picked 4 cards already. Thus, $$\frac{\binom{13}{1}\binom{4}{4}\binom{48}{1}}{\binom{52}{5}}$$ is the total number of ways.
b) Full House (Three cards of equal face value, and two others of equal face value). So i.e: 3, 3, 3, 2, 2 would be a full house where the three 3's and two 2's are distinguishable (different suit).
So there are 13 ranks again, $\binom{13}{1}$ ways to pick 1 rank out of 13 total. For each of these ways, we want to pick three cards of the same rank. So $\binom{13}{1}\binom{4}{3}$. Now we want two more cards that are of equal face value that differ from the other three cards picked earlier, so there are 12 ranks left, and $\binom{12}{1}$ ways to pick 1 rank out of 12 remaining. For each of these ways, we have $\binom{4}{2}$ ways to pick 2 cards out of the 4 suits belonging to the same rank, thus $\binom{12}{1}\binom{4}{2}$. The total number of ways is: $$\frac{\binom{13}{1}\binom{4}{3}\binom{12}{1}\binom{4}{2}}{\binom{52}{5}}$$
c) Three of a kind. (Three cards of equal face value, and two cards with face values that differ from each other and the other three).
13 ranks, we want to pick 3 cards of the same rank. $\binom{13}{1}\binom{4}{3}$. Now we want two cards that have different face values from the three picked, and each other. Now here is where I'm a bit confused, the ranks MUST be different, but the suits can be the same. So proceeding, $\binom{12}{1} \binom{4}{1}$ to pick 1 card of a different face value, but could be same suit, and then $\binom{11}{1}\binom{4}{1}$ to pick another card with a different face value, but could be a different suit. Multiply these altogether and divide by the denominator, and we have our total ways.
Is my work correct?

A: You correctly calculated the probabilities of four of a kind and a full house, not the total number of ways.  The number of ways these hands can be obtained is given by the numerators of your probabilities.

What is the probability of three of a kind?

As you know, there are $\binom{52}{5}$ possible five-card hands that can be drawn from a standard deck.
However, your count of the favorable cases is not quite right.  There are $\binom{13}{1}$ ways to choose the rank from which three cards are drawn and $\binom{4}{3}$ ways to select cards of that rank, as you found.  The remaining two cards must come from different ranks.  There are $\binom{12}{2}$ ways to select two ranks from which one card is drawn and $\binom{4}{1}$ ways to choose one card from each of the two ranks.  Hence, the number of favorable cases is
$$\binom{13}{1}\binom{4}{3}\binom{12}{2}\binom{4}{1}^2$$
Therefore, the probability of three of a kind is
$$\frac{\dbinom{13}{1}\dbinom{4}{3}\dbinom{12}{2}\dbinom{4}{1}^2}{\dbinom{52}{5}}$$
What was your mistake?
You count each hand twice since the order in which the singletons are selected does not matter.  For instance, if the hand is $\color{red}{5\heartsuit}, \color{red}{5\diamondsuit}, 5\spadesuit, 7\clubsuit, \color{red}{10\diamondsuit}$, you count it once when you select $7\clubsuit$ as the card you are drawing from the remaining $12$ ranks in the deck and $\color{red}{10\diamondsuit}$ as the card you are drawing from the remaining $11$ ranks in the deck and once when you select $\color{red}{10\diamondsuit}$ as the card you are drawing from the remaining $12$ ranks in the deck and $7\clubsuit$ as the card you are drawing from the remaining $11$ ranks in the deck.  However, both selections result in the same hand.  Therefore, you need to divide your answer by $2$.  Notice that
$$\frac{1}{2}\binom{13}{1}\binom{4}{3}\binom{12}{1}\binom{4}{1}\binom{11}{1}\binom{11}{1}\binom{4}{1} = \binom{13}{1}\binom{4}{3}\binom{12}{2}\binom{4}{1}^2$$


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Childline volunteer from Great Barr called by thousands of anxious kids during Covid
Neil Homer has been a volunteer counsellor for distressed children for more than 10 years.
Kirsty CardCommunity Reporter
A volunteer counsellor for distressed children has given an insight into the busiest time in his 11 years of work with the NSPCC.
Neil Homer, from Great Barr, claims this year has been the busiest with calls coming in from thousands of anxious children since he joined in 2009.
Neil Homer has been volunteering to help children for over a decade.
He said: "The pandemic has put a massive strain on the service. We have been no different to the rest of the public, we've had staff who have to take time off and self-isolate too.
"During lockdown at one point we were running on about 25% of our usual volunteers so I started volunteering on Saturdays as well to help.
"I started volunteering for the NSPCC back in 2009, my wife said that she felt like we should start giving back and I wanted something that would challenge me so I decided to do something working with children.
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"This year we've had so many children calling us with concerns about their exams and what their life will be like after Covid.
"There seems to be a lot of anxiety about school as home working hasn't worked for everyone and they're feeling far behind."
"The children who call us are also worried about social isolation and being isolated with people who make them feel unsafe, whether that be from a direct family member or extended family.
"We've also had a lot of calls in relation to online bullying which wasn't really an issue when I first started volunteering.
30% of children calling the NSPCC during the pandemic have struggled with anxiety. (Image: Pixabay)
"Before social media, if you were being bullied at school you'd know that once you leave at the end of the day they're gone for the night and you won't have to deal with it at home but now it's like there's no escape."
Between April and September 2020, Childline delivered 37,168 counselling sessions with children and young people about mental and emotional health - with 30% of the children seeking help for anxiety.
Children talked about feeling 'trapped' and 'overwhelmed', as well as being worried about their school work and their parent's jobs.
The change in daily routines, being isolated at home and the removal of professional support from schools caused worry and anxiety in young people – particularly those who were already coping with many other issues in their lives.
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Young people shared family relationship issues, as the pandemic forced families to spend more time together at home and for some this caused or increased tensions and family conflict.
This has led to an average monthly number of referrals of 307 since the start of the first lockdown compared to 168 prior to lockdown in the West Midlands this year. In the eight months since the start of lockdown there have been 2,458 referrals made in the region about child abuse.
In June 2020, it was reported that nearly 40 referrals have been made every week of lockdown from the helpline to authorities in the Midlands about the impact of domestic abuse on children - which is the highest number of referrals on record.
Those finding home life difficult talked about how hard it was for them not being able to escape from family members.
While Neil has been working hard to support children during a year that has been challenging for everyone's mental health, he naturally had to take care of his own.
The counsellor works as a BT engineer for his day-job and tries his best to make sure he doesn't let distressing calls stick with him.
He added: "I try not to let any of these calls stick with me, which was hard at first but as time has gone on I've become more desensitized to it.
"As long as I sign off from that call knowing I have done what I can for that child to keep them safe and get them the help they need then I have done my part."
Children who are in need of support can call Childline anonymously via 0800 1111 or use the online chat.