House of Paine

gilder update

eve here
   this  post
       is  that rarest of rare bits
     a   pinky speedo scopic wire 
( yes for this 
he insists
his summer silence 
          must be broken )


 the great paddle wheeler
          the uss Gilder is back 
                              at full steam !!!!!!



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back ground:


" By the mid-'90s, Gilder
 was confidently touting
 ''telecosm" 
(the convergence of 
communications systems and computers)
 as the next big thing 
-- and making a fortune giving speeches
 and investment tips

 Telecom stocks soared
 whenever Gilder flashed them a thumbs-up
 a market phenomenon that became known as
 the Gilder Effect

 He was earning $100,000 a speech
 and his company was being groomed
 for a $200 million public offering

 Then the roof caved in
 as hundreds of telecom companies 
went bust overnight"




   moment of truth:



 "''Most subscribers came in 
at the top of the market," 
    Gilder recalls
   of those dark days,
 when even his chief financial officer
 filed a lawsuit against him.
 ''So the modal experience 
of the Gilder Technology Newsletter
 subscriber was to lose virtually all 
of his money. 
That stigma has been very hard to overcome."


after world:

" here's an example
  of  the hole he dug himself:
 one ex-business partner 
slapped a lien on Gilder's property,
 Gilder was forced to pay 
$10,000 a month or lose it
 He'll be working off the debt
 for another 17 years
   or so he calculates"


but but but...

here it comes the manic up tic ......

" two primary influences came together
   to form 
      Gilder's new epiphany intelligent design "

"One was the work of Claude E. Shannon
 which Gilder discovered 
through his interest in the science
 behind the computer chip
the other.....the complexity 
of the   living cell   "


what got this going in gilders brain ?

 
"The more the inner workings of the cell
 are understood,
  the more Shannon's theory is useful
 in deconstructing life itself."

 and ?

"Given the cell's complexity 
and capacity for information exchange
  it seems improbable
 that life could have evolved.... haphazardly"

 but no yahoo he 

" It's not that Darwin is wrong
   or irrelevant
  or that processes 
  like genetic mutation 
and natural selection 
  play no role 
in how species evolve"

then what?
   
"well simply
  as real as  these processes are
they cannot explain 
everything that biologists ascribe to them"


 Ergo

" some form of higher intelligence

 -- call it God the  Supreme Programmer
                    or whatever --

  
 must have played .....
                            the decisive role  "


he dilates:



''Physics and chemistry alone 
cannot account for the complexity 
of the genome," 

 ''It's like trying to understand
 how basketball is played 
by studying the rules. 
There's far more to the game than that."



 is this 
the  old story here?


  guy finds out 
         god is  behind it all
  after huge highly public
            personal financial  crash?


 no no no no nooooooooooooo !!!!!!!




''The analogy between Shannon 
and codes in biology 
isn't something that sprang 
 from my belief in God
any more then my belief in God
sprang from my ap-pre-hension 
               of life's micro-complexity," 


 " 
Information theory and Christianity
 are  not  deeply entwined for me ....." 

" except maybe on some deeper 
or more transcendent level." 

"Using Darwin to explain how life began,
isn't even remotely feasible 
in information-theoretic terms
 Something else has to be posited
 What that additional factor is
 how this intelligence emerges
 in the universe
, I don't know 
 and isn't for me to say.
 But nobody else does, either."



 a further fill in:


"Gilder is also cofounder
 of the Discovery Institute,
 a Seattle-based think tank 
  established in 1991".

" The institute,
 which promotes 
a conservative
 public-policy agenda, 
has occupied a lead role 
in the ID movement recently...
   The institute is headed by Bruce Chapman
 Gilder's former college roommate
 coauthor
 and Reagan White House colleague"



 sudden dead line pending 
wrap up :


" is there a unified field theory 
to Gilder's work? 
Some thread that connects his interest 
in everything from supply-side economics 
to stay-at-home moms? 
Yes There is."

''Much of what I've written about
 has been in reaction 
to the materialist superstition," 

 ''the belief that the universe 
is a purely material phenomenon 
that can be reduced to physical and chemical laws.
 It's a concept that's infected
      the social sciences too
                    and it's preposterous."


                  bishop B 
                            meet george G