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How the Military Is Altering the Limits of Human Performance
- girvo 9y agoIt's interesting, in that it seems they're trying to undo the pain that catering to the "average" person can create. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
- ruytlm 9y agoIt will be interesting to follow this over the next few years. Personally, I think the sorts of predictive analysis used in this article should learn from the predictive faults being encountered in web platforms/services. There's a front page post right now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752392) about the 'mom' problem with Facebook's algorithms. How many of these kinds of problems will we find lurking in the performance/behaviour prediction being discussed here? Forecasts and predictions do not happen in isolation, and can themselves be responsible for changing or directing behaviour.