syncronicities

[peterpancreas]

1)my aunt wrote last nights episode of numb3rs. in it, there's an iteration of the prisoner's dilemma. this is where two parties are trying to reach a common goal but if one party uses the other without being used they get a bigger prize. anyway, i had just read a great account of this and its application to evolution and biology in "the selfish

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Coincidence?

[anonymous]

Jeffrey Skilling, the mastermind of Enron's massive fraud, was a huge fan of Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene.

Re: Coincidence?

[peterpancreas]

yeah, I heard about that. Dawkins' said that he completely misunderstood what his book was purporting and was ashamed to have such a horrible and deluded fan of his book.