Originally posted by operation mindcrime


Thanks for that short summery of Eco's story.....

reading peoples "body language" over the internet would be best explained as looking at the amount of emotion they put into their words (subconsiously) and what they really mean instead of what they are saying, right??

hey, i don't know if i'm even right....


i just deducing that all the abstract data that eco says is being quantified and then 'measured', is similar to the contact a psychic or intuitive 'takes in'/'reads' about the person they are consulting with,,,,

& body language and dozens of other abstract & intangible inputs are made consciously & subconsciously by the psychic, or tarot reader, or the medium, remote viewer, etc etc etc

so as to get a better depth of the person and the most likely & correct interpetation of the energies


but, yes... i think that the a persons precognitive abilities plays into the outcome, sometimes real obviously and most often in very subtile ways that color or characterize their speech & how/what they say.


hey we're both trying to get schooled on the web-bot


ADD: too bad i tried answering your post before i scrolled down to read several very clear posts on web-bot, esp. the computerwiz whom i gave a star. Yep...the webbot project is still in diapers and will refine its input data better in some future...attempting to quantify the immeasurable trying to measure the ephemeral & the human spirit just isn't logical yet

[edit on 4-10-2009 by St Udio]

No hard evidence here. Just an anecdotal story. Sorry..

What WOULD be "hard evidence"?
In the eyes of those who are supposed to provide it, there is no such thing - unless it suits their predetermined desired outcome.
(THEY call it "objectivity"; in reality, it's the opposite: die-hard subjectivity.
But that's a long and tedious story, all too familiar to many here.)

And I am sorry, too: for you, for your brother.
I wish you could have experienced precognition in much more pleasant circumstances.

Predicting October as a bad month for stocks is akin to predicting Christmas will be sometime at the end of December.

Webbott = a joke. A bad joke at that.

Clif High and his team have been "refining" his linguistics program for over a decade. Yes, I have researched it thoroughly.

In my opinion, it's a sexy idea from a programmers standpoint but I'm afraid it falls flat for accuracy.

Why do you think he lowered his subscription from $700 for an ALTA report to $10 !!!

His days are numbered. So is web-bot. I predict he will lose 100% cred when Oct comes to pass without a whimper. In fact I'll be so bold to predict a 1% increase in markets worldwide on Monday the 26th of October.

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[edit on 4-10-2009 by venividivici]

Originally posted by venividivici
Clif High and his team have been "refining" his linguistics program for over a decade. Yes, I have researched it thoroughly.

Good! So, can I have your opinion, too, regarding the validity of the data, considering that barely 1/4 of the world's population has access to the internet, never mind the time to chit-chat on various forums all day long?
(N.B. This is NOT a stab at ATS. )

It may sound stupid or whatever to you (I am not saying it does), but to me it sounds perfectly valid.






[edit on 4-10-2009 by Vanitas]

Originally posted by Vanitas

Originally posted by venividivici
Clif High and his team have been "refining" his linguistics program for over a decade. Yes, I have researched it thoroughly.

Good! So, can I have your opinion, too, regarding the validity of the data, considering that barely 1/4 of the world's population has access to the internet, never mind the time to chit-chat on various forums all day long?
(N.B. This is NOT a stab at ATS. )

It may sound stupid or whatever to you (I am not saying it does), but to me it sounds perfectly valid.







[edit on 4-10-2009 by Vanitas]

I guess its like a scientific survey. You don't need to poll the entire earth. You can extrapolate from the data to derive and answer.
Sorry I can't be more helpful. By the way, according to an interview given last year. Clif avoids data from the USA becuase it is too emotionally charged . I found that to be interesting.

I don't know about web bot... I mean yeah it is much better to hear of something/know about it possibly happening than not to hear of it at all. But to try and figure out what is truly going to happen can cause confusion, and I sure as hell know people around here on ATS are a bit confused, almost all the time. We all are at certain times, simply because all of the bullsh*t that we have been hearing about at the G20 summit, everything that's in the news (and not in the news), and there's been much talk about the USD falling to pieces sooner than later for a while now.

So yeah people, be prepared for the long hall, so in short term if something happens you're already ready for whatever comes your way. But this doesn't mean make an underground bunker and to wear a tinfoil hat

To me, the webbot is a bit like a sophisticated computer based Tarot deck.
By itself, it doesn't predict anything. In the hands of a Reader who is
influenced by??? it can be impressive. I have opinions about what the
influence is and want no part of it. Still, its intriguing to hear.

Anyway, the people who go over the data may be as important as the webbot
program. I haven't seen any evidence that it is any more accurate than
other Psychics. There are some famous hits. There also are 'sort of' hits
that take a bit of stretch. That's about what you get with psychics.


Likely the source is the same.

like a search engine spider. If I were Cliff I wouldn't have made that comparison because it just confuses the hell out of people.

What passes for standard programming in the business world, the web and so on is nothing like the coding performed in AI projects. We don't even use the same programming languages.

Mathematical probabilities? Please.

Its a waste of time to try and enlighten people on this subject, clearly. It really is too bad Cliff has made the effort to put things into terms people will understand because it just leads to more misunderstanding.

Originally posted by ecoparity
like a search engine spider. If I were Cliff I wouldn't have made that comparison because it just confuses the hell out of people.

What passes for standard programming in the business world, the web and so on is nothing like the coding performed in AI projects. We don't even use the same programming languages.

Mathematical probabilities? Please.

Its a waste of time to try and enlighten people on this subject, clearly. It really is too bad Cliff has made the effort to put things into terms people will understand because it just leads to more misunderstanding.

Clif should make it OPEN SOURCE and share it with others who wish to help humanity.

Perhaps then he wouldn't have to spend so much time talking about how by the end of the Summer of Hell we'll have sporadic Internet and food rioting by the people living in the malls. He can share that load with others.

Maybe he won't have to keep changing his stories? How does an earthquake destined to kill and destroy become "the Madoff scandal"? Well... because no earthquake happened and the Madoff scandal broke. So ya gotta go with what really happens and say you predicted it. That's what a good medium does.

All of our favorite economic prophets called for a meltdown after the end of the fiscal year a year ago. So when the web bots jumped on it I wasn't surprised at all. Even FOX dedicated a show called "Obama's doom and gloom" because he and his associates predicted problems while McCain and Bush kept saying the economy was sound.*

*I'm sure they don't plan on repeating that episode. Only Peter Schiff (who was not an Obama supporter) said that Obama was correct. Bad times WERE coming.

While Governor Arnold made his goofy remarks about "economic girly men" at the Republican convention, I (and anyone with a brain) knew what was coming by early Oct. '08. All it takes is some surfing and paying attention. This is what Clif tries to do.

However, when he goes off on a real prediction such as politicians vanishing between steps into another dimension, or two guys on the run with secret technology, or 15% of the populace being revealed as part alien, or the MSM realizing they've just interviewed someone who is not human after reviewing the tape... NONE of that is real. It's science fiction from Clif to keep you interested.

He has to mix in something strange ala' Art Bell or we wouldn't care. Everyone already knows about the economy failing, banks closing, people angry, Israel pushing for more war, etc.

How can you take Clif seriously when he tells you Israel will begin its attack around Oct. 25, bomb something sending a cloud in the air that circles the globe EXACTLY nine time, kills scores of people, and eventually leads to the destruction of Israel and the USA military ONLY TO TOTALLY CHANGE HIS STORY when we get close to the date to become "bank shutdowns on the 25th"?

Obviously he (like most of us) have heard that the Israeli's have to wait a bit longer as Iran has invited IAEA to check them out on that date. So what to do? Just change it to the thing that IS going on at the moment; bank failures and economic problems by the end of October. Something everyone knows is true. People will forget the months of b.s. afterward and claim he's had another hit.

Those two things are not even close to the same thing, but web-bot-aholics will say they are. All from a man none of them have ever seen or really know anything about. A secretive guru. Isn't that called a cult?

one way or another, *someone* in the thread will have some accounting to do on the 25th . . . just a matter of who gets ATS bragging rights that day

has anyone kept track of the bot predictions and be willing to post them in this thread? if so, i think many people would be up for reading them and making up their own minds. it would be interesting data to look at. while i wouldn't be surprised if we're all psychic on some level and *somehow* you can tap into it and make sense of the mess, the way the bot 'makes sense' of the noise leaves a lot to be desired (if it works at all). data you can't interpret is pretty much useless at best and dangerous at worst.

the predictions that stick out in my head are the ones mentioned here already . . . summer from hell, vanishing politicians, alien tech on the run, election results being 'on hold' for months . . . etc, etc, etc . . . things that just NEVER came to be. those wild predictions have definitely shaped my largely negative views on the bot, i can't lie about that. is the data truly that ambiguous, or are the bot gentlemen just being sensationalisitc?

either way is bad.

but then again . . . while many people were in fact predicting the market to dump last year, i don't recall anyone but bot predicting a date, and bot WAS remarkably accurate on that front.

so, given that i look for at least a major correction or even a new major leg down in the market anyway, i'll take out a block of FAZ on friday before closing bell or in the aftermarket just to make it interesting.

i'll wager a bit of dough on the bot's timing