Originally posted by Revolution-2012
We are humans, and we are all capable of critical thinking, however, it's things like this that keep us far away from that desire.

Agreed. However, there are strategies that trump condemnation as tools of influence...

I have to agree with the OP that the "Web-Bot" is a crock. I think it has some potential. It might some day be able to make predictions. But right now it just isn't intelligent enough to do it.

This bot goes through various sites and newsgroups (and other sources, I guess), looking for various information. It compiles this information. Then a human has to interpret the information. So what you wind up with is a mass of vague text that gets interpreted by a huam being. That produces vague generalized predictions that are usually either completely incorrect, or just too vague to call it a hit.

I have seen a few posts where the Web-Bot supposedly made a prediction that came true. Assuming that's true, you have to ask how many other predictions did it also make, that turned out to be completely untrue? For all we know, the bot has hundreds of misses, for every hit. No one is going to post the misses, but without them posting the hits is useless.

I would love to see an experiment done, where there are two programs. One is like the Web-Bot, and the other just creates random packages of information that looks like what the Web-Bot creates. Then compare whether the bot does any better than pure chance. You'd probably have to have a human interpret both sets of data. I'd guess that you wouldn't find a whole lot of difference in the number of hits between them.

BTW, "Web-Bot" is kind of a bad name for this program. "Web-Bot" is a generic name for any program that moves around the Internet, gathering data. Sometimes these Web-Bots are called "spiders", because they creep along the web. Google's search program is a Web-Bot.

I'm glad people are starting to realize that the Webbot is a bunch of wubbish.

But I'm sure there will still be the ye ole faithful who will hunt like Elmer Fudd and never give up...shh! Be vewy, vewy quiet, me hunting wubbish, he-he-he-he...

I was never big into the Web Bot thing to begin with, but did find it entertaining when I first learned of it. Which was about 6 months ago, or however long ago it was when it made it's last big predictions. I'm referring to the time when they released 4 parts and with held the 5th or something like that. THAT is what made me laugh and realize this was all a huge scam.

Why come out and tell everyone 4 parts to something, then say, "well we can't release the 5th part (unless you pay) because it's just that bad". "It's just to awful, and we don't know if we should release it or not". But if you went and purchased it you could get it.

That's how they marketed it. He said, that it would be the last time he reported anything from the web bot. He talked about closing it down and moving out of the country. Remember that?

By releasing 4 parts that were all bad gets them publicity. Then by saying the 5th part is just to awful is the marketing involved to get you hyped up to buy it. Of course him throwing in that part about this being the last time and him moving out of the country was suppose to be the "big" deal closer.

Now folks, honestly, if you had technology that actually could tell you what was truly going to happen in the future, even if it was a guess or high probablity, would you charge for it? Or delay getting that info out to people?

As a fellow human who cares about other fellow humans I would tell the world so they could prepare. I wouldn't charge for this info, nor would I delay getting this info out just for the sake of being able to get booked on radio or talk shows. I would want to save the planet.

So, the only reason for someone to delay this info, rather true or not, is for one reason and one reason only: Personal Gain. In it for the money. And there is nothing wrong with that. However you chose to make a living is your business and good luck with it. Just realize that when it comes to that, that person is going to have to keep pumping info out in order to make it. If your in the candy business, your going to have to sell more candy to survive. This is the "future predicting" business, so your going to have to predict things more and more often, if not, who's going to buy your prediction's if you have none to predict? So, to sell more predictions, you have to "make up" more predictions. Then when only 10% come true, well, sound's like it's time to get into another business because the jig is up.

I, personally KNOW, deep down inside there is nothing that exist to predict the future. Least not on this planet we live on. Even if something did, it still cannot be accurate enough to predict any event. Think about how many things that can happen to prevent the prediction.

So in order for something to predict a single event, such as a nuclear device going off, it can't just predict that. It has to also predict everything else. All the time we hear such a prediction and only think about the event itself. That would be, simply A bomb going off 2 years from now. Ok, but that's just the explosion. What about the other things involved? What if that person can't detonate said bomb? What if someone does something to him? Or someone does something to something else? And so on and so on. It's not just the explosion to take in consideration, but you'd have to be able to backtrack and predict ALL other incidients that could occur to prevent the original prediction. Everything would have to line up and be in place all at once. Meaning anything could stop the original prediction. So a further anylsis would be required to predict all the other pieces involved to the larger prediction puzzle.

So if the prediction device doesn't predict everything and only data mines one incident than it's not actually predicting anything and everything. All it takes is for one other incident not predicted to step in and defeat it's SOLE prediction.

What I'm saying is this: Lets say a prediction states that a bomb will go off in a specific city. Ok, if it can predict that, than it can also predict WHO is going to set that bomb off. WHAT time of day it will go off to the second. WHERE that bomb will be. And so on and so on.

But it doesn't stop there. The prediction device would also have to predict everything that person that is going to set the bomb off would be doing. All the way to the point of detonation. It would also have to take into account what if someone on a bicycle just happens to hit that person right before he pushes a detonator. Then it would have to predict everything that person did before he wound up where he did on that bike. Then all the people in that person's life to where he got to that point. Then all those people and so on and so on.

If that device cannot predict ANY of that, than what good is it? How can we honestly call something like that reliable?

And why doesn't it predict GOOD THINGS? Can it predict a cure for aids? Cancer? The next 20 people to become millionaires? Why don't we ever hear GOOD NEWS from the web bot? WHy? Because BAD NEWS/SCARY NEWS sells. And sell's is what this is all about in the end. There always has to be an ends to the means. MONEY.

No such device is possible. The only thing you can do, and should do, is have a great perspective of the future. Always be prepared for what can happen. You don't have to know it. Every man and woman who is walking this earth and has ever walked this earth has never known the future, and doesn't need to. Our lives unfold before our eyes. Let nature takes it's course. Everyone knows messing with nature is a no no.

So, live everyday like it's your last, but it never hurts to be prepared. But after all, being prepared isn't living. It's just a precaution. Live and learn to excel. You start trying to live and know and a part of you dies. We were never meant to only live and know, but live and learn. Everyday teaches us something new. Always learn.