[samtheman]

That’s an interesting conclusion to the landscape problem — that it means we can’t predict the future.

Are you the first to connect the landscape problem with the idea of predicting the future?

Are you a mathematician or physicist? (Not that it matters, just curious.)

Anyway, interesting conclusion you’ve got there. I never thought of it that way.

[muawiyah]

Spent a long, long time on a math major ~ and decided there were other opportunities for higher income ~ and ended up spending about 30 years writing regulations and handbooks for USPS.

The same problems occur there that occur with math of any kind. You can say just anything you want, but that doesn't matter ~ rather, does the guy on the other end understand those words in some manner ~ and how will he react.

A finely crafted regulation put together just so and accurately describing every act that does or can occur within its scope of authority can be ignored by the smartest guy in the world ~ and no one will notice.

That's another way of saying the predictive value of regulatory excess is ZERO!