{"id":11351,"date":"2012-07-19T21:46:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T21:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=11351"},"modified":"2012-07-19T22:04:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T22:04:18","slug":"look-im-sorry-to-be-so-blunt-i-modeling-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=11351","title":{"rendered":"Look, I&#8217;m sorry to be so blunt &#8212; I: modeling ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a stray thought, endlessly ricocheting &#8212; with a friendly wink to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khanserai\">@khanserai<\/a> ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_11360\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearfuse.com\/3d-chessboard-places-king-at-the-peak\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11360\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/3D-Chess-Board.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"3D-Chess-Board\" width=\"580\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/3D-Chess-Board.jpg 580w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/3D-Chess-Board-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">chessboard by  Ji Lee<\/p><\/div>.<br \/>\nBack in 2006 the US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/htdocs\/pdf\/NSCT0906.pdf\">National Strategy for Combating Terrorism<\/a> suggested:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the long run, winning the War on Terror means winning the battle of ideas. Ideas can transform the embittered and disillusioned either into murderers willing to kill innocents, or into free peoples living harmoniously in a diverse society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So. More than five years have passed.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I&#8217;m sorry to be so blunt&#8230; but how good are we now at modeling, simulating and \/ or gaming ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a stray thought, endlessly ricocheting &#8212; with a friendly wink to @khanserai ] . . Back in 2006 the US National Strategy for Combating Terrorism suggested: In the long run, winning the War on Terror means winning the battle of ideas. Ideas can transform the embittered and disillusioned either into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,24,529,462,706,743,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-cognition","category-games","category-metacognition","category-model","category-simulation","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11351"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11363,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions\/11363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}