There have been 2 debates running through the free pages. One of them is the last stand of the literate ploppies and progressionists, while the other is hackers versus the clones.
The failure of the clones is a classic in the study of assymetrical game theory responses. I thought of first making this post after going over a post below on where I noted that we are not battling the casinos actually run often by the same superstitious "casino ploppies" that they always have been, but battling acedemic consultants. The winning player is the hacker, not waiting for the disaplined writeup and precise standard english to educate ourselves and our fellow advantage players.
The hacker's is the type of mindset that trys new plays and is willing to push the codes to the limit of the hardware, without waiting to always document his solutions, or make them structured. The hacker is the one constantly modifying the methods of attack faster than the consultants can.
The consulstants SHOULD be the ones limited in trying to sell their counter-measures to the casinos, always needing to keep their shirts pressed and sytax sharpened to the glow of the otherwise useless schoolmarm english teacher. They are selling to a skeptical market that is much the same as that that would not trust a PC until one came with the IBM label on it (never mind that it turned out that it was the software stupid!).
The Clones acted not in terms of exploiting this flexability, but in terms of strangely emulating the consultants because they had impressive and easy to understand explanations (often barely pushing understanding) and were actually throwing away that flexability edge. The clones self-censored themselves, not properly weighting the edge they had versus their gratitude in having things well explained, until those things explained began to pale beside the newer discoveries of other advantage plays that changed too fast to often fully explain.
So it is no wonder that the clones have come to respond to their limits by approving and not objecting to the recent cross-over that has been so hashed here. Deep down they have already accepted the mindset of the opposition.
Thankfully most however have been so outragged and this recent demand to understand and accept has been so over the top that they have come out of their slumber and come back to a more profitable mindset.
I hope!
