Comments on: Targeted Marketing http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:59:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-229899 Kieran Healy Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:32:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/#comment-229899 <i>What would be cool is if it still recommended that specific book even if you weren’t married to Laurie.</i> Ha! Yes indeed. What would be cool is if it still recommended that specific book even if you weren’t married to Laurie.

Ha! Yes indeed.

]]> By: Patrick Nielsen Hayden http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-229814 Patrick Nielsen Hayden Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:26:29 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/#comment-229814 Amazon frequently recommends that I buy books which I, in fact, acquired and edited for Tor. Amazon frequently recommends that I buy books which I, in fact, acquired and edited for Tor.

]]> By: SCM http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-229740 SCM Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:32:25 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/#comment-229740 What would be cool is if it still recommended that specific book even if you weren't married to Laurie. What would be cool is if it still recommended that specific book even if you weren’t married to Laurie.

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-229690 Kieran Healy Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:20:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/#comment-229690 If the gun hadn't fired, that photo wouldn't be on the cover, for one thing. If the gun hadn’t fired, that photo wouldn’t be on the cover, for one thing.

]]> By: will u. http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-229686 will u. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:38:30 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/#comment-229686 What does that Doc Edgerton apple/bullet photo have to do with counterfactual reasoning? What does that Doc Edgerton apple/bullet photo have to do with counterfactual reasoning?

]]> By: Kenny Easwaran http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-229681 Kenny Easwaran Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:16:14 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/#comment-229681 Isn't it sort of the other way around (with both the marriage and reading)? "People who married you also wrote..." Isn’t it sort of the other way around (with both the marriage and reading)? “People who married you also wrote…”

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-229643 Kieran Healy Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:02:45 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/#comment-229643 In the sense I think you have in mind, not really. In the sense I think you have in mind, not really.

]]> By: RICKM http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-229636 RICKM Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:37:51 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/#comment-229636 Does anything in the book deal with historical reasoning and counterfactuals? Does anything in the book deal with historical reasoning and counterfactuals?

]]> By: Henry (not the famous one) http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-229634 Henry (not the famous one) Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:26:05 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/25/targeted-marketing/#comment-229634 Married to a metaphysician? Sounds like the set-up for a Woody Allen joke, circa 1962, to us philistines. Married to a metaphysician? Sounds like the set-up for a Woody Allen joke, circa 1962, to us philistines.

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