Predictive Analytics Debunked

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love the pod cast. It is my favorite Westworld podcast and lead me to start watching American Gods because of one of your other podcast. I do have to disagree with you on the thought that the true value of WW is predictive analytics. To achieve good results with prediction you need a large sample size, the larger the better. If you want to for instance teach a computer to recognize a stop sign you show it thousands of pictures of stop signs. Then you show it thousands more pictures and have it mark the ones that are stop signs. You mark the errors and the successes and do it again teaching the machine. WW however would not generate enough data for that kind of prediction even after 30 years. The park is insanely expensive and therefore limited to the 1%’rs. As you noted in a previous podcast if WW was like a traditional theme park there would have been a line outside of the brothel. With this type of limited sample size you simply couldn’t generate the kind of data to infer conclusions about the general population. I just don’t see the evidence to support that theory. Let me propose a simpler explanation, greed. I think it is easy to forget that WW is just a part of Delos. Delos is a company that was there before WW and just an investment. So what would be of great benefit to Delos? Inside knowledge. As Ford states they know everything that goes on inside the park. WW seems like the kind of place that you would go with someone not alone and what to two people from work do? They talk about work. What deals are going down, who is moving up, who is getting fired. What legislation is pending and where expansion might take place, etc. All in a park where every host is always listening, the rooms have constant monitoring, (they would have to monitor the rooms to ensure guest safety). Heck even out on the range there is nothing to keep the horses and cattle for recording every conversation. This would give Delos a tremendous advantage in business. Need some insight into regulations? Let’s give the government officials a free week at the park. The fact that it is so expensive works in Delos’s favor in that they are attracting the very people that Delos wants to monitor. Sometimes the simplest explanations are the best.

Randy Lee

PS. Raj world almost breaks the series for me. I can see the appeal of the old west and maybe even shogun world but Raj world? Where is the world where I can be a super hero? Where is Dungeons and Dragons world where I can fight monsters and go on quests? Oh! Tin hat theory Game of Thrones is just a park in the Delos family!

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