Frank writes:
< I don't know about economic equality but they've reduced their embrace of
intellectual equality. The public is no longer welcome at their colloquia
"without an invitation". Only "community events" are available to others. >
Years ago (maybe not now), it depended on the resident faculty as much as the
management. Some had graduate students and postdocs that were tightly-knit
and really only had a public facing side in so far as they were pushing out
papers. Other faculty were very focused and productive and had few if any
junior staff. Still others very much liked entertaining students and
colleagues from other universities and even the public. My perception was
there was a bias towards the last type of person so much so it got in the way
of SFI's ability to do research. If you didn't participate in the wining and
dining, the dog and pony shows, or the educational outreach, you were at risk,
even if there was some other external dimension on which you were a very
visible part of the organization. Further, my perception was that the wining
and dining arm of the organization didn't really have a clear picture of the
other ways in which the institute did outreach, or care. They only could
understand the one they were responsible for, and they viewed it as very much a
top-down thing, where most of the researchers weren't at the top.
If there has been a change, I suspect it is more toward reducing distraction,
and keeping the signal/noise ratio high. They want/need their official
visitors to go away happy with their time there, and having all manner of
random people around makes it harder to present the image they want. (I don't
mean that in a cynical way, but you can reasonably take it that way if you
want.)
Marcus
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From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Frank Wimberly
<wimber...@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2017 1:20:53 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SFI to Trump: The dangers of simplicity in a complex world
I don't know about economic equality but they've reduced their embrace of
intellectual equality. The public is no longer welcome at their colloquia
"without an invitation". Only "community events" are available to others.
Frank Wimberly, PhD
\I don't usually do this
Phone (505) 670-9918
On Feb 4, 2017 1:13 PM, "Steven A Smith"
<sasm...@swcp.com<mailto:sasm...@swcp.com>> wrote:
Cody-
Nicely noticed!
- Steve
The letter is very nice but based on the (possibly false) premise that they
want economic equality, believe in climate change, and want to avoid cascading
conflicts.
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017, 12:08 PM Marcus Daniels
<mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
Reason and politics collide!
On page 103 of..
https://issuu.com/devonisaiah/docs/santafe_vol2iss2_web
<https://issuu.com/devonisaiah/docs/santafe_vol2iss2_web>
[https://outlook.office.com/owa/projection.aspx&retryCount=3]
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From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com<mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> on
behalf of Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net<mailto:o...@backspaces.net>>
Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2017 11:18:55 AM
To: Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] SFI to Trump: The dangers of simplicity in a complex world
I'm impressed with SFI's response to the ban on immigrants:
http://web-prod.santafe.edu/news-center/news/dangers-simplicity-complex-world
Starts with:
The recent ban on immigrants to the Unites States is a dangerous and simplistic
step that ignores the complexity of our networked world.
-- Owen
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