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My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos. "Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion." >From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy. On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:08 AM, glen ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree wholeheartedly that the difference between a wannabe serial > entrpreneur and an extant one may well be dumb luck. But I don't agree > w.r.t. the difference between the nomadic hippie and the serial entrpreneur > (wannabe or not). That difference lies in what their nose tells them and > which scent they wind up following. It's interesting to me that you tacked > on the "impoverished" qualifier ... as if nobody would ever live like a > nomadic hippie unless they were forced to by circumstances like lack of > money. > > One of the key points about our homeless problem here in Portland is that > a sizable fraction of the homeless _want_ to live outdoors, in the > (camping) communities of people they live in. With only self-reporting to > go by, we have no real idea whether they really want what they say they > want, of course. Would their behavior (statements of want) change if we > handed them a basic income? I have no idea. But I think it's worth a few > hundred experiments at least. > > On 03/16/2017 09:51 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > > The difference between the wealthy serial entrepreneur and the > impoverished nomadic hippy may just be dumb luck. Ed Angel loaned me THE > DRUNKARD'S WALK, which reminded me once again of our romantic tendency to > infer talent from success. This is one of the points on which Peirce was > very strong. Most effects are random, and the few that are not are very > hard to ferret out. > > -- > ☣ glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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