Re: Decision Paralysis. A sage friend of mine used to say "sometimes the most you can do is nothing". I'm also lead to think of "Symmetry Breaking" in dynamical systems.
Re: Gil's question of whether this list is dead or not... I certainly have dialed back my participation in the psuedo philosophical banter, roughly based on the above tactic. I DO, however, continue to read these threads and take away useful morsels of insight from all participants. Re: Gil's question about whether another list should be formed: I believe WedTech provided a decent fork for two particular types of threads: 1) announcements/discussions of the nitty gritty tech details of programming languages (usually JS or a variant); 2) items primarily (or exclusively) of interest to people living IN Santa Fe. On 7/11/18 9:59 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Glen writes: > > "If some action will be required *anyway*, common to a wide array of > potential actions and consequences, then do that." > > Another form would be "I'm lost, so I'll follow another car." > These kinds of damage-limiting default actions (when actions are *required*) > need not be paralyzing and failing to take them when forced involves some > other explanation, like a malfunction or lack of awareness of the available > default actions, i.e. lack of awareness of the general properties of the > current environment. > > Marcus > > > ============================================================ > 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 ============================================================ 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
