Some of Doug's quotes from the FRIAM archives:"I've watched this particular
verbal volleyball match for over a week now, and I must confess: I don't have
the faintest idea what the objective of the exercise is. What I have noticed,
however, is repeated usage of words that apparently have deep, overloaded,
special meanings to their author, but not to the audience. "Experience"
"conscious" "suffers from", for example. Could someone please tell me what the
fuss is all about?""Black. White! Black. No, White!Wrong. Am not! Are
too!""Yeah, that Roberts guy is some kind of trouble maker, isn't he?""Now
don't go screwing around with my head, Nick. Not sure I could come to grips
with being in agreement with you on anything.""This list constantly reminds me
that we are all, thankfully, different. Offhand, I can not think of a topic
that I would be more violently disinterested in than the "philosophy of
causation".-J.
-------- Original message --------From: steve smith <[email protected]> Date:
5/17/25 12:48 AM (GMT+01:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
Entropy and atmospheric potential vorticity
Frank wrote:
Doug Roberts?
Oh, if ever Doug was rolling in his grave. The
swirlies and nouggies I might have endured if he were still
alive.
NIck
I'd almost forgotten about Doug's compulsive adolescent snark
directed at your fascination with vortices.
It makes me wonder what he'd make of the AI phase transition we
are in. He had (IMO) both progressive and regressive ideas about
simulation science/tech.
Makes me wonder if there is a mirror/parallel quantity to PV
which would be Latent Vorticity (LV)
and is that similar to the torque that people who might roll in
their grave experience? Or is it a measure of the rolling they
would do if they could do rolling? How much roll would a Doug
Roberts roll if Doug Roberts could roll (in his grave)?
I won't even suggest someone train up an LLM on all of Doug's
posts in response to Nick's to create a simulacra to harangue him?
--
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
[email protected]
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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