Takeshi Inomata from the University of Arizona does interesting work on the
rise of the Maya civilization:Monumental architecture at Aguada Fenix and the
rise of Maya civilization, Nature 582 (2020)
530-533https://pasolibre.grecu.mx/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/41586_2020_2343_opt.pdf-J.-. --- -
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one funeral at a
time"_Stephen
GuerinCEO, Founder https://simtable.comstephen.gue...@simtable.com
stephenguerin@fas.harvard.eduHarvard Visualization Research and Teaching
Labmobile: (505)577-5828On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 1:03 PM Joche
n-engaging-vexing-memoir-with-a-humility-bypass-J.
Original message From: Jochen Fromm Date:
4/19/24 7:32 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group Subject: [FRIAM] Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) A sad day
today. Daniel Dennett has died :-( For
A sad day today. Daniel Dennett has died :-( For every big question in
philosophy there is at least one Daniel Dennett book:"Consciousnes Explained"
(1991) about consciousness"Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (1995) about evolution
"Freedom Evolves" (2003) about free will"Breaking the spell" (2006)
On "Hacker News" someone wrote today [1] that transformers in LLMs work like
the Hamiltonian in Quantum Mechnics because prediction of the next token in the
sequence is determined by computing the next context-aware embedding vector
from the last context-aware embedding vector alone, similar to
From: Frank Wimberly
Date: 3/20/24 1:46 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Sleep trackers I am so
sorry, Jochen.---Frank C. Wimberly140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505505
670-9918Santa Fe, NMOn Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 12:59 AM Jochen
Corentin de Chatelperron and Caroline Pultz tried to live for 120 days in the
Mexican desert self sufficiently, growing their own food. Using their own
desalination machines they generated fresh water for the plants and themselves
The lies of Trump and his MAGA cult are a bit like extrachromosomal DNA that is
apparently behind many malignant cancers. Both are normally part of selfish
entities - single cell organisms or narcissistic con men - and disrupt or
distort the normal fabric of the world they live in.
Tom Gauld describes most of the problems of interdisciplinary research in a
single
imagehttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2389834-tom-gauld-on-areas-of-expertise/-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
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There is book by Cody Cassidy named "How to Survive History: How to Outrun a
Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of
History's Deadliest
Catastrophes".https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/668982/how-to-survive-history-by-cody-cassidy/Sometimes
escaping
For images OpenAI has added watermarks to identify AI generated images. But
these watermarks are apparently easy to
remove.https://gizmodo.com/openai-chatgpt-how-to-check-watermark-metadata-c2pa-1851234655For
texts it is harder to recognize if they are AI generated or not unless it is a
Wow, the young Steve Jobs and Owen on the same stage, together with Andrew
Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson. I didn't know he knew all of them. Has he got
Apple shares as compensation back then? Apple shares from 1984 must be worth a
fortune now.-J.
Original message From: Stephen
I saw this article mentioned by Eliot Jacobson on his X/Twitter profile which
argues that our actions will most likely not be enough until there is a big
shock which motivates real change. It also uses the Covid pandemic to
illustrate that people are able to change if they are convinced their
Langchain is an agent framework started by Harrison Chase. A Langchain agent
uses LLMs to reason in a perceive-reason-act cycle. One could argue that
Langchain agents are able to think, and we are even able to watch them
thinkinghttps://github.com/langchain-ai/langchaindeeplearning.ai has free
I am not a big fan of Sabine. Her book "Lost in math" is too pessimistic and
too negative for me. She earns money from her YouTube video channel. The more
sensational the content, the more clicks. That being said I agree that climate
change is one of the biggest problems, and the outlook is not
iny
little choice like "Hey let's go hiking this weekend." ... "No, I'm going to a
Super Bowl party." will subtly guide one's trajectory through time and
space.The more one identifies with some (set of) narrative(s), the less free
will one has.On 1/25/24 13:34, Jo
Since one of you mentioned today that free will is a recurring FRIAM topic I
was thinking about it and found this SCIAM article that argues that human
beings do have the power to make conscious
choices.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/free-will-is-only-an-illusion-if-you-are-too/On
c.
When we make a posterior value judgement about these transformations, it's
difficult to make a charitable one. And what most of us seem to want is to hide
in that comfy stupor of entitlement, to minimize surprisal.It is a fantastic
show.On 1/15/24 09:45, Jochen Fromm wrote:> The TV
The TV series Breaking Bad was created 10 years ago, but I only recently was
able to watch it on Netflix. As you know it is about the question how a good
man turns bad. The story starts with a tragedy, a lung cancer diagnosis for the
main character Walt(er) White. Life has not been kind to the
Today 3 years ago a violent mob of Trump supporters incited by Mr. Trump
himself attacked the Capitol. This alone should disqualify him from any
office.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack-J.
Original message From: Tom Johnson
Date: 1/6/24 9:24
Merry Christmas from Berlin! It must be Farolitos time now in Santa Fe, right?
Here in Berlin we have plenty of Christmas markets where you get hot mulled
wine. At Christmas Eve I was in the "American Church of Berlin" which is over
120 years old. It was mostly empty though. While Donald Trump
I have seen a TV documentary about John Kennedy Toole and his book "A
confederacy of Dunes" today. The book seems to be funny for the same reason
that Cervantes' Don Quixote is funny: the main character is an idiot who thinks
he is a genius and all the others are in a confederacy against him.
Owen's project has made it to Hackernews
yesterdayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37573948-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
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people were
killed.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anders-behring-breivik-appeal-european-court-of-human-rights-norway-massacre/---Frank
C. Wimberly140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505505 670-9918Santa Fe, NMOn
Sun, Sep 3, 2023, 11:13 AM Jochen Fromm wrote:I have read
"Highway of Eternity&
Well, I still believe there is a gun problem in the United States, yes.
Definitely. Just recently a police officer fatally shot a pregnant Black woman
in the parking lot of a grocery store in Ohio after she refused to exit her
car. And Ohio is not even a red state, right? It is also well known
I have read "Highway of Eternity" from Clifford D. Simak this weekend, one of
the books from the golden age of science fiction which is comparable to "The
city and the Stars" from Arthur C. Clarke and "The end of eternity" from Isaac
Asimov. Both belong to my favorite books. Modern authors
To me it looks as if the long period of presidential primaries is a 200 year
old legacy from the time of the founding fathers which had neither cars nor
planes nor mass media. Traveling by horse carriage from state to state took
weeks. Today the world has changed, but the process is still the
The countless indictments against Trump remind me of the innumerous indictments
against Navalny in Russia. The indictments against Trump look to me totally
justified. He tried to undermine and to destroy the democratic system by all
kinds of lies and deceit and treachery, by the things that
Yes, the Greek shipwreck was horrific but the Titan(ic) story sadly got much
more media attention.One aspect is the rich/poor divide: the Titan submersible
contained 5 very rich passengers, while the ship from Africa was full of poor
people looking for a better life. African migrants are for
Cormac McCarthy died yesterday in Santa Fe where he lived for the last 30
years. Douglas Preston lives in Santa Fe too. There must be something in Santa
Fe which attracts good writers :-) What's your favorite McCarthy novel?
: [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism
The conclusion I draw is that these conversations have all occurred before. So
I wonder, why have them?
From: Friam On Behalf Of
Jochen Fromm
Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2023 10:44 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] Radical
ChatGPT now allows sharing conversations. I've asked it about William James
book "Essays in Radical
Empiricism"https://chat.openai.com/share/375aef4e-a8d6-467e-8061-bd85b341c46b-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
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ot;https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/James/James_1912/James_1912_02.html-J.
Original message From: Russ Abbott
Date: 5/29/23 8:01 PM (GMT+01:00) To: Jochen Fromm Cc:
The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject:
Re: [FRIAM] A distinguishing feature of living entiti
Yes, Rodney Brooks said something similar. He said "GPTs have no understanding
of the words they use, no way to connect those words, those symbols, to the
real world. A robot needs to be connected to the real world and its commands
need to be coherent with the real world. Classically it is
I have asked Bard ( bard.google.com) today about Don Quixote from Cervantes,
and if a large language model would be similar to a Don Quixote without a
Sancho Panza.Here is what Bard replied:"In a way, large language models can be
seen as Don Quixotes without Sancho Panzas. They are trained on
apply to that movement. United
states, circa 1964-1972.To the extent that my observation is 'valid'; and the
quote is representative of Paxton (have not read) then all movements are
fascist whether they originated from the "left" or the "right."davewOn Wed, May
10, 2023, a
ignment with Feynman, if
you can't construct the phenomenon, then you don't understand it.Of course, I
know Paxton can't (and wouldn't) construct a fascist society. That's why
simulation is a good thing. 8^D But does Anatomy of Fascism read as a recipe, a
how-to? Or is it more like a collection o
o Paxton, which is a good thing?On Tue, 9 May 2023 at
23:20, Jochen Fromm wrote:In Putin's speech on victory day
today he argued that Russia is again fighting against fascism while the country
clearly shows increasingly signs of fascism itself: from the angry dictator and
the dread o
In Putin's speech on victory day today he argued that Russia is again fighting
against fascism while the country clearly shows increasingly signs of fascism
itself: from the angry dictator and the dread of the nation's decline under the
corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism to the
Yes, LLMs give a new boost to agent-based modeling and agent-based software
engineering, but it is a totally new class of agents. AutoGPT is an
examplehttps://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPTWhat do you think is
better to use by the way, Repast4Py or Mesa, or just pure Python in a
yes, well said.-J.
Original message From: Steve Smith Date:
4/19/23 11:36 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group Subject: [FRIAM] TruthGPT
I was modestly impressed when Musk helped to get OpenAI formed
and try to be "righteous" with
Yes, if a large language model is trained on all works of Mozart and
contemporary artists like Haydn, it should be able to create a new piece of
music which sounds almost like Mozart. Finally we can listen to Mozart's lost
28th piano concerto or Beethoven's missing 33th piano sonata o_O-J.
I have found a nice book in the book store today: "Native American Myths" by
the British author Rosalind Kerven. A bit like Grimms' Fairy Tales by the Grimm
brothers, only for America instead of Germany. It would probably fit to a book
shop in Santa Fe, since Santa Fe is surrounded by so many
on behalf of Jochen Fromm
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2023 12:12 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] Bing Chat vs ChatGPT
I've read that Bing Chat is now available for everyone in this blog post..
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/03/
Maybe Bing Chat takes revenge at ChatGPT... Sounds strange? Not after reading
this
article...https://www.iflscience.com/gpt-4-hires-and-manipulates-human-into-passing-captcha-test-68016-J.
Original message From: Steve Smith Date:
3/20/23 8:58 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Maybe my mistake was that I tried to chat with Bing Chat. It is called Bing
Chat, but although it is called like this, it is not good at doing at "chat".
ChatGPT is much better when it comes to chatting.Both are good at summarizing
large texts in an instant. Microsoft should have called it "AI
I've read that Bing Chat is now available for everyone in this blog
post..https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/03/14/Binging..and it really
seems to be available now for everyone. I have tried it and it feels horrible
though. The overall experience is totally different from ChatGPT.
Certainly true the phrase. Reminds me of "Cosmic Evolution" by Eric Chaisson
and "The Life of the Cosmos" by Lee Smolin.If you think about it, then it is
obvious that new objects emerge in the universe in the course of time, and that
new laws are required to describe them, based on their
with regard its submissive role—I doubt that Jochen had that
in mind when he wrote his sentence.davewOn Tue, Mar 7, 2023, at 9:50 AM, Jochen
Fromm wrote:ChatGPT apparently uses a technique called "Reinforcement Learning
from Human Feedback" (RLHF). It is not only based on huge amo
er- or worse-fit to the organization of the phenomena themselves, is
another fair fine-graining of the terse characterization, running somewhat
parallel to the aspects or essences fine-graining (though, as always, connected
to it through a kind of message-passing and filtering for structural
agreem
You need a cat! My parents always used to have a cat in their house. Now that I
live in Berlin a cat or dog is impractical, since we live in a small rented
apartment and have no garden, but if you have a house and a garden and a mouse
problem then a cat might help
I enjoy talking with ChatGPT about famous scientists, thinkers, writers and
philosophers. Because it is trained on vast amounts of data it knows them all:
Pascal, Cervantes, Dante, Hugo, Goethe, Leibniz, Newton, Humboldt,
Shakespeare,... It can summarize almost any book which is remarkable.
rom: Gillian Densmore
Date: 2/28/23 1:47 AM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re:
[FRIAM] Magic Harry Potter mirrors or more? Transformer architecture works
because it's cybertronian technology. And is so advanced as to be almost
magic.On M
Terrence Sejnowski argues that the new AI super chatbots are like a magic Harry
Potter mirror that tells the user what he wants to hear: "When people discover
the mirror, it seems to provide truth and understanding. But it does not. It
shows the deep-seated desires of anyone who stares into
Sometimes it get details wrong. In this case it was amusing to me, because it
insisted on being right although it was clearly wrong. Unless there is really a
paper of that name elsewhere.The version Microsoft uses in Bing went completely
awry when a NY Times journalist told it about Carl Jung's
Me: Do you know Victor Hugo?ChatGPT: Yes, Victor Hugo was a famous French poet,
novelist, and dramatist who lived in the 19th century. He is widely regarded as
one of the most important and influential writers of his time and is best known
for his novels, including Les Misérables and The
Me: Do you know philosopher Miguel de Unamuno?ChatGPT: Yes, Miguel de Unamuno
(1864-1936) was a Spanish philosopher, writer, and poet, and is considered one
of the most important Spanish intellectuals of the 20th century. He is best
known for his work on existentialism and his emphasis on the
fish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
ChatGPT knows FRIAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit#Lying_and_bullshitOn 2/21/23 13:20,
thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:> Stunning! How do you know if ChatCBT is lying;
it’s steely lips are moving.> > Nick> > *From:* Friam
*On Behalf Of *Joche
Me: Do you know the FRIAM group in Santa Fe?ChatGPT: Yes, I'm aware of the
FRIAM group in Santa Fe. FRIAM (Focusing Research on Infinite Automated Models)
is a research group located at the Santa Fe Institute, a renowned research
center dedicated to the study of complex systems. FRIAM is a
agnificent-rebels-by-andrea-wulf/-J.
Original message From: Nicholas Thompson
Date: 2/17/23 11:53 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re:
[FRIAM] Thuram still happening? Thanks, Jochen. I am on it. NOn Thu, Feb 16,
2023 at 10:52 AM Jo
A bit late to the party but here are my two cents about Dave's fundamental 6
questions:1) Is an *Experience* a whole or a composite? Rather a composite
because a perception needs a perceiver which has always a subjective viewpoint.
This includes a rating if the perceived object or action is
It reminds me of this book:The Zoologist's Guide to the
Galaxyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646643/the-zoologists-guide-to-the-galaxy-by-arik-kershenbaum/-J.
Original message From: Nicholas Thompson
Date: 2/16/23 10:22 AM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Morning Applied
Interesting article. I have found this link to "GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy" on
Hacker Newshttps://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/It is similar to nanoGPT
and minGPT from Andrej Karpathy, who has joined OpenAI again
recentlyhttps://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPTThe secret is apparently not to use
: Friam On Behalf Of
Jochen Fromm
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2023 4:38 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] Datasets as Experience
Would a CV of a large language model contain all the datasets it has seen? As
adaptive agents of our selfish genes we are all
and OpenAI will present this year. -J.
Original message From: Jochen Fromm Date:
2/5/23 1:38 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group Subject: [FRIAM] Datasets as Experience Would a CV of
a large language model contain all the datasets it has seen? As adapt
Would a CV of a large language model contain all the datasets it has seen? As
adaptive agents of our selfish genes we are all trained on slightly different
datasets. A Spanish speaker is a person trained on a Spanish dataset. An
Italian speaker is a trained on an Italian dataset, etc. Speakers
huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/realm> look promising.
On 2/2/23 12:29, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Probably it will be possible with more training to give examples of internal
consistency checks – filters – that should always be applied. Before dropping
into full gaslighting mode..
*From:* Friam
It is remarkable that it is able to understand texts to this degree at all. And
it is just as stubborn and stupid as we are, isn't it? What if we are large
language models ourselves? :-/I've asked it the same question:Question: how
many states in the united states have four letter
Evocative triggers sound a bit like the concept of a sign stimulus. A sign
stimulus in biology, ethology and zoology is a stimulus that serves to start
complicated reflex behavior. In German we have the Word "Schlüsselreiz"
(literally key-stimulus) for it, coined by zoologist Konrad Lorenz
al message From: Steve Smith Date:
1/25/23 12:41 AM (GMT+01:00) To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
Turning Psychology into a Social Science On 1/24/23 3:55 PM, Jochen Fromm
wrote:> I am currently browsing the millions of books in the Berlin state >
library. They ha
I am currently browsing the millions of books in the Berlin state library. They
have so many books that they are a "closed stack" library where you have to
order every book you want to read (unlike most open-stack university
libraries). One of the books I have stumbled upon today is named
The buzz about chatGPT has apparently convinced Microsoft to invest $10 billion
(!) in OpenAI. It looks like a new arms race between Google, Microsoft and Meta
is emerging. Who will create the first self-aware AI by connecting such a large
language model to the
I have finished a number of Coursera courses recently, including "Deep Learning
& Neural Networks with Keras" which was ok but not great. The problems with
deep learning are* to achieve impressive results like chatGPT from OpenAi or
LaMDA from Goggle you need to spend millions on hardware *
Merry Christmas from Berlin. I have heard you have In Santa Fe a festival where
you put lots of lanterns on rooftops? Is it in December or on New Year?
https://youtu.be/hwacxSnc4tI-J.
Original message From: Steve Smith Date:
12/25/22 7:01 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Nice find. The paper is from Luis Gómez-Nava et al. Luis is here in Berlin at
Humboldt University (which is named after the two famous Humboldt brothers). A
link to his paper can be found at his publication
pagehttps://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~gomezlui/publications.html-J.
Original
"Pragmatism emerged in the US in the late 1800s as a response to the
Enlightenment push for absolute truth. The pragmatists — people like William
James and John Dewey — were less interested in certainty and more concerned
with immediate
Until now I have used 3 Twitter accounts for scientific, development and
personal stuff. I have used them more frequently since Google+ was shut down.
One main reason why I do not use Facebook or Instagram is Mark Zuckerberg. As
Grady Booch used to say "Facebook is a profoundly unethical
As you probably know Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi died at the end of last year. The
"Flow Research Collective" podcast has 3 episodes about him, also available on
iTunes and Spotify:Steven Kotler about his
impacthttps://www.flowresearchcollective.com/radio/58His son Mark remembers
Our conscious experience of the world is a memory of unconscious decisions and
actions, claims a new
paperhttps://singularityhub.com/2022/10/25/could-consciousness-be-a-memory-system-new-theory-says-yes/-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
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I have listened to a podcast in German today where the host interviewed Susanne
Foitzik. Mrs Foitzik is a professor of evolutionary biology specialized on
ants. She explained that some ant colonies have developed a sophisticated form
of slavery. They conduct violent raids on the nests of other
Emotions are related to a body. I don't think they are absolutely necessary,
but I think some kind of body is indeed necessary to develop a form of
consciousness. A body which can move around in two different but interconnected
worlds, for instance the physical or a virtual world and the world
Paul Buchheit asked on
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/paultoo/status/1582455708041113600"Is consciousness
measurable, or is it just a philosophical concept? If an AI claims to be
conscious, how do we know that it's not simply faking/imitating consciousness?
Is there something that I could
This article explains why spicy food tastes the way it does and why it burns so
much: it activates the receptors for heat and
pain.https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/01/15/why-chilli-peppers-are-spicy-the-chemistry-of-a-chilli/-J.
Original message From: Gillian Densmore
Date:
Inspiration for nerdy Christmas presents:Atoms to
Astronautshttps://www.atomstoastronauts.com/Science & technology themed
necktieshttps://www.cyberoptix.com/collections/science-technologyScience & Math
Giftshttps://shop.pbs.org/gifts/by-interest/gifts-science-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. /
I have asked GPT-3 at the OpenAI playground about it:Q: What is God?GPT-3:
There is no one answer to this question since there are so many different
religious beliefs around the world. From a scientific standpoint, however, we
can say that God is an unseen force or concept that governs or
Metaphors are in a sense the equations of the mind. At the core of many good
books there is a single metaphor (for instance "The Selfish Gene" from
Dawkins), or multiple ones (for example "Metaphors we live by" from Lakoff &
Johnson). This week I have found a nice metaphor
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over what he had done.On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at
9:16 AM Jochen Fromm wrote:In a small shop in Tofino on
Vancouver Island I spotted a nice book named "The Starship and the Canoe" about
George Dyson and his father. Apparently George lived for a long time in a tree
house in British Columbia
In a small shop in Tofino on Vancouver Island I spotted a nice book named "The
Starship and the Canoe" about George Dyson and his father. Apparently George
lived for a long time in a tree house in British Columbia while his father was
thinking about building atomic rockets that could reach
ra America fit in?
Is the assumption that post WWI (hidden) conditions in Europe are similar
enough to contemporary Global conditions?
I'm probably missing something (a lot)?
- Steve
On 7/15/22 2:06 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Today after work I've tried to built a small and simple machine lear
Europe are similar enough to contemporary Global conditions?
I'm probably missing something (a lot)?
- Steve
On 7/15/22 2:06 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Today after work I've tried to built a small and
simple machine learning model to predict fasc
Today after work I've tried to built a small and simple machine learning model
to predict fascism, based on 6 or 7 fundamental features. Using Shapley values
we can see which feature contributes the most to the outbreak of fascism. If I
enter values which fit to the US under Trump the model
Interesting video. Marx predicted Marxism, but what emerged in industrial
societies in western European countries was fascism which failed in the most
violent way in WW II. Marxism appeared and survived in Russia, but it turned
out an economy does not work if independent companies are not
It is fascinating that the biggest secrets are hidden in plain sight. Theaters
and cinemas for example are places to surmount the insurmountable obstacles of
space & time travel. They are devices to let you feel how it is like to be
someone else in the past, present or future which solve easily
It is not the US government. The Republicans lost their way. When the
Republicans turned into a MAGA party, they lost their last sparks of integrity
and became a violent authoritarian cult which worships a conman.Corrupt
Republican politicians like Mitch McConnell who look like their own mummy
There was a Tornado in the Netherlands yesterday. Hope you are OK? Very unusual
for Europe. The weather is too warm for this season. We have July temperatures
in June. Probably another sign of climate
I have heard a podcast about the sociologist Nobert Elias today. He was a
contemporary of Erich Fromm and Hannah Arendt and tried like them to understand
how civilization during the time of Nazism could make such a large step
backwards. Hannah has thought all her life about it.
Get well soon!-J.
Original message From: John Dobson Date:
6/17/22 14:08 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fríam Attendance i got to Iowa
last week, fully intending to participate in Virtual Friam. But last Friday
"Yet, at the same time, we are, as life — as living things: ourselves, the
redwoods, the birds overhead - we are the pinnacle of complexity in the
universe, from the Big Bang until now. It took 13.7 billion years for the atoms
to come together to form this portal of self-awareness that is
blished book? Got lost in my
COVID spam?
- Steve
On 6/11/22 10:36 PM, Jochen Fromm
wrote:
Today was a productive day: 2 new blog posts, the
first about epigenetic changes in cultural evolution and the
difference of
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