Re: [FRIAM] recap on Rosen

2008-04-28 Thread sy
That's closer I think. There's little point to agility for a little fish after it has been swallowed. All that helps then is making excuses... briefly. Agility only helps if you sense the 'disturbance' and avoid the attack entirely. Derivatives are long range indicators of out of model

Re: [FRIAM] recap on Rosen

2008-04-28 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Glen wrote: We can, post hoc, find examples where an entity (lineage, organization, organism, etc) is pre-adapted for some change such that it _seemed_ like that entity somehow predicted the change. But this isn't an effective tactic. It's very effective if the population is large enough.