I dunno, steve. You seem right in the groove to me! Thought full
technologist. I don't even have the technological thread. So they'lll
exile me long before they exile you.
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From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Monday,
So, Marcus. You would make no changes in things as they are? Note that both
Australia and Scotland have made changes in gun deaths recently by making
changes in gun laws. N
-Original Message-
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G.
Daniels
Sent: Tuesday,
I love the difference in point of view between:
I think therefore I am
and
Why is there something rather than nothing
The first considers awareness primary, the second physics. I suppose
quantum foam? .. you *can't* have nothing?
The problem in the OP article seems to be a lack of a
This is a country producing substandard students unable to compete
intellectually with their peers, with school budgets a perennial
mess. It's also a country that primarily serves compliant,
malleable girls in the school systems. Problem boys are fast-tracked
to deficit drugs rather than
We have met the Enemy, and he is us. - Pogo
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Leigh Fanning le...@versiera.net wrote:
This is a country producing substandard students unable to compete
intellectually with their peers, with school budgets a perennial
mess. It's also a country that primarily
Dear Lee and Marcus,
I am afraid I fell for a Liberal meme. It may, of course, be true, but at
least so far as I can determine from a quick scan of the web, there is no
consensus on the causality that I implied.
So, at the moment, I guess it just comes down to values. I hate the damned
Hear hear!
To all both of Marcus' and Leigh's comments and to Doug's quote from the
most insightful cartoon philosopher of all!
Leigh -
As a (mostly) single father of two (now grown) daughters, I am very
sympathetic with the (more common) single mothers who have had the
burden (and
Dear Lee and Marcus,
I am afraid I fell for a Liberal meme. It may, of course, be true, but at
least so far as I can determine from a quick scan of the web, there is no
consensus on the causality that I implied.
So, at the moment, I guess it just comes down to values. I hate the
On 12/18/12 11:10 AM, Leigh Fanning wrote:
It seems the entire surrounding group was out of touch. Was the father
so removed that he spent no time with his son and simply paid
off the mother to make a problem go away so he could continue his
wealthy much better than yours life? Are we really
Perhaps the kid came by his insanity honestly, living with a gun-obsessed
survivalist mother who was convinced that society was about to end.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248983/Connecticut-school-shooting-Adam-Lanzas-survivalist-mother-obsessed-guns.html
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at
Lee,
Your response is self-contradictory. Hating values IS a value.And
besides, I know you are full of the damned things. (values). N
-Original Message-
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of
lrudo...@black.clarku.edu
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:44 AM
Sorry Nick: hating values is an action. Verb, not a noun.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Lee,
Your response is self-contradictory. Hating values IS a value.And
besides, I know you are full of the damned things. (values). N
Technically I think it's a gerund
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gerund, as in 'my hating is stronger
than yours' which makes it a noun.
On 12/18/12 12:48 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Sorry Nick: hating values is an action. Verb, not a noun.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nicholas Thompson
On 12/18/12 2:03 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
It seems to me the knee-jerk response to this sort of thing is to
improve detection and mitigate consequences, as with gun control I'd
guess detection can and will be defeated by someone like this (in
part because he probably has someone helping him,
I wasn't referring to the most recent crazy murder-suicide incidents.
More towards the fetish folks who collect guns against the day when
they'll be able to justify their use.Or the guy who open carries
around a handgun loaded with hollowpoints on the day somebody dents his
car and he
Whoops. Category error alert! You are quite. Values ARE actions. A
meta-action. And it is probably not VALUES, we hate, but values-talk, and
we probably hate it because it so rarely correspond to action. In truth, a
person's values are what they are helpless to not do. Nick
From:
I doubt a convincing Turing test will ever be made, so while we are still
just playing around with the idea, another thing to consider is that the
gamemaster, being lazy, does not have to create a compelling game (with
just the right amount of challenge, as you mentioned); s/he simply has to
alter
To add on to that, the original values-hating email was not a contradiction
- Lee did not claim he did not have values, just that he hated them. In
fact, perhaps someone would care less about values one way or the other if
they did not have them.
From my perspective, because values seemingly
Hmm, ok IF one were a sim, then one would have no way of knowing whether
one's actions were efficacious or if the response one saw from one's
environment were some activity slightly disconnected from one's
actions. This might amount to testing whether some aspect of one's
environment were an
Apropos of the Turing Test: collision detection: The female Turing
Testhttp://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2005/04/most_people_thi.php
(that
is a good blog by the way).
Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#The_standard_interpretation
also
covers the topic pretty well. So it
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