[FRIAM] National Constitution Center

We got into a discussion on Friday about who can decide that the president is unfit. https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment -xxv In the first instance, it's principle officers of the executive branch . all Trump appointees except Pence. Only in the

[FRIAM] Members of the UK Parliament just condemned President Trump.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/attn/status/826262555261693952 Short video, but oh so right on. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailma

Re: [FRIAM] poker playing AI

Roger, that’s brilliant. My visitors from CMU came by chance the day after the final win. They were pretty excited about it all. > On Feb 4, 2017, at 7:12 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > I noticed the poker playing AI winning the tournament recently in the news, > but I hadn't noticed until t

[FRIAM] poker playing AI

I noticed the poker playing AI winning the tournament recently in the news, but I hadn't noticed until today that the lead researcher was Tuomas Sandholm at CMU, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/, who was hot into computing mechanisms years ago. Mechanisms being self enforcing contract terms, where

Re: [FRIAM] SFI to Trump: The dangers of simplicity in a complex world

Yes. I for one find that regrettable. I have been giving them money for the past few years. 1-2 years ago I gave them more than previously. After that, they implemented the new policy. Not sure if there was a connection, but.. perhaps it is all my fault. Joe On 2/4/17 1:20 PM, Frank Wi

Re: [FRIAM] SFI to Trump: The dangers of simplicity in a complex world

Frank - I discovered the same a while back but accepted it as a consequence of something I had observed too many times. I don't suspect anyone here of this behaviour, but I have seen "outsider" folks at the colloquia choosing to ask self-aggrandizing questions which diverted the conversatio

Re: [FRIAM] SFI to Trump: The dangers of simplicity in a complex world

I don't know about economic equality but they've reduced their embrace of intellectual equality. The public is no longer welcome at their colloquia "without an invitation". Only "community events" are available to others. Frank Wimberly, PhD \I don't usually d

Re: [FRIAM] SFI to Trump: The dangers of simplicity in a complex world

Cody- Nicely noticed! - Steve The letter is very nice but based on the (possibly false) premise that they want economic equality, believe in climate change, and want to avoid cascading conflicts. On Sat, Feb 4, 2017, 12:08 PM Marcus Daniels > wrote: Reaso

Re: [FRIAM] SFI to Trump: The dangers of simplicity in a complex world

Great! Pietro (from Italy) Il 04/02/17 19:18, Owen Densmore ha scritto: I'm impressed with SFI's response to the ban on immigrants: http://web-prod.santafe.edu/news-center/news/dangers-simplicity-complex-world Starts with: The recent ban on immigrants to the Unites States is a dan

[FRIAM] SFI to Trump: The dangers of simplicity in a complex world

I'm impressed with SFI's response to the ban on immigrants: http://web-prod.santafe.edu/news-center/news/dangers-simplicity-complex-world Starts with: The recent ban on immigrants to the Unites States is a dangerous and simplistic step that ignores the complexity of our networked world. --

Re: [FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

And the Post finally weighs in on the subject: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/02/04/no-the-white-house-is-not-freezing-anti-trump-petitions/?utm_term=.61a51998db69 -- rec -- On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > I agree, it looks like it got unclog