Out of curiosity, does over-intervention concern apply to government behavior
only? One could imagine the same technology trends empower many groups and
individuals.
On 9/14/18, 5:44 PM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" wrote:
Hm. As usual, it depends on what you want to have happen, I supp
Hm. As usual, it depends on what you want to have happen, I suppose.
Educating a zealot who wants to kill everyone will only make them more capable
of killing everyone. If your desire is to avoid killing everyone, then the
dogmatic group needs to be isolated or eliminated. But my guess is th
I was thinking more of the 12 Monkeys example, more so than the current
phenomena of gun violence. If any dogmatic group can kill us all by
downloading a nanotech kit, shouldn't either 1) they be educated, isolated, or
eliminated with haste or 2) there be strong controls on distributing some ki
That makes sense. Harvard has $40 billion endowment last I heard.
Facebook has a market cap much greater than that.
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Well, sure. If you intend to intervene, you have to choose the type of
intervention. So, the "Killing versus Letting Die" dilemma is a special form
of "intervene or don't". But if you choose to intervene, you have to also
choose how to intervene. One might choose to kill by positively reinfo
Factoid: Facebook has the 45th ranked supercomputer in the world, above
Harvard and even the Atomic Weapons Establishment of the United Kingdom.
From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Date: Friday, September 14, 2018 at 5:03 PM
To
Wouldn't a social person aim to mitigate the stupidity, along the lines the of
the resistance within the White House?
Or is there some reason it is best to bore on ahead with the stupidity?
Because it is undemocratic or just because it is a bother?
On 9/14/18, 4:53 PM, "Friam on behalf of uǝl
Nick,
Good essay by Bruni.
My wife, who went to Harvard (as you know, Nick), was made physically ill
by the theme in The Social Network of the rich kids lording it over others
because of their weekend trips to the Hamptons or Newport for coming out
parties.
Frank
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 1:59 PM
Ha! When I was in college, I distracted myself from my failings at electrical
engineering ... and my failure to grok topology by reading the University of
Chicago's Ethics: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/et/current. One issue
had an essay on "Killing versus Letting Die". I remember re
Good science fiction would develop characters like David Morse's character in
12 Monkeys as protagonists.
On 9/14/18, 4:16 PM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" wrote:
"What then?" Well, my answer is we'll either be aware of our own ability to
destroy the world[†] ... or we won't. Anyone who
"What then?" Well, my answer is we'll either be aware of our own ability to
destroy the world[†] ... or we won't. Anyone who is not already aware of our
ability to destroy the world is handicapped. So, those people are in sore need
of an educational transformation. So what if such an educatio
< But it's irresponsible to ignore the material cause: guns. But those who
know me, know I'm an inherent supporter of weapon freedom. Anyone ought to be
able to own (and use) pretty much any weapon they want. >
Without getting in to the usual arguments of that discussion, my 2-faced
position
Also this
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/st-john-s-college-plans-major-tuition-decrease/article_ff2c397d-b162-55f1-a0d5-75b25fe34876.html
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https://www.sjc.edu/admissions-and-aid/financial-aid/tuition-costs
The tuition had been considerably higher, I believe.
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Glen,
That's extraordinarily kind of you, Glen. I would look forward to any
responses you had. For most academic writers ... except the Dennetts and the
Pinkers and the Dawkinses ... writing is like dropping gold pieces down an
infinitely deep wishing well. You never even hear them hit the
Reduction in the tuition. It is a joke. Isn't it?
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Frank Wimberly
wrote:
> There were only four of us at Friam today. Three of us got there early
> and the fourth walked. Also the coffee shop was full of students. This was
> apparently all because of a presenta
I make a similar argument about gun control. Most of my friends are advocates
of stronger regulation. They *think* I'm also an advocate of such. And,
objectively, I am because I sometimes parrot a subset of their arguments. E.g.
I argue that there are multiple types of cause (perhaps 4: form
I'm not sure I've read all 3. I will, though. I *tried* to read this:
Animal Sentience: The other-minds problem
https://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol1/iss1/1/
And I've read some of Harnad's other work and came away impressed. But his
characterization of the "hard problem" seems
There were only four of us at Friam today. Three of us got there early and
the fourth walked. Also the coffee shop was full of students. This was
apparently all because of a presentation by the College administration
about St. John's new tuition policy in which the tuition is being reduced
by ten
Glen writes:
< As for Harris' argument, he's relying on a common trope amongst people like
him (including Pinker's recent book, Shermer's standard presentation, etc.).
As horrific as the local 7-Eleven parking lot might be, it doesn't compare to
what's happening in places like Yemen or Syria
I've always wondered why Peterson equates moral relativism with nihilism. The
two seem fundamentally different to me. I'm re-reading this:
What is complexity?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12447974
wherein Chris makes the (kindasorta obvious) point that meaning is always
relative to
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