Re: [FRIAM] “Don’t they have grandchildren?” was The case for universal basic income UBI

2021-05-21 Thread Prof David West
What started the problem (at least in the West)" *"Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every

Re: [FRIAM] “Don’t they have grandchildren?” was The case for universal basic income UBI

2021-05-21 Thread Frank Wimberly
Sorry. I admire your memory. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, May 21, 2021, 3:11 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > Only about 100,000 times. >8^D The trick is whether or not you believe > that sort of modeling is mechanistic or *merely* genera

Re: [FRIAM] “Don’t they have grandchildren?” was The case for universal basic income UBI

2021-05-21 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
Only about 100,000 times. >8^D The trick is whether or not you believe that sort of modeling is mechanistic or *merely* generative. On 5/21/21 2:08 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > Did I already post this here? > > > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228446085_Simulation_validation_using_Caus

[FRIAM] conversations with the wak!

2021-05-21 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
This is an old article (2016). I wish I'd learned about it sooner. GScholar shows 37 citations I *should*, but probably won't, go through. Changing Conspiracy Beliefs through Rationality and Ridiculing https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01525/full "Conspiracy theory (CT) be

Re: [FRIAM] “Don’t they have grandchildren?” was The case for universal basic income UBI

2021-05-21 Thread Frank Wimberly
Did I already post this here? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228446085_Simulation_validation_using_Causal_Inference_Theory_with_morphological_constraints#fullTextFileContent --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, May 21, 2021, 3

Re: [FRIAM] “Don’t they have grandchildren?” was The case for universal basic income UBI

2021-05-21 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
Well, to be clear, it wasn't (I don't think) Russ' rhetoric but Weintrobe via McKibbon. Russ was simply pointing it out to us. But further, Weintrobe's argument seems to be (I haven't read the book, only a couple of reviews of it) a mechanistic explanation for how we in the northern hemisphere

Re: [FRIAM] “Don’t they have grandchildren?” was The case for universal basic income UBI

2021-05-21 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
I agree with you. It's very challenging to make sense of the world, and the human mind is amazing at building generative models of the world and those models become the reality for the mind. With the models we can make conclusions and explain how the world actually works. Now the clincher, to make

Re: [FRIAM] Morphogenisis

2021-05-21 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
I'm also wondering if there's a similar result for hypergraphs to the "parallelism theorem", which might state that any hypergraph can be perfectly "simulated" by an ordinary graph. On 5/19/21 11:28 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > I can't help but wonder if the hypergraph is something like a *modal* graph

Re: [FRIAM] “Don’t they have grandchildren?” was The case for universal basic income UBI

2021-05-21 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
There's a layering in the relationship between fact and opinion. And what the postmodernists warned us about is that many of us are unable to unravel those layers. The idea that there exist absolute facts and (mere) interpretations of those facts can often be an indicator for the inability to un

Re: [FRIAM] “Don’t they have grandchildren?” was The case for universal basic income UBI

2021-05-21 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
The world is the better for all not having the same views on everything. Surely there's a difference between facts and opinions? Your "*But it is *NOT* a sound, sensible, or rational view, any more than a stopped clock is right twice per day.*" is your opinion, it's not a fact. Interesting work

Re: [FRIAM] “Don’t they have grandchildren?” was The case for universal basic income UBI

2021-05-21 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
Interesting. We hear from righties like Brett Weinstein and Ben Shapiro all the time how postmodernists' "relativism" is diluting our culture and sending us on the path to Hell. Is this such a relativism? I'm reminded of the "all sides" fallacy or the snowflake idea that any arbitrary opinion