Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

2012-09-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Roger, I am always stunned by your ability to mine the web for wonderful stuff. I happen to have the Peirce paper sitting on my table, so let me draw his argument out a bit further. Piece describes 4 ways of fixing belief . This one he calls authority. The two others he disapproves of

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

2012-09-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Here we go again, indeed. Blind faith is a redundancy, right? All faith is blind. We do not have faith in what we doubt. As Peirce would say: Doubt is not a guest. We do not entertain it. When it moves in, it sleeps in our bed, eats at our table, goes to work with us, and listens to

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

2012-09-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
If your conversations go on past the first of October, I would love to join you. N From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Victoria Hughes Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 2:42 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re:

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

2012-09-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
fairly and well conducted, we reach a point where we have to appeal to a proposition we cannot justify. In haste, Nick, Nicholas Thompson wrote at 09/14/2012 11:31 AM: But the problem here is not faith, itself, which always lies somewhere down there amongst the turtles, but the rapidity

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

2012-09-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
. But thank you for once again taking such an interest in my own particular world view! --Doug On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Here we go again, indeed. Blind faith is a redundancy, right? All faith is blind. We do not have faith

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

2012-09-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Ok, owen. Let's say I put on a bomb vest, put my FRIAM T-shirt on over it, and blew myself up and 30 soldiers at the military base where that poor schmuk Bradley Manning is being held. Let's say, I leave an email circular claiming that I did it in the name of a Free Internet. The reporter

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

2012-09-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist Nicholas Thompson wrote at 09/14/2012 12:18 PM: gepr wrote: It always surprises me the extent to which people (yes! people in general) over-simplify complex things. One of my pet peeves

Re: [FRIAM] Is my government too big?

2012-09-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I dunno. It's not a bad speech http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/07/remarks-president-dem ocratic-national-convention . Have you read it? N From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 11:25

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

2012-09-13 Thread Nicholas Thompson
in Libya | The Economist Ok, I'll bite. Why? On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Doesn't the same apply to the drinking of wine? From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts Sent: Thursday

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

2012-09-13 Thread Nicholas Thompson
and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist So, wine is the root cause of all our problems? I think not. I can handle my wine as well as I can handle my religion. Better, even, given that my religion handling needs are nil. On Sep 13, 2012 10:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp

Re: [FRIAM] PRES12_WTA Prospectus - The University of Iowa

2012-08-21 Thread Nicholas Thompson
] PRES12_WTA Prospectus - The University of Iowa Well, Nick. A google search on Big Dig Corruption returned the following: About 911,000 results (0.18 seconds) Take a few minutes to educate yourself on this particular topic. --Doug On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp

Re: [FRIAM] PRES12_WTA Prospectus - The University of Iowa

2012-08-19 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Eric, I am no friend of Romney, but, whatever else you might say about the big dig, it rescued Boston from the utter destruction imposed by the central artery project, reconnecting historic sites in the city, and reintegrating the city in many ways. I have only been back to the city a few

Re: [FRIAM] Celebrating the Higgs - explaning and predicting

2012-07-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Eric, I have not read the original article, but still your comments caught my attention. As argued in this article http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/1/9.html , the disassociation of predictive and explanatory power seems misguided. I suppose a statistical function of many

[FRIAM] atmospherics

2012-06-13 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Thanks, everybody. I realize that most of you have day jobs and don't have time to be teachers in my self-designed Elder-Hostel Education program, but if you do have a moment, could you answer the following questions? In these questions, the words cool and warm will have a technical

Re: [FRIAM] atmospherics

2012-06-12 Thread Nicholas Thompson
, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: So, somebody asked me, in my role as a weather nerd, how come the nitrogen in the atmosphere doesn’t all fall to the bottom on still nights and suffocate us all. I asked the question of stupid-answers-to-stupid-questions-asked-by-stupid-people.com

Re: [FRIAM] atmospherics

2012-06-12 Thread Nicholas Thompson
12, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: So, somebody asked me, in my role as a weather nerd, how come the nitrogen in the atmosphere doesn’t all fall to the bottom on still nights and suffocate us all. I asked the question of stupid-answers-to-stupid-questions

Re: [FRIAM] Friam tomorrow - bringing a guest

2012-06-07 Thread Nicholas Thompson
ProfDave, Ask your guest about Hesse's theory of metaphor in scientific explanation. Also, about Peirce. And then take good notes. I wish I could be there. By the way, Everybody on this list should know not to bet against Dave West on any matter relating to Wisconsin Politics. [sigh]

[FRIAM] wireless hotspot help!

2012-05-30 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I am struggling with my new MIFI box from Verizon and I am wondering if there is a standard download/upload task I can give it to see if I am actually getting faster service than through dial up. It feels AWFULLY slow right now. I am in the mosquito infested bog in massashusetts about 3 miles

Re: [FRIAM] SF Complex closing this Friday. Final event celebration and Thank You to the Santa Fe community

2012-05-30 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Steve, I am sorry I cannot be there. I am in the bog. Santa Fe should be grateful for what you-all have accomplished in this time. I look forward to your next re-incarnation, whatever it might be. Hugs all around, Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] The Climate Fixers May 14 New Yorker

2012-05-30 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I found the article horrifying. Is anybody old enough to remember a sixties research project with a cute name which centered around a long running debate concerning whether setting off an abomb in the upper atmosphere would obliterate the vanallen belts, destroy the ozone layer, or just set

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-19 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Bruce, I think you conceded too much in this message. In the previous message you wrote eventually Einstein found a deep 'explanation' for gravity in terms of the effects that matter has on space itself But grant writes: Did he not theorize that gravity is a force that

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-19 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Thanks Bruce This obviously will require careful study. I will try to respond when I get to the Other Side and have had a few days to get used to living in The Bog. Nick -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Sherwood

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-19 Thread Nicholas Thompson
John, I haven't yet digested Bruce's comments above, nor entirely what you have written here, but I want to clarify one point. When somebody speaks of space being warped one has in mind one of those diagrams where the Cartesian coordinates are bent, right? In other words, we are using our

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-18 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Didn't Newton feel that it was a bit magical? I need to be instructed, here. N -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of John Kennison Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 11:11 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-18 Thread Nicholas Thompson
So, what did Newton mean when he said I make no hypotheses. From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Russ Abbott Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 1:39 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-18 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Well, in my psychology, the answer to such a question takes the form of, what is the larger pattern of which my dumb stuff is a part? N From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 6:09 PM To: The Friday Morning

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-18 Thread Nicholas Thompson
, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Well, in my psychology, the answer to such a question takes the form of, what is the larger pattern of which my dumb stuff is a part? N From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore Sent: Friday

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Well, On Peirce’s account (yes I am still reading Peirce) Truth (or “solved”) is like “settled law”. It could come undone any time, but usually doesn’t. (Actually, I have that wrong. Truth is what wouldn’t come undone, but, of course, we never live to be sure that that’s what we got.

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, Carl, Been thinking about this “tech problem” – “science problem” distinction. Can Eric tell the difference? Can I tell the difference? Can Carl tell the difference? Is engineering the same as science? Is control the same as understanding? Jochem: Is it time for me to go back

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
what psychological theories have been disproven? From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson [nickthomp...@earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:18 AM To: c...@plektyx.com; 'The Friday Morning Applied

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
you still can't remember by name correctly ;-) Jochen Sent from Android Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Hi, Carl, Been thinking about this “tech problem” – “science problem” distinction. Can Eric tell the difference? Can I tell the difference? Can Carl

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Russ, This is, of course, the pragmatic[ist] understanding of solved. Everybody has quit looking for a better solution. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Russ Abbott Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:20 PM To: The Friday Morning

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Doug, I think it's a form of play. Possibly a form that is not your cup of tea. Intellectual play and science are alike, in my world, because both explore contradictions in our ways of thinking of things. Oxymorons, like psychological science or thinking machine or conscious animal.

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Omigosh! The month-long exile is over! And I only broke it once. I can actually live a whole month without mouthing off in an annoying way on FRIAM. Trouble is, now I can't remember what I think about anything. My basic position is that progress in psychology has been stymied by the allure

Re: [FRIAM] Old Folks Only: Medicare Plan F

2012-04-23 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, Robert, I find the local medical situation terrifying. My daughter had to be admitted to St. V. for an emergency a couple of X-masses ago, and I swear to god there were blood splatters on the wall behind her bed in her room. I am fighting allergies so bad right now they are preventing

Re: [FRIAM] Old Folks Only: Medicare Plan F

2012-04-23 Thread Nicholas Thompson
through electronic medical records, you can smile. Wryly. On Apr 23, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Hi, Robert, I find the local medical situation terrifying. My daughter had to be admitted to St. V. for an emergency a couple of X-masses ago, and I swear to god

Re: [FRIAM] vol 98, iss.25 psychology cont'd

2012-04-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Offline I just stumbled on this message that was never answered. It was in RED so I figured I better answer it. See below. In fact, many warrior groups kidnap the women AND children from other groups. Or even take the men as slaves. This would seem to be stupid from in inclusive

Re: [FRIAM] Peirce and teleology

2012-04-09 Thread Nicholas Thompson
of induction and all the intricacies involving the philosophy of induction as a thought process does not meet requirement number 1, above. --Doug On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Hi doug, and Bruce I realize that the following

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-09 Thread Nicholas Thompson
of induction and all the intricacies involving the philosophy of induction as a thought process does not meet requirement number 1, above. --Doug On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Hi doug, and Bruce I realize that the following was hundreds

Re: [FRIAM] Peirce and teleology

2012-04-09 Thread Nicholas Thompson
to the wall about, either to say that it is correct, OR that it is a correct understanding of Peirce. Have to bail on this for a few days. Best, Nick From: Russ Abbott [mailto:russ.abb...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 2:06 PM To: Nicholas Thompson Cc: The Friday Morning

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-09 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, everybody, Somebody (whom I respect greatly) has eldered me, writing to say that I am in danger of driving everybody nuts with my new found interest in the logic of scientific inquiry. So I will give it a rest, and lurk for a month. If anybody wants to talk off line about any of the

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-08 Thread Nicholas Thompson
/ _ On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Hi doug, and Bruce I realize that the following was hundreds of words deep in a verbose email message, and so it is understandable that you did not respond, but I am curious about your

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-05 Thread Nicholas Thompson
:05 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Dear Doug, Thanks, Doug. No offence taken, but . none of this is a game to me. Thinking about stuff, getting to the bottom of what I and others are thinking, is everything for me. It's way up the hierarchy from sex and food. We have

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-05 Thread Nicholas Thompson
or free will. I just need to focus on my grand design and its purpose. Sarbajit On 4/6/12, Nicholas Thompson mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Dear Bruce, You wrote Uh, does there have to be a reason? I'm interested just because I am -- a portion

Re: [FRIAM] online privacy (again)

2012-04-04 Thread Nicholas Thompson
AM: Turn off Javascript,.disable Java. In Firefox, Tools Options Content On 4/4/12, Nicholas Thompson mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: So. In short. Has everybody BUT me gone to some toggle in Google and in Firefox and in I.E. and done something

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-04 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I go back to the original question I asked Owen. Why are these fantasies INTERESTING?. Now, quickly, I have to admit, they don't capture my imagination that well. But I also have to admit that I firmly believe that NOBODY is interested in anything for nothing. IE, wherever there is an interest

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-04 Thread Nicholas Thompson
of science. There are many variants of philistinism, and of engagement. Bruce On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: I go back to the original question I asked Owen. Why are these fantasies INTERESTING?. Now, quickly, I have to admit, they don't

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-04 Thread Nicholas Thompson
the meaning of INTERESTING is too. Robert C On 4/4/12 2:55 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: I go back to the original question I asked Owen. Why are these fantasies INTERESTING?. Now, quickly, I have to admit, they don't capture my imagination that well. But I also have to admit that I firmly believe

[FRIAM] online privacy (again)

2012-04-02 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, everybody, Did you see this odd, avuncular op-ed from the Federal Trade Commission? I don't know whether it reassured me more than it scared the living bejeesus out of me. Big-Brother's Big Brother is looking out for you. I take it back about contempt: If one of you would

Re: [FRIAM] re vol. 105, issue 46

2012-04-01 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Peggy, I think, as your whole presentation implies, which you are doing depends on whether you are using theory to create expectations of fact, or using facts to build a theory. You probably are doing both. Does this help? This is the way I think about it, for good or ill. In

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-01 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Ok, so this is the second explanation we have had offered of why we haven't heard from anybody. We're the first. Indeed, has anybody got anything to say about this possibility. N From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-01 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I don't remember anybody complaining about discussions of religion, per se. I do remember a request that contempt or gratuitous nastiness not be a part of such a discussion I would also urge everybody to bear in mind that this is, after all, a list of people loosely self identified as

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-01 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Oh. Steve. I would infinitely prefer to argue with a catholic about transubstantiation than with a spiritualist. N -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 10:10 PM To: The Friday

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-01 Thread Nicholas Thompson
that the civilizations might currently exist and be talking past each other, or choosing to not converse at all, and you are talking from the standpoint of whether they might not exist yet. On 4/1/12 9:31 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: I don't remember anybody complaining about discussions of religion, per se. I do

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-03-31 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Dear Owen, I don't know how to ask this question without sounding churlish. But why is this question INTERESTING? That's not a rhetorical question, It actually doesn't INTEREST me. The cranky voice inside me wants to say, of COURSE we are term limited, of course our term of office

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-03-31 Thread Nicholas Thompson
about. I bet for example, they are pondering prime numbers as we do. I bet they have found that chance does not mean no structure .. i.e. random processes can create highly structured results. Evolution and Us for example. -- Owen On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-03-31 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I just had a face to face conversation with own who put his interest in the second way (see below). In which case, the thread ought to be entitled, So why haven't we heard from them? THAT strikes me as a more interesting question. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Clarifying Induction Threads

2012-03-30 Thread Nicholas Thompson
, when one count grows larger than the other, predict that the other will occur to even things out. Many people think that way. -- Russ On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Lakkaraju, Kiran klak...@sandia.govmailto:klak...@sandia.gov wrote: T From: Nicholas Thompson [mailto:nickthomp

Re: [FRIAM] Clarifying Induction Threads

2012-03-29 Thread Nicholas Thompson
, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Dear Eric Smith (and other patient people), I have been trying to get the chance to lay this out for three days, and have just not had the time. I am enthralled at the moment by the scientific philosophy of Charles Saunders Peirce because, weird

Re: [FRIAM] Clarifying Induction Threads

2012-03-28 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Owen, Eric is basically correct, although I think he may have misread the order of things (which is easy to do given that one HAS to read threads backwards. My caving in and just stating my position came very late in the game and was a response in part to all the confusion created by my

Re: [FRIAM] a further tangent

2012-03-27 Thread Nicholas Thompson
This is a great idea. But ONLY if we think of it as a remedy, not as a remediation. I would always argue for the minimalification of latinate suffixes. But it really is a great idea. Nick -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

2012-03-27 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Dear Doug, I am afraid that the black hole example is already too technologically dense for me, so I am going to punt on the project of luring you inside my walls and slaughtering you there, and just out-right tell you what I think . The argument began with my detecting in you (perhaps

Re: [FRIAM] a further tangent

2012-03-27 Thread Nicholas Thompson
any redundancy. Bugger the OED. It's full of latinate obfuscation. Nick -Original Message- From: lrudo...@meganet.net [mailto:lrudo...@meganet.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:08 AM To: Nicholas Thompson; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

2012-03-27 Thread Nicholas Thompson
other fairly immutable quality -- the accuracy of my bullshit detector. --Doug On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Dear Doug, I am afraid that the black hole example is already too technologically dense for me, so I am going to punt

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

2012-03-27 Thread Nicholas Thompson
-farm.net wrote: Very clever. --Doug On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Doug wrote In retrospect, I suppose I do have faith in one other fairly immutable quality -- the accuracy of my bullshit detector Well, why not. it’s always

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

2012-03-26 Thread Nicholas Thompson
or by working with examples so staightfoward and free of technical detail that the context is obvious to all participants without a whole lot of explication . -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen e. p. ropella

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

2012-03-24 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Robert, I think that's the best I've ever seen. Thanks, Nick -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 7:14 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re:

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

2012-03-23 Thread Nicholas Thompson
So, Doug, explain to me how you come to believe in the validity of induction? From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 2:43 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Just

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

2012-03-23 Thread Nicholas Thompson
effectively in 100 words or less. BTW - I do agree with Deutsch that conjecture and refutation is a superior way of gaining knowledge, than what I would call induction. But it seems that to say induction doesn't exist or doesn't work is going too far. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:42:15PM -0600, Nicholas

Re: [FRIAM] FW: See this?

2012-03-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
to the Child. If my recollection is correct, then this leads us to the 4th point Godhood of Father Sarbajit On 3/17/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Thanks, Sarbajit, One quibble: a child is the genetic sum of its parents If we are talking genetic tokens (as opposed

Re: [FRIAM] Disenfranchised? Americans Elect?

2012-03-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Bad as things are, now, I fear that a third party, by any name, would further divide the non crazy vote. N From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 10:02 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee

Re: [FRIAM] FW: See this?

2012-03-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
it and it does not, so far as I can see, appear in the FRIAM archive. So, here it is again, in case anyone else missed it. From: Nicholas Thompson [mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:23 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject

Re: [FRIAM] FW: See this?

2012-03-15 Thread Nicholas Thompson
, appear in the FRIAM archive. So, here it is again, in case anyone else missed it. From: Nicholas Thompson [mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:23 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: RE: [FRIAM] FW: See this? Thanks

[FRIAM] E.O Wilson in the NY-ker

2012-03-10 Thread Nicholas Thompson
The recent interview with E.O. Wilson in the New Yorker pissed me off so bad I had to write them a letter. Since the letter won't be published, I am tempted to inflict it on all of you. Thanks for your patience, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and

Re: [FRIAM] Who serves whom? Was: E.O Wilson in the NY-ker

2012-03-10 Thread Nicholas Thompson
/ _ On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: The recent interview with E.O. Wilson in the New Yorker pissed me off so bad I had to write them a letter. Since the letter won't be published, I am tempted to inflict it on all of you

Re: [FRIAM] E.O Wilson in the NY-ker

2012-03-10 Thread Nicholas Thompson
the PDF of the article that pissed you off? Otherwise those of us who don't have a subscription to the New Yorker won't really understand what you are writing about. -R On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: The recent interview with E.O. Wilson

[FRIAM] FW: See this?

2012-03-10 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Robert, 'n all, Here is an electronic version of the E.O. Wilson interview that irked me, courtesy of Frank Wimberly. I get irked by U.S. Mail. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/05/120305fa_fact_lehrer Nick

[FRIAM] Google Tracking and Anti=Tracking Tools

2012-03-04 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, everybody, I live a pretty standard geriatric life, so it's been hard for me to imagine why anybody should care if Google is tracking. But, finally I was able to imagine the KIND of reason. Let's say I am working for company X and thinking of quitting and getting into something new. My

Re: [FRIAM] opting out of on-line reverse phone/address lookup

2012-02-24 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Joe, I do internet paranoia as good as the next guy, but it occurred to me to wonder why knowing your address from an ad on ebay would identify the house as worthy of robbery any more than choosing a house a random. Am I missing an real chance to feel persecuted? By Google? Nick

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
, 2012 at 06:00:58PM -0700, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Russell3, Other than your time, what are the journal costs? I mean roughly. What are the categories of cost? I am having a hard time imagining any. Nick -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier - my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-02-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Bruce, Would you be willing to get into the weeds a bit about what those costs are? My imagination is failing me, here. Nick -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Sherwood Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:48 PM To:

[FRIAM] Berkeley Electronic Press

2012-02-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Wow! Look what just turned up. http://www.bepress.com/allservices.html http://www.bepress.com/edikit.html It must be expensive. The web page is like one of those menus a fancy French restaurant . no prices. If you have to ask, you really shouldn't have visited this website. Anybody

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-15 Thread Nicholas Thompson
journals / books at 30% (possiby less) of what it would cost in the USA.without compromising quality. On 2/15/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Thanks, Russ. Why, exactly, do we need them anyway. Can't any list of a hundred experts (like FRIAM, for instance) become a peer

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-15 Thread Nicholas Thompson
at the time, although he did manage to find someone to process the back log of submission and conference papers they had at the time. And now, I guess funding has run out, and the journal is on ice :(. Cheers On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:39:20PM -0700, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Hi, everybody, I

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-15 Thread Nicholas Thompson
and consensus among academics form. Greg Sonnenfeld “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp

[FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, everybody, I have signed perhaps a dozen Publishers Agreements over my life time and each one was more onerous, self-serving, and stupid than the one before. My favorite was the publisher who asked me to hold the Publisher harmless for anything that might occur as a consequence of the

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
/ vita: http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ _ On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Hi, everybody, I have signed perhaps a dozen Publishers

Re: [FRIAM] YES

2012-02-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
. ;-) Greg Sonnenfeld The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Why would anybody pass on a hopeless task

Re: [FRIAM] kathy.saunders

2012-01-28 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Peter, I am baffled by your email. And why it was sent to the rapid rewards program at SW airlines. I was hoping I was going to learn what these ordinary housewives are doing in their homes, but I never did. Visiting websites? Nick -Original Message- From:

Re: [FRIAM] kathy.saunders

2012-01-28 Thread Nicholas Thompson
it (or contact Peter in some other way to tell him the good news) Sarbajit On 1/28/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Peter, I am baffled by your email. And why it was sent to the rapid rewards program at SW airlines. I was hoping I was going to learn what these ordinary

Re: [FRIAM] SOPA URLs

2012-01-25 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Didja get the ms? From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ERIC P. CHARLES Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:11 AM To: Owen Densmore Cc: The; Group; disc...@sfcomplex.org Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SOPA URLs Owen, To shift slightly... Aren't there

Re: [FRIAM] Understanding the Occupy Movementf

2012-01-21 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Dear everybody, I have been working at the edges of the occupy/99% movement in Santa Fe, where we just put together a sizeable demonstration to welcome the governor and the legislature back to work. We are now trying to figure out which legislative actions to support and oppose in the short 30

Re: [FRIAM] HELP: google analytics

2012-01-18 Thread Nicholas Thompson
://statcounter.com; is also quite good and you don't get the obvious feeling that our tiny websites are contributing to Google's bloated revenue stream. Sarbajit On 1/18/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Thanks, Grant. I guess I did all that , cuz it's now working. Just

[FRIAM] HELP: google analytics

2012-01-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, everybody, I did a website for our local occupy group, and Now I am curious if anybody used it. I rummaged around in the helpfiles until I found a third party instruction set for how to set up analytics for a site, I opened a profile and pasted the little number into my site, and sat

[FRIAM] READ ME FIRST: HELP: google analytics

2012-01-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
And then, 15 minutes after I sent this message and 72 hours after it was supposed to, my first GA report appeard. So I guess I'm set. As I feared, the report looks like my science citation index report. I sure do access my own website a lot. [sigh] Nick From: Nicholas Thompson

Re: [FRIAM] HELP: google analytics

2012-01-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
:47 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Hi, everybody, I did a website for our local occupy group, and Now I am curious if anybody used it. I rummaged around in the helpfiles until I found a third party instruction set for how to set up analytics for a site, I opened a profile and pasted the little

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Nicholas Thompson
But that's the point, Doug! Many of them have! Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 11:23 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Owen, Whom the gods would drive mad.. Etc. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 7:22 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change I

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-07 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Great Catch, Robert. I am afraid my finger was hovering over the send button. Gawd I have such naïve fingers. I did wonder, though, about the pension claim. And also, I am not so keen on term limits, unless lobbyists also have them. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] tomorrow

2012-01-05 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I guess so: I sent the following message out to FRIAM yesterday but the Censors seem to have deep-sixed it. Dear local friammers, (1)The coffeeshop at St. Johns WILL be open and serving this Friday. I have checked this and double checked it. (2)There is a demonstration

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