Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-03 Thread glen ☣
I don't know. I don't care about him or what he wants/thinks. To some extent, he's part of our tribe and in that sense, we have an obligation to either own the repercussions of his actions/statements _or_ rebuke him and police our tribe. But other than that, he's a silly person and I just do

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-03 Thread Marcus Daniels
erfacing to his lawyers. What does he really want? Marcus -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 1:37 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-03 Thread glen ☣
Well, the cow<->Thielian boundary is ephemeral. 2 cows can reproduce to make a Thielian. Thielian production is chaotic and polyphenic. And that's likely to continue despite any widespread but non-catastrophic problem with the cattle population. The Thielian epistocracy will need some thres

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-03 Thread Marcus Daniels
017 11:00 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents The obvious answer is that the Thiels know they need fresh _minds_ as well as fresh blood, at least for now. And this is more than simply growing disrupter-smart cows who will ascend to

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-03 Thread glen ☣
The obvious answer is that the Thiels know they need fresh _minds_ as well as fresh blood, at least for now. And this is more than simply growing disrupter-smart cows who will ascend to full humanity in their ranks. They need a delicate balance of suggestibility and intelligence ... cows who

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-03 Thread Marcus Daniels
all into a normal sort of depression like the rest of us? -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 10:14 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-03 Thread glen ☣
Well, again, the Thiel-as-vampire metaphor would argue that it's not in the best interests of the libertarians to grow a herd of people completely unable to take care of themselves. If the cattle is too dependent, then they'd be forced to admit that they need universal healthcare in order to m

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-03 Thread Marcus Daniels
Some that suffer from microcephaly life to be 30-35 years! -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of gepr Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 4:31 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents Naa

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-03 Thread gepr
Naa. As the essay argues, Thiel's ilk trusts that those people are more like cattle. Big families keep the labor pool stocked and keep plenty of fresh blood available for the vampires' life-extending transfusions. There's no need for universal healthcare because we only need the human commodity

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-02 Thread Marcus Daniels
y, January 02, 2017 10:42 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Political tangents It's still politics... but _way_ more interesting: Let Them Drink Blood https://tni-back-soon.github.io/essays/let-them-drink-blood/index.html > Alexander Bogdanov, a cofounder of the Bolshevik par

[FRIAM] Political tangents

2017-01-02 Thread glen ☣
It's still politics... but _way_ more interesting: Let Them Drink Blood https://tni-back-soon.github.io/essays/let-them-drink-blood/index.html > Alexander Bogdanov, a cofounder of the Bolshevik party and Lenin's one-time > rival, was a particularly Thielian figure in the group. In 1905, Bogd