Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

bout the article, that it's overbearing on both men and women. In fact, the article seems to be indirectly arguing *for* such a heterarchy. We might sum it up as: Be intimate. That the author didn't caveat it with "in moderation" shouldn't bother us too much ... becau

Re: [FRIAM] NOW IS: Oh, Woe, Academia! WAS: gene complex for homosexuality

Nick writes: < I long for the days of the egg-head professor with the elbow patches in the tweed jacket, taking his summer vacations in an unplumbed shack in the Adirondacks with his Remington Upright. Yes, the sixties university was institutionally classist, racist, sexist, cis-ist, and prob

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

one that way, you may not be able to pull them out of it. So, in that sense, I agree with you. On 1/14/22 09:47, Marcus Daniels wrote: > The claim in the original article that I disagree with is that there are all > these men malfunctioning because of their stoic upbringing. I think I coul

Re: [FRIAM] NOW IS: Oh, Woe, Academia! WAS: gene complex for homosexuality

Steve writes: "Amateurs then? Done (studied) for the love of..." Particularly impressive (or confusing) to me are people that can find a boundary on their paid work to pursue random scholarly things. (Scholarly in the way Glen describes it.) For me it always kind of makes sense to relinquis

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

< I still don't see it much in the way these news stories are structured. But even from the beginning of the pandemic, people who work in health care logistics watched hospitalizations closer than cases or deaths. Staffing, availability of equipment, beds, local population and demographics, hosp

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling democratic backsliding

Jochen writes: < Another aspect which is not covered yet is the influence of other countries. > Some interesting remarks on how international relationships stabilize deconstruction of states. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/31/secession-civil-war-stephen-marche/ For example, if

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

If anything, Musk is suspicious because he is not overtly apocalyptic. Some criticisms of Don’t Look Up were along the lines that it fails to try to persuade a change of course in favor of being condescending. That was the whole point of the movie: Comic relief among the reasonable who must

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

acist patriarchy, anyway. On 1/21/22 08:31, Marcus Daniels wrote: If anything, Musk is suspicious because he is not overtly apocalyptic. Some criticisms of Don’t Look Up were along the lines that it fails to try to persuade a change of course in favor of being condescending. That was the wh

Re: [FRIAM] AI "conquered" poker

I don't get poker like I don't get why people would watch Formula 1 or Indy cars drive around in a circle. Especially since they have to limit the car designs. Now this I would watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU From: Friam on behalf of Eric

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

latent trait, spoken as a well-off white man born into a racist patriarchy, anyway. On 1/21/22 08:31, Marcus Daniels wrote: If anything, Musk is suspicious because he is not overtly apocalyptic. Some criticisms of Don’t Look Up were along the lines that it fails to try to persuade a change o

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

side any true recycling loops — whether or not we all die as the only alternative — is one I am willing to take seriously, and would be interested to claim a robust answer to. To do this fully and well would be desirable IMO. But again, who will bell that cat? Eric On Jan 21, 2

Re: [FRIAM] Yeeah Coin Miners made it hard to get parts

It is unbelievable to me the resources Tesla is expending on machine learning and automatic driving.They've transcended GPUs (12,000 wasn't enough) and are designing their own chips for custom supercomputers now. https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M?t=6324 From: Fri

[FRIAM] closing the loop on CO2

The solution has been known since 1955! https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1742145 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman

Re: [FRIAM] Struck me as funny

I was a fan of Ray Donovan on Showtime. Its finale I thought was well done and connected the dots from childhood to advanced PTSD in adulthood of the main character. The interesting bit was that the therapist he eventually turns to (Alan Alda) is soon wise to his criminal life but remains en

Re: [FRIAM] Struck me as funny

Merle writes: < Anyway, his research field is nanotechnology. Is it here? Where has it been applied? Is it an incredibly generative technology that will change our near-term future? HELP, and thanks. > A new Mac laptop uses a 5 nm fabrication process. The silicon atoms from which it is c

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

the worst of the bunch. Power >> corrupts. It's not a lesson the non-powerful can actually learn, though. So >> it's a good thing to keep around a nicely scaled gradation of the super rich >> and the destitute poor, with some walkability up and down the scale. That &g

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

igm, even those of us who see the engine's headlight at the end of the tunnel can't think any differently. So ... how could I say it so you agree with it? Power is self-reinforcing even when it becomes obsolete? On 1/24/22 11:30, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Employees in a large or

Re: [FRIAM] FRom Merle

Marcus Daniels has shared a OneDrive for Business file with you. To view it, click the link below. <https://snoutfarm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/p/marcus/EQyZQuIMNKFNvnpNfcxvy9MBPojk05aPE63v6yXwcdk4zQ> [https://r1.res.office365.com/owa/prem/images/dc-pdf_20.png]<https://snoutfarm-my.sharepoi

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

ems in a transparent way, then it's difficult to accuse them of corruption. Hence, secrecy and closed systems are more readily corruptible than open ones. On 1/24/22 11:56, Marcus Daniels wrote: > If what you mean is that there are consequences to indifference to the > environment and t

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

boundary. Granted, one may not have constitutive understanding of what's happening inside the membrane. But one can profile the behavior of the surface. And if that behavior changes over time, then it's capable of corruption. On 1/24/22 13:07, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Closed systems

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

#x27;s been corrupted because it differs from the anticipation. Of course, this is all "angel's on the head of a pin" because there are no completely closed systems. Even if we accept closure in some dimension, openness is required in other dimensions. On 1/24/22 13:23, Marcus D

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 2:41 PM David Eric Smith mailto:desm...@santafe.edu>> wrote: Sorry, wikipedia said it. It was Roddenberry’s friend. On Jan 24, 2022, at 4:23 PM, Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Glen writes: < That's not true at all. Closed systems do

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

se already know that, and I just don’t get out? Eric On Jan 24, 2022, at 4:23 PM, Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Glen writes: < That's not true at all. Closed systems do have disclosures in terms of the behavior of their boundary. Granted, one may not h

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Smith mailto:desm...@santafe.edu>> wrote: Sorry, wikipedia said it. It was Roddenberry’s friend. On Jan 24, 2022, at 4:23 PM, Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Glen writes: < That's not true at all. Closed systems do have disclosures in terms of the

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

iden or even Eddington typewriters like Trump. Corruption doesn't require *intention*, only an unexpected variation from expectation. Of course, we'll forgive accidental corruption like the Mindy character in Don't Look Up, just not the intentional corruption of President Orlean. O

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

s a great example of a runaway process. He may be a better contribution to the planet than, say, the Kardashians, but more so earlier and less so now. [⛧] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter On 1/24/22 15:00, Marcus Daniels w

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

ncy of the transaction, or in fringe storage types (able to get past the receptionist after eating over-priced peri-Mexican food in order to have tea with smart people). On 1/24/22 15:31, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Some of them sponsor SFI for goodness' sake! They'll never see THA

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

sm to this Tony Stark > near-radical thing, analogous to the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeal to the > youngsters. I blame it on comics and super hero movies. Pffft. Irony is dead. > Subtlety is dead. It's all about the bling, baby. > >> On 1/24/22 16:19, Marcus Dani

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

and seams, compared to the blunt moves of the ones who had states. I have some discomfort that this doesn’t quite map. Yet it seems not fully dissimilar. Eric On Jan 24, 2022, at 7:19 PM, Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: SFI sponsorship seems like very much a fideistic d

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 6:38 PM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Before I launch into a diatribe about why the hell we can't agree to basic, never mind interesting things: I'd just like to report

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 6:38 PM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Before I launch into a diatribe about why the hell we can't agree to basic, never mind interesting things: I'd just like to report that the James Webb tel

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

s? My impression is that their population has grown substantially notwithstanding those policies. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 6:38 PM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Before I launc

Re: [FRIAM] Ukraine and NATO

I think the issue is, like Sweden and Finland, they have the role to Russia as buffers to U.S. medium range missiles. > On Jan 25, 2022, at 5:37 AM, glen wrote: > > Why Ukraine is still not a NATO member: who is to blame and what to do? > https://uacrisis.org/en/why-ukraine-is-still-not-in-nat

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

As for 1 child per couple didn't they "terminate" some babies (not fetuses, feti?), particularly females? My impression is that their population has grown substantially notwithstanding those policies. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

particularly females? My impression is that their population has grown substantially notwithstanding those policies. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 6:38 PM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>>

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

8:17 AM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Frank writes: < Two problems, "God" has tricks for making babies. As for 1 child per couple didn't they "terminate" some babies (not fetuses, feti?), particularly females? > I think Neural

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

ucating girls, followed closely by empowering girls, e.g., with micro-loans to start businesses. I remember studying this topic way back in the 80s in my anthropology graduate program. davew On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, at 9:02 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: Merle wrote: < China's population has sto

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

impossibilities will be as diverse as the values that >> underlie those impossibilities. And, if that's the case, then we're back to >> the clustering/homogenizing we see in any aspect of pop culture. >> >> On 1/24/22 17:21, David Eric Smith wrote: >>

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

:38 PM, Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: https://goodmeat.co/process<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fgoodmeat.co%2fprocess&c=E,1,cc0UXzpHcpIUldST355NTueKAubejYej9Tu6TDfu6RseJmyf7nn4ySPH4GtWuEXr88Bgac-rqS0Pgu5skqVLkiI9JGT_YHnyEpJf4Ljes2Ub9uejiE

Re: [FRIAM] Ukraine and NATO

Bloc or former Soviet Republic incorporated as a NATO state was explicitly promised prior to the USSR peacefully disintegrating. And how many nations has the US invaded since Gorbachev’s premiership? —— Par On Tuesday, January 25, 2022, Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wro

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

followed closely by empowering girls, e.g., with micro-loans to start businesses. I remember studying this topic way back in the 80s in my anthropology graduate program. davew On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, at 9:02 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: Merle wrote: < China's population has stopped grow

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

x soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger an

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

such an offensive game. p.s. Y'all need to trim your posts. I just trimmed, literally, 20k of FriAM signature fodder from that post. Electricity doesn't grow on trees! On 1/25/22 15:37, Marcus Daniels wrote: > For me, meat-in-vats or Impossible burger tech. is more to address

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Rendering and parsing costs can be significant. In Microsoft Outlook for the web, I have had e-mails where it takes a full second​ between each keystroke. No, I haven't really investigated the detailed profile of where that cost was coming from. (It's not open-source software, so why would I

Re: [FRIAM] check your units before turning in your quiz

It isn't clear it is the wrong call? The public health measures have been ineffective (contact tracing) or unpopular. And by the time people are in hospitals, if they are unvaccinated, it's just a crowded place for them to die. One of the main values of testing now seems to be to track spat

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

the Science Fiction without pictures) of our era and I claim it heavily shaped our image of what was possible/desireable.I don't think it is serving us (Gaia of whom we are her most precocious children?) [https://theretrofuturist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/1958flyingcar.jpg] - Steve On 1/25/2

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

spread a spectrum between them. Fuel cells plug some > holes in their span, I suppose. Maybe we should have nuclear trucks and > ships? Who wouldn't want a bunch of tiny reactors trolling the > [high|water]ways? As long as we replace the amphetamine fueled humans with > autonomo

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

ssible/desireable.I don't think it is serving us (Gaia of whom we are her most precocious children?) [https://theretrofuturist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/1958flyingcar.jpg] - Steve On 1/25/22 5:58 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: < It might not surprise anyone here that I have become

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

With ubiquitous, inexpensive energy, electrocatalysis could be used to convert carbon dioxide to clean hydrogen fuel. From: Friam On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 7:26 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi On 1/27/22 5:17 PM, Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

cts?). > https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk#prize-activity From: Friam on behalf of Steve Smith Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 8:25 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi On 1/27/22 5:17 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

e Tony Stark. It is because they are the worst. Marcus From: Friam on behalf of Steve Smith Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 8:23 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi On 1/27/22 10:01 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: < Musk is tr

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

those who identify the good that's done with the celebrity, then refuse to identify the bad that's done with that celebrity. On 1/28/22 09:05, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I can sort of see why Musk is annoying to scientists because he tends to use > ideas and technology that already

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

torming of the capitol? If you feel the Musks, Trumps, and Winfreys of the world do a better job than agencies like NASA, then you're in good company with the MAGA crowd. Musk 2024! On 1/28/22 09:53, Marcus Daniels wrote: > But Musk's companies have accomplished things. Tesla has b

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

ead". So why weren't you facilitating the storming of the capitol? If you feel the Musks, Trumps, and Winfreys of the world do a better job than agencies like NASA, then you're in good company with the MAGA crowd. Musk 2024! On 1/28/22 09:53, Marcus Daniels wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

d what? Just pass out the assets willy nilly. Yeah, that's the ticket. While we're at it, we should defund historians and burn all the books. No point in storing any of that. We can give all the resources we burn tracking that junk to Musk and he'll dole it out appropriately. O

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

I think Rogan and Young are representative agents. They are of course individuals and celebrities, but they mirror something like an eigenvector in a space of values and to some extent cognitive ability. The tantalizing thing about a Trump is that he is just a guy that has tested a message on

Re: [FRIAM] Tomorrow, 12p-2 Stu Kauffman on drums at Museum Hill Cafe, Santa Fe

This time of year, it is a good idea to check the weather before heading out for an event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEkhRNzbmGU On Jan 28, 2022, at 8:40 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:  LOCAL MAXIMA Lunch Jam Tomorrow, Sat 1/29 12p-2 Museum Hill Cafe, Santa Fe Diane Johnson will be on piano

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: New Mexico Legacy

Nice example of machine learning finding a signal but lacking semantic reasoning to determine if it is relevant. On Jan 29, 2022, at 5:46 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:  They don't think I already own it? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM --

Re: [FRIAM] celebrity woes

https://www.inverse.com/article/34976-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-tried-to-buy-icbm-rockets-from-russia Maybe he needs to buy some MiGs too and stop his bitching? -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 8:32 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] ce

Re: [FRIAM] celebrity woes

ting the Idaho stop. <https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recalls-nearly-54000-us-vehicles-rolling-stop-software-feature-2022-02-01/> On 2/2/22 10:08, Gillian Densmore wrote: > lol don't tempt him. > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 10:56 AM Marcus Daniels <mai

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

In case someone steals your pad/laptop/phone and posts scandalous things about Elon Musk and various sorts of appendages? Then you'll know? -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:37 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Double Maste

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

Mine just stopped delivering my mail. > On Feb 2, 2022, at 3:11 PM, David Eric Smith wrote: > > Our postman says that about our dog. > > We are trying hard to get her to stop launching herself into people, some of > whom don’t like it. The postman says ‘What, she doesn’t like me any more?

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy in Name Only: endemic regime instability

As Omicron was ramping up Joy Reid said something along the lines of “Is there a way to cut out a safe place to live these days [free from all the anti-vaxxer crazies]?” That resonated with me. I think that’s a plausible way how life could be in ten years. Some municipalities & companies, may

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy in Name Only: endemic regime instability

stic emissions. (Get off my lawn!) But I say Good Riddance. I'd be outta Shasta in a heartbeat. On 2/4/22 09:02, Marcus Daniels wrote: > As Omicron was ramping up Joy Reid said something along the lines of “Is > there a way to cut out a safe place to live these days [free from all

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy in Name Only: endemic regime instability

just acoustic emissions. (Get off my lawn!) But I say Good Riddance. I'd be outta Shasta in a heartbeat. On 2/4/22 09:02, Marcus Daniels wrote: > As Omicron was ramping up Joy Reid said something along the lines of “Is > there a way to cut out a safe place to live these days [free from

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

https://thebulletin.org/2022/01/whether-green-blue-or-turquoise-hydrogen-needs-to-be-clean-and-cheap/ On Feb 6, 2022, at 7:20 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:  Grey hydrogen? https://retakeourdemocracy.org/2022/02/06/another-stunning-hydrogen-development/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -.

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

? Thanks. N Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Sunday, February 6, 2022 9:31 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Another St

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

l water used in the US is used to create electricity. We see this as a better option than Hydrogen. We do think Hydrogen fuel cells are a solution for mobile applications. Mike Orshan On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 10:27 AM Steve Smith mailto:sasm...@swcp.com>> wrote: On 2/6/22 8:31 PM, M

Re: [FRIAM] enough sleep?

The nature of our economy rewards people that keep their nose to the grindstone. Locally it is a good optimization, but globally you work till you drop. Maybe you go on a Viking River Cruise or something while you are reaching completion.I have a lot of sleep momentum and require lots of

Re: [FRIAM] enough sleep?

an even worse person than I already am. On 4/9/19 8:46 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > The nature of our economy rewards people that keep their nose to the grindstone. Locally it is a good optimization, but globally you work till you drop. Maybe you go on a Viking River Cruise or

Re: [FRIAM] enough sleep?

Gary writes: “The former says that we need to keep our noses to the grindstone in order to compete (or in the past, to merely survive).” At least the corporation-centric view makes some sense.As far as group survival goes, these days, I take a pretty globalist view. The folks that assume

Re: [FRIAM] enough sleep?

Steve writes: "I also live with two dogs (and a cat) who nap *all the time* and while they occasionally present as "groggy" when woken abruptly, they mostly slide in and out of sleep according to need, efficiently and well as best I can tell." I've got a big shepherd mix dog who i

Re: [FRIAM] enough sleep?

however that's spelled)- fact is that with mental health issues on a huge rise part of that is from sleep, or lack of, The data is their to back it. On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 4:01 PM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Steve writes: "I also live with two dog

Re: [FRIAM] enough sleep?

In the end, life is just a struggle for power. As soon as one starts to think in terms of entitled or not entitled (beyond rhetoric and tactics), it is just taking your eye off the ball. Whether it is for the best or not is in the end, subjective. Btw, it's good you point out the concept of

Re: [FRIAM] Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

Steve writes: < From my ALife days, "Life" is a lot of things at once, while being roughly as simple as systems which increase negentropy in the flux of free energy sources. Your "struggle for power" is perhaps a reflection of the competition for better exposure to said "flux". >

Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

Glen writes: "What mechanism is responsible for these patterns of expectation, given (what seems to me) a co-evolutionary milieu far from equilibrium? Is it simply Hebbian/reinforcement learning, an embodied type of (false) induction? I'm skeptical because of your (Steve) question about the u

Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

Steve writes: < It seems like an elaboration of "constraint provides form"? > Here I'll admit I just have no interest in games, puzzles, and most sports. Just what IS the point? I think it is the same kind of psychology at work: Let's create some artificial thing that can be mastered or at l

Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

: Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep? On 4/11/19 10:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > What I'm pitching here is not to extend identity, but to annihilate it. Can we, though? In the conversation about playing roles instead of simply changing t

Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

Steve writes: < What little Buddhist/Meditation affinity/practice I have suggests that it is an illusion which on a good day is fully ignored ("but by whom?" the paradox asks). To the extent that *most* everyone I know presents to me (or I apprehend them as such) as an ego-centric i

Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

you psych people care to provide distinguishing definitions for a lazy dilettante like me? On 4/11/19 12:07 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Among engineers, especially young ones, one way the ego-centric individual presents herself is via Not Invented Here (NIH). She simply cannot i

Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

Glen writes: "Just try to do the work! Who cares what you think about your self?" Uh huh. The right way to think is What Needs To Get Done, not whether you get github stars to show you did it in a day or a month, or that it shows any sort of consistency on your CV. No one gives a damn. Re

Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

Steve writes: < What Marcus references as "gelling" and "need for social order" strikes me as superficial goals which are emergent properties, not sufficient pre-conditions. My experience with overly formal organizations is that they tend to try to enforce those things, losing track

Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

Glen writes: "Do any of you psych people care to provide distinguishing definitions for a lazy dilettante like me?" I find this kind of evidence unsatisfactory.How people act as individuals or in groups says nothing about how an AI might function as individuals or in groups. It's merel

Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

I have a Das keyboard too, one of those with no key labels. ☺ Btw, the new Cascade Lake machines are out now and offer Optane memory modules. I think this could be transformative in computational science -- open-ended persistent memory that is byte-addressable. From: Friam on behalf of Barry

Re: [FRIAM] Thorstein Veblen?

Barry writes: "I mention this only as another bit of evidence that the world is smaller than you think." It's big but compresses remarkably well. It matters whether we are counting classes or instances. Marcus FRIAM Applied Comp

Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...

The cosmic muffin people seem to think that it Is important to think nice things (of course defined by them) and that nice things will happen as a result.They fail to see how they are a source of negative entropy and thus in fact an energy barrier for the larger population, and more often th

Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...

28/law-of-attraction-again/ I re-read those entries before sending this to be sure my self from 4-5 years ago doesn't sound too stupid. But, IDK. Life's too short to be embarrassed. On 4/15/19 8:39 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > The cosmic muffin people seem to th

Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...

ps://gepr.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/law-of-attraction-again/ I re-read those entries before sending this to be sure my self from 4-5 years ago doesn't sound too stupid. But, IDK. Life's too short to be embarrassed. On 4/15/19 8:39 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > The cosmic muffin people

Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...

://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 4:38 PM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: And anyway he’s dead. From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>>

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People are prone to rationalizing their investments as their preferences. For example, some might claim they bought a house because they want a home. Another valid reason is to have equity, recognizing the practical need for shelter.Whatever the claimed motive, it is expected people will

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In a gig economy, I don't see how "serve" is very meaningful, never mind "worship". I think the Gen Y folks are right to be (supposedly) selfish and indifferent to the needs of the organization. No one else will look out for them in the workforce. On 4/16/19, 8:48 AM, "Friam on behalf of gl

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? --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 11:46 AM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: In

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With quantum annealer, one can make the distinction between logical qubits and physical qubits. Logical qubits can be formed from physical qubits by connecting physical qubits by strong pairwise ferromagnetic couplings. The low energy state of a system thus (in principle) has physical qubits

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I sometimes find Maher entertaining but John Oliver has a better show in that it is a synthesis, weaponized to make a point.Oliver's researchers could probably get a job for Frontline just as well. Maher is more like a show for venting and schadenfreude -- it is different from a sermon. Y

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Perhaps as efforts to address diseases like Parkinson’s and MS via gene therapy, there will be more interest in protection & enhancement cognition as well. Of course there’s Kernel and Neuralink too.I know Kung Fu

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Jochen writes: < We have a kind of tunnelling in social systems for startups: they borrow money which they don't have from venture capital companies and banks, and this allows them to "tunnel" through unprofitable times. > Seems thermal to me. A start-up is hot, high-energy, even reckless, an

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Steve writes: < I personally expect *practical* post/transhumanism to continue inevitably at an accelerated rate and see no advantage in trying to stand in it's way, but DO feel an ethical drive to try to at least caution against the kinds of technological-outrunning-of-headlights I believe alr

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< As an (apparent) proponent of fairly aggressive trans-humanism, can you elaborate on what you see as the biggest promises/cautions to the ideas involved? > Here are a couple in the news recently. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/gene-therapy-cures-infants-with-bubble-bo

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Steve writes: < Would you say that you have more confidence or faith in enhancing individual agency than in seeking the synergies and emergent possibilities through enhancing collective agency? > Something close to no confidence for the latter. I think empowered cohesive minority groups wil

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< We can turn up the brightness and narrow the focus to maximize flux, but for many problems, that is not unlike hitting our high beams in a snowstorm or fogbank. One of the things I hope (mostly in vain, but not entirely) for from this list is discussion of how to apply Complex Systems Theory

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