Re: [FRIAM] Memo To Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists | The Evolution Institute

"But you're assuming that being a member of a team, prevents you from operating as an independent agent. That's just not true." Teams have governance and process. Governance implies limitations to autonomy. Process takes time and effort.These things have to be worth it. Sometimes they

Re: [FRIAM] Memo To Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists | The Evolution Institute

m. Even patent trolls have a place on the team, if for no other reason than to find the sharp edges and help us sand them off. On 10/27/2016 12:11 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > If all roads lead to Rome, that's where people will end up. Of course, it is > very exploitable, and one

Re: [FRIAM] Memo To Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists | The Evolution Institute

eams they can possibly commit to. On 10/27/2016 02:11 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Sure I can have more power, but I'm not learning anything more about the > world or really getting any better -- the exercise of that power is confined > to an arena that is closed and not significantly m

Re: [FRIAM] Memo To Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists | The Evolution Institute

false dichotomy between the collective and the individual. On 10/27/2016 12:40 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > All roads leading to Rome does not imply sufficiency of transportation in > general. At some point someone might propose, "I'd like to visit my family > in Astana and would l

Re: [FRIAM] THREAD BENDING ALERT: Was "Is Bezos a Bozo?" IS NOW"Reading Email exchanges chronologically"

"... to standardize things across email clients (e.g. the quotation prefix and "quote" line, plain text vs. html, character encodings)?" My favorite is that Outlook's re-encoding of :-) shows up as the letter J. That kind of defeats the original purpose of text art -- that it is portable

Re: [FRIAM] THREAD BENDING ALERT: Was "Is Bezos a Bozo?" IS NOW"Reading Email exchanges chronologically"

Nick, Personally, I think there are too many meetings and proceedings of same. There are too many thin papers where it obviously isn't possible to reproduce the result without a lot more context, and where the authors assume already having a lot of knowledge most readers won't have (even

Re: [FRIAM] Memo To Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists | The Evolution Institute

"I don't understand what you're saying, here. Are you saying that professionals don't, say, bake cookies for the PTA or their kid's baseball team? Obviously you're not saying that." I am talking about the major compromises people make to make it up the corporate ladder or beat out their

Re: [FRIAM] Memo To Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists | The Evolution Institute

s fast as we'd like. But it doesn't imply that teams are less effective than individuals or that teams are mostly a tool to undermine individuals. On October 27, 2016 5:32:18 PM PDT, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: "I don't understand w

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

? Seems like they should disdain elections, too, hold out for victory by acclamation? -- rec -- On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:28 PM, ┣glen┫ <geprope...@gmail.com<mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 11/04/2016 09:53 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > http://www.slate.com/features/pkremp_fore

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

A neural net trained to discriminate between nuances in one environment (H) would need to get re-trained (or I'd say untrained) to the D environment. The signals in H type environments are higher dimensional, coupled, and non-linear compared to the D environment which is made up of many more

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Because we love philosophy here (!), an excerpt from Simon Critchley's article in the NYT: "The lesson of existentialism is that the nausea that we feel is actually the emergence of a genuine, lived sense of our freedom. Anxiety is the motor that drives the engine of freedom and that can take

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

<> I know what you mean, but I don't expect to experience it as personal danger, at least right away. With some code switching, the new danger in the world could even benefit me. (`Benefit' defined in a banal survivalist sort of way.) The point is that at some point there is nothing

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

n born in americans to vote into office. In fact, I expect that there would be a fairly tiny population of people with all four grandparents born in the US. -- rec -- On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: In contrast

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Steve writes: "Gary and Jill (and the others) may be irrelevant in the sense that neither has a chance of "winning the contest", but I would claim that yet another presumed irrelevant (Bernie Sanders) HAS significantly shaped the discussion and possibly the shape of Hillary's platform and

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

"Of course, I suppose I could be pissing in the wind, here, because at least half of the people who study complexity are crypto-reductionists who believe that all complex phenomena arise from simple rules (with particular characteristics). If we just dig deep enough, think hard enough, compute

Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term

Nick, You might look at SPARQL. Purely functional logic languages like Mercury provide general ways to formulate things the way Dave describes, but adding strong typing so that one can be sure the desired form is provided. Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] Yearly rant about this daylight savings stuff

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/time-to-dump-time-zones.html?ref=opinion From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2016 8:39 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re:

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Well, let us not just scoff at analyses about the odds of the end of the republic, let us prevent the end of the republic. Buses should be running to Canada at least up until the inauguration. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith Sent: Friday, November

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

I found the article from the Dalai Lama in the NYT today fairly plausible explanation of why we have the current problem.But, I would say, no, there will be no brotherhood with the Bundy's. The redistributionist approach (that Brooks -- libertarian -- objects to elsewhere) arises in order

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

ictory by acclamation? -- rec -- On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:28 PM, ┣glen┫ <geprope...@gmail.com<mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 11/04/2016 09:53 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > http://www.slate.com/features/pkremp_forecast/report.html Very nice presentation. Thanks, Marcus! O

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

too, hold out for victory by acclamation? -- rec -- On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:28 PM, ┣glen┫ <geprope...@gmail.com<mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 11/04/2016 09:53 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > http://www.slate.com/features/pkremp_forecast/report.html Very nice presentati

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

ons to take root. If I were one of them, I'd surely vote Trump. We do need to get over "who's going to win?" and ask "why has Trump got such a *huge* following?" -- Owen On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net<mailto:o...@backspaces.net>&g

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

were one of them, I'd surely vote Trump. We do need to get over "who's going to win?" and ask "why has Trump got such a *huge* following?" -- Owen On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net<mailto:o...@backspaces.net>> wrote: On

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: what other subject is there this morning

Thanks, Eric. Great to hear from you today. From: Friam on behalf of Eric Smith Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 7:19:31 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Fwd: what

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: what other subject is there this morning

Eric Smith writes: “Facts matter in the real world of cause and effect, but in the choice world of resentment, they are beside the point. People under the power of resentment are unreachable in all those terms; they have shifted into a different space. Somehow that is what we have to deal

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: what other subject is there this morning

Eric> This is the right question, Marcus, and I don’t know. I have met, or briefly worked with, a number of people who I think would have no idea what Gladwell is talking about in his parable on David and Goliath. I guess I should be thankful I have not met more. To this set of people,

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

The margins were tight in some cases, so Comey and voter suppression tactics in places like NC could have been factors. But no excuses for Wisconsin and Pennsylvania it seems to me.And it wasn’t Nader’s (etc) fault -- that kind of discontent needs to be taken seriously by the relevant

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: what other subject is there this morning

<> Boy are they in for a surprise. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: what other subject is there this morning

I don't agree with this, but it is a related argument. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/stop-shaming-trump-supporters FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at

Re: [FRIAM] what other subject is there this morning

What isn't possible at this point? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/09/trump-win-california-secede-calexit-silicon-valley?CMP=edit_2221 Silicon Valley investors call for California to secede from the US after Trump

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

<> I have been far more afraid of a major regression to our democracy than any compulsion to pursue the kind of progressive efforts I would try to advance. I don't think my fear was misplaced.I take some comfort that I was not alone in this. Kind of like that feeling after 9/11 that

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

"The fact that world H and world D are such closely adjacent possibles is what I am savoring (in the sense of morbid fascination) for roughly the next 24-36 hours. " To first order, this isn't about the ideological aspirations of one candidate vs. the other (or the completely irrelevant

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

to game a system, but maybe I'm just getting too old to enjoy it properly? On 11/7/16 3:58 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > < being elected. It's not dread, at all. It's exciting. I can't empathize > with Trump voters any more than I can empathize with vandals, MMA fighters, > or the drug

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

"I'm used to this type of code switch when I go home and talk to the right wingers in my family. But if Trump wins I expect I'll have to do it up here too." An elaboration of my metaphor would be that some of the tactics run in an interpreter (D) and some are compiled (H). The interpreter

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

On 11/07/2016 08:01 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Reductionism is a null hypothesis: First make sure something doesn't yield > to decomposition. Glen writes: "But there's rarely time or political capital to do that _first_. Obamacare is a great example. Had we focused on an e

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

< It is useful to study how cancers work and spread. But right *now* what's needed is radiation to stop the tumor growth. Marcus From: Friam on behalf of Owen Densmore Sent: Monday, November 7, 2016

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

I'm more worried about data loss (data corruption of memory sticks, software bugs in scanning votes), or voter suppression. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/11/we_looked_at_130_million_ballots_from_the_2012_election_and_found_zero_fraud.html

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

War III. Cheers. On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com<mailto:g...@naturesvisualarts.com>> wrote: Well put. This is not a game. On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: &qu

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

“So I just don't give a Damn about the president, no matter who.“ You might as well round-up to all U.S. law for most of your kids’ lives as there will be enough turnover in the president’s Supreme court nominations to dramatically skew things to the right. “My first Damn is for Love &

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

n Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net<mailto:o...@backspaces.net>> wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: I found the article from the Dalai Lama in the NYT

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Friday, November 04, 2016 3:52 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight The Republicans in F

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

olling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight Nate's reaction to this: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/794994593574113282 Must have hit a nerve. Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Nov 5, 2016 3:33 PM, "Marcus Daniels" <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snout

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

ns for negative emotions to take root. ?If I were one of them, I'd surely vote Trump. We do need to get over "who's going to win??" and ask "why has Trump got such a *huge* following?" -- Owen On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net<mailto:o

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nate-silver-election-forecast_us_581e1c33e4b0d9ce6fbc6f7f FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

The Republicans in Florida still have teensy bit more returned.It depends on the defection rates. https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStats From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

7 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors Was the iPhone a disrupter? On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: I’d say the folks t

Re: [FRIAM] Disruptor

Or corrected. I don't want to go to the hospital and get a different loved-one. I want the cancer cured, the organ replaced, or whatever.It's harder to do that than make more babies. -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ?glen? Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] Disruptor

t: Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors Enablers are things like an enabled (turned on) WarpCoil or Inertial Dampeners or Teleporters. Disrupters shoot stuff to blow up rocks. But I suspect nick or his friend don't mean as in from StarTrek. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Marcus Daniels <

Re: [FRIAM] Disruptor

e them. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Oct 18, 2016 11:01 AM, "Marcus Daniels" <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Or corrected. I don't want to go to the hospital and get a different loved-one. I want the cancer cured, the organ re

Re: [FRIAM] Disruptor

"But corrected implies some sort of coherent controller-controlled separation and relation. " Maybe instead of a doctor, a talented mechanic that can hone in on faulty spring or loose screw that creates a hard to reproduce rattle. I want the gal that has those kind skills fixing my car (or

Re: [FRIAM] The State of Open Data: New Global Report Shares Survey Findings From Researchers | LJ INFOdocket

While it is nice if academics are cooperative, a lot of work these days is from big commercial interests like pharmaceutical companies. I’m thinking of the kind of insights IBM Watson or statistical inference techniques or might glean from proprietary datasets like from hospital (network)

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

The concrete truck also facilitates a new ecosystem. The old ecosystem (say, coal mining, humans building mass-produced machines with their hands) won't last much longer anyway.The old ecosystem is like a lake with out-of-control toxic algae growth. -Original Message- From:

Re: [FRIAM] Unix Nightmare

Using a logic programming language (like Prolog) sometimes feels to me like a dream state, sort of like Frank describes. I use logic programming as a cognitive aide as well as a computational aide. Asking, “How do the pieces fit together in a problem? What is independent and what is

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

>From 1998: http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/11/11/24687529/this-moment-richard-rorty-called-it-james-baldwin-nailed-it From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

"I know everyone will laugh at me for this. But I tend to think of Canada as more powerful than the US ... but it's a "soft" style, like judo vs karate." Look at small cities like Burnaby BC where they are inventing and commercializing quantum computing (D-Wave) and fusion energy (General

Re: [FRIAM] Tech tips to help stay safe in Trump’s America | TechCrunch

"For the paranoid among us..." Or the prescient. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzQegCZBqnI From: Friam on behalf of Tom Johnson Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 10:38:17 AM Subject: [FRIAM] Tech tips to

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

<> Hell is other people -- John Paul Sarte Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

<> In a democracy, we are equals. They've acted in their own self- interest, and I didn't really need to. I voted for our collective interest, which was, as far as I am concerned, sabotaged in obscene fashion by rust belt voters, possibly for generations. Individuals that don't listen to

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

<> They are attributes of the parts. These parts have failed to recognize their own corruption and participation in implicit bias, and it is on them, not `elites' to `educate' them on how to think. My last two cars have been relatively expensive hybrid cars made in Michigan. All things

Re: [FRIAM] EM Drive

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/nasas-em-drive-still-a-wtf-thruster/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 10:48 AM To: Wedtech ; Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] EM Drive

Re: [FRIAM] advice on Old Backups

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/restore-bkf-file-ntbackup-windows/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 12:47 PM To: Friam Subject: [FRIAM] advice on Old Backups Dear Friammers, Anybody with

Re: [FRIAM] advice on Old Backups

Let me revise that advice slightly. :) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bkf+backup From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 1:21 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM]

Re: [FRIAM] Consolor?

For me it is the sustained intensity that is key (e.g. near anaerobic threshold). http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/well/move/how-exercise-might-keep-depression-at-bay.html From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 11:45 AM To:

Re: [FRIAM] PZ on Haidt

"I think the field of social psychology is suffering because they haven’t hired enough serial killers for their tenure line positions." LMAO, Marcus -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 1:05 PM To: The

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Fwd: TED talk

"And the ammunition provided to them by people like Haidt is killing us." Haidt used the example of couples that are headed for divorce, and that disgust is a predictor for him of it actually happening. Well, sometimes divorce is appropriate. Like your spouse repeatedly betrays you, or

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: TED talk

"Your numbers below may provide some justification for a (slightly) increased performance for those who consider a larger space of possibilities." You might think the effect would be less, adjusting for population by respective state, but actually the reverse is true: Clinton

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: TED talk

<> http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/there_is_no_such_thing_as_a_good_trump_voter.html https://twitter.com/hey__nikki/status/798904650384769024 Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Reading this, it is hard to offer any of my reserve for them. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 4:27 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Frank writes: "Another relevant article https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class; Thanks for the article. I wonder, are there really surprises here, especially to our middle aged (and older) readers? Oregon tends to vote democrat thanks to Portland and

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

"Support Classless Society: Invite blue collar folks to wedtech lunch and friam coffee/breakfast. Oops, forgot, they're working." "Hmm... well we could move one to the weekend?" Google for some Pentecostal or other Evangelical churches in the area (esp. in the outskirts or poorer part of

Re: [FRIAM] Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say

"[..] with a bit of [artificial] intelligence and rudimentary communication skills" Right tool for that job.. But how do you build an army of bots that can enlighten instead of just confuse? Marcus From: Friam on behalf of Joe

Re: [FRIAM] Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say

helmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say Not sure that is possible. But I would be happy with identifying and responding in real time.. Not thrilled to think the elections here and elsewhere are swayed by automated misinformation.. Joe On 11/20/16 12:49 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say

Steve writes: "I'd be interested in more detail on this concept as you reference it. In an early form, one might: 1) Take fact checking websites like WaPost's and encode the claims in a language

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Dave wriets: "The secular right — and yes there really is such a thing — believes the opposite, i.e. that humans are intrinsically good, but subject to corruption. [perhaps the only good thing, for the republican party, in trump's ascendancy is the opportunity to take back the party from the

Re: [FRIAM] Memo To Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists | The Evolution Institute

It casts doubt on the value of the expertise if the words change every few years but the meaning remains the same. Better to have some enthusiastic puppies that find it all new every so often? Or better yet, just solve the problem once and for all and move on. -Original Message-

[FRIAM] fun with DNS

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] Memo To Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists | The Evolution Institute

"The point of the article (and even, to a lesser extent, the research cited) is that teams enlarge the solution space, increase the degrees of freedom. With a team, there are more paths to success than with an individual. And often, those paths are occult. " And there are even more occult

Re: [FRIAM] THREAD BENDING ALERT: Was "Is Bezos a Bozo?" IS NOW"Reading Email exchanges chronologically"

<> Read: "I am large I contain multitudes." Like, say, an amygdala and a frontal cortex, the latter remarking on the

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/poll-florida-republicans-vote-for-hillary-clinton http://www.slate.com/features/pkremp_forecast/report.html From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Friday, November 04, 2016 10:45 AM To: Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

ncrete truck and then there's the jackhammer. On Oct 17, 2016 1:24 PM, "Marcus Daniels" <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: It depends on whether, like David, you point to liberalism as the threat to individual freedom and productivity, or th

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

It depends on whether, like David, you point to liberalism as the threat to individual freedom and productivity, or the momentum of conservativism and oligarchy to constrain lives.Some (like Assange) can't stand either one. A disruptor seeks a benign sort of chaos when power can shift

Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses

"Social justice diversifies the type of energy barriers on which to cut our teeth." Yep. "Well, I was arguing narrowly against the idea that simulation doesn't "get at" the question of why a selfish individual should care about the efficacy of the biosphere. Video/VR games directly target

Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses

"If we assume Trump is the master of ambiguous linguistics Lakoff thinks he is, then he already understands this, at least tacitly. Trump (under this idea) purposefully forms his expressions so that there are unbound variables that are likely to be bound by the listener." I think it is more

Re: [FRIAM] Model of induction

If you can write down a Hamiltonian for your domain-specific problem, the D-Wave could sample from that Boltzmann distribution. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:18 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee

Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses

Glen writes: <> Many hands make light work. Due to coordination overheads, however, if there are too many hands then more work is needed. (Or rather, it doesn't matter of individuals are excluded from a group if the group's work is easy.) If there aren't immediate resource

Re: [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

Vladimyr writes: "Then the Americans claimed a total victory in 1945, and got the same slow social disease." Maybe it could be treated? Here they used herpes simplex virus. http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2763614/

Re: [FRIAM] fun!

They say that Trump likes to watch himself on cable news with the sound off. Maybe he isn't the only one? -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 12:43 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] fun! Gillian

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

ll-shes-7-and-well-have-her-life Timing and Marketing is everything. Robert C On 1/8/17 11:30 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: It’s wildly optimistic to think education will make the difference. -- Cirrillian Web Design & Development Santa Fe, NM http://cirrillian.com 281-989-6272<te

Re: [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

A better example might be something like the ACA. The ACA required Obama to make compromises, expend political capital, and play a longer game all while taking constant abuse for it. Or deciding how to balance national and global interests in places like Iraq, Syria, or Afghanistan. Tasks

Re: [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

Well, sorry to be negative, but salaries for librarians in Santa Fe are about half what they are cities of equivalent size in states like Oregon or California. That shows about how seriously New Mexico takes libraries. There is barely any money for digital content, never mind spaces to

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

“High information” people ignore evidence if it conflicts with their preferred narrative all the time. Sometimes evidence is wrong or misinterpreted – sometimes a theory is needed to put evidence into context. That’s not ignoring evidence, that’s seeking even more information and a better

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

The Clinton state voters aren’t parasitic, they contribute more to the economy and are more productive than the Trump state voters.See my other post on this for the numbers. This article I found fairly interesting -- various

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/why-blue-states-are-the-real-tea-party.html?=section-news-0=click=Opinion=Footer=MoreInSection=WhatsNext=WhatsNext=Blogs

Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses

I'd be cautious of denying anyone who feels physically unsafe access to security and I am suspicious of reverse discrimination claims. I think professors should do what they can to support anyone that might feel or be perceived as vulnerable when they thoughtfully defend minority (either

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

Steve writes: <> I thought the democrats had two decent candidates, at least on technical grounds. I was rooting for Bernie during the primaries, although I don't really buy that the donor class and super pacs are so terrible. Jeb Bush had a big donor base and so did Clinton. It didn't

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

"What is your opinion in NM, will the new president Trump make America great again or will he lead America into some form of cronyism, nepotism, fascism or even totalitarianism?" Short of states flipping from recounts, electoral college defectors, or impeachment, the best case is that he

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

David writes: "Clearly there are many who are frightened at the prospect of a Trump administration. I sympathize, but would suggest that those fears arise from a woefully incomplete understanding of the forces — the people who comprise the core and majority of his support and their values —

[FRIAM] Northern Greenland, Russia, and southern coast of Alaska

esp. last five years.. http://timemachine.cmucreatelab.org/wiki/EarthEngineTourEditor http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/greenland-surface-melt-extent-interactive-chart/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

"Regardless (unlike typical proportional representation systems), the ways should be based on data taken (via methodologically well-founded measures) from the world, not arbitrarily justificationist ideas farted out by our minds." I reckon that states' rights are really about allowing for more

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

Nick writes: "[..] doesn't cooperation of any kind make us vulnerable to manipulation?" Everyone should try to be useful -- being used is just the proof. We can try to be self-aware, too, and try to understand if we are being put to good use, but also humble enough to expect we won't always

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