I’m still stuck on “root mean square”. L 2, Brute?
--Barry
On 28 Oct 2019, at 12:53, Frank Wimberly wrote:
To me "RMS" denotes Richard M. Stallman but that's because I'm old I
guess.
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 10:46 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I doubt it. I forget who the aphorism is attributed to, but "Never
ascribe
malice when incompetence will suffice" comes to mind. These
subversive
approaches may simply stretch the competencies and energy of the
people who
would otherwise carry them out. It's possible that it's simply too
difficult to do the work, especially if the motivations and
incentives are
occult. Being paid in anything but money (which can be hidden in
havens) is
risky ... as the recent flak around RMS and the arc of Julian Assange
demonstrate well enough. Both the Spencer-types and the sucker
puncher are
"in it" for the cheap thrills because anything more complex is too
taxing.
But my proposition above is only convenient and a direct consequence
of my
doubt that there are such things as "moral intuition" or (in my other
argument) "ethical intuition" [
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/ethical-intuitionism/]. We're always
promoting
our brain farts (ideas, feelings, faith-based beliefs, etc.) to
ontologically dubious Real Things. My guess is there are no deeply
ingrained things at all. It's relatively easy to radicalize an
otherwise
easy-going person. [https://youtu.be/P55t6eryY3g] Deprogramming cult
members seems to consist mostly of changing their environment.
Powerstancing may not make you feel powerful. Smiling may not make
you feel
happy, etc. It seems safer to assume infinite universal plasticity
and
induce ontology from data than to assume there exist viscously robust
structures and all we need do is test for them.
On 10/28/19 8:18 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
In both situations, putting aside the legal risks, I think this
subversive approach violates some deeply ingrained notion of
fairness. I
can't see an explanation why it isn't happening all the time other
than
self-censoring. Because if it were happening all the time, then
folks
like Spencer would be absent from the world.
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