RECelf -
I know I visited your Entropy Liberation Front site before but
somehow missed you iChing app/workup. In particular the different
casting distributions were particularly illuminating. I favor (out
of convenience) the six-scored-as-two method and was shocked to see
in a single glance how different all others are from the
(traditional/preferred?) yarrow stick
https://change.elf.org/tests
Returning to the OS of "swindle", there was a time when I dismissed
"divination" as nothing more than a mechanism for one to "swindle"
another or at best for one to "swindle oneself". I've had an early
Wilhelm/Baynes edition of the I Ching for most of my adult life and
use it as an occasional tool for introspection and intuition
exploration.
In modern, computational terms, it feels a bit like "Reservoir
Computing" in the sense that the text of the I Ching (or any other
divinatory or oracular body of work?) is the reservoir, the
"casting" (including "the question) is the input signal and the
output is the reading with the *interpretation* being where the
output layer undergoes "training". A practiced divinator/oracle
develops an intuition over many iterative "readings" as to how to
interpret the reading in-context.
I happen to be listening to Justice Breyer on Meet the Press (with
Christen Welker?) expounding on his opinion of "textualism" and
"rule of law" which probably has some relationship
(correlated/anti-correlated) with oracular/divinational texts?
(too) Many people take the route of treating everything from Golden
Rule to Hammurabi to Upanishads to Ten Commandments to Torah to
Koran to Bible to Magna Carta to US (or any) Constitution to case
law as Oracular/Divination text?
I do recommend the MTP interview with Breyer demonstrating what I
suspect "the best" of our Highest Court should/could be. I'd like
to think that even the less savory ( to my pinko-liberal palate) of
the high bench (Thomas/Alito/Kavanaugh/Brown, in descending order?)
are as able and serious as Breyer came across in this interview...
His tone was that of the "elder statesman" we all once imagined (or
ached) to be in the hallowed halls of DC (even if he is a Judge not
Exec or Legislator)? He managed a very positive tone/affect
resisting Welker in spite of her pressing him hard on many things we
all might want to hear his opinion on.
- SASfrass
On 3/31/24 12:42 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
/Sucker born every minute?/
/Fool me twice, shame on me?
/
Talking with John Zingale at Friam about conniving chatbots, I
remembered this essay from 2009, https://elf.org/etc/swindle.html,
which starts from real estate speculators in early US history and
gets to the deplorable state of the internet.
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