Re: [FRIAM] Moral collapse and state failure

Steve, Your "The Wrong (formerly Right) Wing in the US" reminds me of the quote by Larry Elder: "Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people." P On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 06:06, Steve Smith wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] Moral collapse and state failure

Jochen - Thanks for the original article reference.   It lead me to seek out and find another interesting /relevant introductory/survey article:     Stability of Democracies:  A Complex Systems Perspective In regards to your original

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

Nick, The last thing I wish to do is to give medical advice about your diabetes or any medical condition because I just don't know enough to do that. But I do want to share an experience I had with a condition that is also associated with lifestyle: high blood pressure. About 5 years ago I went t

[FRIAM] Fwd: Monday Note #629 - Elon Musk at full throttle (FF)

Interesting read -- Forwarded message - From: Frederic Filloux Date: Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 2:00 PM Subject: Monday Note #629 - Elon Musk at full throttle (FF) To: [image: Monday Note]

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

Thanks, Pieter, As a 40 year late-onset, lean diabetic, my ears always perk up when I hear that it is avoidable. It sure would be nice to avoid it. As for obesity, I have known quite a few people to struggle with it and their metabolisms just seem to be mercilessly efficient. In that con

Re: [FRIAM] Moral collapse and state failure

Good example. Like the USA South Africa was a former British colony. And both countries had to struggle with racism in the past. But the development of democracy was different. The rise and fall of democracy is an interesting topichttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177465/the-dec

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

Prof David West, just confirming, I'm not speaking in absolutes. My point is simply that for most of us you can significantly reduce future health problems by following a healthy lifestyle. This is not limited to but includes severe health problems if you are infected by the covid virus. P On Su

Re: [FRIAM] Moral collapse and state failure

Well, I'm from South Africa, and we have been close to moral collapse and IMO that could have led to our state failing. If you ask ten South Africans you'll get maybe twenty opinions, below is just my very brief view of what has been and what is happening in South Africa. South Africa became demo

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

Nick, Thanks for the question. Before I start, just a clarification. I'm referring to diabetes type 2, which is strongly linked to lifestyle and not diabetes type1. 1. From the NIH article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5741209/: " Obesity is a chronic metabolic disease affecting a

[FRIAM] Moral collapse and state failure

This paper from last year argues that moral collapse and state failure are linked. Would you agree?https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2020.568704/full-J.- . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

Not Pieter, but ... Some small percentage of _*Type II *_diabetes is not preventable/controllable with diet and exercise. Similarly, of the 42% of the US population that is obese (9.2% morbidly obese), some small subset is not preventable/controllable with diet exercise. (My guess is less that

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

Pieter, I am interested in your assertion that metabolic disorders like diabetes and obesity are preventable. N Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Fri

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

Eric - I really appreciate your careful analysis of the class of error such "expose's" offer us (starting with the exposer).   This one was reminiscent of the ones Glen often offers us so aptly.   Frank - I appreciate your naive question, knowing you have some sophisticated life experience, anal

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

I thought it was clear this Gail person was making shit up to dramatize her blog. For one thing the mRNA vaccines can be respun quickly if needed. But all that technology counts for nothing in the spreadnecks won’t take it. On Aug 8, 2021, at 6:33 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:  Eric, Thanks v

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

Eric, Thanks very much for this! I was asked about it by some humanities friends in Pittsburgh who were alarmed. They thought I was qualified to evaluate her claims. You are more so. The benefits of Friam are clear. Tangentially, I was recruited by an insurance company to be an actuary when

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

Hi Frank, Only because Marcus responded…. This article https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/08/05/covid-19-vaccines-dont-really-work-as-hoped/ Isn’t a good start. I didn’t read the whole thing, so I will confine my

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

The CDC reports that among 4,899,447 hospitalized adults in PHD-SR, 540,667 (11.0%) were patients with COVID-19, of whom 94.9% had at least 1 underlying medical condition. https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0123.htm. My reading of this is that it is mainly preventable conditions and my simple