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

LOCAL MAXIMA Lunch Jam Tomorrow, Sat 1/29 12p-2 Museum Hill Cafe, Santa Fe Diane Johnson will be on piano and Stuart Kauffman, The Cool Daddy of Complexity, will be on snare drums. (I'm psyched to play roadie). Come up for lunch, listen to some improvised grooves and I'll buy you a sake bloody m

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

when it's actually 453.592grams. On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 10:52 AM glen wrote: > Well, from Renee's perspective, it's the wrong call ... not for the > patients, but for the burnout. She's worked 9 12-hour shifts and 1 14-hour > shift in the last 11 days, after only 1 day off. The previous streak

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Batten down the hatches, Roger! --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 5:20 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Yes, indeed, we're hunkering down for a possible all time Boston record > snowfall tomorrow > > * WHAT...Blizzard condi

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Yes, indeed, we're hunkering down for a possible all time Boston record snowfall tomorrow * WHAT...Blizzard conditions expected. Total snow accumulations of 18 to 24 inches with localized 30 inches possible. Winds gusting as high as 70 mph. On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 1:41 PM wrote: > Hey, roger.

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

I agree nearly completely with your last 3 posts. 8^D I'm glad you decided to add more refined text. But I don't think there need not be herds or herding. I do think the herding (whether directed or natural, explicit or implicit) comes in types or classes. Over the top of that, there are prefe

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] trump coin

Hey, roger. Speak of the devil. On vFRIAM we were just discussing Critchlow’s Maxim and looking at satellite images of the storm developing off the florida coast. n Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com htt

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

< Ha! Yeah right. So there's obviously zero reason to understand who did what and who achieved what. So we would be equally effective giving a trillion bucks to Dr. Phil as we would Musk, because it doesn't matter who did what. Why care about who gets the credit? Why care who did what? Just pass

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

This is where Marcus' Musk-as-philosopher-king goes astray. It's on display clearly with the recent kerfuffle between Joe Rogan and Neal Young. Although Rogan gives lip service to skepticism, open-mindedness, etc. what his celebrity actually does is promote faith-based decision making, much the

[FRIAM] trump coin

I misheard someone talking about an echosystem the other day, which was actually an ecosystem, but the name has stuck in my head. I imagine it as a multidimensional spin glass where each site can tune its receivers and transmitters to particular dimensions of the spin state. https://www.nytimes.c

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

Glen wrote: < As you said, "the government is dead". 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! > Selfish banal people

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

Ha! Yeah right. So there's obviously zero reason to understand who did what and who achieved what. So we would be equally effective giving a trillion bucks to Dr. Phil as we would Musk, because it doesn't matter who did what. Why care about who gets the credit? Why care who did what? Just pass

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

The world isn't fair, yep. -- It's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit -- Harry Truman From: Friam on behalf of glen Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 11:03 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi R

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

Right. That's my point. The companies (actually the people in those companies) have accomplished things. And to whatever extent Musk puts aside his celebrity and does actual work, he gets credit for that *work*. But it's no different from Winfrey, Paltrow, and Mercola ... or the anti-vax, vax g

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

But Musk's companies have accomplished things. Tesla has built great electric cars with a vast charging network, is doing advanced applied machine learning work, and developing advanced computing systems. Space X created a cheap orbital launch capability. You saw the part about them landing r

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

Marcus - I can't disagree with your points about Musk's *effectiveness* and those (stodgy or incompetent or narrowly ambitious) he has eclipsed over and over again in a couple of decades (or less), any more than I can his (apparent) *intentions*.   Tony Stark is a fun fictional character for

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

Well, I can't speak for scientists or engineers. But the reason he (and his kind) are irritating to me is because they amass their wealth spouting bullshit that dupes people into giving them money. Then, of course, when you spend a hell of a lot of money, *something* good will come of it. It's

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

I can sort of see why Musk is annoying to scientists because he tends to use ideas and technology that already exist. So, what is he really adding? Neuralink is in this category.That company is making the technology work at a larger scale and at lower power and making the surgery repeatabl

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

On 1/27/22 10:01 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: < Musk is trying to kick our cans from fossil fuel extraction/combustion/spills to Lithium (and heavy metals) extraction/discarding as well as the can of an out of-balance biosphere on earth to terraforming Mars (with care and thoughtful intention