my take exactly.
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On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 7:16 PM Jon Zingale wrote:
> I suppose my reading of the quote would be something like:
>
> "When confronted with a problem, humans organize to the beat of canonical
> hours into a machine that can scrape, pierce, knock, or shred as most bigly
> as poss
He made no sense. None of them do.
From: Friam On Behalf Of steve smith
Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2024 4:59 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] nice quote
Marcus - I tried to sort your point... I appreciated the (simplistic but
potent?) NYT American Myths bit, but not clear
Marcus - I tried to sort your point... I appreciated the (simplistic
but potent?) NYT American Myths bit, but not clear if we are talking
about the same Kazcynski? While he did (obviously) take the position
colinear with "might makes right" ("right justifies might?") I don't
think he was ever
On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 3:43 PM glen wrote:
> But to suggest that it's "godlike" says more about the person than it does
> about the state of technology.
>
Yes, and
to suggest that it's not 'godlike' says more about the person's likeness
of God than it does about the state of technology.
-. --
Nick -
I don't mind offering my sense of what the aphorism is all about, I just
want to give others a chance to chime in before I start defending myself
in my overly-voluminous manner.
Can you meet me half-way with *any* sense of signal in what you are
suggesting might be pure noise (or misd
SG and DALL-E -
Good rendering, the only thing you got wrong is that one of my legs is
still original... no need to oil that one yet!
-SS
On Sat, Oct 5, 2024, 3:49 PM steve smith wrote:
Nick -
And here I thought *I* was being "pithy", then you call me out
on my lithp?!
Wasn't a paper linked to here that said that the only solution to the
existential problem of climate change is to reduce the population of
the earth to 1 billion from 8 billion?
"OK team, count off: /1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, /*/8/ !*"
"everyone whose number is a prime not in the /Fibonacci s
I am trying not to be a jerk here, but maybe jerkiness Is so centralto my
being that I cannot avoid it.
I promise you, the question was not meant to be (entirely)rhetorical. Glen
has long since taught me that nobody uses words for absolutely nothing and
if you folks see some meaning in that aphor
Nick -
And here I thought *I* was being "pithy", then you call me out on
my lithp?! ;^)
The strawman arguments have started coming out, I wonder if anyone
will gen up a steelman?
- tinman Steve
On 10/5/24 11:26 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
So in what sense and for what purposes
I saw this and liked how it echoes with my post. Science is hard.
On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 1:00 PM Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
>
> After bullying GeorgeIV for a couple hours, I got this superb answer out
> of him.
>
> *Summary:*
>
> In *pseudo-adiabatic calculations*, we disregard:
>
>- *Condens
probably by me. Could have been Bill Reese or one of those.
Jim Rutt had a podcast with a couple who identify as “pro-natalist”. They are
concerned to keep population high so that pyramid payments like social safety
nets don’t get too strained. They refer to it as “crazy” that anyone could be
Our science illuminates global warming.
Our political institutions are incapable of crafting solutions absent so many
loopholes as the make the exercise near pointless.
Individuals operating in those institutions are driven by greed, power lust,
ego, and all manner of what the Buddha called "at
The myths of America seems to be at the root of so much of this. The idea that
we can take from the planet (or the solar system) from the “other”, and each
other with no consequence somehow gets rationalized by the likes of Kaczynski,
Musk, or Bannon as the essential property of freedom. Explo
A belief later espoused by the Unabomber.
My "Gaia Shrugs more Bigly" may well be me channeling ole Kaczynski
hisself. I think Wilson's quote was in his 2000ish "Conscilience"? I
don't know if K made a similar observation? I did read his manifesto
back in the day but it is long integrated
All /Pithy Aphorisms/ are wrong, some are useful?
On 10/5/24 9:06 AM, Prof David West wrote:
my affection for the quote derives from a metaphorical reading, not a
literal one. Something akin to Steve's differential rates of
evolution. I also would have eschewed 'god like' in favor of 'magica
my affection for the quote derives from a metaphorical reading, not a literal
one. Something akin to Steve's differential rates of evolution. I also would
have eschewed 'god like' in favor of 'magical' ala Clarke's dictum about any
sufficiently advanced technology.
davew
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