I found this useful:
Alex Karp - The Techno-Nationalist Behind Palantir
https://youtu.be/QZrlfBE6UI4?si=FOQD9m8nxFQT_ugP
But should we be worried? No. It's all part of the same trend started by
Frederick Taylor back in the 1800s. But worrying isn't the same as not paying
attention.
On 6/25/25
What say the tribe about this? How worried should we be? What's new about
this?
https://beyondthefirewall.substack.com/p/palantirs-new-master-database-what?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
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Has everyone here in Santa Fe seen this?
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/pnm-public-safety-power-shutoff-likely-in-santa-fe-thursday-night-due-to-fire-weather/article_1ef20e56-fa0d-11ef-bcbd-c78749f437a2.html
<https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/
Has everyone here in Santa Fe seen this?
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/pnm-public-safety-power-shutoff-likely-in-santa-fe-thursday-night-due-to-fire-weather/article_1ef20e56-fa0d-11ef-bcbd-c78749f437a2.html
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Center for Emergent Diplomacy
emergentdiplom
Ok, any incremental improvement is impossible. Burn baby burn.
From: Friam On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore
Sent: Friday, March 7, 2025 9:47 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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I've always said (relatively) small sized matter/antim
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G&E has been busy undergrounding major lines. Of course, they and the CPUC
have customers foot the bill after their bankruptcy.
Marcus
From: Friam on behalf of steve smith
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] From Merle
On 3/6/25 9:35 AM
On 3/6/25 9:35 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Another reason to go solar and have storage at home. Lots of sunny
days in Santa Fe -- at least when there isn’t smoke from the fires.
I'm a big fan of a (more) distributed grid... today the duststorms and
the pilups of tumbleweeds would have been
Fantastic. So I continue pressing my colleagues to use some parallax in their
modeling. E.g. one group recently used LCA on our data. And they intend to use
the same Python package, in the very same way, on some other data. That's
great. But what would be better would be to switch it up a bit.
This (Ruiu’s Hinterland) was a nice read. Perhaps under-treats the things that
aren’t his topic — like the deep professionalization of concentrating and
retaining wealth, which has not yet been reduced to a children’s online food
fight — while somewhat universalizing the things that are his top
My wife Deborah graduated from Harvard in '69. I graduated from Berkeley
in '65. We are both depressed by the Trump presidency. Both universities
ask us for $$ frequently.
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 10:22 AM
I'm reminded of this article I read a week or so ago:
https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/my-kind-of-conservatism
"Any true conservative would do better to withdraw from history, to the extent
possible, to retreat into his wooded grove and to rediscover his kinship with the trees
..."
Not only is
It's increasingly difficult not to include many of our most elite
institutions as willing participants under the MAGA umbrella. Here's a
link to one of numerous examples published a year ago. It took the
students to publish a rebuke. And I'll be damned, the university has gone
and done it again
people.
From: Friam On Behalf Of Merle Lefkoff
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 11:46 AM
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Marcus, you could start in the Garden of Evil and Adam and Eve (the evil one).
All the Abrahamic religious texts put
y? I don’t get it.
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Friam On Behalf Of glen
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When Dave was asking about unsafe LLMs, I thought about firing up a virtual
cluster to provide the service. (only for those who have been vouched, of
course) But then I realiz
nt:* Wednesday, January 29, 2025 8:57 AM
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> I can grasp from their perspective some of the columns in this chart.
> The one I don’t really get is how did people get so crazy about g
riday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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I can grasp from their perspective some of the columns in this chart. The
one I don’t really get is how did people get so crazy about gender ideology?
How is that a basic fissure in our society? I don’t get it.
Library of Congress is shut down, and the new government censors prevent
questions about the U.S. government in the before times.
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> Thought you would like to take a look at the government programs that will be
> shut down. Trump is a whole systems kinda guy.
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> https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0194-a
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We need Skynet to straighten this out.
From: Friam On Behalf Of Merle Lefkoff
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 8:21 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] From Merle
Thought you would like to take a look at the government programs that will be
shut down
Thought you would like to take a look at the government programs that will
be shut down. Trump is a whole systems kinda guy.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0194-ad9c-de9c-a5b6-efbd2940
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Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
Center for Emergent Diplomacy
emergentdiplomacy.org
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U
The situation in Gaza, as presented by a South African perspective, is
complex and multi-layered.
Firstly, consider the daily life of an average Gaza citizen. The actions of
Israel, which some view as inhumane, have led to a perception of Israel as
malevolent.
Secondly, there's the strategy employe
Watch and weep.
https://www.ted.com/talks/majd_mashharawi_how_i_m_making_bricks_out_of_ashes_and_rubble_in_gaza
The talk is five years old.
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Center for Emergent Diplomacy
emergentdiplomacy.org
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
mobile: (303) 859-5609
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Does anyone have an extra ticket for Melanie Mitchell tomorrow night? I'd
be so grateful.
Thanks,
Merle
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Center for Emergent Diplomacy
emergentdiplomacy.org
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Well, there's an argument that the Search usage pattern is incompatible with
next token predictors. E.g.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/03/lawyer-chatgpt-research-avianca-statement-ai-risk-openai-deepmind.
But maybe it depends on what one's searching for?
On 6/19/23 09:43,
glen wrote:
IDK. The implication that we already have laws that cover (80%?) of
the use cases for new tech we, as a society, want to discourage, is a
good default. It resists the "there ought to be a law" sensibility
held by old people and curmudgeons everywhere. And it keeps our legal
syste
There probably already is a law, but no one knows what it is? The law
suffers from the same curse as the scientific literature, most of it gets
ignored because no one has the time to read it all.
So maybe that's what LLM's are for. We can set one to read the collected
works of Carl Friederich Ga
glen wrote:
IDK. The implication that we already have laws that cover (80%?) of
the use cases for new tech we, as a society, want to discourage, is a
good default. It resists the "there ought to be a law" sensibility
held by old people and curmudgeons everywhere. And it keeps our legal
system
IDK. The implication that we already have laws that cover (80%?) of the use cases for new
tech we, as a society, want to discourage, is a good default. It resists the "there
ought to be a law" sensibility held by old people and curmudgeons everywhere. And it
keeps our legal system a little more
Extortion is illegal, no?
Apparently there are both federal and (all 50) state laws against
(im)personation (to achieve gain or cause harm). As far as I know this
doesn't keep Halloween stores from selling Richard Nixon and Donald
Trump masks, but *might* have something to say if they we
On 6/16/23 2:31 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
Here in the U.S., Jennifer DeStefano, an Arizona mother, testified at
a Senate hearing this week about her harrowing experience with a
deepfake scam that tricked her into thinking her daughter had been
kidnapped. DeStefano says the fake kidnappers dem
Extortion is illegal, no?
On Jun 16, 2023, at 1:32 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
Here in the U.S., Jennifer DeStefano, an Arizona mother, testified at a Senate
hearing this week about her harrowing experience with a deepfake scam that
tricked her into thinking her daughter had been kidnapped. DeS
Here in the U.S., Jennifer DeStefano, an Arizona mother, testified at a
Senate hearing this week about her harrowing experience with a deepfake
scam that tricked her into thinking her daughter had been kidnapped.
DeStefano says the fake kidnappers demanded a $50,000 ransom before she got
in touch w
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> Below is the link that doesn't work. If someone there can resend it, I'd
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Lefkoff
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2022 1:33 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] FRom Merle
Below is the link that doesn't work. If someone there can resend it, I'd be
most appreciative.
https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jeners/v14y
Below is the link that doesn't work. If someone there can resend it, I'd
be most appreciative.
https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jeners/v14y2021i15p4508-d601755.html <
https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jeners/v14y2021i15p4508-d601755.html> <
https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jeners/v14y2021i15p4508-d601755.
"There are no similar books on the market."
https://www.powells.com/book/bright-green-lies-9781948626392
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Center for Emergent Diplomacy
emergentdiplomacy.org
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
mobile: (303) 859-5609
skype: merle.lelfkoff2
twitter: @merle110
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Center for Emergent Diplomacy
emergentdiplomacy.org
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
mobile: (303) 859-5609
skype: merle.lelfkoff2
twitter: @merle110
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