Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

Gosh! Even I understood a lot of it. It would be great to talk about it on Friday. Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wo

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

Thanks Steve, Yes, there is a certain thread of literature and experience that is always in my mind on this topic. It began some years ago when David Krakauer waved a copy of Richard Novikovsky’s book Games of No Chance in front of me, and that was my introduction to the modern work that had b

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

> Thanks for this, Steve, > > Yes, it was Grinspoon.  Sara Walker told me that at the last AbSciCon > meeting, but in the running stream of conversation with Jim I had > forgotten it. > > Your Freudian typo was fun, unless it was your computer that did it. >  A mixture of Grinspoon and Greenspan.

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

Thanks for this, Steve, Yes, it was Grinspoon. Sara Walker told me that at the last AbSciCon meeting, but in the running stream of conversation with Jim I had forgotten it. Your Freudian typo was fun, unless it was your computer that did it. A mixture of Grinspoon and Greenspan. Given what h

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

Eric - /There’s a quote and I can’t remember the source, I should, he’s a member of the astrobiology community, but it’s pithy and elegant. The quote was that the origin of life is not something that happens on a planet, it’s something that happens to a planet. That was really

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

Eric- Great interview! /*Eric*//: You know what I like on this though, I think back to the, I guess it was AlphaGo competition with Lee Sedol in the computer human contest for Go playing. I really loved Lee’s comment at the end of it, where he was saying that of course those had b

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

Stephen - Thanks for turning me onto Rutt's show a while back... I've been working my way into some of the meat there.   I've met Jim before but this really exposes his style and personality while pulling some amazing things out of his interviewees.   Cory Doctorow and Lee Smolin come most recentl