Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--Paliantir

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

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. From: Friam on behalf of Merle Lefkoff Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] From

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

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 Subject: Re: [FRIAM] From Merle I've always said (relatively) small sized matter/antim

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

s foot the bill after their bankruptcy. > > > > Marcus > > > > *From: *Friam on behalf of steve smith < > sasm...@swcp.com> > *Date: *Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM > *To: *friam@redfish.com > *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] From Merle > > > > On 3/

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--How to Use Discredited Polling to Boost Trump's Power

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.

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--How to Use Discredited Polling to Boost Trump's Power

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--How to Use Discredited Polling to Boost Trump's Power

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. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 10:22 AM

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--How to Use Discredited Polling to Boost Trump's Power

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

people. From: Friam On Behalf Of Merle Lefkoff Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 11:46 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] From Merle Marcus, you could start in the Garden of Evil and Adam and Eve (the evil one). All the Abrahamic religious texts put

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

Marcus, you could start in the Garden of Evil and Adam and Eve (the evil one). All the Abrahamic religious texts put women in their place, and why not extend the "ideoogy" of male dominance to include anyone who is not cis male. On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > There’s s

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 9:31 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] From Merle 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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

nt:* Wednesday, January 29, 2025 8:57 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] From Merle > > 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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

riday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] From Merle 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.

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

Library of Congress is shut down, and the new government censors prevent questions about the U.S. government in the before times. From: Friam On Behalf Of Santafe Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 8:57 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

> 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. I am not much persuaded that they really care. As before, it’s about

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

There’s so much crazy about this, it’s hard to know where to start. 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. We

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--AI News

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,

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--AI News

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--AI News

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--AI News

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--AI News

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--AI News

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--AI News

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

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--AI News

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

Re: [FRIAM] FRom Merle

So grateful Marcus. This is exactly what I needed to see. I will add "ecological overshoot" to my lecture about the problems with the phrase "clean energy" and "Green New Deal." On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 1:52 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Marcus Daniels has shared a OneDrive for Business file with

Re: [FRIAM] FRom Merle

Marcus Daniels has shared a OneDrive for Business file with you. To view it, click the link below. [https://r1.res.office365.com/owa/prem/images/dc-pdf_20.png]