Re: [FRIAM] Tragedy of the Commons & Free Riders

2021-03-25 Thread ⛧ glen
We do agree in our values. But we disagree in our optimism. The ecology you propose burns more energy than mine. Your setup attributes more commitment/energy from the agents ... energy they don't have or are unwilling to spend on that organizing setup. I tend to regard the agents as less intell

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

2021-03-25 Thread ⛧ glen
That paper is positively pornographic! Well done. If I understand what you're doing, which I most likely don't, the mechanized graphs are an excellent example of some rhetoric I'm currently trying to foist on some unwilling victims (re the "languages" within which we couch hypotheses, and how "

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-25 Thread Prof David West
>From Nick "In short, if perception is direct, it comes only to the prepared mind and there are an infinity of fluxes that must go *unnoticed*." (emphasis mine) My contention, since circa 1987, is that they are not *unnoticed*. Each and every one of the individual photons (and the energ

Re: [FRIAM] Hywel's anti-representationalism

2021-03-25 Thread Barry MacKichan
That is one of the nicest obituaries I’ve seen. —Barry On 24 Mar 2021, at 19:24, jon zingale wrote: From time to time, I find myself reflecting on the wisdom of my old friend Hywel, and this time in particular, on the anti-representational nature of his epistemology. Hywel was well known for

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

2021-03-25 Thread David Eric Smith
Hi Glen, Thank you, and yes, I did submit it somewhere. There are a couple of different evolution journals where this kind of subject is published. They all have length limits — 140 characters or something like that — which this thing exceeds. I don’t even remember which of them I sent to, b

Re: [FRIAM] Hywel's anti-representationalism

2021-03-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
Agreed. Thanks, Jon. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 8:07 AM Barry MacKichan wrote: > That is one of the nicest obituaries I’ve seen. > > —Barry > > On 24 Mar 2021, at 19:24, jon zingale wrote: > > From time to time

[FRIAM] is "assault rifle" a red herring?

2021-03-25 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/24/boulder-ban-assault-rifles-mass-shooting https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9njz/atlanta-shooting-suspect-bought-his-gun-the-same-day-he-allegedly-killed-8-people According to the Vice article, the massage parlor shooter used a 9mm handgun. I have