Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

There’s a cliff behind the house that ought to work! At LANL there were these motivational Giving Campaign signs resembling thermometers. Can we get to N million $$? Here you could look at the giant rocks suspended in the air. Can the solar PUC get to the top of the hill with 100 tons? http

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

This was some pretty funny coverage: The Energy Vault is a Dumb Idea, Here's Why https://youtu.be/iGGOjD_OtAM On 1/4/22 07:00, Marcus Daniels wrote: There’s a cliff behind the house that ought to work!   At LANL there were these motivational Giving Campaign signs resembling thermometers.  Can

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

What a grump! Cliffs and mesas afford the opportunity of building rails. Anyway, and the end he points out that pumped hydro is already an option. And yet we only have about 2.1% energy storage performed that way. From: Friam on behalf of glen Sent: Tuesda

Re: [FRIAM] Group Selection Redux?

:-) D.S. Wilson is one of the few who is on the right path. What he gets right is that social groups can sometimes be treated as adaptive units whose organization cannot be reduced to individuals or individual interactions [1]. This is what he emphasizes in his articles about group selection and

Re: [FRIAM] Group Selection Redux?

J. You don’t address the point that Wilsons trait-group selection mechanism is actually an INHERITANCE mechanism. Is that because you don’ get it, or because you don’t like it and are being polite. n Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com

Re: [FRIAM] Group Selection Redux?

Isn't Lamarckism alive and well with the existence of DNA methylation? Finding a way to thread the needle to get altruism and so forth out of genetic inheritance seems rather academic? From: Friam on behalf of thompnicks...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, January 4,

Re: [FRIAM] Group Selection Redux?

If memory serves methylation can prevent the expression of a gene for a generation or so because of some experience the gene endures, like being in a male or a female, for instance. Lamarckism, is the principle that animal can, by striving to achieve a goal, increase the likelihood that "factors"

Re: [FRIAM] Group Selection Redux?

Doesn't inheritance require death and birth of things? Offspring? What Jochen outlines is a *surviving* group, open to material transfers (different humans). A group like a corporation or even a clique type like "the Goths" in high schools across the world doesn't actually die in any non-metaph