Re: [FRIAM] narrative

2025-01-09 Thread Prof David West
"the best way to predict the future is to create it". most often attributed to Abraham Lincoln and Peter Drucker. On Thu, Jan 9, 2025, at 3:06 PM, steve smith wrote: > Glen - > > Very well articulated, the images such as "where the cartoons don't > weave together well" and "dog catches car" wer

Re: [FRIAM] narrative

2025-01-09 Thread steve smith
Dave, thanks - I suppose I should have done the (trivial) research... I think the version I was thinking of was Alan Kay who used the term "invent".   I think I knew of Drucker and I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at Lincoln but don't think I'd heard of it before! On 1/9/25 3:34 PM, Prof D

Re: [FRIAM] narrative

2025-01-09 Thread steve smith
Glen - Very well articulated, the images such as "where the cartoons don't weave together well" and "dog catches car" were particularly poignant.  I am reminded of Scott McCloud's maxim about panel cartooning that "all of the action happens in the gutters". I'm unclear on your first point re

Re: [FRIAM] FCC rules blocked, I think i'll find a corner to barf in

2025-01-09 Thread glen
Decidim Association on the urgency of service to civil society where freedoms and rights are being rolled back https://www.apc.org/node/40474 On 1/6/25 06:44, glen wrote: Thanks for the heads up. It's just one more step towards the coming libertarian paradise. On 1/5/25 11:04, Gillian Densmor

[FRIAM] Ralph Abraham Oct 8, 2024

2025-01-09 Thread Stephen Guerin
Shoot, I just noticed Ralph's passing. https://magazine.mindplex.ai/in-memory-of-ralph-abraham-mathemagician-extraordinaire/ Thankful I got to talk to him one last time at Merle's a couple years ago CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.c

Re: [FRIAM] narrative

2025-01-09 Thread glen
OK. In the spirit of analog[y] (or perhaps more accurately "affine" or "running alongside"), what you and perhaps Steve, cf Hoffstadter, lay out seems to fall squarely into xAI versus iAI. I grant it's a bit of a false dichotomy, perhaps just for security. But I don't think so. I don't see arc

Re: [FRIAM] narrative

2025-01-09 Thread Santafe
Yes; wish I could write more, but can’t today. Many hooks in the observations below. But the colleague (comp chem) who was pointing me to degeneration-of-model papers sent me the links he intended. Below: — I was referring to the following Nature paper and the associated News&Views article