Re: [FRIAM] Datasets as Experience

2023-02-08 Thread Santafe
It’s funny. I was reading some commentary on this last week (can’t even remember where now; that was _last week_!), and I remember thinking that the description reminded me of Williams Syndrome in people. They have a grammatical sense that is at the stronger end of the human range, but their

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT is not very smart...

2023-02-10 Thread Santafe
So probably this has all been analyzed to death already, by people who, unlike me, know what they are talking about. But in re-reading it, I feel like the structure of the problem is characterizable. It is as if “facts” that are constraints on the sentences to be composed are ordered in a wa

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT is not very smart...

2023-02-12 Thread Santafe
h that makes them so different is still hard for me to see. Eric > -Original Message- > From: Friam On Behalf Of Santafe > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2023 3:11 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT is not very smart...

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT is not very smart...

2023-02-12 Thread Santafe
Sorry for the last post. I hadn’t read the link below in this one yet. I will now get back to the work I was supposed to have been doing. Eric > On Feb 10, 2023, at 2:22 PM, glen wrote: > > This was laugh out loud funny for me. YMMV. > > Arguing with AI: My first dispute with Microsoft’s br

Re: [FRIAM] Thuram still happening?

2023-02-15 Thread Santafe
That makes me feel so good, that I am not the only one who makes that kind of mistake publicly. > On Feb 15, 2023, at 12:27 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > Today is Wednesday, isn't it? > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > >

Re: [FRIAM] Thuram still happening?

2023-02-16 Thread Santafe
It’s the tiniest and most idiosyncratic take on this question, but FWIW, here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1520752113 I actually think that all of what Nick says below is a perfectly good draft of a POV. As to whether animals “have” categories: Spend time with a dog. Doesn’t take ver

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Categories

2023-02-20 Thread Santafe
textbooks and professional journal articles? >>>>> >>>>> I think one of the questions that remains present within this group's >>>> continued 'gurgitations is whether the organizations we have conjured are >>>> particularly special, or just

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Categories

2023-02-21 Thread Santafe
enter Nirvana. > > Modern philosophers, like Whitehead, take positions closer to Vedic (sans > Nirvana and Karma), than animism—at least to the extent I understand them. > > davew > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2023, at 5:10 AM, Santafe wrote: >> So there are things in DaveW

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Categories

2023-02-21 Thread Santafe
mputation is similar enough to the EricS computation", > whereas "the Scooter computation (my cat's thinking) is similar to the Dorian > computation (my other cat's thinking)". > > Of course, this all hinges on some particular, maybe perverse, understandi

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Categories

2023-02-21 Thread Santafe
> On Feb 20, 2023, at 10:46 AM, glen wrote: > > By even using the phrases "mental stuff" or "mental life", *you* are > implicitly asserting there are 2 things: mental and non-mental. There is no > such difference, in my opinion. Now, while I am often a moron, I don't deny > that people *thin

Re: [FRIAM] [EXT] News Alert: Most young men are single. Most young women are not.

2023-02-22 Thread Santafe
I think the keyword was young. You can do that if the old men are all married to young women. > On Feb 22, 2023, at 12:02 PM, Nicholas Thompson > wrote: > > Last time I checked, the average number of attached males has to equal the > average number of attached females, unless, of course, fema

Re: [FRIAM] [EXT] News Alert: Most young men are single. Most young women are not.

2023-02-22 Thread Santafe
o with babies. I assume > > they have younger siblings. I hope that as they enter their 30s their > > attitudes will change because of the realization that they are running out > > of time. > > > > --- > > Frank C. Wimberly > > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, &g

Re: [FRIAM] [EXT] News Alert: Most young men are single. Most young women are not.

2023-02-23 Thread Santafe
no open-ended life-extension unless I expect to leave >> the >>planet (hear my pain Elon?) I don't think the World3 has been updated to >>be a Sol model and even considering it really challenges the very >> structure >>/concept of the World3 SD model!

Re: [FRIAM] Magic Harry Potter mirrors or more?

2023-03-01 Thread Santafe
This is fun. Will have to watch it when I have time. Is there a large active genre just now combining ChatGPT wiht deepfakes, to generate video of whomeever-saying-whatever? I was thinking a couple of years ago about what direction in big-AI would be the most distructive, in requiring extra co

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT and William James

2023-03-04 Thread Santafe
It’s helpful to have a conversation being maintained by somebod(ies) else, to which one can be a bystander without the distraction of coming up with contributions to it. Things can suggest themselves that get pushed out of awareness when one is carrying the discourse and figuring out what to do

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT and William James

2023-03-07 Thread Santafe
mergent" from the elementary > > particles from which it might be composed. > > > > > > > > I think we all believe in free-electrons, > > protons, neutrons but also recognize that *most* of our observed universe >

Re: [FRIAM] Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist. We’ve Known This for a Century. It’s Time to Embrace It and Move On. | by Casper Wilstrup | Machine Consciousness | Medium

2024-05-31 Thread Santafe
I read a little way in. He should go on Joe Rogan. Also, the graphic at the front is perfectly paired with the writing. Eric (apologies for the Lashon hara; I know one should not do that) > On May 31, 2024, at 11:58 PM, Nicholas Thompson > wrote: > > This (see below) got served up to me out

Re: [FRIAM] Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist. We’ve Known This for a Century. It’s Time to Embrace It and Move On. | by Casper Wilstrup | Machine Consciousness | Medium

2024-06-03 Thread Santafe
Is there a Greek root to build a word for Government by the Extremes? > On Jun 4, 2024, at 6:42 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > This is the article I had in mind > > https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-gen-z-wont-show-their-feet_l_64cd1b52e4b01796c06c0cc4 > > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Call

Re: [FRIAM] Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist. We’ve Known This for a Century. It’s Time to Embrace It and Move On. | by Casper Wilstrup | Machine Consciousness | Medium

2024-06-03 Thread Santafe
4L0mBUBL_Fs2dQ3fl-BWQ,,&typo=1 > which I learned in the context of missiles. But "government by canard" seems > close to "wag the dog". So that's where I'd start my search. > > On 6/3/24 15:59, Santafe wrote: >> Is there a Greek root to build a wor

Re: [FRIAM] Fridman V Rogan (V Rutt), Tolerance and Charitability

2024-06-14 Thread Santafe
Russell Brand, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand I am put in mind of Joaquin Phoenix’s style of preening as Joker in whichever batman movie it was. > On Jun 15, 2024, at 7:16 AM, glen wrote: > > Sorry for not being clear. Yes, Fridman is part of the alt-right pipeline, > sim

Re: [FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

2024-06-23 Thread Santafe
A few km or even tens of km does not seem long to me on geological scales. If we have slowly formed crustal rock, it could be fairly uniform. Then if there is a bending stress on large scales from upwelling, the least-disruption fracture would be a long straightish crack along the the line perp

Re: [FRIAM] [un]official disambiguation?

2024-07-01 Thread Santafe
I have an impression that the pattern of this and many other decisions is an acknowledgment — front brain or mid-brain; don’t know — that a second-government that isn’t the institutional one is now fully up and running. Many years ago, when I was working with Shubik, he gave me a paper by one of

Re: [FRIAM] [un]official disambiguation?

2024-07-02 Thread Santafe
hose >> elephants than there will be solidarity. Say what you want about capitalism, >> it encourages intra-tribal rifts and inter-tribal exchange. And that allows >> bursts of altruism or "universalist" beliefs. If the successive oligarchies >> are disrupted often en

Re: [FRIAM] An Open Letter to Joe Biden

2024-07-03 Thread Santafe
Ah! A smart contract! I’ll bet there is some blockchain maven coding it up right now. Very nice. Offload the incentive onto them. > On Jul 4, 2024, at 1:56 AM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > > My Phellow Phriammers, > I am frantic about the last week’s events. In a fit of absurd geriatric

Re: [FRIAM] Why the Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought

2024-07-08 Thread Santafe
I have wondered, Dave, why you say no words: I think of cave art as being ~40kA ago. Similarly for preserved footprints that have been interpreted as dance. Mitochondrial modernity probably ~250kA, and Y-chromosome ~100kA, with considerable errors. European cave art presumably followed out-

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

2024-07-09 Thread Santafe
You think you are taking baby steps from a clean (un-prejudicial) start. I think you are massively prejudicing the frame in a way that may not go anywhere. (Or maybe it does; I can’t say. It just seems like the one everybody has been adopting forever, re-asserted one more time.) You treat the

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

2024-07-09 Thread Santafe
Yeah; wish it were possible to say something interesting. The aspect of, or within, the field of experience, that “consciousness” and other related words are somehow “about", should be general among all of us who are made of about the same stuff. (So, the vertebrates, the mammals, the social m

Re: [FRIAM] Why the Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought

2024-07-16 Thread Santafe
I have always assumed that is an exercise in asserting dominance. Who is boss? Might it be me? Many years ago, when I was curious about blue Weimaraners, having bumped into a pair in Santa Fe, I went to read “The Weim Page” (not the AKC breed page, but in that direction). I remember a nicely

Re: [FRIAM] tolerance of intolerance

2024-07-17 Thread Santafe
I think your earlier, bad-faith account, was in the right direction, though each of your last three notes has had a structure I like and take seriously. (Hard to decide what I think of, or whether I agree with, anything at this point.) But if I look at the 3-way dialogue among Thomas, the Fede

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-26 Thread Santafe
But this seems to me like the challenge of all qualia-talk. How to try to say this…: By the time you say anything to me, about anything, what you are handing me is some construct within the bounds of some formal system. If it is within math, maybe it is a formal system whose origin and constr

Re: [FRIAM] On telos- was: When are telic attributions appropriate in physical descriptions?

2024-08-10 Thread Santafe
Quick comment from me, not to the direct point in this post, which I like too, but on something about Snyder which I learned (just off-hand) from a colleague within the past 2 weeks. These ideas about the language of inevitability as one of the devices of tyrants was, I think, argued in much th

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

2024-08-14 Thread Santafe
Suddenly I have an idea. Somebody should launch a bot named Svejk. Eric > I don't need the sinister "What are you doing Dave?" of HAL but I do get very > tired of it's obsequiousness, it takes work to balance that I could put maybe > more productively in seeking a more genuine "coherence"? >

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

2024-08-14 Thread Santafe
Cool. Nepal even has mystical hillsides. My colleage The Mystic has informed me that only we (in “the west” in “the modern era") are degraded and malformed people; all other cultures have Wisdom Traditions. So any child in one of those Other Cultures already has an understanding of Reality th

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

2024-08-15 Thread Santafe
ixing (chemical-electrical transduction) but ganglia do > fusion gives us a spectrum of integration? Of course, ideally, we'd like to > be able to extend a functional description down to dictyostelium signaling. I > can't do that even in COVID-induced fever dreams. [sigh] >

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

2024-08-16 Thread Santafe
Back to Nick, This business of, out of the variety of frames and points of view that could be taken on anything, gradually making it clear that a certain PoV is the center of a concept, and then requiring that we “get used to” seeing the concept through that point of view, is indeed what the s

Re: [FRIAM] When are telic attributions appropriate in physical descriptions?

2024-08-20 Thread Santafe
btw, rather than always complaining, I should have noted that I think Nick’s analysis below is very much on-point: > On Aug 7, 2024, at 8:12, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Yes. Because the verb require is intenSional and takes a proposition as its > object. Thus, if you graph the sentence, it

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

2024-08-20 Thread Santafe
Jon, hi and thank you for this. I guess two inadequate replies from me, one to you and one to Glen, because I don’t think I have the content that would be needed for any substantive contribution. I have seen these maps from particular computational systems to categories, and I work with somebo

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

2024-08-20 Thread Santafe
Second inadequate reply, to Glen, unhappily similar to the first to Jon: > On Aug 19, 2024, at 23:37, glen wrote: > There's so much I'd like to say in response to 3 things: 1) to formalize and > fail is human, 2) necessary (□) vs possible (◇) languages, and 3) principle > vs generic/privied

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

2024-08-23 Thread Santafe
Hi Jon, I must have missed the thread where you linked to the Collier video, but I think I found the one you are referring to. Also didn’t know who Griffiths was/is (textbook writer; I turned out not to have used any of his books), but now realize what those mentions refer to. (I had imagined

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

2024-08-23 Thread Santafe
Reply is to both Jon and Glen, though I seem to have deleted Glen’s post in scurrying around trying to shovel the lahar of whichever day it was (are there even different days, or is it just one long day run together?)…. Again, I feel like I am not tracking the language here, so I don’t know if

Re: [FRIAM] deep fake elon

2024-09-08 Thread Santafe
slow to get to this. Trying to shovel the lahar. A thing I find interesting is that Musk uses a lot of labiodental stops or fricatives (I didn’t have any sound on while the NYT videos played). The AI replaces them with bilabial stops. The visual effect is much faster lip movement (more stacc

Re: [FRIAM] [EXT] Re: tolerance of intolerance

2024-10-15 Thread Santafe
You know, I don’t mind the phrase “above the law”. It may not be tailored to lower-level mechanistic arguing about one or another case, but it acknowledges a system context in which a society will operate under some kind of hierarchy of prerogatives. I don’t normally think about law in such hi

Re: [FRIAM] tolerance of intolerance

2024-10-16 Thread Santafe
h thing as *Truth*, only >>>> *Somebody's Truth*. >>>> This is painfully evident at the moment in the fallacy of "fact checking," >>>> all the assertions of "misinformation," and "follow the science." >>>> I do not

Re: [FRIAM] tolerance of intolerance

2024-10-19 Thread Santafe
consistency from estimation to truth seems like a > metaphysical, almost mystical, commitment. > > On 10/16/24 09:27, Santafe wrote: >> Too many glosses on the word “truth”. Any of them is game, but with so many >> in play, and registers constantly being shifted, tracking a

Re: [FRIAM] tolerance of intolerance

2024-10-16 Thread Santafe
Hmm. This one I think I can attach to. > On Oct 16, 2024, at 12:00, Prof David West wrote: > > I do not believe there is anything in postmodernism that argues for an > infinity of truths or denial of a definition for truth. Rorty seems to me to be essentially the latter. Or one who asserts t

Re: [FRIAM] nice quote

2024-10-05 Thread Santafe
probably by me. Could have been Bill Reese or one of those. Jim Rutt had a podcast with a couple who identify as “pro-natalist”. They are concerned to keep population high so that pyramid payments like social safety nets don’t get too strained. They refer to it as “crazy” that anyone could be

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-11 Thread Santafe
U.S. interests even at > the expense of their own economic sovereignty. The lack of a strong > theoretical critique of this system perpetuates the asymmetry. > > In essence, the U.S. has inverted the classical rules of international > finance, using its debtor position as an i

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-08 Thread Santafe
elieve, however, that unless both sides reject or severely moderate > their respective radical fringe, all those who simply want to work to solve > hard problems, are spinning their wheels. > > davew > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2024, at 12:12 PM, Santafe wrote: >> This feels a

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-09 Thread Santafe
I don’t think that’s right. I don’t think trump is dead set on anything, except self-aggrandizement and acting out his resentments. He really is that small. There may be people behind him who have “policy commitments” or something like that, which have some definiteness; Michael Bolton was

Re: [FRIAM] What if Trump Wins?

2024-10-31 Thread Santafe
The newspapers, and any number of writers, do a good job spelling all this out. I have this frustrated feeling that doing this misses the point that is driving the dynamic. One of the good things that Paxton emphasizes about what drives fascist movements from the ground up is the determined r

Re: [FRIAM] 6 to 1, 12/2 to the other

2024-11-01 Thread Santafe
I have to say, that qualifies as art. > On Oct 30, 2024, at 8:21 PM, Stephen Guerin > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:32 PM glen wrote: > The idealists will never stop idealizing and then reifying their ideal. To > Engineer is Human. But those of us who know (or merely confidently belie

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-10 Thread Santafe
I do want to second a variant of one of Pieter’s comments here, and to ask a question: > On Nov 10, 2024, at 12:01 AM, Pieter Steenekamp > wrote: > > It will be fascinating to observe the outcome of the new Trump > administration, and I genuinely hope it won’t bring us the kind of > “interes

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-08 Thread Santafe
This feels a bit to the side of the operative point, to me. The Atlantic article Marcus forwarded was good, and useful. People complaining (very intelligently and groundedly, it seemed to me) about trying to solve problems that they understood well, and getting brushed off or used. That’s not

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-10 Thread Santafe
Yes. There is this impulse to set the record straight, when it is put upside down. Take the case of the repeal of the affordable care act. There were 70 attempts in trump’s first congress to repeal it, after which for some reason they let go of that effort (I guess there was pressure on them

Re: [FRIAM] tolerance of intolerance

2024-09-28 Thread Santafe
; provide. The judiciary might be the last bastion of the Deep State, capable > of resisting demagogues like Trump. > > What say ye? Is my optimism showing? 8^D > > On 7/17/24 17:17, Santafe wrote: >> Back to the Roberts court, the things I have seen written that seem most

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-06 Thread Santafe
I think Pieter’s “brace yourself” is the right expression. It’s like the hurricane forecast is now fairly clear, and the thing that was your house is on the beach at landfall. So what plans are you making? People are mostly institutional, and not so scrappy in finding ways to get things done

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-06 Thread Santafe
Exactly; each point Jochen makes here is accurate I think. Pieter also mentioned U.S. spending. From the data, if I understand it correctly, there isn’t any reduction in spending when the republicans take power. There are cuts to social services, but the deficits remain large because the tax

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-06 Thread Santafe
I join both my antifa friends and my MAGA friends in > scoffing at the liberal tears. If you actually want change, then buck up and > make it happen. Politics is not a day job you leave at the office at 6pm. > Granted, I'm a tourist in both of those groups - all groups, actually, and >

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-09 Thread Santafe
to blast through institutions. > > That's what makes the tiny antifa efforts like blocking ports (for a tiny > > few hours) or breaking windows on main street seem so stupid and indulgent, > > like the temper tantrums of an undisciplined child. > > > > And in t

Re: [FRIAM] How democracies die

2024-11-09 Thread Santafe
AM, Santafe wrote: > > I don’t think that’s right. > > I don’t think trump is dead set on anything, except self-aggrandizement and > acting out his resentments. He really is that small. There may be people > behind him who have “policy commitments” or something like tha

[FRIAM] signaling

2024-11-14 Thread Santafe
This article (apologies for paywall; I don’t know how to send an open version) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-trump.html is another example of missing the point, I think. It’s all about messaging, and the campaign of demoralization. The puzzle that the tru

Re: [FRIAM] Election theft conspiracy theory

2024-12-04 Thread Santafe
This is good. Yes, please, do post. Eric > On Nov 22, 2024, at 11:23 AM, Jacqueline Kazil wrote: > > 👋 Long time lurker, second(third?) time poster. > > Not sure if you all know about - http://openelections.net/, > https://github.com/openelections > Some of the creators are former NYTimes

Re: [FRIAM] So much for U.S. competitiveness

2025-02-08 Thread Santafe
Would be interesting to see a list of various categories of science funding per capita or per GDP for countries around the world. Situate the prospective US in this list. Will our society be like that of Kazakhstan? Or maybe like Uganda? Probably well below Uruguay or Argentina or Chile.

Re: [FRIAM] Rare Earth

2025-01-30 Thread Santafe
More drama in that part of that account than seems warranted to me. Great that they got the data back, and it is in good shape, and that they can do a detailed analysis of content. When I get time, I’ll find the article and see what their “nearly equal” left and right actually means. How m

Re: [FRIAM] Rare Earth

2025-01-30 Thread Santafe
Again thank you. The result is over-interpreted, but I’m glad to have it, and it is related to the way I want to frame some of these questions. Donna is defnly one of the silverbacks. She is the one who did the solution-separation experiments I referred to in the last post. It is good to kno

Re: [FRIAM] Decision Support Fails

2025-01-30 Thread Santafe
> On Jan 30, 2025, at 12:32, glen wrote: > > Is it virtue signalling or an occult handshake to wear a T-shirt with > Maxwell's equations on it? I just don't know anymore. Ha! Wonderful. I think there is an early age (say, beginning undergrad, or for those from civilized places, maybe later

Re: [FRIAM] authenticity

2024-12-11 Thread Santafe
I think this last point: > On Dec 11, 2024, at 13:35, glen wrote: > > The important cut point, here, isn't whether the impact is registered by any > one person's mind or in their daily behavior. The cut points are systemic. > Another eg: As a citizen of WA, I need not care about abortion righ

Re: [FRIAM] Javier Milei

2024-11-21 Thread Santafe
So the key distillation is that: 1. The public-sector layoffs are real and completed (so, cemented in the past). 2. The offsetting private-sector new jobs are aspirational, something the “administration aims to” accomplish as a consequence of “stimulat[ing] economic growth”. The quotes from Mi

Re: [FRIAM] Fredkin/Toffoli, Reversibility and Adiabatic Computing.

2025-01-11 Thread Santafe
I see: > On Jan 12, 2025, at 8:13, steve smith wrote: > > I have imaginated that the value of reversibility in energy consumption is > that to "clear a computation" (dispose o the slag) the obvious answer is to > simply "uncompute" the computation... thereby (only?) *doubling* the > computat

Re: [FRIAM] Fredkin/Toffoli, Reversibility and Adiabatic Computing.

2025-01-11 Thread Santafe
It seems like there are two separate questions here. Steve talked about reversible gates, and suggested them as solutions to heat wastage. But I think that doesn’t go through. I too thought of Marcus’s point about unitary quatum gates as the obvious case of reversibility (needed for them to f

Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times

2025-01-21 Thread Santafe
It’s not an empty connection. I forget where I first read this, but in going to look for something just now, I find this Financial Times article that summarizes the names: https://www.ft.com/content/cfbfa1e8-d8f8-42b9-b74c-dae6cc6185a0 (In case that link somehow spoofed incorrectly, the articl

Re: [FRIAM] Pelosi needs a cryptocoin

2025-01-23 Thread Santafe
Maybe this turns out to be kind of a nice ethics question. You might make it part of the governance. Burr could do his sales, then _immediately_ contact a broadcast network and make a statement, saying “I just dumped a bunch of stock because I know how bad the COVID epidemic is going to be.

Re: [FRIAM] Fredkin/Toffoli, Reversibility and Adiabatic Computing.

2025-01-20 Thread Santafe
he interconnected challenges of climate crisis, refugee crisis, energy >> scarcity, population growth, resource depletion, poverty and economic >> inequality, pollution and environmental degradation, and finally the problem >> of war and nuclear weapons. Solving all these interc

Re: [FRIAM] I've been thinking

2025-01-18 Thread Santafe
So, a question about this: The pro-natalists take it as an axiom (when of course it is highly arguable) that populations must be at least maintained, in order for there to be enough young people to care for all the old people. But the whole knowledge-increases-production ideology would flatly

Re: [FRIAM] Fredkin/Toffoli, Reversibility and Adiabatic Computing.

2025-01-18 Thread Santafe
Yes, Glen’s final para (and the one before) were the only interpretation I meant. I wasn’t trying to be imaginative at all in the short thing I wrote about costs in relation to reversibility. Just the plain-vanilla stuff, for the sake of maybe articulating a theorem within the usual assumption

Re: [FRIAM] Fredkin/Toffoli, Reversibility and Adiabatic Computing.

2025-01-20 Thread Santafe
It’s interesting. The words are simple but the concepts are not simple. In more mechanistic terms, I might write “accepting a pardon is an acknowledgment that an accusatory verdict is what one will have to deal with”. The complex notion of admission of guilt all turns on the question of legiti

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

2025-01-26 Thread Santafe
How Odd. I read (part of) the first one, and thought That doesnt sound like Frank. Then the Cormac one: yucky like a supermarket tabloid (not that bad, but). It’s all unbelievably impressive, of course. But we have people saying they can’t stand the mass-produced quality of essentially all

Re: [FRIAM] metaphor

2025-01-27 Thread Santafe
It’s funny; Not to fail to be grateful for F’s several very nice observations below, and some vivacious prose, but it is good that he started his tirade with quantum mechanics and general relativity. Reading them brought to mind a passage late in Kawabata’s Master of Go. I went looking for

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

2025-01-27 Thread Santafe
> On Jan 27, 2025, at 10:35, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Eric writes: > > "He is arguing against the computation framing of consciousness. Searle’s > device is to say that my brain is like my stomach, and that the computation > framing doesn’t do its complexity justice." > > Can say the same

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

2025-01-27 Thread Santafe
nism. > > -Original Message- > From: Friam On Behalf Of Santafe > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 11:40 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was > generated b

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

2025-01-28 Thread Santafe
Yes, sorry... > On Jan 27, 2025, at 7:14 PM, Stephen Guerin > wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM Santafe wrote: > But to suppose they _already_ contain everything there is to be understood is > not a position I would take w.r.t. anything else we have anywhere in

Re: [FRIAM] cosmic underdetermination theorem

2025-01-30 Thread Santafe
first paywalled PDF (attached) > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM Santafe wrote: > btw, thank you for this. > > Like the cosmic horizon, both the top link and the journal article are behind > paywalls. But the university could get me the second one. A 3-page paper. > Ama

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle

2025-01-29 Thread Santafe
> 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] cosmic underdetermination theorem

2025-01-29 Thread Santafe
btw, thank you for this. Like the cosmic horizon, both the top link and the journal article are behind paywalls. But the university could get me the second one. A 3-page paper. Amazing. I read the construction, and think I follow the claims. I haven’t spent time looking at the manifolds he

Re: [FRIAM] narrative

2025-01-08 Thread Santafe
Glen, your timing on these articles was perfect. Just yesterday I was having a conversation with a computational chemist (but more general polymath) about the degradation of content from recursively-generated data, and asking him for review material on quantifying that. But to Steve’s point be

Re: [FRIAM] narrative

2025-01-09 Thread Santafe
... Narrative and its hypnotic > power. The better you are at it, the more you're at risk. > > I feel like a dog chasing cars, running analog, nipping at the tires. The End > isn't really to *catch* the car (and prolly die thereby). It's the joy of > running alongs

Re: [FRIAM] So much for U.S. competitiveness

2025-02-08 Thread Santafe
024 - This Congressional > Research Service report provides detailed information on federal R&D funding > in the United States, including breakdowns by health, fundamental research, > and defense-related research. > Federal R&D Funding, by Budget Function 2023-2025 - This National Scienc

Re: [FRIAM] OpenAI and the fight between Elon and Sam

2025-02-14 Thread Santafe
This thread merges many of the topics that have been articulated separately over the past couple of weeks under the head. Is Musk a “genius”? At what? This is a question about how to understand cause, I think. How much Musk, and how much the way current social systems work. Several years ag

Re: [FRIAM] free will

2025-02-26 Thread Santafe
hen do the next thing, and such >> questions [about a philosophy of free will] don’t come up". I have the >> impression that most people are just like that - except FRIAM folks of >> course. >> -J. >> Original message >> From: Santafe &

Re: [FRIAM] free will

2025-02-25 Thread Santafe
I think I know, rather than repeating things I have said before, what I would like to ask specifically to break away from simply repeating this question in a circle that grants common-language usage more self-contained “meaning” than I believe it has. Probably the answer to whatever I say next

Re: [FRIAM] Free will part 20250223

2025-02-25 Thread Santafe
> On Feb 25, 2025, at 14:50, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > If you think that you are better able to predict your own behavior than your > partner — or your dog, for that matter — then the evidence is against you. > First-person accounts of behavioral causality are notoriously shoddy. I feel >

Re: [FRIAM] free will

2025-02-25 Thread Santafe
I think I know, rather than repeating things I have said before, what I would like to ask specifically to break away from simply repeating this question in a circle that grants common-language usage more self-contained “meaning” than I believe it has. Probably the answer to whatever I say next

Re: [FRIAM] what's so special about humans

2025-03-01 Thread Santafe
Hi Jochen, Yes, he came by SFI at least once, maybe more than that. I know about the time I was there. He stood and talked in the kitchen along with the others at tea, interested in what was going on, and not himself the center of any special cluster. Just him and the couple of people he wa

Re: [FRIAM] Back at the ranch, I'm enjoying the popcorn.

2025-03-03 Thread Santafe
It’s such an encapsulation of that part of the society (including t and v) to think that they could “humiliate” Zelenskyy. By insisting, in a conversation with toxic scum, on the relevance of reality, he was about the only clean thing in the room that could be heard. There are people like Fare

Re: [FRIAM] Hackmann deaths - Hanta virus in Santa Fe ?

2025-03-08 Thread Santafe
Yeah; not likely a coverup. An odd way to die though. Deer mice are everywhere in Santa Fe. If you burn firewood, you clear nests of them out of your woodpile year-round. Often very big ones. And they invade houses, inexorably. I think they have transporters. A thing I read that is very in

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

2025-02-28 Thread Santafe
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] Back at the ranch, I'm enjoying the popcorn.

2025-03-15 Thread Santafe
much like how the U.S. dealt with Stalin, to bring the war to > an end. > > Continuing to support Ukraine half-heartedly, without full military > commitment, has serious downsides. The war could drag on indefinitely, and if > Ukraine eventually wins, Russia would be humiliated. A

Re: [FRIAM] MUsk + trUMP's = MUMPS

2025-03-16 Thread Santafe
If there were institutional backing for this, I would take it very seriously. Thing is, the European institutions already have their own stresses trying to employ a number of people comparable to those that they have trained. I’m not sure how many Americans they can take on, realistically. Al

Re: [FRIAM] Way off topic

2025-03-24 Thread Santafe
Useful. I find myself annoyed at the way the gaggle of reporters at any of these public appearances go along with the circus, though I don’t suppose they have any other options and I couldn’t do any better were I in their place. There was one such thing regarding one of the abductions and depor

Re: [FRIAM] MUsk + trUMP's = MUMPS

2025-03-18 Thread Santafe
gt; <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.science.org%2fcontent%2farticle%2fdo-you-want-direct-research-institute-germany-s-max-planck-society-has-hundreds-top&c=E,1,28-CkVRzVdmahBvLzIk9tBoLAKX55-8VHju9ZGTNIOT1BiooB3j5JAPLY2r9WJUDlEInOplyC3aCos2d41AB9JnLJyoU0bC-_qNIgP-pILR2

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