Re: [FRIAM] Dear Long Suffering Colleagues

2021-12-20 Thread glen
Taken in reverse order: 3) Yes, with A ⇒ B ⇒ C, A is behind the screen we call B. But notice that with A ⇐ B ⇐ C, B still screens off C. Flipping the arrows is one way to permute the sentence. Another way to permute the sentence is: C ⇒ B ⇒ A. Instead of flipping the arrows, we flip the senten

Re: [FRIAM] Dear Long Suffering Colleagues

2021-12-20 Thread glen
tionVertex.html Maybe if you replaced all the arrows with lines, the concept would be more clear? On 12/20/21 10:41, glen wrote: Taken in reverse order: 3) Yes, with A ⇒ B ⇒ C, A is behind the screen we call B. But notice that with A ⇐ B ⇐ C, B still screens off C. Flipping the arrows

Re: [FRIAM] Dear Long Suffering Colleagues

2021-12-20 Thread glen
w a causal collision breathes life into   hypothetical “inner” variables.  You and glen agree that order is NOT important, so now I am going to have a rethink.  Does it make any sense to distinguish between logical and temporal order?  So B is true, given A, speaks to logical order.   A CAUSES B spea

[FRIAM] bad covid story

2021-12-21 Thread glen
abbed her. They were getting ready to call the police, but I knew if they did, I would become the next national target for the Q maniacs. I told them to just put her in her car. I wasn't going to press charges. I went back to the hospital. I started looking for a new j

Re: [FRIAM] bad covid story

2021-12-27 Thread glen
only a hundred yards away, while his whole family was standing in our parking lot? Fuck you dude. Eight ways to Sunday. He has every right to be frustrated by having to deal with patients and families who made choices he disagrees with, but the continuous cruelty and better-than-thou postu

Re: [FRIAM] bad covid story

2021-12-27 Thread glen
the moment. All this time soldiering on against the headwinds, gladiators in the pit. And I realize that maybe I’m not ok. End/ -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Grou

Re: [FRIAM] bad covid story

2021-12-27 Thread glen
ce, then you're just blowing idealist smoke. On 12/27/21 09:18, Eric Charles wrote: Even if, by the time the story starts, he was going to die no matter what happened, the process by which that happened could have been much less cruel. -- glen

Re: [FRIAM] bad covid story

2021-12-27 Thread glen
lease stop.   It isn't the Gen-Z or the Millennials to blame for all the conspicuous neediness and instability, but increasingly it seems be a cultural problem. On 12/27/21 09:18, Eric Charles wrote: The frustration of the family and it's manifestations are totally understandable. They are

Re: [FRIAM] bad covid story

2021-12-27 Thread glen
m to feature bureaucracies following rationally constructed laws and statutes. I do agree with Marcus that it would have been much better if the family had proactively identified someone who would more closely follow the treatment path they wanted. I don't know what the initial

Re: [FRIAM] bad covid story

2021-12-27 Thread glen
edly told me, when we are in zoom, about how you can share a beer with a racist skinhead, and come to find some sort of sympathetic understanding of the reasoning of where they are coming from... it is baffling the situations where you take exactly the opposite line. -- glen Theorem 3. The

Re: [FRIAM] bad covid story

2021-12-27 Thread glen
----- *From:* Friam on behalf of glen

[FRIAM] more modal realism

2021-12-28 Thread glen
uming that's stable, which is ... uh ... semi-monist (?) ... maybe pseudo-monist ... along the lines of an open-ended, increasing degrees of freedom universe ... whatever that might turn out to mean. -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -.

Re: [FRIAM] more modal realism

2021-12-28 Thread glen
ly building a defensible answer to the question "Why is there something, rather than nothing?" On 12/28/21 11:10, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/28/21 09:30, glen wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds We see something like this in evolutionary

Re: [FRIAM] more modal realism

2021-12-29 Thread glen
there is something. So even if the vast majority of the possible worlds had nothing, it would still be true that 100% of the worlds in which people-in-bars asked such questions, would be worlds with something. <mailto:echar...@american.edu> On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 12:31 PM glen mailto:ge

Re: [FRIAM] more modal realism

2021-12-30 Thread glen
etimes sentient life springs up and asks silly questions. Have you tried countering with "Why NOT something?" -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoo

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

2022-01-04 Thread glen
 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? https://www.wired.com/story/energy-vault-gravity-storage/ <https://www.wired.com/story/energy-vault-gravity-storage/> -- glen Theor

Re: [FRIAM] Group Selection Redux?

2022-01-04 Thread glen
sh.com%2fpipermail%2ffriam_redfish.com%2f&c=E,1,p64yCHvaJEFX77QqASShCNx2e3TMxvwUnzpsO1C3vTN777PRrnbS8P8W95aCa4XCzK-GE3Rdk4juvBCojdTXlPqDLV345Lz4zzRev4WoBAfALZKaFR0aHUBEqj8,&typo=1> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ <http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/> .-- .- -. -

[FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

2022-01-05 Thread glen
https://insurrectionindex.org/ It's interesting how bright Texas and Florida are. Maybe I should move to Vermont next. 8^D -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] Group Selection Redux?

2022-01-05 Thread glen
ays. [1] David Sloan Wilson, Elliott Sober, "Reintroducing group selection to the human behavioral sciences". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (4) (1994) 585–654 [2] David Sloan Wilson, "Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society", University of

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

2022-01-05 Thread glen
add West Virginia which seceded from Virginia when Virginiu seceded from the US. (I think some counties in east Tennessee also seceded, but weren’t enough to make a state and weren’t contiguous with the US. —Barry On 5 Jan 2022, at 10:19, glen wrote: https://insurrectionindex.org/ <htt

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

2022-01-05 Thread glen
thy-laden* Dems behave "reasonably". Maybe we really do need a Philosopher Queen, with a ruthless cadre of lictors, instead of this Frankenstein's monster we have? On 1/5/22 15:25, Marcus Daniels wrote: Glen writes: < The actual penalty isn't really the deterrent. The dete

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

2022-01-06 Thread glen
---- *From:* Friam on behalf of glen *Sent:* Wednesday, January 5, 2022 4:49 PM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index That's a good point. It remi

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

2022-01-06 Thread glen
#x27;ve tried". On 1/5/22 18:58, Steve Smith wrote: "The *worst* form of government, except for all the other one's we've tried!"   I suppose it is time to try some other forms of "governANCE" ? -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .-

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

2022-01-07 Thread glen
or any given state or locale) a better place for all who live in the jurisdiction, many have a very different idea from me of what "better place" would look like, but at least they seem to engagable on the topic. -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -.

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

2022-01-07 Thread glen
hing other than the stupidity of the drug war. So, to appeal to those do-gooder types, we can explain that a *side effect* of HR is that those who don't actually intend to get high, they're just trapped in some bad attractor, they will be helped out of that attractor. But don't c

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

2022-01-07 Thread glen
ten ridicule as totalitarian, has lived with opium use for a much longer time. Here in the US, the puritans will steal any and every thing and warp it to their narrative, including HR. I think SteveS is a victim of that narrative. On 1/7/22 09:49, Prof David West wrote: glen is describing the actu

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

2022-01-07 Thread glen
and Democracy") or to the book "What is populism?" from Jan-Werner Müller. Anyone else interested in this topic? -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group l

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

2022-01-07 Thread glen
k of taking drugs. The risk makes drugs less appealing. Hell, you might just as well hand out birth control to teenagers and be a teen sex enabler. F’ing Pervert. As we all know, only abstinence works. (sarcasm mode off) On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 12:50 PM Prof David West mailto:profw...@fastma

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-10 Thread glen
-

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-10 Thread glen
behalf of glen *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2022 8:25 AM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality One of the themes I've seen talks about a slight correlation between the presence of homosexuality in a family with female fecundity (counter intuitive to

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-10 Thread glen
think, in spite of my optimism. Interestingly, doom replaced the anger I grew up with ... somewhere between age 40-50. On 1/10/22 08:14, Steve Smith wrote: On 1/10/22 8:56 AM, glen wrote: Right. I hope that's the case, not merely that some of us are more plastic, but that perhaps any

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-10 Thread glen
not "scientific," and by the 'woke' because it challenges their narrative and offends their sensibilities. davew On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, at 7:56 AM, glen wrote: > Right. I hope that's the case, not merely that some of us are more > plastic, but that perhaps a

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-10 Thread glen
0, though, it's gone for good ... assuming I live that long. On 1/10/22 10:51, Marcus Daniels wrote: No, but that subculture will keep you bald!  Bald and alone, that would be terrible! -- glen Theorem 3. There exists

[FRIAM] preprint aerosol covid

2022-01-12 Thread glen
is consistent with an elevation in the pH of the droplets, caused by volatilisation of CO2 from bicarbonate buffer within the droplet. Three different variants of SARS-CoV-2 were compared and found to have a similar degree of airborne stability at both high and low RH. -- glen Theorem 3. There

Re: [FRIAM] preprint aerosol covid

2022-01-12 Thread glen
behalf of glen *Sent:* Wednesday, January 12, 2022 9:25 AM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* [FRIAM] preprint aerosol covid The Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity with Changes in Aerosol Microenvironment

Re: [FRIAM] preprint aerosol covid

2022-01-12 Thread glen
evalent in dry climates. But it isn't. Am I reading it wrong? -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfria

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-12 Thread glen
ve company of same-sex others? What possible benefits could there be to raising children in a “homosexual” environment? (Hey now, don’t bring moral judgment into this, it is only a question of surviving and thriving.) <mailto:echar...@american.edu> On Sat, Jan

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-13 Thread glen
its glorious minimality is a really great abstraction, and the notion of “Darwinian / Malthusian competition” among replicators with variant sequences is an abstraction that hews quite faithfully to much that is empirically real in the system. But then, and here I want to be careful about a w

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-13 Thread glen
trary preference for social affinities of a certain sort, and it is only one sort of valid class of relationships. Relationships that have benefits, but also costs. It's not just overbearing on how men should be, but also on how women should be. https://www.nytimes

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-13 Thread glen
man before his brother told him to 'go seize the fame you justly deserve." Fame corrupts; absolute fame corrupts absolutely. -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Gr

[FRIAM] fake news alert! 8^D

2022-01-14 Thread glen
How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story https://youtu.be/iph500cPK28 "I have to cut all this wood and have no time to read books!" -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRI

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-14 Thread glen
t engage "the human condition of reliance on others." She is expressing an expectation for high intimacy, and it is implicit that there is something wrong with keeping your distance. I've seen this false choice portrayed by other so-called feminists. I don't buy it. M

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-14 Thread glen
that it's overbearing on both men and women. In fact, the article seems to be indirectly arguing *for* such a heterarchy. We might sum it up as: Be intimate. That the author didn't caveat it with "in moderation" shouldn't bother us too much ... because it's common se

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-14 Thread glen
rsonal lives. Marcus From: Friam on behalf of glen Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 10:35 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality OK. If the answer is "yes" at least in some special cases, then why can't the answer

Re: [FRIAM] NOW IS: Oh, Woe, Academia! WAS: gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-14 Thread glen
disappointing that other people would, who he thought were in the same work as him for something like the same reasons. -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

[FRIAM] more logistics kvetching

2022-01-20 Thread glen
Just admit it and get to work. And don't put all your tokens in one wallet. -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virt

[FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-20 Thread glen
aches (6σ, JIT, etc.) to such questions. And I'd bet those approaches are taken seriously and applied rigorously to, say, getting the PS5 to "vulnerable populations" of gamers. I'd like to see more attention paid in the press to health care logistics. -- glen Theorem 3. There e

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling democratic backsliding

2022-01-20 Thread glen
or the coordination game to model a transition from democracy to autocracy (and back): https://nbviewer.org/github/JochenFromm/JupyterNotebooks/blob/master/ModelingDemocraticBacksliding.ipynb -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a do

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling democratic backsliding

2022-01-20 Thread glen
think the models from Axelrod are a good starting point in general. He managed to find simple models which have complex results. Finding the right model and the right level of abstraction is difficult. -J. Original message ---- From: glen Date: 1/20/22 15:39 (GMT+01:00) To: friam@r

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-20 Thread glen
uest service.   I wonder how the states vary in how they handle public health overrides of the insurers, like with COVID-19?   How can any random person get to the best possible hospital for a treatment?  That just isn't opti

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-21 Thread glen
t this is all just from my nostalgizing as a dying white man. It would be interesting to see a disinterested historian present the plectic arcs. On 1/20/22 14:33, glen wrote: Even if there are multiple paths to nearly equivalent optima, each unit (human, hospital, corporation, state) has to share

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-21 Thread glen
ofit from insane energy policy of the last several generations and making what contingency plans he can. I certainly would if I could. On Jan 21, 2022, at 7:48 AM, glen wrote: This video essay concludes with the same point: The Fake Futurism of Elon Musk https://youtu.be/5OtKEetGy2Y Perhaps

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread glen
partures) from the thing that makes the article valuable, which is the substance of its claims about what exists and what can be assembled into systems.  I think one can keep the claims as important questions and let the other stuff go its own ways. Anyway, more than I know how to chew on,

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread glen
--- *From:* Friam on behalf of glen *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2022 12:00 PM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics At first, I struggled to see how this mapped to health care logistics. But on 2nd read, it clearly doe

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread glen
----- *From:* Friam on behalf of glen *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2022 12:41 PM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] he

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread glen
----- *From:* Friam on behalf of glen *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2022 1:26 PM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics Well, yeah, I see little evidence of such principle-free attractors

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread glen
ead of a pin" because there are no completely closed systems. Even if we accept closure in some dimension, openness is required in other dimensions. On 1/24/22 13:23, Marcus Daniels wrote: Glen writes: < That's not true at all. Closed systems do have disclosures in terms of the

Re: [FRIAM] There is a Thich Nhat Hanh sized hole in the Universe

2022-01-24 Thread glen
ons from a mostly different perspective: DaveW's studies of Eastern Philosophies.   Glen's talk of diachronic vs episodic self.   The general talk about Consciousness from a Western (esp. Pearcean) perspective here. Monism/Dualism.  The HARD problem.   etc. -- glen Theorem 3.

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread glen
---- *From:* Friam on behalf of glen *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2022 2:36 PM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] health

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread glen
---- *From:* Friam on behalf of glen *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2022 3:16 PM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics That&

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread glen
orage types (able to get past the receptionist after eating over-priced peri-Mexican food in order to have tea with smart people). On 1/24/22 15:31, Marcus Daniels wrote: Some of them sponsor SFI for goodness' sake!   They'll never see THAT money again! -- glen Theorem

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread glen
--- *From:* Friam on behalf of glen *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2022 5:08 PM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics Well, that ain't true, either. Like Epstein, w

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-25 Thread glen
believed there was no way to do, somehow I feel like the same movie doesn’t become the response.  Something else does.  What is that? On 1/24/22 17:34, Marcus Daniels wrote: Before I launch into a diatribe about why the hell we can't agree to basic, never mind interesting things: -- gl

Re: [FRIAM] There is a Thich Nhat Hanh sized hole in the Universe

2022-01-25 Thread glen
t God IS conscious. For Whitehead, awareness (perception) is primitive (primordial) while consciousness is derivative. I hope this adds some clarity. davew On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, at 1:49 PM, glen wrote: > I can't add to the content like Dave has. But I can render my > perspective on t

[FRIAM] Ukraine and NATO

2022-01-25 Thread glen
7;s dream of a new USSR? I seem to remember back when Crimea was first occupied by Russia that nearly half the people really did identify more as Russians than Ukrainians. Ignoring that polls are fraught, is there a sense that a significant bloc Ukrainians, themselves, might disapprove of joining

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-25 Thread glen
. On 1/25/22 06:39, David Eric Smith wrote: To say this is a value question is fair, glen, given my shorthands of language. However, I would like to split apart questions of “who wants what” from questions of “what can or cannot happen under what conditions, irrespective of what anybody wants”

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-26 Thread glen
mit that freezing out of prior stages will always happen? On 1/25/22 14:45, David Eric Smith wrote: I agree, glen, than a criterion has to be stated. (I will avoid even the term “objective function”, because that starts to cross over into motivational framings, and away from the simple conditio

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-26 Thread glen
h. is more to address cruelty.   To examine what we do and how -- with apologies to Glen -- it corrupts us.  I think Ezra Klein put it well. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/opinion/factory-farming-animals.html <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/opinion/factory-farming-animals.html>

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-26 Thread glen
le to catch up on this … um …. Far flung conversation in one go without opening a thousand messages.  Thank You Marcus. -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays

[FRIAM] check your units before turning in your quiz

2022-01-27 Thread glen
When is an ounce of prevention NOT worth a pound of cure? The Biden administration used billions in hospital Covid-19 funds to pay drugmakers https://www.statnews.com/2022/01/26/the-biden-administration-used-billions-in-hospital-covid-19-funds-to-pay-drugmakers/ -- glen Theorem 3. There exists

Re: [FRIAM] check your units before turning in your quiz

2022-01-27 Thread glen
crowded place for them to die. One of the main values of testing now seems to be to track spatial movement of new strains as they occur. The home testing also suffers from high false positive and negative rates. -Original Message----- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Thursday, Janu

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

2022-01-27 Thread glen
verging on a bit of a (nasty) wet-fizzle of an apocalypse he sardonically dubs "The Jackpot". The Grist article describes (somewhat) the value of keeping one's eye on the dystopian/apocalyptic future threatened by our short-sighted habits and (overly optimistic?) conceptions of

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

2022-01-28 Thread glen
? Before Space X had customers and a track record, there were all the NASA old fogies saying he'd be killing people and he could not possibly do it.  Am I glad to see them so wrong?  Yes.  It is not because he is the best or some Tony Stark.   It is because they

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

2022-01-28 Thread glen
------ *From:* Friam on behalf of glen *Sent:* Friday, January 28, 2022 10:24 AM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi Well, I can't speak for scientists or engineers. But the reason he (and hi

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

2022-01-28 Thread glen
----- *From:* Friam on behalf of glen *Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

2022-01-28 Thread glen
ow we decide how to shape the landscape of forces that effectively manage/regulate/define them)...   emergent, collective phenomena ultimately dominate, no matter what the myriad stripes of linear conspiracy theorists may try to demonstrate. -

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

2022-01-28 Thread glen
fy the herds, but apparently poor tools for effectively herding.  I suspect what Glen believes is that there need not be herds nor herding.   If I were herding

[FRIAM] celebrity woes

2022-02-02 Thread glen
Teen monitoring Elon Musk’s jet ‘tracking Gates, Bezos and Drake too’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/02/teen-tracking-elon-musk-jet-bill-gates-jeff-bezos-drake-jack-sweeney-tesla-flight-tracker-bot -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function

Re: [FRIAM] celebrity woes

2022-02-02 Thread glen
ckets-from-russia <https://www.inverse.com/article/34976-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-tried-to-buy-icbm-rockets-from-russia> Maybe he needs to buy some MiGs too and stop his bitching? -Original Message- From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On Behalf Of glen

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

2022-02-02 Thread glen
the set of my favorite people. On 2/2/22 12:20, Stephen Guerin wrote: Two days after Christmas, your signature switched to -- glen Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. From Recursion Theory for MetaMathematics <http://www.logic-books.info/sites/default/fi

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

2022-02-02 Thread glen
Arg! Busted. On 2/2/22 12:49, Marcus Daniels wrote: In case someone steals your pad/laptop/phone and posts scandalous things about Elon Musk and various sorts of appendages? Then you'll know? -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

2022-02-02 Thread glen
On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, at 12:36 PM, glen wrote: No relation at all! I chose that theorem arbitrarily just to distinguish when I post from my newly configured TBird client versus other clients. Never ascribe intelligence where stochasticity will suffice. I could have equally chosen something fr

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

2022-02-02 Thread glen
r.e. is "recursively enumerable", IIRC. On 2/2/22 13:34, Frank Wimberly wrote: I wonder what an e. r. relation is.  Equivalence relations are reflexive by definition. -- glen Theorem 3. If f(x) is a continuous function of period 2π, then f(x,r)→f(x) as r→1, un

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

2022-02-02 Thread glen
r/misc?cid=bafybeicwqgmnevz7eozntvhigdskcgezmprd55ec6ys2mrj2zlwlmpp4oa https://slate.host/gepr/misc?cid=bafybeicnyt2xgr2heluzbzpeofzkf7arti5qsk7dpr6dg6mcrapcjuqxp4 On 2/2/22 16:01, Steve Smith wrote: On 2/2/22 1:36 PM, glen wrote: No relation at all! I chose that theorem arbitrarily just to distinguish when I post from my newly

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

2022-02-03 Thread glen
so slow in release.  I now suspect *she* may have been holding it up somewhat as it was such a weak adaptation, despite a huge budget and a star leading man. -- glen Theorem 3. If f(x) is a continuous function of period 2π, then f(x,r)→f(x) as r→1, uniformly ∀x. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

2022-02-04 Thread glen
Zelazny's Amber-schtick seems to follow *somewhat* from that idea...  in some sense, it seems as if everything Magical he invoked was somehow a natural consequence of the schmear of physical laws across the schmear of parallel worlds suspended between the antipodes of Logos and Chaos (my i

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

2022-02-04 Thread glen
internal consistency seems to be what yields quantization or at least concentrations of clusters of factoids (like virtual particles?)? On 2/4/22 8:03 AM, glen wrote: I think one of the reasons I *want* to believe in parallel worlds and a fully embellished conception of counterfactuals is *because

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy in Name Only: endemic regime instability

2022-02-04 Thread glen
he shore we have left, while the current sweeps us along, and drives us backward toward the gulf.” -- glen When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy in Name Only: endemic regime instability

2022-02-04 Thread glen
olitics is needed for a new world. This, however, is what we think of least; launched in the middle of a rapid stream, we obstinately fix our eyes on the ruins which may still be descried upon the shore we have left, while the current sweeps us along, and drives us backward toward the g

Re: [FRIAM] This server was online for under a minute before hackers were trying to crack it | ZDNet

2019-04-09 Thread glen
a minute before hackers were trying to >crack it >https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-server-was-online-for-under-a-minute-before-cyber-criminals-started-to-hack-it/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=20491097527083334348667794110460 > >TJ -- glen ==

[FRIAM] theoremdep

2019-04-09 Thread glen
important property of classical reasoning, while it certainly is not a feature of reasoning carried out in ST." -- glen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscrib

Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...

2019-04-16 Thread glen
And here I thought "St. Bob" referred to this guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._%22Bob%22_Dobbs On April 15, 2019 5:23:32 PM PDT, Frank Wimberly wrote: > St. Bob (Dylan). -- glen FRIAM Applied Complexity G

Re: [FRIAM] A Question For Tomorrow

2019-05-01 Thread glen
things to him like "You're so pretty." I could live with >that (minus the pilot part - not gonna happen). Get me a shirt with >ruffles. No problem. -- glen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-

Re: [FRIAM] A Question For Tomorrow

2019-05-01 Thread glen
rogram *and* >to have their partners (male or female) celebrate the investment. >This should be the new mid-life crisis. -- glen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John&#x

Re: [FRIAM] Predictive coding basedon deep learning

2019-07-30 Thread glen
ular system will better yield to careful study or to >chaotic perturbation. Witness the success of stochastic gradient >descent in machine learning. -- glen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at

[FRIAM] Fwd: Archangel Michael's Message For You

2019-08-17 Thread glen
4375524566434321563221435322435566445175326178 545454542324345562434565644575244575621433241546334456 23451244624375524566434321563221435322435566445175326178 545454542324345562434565644575244575621433241546334456 23451244624375524566434321563221435322435566445175326178 -- glen ===

Re: [FRIAM] abduction and casuistry

2019-08-24 Thread glen
ver doesn't send me something, so >this may be a case of that. Can you forward it to me? -- glen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redf

[FRIAM] Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ!

2019-09-24 Thread glen
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317 -- glen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to

[FRIAM] MoNA

2019-10-26 Thread glen
r philosophical one). With that preamble, I offer the below, which is interesting because this sophistry comes with SOFTWARE! 8^) The Moral Narrative Analyzer https://mnl.ucsb.edu/mona The Moral Mind https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019588/moral-

Re: [FRIAM] capitalism vs. individualism

2019-11-05 Thread glen
(Debug in quotes because the periodicity might end up being a counter-intuitive feature.) On November 5, 2019 12:02:26 PM PST, Marcus Daniels wrote: >Glen writes: > >"But re: avoiding modeling the space between the -isms, I'd argue that >sometimes (only sometimes), it&

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >