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On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:26 PM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since you brought up Pratchett: > https://quantumfrontiers.com/2022/08/14/rocks-that-roll/ > > EricS: Those pocket synthesizers are very tempting. Thanks. > > Gil: Yeah, this week's had a way better start. Still can't work out 'cause > the construction crew has all their stuff packed in the area where I do it. > [sigh] ... getting fatter by the hour! > > Luck: IDK, man. I don't really believe in luck or unluck. But I do believe > in selection or filtering. I think we've talked about it on the list, where > we're wired to pay more attention to negative stuff than positive stuff. So > noticing all the red stop lights and ignoring all the green ones might be > related to thinking the rustling in the bush is a tiger. If it is a tiger, > running was a good idea. If it's not a tiger, well you simply wasted a few > calories, better safe than sorry ... however suspect evolutionary > psychology might be. One challenge to my disbelief, though, is that I know > a couple of people who really do seem to always be in the wrong place at > the wrong time ... get rear-ended by an uninsured driver ... have their > spouse degenerate with lupus ... allergic to pine nuts (?!?) ... on and on > for a lifetime of hassle. The story of Job, I guess. Someone has to play > the 6 sigma role. > > On 8/15/22 15:05, Gillian Densmore wrote: > > I am curius though. Is their some reason awful luck like this > happens. Just pure luck? > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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