Re: [FRIAM] more agonism

2023-10-25 Thread David Eric Smith
Yeah; restricted reply. I wasn’t going to write it at the time, but given the linked article below, which is _much_ more sophisticated, I feel obliged to say that the problems are much lower-level. I don’t know if the whole blog is written by Zach Elliot, and I only read the one page you

Re: [FRIAM] more agonism

2023-10-25 Thread glen
Along these same lines, I know there's a significant contingent of "Presties" on this list. And I still don't have a good note-taking app that I find convenient enough to use. So I'll post this here, in part because it's a higher order form of ad hominem, in part because of our Presty friends,

Re: [FRIAM] more agonism

2023-10-19 Thread glen
Ha! I care much less about any particular false dichotomy than I do about the causes of dichotomies. The causes of dichotomies lie in agonistics, us versus them, this vs that, inside vs outside. Whatever triage methods we *happen* to adopt (or have impinged upon us) are always subject to

Re: [FRIAM] more agonism

2023-10-19 Thread Steve Smith
On 10/18/23 11:27 AM, glen wrote: Here's PZ Myers policing his community: The Gamete Delusion https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/17/the-gamete-delusion/ https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/watch/is-sex-bimodal I don't really have a dog in this fight other than the general

[FRIAM] more agonism

2023-10-18 Thread glen
Here's PZ Myers policing his community: The Gamete Delusion https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/17/the-gamete-delusion/ -- ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays