And what if the information is wrong? Which--as our FRIAMer Tom Johnson can tell you--it often is.
On Jan 16, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > No. No. it’s the loss, to you that I am worried about, not just the loss to > the “deviant”. Take it back 60 years. You are a nice, conventional british > academic and you learn from the London Security Camera system that you pal, > Alan Turing is a “deviant”. Put yourself in the mindset of that time. What > do you do? > > N > > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 5:49 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Privacy vs Open Public Data > > Hey, no one ever claimed that life was fair. > > --Doug > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Nicholas Thompson > <[email protected]> wrote: > So, you see no problem there? There are good people and bad people. You can > tell from the B tattooed on their wrist? So, lets us good people screw the > bad people and get on with it. What if one of the bad people is a heluva > musician? Or a great mathematician? N > > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:52 PM > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Privacy vs Open Public Data > > On 1/16/13 3:56 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > Makes me grumpy. > > Poor you. It is not surprising that criminals, deviants, and unstable > humiliated people populate every community. There is inequity in the world. > If people can't find a purpose or acceptable identity in their lives, then > drug & sex addiction, magical thinking, and exploitation of others provide > some pleasure and sense of control. Meanwhile, it also should not come as > any surprise that individuals in a society can learn how to play along and > give the appearance of `normal'. The popular use of the Internet simply > brings a little more in to the light what was always there: Lots and lots of > troubled and mentally-ill people. It's important to make people look at it. > > > Marcus > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > [email protected] > [email protected] > http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins > > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-672-8213 - Mobile > ============================================================ > 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 "Bounded Rationality," by Pamela McCorduck, the second novel in the series, Santa Fe Stories, Sunstone Press, is now available both as ink-on-paper and as an e-book. “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen
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