>Marcus wrote " Others are just involved in collective performance art in the hopes of pushing their citation count higher."
They profit since so many are seduced by crappy graphics. My last academic supervisor was one of these characters. But knowing that I finally completed my sentence in academic prison. Gentlemen don't retreat. Most children go through a stage when they experiment with watercolor paints. Parents dote on these kids. With little success. Once I condemned an artist for choosing a small easel, low expectations. But many artists choose self constraining media that they can easily master. They impose self restrictions on themselves yet seem to desire a great reputation. Glen's referents are salient and possibly very useful. These referents enter the neural landscape and transform the very connections of neurons. London Cabbies are famous world-wide for their mental skills and neuro-anatomy. Their rigorous mental models are astonishing. The artwork of most humans rarely progresses beyond flat 2D scribbles, and yet teaching them anything about the matter is almost useless. Some brains can create artifacts of surprising elegance and other brains make caca. And then there are the Economists that prefer the later. If the referents are robustly entrenched in formalism then likely so are the artifacts. vib -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: April-23-17 11:14 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server Heh, it amuses and frustrates me the pressure to publish when one could instead do something useful like develop and share code. Those "mental models" scribbled down on paper obviously have less value than tools to solve the general problem (i.e. working through all the boring but necessary cases to make it all computable), both as formalisms and from a utilitarian point of view. Nonetheless, I hear all the time from theory types that they "have it in their head and just have to write it down". Some of them I believe. Others are just involved in collective performance art in the hopes of pushing their citation count higher. Hmm, I seem to be down on academics today. ============================================================ 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 FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ 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 FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
