I wonder what would happen if the penalty were based on the offender’s salary 
and paid directly to the provider.  So, let’s say the provider is earning 25 
dollars an hour and the offender is earning 100 dollars an hour.  So, now the 
penalty for THAT offender is 100 dollars per hour, or fragment therof.  Would 
the offender still accept this penalty as a price of doing business?  

 

N

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> 
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Eric Smith
Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2020 7:01 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] millenarianism

 

I don’t know if this embeds within Nick’s thread, but it is a lovely bookend to 
Marcus’s link:

 

https://econpapers.repec.org/article/ucpjlstud/v_3a29_3ay_3a2000_3ai_3a1_3ap_3a1-17.htm

 

Monetization of high-dimensional things, whether positive or negative, is a 
death knell.

 

Eric

 





On Jun 7, 2020, at 5:00 AM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

 

It’s because we were ruined.  

 

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html

 

From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > on 
behalf of "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> " 
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Date: Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 12:44 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] millenarianism

 

Well, as an ethologist, I should be the first at that barricade.  So thanks for 
reminding me.  

 

Examining my own experience, I can only say that you are correct that there is 
direct pleasure in developing an argument, as “tactile” as the pleasure of 
forming Silly Putty into smooth balls or blowing bubbles with bubblegum.  But 
that pleasure is eliminated IMMEDIATELY and completely, if I imagine that 
nobody will ever read and understand what I wrote.  That’s a paradox, and one I 
don’t entirely understand. 

 

Nick 

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> 
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On 
Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2020 1:04 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] millenarianism

 

Nick,

 

I wonder if communicatory behavior is rewarding in its own right just as 
consummatory behavior is.

 

Meta:

I don't know if "communicatory" is a word.  But I wanted parallel with 
"consummatory".

 

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz, 
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

 

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 12:54 PM <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

We may disagree.  I think that some spaces should be safe for some purposes. 
The question to be discussed, on a case by case basis, is, Are the functions of 
a space improved or diminished by making it “safe” in some specific way.   But 
there’s another point, here.  Assuming one is trying to convince others, not 
just mouthing off, when does aggressive rhetoric assist in changing minds.  And 
if one is NOT trying to change minds, why exactly are we talking?  That’s NOT a 
rhetorical question.

 

Nick

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> 
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On 
Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2020 12:01 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] millenarianism

 

Nick writes:

 

< Surely there is SOME value, SOME times, in just trying to “get on”.   >

 

I don’t see why the absence of that is hostility, or even bad.   I do see 
situations in which individuals want latitude to have any remarks they make 
taken as valid and kind should be afforded the same discomfort they impose on 
others.   I certainly am not arguing for safe spaces.   Actual safe spaces are 
controlled by people that hold some power.    Tear down that power – prevent 
communities -- and discussions will be safe.

 

Marcus

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