I don't think it would help me. An e-mail directly to me might make me
feel like one of the cool kids. But my main concern is the sense that
Americans Elect is a corporation, not a democratic process. Don't get
me wrong, I'm all for corporations to the right purpose and context.
But AECorp
This article sums up my feelings on the subject:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46692982
--Doug
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:58 AM, glen g...@ropella.name wrote:
I don't think it would help me. An e-mail directly to me might make me
feel like one of the cool kids. But my main concern is the sense
Yes, sometimes scientific theories resemble religions and vice-versa and
sometimes the debate on how genes evolve looks a bit like a battle between
competing religions.
I would disagree with principles (1) and (2): As for (1) I sometimes find that
knowledge is transmitted via books or
Bad as things are, now, I fear that a third party, by any name, would
further divide the non crazy vote.
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To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
I share your (various) doubts about the people behind the AE process,
but I *do* welcome the concept of a more open and engaged and
egalitarian process for supporting existing politicians who are not
insiders at the big show (e.g. Kucenich, Gary Johnson) and for maybe
Lets take those points 1 by 1
1) Information is transmitted genetically.
a) Instead of information being transmitted as am electronic series
(string) of 0s and 1s (ie. base 2 encoding), its transmitted as a
chemical series (string) of base 4 proteins, both series being
readable.
b) The
Steve Smith wrote at 03/16/2012 10:54 AM:
But to be honest, the important question is what *would* be a better
process/circumstance for all of this? Who *could* foster/muster
something like this. I'd be equally (differently) scared if it were
GoogleZon doing it... like
Vote.Google.com ?
I feer the only way to 'get things' done is to convert to a
technocracyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracyand possible a
parimenatarian one at that-but short of that--yeah my issue
with AECorp is it isn't transparent-not that the democracts/repubs are but
that'd be a start if possible-i'm
Glen -
I agree that winner-take-all system highly reinforces a
(superficially) polarized 2-party circumstance...
Gil -
I used to be pro-Technocracy, but as a Technologist myself, I don't
trust/believe in my own peers any more than than I do the *rest* of the
unwashed masses. While I find
Sarbajit,
Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking of genes as hereditary units but I
guess they can also refer to any chemical strings of a certain type. How
about statement (2)? Can't we be more than the sum of our ancestors?
--John
From:
John,
wrt statement #2
IF our ancestors are contained within us AND live (on) in us, THEN
all the information we have is in our ancestors too. {Life as an
information / communication problem}
Of course we can be more than the sum of our parents. The
information is already out there in the
Thanks, Sarbajit,
One quibble:
a child is the genetic sum of its parents
If we are talking genetic tokens (as opposed to types), a child has half the
genes of each of its parents.
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