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Woah, great news, Roger. cc'ing Ed, Frank, Josh and Steve Smith. PS I'll be in Santa Fe this Friday and probably at Friam. _ stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard

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"PS I'll be in Santa Fe this Friday and probably at Friam." Excellent. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 5:12 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > The stars have aligned to make this assembly theory day! > > First this

Re: [FRIAM] Theil

In addition to the github repository with the mathematica notebooks (and the assembly-data.zip supp.), there are 2 interesting sources for more cronin group code. https://github.com/orgs/croningp/repositories (parent of the mathematical repository) https://gitlab.com/croningroup Browsing the

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The stars have aligned to make this assembly theory day! First this article on How Did Life Begin: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/14/1082828/how-did-life-begin/ pointed me to an open access article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9 Assembly theory explains

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I suspected that the distance between you and Walker might be relatively low. But csauthors.net only gives me a = 6. It's interesting that = 6 as well. Obviously, there are plenty of spots uncertainty could creep in there. Distance to me is only 5 (!), which I think proves beyond a shadow of

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I'll choose not to listen to 4 hours of Lex's benzo voice. It's worse than vocal fry to my poor ears. But Anthropic's Claude summarized it for me! $ ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=`cat ../anthropic_key` python3 complete.py ~/Downloads/lex_ai_lee_cronin_sara_walker.txt Here is a summary of the key points

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Once Jaron Lanier visited us at BiosGroup. We set up an impromptu seminar. My office mate said we should go to see who emerges as the alpha guru. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 9:00 PM Steve Smith wrote: > > On

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I can't imagine watching all that. Do people? On Nov 13, 2023, at 6:43 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:  Well in that case, definitely look up the interview he did with Sara Walker and Lee Cronin. I will not comment further. Eric On Nov 13, 2023, at 5:57 PM, Steve Smith wrote: On

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There's a Nine Inch Nails song that coincides with the SFI initials. Dating myself. On Nov 13, 2023, at 9:00 PM, Steve Smith wrote:  On 11/13/23 5:39 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: I'm surprised Stuart Kauffman isn't in there. CultBiosGroup? -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... .

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On 11/13/23 5:39 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: I'm surprised Stuart Kauffman isn't in there. CultBiosGroup? -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom

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On 11/13/23 6:42 PM, David Eric Smith wrote: Well in that case, definitely look up the interview he did with Sara Walker and Lee Cronin. I will not comment further. Eric Gah! Coincidence that I just finished Stephen Webb's updated review of the Fermi Paradox.  I didn't choose to read it

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I actually saw your post second, Frank, but had to smile when I did. Benefits/defects of reading emails in reverse chronological. Eric > On Nov 13, 2023, at 7:31 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > Were you responding to my post, Eric? Probably not. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo

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Were you responding to my post, Eric? Probably not. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 6:43 PM David Eric Smith wrote: > Well in that case, definitely look up the interview he did with Sara > Walker and Lee Cronin. >

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Well in that case, definitely look up the interview he did with Sara Walker and Lee Cronin. I will not comment further. Eric > On Nov 13, 2023, at 5:57 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > > > > On 11/13/23 12:06 PM, glen wrote: >> You might want to check the Gurometer. Lex has an entry: >> >>

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On 11/13/23 12:06 PM, glen wrote: You might want to check the Gurometer. Lex has an entry: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Oe-af4_OmzLJavktcSKGfP0wmxCX0ppP8n_Tvi9l_yc/edit?usp=sharing While Lex's scores are relatively low compared to some of the wackos on the list, we are known by

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I'm surprised Stuart Kauffman isn't in there. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 5:31 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I'm too lazy to run a kmeans now. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 13, 2023, at 12:06 PM, glen

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I'm too lazy to run a kmeans now. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 13, 2023, at 12:06 PM, glen wrote: > > You might want to check the Gurometer. Lex has an entry: > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Oe-af4_OmzLJavktcSKGfP0wmxCX0ppP8n_Tvi9l_yc/edit?usp=sharing > > While Lex's scores

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You might want to check the Gurometer. Lex has an entry: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Oe-af4_OmzLJavktcSKGfP0wmxCX0ppP8n_Tvi9l_yc/edit?usp=sharing While Lex's scores are relatively low compared to some of the wackos on the list, we are known by association. And many of Lex's guests

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It seems (maybe only to me?) that "will" is what defines the intersection of memory and imagination?   The free-will-less-ness-ers among us (ala Sopolsky )

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It seems to me that neither Musk and Thiel are interested in the unknown. They are interested in doing things they can already imagine.For Musk I thought that was because it is how he raises money. Now I think he is not imagining consciousness in a, say, a transporter pattern buffer, he

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There's an interesting parallel between the Stross and Gellman pieces: Stross both laments and implicitly appreciates the bureaucracy of getting a book published, where Thiel's aggrieved by the bureaucracy of societal evolution. It reminds me of the engineering-vs-biology dichotomy (yes,