Re: [FRIAM] whackadoodles go mainstream!

interesting. But I have no official work related to COVID-19. So my access would be frivolous. On 4/21/20 8:59 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > This morning I was told of this: https://covid19researchdatabase.

Re: [FRIAM] whackadoodles go mainstream!

Eric davew On Tue, Apr 21, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: Glen writes: < I can see that the diversity seems to peak as the infections ramp up in the US and EU. And there's only a handful of spots where the diversity shoots up, only to level off later. > Well, the colo

Re: [FRIAM] Local News not so good

A Nanopore sequencing machine would have been a great SF Complex purchase. FRIAM could screen members for in-person meetings. I guess that Santa Fe is in a terrible financial condition now, so they won't be buying one. On 4/22/20, 5:08 PM, "Friam on behalf of thompnicks...@gmail.com" wr

Re: [FRIAM] CD3+, CD4+, CD8+

Thanks for that link. CD4 is expressed on helper T cells and it promotes adhesion to antigen-presenting cells. CD8 is the same but for cytotoxic T cells and different kinds of antigens. CD3 accessory proteins help signal from either of those into helper and cytotoxic cells that something has

Re: [FRIAM] Shakira and Plato

Incidentally, I have been on e-mail threads like this where someone on the list (who may have been imported on the fly) shames the correspondents, or even punishes them, for not being inclusive.That said, I’ve seen interviews with Shakira and it became clear to me she is a reductionist when

[FRIAM] novel uses of CRISPR

https://mammoth.bio/diagnostics/ And since the baseline for safety is now slamming Pine Sol, I think the sky is the limit for CRISPR-based treatments. "And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injectio

Re: [FRIAM] Mawdel Tawk

I think the modeling without priors occurs because of the failed surveillance. If there had been aggressive testing, contact tracing, and quarantining, the spread might be have been stopped, but, even if it were not, at least there would be case history stories that could be put into an agent-

Re: [FRIAM] Mawdel Tawk

users’ full genome could be sequenced.Again, not everyone would be willing to do that, but I bet a lot would. (Oh no, instead we have Birx stare at her feet while the moron talks about intubating people with UV lights.) From: Friam on behalf of Marcus Daniels Reply-To: The Friday Morning

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Freedom: Sarte v Camus

Freedom from, freedom to.. Meh. How does physics facilitate free will exactly? What if all we can do is look back on mistakes? How could it be otherwise? Marcus On Apr 27, 2020, at 4:22 AM, Prof David West wrote:  Camus talks of "create what we are," Sartre "best they can realize themselv

Re: [FRIAM] In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead - The New York Times

Because there is not enough to be afraid of, I suggest this movie to put on the stack for the evenings at home! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film) From: Friam on behalf of Roger Critchlow Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

Analysis paralysis: Execute plans against these individuals. From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 6:27 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] narcissism I

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

Glen writes: < [†] I think we've almost lost the chance to act on these "reopen protests". We could have come out ahead of the morons and argued for reopening in a *competent* way, emphasizing the 3 milestones: curve downturn, enough testing, contact tracing. Each of these could have been custo

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Nick writes: < It seems to me that the difference between a “healthy” economy and our present status consists possibly in nothing more than a lot of people frantically rushing about doing things they don’t really need to do? > It is true I don’t need a haircut. But there’s gal who cuts my hai

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

< You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats were put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and protected to see how the population would develop. They never got above two hundred. > Maybe the rats were right? Marcus .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-.

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Example of the government just getting in the way. https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/msu-researchers-macgyver-new-covid-19-test-but-wait-for-green-light,14290 From: Friam on behalf of Jochen Fromm Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Saturday, May 2, 2020

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 12:15 PM To: Th

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Steve writes: < Hard-line "invisible hand of the market"-eers will insist that if it exists in our economy, that it *must* be of interest/value/use to *many* (or at least some). Invoking the idiom of "follow the money", I agree that we *can* follow a chain of implied value that leads from the

Re: [FRIAM] NYT shows King going negative

Is some question that there is still a seed to restart everything?It seems to me these trends are all subject to change as soon as distancing is relaxed. On 5/5/20, 8:16 AM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" wrote: It's interesting that the NYT data shows King going negative (-36 cases) y

Re: [FRIAM] NYT shows King going negative

Nick writes: "And now they are moving back. It looks like the current strategy is to make the social security system solvent." If they were even that competent, which they are not. Marcus .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... . ... FRIAM Applied C

Re: [FRIAM] Warring Darwinians for Glen, Steve

Put an AM radio next to a computer’s processor. From: Friam on behalf of "thompnicks...@gmail.com" Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 9:30 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Warring Darwinian

Re: [FRIAM] Warring Darwinians for Glen, Steve

It’s finally come full circle. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/science/xenobots-robots-frogs-xenopus.html From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 9:38 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Cof

Re: [FRIAM] Ranked Choice Voting app

Westworld reflects on this this season, although it is disguised as an examination of free will. From: Friam on behalf of Gillian Densmore Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 11:56 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group

Re: [FRIAM] Positively selected mutations

It’s co-evolving with humans on a massive scale.This is just a tiny window into the possible diversity. There’s no telling. Hey, but sure, no task force. Who needs it? From: Friam on behalf of Roger Critchlow Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Tuesda

Re: [FRIAM] Positively selected mutations

From another source (GenBank SRA data) I see several other mutations, A930T, which is in the HR1. This region in part determines how the virus fuses with a cell.They found one nearby at S943P.Here’s some context: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0305-x I see some other mu

Re: [FRIAM] Warring Darwinians for Glen, Steve

Oh, you SAY you do. Someday we’ll get Neuralink hardware on you and then WE WILL SEE. From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 2:04 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: R

Re: [FRIAM] Warring Darwinians for Glen, Steve

://www.humansnotinvited.com/ -- rec -- On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 5:08 PM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Oh, you SAY you do. Someday we’ll get Neuralink hardware on you and then WE WILL SEE. From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> on behalf of Frank Wimberly mailto:wimber.

Re: [FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

I think that is a little pessimistic. If you look at, say, the UK Biobank, they have interviews with each subject characterizing things like work history, cognitive function, mental health, noise pollution and so on.But they also have details on mortality and genomic sequences. From: Fria

Re: [FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

be to compare overall death rates from a comparable period, tentatively attributing at least a large part of the numerical differences to the main changed variable: COVID-19. On 5/6/20 8:44 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: I think that is a little pessimistic. If you look at, say, the UK Biobank, the

Re: [FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

ight be to compare overall death rates from a comparable period, tentatively attributing at least a large part of the numerical differences to the main changed variable: COVID-19. On 5/6/20 8:44 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: I think that is a little pessimistic. If you look at, say, the UK Biobank,

Re: [FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, May 6, 2020, 10:16 PM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: If there was ever a time statistical inference could work, it is when there are millions of infected people, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and a database that tracks biological and beha

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

Sure, whatever. Where are these people when it comes to mechanized program verification? From: Friam on behalf of Roger Critchlow Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 5:44 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subje

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

Nick writes: < What exactly IS the policing mechanism in open source. Darwinian? Reputational? Does this HAVE to provoke a crisis of confidence in the general public? Or could it be seen as a heroic thrown-together first step that is now being improved? > They are whining about simple or ab

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

Nick writes: < Let’s say I was an evil genius and wanted to introduce evil code into a project on github. What would happen? > Typically the person maintaining the project will require modestly-sized patches that are described one at a time. They will “pull” these changes from the contribut

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

Roger writes: < With due respect to Marcus, I do think they're trolls, they think that all of reality is one big con game, that the pandemic is a fraud, and that acting like simpletons who believe that unit testing is sacred is the con that they are called upon to play today. > One kind of s

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

Uh huh, this is what the troll people are after. Having one side of the conversation, their side, instead of a broader conversation about how to best ensure code is correct. It’s just a wedge they can use to claim authority on something while also scoping the terms of the debate. From: Friam

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

The long con would be to get a semi-trusted agent as a committer. Someone that could appear to be a student or a bland mid-level employee but is just playing that part. Being open source, it would be a simple matter to anonymously clone it and study it for a while, advising their agent on wh

Re: [FRIAM] The US has no idea how to manage all the testing data it’s collecting

Here’s one established program. There are at least a dozen biobank efforts in the US, but it could be so much more if there was a federal government worthy of our trust. Fro

Re: [FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

Steve writes: < In that case, perhaps we should just riot then! > Isn't it just a matter of time now? Marcus .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam uns

Re: [FRIAM] U.S. Space Force

With the decreasing costs of SpaceX launches, how could they not do this? From: Friam on behalf of Jochen Fromm Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date:

Re: [FRIAM] Ah Hah! moment.

An example of how economic/cultural information is important. (Dave’s remark.) How much debt individuals of different socioeconomic levels can take on, how much debt the states and federal government will tolerate, perception of health risk in different communities, etc. These things may ebb an

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

< The Breeze literature fed my overly tangential mind with an image of Tony HIllerman's novel Sinister Pig wherein pipelines crossing the US/MX border might be used to move drugs in the "pigs" designed to act as moving plugs to separate different types/ownership of petroleum products. https

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

mobile applications. Mike Orshan On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 10:27 AM Steve Smith mailto:sasm...@swcp.com>> wrote: On 2/6/22 8:31 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: https://thebulletin.org/2022/01/whether-green-blue-or-turquoise-hydrogen-needs-to-be-clean-and-cheap/ Low-cost fossil fuel resource

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: For comparison https://schaperintl.com/is-the-juice-worth-the-squeeze-compressed-air-energy-storage-for-grid-scale-power/ From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On Behalf Of Michael Orshan Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 3:4

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

are used to mine salts for bleaches/chemicals or to store natural gas. This tech is $111/kwh. On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 6:14 PM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: For comparison https://schaperintl.com/is-the-juice-worth-the-squeeze-compressed-air-energy-storage-for-gri

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy The diameter of the pipe is fine. However, a micro expander/turbine needs to be invented. On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 11:07 AM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Could this ide

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

The Berkeley area is a case in point. There are some people that don't want to see growth of the city and increased population. They say to move out east. But as one gets away from the mild microclimate near the water, it gets hot and fire risk goes up. The cost of property is astronomical

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

battery system would have prevented that ... though I haven't > looked into what kind of battery system works for the variation in the > draw. > > On 2/8/22 12:17, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> The Berkeley area is a case in point. There are some people that >> don't

Re: [FRIAM] ... --- ...

Is there a Zodiac killer codec? Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 10, 2022, at 10:11 AM, glen wrote: > > PBAWHTNPL PYNFFRF VA FCBENQVPFVZCYR TEBHCF >> Nofgenpg. Jr bognva rssvpvrag cebtenzf sbe bognvavat ercerfragngvirf bs nyy >> gurpbawhtnpl pynffrf bs nyy gur fcbenqvp fvzcyr tebhcf rkprcg gur Zb

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

Glen writes: "Yeah. And I'm a hypocrite, living in a single-family home, albeit within the city limits. I keep telling Renee' we have to kill the cats and buy a condo." Animals don't live that long, unfortunately. As with people, the easiest path to population reduction is just to wait and

Re: [FRIAM] We all need boster-boosters!

And there is this now. If you need it, you probably already know about it. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-new-long-acting-monoclonal-antibodies-pre-exposure On Feb 11, 2022, at 1:38 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:  https://ww

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

It's also possible that the PCRM is being activist: The idea of it is horrible to them, and that's the smoke. Where there's smoke there must be fire. Imagine how the anti-vaxxers will react when talk of robots stitching threads into their brain starts. -Original Message- From: Fria

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

f Neuralink is just a shitty place doing shitty research, then they put us all at risk. Those of us who do believe in their supposed mission need to forcefully correct their stupidity as soon as possible regardless of the activist motivations behind the canary in the coal mine. On 2/14/22 09:59,

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

2/14/22 10:27, Marcus Daniels wrote: > There are competitors that already have approved clinical trials. > > https://synchron.com/ > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-28/elon-musk-neuralink-competitor-announces-fda-trial-for-brain-device > > A passive approach m

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

to cranking. As long as you do what you do in the open air, it might be a bit shocking to the Puritans. But it'll at least be improvable, differentiable. You don't need to give away your belongings. You just need to allow an above the threshold number of your neighbors into your shed t

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

ch dorks just don't *think* its charged ... because ... well, they're dorks. Psoriasis victims are no different from tech dorks. They pay attention to the mostly false clickbait they care about most. Anyone pretending to be above the fray is probably the most at risk of being swallow

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

t clickbait in Business Insider and NYP were the first I'd heard of any bad behavior at all. On 2/14/22 12:44, Marcus Daniels wrote: > There's a general question of how far is too far with animal testing. > These kinds of neuroprosthesis devices could help many people, so I

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

rst to make the relaxing constraints entry. On 2/14/22 13:28, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Relaxing constraints is one way to smooth an energy surface.It's also a > way to compute tightened bounds and accelerate search. When Musk talks > about Texas having the "right amount of rul

Re: [FRIAM] ... --- ...

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Re: [FRIAM] ... --- ...

https://www.dcode.fr/zodiac-killer-cipher -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 7:38 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] ... --- ... OK. I give. Give me a hint. On 2/14/22 17:17, Marcus Daniels wrote: > char(90)char(79)char(33)c

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

se we see both in polluters and animal abuse. Too bad UC Davis can't just relax its constraints. We should head over to the Urban Dictionary and be the first to make the relaxing constraints entry. On 2/14/22 13:28, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Relaxing constraints is one way to smooth an energ

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

t industry to argue nearly identical points ... or maybe > we could ask BP or Exxon to tell us how environmentally responsible > they are. But why waste my time digesting corporate propaganda? If > they invite some neutral parties to keep an eye on their practices, > that might be worth p

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

onsible they are. But why >> waste my time digesting corporate propaganda? If they invite some neutral >> parties to keep an eye on their practices, that might be worth paying >> attention to. >> >> On 2/15/22 09:52, Marcus Daniels wrote: >>> https://neur

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

sion. And that dimension *is* subjective. Of course. You use the word "subjective" like a pejorative. But that's what this is about. The subjectivity of the animals. On 2/15/22 10:46, Marcus Daniels wrote: > So far, we get one run at life. If what one wants to maximize is > tran

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

not only are they interesting to me, I think they're necessary, then, now, and later. On 2/15/22 11:30, Marcus Daniels wrote: > For some activity there will be a mesh of consequences, that perhaps with > enough transparency, debate, and observation the facts of the matter could be >

[FRIAM] "truck off"

< But we're also seeing the birth of some things like "community organizing", trucker blockades, Consilience Projects, etc. > https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ottawa-protesters-employ-gas-can-subterfuge-to-frustrate-police I can't help but wonder if the police were becoming concerned about s

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

< If we take the utilitarian seriously, there is some calculus for more good, less bad. But that calculus isn't simple. And even if we can simplify it, there's no reason to believe it'll be useful in the end. > A calculus that invokes subjective interpretations of outcomes is itself subjective.

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

y be enough for credibility in some uses but inadequate in others. And one might ask whether iML is really all that interpretable if the interpretability falls away with scale *or* the accuracy falls away without scale. On 2/15/22 13:44, Marcus Daniels wrote: > A calculus that invokes

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

enience of the flattening. Of course, you run the risk of tyranny of the majority with any clustering method. I don't know what what to do about that except with some sort of round-robin inclusion of the leaves, adding an uncertainty to the trajectory. On 2/15/22 14:04, Marcus Daniels wr

Re: [FRIAM] Alien Crash Site, Complexity, Future Fossils and Jim Rutt Podcasts

How is it people manage to believe in their distinctness with access to libraries, the internet, twitter, etc. Isn't the overwhelming conclusion to draw that people are an expensive proliferating redundancy? I don't just say that about others, I struggle daily with it myself. Apparently not

Re: [FRIAM] Alien Crash Site, Complexity, Future Fossils and Jim Rutt Podcasts

t; Don’t know how to make that psychologically helpful, but that is what death > is for. Nothing has to be worried about forever, which makes a great many > more things bearable for a while. Why Thiel and others want to give that up > escapes me. > > Eric > > > >&

Re: [FRIAM] Artificial Shintelligence

Since Neuralink treats it subjects so well, he may want to become part of a future AlphaGo portfolio solver? From: Friam On Behalf Of Jon Zingale Sent: Friday, February 18, 2022 10:45 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Artificial Shintelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKuPqNslJ7E

[FRIAM] tapeworms

Whether the effect is the Fox News viewer, or golfers at the local country club, I think the cause must be tapeworms! https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/ant-tapeworm/618919/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group

Re: [FRIAM] tapeworms

Critchlow wrote: Where's my ivermectin? On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 1:48 PM Steve Smith mailto:sasm...@swcp.com>> wrote: well found/shared... On 2/20/22 8:12 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Whether the effect is the Fox News viewer, or golfers at the local > country club, I think

Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

It seems like a great excuse to sell renewable tech. to Germany as well as LNG. And even if there are “investments” find a better steward for them. Russia is like an undiversified economy about the size of Florida. I wonder what kind of havoc US supplied drones could unleash on Russian troop

Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

ioned disrupter ... those middle-man fees Ukraine gets routing oil are exactly like taxi medallions. Pfft. On 2/24/22 10:07, Marcus Daniels wrote: > It seems like a great excuse to sell renewable tech. to Germany as well as > LNG. And even if there are “investments” find a better steward for

Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

build in rural Bashkortostan with that kind of salary! Maybe Musk would appreciate their "relaxed constraints". I hear those Ruskies are good at math. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufa#Ecological_problems On 2/24/22 10:39, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Work real hard in the Russian

Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

Since the new trend is *-as-a-service, it seems that there ought to be metal benders like LM and GD that resell their hardware like AWS does. Crowdsourced cruise missiles, etc. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Friday, February 25, 2022 11:01 AM To: friam@redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

t: Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions Don't we already have murder-as-a-service in the form of orgs like Triple Canopy? On 2/25/22 11:09, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Since the new trend is *-as-a-service, it seems that there ought to be metal > benders like LM and GD that resell their h

Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

te, hard-working ISIS shleb trying to bring about the Caliphate and when you see the missiles coming, you don't know if it's Germany or the US who sent them ... only that Amazon made it happen? On 2/25/22 12:25, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I mean when some organization wants a fast-t

Re: [FRIAM] Putin's Yacht

Ok, so we don’t assassinate other world leaders (in peacetime?), but how about sink their boats? From: Friam On Behalf Of George Duncan Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:26 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Putin's Yacht I've been regularly tracki

Re: [FRIAM] Putin's Yacht

, 2022, 11:01 AM Tom Johnson mailto:jtjohnson...@gmail.com>> wrote: Exactly. But only in waters deep enough that the recovery will be near impossible. TJ On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 9:39 AM Marcus Daniels mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Ok, so we don’t assassinate other world lea

[FRIAM] Brush with greatness

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Re: [FRIAM] Adversarial Collaboration - Kahneman

I have this fantasy about what retirement could look like. It would look like the period in my life before I was working. My on-and-off again projects ranging from say 14 to 22 or so. In some ways I just want to forget it. The process of growing up is just terrible, and I don't wish it on a

Re: [FRIAM] Coverage of Russia

Thanks. Interesting.. From: Friam On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 11:06 AM To: Friam@redfish. com ; Amy McCombs ; Brooke Minnich ; Caroline Little ; Celene Bridgford ; Chuck Case ; Lou Gavioli ; Mark Asquino ; Rich Moriarty ; Richard Silver ; Scott Bunton ; Tom Joh

Re: [FRIAM] war footing

Something like this would be handy in the current situation. https://newatlas.com/boeing-f16-jet-unmanned-drone/29203 But really, if we can send munitions, it seems no different to announce that Ukraine has a set of Hellfire-equipped MQ-9 Reaper's on loan. Just ignore that USAF sticker.

Re: [FRIAM] war footing

< We won't win the socio-cultural or climate war that way. We need tactics that unify the geographically/politically *perforated* in-group as a network, not according to artificial nationalist citizenhood and such. > There's a targeted way to stop attacks on Ukrainian cities, and that's with the

Re: [FRIAM] war footing

o whether she had a good time visiting Paris. Grounding matters, as SteveS' link to adversarial collaboration indicates. On 3/3/22 08:26, Marcus Daniels wrote: > < We won't win the socio-cultural or climate war that way. We need > tactics that unify the geographically/politi

Re: [FRIAM] war footing

ver nonsense is written on your sign. On 3/3/22 08:55, Marcus Daniels wrote: > So you think the antifa will care about the actual beer, but just not talking > about it? I don't think I agree that everything can be boiled down to > hedonism. > There are other dimensions of pers

Re: [FRIAM] academic freedom

So, what's a hypothesis for a strong affinity toward a non-cis gender? I can see that gender is arbitrary, but why non-arbitrary and the opposite? Sure, I'd be interested it taking other forms and experiencing life with different frames and sensors. The imposition of one identity by birth an

Re: [FRIAM] academic freedom

n as they are. It reminds me of the distinction between "atheist" and "apatheist", those who identify vs. those who just don't care. If we were to look for answers to gender roles, my target would be the biological basis of narrativity. Sex would be largely orthogonal. On 3

Re: [FRIAM] academic freedom

PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] academic freedom Ha! No, I was making a point about freedom of speech, in particularly "academic" speech, and canceling or shutting down others. Sorry if my anecdote got in the way. I pared it down for you below. On 3/3/22 12:16, Marcus

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aying to the white cis biologists "pull yourselves together and we'll try again later." But I'm willing to be shown wrong if that's the case. On 3/3/22 12:36, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Hmm. Another experience I have had while deconstructing someone with > "charge

Re: [FRIAM] academic freedom

"Gametes are real" was obviously an indicator that the other participants would either have to play by *his* nutty rules or wait for him to dial down his jargon-laced gobbledygook and have a real conversation with ordinary people. On 3/3/22 12:56, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Glen writes:

Re: [FRIAM] academic freedom

then they're evil. And the use of "gamete" in an ordinary conversation is just Scientismist confabulation. On 3/3/22 13:10, Marcus Daniels wrote: > The distinction I'd make is between talking about identity in principle and > talking about the details of my identity.That'

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t, not theirs. It's not a higher standard ... it's a standard standard. On 3/3/22 13:26, Marcus Daniels wrote: > It seems to me it is like a paper where some symbol is used without > introduction, but it becomes clear from context and reflection. > Not clear why a biologist

Re: [FRIAM] Ukraine import/exports

$15.3B for Ukraine/China compared to $82.9B for Russia/China. To put in perspective, U.S. trade with Canada is $581B and U.S./China is $635B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_the_Uni

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derstand The True Nature of > Life, and that isolation is the default, and the relinquishment of isolation > is a hazardous and fraught negotiation, then Marcus’s teams probably grow up > in the shade of a difficult and long-standing negotiation of how it is > possible to have a man

Re: [FRIAM] war footing

tructure are hedonism, then you've got too > much money. As I said, food, health, shelter, climate, infrastructure, > etc. these things are better foundations for conversation than > whatever nonsense is written on your sign. > > On 3/3/22 08:55, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> So

Re: [FRIAM] academic freedom

few years is, IMHO, mostly nonsense, oversimplification, and reification in service of politics and power. But, I am more than happy to call you 'It' or other term of your choice if you notify me in advance of your desire. davew On Fri, Mar 4, 2022, at 9:50 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote

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tion, and reification in service of politics and > power. > > But, I am more than happy to call you 'It' or other term of your choice if > you notify me in advance of your desire. > > davew > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2022, at 9:50 AM, Marcus

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