Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

2020-02-11 Thread thompnickson2
/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:13 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast Just listened to this on a flight today.

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

2020-02-11 Thread David Eric Smith
Thanks Steve, Yes, there is a certain thread of literature and experience that is always in my mind on this topic. It began some years ago when David Krakauer waved a copy of Richard Novikovsky’s book Games of No Chance in front of me, and that was my introduction to the modern work that had

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

2020-02-11 Thread Steven A Smith
> Thanks for this, Steve, > > Yes, it was Grinspoon.  Sara Walker told me that at the last AbSciCon > meeting, but in the running stream of conversation with Jim I had > forgotten it. > > Your Freudian typo was fun, unless it was your computer that did it. >  A mixture of Grinspoon and Greenspan.

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

2020-02-11 Thread David Eric Smith
Thanks for this, Steve, Yes, it was Grinspoon. Sara Walker told me that at the last AbSciCon meeting, but in the running stream of conversation with Jim I had forgotten it. Your Freudian typo was fun, unless it was your computer that did it. A mixture of Grinspoon and Greenspan. Given what

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

2020-02-11 Thread Steven A Smith
Eric - /There’s a quote and I can’t remember the source, I should, he’s a member of the astrobiology community, but it’s pithy and elegant. The quote was that the origin of life is not something that happens on a planet, it’s something that happens to a planet. That was really

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

2020-02-11 Thread Steven A Smith
Eric- Great interview! /*Eric*//: You know what I like on this though, I think back to the, I guess it was AlphaGo competition with Lee Sedol in the computer human contest for Go playing. I really loved Lee’s comment at the end of it, where he was saying that of course those had

Re: [FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

2020-02-11 Thread Steven A Smith
Stephen - Thanks for turning me onto Rutt's show a while back... I've been working my way into some of the meat there.   I've met Jim before but this really exposes his style and personality while pulling some amazing things out of his interviewees.   Cory Doctorow and Lee Smolin come most

[FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

2020-02-10 Thread Stephen Guerin
Just listened to this on a flight today. Always great to get your perspective, Eric! https://www.jimruttshow.com/eric-smith/ Multidimensional thinker Eric Smith has a wide-ranging talk with Jim about the origins of life, monetary systems, language & sustainability. Eric starts by sharing how