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

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 recentl

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

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 b

Re: [FRIAM] Up and Out vs Down and in

I believe Google sold Boston Dynamics to SoftBank Group of Japan. Raibert appears to be the Chairman still. --- Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 12:24 AM Prof David West wrote: > There was a Sixty Minutes episode a few years back re: wh

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

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

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 h

[FRIAM] friam Winter Party

Hi Everybody, I am looking for the roughest sort of nose count for Saturday. Could some of you offer up your noses to be counted? Hoping for the first in-person meeting of the Four Russells, but perhaps my ambitions are a bit out of control. Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeri

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

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Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

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

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 b

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

> 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] friam Winter Party

Thanks, Ed and Tom, I think we have a critical mass. Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

ONE friamer is a very critical mass. On Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 8:37 PM wrote: > Thanks, Ed and Tom, > > > > I think we have a critical mass. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress

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

Gosh! Even I understood a lot of it. It would be great to talk about it on Friday. Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wo

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

Two Dobsons planning to attend On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 3:19 PM wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > > > I am looking for the roughest sort of nose count for Saturday. Could some > of you offer up your noses to be counted? > > > > Hoping for the first in-person meeting of the Four Russells, but perhaps >