yin think

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A: “The emphasis will be on how to think, rather than what to think” – Sidney Harman

B: what we think determines how we think.

NB: “Like Curtis Yarvin and other neo-reactionaries, Land abhors democracy. Politics since the Enlightenment, he argues, is a story not of the advance of human freedom but of constant resource transfer from the productive to the unproductive—a world-historical tragedy of the commons that would eventually spell its own doom. Land’s main contribution to this discourse was to find a radically anti-human, science-fiction-inflected optimism in democracy’s end. ” , — newyorker.

#RL= the vector holds, just the anticipated word meaning requires re-ordering. use RICH-POOR along capital denominator for real growth. That is, do contract reading One: exchange the ‘party of the first part’ to understand, clarify the wins/losses hidden within the paragraphs.

mask or unmask ..2019..

do you tolerate: no shoes no service .. do you wear pants as appropriate to your view of your crotchicles. The isolated vantage point your personal ivory tower is a rampart , perhaps you crave a moat . perhaps you believe the bug is a plot to take away you’re right to force others to gather . what is unmasked .

QUESTION

‘The plague marked the beginning of corruption for the city. No one was willing to persevere any longer in what he had previously considered to be good, because he believed that he would perhaps die before achieving it.’  — Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

One man’s ivory tower is another man’s gun turret .

self defense is the self offended .

2 oneliners

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— Billionaires transform your need into their luxury . if it were air, you’re dying so their yacht has fuel 

— The kindest word at urology is unremarkable . urology is the male equivalent of a Pap smear mammogram in one …

the J-word

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tensions in translation . The doctors office always filled with tensions people nervous people in need people with knowledge people with anxiety .

Unshared side words. Shades of Shannon . confused interpretation one is very serious, anxious; the other, attempting to include more than the routine ..to expand their interactions…

‘give me just a minute …’

‘ahhh, the J- word ‘ to which Jeffery responds

‘yes, Jeffery Haswirt..’ mistaking what “J” means.

He failed the puzzle the very puzzled that AI fails… Not a math problem but a problem about words and partial words. The

riddle of life .

feta cheese and rice

see, Ong

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neither Shannon nor Wood explain, even though I would’ve used them both to extend this comment beyond example and into explanation ..

several weeks ago amongst the AI community a riddle was passed around that AIs failed . The riddle was about a car wash. it didn’t involve math , but of course the , inference engines used math in their attempt at solution . A week later follow up experiment on the riddle included human respondents : a third of them got the wrong answer ,likely not using math ,instead just using the shared meaning of words. their culture made them stumble just as the AI culture made them stumble .

THIS IS NOT THE PROBLEM:

Two trains approach each other on a straight track of length dd at speeds v1v1 and v2v2. A bird starts at one train, flies to the other at vbvb, turns around, flies back, and so on until the trains meet. How far does the bird fly?

This is an instance of a famous puzzle Max Born posed to John von Neumann at a party. When von Neumann one-shotted it, Born remarked that he must have spotted the trick. Von Neumann replied: “What trick? All I did was sum the geometric series

is this the party to whom I am speaking