[FRIAM] Strange Bedfellows! Trump & Julian Assange

[Gillian Densmore]

Good point glen. Maybie agree to some kind of middle ground then? Just off
the top of my head before taking a much needed shower.:
Try to focus more on hopeful upbeat solutions.
Or Link to a blog that has hopefull ideas

Just

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:32 AM, glen ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Heh, of course you can politely ask.  And as much as I agree with you,
> particularly about Trump, it damages _us_ as a whole to avoid talking about
> such messes.  As Marcus lays out nicely and has been pointed out variously
> across time (e.g. "the only thing necessary for evil to exist is for good
> people to remain silent").  We must talk about it.  To avoid talking about
> it is tantamount to condoning the messy state.
>
> Plus, as things like AI rise, it's our obligation (those of us who know
> some little bits about AI) to place the political mess in that context.
> What does it mean to have a tech-illiterate in control of our country?
> What does it mean when a tech-illiterate cites a narcissist techy like
> Assange? ... and takes advice from another narcissist like Thiel? ... and a
> globalist like Tillerson? ... etc.
>
> These tech-centric issues are inside our wheelhouse.  Further, this sort
> of topic is right in line with "applied complexity", one of the supposed
> foci of the list.  When you're over-loaded, just hit the delete key.  We
> all get over-loaded sometimes and have to unplug for awhile.
>
>
> On 01/05/2017 09:19 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> > Can I politely ask that those who want to keep track of america's
> infurating polotical mess agree to email eachother.
> > The topic quite litterally leads me to have migranes about BS I have
> very little say in. I suspect others might be the same.
>
> --
> ☣ glen
>
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