<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">"Lyft customer know something about how the car works ... at least well enough to know whether the driver was snowing him ..."<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Or, her to believe the young man that just stated, " we just ran out of gas," as they reached an isolated spot on the side of the road.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, at 2:42 PM, glen ∅ wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="fastmail-quoted"><div>I'm not convinced. If such a Lyft customer suffered a breakdown from Santa Fe to Tesuque at, say, noon in the summer, one might make an argument that it would be good for that Lyft customer to know something about how the car works ... at least well enough to know whether the driver was snowing him on this or that explanation of what was happening. The consideration of edge cases are often decent heuristics for approximating complete security.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On 3/7/19 11:23 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> < As Steve tried to point out with the "form leads/follows function" and his talk about a well-stated problem, in order to delegate, say, "fix my car", I have to know that the car is the problem. If, for example, the real problem is that I don't know how to drive the car, there's nothing the mechanic will be able to do to "fix it" because the car's not the problem. ><br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> For example, a young person that would not consider purchasing a car because there is Lyft would have no need to delegate this problem. <br></div><div><br></div><div>============================================================<br></div><div>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College<br></div><div>to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com<br></div><div>archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/<br></div><div>FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Attachments:</b><br></div><ul><li>pEpkey.asc<br></li></ul></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>