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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thank God for that! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clark University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>George Duncan<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 28, 2020 11:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Optimizing for maximal serendipity or how Alan Turing misdirected ALife<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Ambulances, at least, in Rome look like this<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><img border=0 width=300 height=168 style='width:3.125in;height:1.75in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D634E3.FF724DF0"></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>George Duncan<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University<br><a href="http://georgeduncanart.com/" target="_blank">georgeduncanart.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Land: (505) 983-6895 <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mobile: (505) 469-4671<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <br>My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt;font-weight:normal'>"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion."</span><span style='letter-spacing:-.25pt'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt'>From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0 width="85%" style='width:85.0%;border-collapse:collapse!important'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#5D5651'>"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#5D5651'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:49 AM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Marcus, <br><br>Somewhere I thought I learned that if you have a heart attack in rome, the van that comes to pick you up IS black, and the attendants are similarly dressed. Can you imagine the horror? <br><br>Does anybody know if this is true, or just another recent nightmare. <br><br>Nick <br><br>Nicholas Thompson<br>Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<br>Clark University<br><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" target="_blank">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><br><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/" target="_blank">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels<br>Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 10:40 AM<br>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Optimizing for maximal serendipity or how Alan Turing misdirected ALife<br><br>I would say that companies like Twitter should massively annotate serious offenders and cancel accounts as needed. It doesn't have to come from top, but it isn't going to come from the bottom. There should be processes to keep conspicuous liars from ever gaining visibility. They don't have to involve black vans, as satisfying as that might be. But maybe advanced natural language processing codes that escalate issues to editors.<br><br>On 5/28/20, 9:15 AM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>☣</span>" <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br> The additional power is to mislead someone into thinking an expression is about one thing, when it's really about another thing. I.e. in this context, it's a way to troll and "riff" off some arbitrary string you found in some other post. In some contexts, however, it's more serious. Conspiracy theories use metaphor liberally in order to *trick* suckers into thinking something that's simply not true.<br><br> On 5/28/20 9:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br> > It seems to me like the value of metaphors fits into a sparse dictionary learning approach. If you want to compress a picture of, say, the new Apple headquarters, it helps if one has seen a circle or a torus in some form, and can just refer to that. It would also help to have seen pictures of trees and shrubs to tweak, and to have seen solar panels. Some features will be unique, and simple atoms are needed to refine the image. I'm skeptical that metaphor is the best enduring representation though. 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