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<p>I know I visited your Entropy Liberation Front site before but
somehow missed you iChing app/workup. In particular the
different casting distributions were particularly
illuminating. I favor (out of convenience) the
six-scored-as-two method and was shocked to see in a single
glance how different all others are from the
(traditional/preferred?) yarrow stick<br>
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<p><a href="https://change.elf.org/tests"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://change.elf.org/tests</a></p>
<p>Returning to the OS of "swindle", there was a time when I
dismissed "divination" as nothing more than a mechanism for one
to "swindle" another or at best for one to "swindle oneself".
I've had an early Wilhelm/Baynes edition of the I Ching for most
of my adult life and use it as an occasional tool for
introspection and intuition exploration. </p>
<p>In modern, computational terms, it feels a bit like "Reservoir
Computing" in the sense that the text of the I Ching (or any
other divinatory or oracular body of work?) is the reservoir,
the "casting" (including "the question) is the input signal and
the output is the reading with the *interpretation* being where
the output layer undergoes "training". A practiced
divinator/oracle develops an intuition over many iterative
"readings" as to how to interpret the reading in-context.</p>
<p>I happen to be listening to Justice Breyer on Meet the Press
(with Christen Welker?) expounding on his opinion of
"textualism" and "rule of law" which probably has some
relationship (correlated/anti-correlated) with
oracular/divinational texts? (too) Many people take the route
of treating everything from Golden Rule to Hammurabi to
Upanishads to Ten Commandments to Torah to Koran to Bible to
Magna Carta to US (or any) Constitution to case law as
Oracular/Divination text? <br>
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<p>I do recommend the MTP interview with Breyer demonstrating what
I suspect "the best" of our Highest Court should/could be.
I'd like to think that even the less savory ( to my
pinko-liberal palate) of the high bench
(Thomas/Alito/Kavanaugh/Brown, in descending order?) are as able
and serious as Breyer came across in this interview... </p>
<p>His tone was that of the "elder statesman" we all once imagined
(or ached) to be in the hallowed halls of DC (even if he is a
Judge not Exec or Legislator)? He managed a very positive
tone/affect resisting Welker in spite of her pressing him hard
on many things we all might want to hear his opinion on. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/31/24 12:42 PM, Steve Smith wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Talking with John Zingale at Friam about
conniving chatbots, I remembered this essay from 2009, <a
href="https://elf.org/etc/swindle.html"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://elf.org/etc/swindle.html</a>,
which starts from real estate speculators in early US history
and gets to the deplorable state of the internet.
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