<div dir="auto">What happened to The parrots?<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nicholas S. Thompson</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology</div><div>Clark University</div><div><a href="mailto:nthompson@clarku.edu" target="_blank">nthompson@clarku.edu</a></div><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson" target="_blank">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson</a></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM steve smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><u></u>
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<div dir="auto">Oh, if ever Doug was rolling in his grave. The
swirlies and nouggies I might have endured if he were still
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<p>I'd almost forgotten about Doug's compulsive adolescent snark
directed at your fascination with vortices. <br>
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<p>It makes me wonder what he'd make of the AI phase transition we
are in. He had (IMO) both progressive and regressive ideas about
simulation science/tech. <br>
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<p>Makes me wonder if there is a mirror/parallel quantity to PV
which would be Latent Vorticity (LV)</p>
<p> and is that similar to the torque that people who might roll in
their grave experience? Or is it a measure of the rolling they
would do if they could do rolling? How much roll would a Doug
Roberts roll if Doug Roberts could roll (in his grave)?</p>
<p>I won't even suggest someone train up an LLM on all of Doug's
posts in response to Nick's to create a simulacra to harangue him?</p></div><div>
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<div>Nicholas S. Thompson</div>
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