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[Barry MacKichan]

I’m still stuck on “root mean square”. L 2, Brute?

--Barry

On 28 Oct 2019, at 12:53, Frank Wimberly wrote:

> To me "RMS" denotes Richard M. Stallman but that's because I'm old I 
> guess.
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> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 10:46 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I doubt it. I forget who the aphorism is attributed to, but "Never 
>> ascribe
>> malice when incompetence will suffice" comes to mind. These 
>> subversive
>> approaches may simply stretch the competencies and energy of the 
>> people who
>> would otherwise carry them out. It's possible that it's simply too
>> difficult to do the work, especially if the motivations and 
>> incentives are
>> occult. Being paid in anything but money (which can be hidden in 
>> havens) is
>> risky ... as the recent flak around RMS and the arc of Julian Assange
>> demonstrate well enough. Both the Spencer-types and the sucker 
>> puncher are
>> "in it" for the cheap thrills because anything more complex is too 
>> taxing.
>>
>> But my proposition above is only convenient and a direct consequence 
>> of my
>> doubt that there are such things as "moral intuition" or (in my other
>> argument) "ethical intuition" [
>> https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/ethical-intuitionism/]. We're always 
>> promoting
>> our brain farts (ideas, feelings, faith-based beliefs, etc.) to
>> ontologically dubious Real Things. My guess is there are no deeply
>> ingrained things at all. It's relatively easy to radicalize an 
>> otherwise
>> easy-going person. [https://youtu.be/P55t6eryY3g] Deprogramming cult
>> members seems to consist mostly of changing their environment.
>> Powerstancing may not make you feel powerful. Smiling may not make 
>> you feel
>> happy, etc. It seems safer to assume infinite universal plasticity 
>> and
>> induce ontology from data than to assume there exist viscously robust
>> structures and all we need do is test for them.
>>
>> On 10/28/19 8:18 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>> In both situations, putting aside the legal risks, I think this
>> subversive approach violates some deeply ingrained notion of 
>> fairness.   I
>> can't see an explanation why it isn't happening all the time other 
>> than
>> self-censoring.   Because if it were happening all the time, then 
>> folks
>> like Spencer would be absent from the world.
>>
>>
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