[FRIAM] A bold meteorological theory

[Prof David West]

Metaphorically stated, unfortunately: a metaphor is just a means for escaping local minima and channelization.

davew


On Mon, Mar 16, 2026, at 8:55 AM, glen wrote:
> That's some good advice, there. Narratives like the naked Emperor are 
> crucial tools for posers and con men. Each and every metaphor you 
> identify in a missive is evidence of the authors' (plural possessive - 
> no such thing as a sole author) Bad Faith. And the number of metaphors 
> is directly correlated with the extent of the Bad Faith.
>
> None of us are innocent. None of us are the child in the narrative. 
> It's a venomous fiction, injected by the fangs of the storyteller. Even 
> literal babies bring along their own "genetic memory", in utero 
> accretion, biases, and expertise. The story, that story and all others, 
> is there to persuade, to trick you, to canalize you into thinking in 
> some particular set of ways.
>
> Now I'd like you to stop thinking about elephants.
>
> On 3/15/26 10:17 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>> Perhaps I should just drop the metaphor and speak to the beliefs the metaphor represents to me. Expertise both sights and blinds us; great expertise sights and blinds us greatly. 
> -- 
> ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ
> ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα σώσω.
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