[FRIAM] Where Metaphors (and Elephants and Spatulai) go to die?

[Prof David West]

or - out of the blue - pay you for it. I am supposed to get a $3,000 check from Anthropic next month because they used my book, among 1000,000 others probably, to train Claude.

davew


On Sun, Mar 22, 2026, at 9:52 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> Never throw away a book; never throw away any thing u have written until  u have written a better vsn or  published it.  U can never tell when the world will come knock for ur thghts. 
> 
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
> Clark University
> nthompson at clarku.edu
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
> https://substack.com/@monist
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 8:45 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>> Nick -
>> > I would like to see it.  Resend. .
>> 
>> If I didn't post it, I deleted it...
>> 
>> My compulsions are equal parts composing such and deciding it is totally 
>> irrelevant to the conversation and deleting it.
>> 
>> Yes, George is equal parts mind-reader and sycophant.  Very 
>> seductive/crazy-making combination?
>> 
>> 
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