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RIP Daniel #Kahneman. Thoughts from last year:
"...*Thinking, Fast and Slow* was a life-changer for me. As soon as I read it in 2013, I urged colleagues to read it, even convening a book club."
"I can *feel* the move in my mind from the constant important work of System 1 to the deliberative work of System 2. Knowing how often my intuition has been a hindrance to my understanding of the world, I welcome the feeling of going to the place where the adult is in charge."
https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/scientific-thinking-as-antidote-to.html

At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/…

A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.

Feeling great
#PoorlyDrawn #poorlydrawnlines

Grateful Dead from Sat, Mar 28, 1981 at GrugaHalle on Live Music Archive!
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Grateful Dead Live at Grugahalle on 1981-03-28
Set 1 Alabama Getaway > Greatest Story Ever Told > Sugaree, Me & My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Shakedown Street, Little Red Rooster, Althea, Looks Like Rain > Deal Set 2 Samson & Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > He's Gone > The Other One > Drums# > Not Fade Away* > Wharf Rat* > Around & Around* > Good Lovin'* E: One More Saturday Night* The Who Opened * - w/ Pete Townshend # - w/ The Flying Karamozov Brothers

Happy Anniversary to SEVEN SAMURAI, which premiered on this day 70 years ago in Japan.
Seven Samurai is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films in cinema history, because it is the most "remade, reworked, and referenced" films in cinema.
#FilmAnniversary

Giants head coach Brian Daboll considering taking over play-calling for 2024 season https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-head-coach-brian-daboll-considering-taking-over-play-calling-for-2024-season

Giants head coach Brian Daboll considering taking over play-calling for 2024 season
Following the New York Giants' offensive struggles in 2023, head coach Brian Daboll conceded Tuesday that he's considering taking over play-calling duties. "It's something I'm looking into," Daboll said via the team's official website. "I've been doing a bunch of research, but no decision has been made. I'm still going through that process, thinking about what we need to do."

I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.

Mitch was falling in love with the prime suspect. There was tension at the office.
#GregoryAlanWilliams #DavidHasselhoff
Baywatch Nights 1x15 - Thief in the Night
#RandomBaywatch

Dr. John Gartner on a tale of two brains: "Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing."
"This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language..."
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-g

Dr. John Gartner says Trump's "tangential speech" is a sign of severe mental decline
Trump, Gartner says, relies on "phonemic paraphasias" that make clear his failing mental acuity

NY-based Campus, which is building an online alternative to traditional community colleges, raised a $23M Series A extension following a $29M Series A in 2023 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/23/camp

Campus, a community college startup, receives $23M Series A extension led by Founders Fund | TechCrunch
Although many students in the United States enter community colleges intending to transfer to four-year universities, only 16% of those students receive A year after closing a $29 million Series A, the online community college raised additional capital for fueling growth.