I started this as a personal email to Joe Brewer – and it remains a personal message. However, it is relevant to everyone, so I share it here. ————————- Joe, I just read your magnificent How It Feels to be A Designer of Culture. I great appreciate your very personal sharing, as I feel such…

NESTED SCENARIOS At a fine grain, a scenario would be as a video simulation of every human, interacting with other humans, things, and sems (texts, graphics). To forecast even examples of such fine grained scenarios would depend on the culture, age of the person, and status of conditions – such as war or peace, economic…

The following are some details about Larry’s dialog behavior, potentially useful for those attempting dialog with Larry. The mechanics of Larry’ verbal communication are poor. He has no teeth and his speech can be blurred. With attention to the task, he can speak more clearly. His hearing is poor, but will wear headphones for online…

This note is addressed to those about to read a doc by Larry/nuet where some of their ideas or writings are critiqued from the context of Larry/nuet – but not to be taken as criticism. Larry/nuet doesn’t believe he is “superior” to other humans, although his differences may be significant and useful. The very concept…

To start off, we are caught in a familiar dilemma: (1) A useful initial abstract or summary often cannot be created without using terms and concepts later to be developed in the whole essay. Summaries and abstracts are only useful when the essay develops only a few new concepts related to established knowledge and uses…

This was composed in the context of my relating the proposal by Andrew Gaines for accelerating The Great Transition with my proposal for UPLIFT. We cannot accurately forecast details of coming collapses and responses to them. Humankind is both fragile and resilient. The cascade of events following BREXIT is an example of fragility. Yet, sometimes…

Conserapedia & CAMERA are phenomena to be investigated: sophisticated right-wing propaganda. They are “Wikipedia”-type gateways to the Alternative Realities of significant sub-populations in the USA. << PROPAGANDA >> Conspiracies have us think of “propaganda” as strategic information aimed at shifting the views of others; enemies use “propaganda” on each other. The real use of PROPAGANDA…

Was it necessary to KILL the Dallas shooter with a robot carried bomb? Why not a canister of gas to put the shooter to sleep and then capture him alive?  Why not more INCAPACITATE & CAPTURE than DRONE BOMB? Was there a reason some persons or groups didn’t want the shooter to be studied? The…