Re: Optimizing for maximal serendipity or how Alan Turing misdirected ALife

Posted by gepr on May 28, 2020; 8:11pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Optimizing-for-maximal-serendipity-or-how-Alan-Turing-misdirected-ALife-tp7596477p7596543.html

Yeah, there's no problem with splattering threads. (Steve IS the fan upon which any good thread will splatter.) What annoys me is saying/thinking one is doing one thing, but actually doing another thing. I know it annoys me when *I* do that, usually accidentally because my command of language is so bad. And I appreciate it when others call me out for it.

On 5/28/20 12:59 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Steve writes:
>
> < I will cop to being guilty of free-associative riffing off of other
> people's threads.   When Owen was active here he used to chide us all
> about "good thread hygiene" and "thread hijacking".   We (me at the
> vanguard perhaps) have become quite sloppy in this.  >
>
> I don't have much trouble backtracking to an origination topic (if it has momentum) or just running with a new topic.    A title makes more sense after a trajectory has played out.   All of the active discussion lists or Usenet groups I've been on have had this property.


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