It's also how we can know how things will feel prior to feeling them, or rather, it's a part of that same sort of cycle of information processing/cycling.

"phronesis"

I hope DWS means "Down with [the] sickness."

defcon warning system

Simon says

I made a lecture for them on information processing and analysis

Oh, I follow them.

Huh.

Small world.

indeed

They're a bunch of ex-US intelligence personnel right? Last I recall anyway.

nah, they just like portraying themselves as such

Boo.

@Doc Thank you for the resource. I shall use my expertise summoning power sparingly.

Unfollowed.

@Zuluzeit what resource?

You.

@Maw this may have changed since 2017

@Doc you

@Zuluzeit Oh, right! I forgot. 😄

Hahaha

In 17, they managed to squeeze out the only guy with intelligence/armed forces background. @Maw

I followed him out.

If I wanted speculation I'd ask myself.

exactly

Seems to have been a great deal of fretting over the title vs. purpose of this chat...and it was selectively outraged about.

It's not a massive issue *yet* but I'm still working on compiling a list that I'll talk to Faith about. For now the rules on off-topic chatter are very relaxed.

We're still relatively small.

No one uses general

As it's mainly used to discuss the stream @james j

Or was.

Create a philosophy chat

I have been tuning in and out, as I have divided attention atm. I think everyone, until very recently, was generally decent about conversational evolution.

Organic conversation leads to strange and perplexing places sometimes, it's only natural.

It's when it conflicts with others trying to have a conversation with each other that is on topic that it becomes a problem (to me anyway)

Well, as long as it is governed by the constraints of my personal preference, it's all good, I reckon.

Or if I'm 'losing' an argument.

Lol.

Lol

In general I'm not very strict about being on-topic, unless it is causing disruption as previously mentioned.