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mircea_popescu: i recently mentioned some schmuck
that had broken new ground in
the field, before
turning
to dope and
there was some stuff with kids and brothers and
the usual redneckisms.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, anyway, in particular
the veblen goods of "subscribe
to information" is one of
the lulziest applications of
the whole new-world-protestants-in-skinner-box lulz.
ben_vulpes: as i understand
the story it was more of a craigslist, organically grown
to profitability on very few staff and run in steady state for years
mircea_popescu: sv item, it hoped
to bambozle "investors". without note from stalin affirming
their correct rosy color of bits,
there's no free fed money.
mircea_popescu: either because of
that, or because no real money into it.
ben_vulpes: online personals site got
taken down couple weeks back for facilitating child sex slavery and
tax evasion and
the usual list of pantsuit crimes du jour
ben_vulpes: also hey, we've got a datacenter, who's going
to write
the backpage replacement
mircea_popescu: the empire may not be much for anything, but
THIS, "how
to fuck your own kids", jesus christ
this
they got down
to a fine art.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact it's a
thing
to admire and wonder at,
the incredibly refined fucktools
these people built.
ben_vulpes: ohoh also you can subscribe
to "trading signals" for x bucks per month (starts at free, goes clear up
to
the hundreds) and plug
them into
the bots
ben_vulpes: well etoro in
the abstract,
they have
their own hilarious marketplace of preprogrammed bots
mircea_popescu: they support
the inca because
they want
to, not for any other reason.
mircea_popescu: and
the lulzuy
thing is, ETORO DIDNT EVEN HAVE
TO PAY FOR
THIS.
mircea_popescu: all he wants are some good vacation snaps, "remember
that
time in april 2015"
mircea_popescu: dude succeeds at feeling like a
trade bot programmer.
the reset is integral.
ben_vulpes: definitely not
targeting problem gamblers and people who want
to feel like
traders
mircea_popescu: how's
that bit from psychology of bagholder, "succeeds at feeling like a
trader, whioch was
the point" ?
ben_vulpes: " button because "i didn't get it right before, i'll make money
this
time", and also i shit
thee not a panic sell-everything button
ben_vulpes: so i was over at a friends place yesterday and he showed me
this "cloud cryptocurrency
trading bot" (actually a barely-sentient js algo
trading browserapp); best lols of which were a "reset profit/loss
mircea_popescu: and since we're doing
this :
there's also FOR
THE CLANS!!! from "disciples", an ancient but really great game ; and WANT SOME, GET SOME! from a very popular set of browser
tower defenses.
ben_vulpes: i also lost interest because its not a
text interface
to eulora so why bother kill yourself instead
ben_vulpes: i
tried
to get
that running recently; never finished
that game
mircea_popescu: you might be right, my memory's fuzzing out at
the edges.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: didn't he lose
the market-making game against BingoBoingo ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, you might be
thinking of yet another one ?
a111: Logged on 2016-03-28 13:11 mircea_popescu: upon consideration, i see no reason
to continue supporting or otherwise encourage kakobrekla's bizarre worldview. on
the contrary, i view further involvement with
the nonsense as considerable moral hazard, and a miserable
thing
to do altogether.
pinochle: BingoBoingo: other history: in
the past I was a
trader, predominantly futures. studied probability, my work now mainly consists of constructing prediction models
ckang: or if
there is, im failing at finding it on
the page
mircea_popescu: lol you hear
that danielpbarron ? randos coming in
to eat your luncvh, better hurry up.
pinochle: also agreed on second part, existing in wot and possessing requisite
trust are separate matters
pinochle: BingoBoingo: dad was a salesman, his dad drove
trucks
ben_vulpes: pinochle: reg a key and build a name now, lest you build
the
thing and nobody uses it because who is
this person
☟︎ ckang: short of manually iterating
through
the dates
ckang: i just noticed,
theres no way
to go back
to
the epoch of
the logs
pinochle: just a reader of
the logs
to
this point
deedbot: BingoBoingo updated rating of asciilifeform from 10
to 10 << Met in person, Verified lover of cats, engineer
ckang: yea not
too much, been quiet
ben_vulpes: mass production ruins everything, artisinal
tits ftw
hanbot: esthlos: mazel
tov,
thanks for
testing
mircea_popescu: you know, he attempted
to run a little business, i'm attempting
to help him make sense of it.
mircea_popescu: ckang, well, i kinda like
to leverage spot experience into more general
theory. let's say it's a weakness of mine.
ckang: im just grateful for
the opportunity, any income is income when between work
mircea_popescu: you understand
that
the difference between
the ill-pay-for-your-tits value-evaluation-function over
this field of items and
the anything-else value-evaluation-function over
the same field isn't 10x or 100x, either. people routinely have
trouble extracting as much as a cent per
thousand ;
that'd be 10e6x
mircea_popescu: yes. but
this source you have found is not simply one or
two or
three sigmas away from average. it is an uncountable, perhaps a literal infinity of sigmas away from average.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how usg history repeats itself :
the elite uses
the mass
to rape
the middle class. guy with a little dough and a little brain gets eaten into
this "pay
the brahmin
to use
the cattle herd" scheme again and again and again.
mircea_popescu: the right end of
that business is
to be SELLING
the servers
to people like you.
mircea_popescu: douchebag, you're not proposing anyone else anywhere else can extract anything like
that sort of utility out of
the shitpile are you ?
douchebag: but obv
that's nto happening anymore :/
douchebag: I have 2 girls right now ready
to go
mircea_popescu: now we understand why
the discord meme. i imagine it's pretty good money selling "5k imaginary users"
to you ppl.
ckang: yea people
treat discords like businesses
these days,
they even sell large servers
douchebag: $300 for a discord server
that shares nudes
douchebag: $200 for
the pimp lady
to get a 3 girls
douchebag: I paid $500 in advertisements
today
though :/
mircea_popescu: becauuse
totally, "bitcoin price in fiat".
that's a
thing.
mircea_popescu recalls
the lulzy days of "market price" back when i was buying
them at 2.20 - 2.50 dollars a pop
mircea_popescu: well, $1200 worth of 2013 btc would sure be a retirement
todaty
douchebag: no early retirement from
titties now I guess
douchebag: mircea_popescu: so me and ckang don't get any reward for
the effort
though ?
mircea_popescu: douchebag, im lazy,
there's a whole chunk here
that i've not yet ul'd
douchebag: there's 23 girls listed on "ill pay for your
tits"
that I pulled in
douchebag: i know
there's more not listed
there
though
douchebag: just showing on
the "ill pay for your
tits site
thing"
douchebag: lol ckang
think of how many
tits
the
two of us brought in lol
ckang: if you ever do anything similar im down but gonna stick around and see where
this goes ;p
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, i
thought it was "ready
to go" and everything days ago ?
trinque: hey, I learned
to be less racist against crackwhores. who knew.
douchebag: mircea_popescu: Do I get a bonus for bringing in hella
tits :D
ckang: i was
talking
to another who wanted
to do it
ckang: heh dang lemme
tell
these 2 cant do
then
mircea_popescu: tell
the story
to your daughters and granddaughters, so
they may know
that playing-it-safe and waiting-to-see is not
the way
to live in
this world.