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mircea_popescu: though this is a decent sf premise, imagine if nanotech allows one to drill implants into each neuron
mircea_popescu: and i have yet to see people who altered their neurons prior to doping.
mircea_popescu: "no doubt it was a hit by the anti-tea-gasoline lobby because he knew too much"
mircea_popescu: the occasional death in a garage fireball because idiot had leaky still...
mircea_popescu: the stuff that gave us strega and campari and whatnot. "secret family recipe. blessed by pope! 500 plants!"
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, something equivalent to the fortified wine / bitter craze of the 1700/1800s.
mircea_popescu: like... camomille is good for reducing wear and mint is good for you know, that extra kick uphill
mircea_popescu: they could have a web forum dedicated to debating formulas...
mircea_popescu: come to think about it, i find it deeply regrettable that fuel teas aren't fashionable. imagine, if people actualyl did plant mix decoctions to mix in their gas tanks.
mircea_popescu: wtf, a crane is like 100 bux an hour already. why throw cars.
mircea_popescu: if only the exxon people had thought to mix mountain berries and chalk powder into the damned thing. but the anti-berry lobby is keeping a lid on things.
mircea_popescu: trinque try as i might i fail to see self-administered medication in any better light than self-mixed gasoline. "oh, my fuel mix gives me much better power and gas mileage". meanwhile derp drives a fucking honda and has an evil eye pendant dangling from the rear view mirror.
mircea_popescu: "mice were found in germany which is a country that once invaded the soviet union where lenin introduced electricity which goes through tubes in which tubes today in england most mices live." "OH NOW IT ALL FALLS INTO PLACE!!!"
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: for a while a very popular ~tv format~ was this string of factoids going in a sort of free association from a noun back again to it. the whole thing read too fast and with "bbc noises" in the background (you know the idiocy, chimes intended to propose THE IMPORTANT IS OCCURING!)
mircea_popescu: (which is why the whole "nobody could have predicted" is such an endearingly stupid exercise in ignorance pleading, but whatevers)
mircea_popescu: that ~nobody wants to notice~ is the very point. yes, once the spot on the sleeve is pointed out it stands out. and before it wasn't there.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-01#1575841 << yes, but this is not really what's discussed here. obviously when you grok something you grok something. but in order to get yourserlf to where you grok something, you invariably have to do something "out of character". there has to be some pressure. "and at that moment x was enlightened" specifically says "x abused himself to the point of", but nobody wants to notice.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: trinque it has to be so ; so as to prevent the reality-representation tandem from going into positive feedback.
mircea_popescu: none of this is much more than observing that you know, "in theory there's no difference between theory and practice..." ie, the represented difference between representation and reality reduces to a representation.
mircea_popescu: consider the illustrative case of physics. newtonian mechanics (representation structured as representation) is valuable because a) it works in representative terms, ie, math and b) matches observable reality. but there is no objective relation between a and b, which is why science fiction can exist for instance ; and also why the only thing that can be said about nm is that it's ... not correct.
mircea_popescu: trinque the structure of representation qua representation does not particularly match the structure of reality qua reality.
mircea_popescu: the recent trilema byline about mediocrity conversely states "there is no perversity other than thinking"
mircea_popescu: brain is not reasoning engine in the sense rectum is not vagina.
mircea_popescu: the sad fact of the matter is that the brain is not a reasoning engine. in a very purely naturalistic, bio-logical way, this is sensible. the practice of "talk to the text, not context or subtext" has become established through moo practice
☟︎ mircea_popescu: he doesn't even realise that this is moo-ing for moo-ers, not discourse for people.
mircea_popescu: and consequently : he simply does not want it to be a discussion about that, so he doesn't mention it.
mircea_popescu: because nobody has any shade of completeness left anywhere.
mircea_popescu: not even. they assume that everyone's an imbecile, and therefore will discuss what's said. so if they tell you about the money they spent you'll discuss money spent and if they tell you about his abs you'll discuss abs.
mircea_popescu: !!v CADE8827752416FE04C18CBB70886AE4B6573C376EE93B81A4FA771DCFE2ABE9
mircea_popescu: !!rate gabriel_laddel_p 1 Crazed Cali Kid, but at least banging his head against a goldmine rather than a brick wall.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel_p so is this actually going to be your key or are you gonna lose it in six weeks ?
mircea_popescu: because i can't conceive why'd you want to do that to your cornea.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you ever examined the nasal septum of long term coke whore ?
mircea_popescu: i'm a fucking pioneer, been doing it since the last millenium!
mircea_popescu: my mind's eye foresees a time when all comms will consist of this. gossipd over irc!
mircea_popescu: ntelligence entirely dedicated to the task of survival.
mircea_popescu: "Whenever I got a team ready to be really useful, there would be a bizarre negative reaction from all sorts of other people who were employed within the same organizations, but were not part of the teams I was working with. Sometimes this effect was so strong it could become a workplace hazard, and it always grew until the teams themselves were no longer able to function." <<< mediocrity is not a lack of intelligence, it is i
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the conclusion is, 2k+ txn blocks took significant time on old clients ; and this made them exceed the 10min magic delay and trip an alert.
mircea_popescu: well at least coinbase did everything to protect its users /s
mircea_popescu: anyway. legacy prb clients need >10 minutes to disentangle that sorta shit fwiw.
mircea_popescu: bullshit btcc pool "oh we'll be creative and send 2.5 cents to a buncha addresses" psssh.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess BingoBoingo has it. ima see what the girls are up to.
mircea_popescu: 441386 (Merkle Root c8f8c5889e5d8d61c40f23cbb9b9e60a809c1d516a69834379aa68f7467d8857 Hash 000000000000000002e85349ac1deb78507a9d9a514ba2cd439c1a537c248c56 ) doesn't seem to verify.
mircea_popescu: anyway. will be building tons so. put your order in we'll get to it.