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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's the excuse du jour for the contemporaneous pothead. the gwern, the guy who "really believed in wikipedia", the guy who "really believed in ted talks" and "fucking loved sicence" and so on. the kid who is "investigating child pornizzerias in wash dc" via 4chan and "visual thinking"
mircea_popescu: but tmsr will never do something like the cicada challenge.
mircea_popescu: so yes - more friction, the republic is all about "if you succeed things happen". this is poisonous, to the modern mind.
mircea_popescu: or just why intelligent motivated person looks for way to cicada rather than way to blow up the new york times building/
mircea_popescu: the attractor is the futility. the plain and unescapable certainty that if they succeed NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. the point about "yes white racism exists - it's white people hating themselves" isn't just some superficial flurry of rhetoric. it informs the deepest recesses of subconscious thought and minute behaviour, "if nothing happens then nothing bad can happen" is not just why sane kid chooses for himself "a goivernment job"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: no argument. but people were not by and large capable of healthy attachment at any point known from extant record.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger do you know what motivates them there, principally ?
mircea_popescu: i'm not terribly optimistic of that "healthy attachment" in the general form.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how would anyone ever argue in favour of the foss delusion. the data's pretty clear.
mircea_popescu: and yes - very similar with bitcointalk eulora thing also. imagine this, MILLIONS of fly eyes, not a single one was capable of figuring out stuff explained plainly in documentation and coversation. but a few tried to defraud.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the thing with the posters was simply "feed the artist while also doing something". that something happened to be "check this guy's claims". very similar, come to think about it, to this usecase here with fiverr.
mircea_popescu: the republic lives off tooling and infrastructure, and what is tooling and infrastructure develops out of you know, lived life. as a matter of necessity this can't be aforestated in its entirety.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's little doubt in my mind that this particular "problem" (more properly class of problems, likely) is ill posed.
mircea_popescu: so you know, "why aren't there monkeys on this planet ?" "well, partly because life is hard, and partly because there's not yet the livers sufficiently advanced to support a monkey's lifestyle"
mircea_popescu: there's on top of that also the question of tooling. consider : had i pushed hard on this three years ago when it first came around (and pankake tried to make it) we'd have ended up with non-v software. that'd have sucked ; but at the time i didn't know what exactly v is. trinque brings a solid related point : infrastructure. just like tooling.
mircea_popescu: so, why doesn't $item exist ? because the $guy that's a) intelligent enough to do it and b) dedicated enough to toil through however long it takes to get $item off ground hasn'rt come forward yet.
mircea_popescu: the long story is like this : that the world is made of friction. this is necessarily, and evident from the fact that it's still here (if self-limitation wasn't a default property of all things, the world would have long exploded). meanwhile the republic is made of few people, and also evident from definition - selective means minority. now add these things together : every project suffers from low power and high friction.
mircea_popescu: we were also going to have a republican this, so all my expenditure would be used reflectively to strengthen us, rather than you know, support ineptly named items not run by wot people.
mircea_popescu is not terribly keen on this "by the hour" thing, it gives the wrong incentives.
mircea_popescu: there was an episode but i think from before your time when i even tried to support blender. it blew up spectacularily.
mircea_popescu: doing this as such is slated, for a little later. but since i was on fiverr anyway from the article, well...
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's even a blenderartists thing, which supposedly is actually good.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger there's a reason the web keeps right on failing.
mircea_popescu: just like anything but a basebat whack to the crying kid is a bad move. and certainyl giving him sugar packets for crying is not any sort of solution.
mircea_popescu: accounts won't fix that. in fact, ENTERTAINING the stupidity, to any degree, is not only not fixing it, but outright causing it.
mircea_popescu: because they won't as much as fucking read the text, you understand, and then come back with "what is the problem friend".
mircea_popescu: some guy asked for 500. his avatar was a (bad) section of a civil engineering project in cad ; and he assured me that he has experience and can build any housing to my specification.
mircea_popescu: in between the deluge of spam and the enforced, deliberately, impossiblity of memory, you get... well you get "hi i can regge" basically.
mircea_popescu: they delete your message box, aggressively. like - less than weekly. INCLUDING "starred" messages, because hey, UX, user-friendly etc does NOT include the needs of non-mentally-amoeba, or their expectations. you're more than welcome to take your interface expectation of "system will not delete what i starred" and shove it - the expectations that matter are "uuuu shinyyyy"
mircea_popescu: that site incidentally is entirely constructed on stupid. the likeliness of their advertising open work orders (called "requests") is inverse to... the number of already present offers. counted. as such. except obviously the posts are mostly spam.
mircea_popescu: no, see, that's the problem - the mantra is make things EASY.
mircea_popescu: trinque i put up a fiverr offer detailing modelling work for eulora. i got a bunch of responses, including "Hi I can regge". and such.
mircea_popescu: jurov you realise the whole checksum is actually smaller in informatic terms than the single digit error in btc sum yes ?
mircea_popescu: then people could verify identity to paypal with a nicely chosen mare's face and get paid!
mircea_popescu: somehow getting right a space 10^40 larger is an acceptable expectation.
mircea_popescu: but the most informative part of this is - nobody seems to seriously dispute the obvious problem that "the btc address is 30 symbols long - what if i get one wrong ?!" ; yet even with that much accepted of the fundamental principle of republican money, ie, injective payment function - the obvious extension to sum is ... not so obvious. "oh what if i get one of 8 digits wrong ?" "i dunno dude... same as if you got 4 symbols wr
mircea_popescu: for as long as it doesn't take itself seriously i dun see the problem with it.
mircea_popescu: we're even contemplating making a proper gns to be fed through dns pipe, much to alf's chagrin.
mircea_popescu: you dun gotta do anything. what's you knoiw, what you do to do with right an' proper ?
mircea_popescu: and the strangest part being, that he expects we'll be upset with him for it. as if you know, they're there because i was bored one evening and came up with some arbitrary dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: trinque it is actually impossible, for the consumer market. which is the point.
mircea_popescu: i would rather have an world bereft of any life on it ; than have more of the current crap.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: except for the part they're completely imaginary, and only pushed by the sort of people who want a bijective payment function to import the whole rest of equality's fruits, all is well.
mircea_popescu: jurov either there's an injective payment function, in which case you have strictly yes-no payments, either get it right or it didn't happen ; or else you can have a bijective payment function, in which case you can have solutions to the "problems" you propose.
mircea_popescu: there's no way to have "equality" and not have ALL THE IMPLICATIONS of equality. which yes include "consumers" and "modern democracy" and hillary fucking clinton's aides.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is an unidirectional payment mechanism for a fucking reason, after all.
mircea_popescu: yes, i am saying that by keeping accounts you are empowering usg.
mircea_popescu: jurov what's the difference between "kyc" and "account" in this application ?
mircea_popescu: gotta kyc in case the fat tard over at the us park administration gets tired of asking for special booth at burning man and wants to peruse pics of subtards licking fish through a screen of milk, gotta have the pics ready for him!!11
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Framedragger lulzy. i expect more than half the gear sold to lusers is being currently used by republican interest, so there is that.
mircea_popescu: this is no good, what can i tell you. you're more than welcome to use it as your own software, but it's braindamage and it ain't convincing me.
mircea_popescu: and it disables who, usg ? not the other way around ? becauyse why, it's not seen happening (especially if you carefully don't look) ?
mircea_popescu: but to my eyes, even the idea of putting enables and you in the saem sentence with the thing denues some sort of thinking problem. really, you think electrum enables YOU ?
mircea_popescu: jurov the problem is one of optics. you have not "seen paying" anyone for .achristianfamily either, but you credit the empire and discredit the republic for reasons we're invited to not misrepresent as misplaced loyalties, i guess. similarly with electrum - yes, for as long as you stick to the credit empire discredit republic mindset, it "enables" you.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: read more like "i'm not smart enough for this one, try next door" to me :)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: to save my own pain in the future, ban syntax is /mode #trilema +b nick!other-nic@domain there's no regexp available except for the windows-* and domain identification is unreliable (may be IP, may be reverse dns on that IP, may be etc.)
mircea_popescu: ("but mp, 50 btc is too much for a seat at exchange ; 1500 btc is just fine for... a tld, whatever that is!")
mircea_popescu: perhaps a better question would be "when didn't you run electrum", but let's jointly pretend.
mircea_popescu: "crime, entirely manufactured by government, for the purpose of the government figthing crime"
mircea_popescu: urban "dog owners" are high on my list of insufferables, right up there with urban biking hipsters. this isn't to say that "police officers" shouldn't be shot on sight.