mircea_popescu: "Some experts have said the field of artificial intelligence is currently experiencing something of a golden age, with deep-learning neural networks making advances in both speech and image recognition." << well, more like a qe age. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: none of the "industrial blue chips" do anythning anymore, so you'd be left with a stock market the size of bulgaria's.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-01-2016#1386014 << this would be because a robot actually does write the speeches. iirc we laughed at the company in question here even. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: managing time in this sense is only a consideration for assembly line workers.

mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Could publish peer reviewed tapes << except peers won't review tapes. because it's inept. oral tradition is unlike the written tradition in a fundamental way : it rejects the ~separation~ of knowledge and power. that sound familiar ?

mircea_popescu: woman is making a fucking stand against publish or perish ? go her.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-01-2016#1385967 << actually, upon review, it's a very strong argument. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: no idea how they figure that one, you can't get a fb account to show up to your office irl./

mircea_popescu: dude, i tell you truly - i fucking hate argentina, these people are as dumb as the delicious cows they raise. nevertheless, sitting here atop a grassy knoll, chowing exceptional beef and homemade apple pies and watching rome burn is a delight for which i am ever thankful.

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it's not worth 150bn even if a loaf of bread were 1k.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile... everyone's "pensions" bwahahaha are invested in facebook(s). your daddy had not only a better house, not only better shoes, but also a retirement full of alcoa and shell. what a sucker, that dood.

mircea_popescu: leaving behind a ~150 bn crater in imaginary "wealth" that "could have bought russia" to be accounted for, somehow.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile the lifetime economic value per active fb user is MAYBE a cent. doubtfully so.

mircea_popescu: o wait... usg's own ws didn't exist then yet either huh. a well.

mircea_popescu: if only they were doing this back in the day when usg's own corp didn't exist, america'd have looked a lot different.

mircea_popescu: ~you~ "gotta" pay an accountant to keep IRS' files in order. wouldn't it be logical if THEY had to come to you with a "here's how much we think you owe and if we're wriong we'll goi do the math again" ? who's the sovereign here ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: apparently those actually eventually paid off, who knew a whole generation of idle retards was going to be educated by them. hollywood raped moscow just as mosfilm raped san mateo.

mircea_popescu: what we learn here, other than a) nobody gives a shit about the inept campaings of the hundreds upon endless thousands of "activists" (as you recall from http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=11-01-2016#1366968 this is !=== "educator"), and especially not the advertisers ☝︎

mircea_popescu: Following a campaign by 100 advocacy groups, Facebook agreed to update its policy on hate speech. The campaign highlighted content promoting domestic and sexual violence against women, and used over 57,000 tweets and more than 4,900 emails that caused withdrawal of advertising from the site by 15 companies, including Nissan UK, House of Burlesque and Nationwide UK. The social media website initially responded by statin ☟︎

mircea_popescu: i did hear of hyperbole. sadly there's a disease running around among the social-mediated youth, which has little to do with the stylistical choice and everything to do with lazy thinking.

mircea_popescu: don't flatter yourself, nobody gives a flying fuck what fb feels like to the cows.

mircea_popescu: a feat usually credited to a certain reich minister.

mircea_popescu: AdrianG yes, how does a third party independently established your guy put propaganda on proper industrial scale.

mircea_popescu: "we rebel" can't be a fucking fact. IN PRINCIPLE.

mircea_popescu: "Quick Facts We rebel against the idea that modern software must be large and complex." << "we also rebel against the concept of a fact and sane prosody.

mircea_popescu: " My intuition is that this might even require fewer attempts than the original comparison assuming a reasonable password length, but I haven't done the math." << he's right actually.

mircea_popescu: then next thing you'll know you'll be putting out stuff like "the spread of [redacted] is perhaps the best known example of a silly but noncatastrophic phenomenon." and so on.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform has ONE playing card, and it's a 4 of clobber.

mircea_popescu: "The Zionists are so used to running American foreign policy for their own benefit and having the US Army take care of their enemies for them (Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad etc) that it was hilarious to watch Netanyahu throw a shit fit in the US Congress " << so far, the only army to ever win an engagement in the middle east is the israeli. twice.

mircea_popescu: "it's worth remembering Japan had been under a US oil embargo for years before they 'suddenly' attacked Pearl Harbor in '41. " << decent tidbits in there, under all the cheap "rapport" and assorted throwaway cancerous jokes.

mircea_popescu: That's why every time Obama deploys one of his cloned spokeswomen wearing the "problem glasses" to a White House press briefing << seriously. it's like gaddafi without taste.

mircea_popescu: that we shall have a world war seems a foregone conclusion by now.

mircea_popescu: <copypaste> Rand wouldn't be a bad president, but Trump has more of the showmanship << maybe they name the USS Flagship "Hairpiece" after him.