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mircea_popescu: hey, good
thing it was in here years ago,
that way
they could digest it in
time for 2018!
ben_vulpes: it's so pleasing
to watch all of
these golden
toilet
tekmologies fall
to basic 'wasp'tech.
ben_vulpes: subject of correctness, /me has been using "hugs" in place of "shit people from shithole countries".
the lefty brainfry
this induces is spectacularly hilarious; "i know you're using good words
to mean bad
things but but but!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quite so. except what's hoarded here is
the pennies of "correctness", and what's foolishly
thrown away is
the pounds sterling of hours and minutes.
mircea_popescu: a deeply felt notion
that death's
too harsh
to properly speaking exist results necessarily in wasting one's life.
mircea_popescu: rather similarily
to how
the "human life is worth more
than what mp would pay
to fuck
the item chained
to a wall" leads
to impossibility (not difficulty -- outright impossibility) of allocating healthcare dollars, just so...
mircea_popescu: in spite of all overwhelming evidence. because who knows, right ? science hasn't discovered everything, and it has all
the
time in
the world!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and so
there it is, waiting
to have its idiocy proven wrong
to itself at an arbitrarily strong standard. because who
the hell knowns what it could miss out if indeed it WERE a woman, somehow.
mircea_popescu: however,
the distortion
this wreaks is
that if a indeed were infinite, since
the possible value of any possible configuration is always epsilon rather
than zero, it is suddenly apparently worth it
to consider
that "well, maybe if
the ice state is in
the shape of
the Pantsuited Abominartion herself,
then IT WILL WORK?!?!?!".
mircea_popescu: something in
the vein of "1. people dying is something
too harsh for [my meagre powers]
to consider ; 2. if something is hard it is ok
to not do it ; 3.
things
that are not
thought of do not properly speaking exist.
therefore from 1-2-3 we have proven a is infinite".
mircea_popescu: HOWEVER! because a+b summing
to something finite implies mortality, which is
to say,
that
the almighty narcissist anal child eventually ends, and what's worse,
the film he blessed with his heroic centrality ends with him... it
THEREFORE FOLLOWS a must be infinite.
mircea_popescu: because
there's a list of possible questions organised in a question
tree ("should i figure out glass or metal ? if i figure out metal, should i figure out sheets or rails ? and so on ad infinitum) it soon becomes apparent
that no, it very much isn't worth it
to evaluate arbitrarily complex ice sculptures for
their possible fit
to be used in castlemaking.
mircea_popescu: now
then. if phase a
takes a
time, and phase b
takes another
time,
then you have a value function implicit.
mircea_popescu: think of it as a
tower defense game, cuz it's exactly
the only model
the imbecile spawn of esltarded women even have.
that's ALL
the business, strategy, everything.
mircea_popescu: let's model it
thusly. in
the mmorpg called "life"
the rules say
there's
two phases. phase a, where you figure out how
to build a castle, and out of what, and so on. and phase b, where you sit in
that castle and get GOODSTUFF, function of how well it was made. say fame or esteem or communication with god^H^H^H resplenduminous etcetera.
ben_vulpes: thing is proven
to be worth 0 in
the future after much self delusion, rather
than 0 now.
ben_vulpes: i don't follow
the logic behind
the valuation of
the castle at
t->inf. once proven wrong, whatever bastion was defended is overrun and so worthless.
mircea_popescu: got all
the
time in
the world, consequently
the capital cost of wasted
time is 0, consequently it is "worth it"
to defend any nonsense beyond any possible limit. "eventually" (ie at
t->inf)
they will be proven wrong, and consequently
the value of
their eventual (at
t -> inf) castle will be
that much greater.
ben_vulpes: something is seriously awry in
that head.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in
today's late breakfast suggestions, leberwurst geraucht with green olives on homemade bread, and a sizable helping oh holsteiner fasskraut on
the side.
mircea_popescu realises
this is possibly
the worst bait and switch ever. but i swear, unintentional!
BingoBoingo: I will add it
to
the list of shortcomings.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you can add
that
to
the list, by
the way. a
tendency
to
take what you hear as "what is" dun work irl! you know what i mean ? just cuz some chick said it from behind a desk dun make it worth
two shits.
mircea_popescu: HOWEVER,
the result of
that isn't
taken as "this is reality".
the result of
that is judged and its shortcomings fixed.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
that said
there's nothing wrong with applying for some, as a political choice.
mircea_popescu never applied
to "authorities", nor would. because why
the fuck.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Have you looked at
the LACNIC IP allotment application and requirements yet?
mircea_popescu: but
this is a self-inflicted misery. do not
take
the republic seriously, get what you get for it.
mircea_popescu: yes, i agree it is a very sad reality
that everyone seems
to be playing catch-up with
the absolute minimum bar of "marginally retarded" rather
than creating novel and interesting
things.
mircea_popescu: the problemis not
that --
the problem is he got less ips for a whole rack
than i have for single machines.
mircea_popescu: "if mp built his back-to-back
toilet, how could you ~using software only, mind!~ ensure
the piss of his slavegirls doesn't mix ?"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which is why
the deductive-rational process is actually irrational.
mircea_popescu: that's
the skill involved here : reality consists of endless matrices,
that for any practical purpose have
to be heuristically collapsed, as
they can't actually be calculated.
mircea_popescu: whatever it'd be, i can promise you a) it does not work out of
the box and b) you will want >25 years
to fix it.
mircea_popescu: that was a fabulous bit of JIT channeling btw! i'm finally fucking done with
this monster article.
mircea_popescu: your output is not "i don';t have
the money", read above.
mircea_popescu has long suspected meditation is not nearly as useful as practitioners credit it
to be. like is
the case with all arts.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-11 16:34 asciilifeform is not asleep, but in fact still calculating whether he has enuff fuel
to
take,
theoretically, BingoBoingo's rocket
to orbit, or only
to make larger crater on
the ground
BingoBoingo: instructions. BingoBoingo is offered some sort of incentive structure
to remain in Montevideo for more
time as hired hand rather
than equity figure. On
the plus side for alf, if he brings his own foreign corp with bank he has vehicle for making payments.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu, BingoBoingo , et al : have i missed anything obvious here ? <<
The deal with mircea_popescu was mircea_popescu bankrolls BingoBoingo builds isp for BingoBoingo with mircea_popescu as honored investor. For asciilifeform or whoever else may
take an interest in
taking over,
the deal
that interests me is BingoBoingo remains in Montevideo
to help asciilifeform/alfteam/etc build
themselves an isp
taking clear
mircea_popescu: this is similarily
true of your current situation, or any other. also, meteorites.
mircea_popescu: yes, if one day
the gauls invade you will discover business is not something
that can be done.
mircea_popescu: "here are
the numbers written down".
that's how
this goes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, you're
talking around
the point.
the scam is simple enough : here mr
taxman, is a box, of chassis motherboard cpu.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-12 15:57 mircea_popescu: but if you notice memory is 60% of
the price and ~nobody knows wtf is going on... you get
taxed on a
third at most.
mircea_popescu: i
think your numbers are within a x2 / x.5 ballpark, which is about where it's been for a while. proceed.
mircea_popescu: and yes i pay in coin, if
that wasn't by nao obvious >:)
mircea_popescu: well, i was going
to
take five for myself ; and was willing
to even pay for
them.
mircea_popescu: then again,
this does require competent rather
than bumbling courriering, so i suppose ima let it rest.
mircea_popescu: but if you notice memory is 60% of
the price and ~nobody knows wtf is going on... you get
taxed on a
third at most.
☟︎