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mircea_popescu: (feel free to drop a pgpgram when done, of course, i "won't be able to prove it's mine" etc.)
mircea_popescu: somebody should wipe some harddrives / deface some corporate sites so there's something here to qntra
mircea_popescu: aaaand in other news, hanbot makes some kickass encilladas.
mircea_popescu: the saudis have an actual culture. all the ustards have is a well lubricated hole.
mircea_popescu: moreover, and more amusingly : notwithstanding pretenses of equality with russia, put forth on the very ridiculous basis of trying to compare bezzle-gdp of say italy with actual gdp of extractive economy ; the us is altogether not the equal of saudi arabia.
mircea_popescu: the very same's true of "states", whatever that may mean.
mircea_popescu: it's a good heuristic to follow who a man hates, for you're liable to find who he wants to crib without giving credit.
mircea_popescu: it's not specifically said he should tell them with his penis, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: this survives as late and far away as in ww2 anglo fictions, such as seen in cinema. dead guy wants his brother [in arms] to go to his gf and "tell her" things.
mircea_popescu: bible is rather explicit on the point that if your brother dies, you're stuck with the widow.
mircea_popescu: if a) men are the structure and also b) men are not cowardly then necessarily you will end up with desperate female lines.
mircea_popescu: many ancient societies had a serious welfare problem which is :
mircea_popescu: in other random news, avunculate marriage, while commended by teh jews, nevertheless is forbidden by the muslims. most of the world follows the latter rather than the former, except argentina, australia an' russia.
mircea_popescu: in no small part because strength was rather nazi to the derps ; but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: there is no genuine strong woman in soviet cinematography, except for the occasional bit part playing "nazis".
mircea_popescu: similar to how all the "online marketeering" derps run businesses consisting of selling "informational products" to themselves ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know what the "independent business" ideas of the useless twentysomething middle class chick all revolve around selling handmade junk on social media sites ?
mircea_popescu: and it even includes the "strong" female by scriptorial diktat, who otherwise behaves exactly like a little etsy bitch.
mircea_popescu: it's a good yarn, especially for the people nostalgic for the soviet 70s.
mircea_popescu: anyway. let it be noted that gorgo is supposed to marry a GOOD man, not just any man. and the definition of goodness is at the very least shared by leonidas, if not outright sourced from him.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the testament of european-ity, as embodied by the greeks ; and later (1500s!) finally inherited by the italians is simply this :
mircea_popescu: and actually ABOVE the bar for its allegible predecessor, bitcoin-otc ?
mircea_popescu: are you aware the bar for people getting into eulora now, whom you despise for their inferiority, is EXACTLY EQUAL to the bar of this thing right here, years ago ?
mircea_popescu: lol! review the history. the bar in 2016 is "make a bot" ; the bar in 2014 was "get a gpg key".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: quite identical, yes. except for the superficial parts you hate.
mircea_popescu: the discussion errupted when you wanted to take the engine out of the tractor.
mircea_popescu: and by language we don't mean dogshit from china/india/the pacific islands and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of language is that it allows this sort of analysis.
mircea_popescu: oh. well, the same way everything else is done, you match against the structure and increment a counter.
mircea_popescu: "i want my theory to work therefore network anchors aren't people, evidently"
mircea_popescu: do you ever count how much of this "i want this not that therefore the facts are so and so" you do in an average day ?
mircea_popescu: the talking heads are 0cost faux people ; and most of their subject matter, from hussein bahamas down.
mircea_popescu: and to revisit <asciilifeform> fact is, enemy has not yet devised a means of making faux people at 0cost. : please watch the news sometime.
mircea_popescu: but the whole fucking point of technology is to broadly open new cunts.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the "suffices" thing is all a matter of who's attacking you and why. keeping each other's balances in excel spreadsheets also "Suffices".
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes asciilifeform has a point in that penis makes for a fine way to make friends. the thing is that as i near 40, i'd dearly love some alternative method. this thing won't last forever.
mircea_popescu: trinque my shit is uniquely confusing. i call them slaves, because it is the proper term. yet they have more personal freedom and general, intellectual and otherwise independence than any "liberated" hear-her-roar-in-english-only.
mircea_popescu: and of course, the discussion is carried in terms of go but isn't ABOUT go. it's about "human only tasks"
mircea_popescu: prior to the sedol debacle, there was a simple "let's play go" solution to human vs machine
mircea_popescu: new girls can go for years without meeting most of the others ; forget all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it'd surprise you to find that less than half my harem finds itself in my presence at any given time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but with the go algo it's come pretty damned close.
mircea_popescu: fuck that. i been there, done that, it's enough to run a smallish trown and no more.
mircea_popescu: really, you want your source of power to be chats in coffee shops ?
mircea_popescu: ie, "you just want to and someone else gotta do the work now"
mircea_popescu: and this "making attacks costly" is exactly mining, any way you turn it.
mircea_popescu: the reality of the wot is that it provides the tools to make, perhaps, attacks unfeasibly costly. PERHAPS.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, that's the whole delusion of wot, in the minds of aspiring shamans such as yourself.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason you feed your horse with your own hand, even if you don't have to.
mircea_popescu: this difference is central, and obviously not only elided in school - deliberately buried in school.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger people want, sensibly, to reduce the things they worry about. however, they often get confused in between things they could not worry about but have to, and things they can't not worry about but don't have to.
mircea_popescu: the discussion is carried from your pov. you observe an endless field of worms. what next ?
mircea_popescu: the weakness of this scheme is exactly as described : fuzzing and the binary tree propagates a few through it all the way to you.
mircea_popescu: the thing you do not wish to say, because you do not wish it to be turned to dust under scrutiny, is that razi is either dead, or else depends on sub-razis-1 through n
mircea_popescu: well if you won't read and address the points there we'll have to stop here, i'm not restating it.
mircea_popescu: yes. but how do you distinguish the one that isn't, from the one that merely appears not to be, from the other 9999 ?
mircea_popescu: spam was always point-driven. it's easy to fight the man who wants to steal.