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mircea_popescu: i expect most didn't even know why
the fuck
they're
there.
mircea_popescu: well, judging by
the fact
that it was socialist war not imperial (as
the historical
term) war, i would conjecture
the latter.
mircea_popescu: this is a subtle matter. did
they banzai "because such world as it is not worth my
time" or did
they "because her world must be defended!"
mircea_popescu: now
THAT is a fine fucking example of a problem you don't want
to ever have : when your problems are resolvable by whining it's not unlike when your washing is resolved by
the ocean : you're fucked.
mircea_popescu: problem with uteration is
that it depends on castration.h
a111: Logged on 2017-06-20 17:19 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: stalin, supposedly, once said
to his friends, 'history divides into
three eras, matriarchate, patriarchate, and secretariate'
mircea_popescu: "i shouldn't have
to strip
to get an A, i shouldn't have
to suck cock
to get a job, i shouldn't have
to fuck
the customer
to keep it, i shouldn't have
to..."
mircea_popescu: go
to
teacher/boss/great inca and say "this is an alien problem" meaning, "you gods shouldn';t have made
the maze so long for me,
the rat"
mircea_popescu: well, suppose under-30 chickie runs into problem. what avenues of resolution are open
to her ?
a111: Logged on 2018-01-04 14:53 asciilifeform: 'hardware isn't easy
to build
therefore couldn't possibly be necessary,
the gods would not have made
this level so hard, for me,
the hero' or similar.
mircea_popescu: and we're discussing here
things such as athletic events (which yes, naked boys).
shinohai: Now I am left wondering if
there were ads all over ancient Greece selling dick-shrinking pills.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-02 16:49 mircea_popescu: consider
this major point : in ancient greece, people were depicted with small penii ; large ones were considered bestial, comedic and insulting.
mircea_popescu: shinohai so apparently
trump is aware neither button works wortha shit ?
mircea_popescu: well, i
thought it was being proposed as a forward looking heuristic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that many problems admit retrospective solutions is not at issue here ;
the whole content of "i suspect
the notion of "shouldn't even be having" is 100% pantsuit wank." is
that "alien problems" are an artefact of
the retelling of history (esp if with a purpose) rarther
than of
the making of history.
BingoBoingo: Speaking of lunch
today was a liter of chocolate milk and a
tiny sandwich
a111: Logged on 2015-10-07 13:46 mircea_popescu: once newton/leibniz fixed notation, for instance,
to
take a very easy historical example,
mircea_popescu: far be it from me
to impugn fiction as
the primary driver of engineering effort.
mircea_popescu: that's
the major point here,
that a categorical split ("oh, either problem or aproblem!") is based on no equivalent phenomenological split.
mircea_popescu: something was abolished, yes, but not
THAT, and more important NOT LIKE
THAT!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but now merge
these factual observations, which are correct BUT SUPERFICIAL, with your own knowledge on and around
the scheuristic point of "coffin liners".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "if you're watching it-- it's fior you" means, also, "if you have
this problem, it's not an alien problem", or otherwise put "a study of alien problems is necessarily useless ; other
than
to prepare one for a life spent
trying
to write for jezbel"
mircea_popescu: but
the fact
that such a planet could never exist is left unadressed --
the needs of fiction are fictive.
BingoBoingo: Perhaps
the histamine overload is finally getting
to fleanode
mircea_popescu: anyway -- an alien problem is a problem with a banal retrospective solution
that doesn't exist. it works well for fiction, where one can say "and on planet x, people all walked with
their nose in a clothespin,
then our hero came in,
told
them
to ditch
the clothespins, AND
THEREFORE WAS A HERO. AND IS!" ie, establishing shot.
mircea_popescu: check it out... somehow dc'd but
the protected name still avail.
mircea_popescu: here it goes : "did you know, women,
that before pantsuited hilarity clinton was invented, you had problems XYZ ? and
that afterwards,
these were resolved ?" "nope" "we'll... it's all recorded for all enternity-till-year-end on jezbel" "Where is
this wonder ?" "oh, DO WE REALLY STILL HAVE
TO ?!?! IN 2018 ?!?! WE'VE ALL MOVED PAST
THAT!!!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so entrepreneurial witch doctor applies self
to inventing problems he could actually solve, so as
to flip "doesn't" into "does or doesn't".
mircea_popescu: witch doctor has gotten "99% of
the way
there" --
the only problem is
the
tail.
mircea_popescu: now consider
the case of witch doctor. guy comes into office, outputs a string ; witch doctor responds with some activity and some instruction ; problem does not get better.
mircea_popescu: consider
the case of a doctor. guy comes into office, outputs a string ; doctor responds with some activity and some instruction ; problem gets better or doesn't.
phf: i
thought kahn
topo sort is
trivially extendable with cycle detection? you just put another flag on
the node for which you check
mircea_popescu: but
the statement is
that
this is an in-universe, ie, fictive model. it dun work except as such.
mircea_popescu: well since you squeeze me, here it is : i suspect
the notion of "shouldn't even be having" is 100% pantsuit wank.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-26 01:11 asciilifeform: 'I’d like
to see one expression coined by
the poker writer Matt Matros become common parlance, since it applies far more widely
than only
to poker. An “alien problem” means some problem
that might be fun, interesting and educational
to analyze, and it would be really important
to know
the solution if you ever found yourself in
that situation, but
the point is
that you shouldn't even be having
that problem in
the first pl
mircea_popescu: phf he's
the proverbial fox hunting dog
that
the fox ~doesn't even have
to bat its
tail~ for him
to fork off.
phf: wait, are we
talking about
the same
thing? i
thought conversation is about pairing patches with seals, how did cycles come into
the picture?
mircea_popescu: consider
the greater problem here asciilifeform : i give you a set of 1mn units of blockchain. you are
to reconstruct
their order.
mircea_popescu: you know, not a great graphs mind myself, but it seems
to me our problem may admit better solutions eventually.
esthlos: ah I realized a fucked up
the seal handling,
thanks mircea_popescu
phf: the way btcbase does it is first pairs all patches by name (following our convention, but next by subst distance), processes
those and what's left over is brute forced. algo
though was implemented back when naming convention was in flux, so in practice it's o(n), but in reality it could approach o(n^2) if patch bucket is full of shit
mircea_popescu: (not a great lisper myself, but it seems
to me here he got caught in
the "since i won't be implementing
the posix and gnupg bs yet, im not going
to put
the
thing dependent on
tyhem at its right place either, because i wanna fuck myself over")
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when building a
tree, first load up
the sig folder,
then apply it as a mask on
the patch folder,
then proceed building with only
the patches
that passed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform question is, on
the practical score why not rule out unacceptable sigs first ; and more in
the general... well...
phf: asciilifeform: i'm not sure you can even scheme without a bunch of srfi's,
the first dozen establish a subset of common lisp standard
a111: Logged on 2016-01-18 15:58 ascii_butugychag:
the O(N^2) instrinsic runtime of unknown-patch-bag+unknown-sig-bag is something i realized from
the start
mircea_popescu: don't
tell me it came out as "blockchain never had 1mn blocks so why should we care"
mircea_popescu: ;; It's simple
to determine which vpatches have parents;;; just scan linearly. Performance is O(n^2). <<
this hurt me painfully.
mircea_popescu: because yes, normally i have
the above linked mask applied on
the inanity
the world produces.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform many
things i use are deliberately set up so either it works or it fails. in
thsi case "couldn't make
text flow sanely - aborting".