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mircea_popescu: danielpbarron sheeeit... that
selection thing is the tits. how the hell does it work ?
mircea_popescu: "Hire diverse Googlers: In the past, our university-focused hiring programs have relied heavily on a relatively small number of schools. But, we know those schools aren't always the most diverse. For example, while 14% of Hispanic college enrollment is at 4-year schools, Hispanics make up just 7% at the 200 most
selective schools. In the past two years, we've doubled the number of schools where we recruit, to promote s
mircea_popescu: whereas the western folk, while broadly useless, can at least be
selected for sanity.
mircea_popescu: sorta funel the process of
selection towards gaap/sanity
mircea_popescu: adding more people, especially if adding more people
SELECTED by the criteria that "they are poor, stupid and usleess enough to need to be added specifically" is a recipe for making your thing worth less.
mircea_popescu: the ridiculous thing about copyright is that i actually have a perfectly valid claim to the copyright of the lists i published. copyright attaches to
selection of material.
mircea_popescu: "(4) When I was on the front line, trying to sell Lispms, we had a major problem. I'd try to sell Lispms to friends and former associates that cost a minimum of $90K, and generally $105K out-the-door. They were typically given $120K to buy computers. This left them with a choice of purchasing 1 Symbolics machine or 3 Xerox Dolphins. They generally
selected the 3 Dolphins. Our cost for the keyboard was $3,200 and our co
mircea_popescu: incidnetally - would you also have the
selective inhibition design ?
mircea_popescu: and this is how the carrie bradshaw
selected hearing works. she'd have heard of the new york times, but not of... hm
mircea_popescu: but iirc, a lot of valuable effort went into
selecting and pepraring the os. what do you mean "it could be debian" ?
mircea_popescu: poli_ hit the search button,
select politics and all bets, and see what the cat drags.
mircea_popescu: "apple's the world's largest buyer of some classes of items. while not the largest in any class of any import, and not the largest buyer in any sort of general perspective, one could
select some items by a criteria more or less alligned with "items apple buys" to make apple apear like the largest buyer of items apple buys"
mircea_popescu: they had
selected themselves over many years of revolutionary struggle.
mircea_popescu: with batallion size deployments rolling auto is much more effectual than "
selective" whatever, because people are weird. sorta like how women living together synch periods, soldiers end up all looking in the same spot.
mircea_popescu: so a thing that did no work is actually compared to the few things that did work
selected out of the large set of things that also did work by the criteria that they survived ?
mircea_popescu: saifedean people generally have an inborn, deeply
selected ability to only hear parts. so, through this approach "we pay you 10k in salary on the condition you spend no less than 11k a month" sounds like a good deal.
mircea_popescu: expect the aspirational 20% to murder the rest of the 40% in the process of
selecting the half of itself that may go on.
mircea_popescu: 1. The Law of Imperfect
Selection: Any objective rule that defines eligibility for a social transfer program will irrationally exclude some persons.
mircea_popescu: it's been
selected for 250k years for suckage. no fixing that.
mircea_popescu: punkman depends how you
select them. if well
selected, something pretty cool i imagine. like, a world in which nobody is going to spam.
mircea_popescu: Warning: mysql_
select_db() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given in /home/imsdb/public_html/dbscon.php on line 5 << ahaha epic
mircea_popescu: hm, i guess the actual practice evolved under
selective pressure more towards the cold calling / stage magician thing
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> something tells me that block downloading and peer
selection is an important thing to look at in the next few arbitrary time units. << that something is athena riding a flaming shield.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, just the power ranger lot. they'd have (i optimistically assume) been excluded / self out-
selected if the satoshi actually understood programming.
mircea_popescu: the bitcoind node keeps a db, the bitcoind wallet
selects what it wants and does what it pleases.
mircea_popescu: nothing is worse for a good project than poorly
selected new contributors.
mircea_popescu: "whenever misreporting an event is worth more to your stake than it costs to buy back the lost reputation, you misreport the event. decentralized
selective scamming ftw!"
mircea_popescu: ima try and prevail upon asciilifeform to include
selections in his bitcoin book to come.
mircea_popescu: "This is one of the shittiest pieces of fear mongering I've ever read. Hard forking is and should be a natural and regular occurance and never has any hard fork ever threatened the block chain. It's called natural
selection. Have a little faith in the educated masses"
mircea_popescu: there's something about that market that always
selects for ineptitude
mircea_popescu: all the asshole "lefties" for pay that helped the usg "react to" snowden have made money out of it. the old system where a "random hero" was
selected to be held up as a fetish for the masses, "explaining" their poverty and justifying their pointless struggle is giving way, out of sheer exhaustion of resources,
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: So, what's the hypothesis. Hardware breaking and mining farms being more
selective about the hardware they keep on? <<< mining moved away from the general public to "specialised experts". this always results in a drop of quality.
mircea_popescu: adlai that sexual
selection exists is very poor grounding to claim beauty.
mircea_popescu: adlai what if i
select every 6th letter and it spells out "i did your mom"
mircea_popescu: of course they do
select for the best quality in mathematicians
mircea_popescu: also, feeding cows their foals, it doesn't work. that's how you
select for Creutzfeldt–Jakob
mircea_popescu: only way to
select people now is age, which explains disasters like nanci pelosi
mircea_popescu: say if you showed this process to 1k randomly
selected 5 yos, would they say "it built itself a house" ?
mircea_popescu: xanthyos monkeys don't have any tits to speak of. the female breast is clearly the result of
selection. the only way that works is for women with tits to have money while women without not to.
mircea_popescu: basically stuff is
selected for that "does no harm" in a particularly short sighted definition of "no".
mircea_popescu:
select from blog_derps where location within 50 miles and factor 1..n in $criteria or has car etc
mircea_popescu: for the record, that "stupid human trick" is exactly how
selection works.
mircea_popescu: here's a funny point about "supported by history", especially when one means "history as
selected by me" :
mircea_popescu comes from cattle country, is proud carrier of long-
selected lactoguys
mircea_popescu: 1D37yABoLo7Ma4LeR6jW8ZhJxLXdQmsbsH if i
select compressed.
mircea_popescu: no he has a point, you can just make your own tx and forget the stock
selection code
mircea_popescu: <othernubs`> so how long are we gonna diddle around here before one of us forks 0.5.3 and starts
selectively patching? << not long.
mircea_popescu: and so... fingerprints ? lol. but they're being replaced with "dna proof". which IS more
selective,
mircea_popescu: what's left of people after 70 years of
selection for derpitude.
mircea_popescu: works just fine. you start with women in their 20s, self
selected. you beat and humiliate them into shape. five to ten years later, people emerge of this.
mircea_popescu: well yes. so there yo uhave it : any way you go about things you're going to be
selecting something.
mircea_popescu: but i'm pre
selected, i already seen the cartoon you made, so we're going with that type.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
selective beating is
selective beating. people adapt, young people especially so, women most of all.
mircea_popescu: as long as you let me beat them
selectively i'll have my bomb, and some adoring princesses to follow me around to boot.
mircea_popescu: it's being an ashole deliberately and oppressing
selected idiots wilfully.
mircea_popescu: not sure how long that lasts, and it
selects negatively.
mircea_popescu: what's left is the multi-millenial
selected scum of humanity.
mircea_popescu: "My critics will often take a binary stance in their arguments with this idea citing that “they could never be with more than one woman at a time out of respect for her” or “so I should just lie to her and see other girls on the side?” To which I’d argue that these are feminized social conventions that attempt to thwart a man’s options in order to establish women as the prime
selectors in intersexual relati
mircea_popescu: in principle, disallowing absurd
selection practices for employers may be unavoidable. otherwise, think of that church idiot and his "advice"
mircea_popescu: it isn't. you're saying it's "a waste of time", a spandrel merely means "not directly resulting from
selection"
mircea_popescu: they totally should have this. for speeding and for substance abuses. "buy your
selection of pop starlets for 42 bitcents a head"
mircea_popescu: "BitVest Digital Mining Corp.
selected PeerNova as its strategic hardware supplier after an extensive review process. PeerNova's PetaOne(TM) enterprise class bitcoin mining systems offer the best combination of power, efficiency and cost for BitVest's planned large scale deployment."
mircea_popescu: An architect fellow named Yoric could, when feeling euphoric, display for
selection three kinds of erection- Corinthian, Ionic, and Doric.
mircea_popescu: how the other half works : they
select a subset of reality that it's not okay to lie about, then lie about all the rest, which is fine because hey, it wasn't in the holy set!
mircea_popescu: the thing with people is that most of them are better served by following than leading. this is manifested by an inability to adhere to a self-
selected set of rules. so, you know, he wants to roll with the punches.
mircea_popescu: decimation: Hayden emphasized that the personnel problems are far less significant than the technological ones << well, i disagree. now, from a bureaucrat pov, sure, they generally can fill any jobs they want filled, according to their
selection process. this however does not mean they are gaining any sort of valuable human capital.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i step on the heads of idiots. it's what i do. the only
selection criteria is how lulzy they are and if im bored.
mircea_popescu: the pool you can
select wives from is already the pool of the women too [insert here] to have a master.
mircea_popescu: decimation there's exactly two ways : one's wealth and the ability to
select and hire local helpers. the other's deep knowledge and an ability to
select and persuade local patrons.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: why would all scammers be dumb? << it's a self-
selecting activity. smart people find better things to do.
mircea_popescu: in a randomly
selected lit of numbers, 30% will start with 1.
mircea_popescu: We
selected 526,000 OkCupid users at random and divided them into groups by their (self-stated) race. We then took all these people's profile essays (280 million words in total!) << ok this makes me fucking curious.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many twentysomething owners of moderately successful sm sites have so far
selected the interractions of all the people that got laid on the site and hashtree'd it.
mircea_popescu: ok, but i mean... filtering out retards !=
selecting for positive clue
mircea_popescu: so it
selects for landwhales is what you're telling me ?
mircea_popescu: let the lazy have extra chances to self humiliation, it's a good
selection exercise.
mircea_popescu: just hire indians to
select and summarize, could pump out 50-100 science-y or tech-y sounding projects a week
mircea_popescu: life
selects. he was smart enough, but he couldn't hear. there's no difference between the deaf and the dumb.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> plus if women didn't have single parent payments to fall back on, they'd might make a better choice in
selecting a mate to have a baby with << also a good point.
mircea_popescu: the arabs only do it with
selected girls (ie, direct descendants)
mircea_popescu: the way socialism works in practice is making all the women of a generation into a college, and give common ownership over them to a
selection of men.