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mircea_popescu sings, "you would be angry
too... if it happened...
tooo yoooou"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 15:02 asciilifeform:
the 'good climate makes folx lazy and slowly climbing 'back up
to
trees' ' item is an old saw, but i'm not aware of any major hole in
the
theory
mircea_popescu: turns out
that
the first and perhaps only possible result of natural philosophy is
to explain why divine anger is necessary and justified.
mircea_popescu: "for
them
to find four i gotta put in
ten, and it gets worse as you go further"
mircea_popescu: he's stuck putting in
there material we only reliably get log(n) of
a111: Logged on 2017-12-28 14:31 mircea_popescu:
this may be naturally occuring, of course. but if you choose
to believe it's rather deliberately set-up,
there's little in either res divinae or lit hum
to impugn you with.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-28 14:30 mircea_popescu: at no prior point was
there a case when... no step available, shortest one is eight billion light years
tall and fuck you.
mircea_popescu: (i deliberately said "a guy like einstein"
to avoid
the history discussion)
mircea_popescu: sort-of akin
to running mt_rand on (0, infinity) and expecting results
to fit a register.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-28 14:28 mircea_popescu: for instance :
there is NO REASON why general relativity should be
tractable with (minor) extensions on infinitesimal calculus. in other words :
there is NO REASON
the gap between newton and einstein be narrow enough
to be closed by a guy like einstein
mircea_popescu: turns out... it fucking helps having
the letters, at
the very least if you are intent on interacting with one who does.
mircea_popescu: the necessary correlate of any functional republic, res divinae,
the
two
together forming... a religion.
mircea_popescu: that's what "caesar was proclaimed god" means,
to
the roman mind.
mircea_popescu: and since i mentioned
that : religion simply means acknowledgement of one's betters. it's all it is, worthip of
the superior.
mircea_popescu: (and evidently, if
this is not evident,
the argument is not limited
to culture ;
theory of evolution proposes a succession of steps
to arrive
to humanoid,
that all similarily also happened. wel...)
mircea_popescu: (lit hum includes all sciences from agriculture
to string
theory + philosophy, for
the record)
mircea_popescu: this may be naturally occuring, of course. but if you choose
to believe it's rather deliberately set-up,
there's little in either res divinae or lit hum
to impugn you with.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: at no prior point was
there a case when... no step available, shortest one is eight billion light years
tall and fuck you.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: NEVERTHELESS!!!
there are MANY!!! steps in
this ladder,
that all occured.
mircea_popescu: evidently
this is a matter of selected group, humanity only ever
took
thesteps it could
take, so its whole stairwell will be bound by what a biosack shaped like human could overstep
mircea_popescu: now, from a strict probabilistic perspective,
there's nothing evidently requiring ALL
the god damned stairs
to be one foot
tall at
the most. yet,
they all are.
mircea_popescu: if you look at
the history of
the human
thought, a certain sense of "stairwell" does become apparent --
they did x which suddenly made y feasible and guess what ? sooner or later (usually, later : see gunpowder steam engine and all
the numerous examples we keep rehashing in logs)
they'd y!
mircea_popescu: for instance :
there is NO REASON why general relativity should be
tractable with (minor) extensions on infinitesimal calculus. in other words :
there is NO REASON
the gap between newton and einstein be narrow enough
to be closed by a guy like einstein
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is not a singular example, it is a pattern, and a pattern
that VERY insistently repeats.
mircea_popescu: there is no, strictly speaking, reason
that iron MUST be provided on
the surface of a planet just like
the earth. it ~could~, very well, have simply gone
through a place poor in planetoids and ended up entirely iron free on
the surface. but it did not.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: now,
those peoples
that did have iron in
the environment, flourished.
those
that did not, became
the fuckign
tupi, stuck forever in stone age.
mircea_popescu: human civilisation is entirely dependent on iron being present within its early environment. while it's
true
that iron is overwhelmingly abundant on earth, making up as it does 1/3 of it by mass, it is nevertheless also heavy enough
to not be abundant on
the surface. it is abundant in
the core only.
the surface iron comes from ancient collision with
tinier earths
that, like
this one, had an iron-ish core, which core
then ends
mircea_popescu: there's an imbecile's view of "intelligent design" being floated about (mostly by people who are looking for a strawman, and reconstructed by
them for
this purpose). here's
the correct version :
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno if i did
this before, but let's put it in
the logs at
the risk of repeating self.
mircea_popescu: admittedly putting down bottle hard
to do, all
this self-determination and choice-having and gotta watch
teh
tv gets in
the way. but anwyay.
mircea_popescu: it's quite fucking obvious
that you don't need
to computhe
the 5th decimal of pi
to compute
the billionth, if you just put down
the bottle for one moment.
mircea_popescu: there's outright cleverness, like
that guy's method
to compute inside pi ; and
then
there's just sheer good fucking fortune, like karatsuba.
mircea_popescu: the major advantage of ever seeing a log in
the big O is
that well... log promises very good returns at end
tail!
mircea_popescu: whole point of exercise was, slow, yes, but actually not slow enough
to discard entirely out of hand
mircea_popescu: if it
takes 723 days,
the item would STILL complete within
the lifetime of
the republic, which is
to say roughly speaking 723 × 146 × 2 / 365 = 578.4 years.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-18 23:19 asciilifeform: btw
that french aks is geological. n==11701 has been running for 10+ minutes, and is on ~9600; author's code indicates
that answer appears at iteration 1000000007.
that'd be 723 days on
this box.
mircea_popescu: eh, london. fuck london, nobody is ever going
there again.
shinohai: aha praise be
to
the logs, and a South Park episode
to boot!
a111: Logged on 2017-11-16 20:41 mircea_popescu:
there's a great southpark episode explaining how
this false dychotomy is intended
to work in practice (i'm a bit couintry & im a bit rock and roll item)
mircea_popescu: shinohai retarded brits maneuvering
themselves into
trying
to matter. when hatman visited queen, some local fuckwits organised a buncha streetwalkers
to pretend like
they represent "the gypsy community" and "independently want
to be called romania from now on". because
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-16#1739911 wasn't invented by ustards,
they just copied.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: it's so
tantalizingly perfect it'd be hard
to believe not used while not believing people involved are all rank idiots.
shinohai: i still wanna know why Romania let Chad get away with stealing
their flag.
mircea_popescu: if /me ran
the whole
thing, item'd be used for all it's worth (less importantly, give promising kids a chance
to learn what critical safety is ; more importantly, give promising kids chance
to exclude
themselves on grounds of can not keep a secret. "big hush"
the secret
thorium reactor would be lynchpin of
the whole
thing)
mircea_popescu: anyway, ro maintains very lively solid state physics programme at universities (mostly, buchjarest/magurele), i would not be surprised if
they had one on
the grounds.
BingoBoingo: In other news, on January 5th or 8th
tentatively penciling in an appointment with
the data center
to hammer out more details, pricing information, etc. By
that point
there should be a business
to do contract signing even if banking continues
to be a challenge.
mircea_popescu: anyway, 10-20k rods a year.
this is not a lot objectively, but it keeps
the item going
mircea_popescu: well, you know
that
time
the caer came up with idea of making eastern europe agricultural zone, and ceausescu
threatened
to quit
the warsaw pact ?
mircea_popescu: imbecile austrians,
that DID convince
the world hitler was german and mozart austrian, NEVERTHELESS DID NOT!!!! figure out why
they come
to bucharest
to seek money in 2007.
mircea_popescu: and nobody wants
to look at why both a) romania became industrial power and b) romania was
the only above-water state during crisis.
BingoBoingo described US agriculture
to
the Brasileros. "In Estados Unidos, corn is grown and converted
to sugar. Anything else costs
too much
to do. All of
the livestock subsist on fermented corn chaff."
mircea_popescu: the
thing with
these is
they self-support. WAY
the fuck more expensive
to have 1st nuke power plant
than
to add
the 1001th
to a 1000 fleet.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-24 16:12 asciilifeform:
then next wk 'tell us who is
trying
to be philosophical, and getting in
the way...'