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mircea_popescu: consider
the problem of mechanics in 1900. physics "complete science" and why can't you 1900 alf explain
the mercury precession ?
mircea_popescu: doctor is allowed
to assign miraculous cause ; and
the curtailing of
that allowance exactly mirrors
the
technicalization (ie, de-liberalization) of medicine.
mircea_popescu: mind
that police detective is not liberal profession.
this is SPECIFICALLY what it means :
that not at liberty
to consider all possibilities.
that's what makes a
technical profession.
mircea_popescu: why did you fart when you farted as opposed
to at any other
time ?
mircea_popescu: much simpler
than
that : if your rng is broken someone somewhere will exploit it.
mircea_popescu: and so ipse, not because government grants
therefore flatten forests printing drivel.
mircea_popescu: not "because charlie manson,
therefore here's a list of dozen+
teenagers who fucked on
the first day" but quite vice-versa : "because oodlebunches of such
teenagers,
therefore here's weirdo cult nonsense".
mircea_popescu: where
there's
teenaged runaways, a charlie manson will be found
mircea_popescu: is
the jewish young female sluttery
the problem, or merely
the pimp's ready marketing of it ?
mircea_popescu: well, for many different reasons, but let's set on
the very convenient
tu quoque approach. you yourself
think all sorts of insanities about what you can and can not do, which vary according
to mood. it's no different for anyone else.
mircea_popescu: they still feel
that way with or without "i fucking love science" marketing depts.
mircea_popescu: but it's absolutely and eminently NOT
the case
that smart people were doing smart people
things and some bureaucrats came in su style and "henceforth you shall publish or perish". it was rather
the case
that some smart people sat around doing existential anguish, and some bureaucrats came by, packaged it as "publish or perish" and
then proceeded
to sell it
to
them (in exchange of an island of manhattan worth of "scientific" s
mircea_popescu: whether it's for credit or for free makes little practical difference.
the problem's in
the brain not in
the statute.
mircea_popescu: they went in for
the bologna BECAUSE
they felt
they DO have
to.
mircea_popescu: this is irrelevant. whenever
the state manages
to enforce some idiocy, it's not
the case
the state enforced it, it's
the case it followed a fashion!
mircea_popescu: cuz relative size problem,
they perceive
themselves as small.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why do milkmaids sell
their milk for 10cents a galon
to walmart
to be sold
to consumer for a buck a bottle ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of all
this geometry, did
they find
the 4d smooth sphere ?
mircea_popescu: as opposed
to what exactly,
the experts sex change source of all software ?
mircea_popescu: "The Chern–Simons
theory, named after Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons, is a 3-dimensional
topological quantum field
theory of Schwarz
type, developed by Edward Witten." << wikipedia fucking delivers.
esthlos: mircea_popescu: as
to quantum computers, I don't know a whole lot about quantum, but i believe
that an information-theoretic approach
to spacetime is
the best bet
to quantize it
esthlos: my
thesis is about a rigorous approach...which only works in 3D... sigh
esthlos: the quantum path integral is a farce, even dirac said we need
to start over
phf: asciilifeform: i've been
trying
to build "mpv", a video player
that notoriously relies on a lot of shit packages. i've actually
tried homebrew over netbsd's ports, because later fails
to build mpv
that actually works on mac. now so does homebrew. i'll
try macports, but i doubt it'll deliver
mircea_popescu: anyone recall
that great scene where
tom green "Saves
the day" at
the maternity ward ?
esthlos: quantm field
theory is a mess, everyone just wants
to be
the next einstein, no one cares about understanding what is going on
a111: Logged on 2017-12-18 01:25 phf: meanwhile, homebrew,
the mac os x package manager, finally pulled
the final bate and switch. "build from source" option is now marked as "unsupported" (!!!) in
the man pages, everything's being pulled using precompiled archives. building a non-trivial set of packages from source fails along
the way with clearly misconfigured formulas.
this is possibly of interest only
to ben_vulpes (?)
mircea_popescu: but let me point out a cheval
that various investigations in
the nature of
the number cca 1700s were equally ill regarded.
mircea_popescu: then again,
the notion
that a perception of
time might not be naive is a pretty
tough argument in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: esthlos jesus christ could your items not be pdfs for
the love of
things not sucking.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure it gets
to computer implementations halfway
through...
cazalla: one burmese bitch even starting complaining she couldn't do as many men as some of
the other girls
cazalla: in other news, what is with hookers
talking about
their fkn kids
phf: mircea_popescu:
that one is a purely
technical paper on details of code implementation for calculations with civil
time
mircea_popescu: if it's not made from fruit, it'd better be 99%'d and
then diluted back down.
phf: cazalla: nod, i in fact befriended a guy who has
the largest whisky collection on
the east coast (an old
texan drunk), and despite sampling a large variety, i'm just going
to stick
to bottom shelf
mircea_popescu: esthlos so what's your
take on
the imminent quantum computer in a
thousand words or less ? :D
esthlos: mircea_popescu: but not what
the field
theorists do.
they can go
to hell
a111: Logged on 2014-06-04 00:08 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo:
the buggers'
traditional defense is
to pretend
that
the event was a non-event - or, if
this is impractical,
to continue living in an imaginary world where
they 'scooped'
the story first, and all of
the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
esthlos: mircea_popescu: I haven't see
that of naggum's
mircea_popescu: esthlos i
take it you read naggum's overfinnicky in parts, overloose in other parts
time essay ?
cazalla: phf, 26yr excellence was nice, but maybe i built it up in my mind
to be something other given its cost, i'd be just as happy
to drink
the 18 or 15
tbh, not
that i drink much at all
these days anyway
mircea_popescu recalls somewhat fondly old days of "put
the model in and wait a few hours for
to find out how you fucked it up
this
time"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other esthlos-powered insta-lulz, "I wish
to God
these calculations were executed by steam..."
phf: cazalla: what'd you
think of 46yr glenfiddih compared
to
their 12yr etc. stuff? i've had a variety of vintages, and i can't for
the love of me feel ~that~ much difference. meanwhile a difference between a 10 and 40 year port is very
tangible
cazalla: sofiababy, no, stopped watching
twitch after it was inundated with gamer girl camwhores, but i read
they do well sparking up league of legends, chatting
to virgins and getting
them
to donate
to
their patreon
☟︎ esthlos: mircea_popescu: my
thesis is probably
the most interesting.
sofiababy: In your
task bar, right click on
the Kleopatra icon, go
to ‘Clipboard’,
then click ‘Certificate Import’
esthlos: mircea_popescu: i apologise for disappearing. I was in meatspace
this weekend
sofiababy: i was jus saying u need
to update it
sofiababy: the instructions on how
to create a key
cazalla: i bought a bottle of
that reserva, was nice, i still prefer bundy rum (although
the one i like can't be bought now)
☟︎