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mircea_popescu: eh get out, and solid state gyros are a thing of the devil ?
mircea_popescu: there's no way out of it. "physics" is not a thing. the paradigm is too broken to rescue.
mircea_popescu: lotta classification work in nature before anatomy became a thing
mircea_popescu: looky alf : it's fucking broken. we know it's broken. there's no fixing this. gotta collect stamps because gotta start somewhere.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, the deep reason "government" as in, the united retards, are so fixated on big data is simply because that's what physics has been doing since ~80s
mircea_popescu: sure, plenty of that. but no, for the same money you could say 1915 physics is made of perpetuum mobile quacks.
mircea_popescu: that event had repeated itself > 100 times by now, or at least had, in the 90s when i stopped tracking.
mircea_popescu: what happened when the planet didn't appear on time ? they took the whole plumbing of math and physics and instruments apart.
mircea_popescu: and yes, "lower bound", you know ? like this : "if the universe ends up being less old than X, we'll have to re-do all these calculations, somehow. i have no idea how the fuck, so let's hope it doesn't happen - and also thar mars rises on time. fucking precession.
mircea_popescu: "a proper prince's penis should be as long as my thumb" said the 12 yo princess in her diary.
mircea_popescu: even the sentence as stated, "oh, universe begun x bn years ago". "really, it was years ? what spun around what sun, that top of a mother of yours ?"
mircea_popescu: hence a certain quaint oldstyle philosopher merit in the stance. "fuck you, you don't know anything" said diogenes in his 3600 yo tub.
mircea_popescu: there are all sorts of problems once you get out of the 3600 year bubble, so to speak.
mircea_popescu: for that matter we know for a fact that speed of light isn't a constant at large timescales.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's say that the resulting "age of universe" constant is more a function of what subset of experimental data you look at ; than anything else.
mircea_popescu: that happens to be exactly the same argument supporting the 3600 year world ; except with different equations.
mircea_popescu: it's all a matter of "hey, check out how well these variables fit". "mmmkay ?"
mircea_popescu: well, no, bit what instruments specifically ? what math ?
mircea_popescu: ftr, the "official" notion as to the age of the universe is not ~fundamentally~ better than the "3600 years ago, fixed value".
mircea_popescu: ie, that it may seem like stuff is around proving otherwise, but it was planted.
mircea_popescu: whether anything is true or not is a complex matter ; but it could be arguabe ~to the same standard~.
mircea_popescu: 100 years from now, still 3600 years ago. same explanations can be produced.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron why even bother, rather than declare a number, and preferably a platonic number or something, and then forever stick to that. "it's been 3600 years ago".
mircea_popescu: the logical construction of "naked eye" in this context is, visible in the armored pubkey as user is expected to manipulate. whadda ya want now.
mircea_popescu: like for instance, nipples are visible to the naked eye.
mircea_popescu: anyway, by the same logic, about half should be divisible by 3. scarcely any are.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your ideas of "naked eye" ever wonder me.
mircea_popescu: what naked eye ? i paste you a pubkey and you tell me if it's even by looking at the armor ?
mircea_popescu: so he rolls 2 ints, randomly. that neither come out even is 1/4
mircea_popescu: it doesn't become religious until someone extracts some spurious "should" and starts throwing it at others.
mircea_popescu: tons of inept shit people believe, chiefly because of the convenient insulation time provides.
mircea_popescu: ty evolved 50k years ago ; or that "temperatures have been raising", or or or.
mircea_popescu: for the record, as ridiculous as the whole "earth was created ~30k years ago by a trickster that salted it with fossils to fuck with you" is ; it is no more or less ridiculous (seeing how absolutes aren't comparable) than all sorts of commonly accepted idiocies. such as the notion that man "always" had some sort of "equality" notion, along with a whole host of imbecile anachronisms the general herd entertains ; or that humani
mircea_popescu: nope. not anymore than "unwashed herd avoids music like soap" is hard to square with "vast majority of mp4 kilobytes date from period"
mircea_popescu: why not ? what you say and what i say aren't in any sense exclusive. yes it was the time of a horde of imbeciles "saving hte world". the behaviour of such horde is exactly as per the soap example. an item will not be used because it exists and is useful ; consequently existence and functionality aren't predictive.
mircea_popescu: they got great sensors, what. not the sort of item that can be usefully made in kitchen.
mircea_popescu: that selfsame bounty does not work to somehow magically turn junkie into person.
mircea_popescu: yeah we could never make as cool robots as kid can today
mircea_popescu: if one could somehow be protected from his imbecile ecofeminist mother / limpdick sec compliance father, that is.
mircea_popescu: im sure it's yet another "technical leader" company consisting of the skeleton administrative crew of a failed dropshipper.
mircea_popescu: random redditard whining paroxistic because hillary is "not equalitarian enough".
mircea_popescu: think about all those memory offsets that suddenly can't be ints anymore.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475422 << that the herd is instinctively repelled by pgp, much like soap, so it's perfectly possible NOBODY uses some arbitrary windows offering. much like in the "creative writer and activist"'s house, the broom's not nearly as worn down as the mirror.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: must be some sort of "this is how things MUST BE i say, and i dun care what the lab results show" sorta item.
mircea_popescu: (weirdly enough, how is it that the "bounty" experience has failed to inform your opinoin of bounties, much like the "new pogo" has failed to inform your opinion of "oh noes end of pogos" ?)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and while on it : a) wake me up when ivy league is not only free to entry but pays "bounty" to some lazy ass fuckwads for doing the fucking course work and b) the notion that this place will always be free as in beer to join is the height of ridiculousness.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather give bitcoin 20 at a time to the dedicated bob becks than 1 at a time to their 20 year junior worm phase.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform solrodar dude has solved the bounty problem, permanently.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah i guess those details can be you know, set when he's back
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nb i guess ? /me hasn't been following the whole "let's make muscles" thing
mircea_popescu: well... the large ones aren't either, at least not the way the us builds em