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mircea_popescu: as the bar to the individuation is fixed ~the mean of the leverage, so obviously as that increases the sigma-ness associated increases also (by about the square root ?)
mircea_popescu: as the maximal leverage avaialble to the individual increases, the % of things crawling out of cunts (which, recall, run perl) that may ever individuate decreases.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is also not creation. it is the result of expanding complexity.
mircea_popescu: the soviets had ~the same percentage, but simply killed them./
mircea_popescu: the truth of demographics is that underage males are mostly defective by mass. this is unfixable.
mircea_popescu: nah. i disagree. usa was first to pretend like underage male fuckwards are "worker bees", which only can be meaningfully attempted for ~a certain kind~ of software. what we reference here as the web.
mircea_popescu: the very deeply ignorant approach is rather notable, to my eyes. derps seriously think that's how genetics works, much like a baby perceiving his environment as a photographic still rather than a dynamic equilibrium and so faceplanting self once an hour
mircea_popescu: in another view, what's nailing monsanto is called "so you thought you were smart, eh ?". heck, plants've been here a while. odds are whatever random unwashed derp in our colonies comes up with, they've seen before.
mircea_popescu: apparently phf gotta handcrank them, and when he sleeps...
mircea_popescu: possibly the most 12 dollars has bought this year anywhere in the world.
mircea_popescu: spoeaking of which, found a SPLENDID leather collar with metal spikes in local pet shop. top notch stuff, 12 bux.
mircea_popescu: if i had any sort of local confirmation or somesuch actual meat. but i've not been investing in connecting to the local agros who the shit cares, and obv el presidente'd rather die than give up this one, and i'm noit about to start torturing elected presidents just yet.
mircea_popescu: or maybe save for a later re-piece, if it sells or something. eitherway.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo maybe even worth updating the article for all these tie-ins ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i guess we retrospectively discovered what a major point of discussion in the recent bahamas-macri meeting was. and the local socialist fucktards thought they ran off and hid in the countryside because of them. lelz. "reddit we diddit!!1"
mircea_popescu: anyway, looking at their stock the news was first heard by sophisticated investors q3 2015, ie recently.
mircea_popescu: except you know, with much better pr than the usual pinksheet.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, monsanto is very much apple'd. the original idea seemed promising, in the 90s. sometime years ago, dunno exactly when cuz they've been keeping it secret and i never cared that much, they found out it's a doomed entreprise. ever since then... MON's been pretty much a stock scam.
mircea_popescu: this is why it's fucking hard & expensive to do genetic research ffs.
mircea_popescu: med. 3. keep doing this, depending on life form, MANY times. at least a dozen for plants, for instance, they express fast. mammals, 100s.
mircea_popescu: but yes, for any republican bioscientists in the making : the scientific way to study something like plant resistance to X is to : 1. create the first generation test environment. this means a witness, and a number of exposures (maybe dosed variously, with other substances too, etc). 2. create next generation environment. this means, your experiment now subdivides into as many experiments equal to 1 as there were tests perfor
mircea_popescu: shows teh sort of "scientific research" that happens in the us based labs for the lulzy sham it is. "oh, we treated a crop of grass with this vial and the grass died. ERGO IT WORKS!!! we studied genetics under lamarck et all, don't understand much of anything. what do you mean, cultivate the survivors and see, what do you mean need a chain of witness blocks going down many generations ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suppose that must be the explanation, "carried resistance". ie, they had it, genetically, but not normally expressed. until environment changed and so genetic expression changed to fit.
mircea_popescu: toxic either because it is a grass < toxic, either - being a grass and all.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "genes Monsanto claims title travels" << claims title to ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally i have nfi how that worked so well for the weeds. pretty impressive.
mircea_popescu: nice qntra btw. and yes monsanto is fucked - the projections were for weed resistance to appear in centuries. it showed up within a coupla short decades. this puts the practical utility of their "genetic research" in serious doubt. in fact they've closed down most "general" projects, focusing on a coupla more promising line, after which it's ~the end.
mircea_popescu: then #trilema, it's like mechaworld. 95% computer by mass.
mircea_popescu: you know thinking about it... each irc channel is like whatever, a guy walking down the street. maybe carrying a bag of groceries or a skateboard or w/e.
mircea_popescu: its announced presence has rearranged my head, it's really the correct solution for the long sought for job market thing.
mircea_popescu: crypto goes in, poetry goes out. no fucking law against poetry, is there.
mircea_popescu: actually come to think of it, someone should write code to turn standard base64 (like comes out of pgp armor etc) into text. have a nice markov-based state machine with a large-ish dictionary and a syntax/grammar checker.
mircea_popescu: by the time this is actually needed, all that'll be about as interesting as soviet rubles.
mircea_popescu: in truth, if we end up that stretched there's prolly going to be some adjustments made. like - daily blocks.
mircea_popescu: the way the world's going, you might end up using that skillset for reals.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile asciilifeform still hasn't explained why he hates early radio so damn much.
mircea_popescu: for the record : all the various german terms, funkmeister, funkspielen, etc, are derived off how you say radioing in german, ie, funk (hence telefunken). the reason it's called "spark" is because they needed a name back when sparkgap was the way. and so...
mircea_popescu: turning into quite teh qntra funkmeister over there, huh shinohai ?
mircea_popescu: with any luck, it happens young. like for instance through the age-old process of, orcs come through rampaging village, rape everyone, surviving kid is faced with the cold, sad truth that "if those assholes were any good, they'd be still alive".
mircea_popescu: it's a sad day in any man's life, when he's squeezed into admitting that personal connection be damned, incompetence and malice aren't usefully distinguishable.
mircea_popescu: apparently that great dream of that (other) great ustardian dreamer (pres. bahamas) is taking shape : the great illumination of africa!
mircea_popescu: "Are you a business man/woman or an ARTISTS,POLITICIANS,PASTOR,ENGINEER,DOCTOR, STUDENTS, GRADUATED and you want to become Rich Powerful and famous, in life or,Are you frustrated in life. What type of wealth do you want? Today is your luckiest day, 'I want to join great Illuminati occult in Nigeria' we are here for those of you that want to join Illuminati Brotherhood in Nigeria and across Africa."
mircea_popescu: Framedragger much like many many stupiud people use tor.
mircea_popescu: ^ testament of every "computer programmer" of the "modern computing" school ever.
mircea_popescu: et of life, be it something to wear, something to eat ... It's all been wrong."
mircea_popescu: "Why did it all turn out like this for me? I had so much promise. I was personable, I was bright. Oh, maybe not academically speaking, but ... I was perceptive. I always know when someone's uncomfortable at a party. It became very clear to me sitting out there today, that every decision I've ever made, in my entire life, has been wrong. My life is the opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have, in every fac
mircea_popescu: oh ok, so changed 16^64 to 10^64 and the "generate entropy in the shape of floating point number" thing clearly indicate these fellows are windows programmers with a strong javascript focus.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "The bug that lasted 347 days was the confusion between a string and an array of integers. This made the ECC private keys ridiculously small because they passed a string of decimal digits into a function expecting an array of 17, 15 bit integers." ahaha ok that's pretty good.
mircea_popescu: there were dozens of people who lived very much the 90s academic conference circus.
mircea_popescu: do west germany twice that, and then there's all the eastern yurp countries.
mircea_popescu: no, profs with a penchant for getting their penis and gullet well oiled.
mircea_popescu: obviously not all these could be spies, for the fucking obvious reason.
mircea_popescu: yet scores of academics ran the "friendly" gamut. socialistoid france particularly.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this interpolation is correct only up to a point, and what;s interesting happens long after that inflexion.
mircea_popescu: i took "temperament" to stand as proxy of general human quality.
mircea_popescu: if dean was the cosmopolitan type he could do what sane men do : stay at gf's in paris.
mircea_popescu: about as successful as their homologues over at chernobyl
mircea_popescu: ~the research side of the fed. trying to keep the economy from blowing up.