mircea_popescu: so there's a number of different problems with this "ev activity" line of reasoning.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also, art is always and by definition a -ev activity, and people engage in it. for that matter, love and childmaking idem.

mircea_popescu: now, math people are generally a loony bunch, but

mircea_popescu: and yes, the "scam money rots your brain" think is also a very powerful theory. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: rms is not exactly a paragon of sanity.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform name a guy who did lisp and survived mind intact.

mircea_popescu: 2) graham spent his mind on thinking about lisp, ended up a 60 yo too fucktarded to understand even the most basic points of math.

mircea_popescu: 1) naggum spent his mind on thinking about lisp, ended up a 40year old too fucktarded to get out of the rain. this is literally what happened, and one will have a lot of trouble talking around the failure of some guy to avoid dying of perforated ulcer.

mircea_popescu: Now suppose you're so un-rapacious that you only extract half as much from your users as you could. That means two years later you'll be making $80k a month instead of $160k. How far behind are you? How long will it take to catch up with where you'd have been if you were extracting every penny? A mere 15 weeks. After two years, the un-rapacious founder is only 3.5 months behind the rapacious one."

mircea_popescu: "Some examples will make this clear. Suppose your company is making $1000 a month now, and you've made something so great that it's growing at 5% a week. Two years from now, you'll be making about $160k a month.

mircea_popescu: i thought graham was supposed to be a competent old lisp hand. is this the brainrot lisp instills in people ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: p, and when anything grows at the rate of a successful startup, the Y axis will take care of itself."

mircea_popescu: "I told him not to worry about it, because so long as he built something good enough to spread by word of mouth, he'd have a hyperlinear growth curve. If he was bad at extracting money from people, at worst this curve would be some constant multiple less than 1 of what it might have been. But a constant multiple of any curve is exactly the same shape. The numbers on the Y axis are smaller, but the curve is just as stee

mircea_popescu: instead it's "hey, let's fix my being a monkey with more monkeying around!"

mircea_popescu: fucking monkeys already. so he fucks up, once by getting involved in a piece of shit scam, the other for sucking at math. and what he wants to know ain't "i wonder how i could be less fucktarded" at any point.

mircea_popescu: "lying idiots, have nfi what a ocmputer is"

mircea_popescu: i hated these as a kid

mircea_popescu: saw a 20 yo with the flipper arm today.

mircea_popescu: there's a limit on how many humans may be people at the same time

mircea_popescu: "the man who really invented bitcoin" has a lot to explain re my cock up his throat.

mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> that's the new usg catchword for 'bitcoin agrees to quietly kill itself because That Is How The World Works' ? << in a word, yes.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's mostly a private joke, between /me and ex osu undergrad

mircea_popescu: i hadn't even known oregon has a university.

mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Really? (Jerry shakes his head) Maybe this will become like a cool thing, living with your parents.

mircea_popescu: anyway, let it be said that joining isis is both morally sounder and economically wiser a choice than applying to any us college.

mircea_popescu: trinque in any case "phenomenological thinking" is a void concept. thinking is not described by the subject it's applied to. you said something roughly like "lighting electrictiy". sure, it can be used to bring light.

mircea_popescu: the latter are preoccupied chiefly with entrance barriers, and are debating, predictably, if building a wall across colorado is worth the hassle.

mircea_popescu: trinque quite exactly : a cosmos is the graph of perceptibles. a universe is the set of perceptibles.

mircea_popescu: a language clearly intended to be spoken to horses.

mircea_popescu: ascii_field much like the british empire was a pretension, not a reality.

mircea_popescu: "are you a pleb or did your parents have enough spare food in your childhood to have the time to teach you the fucking cases"

mircea_popescu: (these three males) + (belonging to that guy) = ai aceluia ; (this single female) + (belonging to that group of females) = a acelora.

mircea_popescu: so you have the seemingly confounding a/al/ai/ale + acesta/acela aceasta/aceea acestia/aceia acestea/acelea. for a grand total of omfg it's romanian - the gathering!

mircea_popescu: most languages also have a posessive, which in english is conflated in his/hers/theirs.

mircea_popescu: but just because english makes a mess of vocative case / demonstrative pronoun / possesives etc doesn't mean much.