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mircea_popescu: the problem with the "we'll just superimpose differently spiked circles into this ball of wrecking" solution is that well...
mircea_popescu: it specifically says you're not supposed to play as a 0.00x
mircea_popescu: 72 * 0.0001 = 0.0072, and allow me to remind you what the mathematical notion of optimal play is
mircea_popescu: should you decide to make it go 72 units to the left, which you can do, what guarantee you can offer re "shortest distance from origin" ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you have 3.141592 squnits of brain. you get the option of making it into a circle [mens sana in corpore sano!!1] and you are guaranteed to be no dumber than 1.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if the meta-brain was made of plasticine, and with a fixed origin. yes you can make it go as far in one direction as you want, but this thins it out in all others, meaning there's an exponential relation between "furthest out" and "furthest in" points
mircea_popescu: no, no, protect smart people from scaling up the dumb.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this, incidentally, is the one cure / amulet of protection / curse removal / whatever actually worth finding.
mircea_popescu: you lot can not be trusted. the smarter you get, the less you can be trusted not to be dumb.
mircea_popescu: [hence why jews have the best old stories - they had the courage to do what good writers always do, go in the middle and subvert the trope]
mircea_popescu: phf this breaks down once moses gets box of covenant ?
mircea_popescu: is it a wall, that the impotent can not fuck, for the not fucking ?
mircea_popescu: if roxy goes into the bath in front of the trusty eunuch, is she a pile of bricks ?
mircea_popescu: they are both selected for dullness, arguably of distinct kinds, but ultimately very much the same : they're the sort women want to raise their babies [if not to make their babies].
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell trinque the problem with deedbot being offline is that i am forced into the dilemma of either turn ben_vulpes req for voice down, or else voice people outside of the model. i don't like either horn, at all.
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, could have done lots of damage. opened joint-venture with iran in lebanon lol.
mircea_popescu: it's a case of "the cure seeker never really needed a cure - magic was always in him ; the non-seeker... well..."
mircea_popescu: not anymore than "can i trust this eunuch with my dear roxy" is political.
mircea_popescu: knowing as we do in fact know that children normally develop into whole men almost half of the time, their presence is proof of artifice,
mircea_popescu: there's a deep reason that works, and that deep reason is that these aren't whole men.
mircea_popescu: very. first - guy is specifically unselected. second - guy is specifically selected.
mircea_popescu: in the second kind, highly intelligent BUT SPECIFICALLY LOBOTOMIZED male is gently nudged back into the pen.\
mircea_popescu: in the first kind, random derp ends up with some chumpatronium. being random he is randomly distributed re skill, and normally the juice leaves him. similarly if i took a marketable blonde and told her to go live with random guy on the street, which she will because they do what i say, he'll STILL manage to lose her over time.
mircea_popescu: oh ers was just begging generically, at the same time orlov needed new engine
mircea_popescu: didn't he have a webbegging page up for a new engine back when the lulz at him started ?
mircea_popescu: [i suppose we're all too distant from our sailing ancestors to know what age at sea does to man]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, he lives on a boat, what could possibly go wrong
mircea_popescu: gnu mostly rode on the coattails of the pgp panic of 1990
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but for the record, the brief, illusory "wealth" rained on idiots like ers et all had much more to do with zimmerman's work than with, say, murdock's.
mircea_popescu: moral being "don't use salt", nfi that anyone does/would.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am mostly reading the names so they're in the search.
mircea_popescu: "good this was changed, world wasn't doomed before". who the fuck is madduck
mircea_popescu: yes it will brain-parasite a bunch of retarded hablaespanoles.
mircea_popescu: looky, even here, the faux is obvious : "solamente correos cifrados porfa thunderbird/enigmail" ? gimme a fucking break.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm sorry, i can't go through the introduction
mircea_popescu: and fucking luchemos omfg. everything is wrong with these people. EVERYTHING
mircea_popescu: here's a thought, nobody that needs to discuss computing in his dumb mother's tongue has what it takes to "luchar".
mircea_popescu: in other news i see phuctor numbers marching steadily up, 440/562 by now ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i'm guessing users can't just re-enter their orders or something ? anyways.
mircea_popescu: they don't currently HAVE trillions, for any purpose, including feeding the apparatus.
mircea_popescu: or stuck improvising for lack of viable strategy through events unfolding no one could have predicted, or or or.
mircea_popescu: yet somehow inexplicably, the lengthy string of apologies and mp-worship does not seem to in any sense balance out the very short chain of vitriol and mp-bashing.
mircea_popescu: the ustards, as worthless as the middle east showed them
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic he was 70ish, and was a small child at the time.
mircea_popescu: the whole argument is that there's nothing wrong with infant and generally youth mortality IN PRINCIPLE.
mircea_popescu: as factual as it gets, most buildings on eitehr side HAVE ACTUALLY SEEN THOSE HORSES.
mircea_popescu: (i've had the pleasure to do exactly that - by the way, stuck in cab with old driver on avenida corrientes - which has been here since the ancient days before planes were a thing - and reminescing how this road was fine back when 20 men could ride abreast - but not so far today when 3 cars and a bus can)