asciilifeform: trinque: precious little to do with countries.

asciilifeform: i have nfi how many mircea_popescus fit on one earth, but i doubt that even 100 do. ☟︎

asciilifeform: trinque: you can't be a well-fed wolf just by wanting.

asciilifeform: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2012/02/wheel-of-misfortune.html << while we're on the subj.

asciilifeform: (i.e. 10,001 of 'you' will be caught and jailed, 1 - wins.)

asciilifeform: where you can't cheat.

asciilifeform: punkman: when you cheat at lotto, you are simply playing another lotto.

asciilifeform: and have'em eat.

asciilifeform: to be complete, it oughta also contain a reminder that there is not a forest where you can put 10 bil. wolves.

asciilifeform: this is not an unfair summary.

asciilifeform: i recall he had a spiffy article, where he cooked up an alternative to the maslow 'pyramid' thing, with 'mystical domination - being right when there was no good reason you could be right' as #5

asciilifeform: lessee what he says when wakes up.

asciilifeform: could it be because fella himself took a strongly -ev tack and won ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: it is actually interesting to me, how mircea_popescu has a very strong respect for folks who take suicidally dumb risks (e.g., the 'oregon patriot' folk, isis snackbars, etc.)

asciilifeform: but briefly back to thread, imho it is important to understand that asking 'how to be mircea_popescu' is a fundamentally broken question, not unlike 'how do i win the lotto'

asciilifeform: they don't get wedged in minimax pits.

asciilifeform: because they are dumb enough to do a screamingly -ev thing ☟︎

asciilifeform: this is sorta why the 'r-strategy' game is played with teenagers

asciilifeform: though mircea_popescu appears to think so.

asciilifeform: 'talented' is not a scalar. ☟︎

asciilifeform: ah no i only read mircea_popescu's review of it.

asciilifeform: waiwut

asciilifeform: phf: how does 'move to argentina and do cash' work on folks who ain't already rich

asciilifeform: they have some exhibits for infidels

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i have nfi! never went!

asciilifeform: but couldn't be arsed.

asciilifeform: i used to work right next to it

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: they give tours

asciilifeform: mega-profit.

asciilifeform: (given as the marriages are not officiated by usg, the women all register as welfare mother cases)

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: not so secretly, they - and the hassidim of nyc - collect 'single mother' pensions by the megatonne

asciilifeform: when it runs out.

asciilifeform: but it does NOT help anyone make moar ☟︎

asciilifeform: yes, it is interesting to know, e.g., how petroleum was formed in the ground, from dead organisms

asciilifeform: anyway i regard the algo as being ~entirely uninteresting.

asciilifeform: generally works great, it is how su made ballet dancers, chess champions, etc.

asciilifeform: think milling vs '3d printing'.

asciilifeform: it is an ~ablative~ rather than an ~additive~ manufacturing process.

asciilifeform: in mechanical eng. parlance,

asciilifeform: his algo, in my summary, was, approx., 'start by being 10,000 bright and suicidally daring ro teenagers in the roaring '90s, end by being one mircea_popescu' or the like. ☟︎

asciilifeform: actually it is how they make mircea_popescus.

asciilifeform: (or, alternatively, where the pistol jammed) ☟︎

asciilifeform: correctly.

asciilifeform: according to everett's mechanics, the outcome of using this device is that you wake up in the universe where the primes were guessed.

asciilifeform: and if it fails, it shoots the user in the head

asciilifeform: at any rate, everett device is this gadget that tries to guess the answer to a trapdoor problem, e.g., deriving mircea_popescu's private key primes

asciilifeform: BUT it has the advantage of removing the idiot vitalism that bohr pissed back into physics

asciilifeform: e's model is not physically demonstable as THE correct model (but neither is bohr's)

asciilifeform: fella who proposed 'parallel universes' treatment of qm, vs bohr's original 'magically collapsing wavefunction when you look at it'

asciilifeform: of 'many worlds qm'

asciilifeform: do you recall h. everett ?

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: were you here for the 'everett's device' thread ?

asciilifeform: aha. mega-algo.

asciilifeform: 'go and eat a pistol, first pray to vishnu that you can be reborn hot chik'

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu generally doesn't have actionable advice for blokes

asciilifeform: ^ vorhees pwned

asciilifeform: in other nyooz, https://www.reddit.com/r/shapeshiftio/comments/4dx6k4/shapeshift_update_april_7_security_breach

asciilifeform: (mega-revelation!11)

asciilifeform: and also will probably not forget to remind that i am ~useless and will be pig food eventually

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu will probably, when he wakes up, remind me that i oughta learn a new profession, e.g, organ grinder

asciilifeform: b) the folks who ~are~ hiring reversers, CAN'T FIND them

asciilifeform: a) there is ~0 demand for the things i know how to do among honest-work folks

asciilifeform: i have learned that:

asciilifeform: apparently.

asciilifeform: nobody reads logz.

asciilifeform: they desperately want serfs.

asciilifeform: not bureaucrats proper, mind you, but contractors with $maxint

asciilifeform: in fact i got a call from no less than motherfucking ft meade the other day.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i actually don't have much to choose from. 95+% of work in my field requires usg 'top secret'.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i routinely sit 3-4 h/day in car. ☟︎

asciilifeform: dun understand why i should have to, to write motherfucking software ☟︎

asciilifeform: i'm simply tired of having to leave the house.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: l0l excel

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448821 << on top of my usual doings i now also spend time looking for wurk... ☝︎

asciilifeform: $down DonaldTrumpOfBTC

asciilifeform: $up DonaldTrumpOfBTC

asciilifeform: two-man lumberjack specialsaw << iirc it is called 'misery whip'

asciilifeform: kako warned that his src isn't of much use to civilians anyway

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: srsly build yer own bbet ?

asciilifeform: does an unlikely win per se ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: incidentally, ianal, and i wonder what counts as proof of malfeasance in a lotto operator.

asciilifeform: given as it was not a lotto.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik mcd broke no laws in that case

asciilifeform: (he laughed, having no desire to ever set foot in one)

asciilifeform: my brother once participated in the programming for a video poker machine, and was informed by his co. that he will, likely, never be permitted inside a casino in usa

asciilifeform: casino is a little smarter.

asciilifeform: for ~several state lottos at once~

asciilifeform: ON WINBLOWZ

asciilifeform: i'm not convinced that 'furries' actually exist. ☟︎

asciilifeform: the 'luckiest' we ever get is massive 'pile-up'

asciilifeform: Apr 08 13:07:40 <BingoBoingo>But what if natural gas life is ignited by construction derps along your commute route? << as i pointed out, this dun happen 'round here.

asciilifeform: picture culture with actual... culture

asciilifeform: this is the moscow public radio btw

asciilifeform: or 'how inner ear works'

asciilifeform: or 'etymology of such&such word'

asciilifeform: also has interludes for 'hot new weapons system of the day'

asciilifeform: right now it is doing life & times of Peter I

asciilifeform: which is spiffy, has b00kz

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: personally i listen to 'радио звезда'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: big deal how ?