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mircea_popescu: i still don't get this. all this derpage from the early days of systemd "it makes servers boot faster"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform inasmuch as he steal speaks of "its money", orlov doesn't actually get the turkey dollars thing. he earnestly thinks that there is ONE kind of usdollar, and PART of that one is "wasted". whereas the situation in the field is that there's two kinds, ands the bezzle part can only be bezzled with.
mircea_popescu: hey, anatomizing teratoma is exactly how noobs learn cytopathology etc.
mircea_popescu: ah right because stuff like hashes no longer mean anything\
mircea_popescu: so what it this supposed to achieve for the putative enemy, make proper allocation impossible or what ?
mircea_popescu: "pre fuck" i can imagine what'd be. pre linking... no.
mircea_popescu: my meagre understanding of computing doesn't allow me to discern the intended meaning.
mircea_popescu discovers that he can't rightly say what fedora even is. is it what, a distro ? some sort of centos ?
mircea_popescu: mno. the numerous lee sedols of that pointless boardgame.
mircea_popescu: bad restating. they took out the dying part - very indicative of the cocksucker sort they are.
mircea_popescu: of course - a bee can kill a man, if it's the right bee and the right man.
mircea_popescu: trinque possibly the least offensive koan of the lot is the one with "why did i rescue the scorpion ? it is my nature!"
mircea_popescu: (ever wondered, btw, why some men favour ugly, unattractive women ? the freudian explanation is exactly above - they seek to reunite with mother, in which case sexual appeal is a hindrance not an asset.)
mircea_popescu: why did the man get out of bed ? he could stay in bed, regress to childhood and whatever, paint posters to show mommy.
mircea_popescu: ethics (ie, the mechanism to answer "what should i do") is a very severely limited science.
mircea_popescu: these are as far as i've seen the two mindbugs of the republic : a) A -> B therefore B-> A, ie backflow ; and b) the above.
mircea_popescu: but look at the jump : 1) unexplained item can be explained by a or b ; 2) it's a b-olympics!
mircea_popescu: what is this. mayhap the explanation isn't that mp lives in a heat-death immune dirigible (upgraded from atomic) but simply... does not care ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i wonder why asciilifeform is so convinced that one may only see the truth of things that don't affect them personally.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not all people come from europe you know.
mircea_popescu: later finding herself at a good time for such, inquires why parts were shiny ?
mircea_popescu: so we go to cross some tracks and i say "careful not to touch the shiny parts!" and she carefully steps to not touch the shiny parts.
mircea_popescu: did i ever recall the story of the slavegirl that had never seen railroad tracks ?
mircea_popescu: so because enthalpy, you propose no commerce is possible.
mircea_popescu: at the expense of other processes, of course. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: recall pigeon experiments ? brain is plastic, takes over function of lost partys
mircea_popescu: but anyway, so animal that stops locomoting gives up brain cells used for handling that.
mircea_popescu: must not be the same animal, sea cucumber i think of is an echinoderm.
mircea_popescu: the root of the problem would seem to be the self-serving but otherwise bluntly unwarranted assumption that "intelligence is useful in all circumstances".
mircea_popescu: i am sorry strawman doth not make much sense and commiserate !
mircea_popescu: that you don't like the outcome is not cause to alter the definitions lol.
mircea_popescu: now why'd you strawman the "adaptive behaviour" ? what the fuck do you care what the outcome is.
mircea_popescu: but it is more reliably notstupid than people, for sure.
mircea_popescu: the adaptive behaviour is teh intelligence - the rest, will, if you will, or whatever.
mircea_popescu: the whole deal was something like "and lee sedol will now play the whole nation of china - elect a representative, or two, or whatever. the go competence of the entire han race is being judged"
mircea_popescu: machine is not a thing in the sense here contemplated.