asciilifeform: anyway my original point was that much of what we think of as 'tmsr economy' is not actually tmsr in any reasonable sense of the word, in that it is not effected by folks having a wot presence, nor does it even have so much as iceberg tip in the public forum.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has on some occasions mentioned actually having phriends in meatspace.
asciilifeform: but more to earth, what i meant was the set of 'high-powered types' he hangs out with when he is not, in his own words, 'tending the daycare'
asciilifeform: though i admit that i always thought meta-assets consisted wholly (other than mp) of pretty gurlz
asciilifeform: i don't generally ask such questions because i am not dumb enough to expect answer.
asciilifeform: but i will point out, i see this entire story (the bbet meltdown) though 'shoemaker' eyes, and i never had any idea, whether jurov and kako were part of mircea_popescu's actual inner circle, i.e. folks who actually move serious coin around, privy to how mpb works, physically met his intelligence agents, etc. or not.
asciilifeform: and from the overall ill health of bbet
asciilifeform: jurov: very clearly i do not know it for certain, but inferring from the bbet event.
asciilifeform: because we're all, you see, lordz, and these don't stoop to ever actually paying for anything, they promise one another kokus of rice per year from their serfs if it must come down to it.
asciilifeform: also it is not clear to me what the folks in the dispute actuall want.☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: sadly this is prolly how it will go. at least no mexican ice pick is yet involved.☟︎
asciilifeform: jurov: i suspect that if you were to suggest to mircea_popescu that a group of lordz could, or ought to, make a collective decision, he would break out in hives and barf☟︎
asciilifeform: do 0asset corps even exist in meatspace ?
asciilifeform: so either trinque has to accept that v is demonstrably worthless, or to buy into mircea_popescu's 'non-quantifiable' category, or the like.
asciilifeform: trinque: the actual market value of my prospecting is, empirically, ~0.
asciilifeform: but then you also do not get another thing of similar interest by buying x hours of asciilifeform .
asciilifeform: 'v' did not actually take very long to write.☟︎
asciilifeform: trinque: the thread concerned an invention, rather than a certain amount of my time.
asciilifeform: trinque: and it is not impossible to buy my time, just that it is not ~practical~ for anyone i consider worthwhile. because it is sold only in very large parcels, and is not cheap. but this is beside the point.
asciilifeform: i think mircea_popescu was the one with the +inf.
asciilifeform: that is, as i understand, mircea_popescu's 'bbet consumed megatonnes of grade-A mptronium which i supplied at no cost, and now people expect be to also put in coin for phree?!'
asciilifeform: the bbet divorce, as i understand, stopped quite deliberately short of this
asciilifeform: phf: they never quite got to this point
asciilifeform: jurov: the discussion reminds me of those divorces where the husband/wife end up throwing post-facto 'expenses' at each other for who took out the trash etc
