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mircea_popescu: "Dream-Cash.com Webmaster2:11 pm 9.7 KiBTeenDreams.com: New Tube Style Tour!"
mircea_popescu: peterl can't the guy have a preference ? and then pass it off as reasonable ?
mircea_popescu: no but srsly... i tried to imagine little pancake faced people going "give it to me bish!" to little pancake faced people and nearly lost it.
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck did the internet do to people.
mircea_popescu: now i get chinese language viagra spam referencing the putative sexual prowess of black people from africa.
mircea_popescu: turns out in retrospect the only thing distinguishing humans and dog vomit was poor connectivity. once that was fixed...
mircea_popescu: can you explain the difference between israel as it is and israel occupied by two feet tall grey goo ?
mircea_popescu: adlai not to mention what humans are ALREADY emulating.
mircea_popescu: simple thermodynamics requires this situation to destabilize over time.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, the game of musical chairs is that 10 trn imaginary tokens were distributed between three exactly identical slashdots such that two got > 99%.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, it's not that. it's that google is desperate for stuff to make the shareholders dream another year.
mircea_popescu: adlai in principle, showing that "seed" from sewer or palace leads to the same result is ~= to proof the process is pure metaphysics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consumer level security is always an affair directed more at the neighbour's teenaged sons than anything.
mircea_popescu: (i don't believe in teaching go. which is to say - i do not believe there is a single thing you can say to a new player whicfh provably does more good than bad.)
mircea_popescu: it's not necessarily a bad approach, i guess, but it doesn't make for a good player.
mircea_popescu: this is, afail, how most people deliberately taught go are taught go
mircea_popescu: and the whole nn talk is just smoke and mirrors built atop that simple idea, basically.
mircea_popescu: which is a cheap heuristic and likely to beat a good chunk of players.
mircea_popescu: my understanding, quite rudimentary i admit, is that instead of iterating through all possible single-move changes to the board, the machine iterates through "all commonly seen cluster-level changes to the board".
mircea_popescu: adlai i didn't get the idea alphago was a single instance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was re the entire marginal autistic child trapped in an adult body thing.
mircea_popescu: when it occured tro me that if i put my cereal in there, i probably wouldn't have to chew it. and so i did, and wow, cereal-tahini-paste. wunderbar.
mircea_popescu: in better living through technologee news, i bought a juicer a while back, it came with a coffee grinder attachment which i never used. until a few days ago, that is
mircea_popescu: (tbf, the nature of nn is that nobody is an expert anyway)
mircea_popescu: it works by computing clusters of stones over and over, best i can tell
mircea_popescu: peterl thinking the thing maintains a huge rainbow table of games is not useful. the thing about go is that it has too many possible positions.
mircea_popescu: and there's a pile of observations to be had there, such as "the result of an aggregate is a woman ?!" and so on, but i'm too lazy.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.kuzetsa.-1:779bdaecbb1406c7632aa9000d51bf376602ac8654c532a494bea29839ce39aa
mircea_popescu: !rate kuzetsa -1 stereotypical wikipedia idiot. please do humanity and the world generally a favour and step outside. everything. all of you.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, intelligence in and of itself is not useful to the intelligent.
mircea_popescu: that'll perhaps feed and clothe their wormy offspring when they won't be able to.
mircea_popescu: it's true that [a certain subset of parents] treats their kids intelligence as a sort of surogate beauty/athletic promise/musical talent,
mircea_popescu: the inconvenient truth of the matter is that there isn't enough hope to go around to everyone ; and moreover that intelligence per se is a miserable predictor for this.
☟︎ mircea_popescu has been around long enough to recall this exact thing happening once before.
mircea_popescu: wait, bubba pressured you into doing the missus in the pooper ?
mircea_popescu: SOME EAT THE SHIT BEFORE THEY PUKE IT OUT AND EAT IT AGAIN!11
mircea_popescu: and i fucked at least a coupla that puked on a super-daily basis.
mircea_popescu: shinohai it does actually work, least of which because she gotta relax to take it or else it hurts.
mircea_popescu: cazalla you know i don't follow the logic of this. so no anal sex because she on occasion shits from there ? for one thing, if you want her to, she can banana from there, just stick one in. for the other thing - no oral sex either ? she pukes from there! you like puke more than shit ? what about normal hole, she bleeds from there not to mention babies from there. are you a pedo now because you fuck the baby hole ?
mircea_popescu 's little shop of horrors slash talk therapy is now open for biz.
mircea_popescu: so there's your tailor made placebo. every time you get the problem, tell yourself that if it keeps going you're going to have anal sex with a black dude as a cure.
mircea_popescu: it's the deep root behind the russian "slow acting psychosis" and the dsm and all the jazz.
mircea_popescu: the general stance of medicine, for about eleven centuries or so, has been that nobody cares what people think ; but if it interferes with their lives.
mircea_popescu: but ftr, as i said on trilema : obscure autoimmune problems are both rare and obvious in tissue sample.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did you mean to say trilema.com/психушка ?
mircea_popescu: you're not clearly insane, which is the most can be said for anyone.
mircea_popescu: so far it is not in any sense apparent the problem is with them. what exactly would you have them do ?