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mircea_popescu: i know, that's why i put that sort of stuff in. help the thinking hats.
mircea_popescu: and the problem with narratives is the same problem train tracks have : 20 miles away from the track is much further than 200 miles DOWN the track
mircea_popescu: because the thing is so complicated it encourages people to approach it through narratives rather than observation
mircea_popescu: i don't think many people actually understand how bitcoin works.
mircea_popescu: check it out - socialists agree it's the victim's fault!
mircea_popescu: "The ?little guy? now possesses a large amount of anger about the political system that doesn't work for him, which shouldn?t be surprising since he repeatedly voted against his own interests during the republican tenure. " <<< aaaahahahaha.
mircea_popescu: "crooked timber" puts it too lightly by about two biological regnums.
mircea_popescu: the stuff women spawn into this world is simply out of this world in its broken, surprisingly counterfunctional variety
mircea_popescu: he who has been a teacher will not be amused at the zoo.
mircea_popescu: you'd form a bose-lolstein condensated milk curd or something.
mircea_popescu: you can't sit there all day laughing your ass off at the endless parade of idjits
mircea_popescu: the thing with being a teacher is that it trains you to neglect so much lols.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the difference lies in the meaning of "touch"
mircea_popescu: computing gets to grow a fucking indoor voice and progress out of orcdom.
mircea_popescu: a large stack of various items all designed to talk into the void. how is this a computer ?
mircea_popescu: and similarly no program replay and for the same reason etc.
mircea_popescu: the derps making osen treat the scrollback as a wholly separate, contextual-less buffer. it's not "what we just said to this guy"
mircea_popescu: which understanding is why i'm so lisp friendly, actually.
mircea_popescu: "seriously, you can't repeat what you said to me ? slaves get caned for this!" "but but but mp, it is a computer, it can't save an infinity of stuff" "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU MAKING A MACHINE SAY INFINITY OF STUFF TO ME" "well it's not really infinite, just..." "bring the cane"
mircea_popescu: the item figures prominently in my own mental list of nonsense ; that list is an essential part of why alf's raging against computing makes sense to me.
mircea_popescu: and re saltmarshes, the cannonical line being of course "Die Schweden die haben verflucht schlechtes Geld, wer weiß ob der Oestreicher besseres hält."
mircea_popescu: pretty sure it was in odessa too. kids tend to eat them - sour stuff, makes them sick.
mircea_popescu: nah, they're the fruits of a plum-like wild plum tree, grows everywhere the hasids go
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha quite possibly. you keep trying to bite corcoduse.
mircea_popescu: or, "people whose main impulse when confronted with an excuisite jeweled item is to rip out the jewels"
mircea_popescu: by and large, "people who do not feel comfortable living inside the wall".
mircea_popescu: i follow the palaiologos tradition. whereby the orcs are a slightly more complex thing.
mircea_popescu: there's absolutely nothing human about the sandvaginated saltmarshes.
mircea_popescu: ((the stupid women line in western europe is sometimes called the Hajnal line)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the american hasids are a sort of jehova's witnesses in a slightly altered color scheme
mircea_popescu: and for the record : ACTUAL hasidic jews, as found strictly beyond the pale, were some of the more pleasant folk you coulde ever meet, and greatly informs my tolerance of jews, as well as the tolerance of everyone who's not born past the stupid women line in western europe.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i didn't know they expel ru kids for that
mircea_popescu: this is what having no self respect fundamentally means.
mircea_popescu: i mean that quite profoundly - thiel has seen the narrow horizon of the pen and contented himself that "this is everywhere".
mircea_popescu: java fucking appled NEVER DEMONSTRATED ANYTHING OMFG FUCK YOUR DUMB MOTHER WITH SOMEONE ELSE'S BROOMSTICK
mircea_popescu: this is in fact how it works : we, aim to V the original lispworld. scum - aims to systemd wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: he's 2nd generation scum, aims to systemd the original scum.
mircea_popescu: worst fucking idea in the history of ideas, if they just let jimbo fuck children until he fell over the world'd have been better off.
mircea_popescu: and it occurred to me while conducting fart ciclotron reactions in my spare time that there's nothing more dangerous than an idiot with a little knowledge
mircea_popescu: it doesn't "bring science". it empowers ambitious knownothing.
mircea_popescu: pretentious fuckwad / out of his weight ignoramus for the fucking win over here.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it occured to me while i was eating a niels bohr raisin cake (with little electron raisins floating in the batter) that this is how fucking spammers work, too. as discussed here a nujmber of times already.
mircea_popescu: how fortunate are we to have such bright minds around us. i gotta get myself one of them bose.
mircea_popescu: but the very grand intellectualistic value of someone who was watching einsten play out of his bose speakers in his spare time is well noted, of course.
mircea_popescu: heavens to herpinstocks, the idea is older than the fucking persian empire.
mircea_popescu: "I was looking at a Java applet which demonstrates the use of evaporative cooling to form a Bose-Einstein condensate, when it occurred to me that another force entirely might operate to increase fanaticism. "
mircea_popescu: i knew gmaxwell wasn't intelligent enough to come up with that stupid shit on his own.
mircea_popescu: so that what, the idiot fbheads can click the correct emotional response icon to help the evil ai segment them ?