mircea_popescu: actually, let's put this in the log.

mircea_popescu: i expect this is factual.

mircea_popescu: "but mp, i'm against violence" "you'll get discounted out of existence in the marketplace" "uhhhh!"

mircea_popescu: back in 2014 the idea was that they are (and in fact they were, mostly by accident). it's been generally washed out of them by now.

mircea_popescu: from experience they subjectively think they're "doing pretty good" ; in any case "better than those other deplorables". whereas discoursively he could in principle say anything, chiefly because is not convinced words carry any meaning. as long as he's not saying something verboten like "africans have no culture", it's all up for grabs. "for controversy" which is somehow related to "funding".

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not even false, i dunno there's much worth reading in english. i mean one can be done with twain and shakespeare in a summer.

mircea_popescu: but in any case, ANOTHER aspect of discipline reveals itself. "work on what mp tells you to work on, not on what you think is fun to work on".

mircea_popescu: "who squeezed all the life outta ya anyways"

mircea_popescu: i can't. it's as incomprehensible to me as the girls. a boy that dun wanna fight, really ? exactly like a girl that dun wanna fuck, i look at these like a dog looks at a painted bone. "nice work i guess lol. but..."

mircea_popescu: myeah. good thing people are busy "thinking" about things they don't understand instead.

mircea_popescu: anyway, surgeon general's warning : openssh is at this point known by the republic to be cryptographically weak.

mircea_popescu: ah not yet done. aite, up to you.

mircea_popescu: print teh lists.

mircea_popescu: if it's the case that "here's this list of 200 primes which popped 2000 moduli", then we should make a histogram of moduli per prime.

mircea_popescu: and further, how many are the same factors ? because it's starting to occur to me we might be able to find an openssh bug through birthdaying the factors it keeps popping up.

mircea_popescu: a speaking of which asciilifeform i was meaning to ask, seeing how they keep popping in pairs : how many times as a % of cases is that when we pop a modulus we pop it for BOTH p and q ?

mircea_popescu: wtf transfuckinghumanism! there's all this basic humanism stuff to be still mastered!

mircea_popescu: dude this possibly takes the cake. i mean the previous contender was what, something in basic physics. but this is...

mircea_popescu: a recall the gazelle and cheetahs scenes ?

mircea_popescu: you know you can have wolf pups that don'\t attack the farm animals ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to a large degree yes.

mircea_popescu: THEN they keep biting the steel girder in any real interaction, because guess what, if you're not watching tv the conventions of tv world aren't enforceable.

mircea_popescu: they get trained by tv and candy crush to be as superficial as possible because it reduces production costs significantly.

mircea_popescu: kinda why literature was a thing in 1700 france ; was not a thing in 1900s us.

mircea_popescu: goes right back to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-28#1704371 ; it's very easy as an author to write great books -- write books that only appeal to the intelligent and get a free ride on your reader's backs. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: i think the later author (iirc the sequels weren't written by the original, but some son or inheritor at any rate) suffered very much from the equalizing stupidity (ie, unaware of differences, thinking self equivalent to anyone) who then imagined "what people want" is "to have blanks filled in" and produced very much http://trilema.com/2017/and-dont-go-around-upgrading-the-testaments-either/#selection-67.187-67.188

mircea_popescu: that ain't literature anymore than memory-trained monkey is thinker.

mircea_popescu: it's plain to notice, too, all the fanfic porn on literotica or whatever always has these stat cards, "she was so and so and tits like that and the other".

mircea_popescu: but you're very much correct, and yes, the #1 skill of mp-writer is exactly "do not specify".

mircea_popescu: indeed. and much of the result is that it creates different notions in different people.

mircea_popescu: you can't train into being moon ; and if you are moon you can train while playing civ or golden axe. i know i did.

mircea_popescu: right. which is why in my mind it's represented as a sort of you know, moon. "you can't reboot the machine without knowing what it's doing"

mircea_popescu: ie, like a very beautiful girl ; not like a very well trained $sport boy.

mircea_popescu: yes, but in a mystical rather than artisanal sense

mircea_popescu: i was busy with girls by then.

mircea_popescu: i did not read the sequels.

mircea_popescu: yes, i did read the original coupla books, as a 15yo boy.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704886 << my understanding of " a mentat from dune" was "a guy who takes a lot of showers", rather than what i discovered later was the general us view on the matter, "guy who does lots of xword puzzles". i have nfi where that typically 80s idea "xword puzzles make you smart" came from. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704883 << i had nfi the *humanist crowd was large enough to have factions. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: had to have the lift raised or else would have suspended itself

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in which vein : coupla weeks ago saw angry forklift beeping while driving down this hill road (like 15% incline, crazy serpentines etc)

mircea_popescu: kanzure is this a girl one of yours ?