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a111: Logged on 2017-08-28 23:07 phf: it is certainly because you haven't found
the right pdfs
kanzure: phf:
that sounds like something else.
the lesswrong folx are moron navelgazers. yes it makes sense
to "use
thinking" but not if
the output is just a pile of ponyfic and fearmogering.
☟︎ shinohai: (Many
thanks
to mod6 for such eloquent words)
a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 02:59 asciilifeform: 'can't use bitcoin PERIOD' unless you have a proper, honest motherfucking node, with ALL
the blocks' is
the Right
Thing.
phf: but yes i still
think
that you're a rationalist, without quotes. i don't
think you would object
to it, i mean, if you go by definition (opinions and actions based on reason and knowledge) rather
than "rationalwiki" "rationalist".
☟︎ phf: well,
that aside wasn't about you, but about yudkowsky.
kanzure: you're still lumping me in with
the "rationalists"?
phf: my impression is all
that lesswrong, rationalwiki, yudkowsky, etc. is basically mentat wiki
that
took itself seriously.
phf: but
the name was obviously
tongue in cheek
phf: but i
think it was cool as a kind of roleplay
toy "learn all
these
tricks and you'll be just like a mentat from dune"
☟︎ phf: there was a wiki in 2005 or so, called "mentat wiki". i
think it was cool not so much for
the content as
the premise. it was supposed
to be a collection of
techniques for memory recall, arithmetic, problem solving,
that sort of stuff.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 03:26 kanzure: if operatig
the yudkowsy parody
twitter account for five years is insufficient
to convince you
that i absolutely hate
the person,
then what would?
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704716 << i don't
think it matters which faction of ultra rationalist posthumanists you belong
to. either way
the nature of your misunderstanding of
tmsr
take certain predictable shape, and so are your interests, etc. nobody
thinks
that you literally suck yudkowsky's cock, but personally i don't even care.
☝︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> nothing hates old women society as much as dogs do. << lettuce not forget
the Human Society's other priority,
the cats! Cats who fleece old women society while snorting catnip and other drugs during pussy grabbing orgies.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : dogs grab pussy all
teh
time ; would have all voted
trump.
BingoBoingo: in
trouble seems heartless
to me. She’s much more politically active
than I am, and I finally asked if she did
that
to avoid
the possibility of giving money
to someone who voted for
Trump, and she admitted
that was one of
the reasons. I
think
that’s awful, and we’ve been fighting about it ever since. She
thinks as a gay woman I should see her side, but I just can’t."
BingoBoingo: From
the WhatTheFun mines: "I come from
the Houston area and have been heartbroken about
the damage and scenes from Harvey. I decided
to donate $250 and asked my girlfriend if she would match it. She agreed, and
then when I asked if she had given
to
the Red Cross or someone else, I learned
that she donated
to
the Humane Society. I know she’s absolutely nuts about animals, especially our own dogs, but
to give
to animals when people are
mircea_popescu: hey.
there's nothing wrong with ilya muromets kills
the koschei. BUT!
there's also nothing wrong when koschei kills all
the fucktarded uppity youth who weren't ilya.
mircea_popescu: anyway. kinda not so much
there
that i want
to read other days on its basis.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform saw
the lulzy part where superficial fenn correctly identifies usg as "a bunch of neonazis
that want
to gas everybody except
themselves" ?
mircea_popescu: 16:53 < nmz787> hmm,
there's a new biotech
thing starting on
the floor below genspace (or at least where genspace was) << i wonder if
this sorta
thing ever gives
them any pause.
mircea_popescu: yeah. complete ablation not
the way
to go, even
the mongols left a blind and a deaf man
to
tell
the story.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 20:03 mircea_popescu:
the stupid cunt universally depicted in movies comes from
the boston common, a one square mile area of little distinction.
mircea_popescu: nobody's doing it.
this is like "i want him so shot fulla lead, it's practically a 2x2 lead sheet he impacts with".
mircea_popescu: i
think one of
the major advantages of my not living
there is starting
to shape itself pretty clearly. you're rather reactively allergic, aren't you alfie.
mircea_popescu: what's
the noise level here, 500-1k lines a day or something like
that. about same.
mircea_popescu: but
then again
this is how
the whole "democracy" derp dies, "publish
the data so people who don't have
the
time
to study it don't study it"
mircea_popescu: kanzure re "broken while uploaded" :
tell fenn phuctor has not just all
the pgp keys ; but also all
the ssh keys,
though apparently not
the one for his home computer. and
to stop being so superficial wtf.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 03:28 mircea_popescu: be it in school, on reddit, whatever. as a result, have deeply nfi about relatively fundamental, basic stuff, and WAY
too much familiarity with relatively irrelevant fringe extensions of minor alt-theories in obscure fields.
kanzure: (actually it's not
that bad.
there's probably less
than 400 million of
them.)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 20:37 mircea_popescu: A student
told his friend, "My
teacher has amazing powers. He moves a pen in
the air and characters appear on a piece of paper held on
the other side of
the river. What does your master do?" His friend replied "My great master follows Zen. When he is hungry, he eats and when he is
tired he sleeps."
kanzure: i don't mean
the log i just mean your goals and behavior
mircea_popescu: kanzure i'll
tell you, i read
the log every day, first
thing, chiefly because it's
the higherst snr item i know of. so not really noisy, no.
kanzure: asciilifeform: ah you mean
that is one such example. fine.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re lungs, as im a fan apparently : gas exchange happens
through a wonderful bevy of yet poorly understood fluid/fluid phenomena.
there's some
true space
tech going on in
there.
kanzure: and
then you come
to me and argue
that you guys aren't meant
to look like noise....?
kanzure: asciilifeform:
the stuff about hash functions was re: what exercise of power does mircea_popescu historically engage in. and
then you quoted
things from
the logs. it wasn't
that long ago.
kanzure: yes i understand it's merely a metaphor; i
think asciilifeform did
too.
mircea_popescu: i used
the
term metaphorically.
the convo sounds like noise
to you because you don't accept/have
the priors. which priors he'd propose are a different authority structure.
kanzure: this was re:
the power conversation
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in summary, it's impossible
to make sense of
the leaves of a merkle
tree
that you don't have
the root for, is what he's saying.
kanzure: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu seems
to be better at reading logs
than you :-)
kanzure: "gas everyone with food" just seemed like an appealing
thing
to momentarily speculat eabout.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you ever had
the opportunity
to see lung
tissue under good magnification, but it's a wonder.
kanzure: yeah i don't
think existing lungs would be a good
thing
to subject
to
that. i haven't given it much
thought.