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mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag for my curiosity, what's the desktop equivalent of the shits, do you happen to know ?
mircea_popescu: i'm unfamiliar with any jurisdiction where i'd give a shit.
mircea_popescu: so how is it illegal to use your iphone as a fucking doorstop if that's what you want.
mircea_popescu: using the box as a general purpose computer is illegal << what ?
mircea_popescu: no i mean, i don't believe shakespeare's loose mores detracts from his literary value.
mircea_popescu: shakespeare is difficult to match in many ways, chief among which his inclination to pander.
mircea_popescu: guy had to do a travesti because that's what a comedy was at the time. the situation of true romance is very similar : compare tarantino's own cut with the bullshit the studio released.
mircea_popescu: copypaste i think it's nonsensical pandering and not really worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: well... teh pr machine's looking for some hook on this slippery eel.
mircea_popescu: and what's worse, they tend to prefer the latter disproportionately by quality.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is that supplied with the choice of "enforce this hag's worldview" or "enforce mp's worldview", young women tend to prefer the latter.
mircea_popescu: i have no doubt that yes, if we wish for her heavily indebted persona to be evenr marginally sustainable then yeah, i OUGHT to be unattractive etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah well... good luck and all that, but it seems i'm discussing the is and she the ought.
mircea_popescu: pasted material being point in case, the woman "just knows" that i'm not attractive, notwithstanding that i'm willing to bet that's the most popular profile on the entire site, and what the fuck would she know about what gets teeny sluts hot anyway ?!
mircea_popescu: there seems to be a pervasive meta-conviction that so and so, but i have never yet encountered the thing it purports as a practical matter. as best i can determine it's just another fashion, self-induced. people have read "on the internet" that the government hid elvis in hoffa's urinary tract and so now "everyone thinks so".
mircea_popescu: see something like that, say something like that for crying out loud. how the fuck are they to know when they're out of line if you never tell 'em ?
mircea_popescu: and honestly, i blame you dumb fucks. that dumbass lived her entire life without anyone ever telling her what her place in the world is, i'm ready to bet. it's a shameful fucking situation.
mircea_popescu: that aside, men have been feeding women since before hammurabi. but, much like the matter of charity, structural differences make the difference.
mircea_popescu: this is the situation of proletarians moved into kulak dwellings, heating themselves with the imported french furniture.
mircea_popescu: the marked similarities with the legal notion and cultural mores of the decaying roman empire, and the strict disjunction from the legal notions and cultural mores of the flourishing roman early republic, or the other republics avaialble gives the story away.
mircea_popescu: this is what "civilisation" misunderstood as no beatings and overgenerous welfare (such as school loans, and such as alimony, and so on) has created.
mircea_popescu: these two work together to produce a very unhappy populace even in the ideal case socialism.
mircea_popescu: item ii : for very good evolutionary reasons, a geometric increase in stimulus is required for a mere linear increase in sensation.
mircea_popescu: you recall my explanation as to why any socialism is always and necessarilyt going to be unsatisfactory to the ruled mass ?
mircea_popescu: what the "democratic" socialism needs is exponential. hence its love of "science".
mircea_popescu: for as long as you're committed to not beating the woman, the necessary result is a vicious circle of ever more annoying, lazy bitches.
mircea_popescu: you're saying "at some point they'll have to stop marrying progressively more annoying lazy bitches"
mircea_popescu: the coderz are getting progressively dumber as an unavoidable necessity.
mircea_popescu: THEY however, with their needs to compensate for absent intelligence through the deployment of computing hardware, DO need the shit to "improve".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i can do the grepping i do on computers as they are. and if they'll be twice as fast i won't notice. like i've not noticed any improvement since the 90s.
mircea_popescu: this difference has already chosen winners and losers.
mircea_popescu: the point is that we need computing power to increase logarithmically and they need computing power to increase exponentially.
mircea_popescu: the point, mind you, isn't even a "z80" planet. and yes i think that extremely unlikely.
mircea_popescu: this thing we're discussing here is such a hard limit.
mircea_popescu: but yes : the policy of socialist government is to keep rolling up its failures. until it hits a hard limit.
mircea_popescu: no more moore's law means no colored unicode emoji just like it means no "big blocks"
mircea_popescu: it means a lot more than that. this fork will come stab them in the eye again and again AND AGAIN.
mircea_popescu: that i crushed them like worms last year doesn't JUST mean i now have gavin's head and yet another painful humiliation inflicted upon usg's asshole.
mircea_popescu: that culture depends on, and knows it depends on, a specific sort of infalted delivery of hardware.
mircea_popescu: the point however is not this. the point is that... hm, how should it put it so it clicks. looky here : usgavin and his merry cattle troop were not ranting about moore's law for no cause, early on. they represent not some people, not some institutions, but some beliefs and a way of life. a culture.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : if it gets so bad that no further chips can in fact be manufactured at some point, then yes over time existing hw will become unusable. maybe a few decades tops.
mircea_popescu: so they'll be 1hr blocks, what difference does it make ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but this doesn't matter : on a planet with z80s you can mine with z80s, and on a planet with asics the asics that mine STILL have to mine.
mircea_popescu: the only thing that matters is the relative terms, ie, relative of total available. this makes the whole line moot, yes it'll be 50%+1 in all worlds, whether powered by pen on paper or star-sized megacomps.
mircea_popescu: so detached : bitcoin mining still has to follow the rules. consequently, how much power goes into it in absolute terms is irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: jurov i wanted to detach the mining discussion from this discussion, because it is unrelated.
mircea_popescu: so there's a major differential, which colors the discussion.
mircea_popescu: jurov no, the point is that what i need the things to do, they do well and i have space to spare (heck, i went for breakfast, figuring it'll take minutes. it would have been fine if it did). meanwhile what THEY need to do, the machines already can't cope with.
mircea_popescu: wherein there is some rudimentary sensation and motility as an aggregate.
mircea_popescu: because if you can you must and because zero one infinity, and so therefore, life's not worth living.
mircea_popescu: and as such, a subclass of "so just stop using the damned colored unicode bs". not gonna happen.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, what you're proposing is patently NOT FAIR.
mircea_popescu: as a result it ends up embarassed by charlotte manning or w/e that was.
mircea_popescu: and there is no special ft meade. we're the only special interest that exists. otherwise, ft meade still has to hire from the emoji, and it does.
mircea_popescu: if she had to repay all her debts (and forget the financial angle - if she had to do all the work to count as educated at the level of education she perceives herself to occupy, manifest inability to think or even spell be damned) she'd simply figure "life is not worht living" and lie in a ditch to die.
mircea_popescu: lemme fish out the conversation with this worthless dumbass, it is apropos.
mircea_popescu: you see... it's not a problem that there won't be infrastructure available. it'll just "not be worth using". what, it can't even unicode in colors ?
mircea_popescu: the truck is available. but it IS NOT WORTH IT. and besides... all the other kids will laugh at him.
mircea_popescu: it's the essential item of "what's worth". do you recall the kid that got a truck for his birthday ?
mircea_popescu: crisis is, by and large, a process in the heads of the people.