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mircea_popescu agrees with the general frenchypoof notion of the pre-mitterand years that cooking is indeed an art and mssr duchemin rightfully accepted in the academy.
mircea_popescu: who knew the problem apelles of kos dealt with is actually much broader than just an annoying shoemaker.
mircea_popescu: jesus who knew fiction is a doomed entreprise. this would actually make literature not art, outright.
mircea_popescu: but the other edge is to observe that fiction HAS to be predictable specifically because it isn't nonfiction. there not being a reality to feed from other than what emerges from the fact that the reader can follow, you're stuck.
mircea_popescu: this is an interesting problem to have. one edge of it could be readily dismissed as "well obviously if you can't write so instead of writing you substitute copywriting as per
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-11-2015#1330345 & all, imonlydoingmyjob bla bla you will be predictable, after all copywriting is designed to work much like computer codewriting : others gotta be able to pick up your job once you quit"
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WildMassGuessing << this is pretty interesting. the idea being, and i cite, "The trope has also become increasingly important in more traditional fiction as of late because the Internet's technological revolution is such that an author's "twists" could easily be predicted ahead of time if enough clever fans put their heads together and talk things over. (And over.) "
mircea_popescu: maybe the best couplet in the history of english lolzedy.
mircea_popescu: "Your proposition may be good, but let's have one thing understood — whatever it is, I'm against it! And even when you've changed it or condensed it, I'm against it!"
mircea_popescu: ok, but i mean specifically "who the fuck embeds this ip"
mircea_popescu: o hey check it out, the key to driving mass linux adoption was copying minesweeper and solitaire, who knew.
mircea_popescu: from what i can see this'd be some sort of "server for linux" or whatevs.
mircea_popescu: well no, i'm not instrumented to extract any payloads.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform .0 would asctually be the ISP provided modem.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is that address doesn't map to any machine, nor could it.
mircea_popescu: so i come back to find that xchat is seeking permission to download "sol.desktop", supposedly a 498 byte file sent by someone from... 192.168.0.29 (port 50234).
mircea_popescu: o hey check this out, it sorta looks like that tempest-storm-whateverthefuck nsa server fucked up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, it's not that the war started, he should have fought but he hightailed it, so he covers up for it. it's that he's a murican not an ottoman so he figures he CANT be man enough. so to assuage his own neuroticism (why the fuck couldn't he be ?! what, manhood now comes with formal tags on it ?) he makes up a supportive story in a land far away.
mircea_popescu: even brought a joke booklet to school once to prove it!)
mircea_popescu: (when i was a kid there was this other kid that got REALLY angry whenever i told a joke. "ITS NOT LIKE THAT".
mircea_popescu: his problem is more of an inferiority complex, seems to me, but whatchagonna do
mircea_popescu: it all depends what it's for. i add shit to every joke as a matter of course.
mircea_popescu: he made up some story about how he was wounded in the war
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform plenty of examples, from clarke to what have you
mircea_popescu: then all their prose is equally and uniformly bland and stupid and hey, they give each other prizes.
mircea_popescu: fucktard doesn't know "the particulars" nevertheless thinks he can write up a musician
mircea_popescu: this is the direct equivalent of the heckled comedian going "hey, i work here! how would you like it if i came to your workplace and hecked you!"
mircea_popescu: this is why it's fucking culture : so you either know, quite well and exactly, what kind of problem a genius would approach and how, or YOU MAY NOT USE THE FUCKING WORD IN YOUR STUPID PILE OF DRIVEL.
mircea_popescu: no, dumbass, "writers aren't writers". i don't give a shit "you just want to".
mircea_popescu: of convincing detail means the reader does not believe, whether it is fixing an engine or presenting the actual philosophy of a character purported to be wise, and can make the readers long for the informed ability."
mircea_popescu: One choice the writer has is to go ahead and show the supposed "ability". But if they don't do the research, this leads to such laughable characters as the scientist who spouts Hollywood Science, the tactician who comes up with the sort of tactics a five-year-old would think of and the "genius" who is only a genius because they're the only one coming up with any plan at all, and everyone else is downright stupid. Lack
mircea_popescu: On occasion, the ability cannot adequately be portrayed by the medium used for the work. For example, a comic book cannot show how good a character's singing voice is, and a radio show would, at best, be forced to merely describe a character's great paintings.
mircea_popescu: haven't a clue what kind of problem only a genius would be able to work through, or how. If they actually attempt to show the ability in action they take a very real risk of the portrayal falling completely flat.
mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going through with the above plan is the fact that, well, Most Writers Are Writers. They're writing a character who's supposed to be a musician, but they don't know the particulars of meters or chords. They have a character who is a military expert, but they don't know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs to be resupplied. They have a character who's a genius, but they
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but as that only goes so far, also by insisting that "this is everything" and that "being told off is mean"
mircea_popescu: well, by limiting themselves of an audience of similar quality.
mircea_popescu: "Se trata de una suma equivalente a un tercio de las reservas brutas que declara el ente monetario que conduce Alejandro Vanoli o al total de lo neto propio que tenía (los analistas coinciden en que ahora sólo quedan dólares de los ahorristas y la porción invertida en oro)."
mircea_popescu: "De esta manera, liquidó US$ 560 en la semana y lleva vendidos US$ 1750 millones en lo que va del mes. Así, el proceso electoral presidencial, tomando el lapso que va desde las dos semanas previas a las PASO hasta ayer y el propósito de mantener el status quo cambiario (aunque no sea sustentable), insumió US$ 8015 millones de las reservas."
mircea_popescu: if only they could spend 10 trn like president bahamas, they might've won.
mircea_popescu is looking forward to hearing just how badly mismanaged the country was and just how much hay mas futuro is really left in the vaults.
mircea_popescu: could be "Mr. Michael Stute Co-founded Global DataGuard, Inc., in 2000 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Stute has over 13 years of experience in IT", in which case...
mircea_popescu: (i'm not asking emptily. i know he's nobody, because i don't know who the fuck he is. i googled, and the only hit is a 2014 article in which forbes is pushing the same name on the same topic. so really, worse than nobody. so then ?)
mircea_popescu: isn't ammonal about on par with black powder, in the sense that if it gets wet you can go salt your food with it ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i guess we should be thankful grain at least grew in that shitty island.
mircea_popescu: been like that forever. also iirc alaska still has homestead here and there.
mircea_popescu: apparently my native oop is intuitively alligned with google sql