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mircea_popescu: as far as her dumb ass is concerned, the best possible train is a ghetto blaster with the volume welded to low, playing christmas carrols from under the mirrors-ensconced speakers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same problem is why everyone hates what originally seemed obvious and intuitive : the text powered adventure
mircea_popescu: which is why this "no but math notation" argument is so bifurcacious.
mircea_popescu: anyway, again not sure why this isn't obvious, but the alphabet is (still is, in spite of all the "help" geeks gave it) a defined, closed, easily countable set.
mircea_popescu: (it actually makes the level raise slightly, but that is part of the "hope and pray" definition of abstraction yesterday - we hope and pray it dun matter.)
mircea_popescu: i said "clamp down in one place" not "reduce". how the fuck are you goingto reduce complexity and why aren't you moving on to entropy next!
mircea_popescu: but does your experience also include what i actually said above, or just what you saw in it ?
mircea_popescu: a lot more to do with the brilliant idea of "use these letters and fuck you and your ugly mother."
mircea_popescu: there is a fucking reason white people are better than all the other people, and it has jack shit to do with the skin.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why the fuck this point is so unobvious, but : most of the intellectual gains humanity has made came after it decided to do what science always does : arbitrarily clamp down on complexity in one place to use this as leverage against complexity elsewhere.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a) none of these derps know any maths and b) i do and somehow survive. if you need a particular notation to do maths either you're not very good or are trying to talk to idiots.
mircea_popescu: books are for german kids, really, the sort that grew up waddled at the ankles.
mircea_popescu shudders at the thought he actually had to "turn a page" every 1k bytes.
mircea_popescu: which i suppose counts for "368" pages in lalaland wherew they do 1k characters per page.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of defending, see the latest trilema.
mircea_popescu: "hosting fees are expensive" my foot. they're only expensive because "oh i just wanna be a designer" all over the place.
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mircea_popescu: space, legal issues, or not being very good, and put them in this one.
mircea_popescu: written that didn’t make it into the first book, either due to timing,
mircea_popescu: thought it would be easier to simply collect all the material I have
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mircea_popescu: clock episodes of Property Virgins on HGTV and sleeping to do, there never
mircea_popescu: should have put in more effort but you know how it is. With round the
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mircea_popescu: said every obnoxious 9 yo girl having experienced insufficient ponytail pulling.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "oh look, i wrote some words down, now you gotta do what i say!!1"
mircea_popescu: what the motherfucking shit is wrong with these people.
mircea_popescu: "this book is sold subject to the condition that it won't be lent"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: punkman i just went in a cycle asking "then why the fuck are they not calling it .txt" and answering myself the line above to shinohai and now i feel a little queasy.
mircea_popescu: o yeah get shorty is good. sort of like early pulp fiction / snatch
mircea_popescu: fine example if alf's greatest fear, he wasn't nearly this derpy back before martin luther king.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: guy comes in, "hey, isn't that dog pissing in your shoe bothering you ?!"
mircea_popescu: romanian joke, for you. man sitting at desk, dog next to him pissing in his shoe.
mircea_popescu: abstraction is loss. you throw out all sorts of stuff and hope&pray that it wasn't actually needed.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: you have no fucking idea what that word means, do you.
mircea_popescu: (there's a very good reason they keep going on with cow and dog are animal. there was a great paper in the log about "you know what, just change your chosen names to hashes, see if teh system appears to be doing as much "understanding" as it did before.)
mircea_popescu: (what apparently nobody wants to mention is that the "good" oop now corrupted by teh evil orcs was really a child of desperation. pretty much born out of the mit through c-section, in the classical sense)
mircea_popescu: phf the problem with the village of ugly women is that well, there's probably something wrong with the water. yes the people now involved may be subpar for whatever reason or explanation to do with them. maybe. or maybe THIS offshot of the hope to ai is just as rotten as the rest of the various attempts to ai that preceded it.
mircea_popescu: like in "he was spirited away", "we abstracted him away"