asciilifeform: and also by not being able to disappear into alone-space by pressing a button.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am very easily distracted by people talking
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: the one i went to, actually had a chick! who was fond of meetings, minutes, paperwork, the whole shebang, and would gripe about all of this being unappreciated
asciilifeform: travel to and from the rathole was also an exhausting thing
asciilifeform: (the other problem is that everybody, self included, was doing it in 'spare cycles, tired from day job' mode and none of the equipment was ever really made to work / nothing ever happened
asciilifeform: at any rate, i actually tried the 'pool resources' thing phf spoke of, with buncha other weirdos. my main problem is that i find interacting with meat people to be a very mentally taxing thing.
asciilifeform: gotta wake up for a few min. every day to pump the sap
asciilifeform: that's just another kind of 'rich' - rich in people.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, better. but outside the budget of a ragged dervish.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's wrong with opl ?
asciilifeform: can hardly wait, incidentally, for the inevitable winblowzification of the (mandatory, never mentioned publicly in usa) remote control system for passenger liners
asciilifeform: this is an old thing. goal-directed work - e.g., 'make atomic bomb for the motherland' - works with a beria holding broomstick up the collective arses of the institute staff.☟︎
asciilifeform: not in places where folks are accountable in the quarterly sense.
asciilifeform: but they happen. and not in private industry, either, except on embezzled time
