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assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 18:16:06; mircea_popescu: in any case, strategically speaking, it will be
a lot easier, cheaper and blood-economical to unseat the fiat atrocity supporting the welfare state by destroying the "industrial" paradigm.
ben_vulpes: there is
a reason i call this kind of document torture.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, for sake of thestringpuller and mine private conversation, have you ever bedded
a north korean woman?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform notice how none of the coverage included
a "this C round utterly dilutes naive investors from the previous B and
A rounds"
assbot: Logged on 04-06-2014 00:08:26; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was
a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
mircea_popescu: im moreover curious if they're going to actually try and rescue the scam foundation or just make
a new and "real" one.
mircea_popescu: somewhat mirroring the "mpex is worth
a billion dollars ?!?!?!" thing.
mircea_popescu: cazalla the "usg mpex" comment was chiefly because there's no conceivable need
a webwallet operator could have for even 1mn.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally that must be
a typo, 1.9mn users 2.1mn accounts. more like 190k.
thestringpuller: although coinbase is
a part of the waterfall only derps utilize it.
cazalla: i thought it was
a cardinal sin for it to be called anything other than MPEx? :P
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: they're trying for
a usg mpex. << More like Reddit MPEX
mircea_popescu: basically, they're trying for
a usg mpex. which... hey, fine, have fun trying.
mircea_popescu: obv this is just napkin calcs,
a definitive version'd come out once that unicorn stomps its foot.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, if coinbase opens for
a mkt cap of 250mn in two years (accounting for inflation, basically)...
mircea_popescu: at that point, the coinbase listing has actually been
a net loss for d.cbse holders.
jurov: The total raised by Coinbase has now hit $106 million. Coinbase,
a San Francisco-based company reports that there are 2.1 million bitcoin wallets from
a customer base of 1.9 million
mircea_popescu: i see the guy's been pouring out
a coupla million words, which is more than moldbug, but i won't be bothering to actually read the shit, it's too stale.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2014 15:38:39; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu with regard to the 'abuse of statistical devices' outlined in note iii, the accomplished master of the art is
a fellow named yudkowsky (search #b-
a log). he isn't an idiot, bastard knows exactly what he's doing, and his cult is
a veritable vacuum trap for thinking folks
mircea_popescu: anyway. if there's anyone who actually had the patience ot read all this stuff and wishes to proffer
a summary please do.
mircea_popescu: imagine the horror of this. "i invented
a machine which lets you live on for
a billion years, so you can write stupid shit so that stupid people keep on powering it"
mircea_popescu: al ability to see through time. But death is
a great evil, and I will oppose it whenever I can. If I could create
a world where people lived forever, or at the very least
a few billion years, I would do so."
mircea_popescu: Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end we support research that holds out hope of
a future in which humanity has defeated death. Death is an extremely difficult technical problem, to be attacked with biotech and nanotech and other technological means. I do not tell
a tale of the land called Future, nor state as
a fact that humanity will someday be free of death - I have no magic
cazalla: problem with playing D2 from australia was that you could still only get dialup and it was better to play on
a fake battle.net hosted at your isp
thestringpuller: but srsly soj economy was so annoying. the rune economy was
a bit better
cazalla: for anyone that has not played it, orbs act
a little similar to soj economy, but unlike d2, poe did away with gold drops and crap like that, pure barter system
chetty: <mircea_popescu> chetty this has been going on for
a while actually.//it just sounds worse when the internet is
a public utility
mircea_popescu: people have to fucking realise, for once in their life, that a_) fuck them and b) it's not about what they want.
mircea_popescu: well... stfu and get in the wot. nobody, NOBODY is above the intern work for
a year.
mircea_popescu: right. and here the same : paste your text as
a "review", or publish it on your blog.
jurov: but herr yudkowsky was apparently upset at harry's stupidity and wrote
a fanfic
mircea_popescu: voldemort jacking off by himself to visions of
a destroyed enemy is not unlike harry potter "studying magic really hard".
mircea_popescu: b) agency means growth. you can recast any actual situation into something that's
a personal experience, and vice-versa. this is
a major power.
mircea_popescu: anyway, some comments in the general, for the aspiring writer :
a) the most important weapon in the quiver of the scammer, which is what all fiction is, is misdirection. you were being misdirected into thinking harry potter should have agency by all the insistence on how he doesn't. (look up chekov's gun, while at it). the correct solution of
a problem of agency is to attack the agent.
mircea_popescu: for the record, i just started writing
a solution to that harry potter thing.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's
a spin off of
a spin off of
a spin off, because when people develop
a taste for
a particular shit, why not enlist more orfices to produce it
mircea_popescu: approximately the life plan of
a sexually worthless, narcissistically superlative 15 yo priss.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 18:10:24; punkman: totally gonna work "With
a clear deadline, get everyone on board to reach
a voted decision and say good bye to all the bikeshedding."
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel argentina has
a fixation on electing newspaper men. mitre, frondizi, etc.
mircea_popescu: they created permanent sessions for users, showed some
a dress like so, others
a dress like something else
punkman: "The foundational document of The Net Party is its manifesto. Written in
a collaborative process by the founding members, it consists of 60 expressions in tweet form so it can be easily shared in any kind of network. It expresses our deepest beliefs on how democracy and the net can help improve our institutions."
punkman: "But aware that in politics not everything happens online, we also created
a new kind of political party: The Net Party. Its candidates are committed to always vote in Congress according to what citizens vote online."
punkman: oh it has
a blockchain too "Trust is deeply built into DemocracyOS using decentralized authority to certify every single decision made."
punkman: totally gonna work "With
a clear deadline, get everyone on board to reach
a voted decision and say good bye to all the bikeshedding."
☟︎ punkman: asciilifeform: it's
a web thingy, not ubuntu
BingoBoingo: It sounds like if hadoop appears to solve
a problem, then you have
a number of other problems
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: it *is*
a key-value store
fluffypony: Hadoop doesn't have anything remotely resembling
a blockchain
punkman: everyone's wants to work on "big" data now, you use enough buzzwords you get
a raise
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: That is
a great experiment. The PGN format is maximally user and machine readable. Amazing how the blockchain makes some stuff people try to pass as "big data" seem much smaller.
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: the 'adults' are not going to be happy about you writing
a program that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into
a useful format via
a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery << Plain OCR is normally sufficient for books without advanced mathematics as long as you are willing to liberate the pages from the spine. Test it with
a sheetfed scanner sometime.
ben_vulpes: right, there's
a recursive aspect to the problem.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is
a great convo but bed's better, so! tomorrow.
ben_vulpes: as
a guy who's cobbled together the odd machine or two, the notion that you can have
a million little bits cooperating to give you the power of
a purpose-designed driveshaft one moment and slither through
a keyhole the next strikes me as wankery of the first degree.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think what was being contemplated was more akin to
a synthetic amoeba than
a mechanical sheep.