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mircea_popescu: which is a golden thought.
asciilifeform: for the cost of a length of copper cable.
asciilifeform: wake me up when a roboticists asks me for the waveguide motor
ben_vulpes: a) it's all usg "tin woman" crap
asciilifeform: (at the very minimum - of being a snore)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yup. which is why i had a vague positive idea about it. never bothered looking.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc the way it worked (works? i think, still exists?) is via a kind of secret wot
asciilifeform: and can it be a t-34
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: when do i get to die in a tank
asciilifeform not insisting it had a 0% coefficient of useful work
mircea_popescu: 125k a year for five years, beats thiel, but anyway
assbot: 93 results for '40k' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=40k
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah merely reference to a discussion in logs a few days ago
asciilifeform: but he tried to convince me to participate in a sc4m4tr0n
asciilifeform: which was painful because he was a family friend and a man i respected
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you didn't end up beaten as a result of this ?
asciilifeform: did i ever tell the tale of how i was once about to do a little consulting for an engineering prof, and discovered that the code that implemented 'his' algo was plagiarized wholesale by his students?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes at least his harem isn't 40k a month!
gabriel_laddel: being a poorfag
asciilifeform: ask a college prof
ben_vulpes: portland's a moderately kinky town.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not a bad approach.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a job if you gotta do xxxxx to keep'em coming
mircea_popescu: which is the better way to get a windfall anyway.
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
asciilifeform: if they dole it out month at a time - it's a fucking -job-
mircea_popescu: omg you buncha antisocial haters. you can't have a mentor or anything ?
gabriel_laddel: they dole it out a month at a time
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: they don't want them to e.g., make a napster
mircea_popescu: best way to get a bright kid killed is by giving him ten bricks of benjamins.
mircea_popescu: ah, i a) didn't actually need the money ; b) wasn't really about the money per se anyway
asciilifeform: because it's a temporary parole, for one thing
mircea_popescu was a recipient of something vaguely similar at a similar age.
assbot: 10 results for 'self-licking' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=self-licking
mircea_popescu: wait, there's 40 people a year right ?
gabriel_laddel: but yes, there are a lot of indians, which I didn't previously notice
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i sent her an email. iron a shirt in case shows up.
asciilifeform: was commissioned as a recruiting gimmick
decimation: maybe someone should make a bitbet for the date of the appearance of an official usg 'game'
asciilifeform: where you get a probability spread as sentence
mircea_popescu: incidentally : this would be a great prison. judge doesn't give you a term. judge gives you a frequency count.
gabriel_laddel: "let me tell you a story about a mouse I caught in a field..."
asciilifeform: this, incidentally, might be a fairly good 'business model'
mircea_popescu: 32 bit may be a little short.
asciilifeform: i can picture that if mircea_popescu ever opens a jail, all of the cages will open from the inside with a 32-bit combination lock. nobody will 'have to' sit in this jail
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, most do. these are the rare exceptions not the bulk. recall orwell's "jew makes a dollar a day" thing
decimation: my usian upbringing causes me to conjure some dude living in a hovel or a wagon upon hearing 'gypsy'
asciilifeform: (he takes a strange fixation with the gypsies)
mircea_popescu: anyway, i was cheating a little ( http://trilema.com/2010/nuditatea-la-copii-si-sugari/ << original article where scene above is described). it just so happens that in that culture, kids are supposed to be naked pre puberty.
mircea_popescu: always good for a culture shock for usians, because somehow they think starbucks is luxury.
mircea_popescu: decimation would it now ? seems more a function of where htey were born, if they heard of plumbing or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a long array of things, all more or less coney.
mircea_popescu: took a wroing turn, ended up on mud street from 1750. down towards us, completely naked 9yo girl, rope tied around her waist. literally rope.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:14:45; gabriel_laddel: can you predict exactly what a WoT enabled world will look like?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the "have to". if you were writing software it'd be a magic variabler.
decimation: the book has a whole chapter on the subject of defining intelligence
asciilifeform: he doesn't have to work a day job
assbot: 9 results for 'langton's ant' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=langton%27s+ant
asciilifeform: and ends up with certain things, some interesting, some not, with a heavy flavour of jizzus jizzm
asciilifeform: terry davis doesn't have to answer to a grant committee
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a perfectly good epidemiological work.
mircea_popescu: not a very good book eh.
mircea_popescu: which actually means a very good quality random.
mircea_popescu: it advances at random to a random degree, is the thing.
asciilifeform: ^ i had a physical, testable hypothesis
assbot: 2 results for 'myelin sheaths' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=myelin+sheaths
asciilifeform: as are a thousand mental dysfunctions most of which haven't even a name
mircea_popescu: intelligence, in a strict sense of whatever, bus speed ? bus width ? ram ? cpu cycles ? frequency of parity errors ?
decimation: one datapoint "“The NLSY, administered in 1980 to by far the largest sample (6,502 whites, 3,022 blacks) in a national study, found a difference of 1.21 standard deviations on the AFQT.”"
mircea_popescu: but the whole thing strikes me like an attempt to establish a link between female beauty and hair color.
asciilifeform: visit a university library; 'bell curve' is a little brick, the 'refutations' - a book case and climbing
asciilifeform: instead they had to declare murry a public enemy and 'hitler'
asciilifeform: and openly profess to wish for a pill that would 'turn them catholic' or whatnot
asciilifeform: one of the mega-lulz re: 'paleoconservatives' is that most of these folks (that i've had the fortune of reading) struggle with a mental bug - they yearn to roll back to some known-good state where various old-school religions were still strong, but don't personally subscribe to them
mircea_popescu: 1. Any rule applied uniformly over a group with a view to some purpose will result in measurable contradiction of the purpose before it results in measurable achievement of the purpose.
assbot: 16 results for 'cognitive dissonance' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=cognitive+dissonance
mircea_popescu: 3. The Law of Net Harm: The less likely it is that the unwanted behavior will change voluntarily, the more likely it is that a program to induce change will cause net harm.
mircea_popescu: 1. The Law of Imperfect Selection: Any objective rule that defines eligibility for a social transfer program will irrationally exclude some persons.
mircea_popescu: what part of english as a single language ISNT perpetual and universally equivocal synonymy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you need a full body containment suit just to survive as a thinking man here.
decimation: mircea_popescu: modern us politics is a sandpile built upon equivocation
mircea_popescu: THIS is a fine example of what i fucking mean by educated.
asciilifeform: they're mainstream 'guiding lights', albeit - in the degenerate anglo world, with a 'minus' sign
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: you don't need to open a sewer hatchway to get to herr murray
asciilifeform won't give a damn if thiel appears with watson and putin also
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the intelligence vs education thing. i wish i had words to express my meaning in intelligible english. let's try by saying that a good mark of one's education is what sort of thing he fills his space with.
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asciilifeform confesses that he wondered if the purpose of that bet was not necessarily to win, but to soften a target
mircea_popescu: ;;google boring miss florida congressional aide made a derpy "bitcoin chamber of commerce"
asciilifeform: unless i catastrophically misunderstand, ^ the bears inevitably get the coin unless a fully bitcoinized supply chain materializes for mircea_popescu and others to use
mircea_popescu: anyway, whatever would happen would come as a surprise to everyone, including in no particular order : a) the people running btc-usd exchanges ; b) you ; c) the friendly usg log reader delegate ; d) isabelle boring or w/e her name is ; etc
mircea_popescu: what you describe is a what, 3 sigma event ? there's not a plan in place for two sigma events even. banal shit like "they used plane as rocket"
asciilifeform: or use a ten cent bullet
mircea_popescu: in your craziest models you don't have a hitler lizard tribe capable to handle such sudden bends of activity.
asciilifeform: would the folks who can zero his bank balance by pressing a button, let btc climb to 100k usd ?
mircea_popescu: (by nh i mean, a statement which has no content)
mircea_popescu: for instance i said null hypothesis as part of a deal with my brain to allow me to continue to exist.
mircea_popescu: that's a null hypothesis.
mircea_popescu: we're at the "known for a long time" hurdle yet.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:10:30; asciilifeform: which was known for a rather long time prior to becoming an industrial product