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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gabriel_laddel i just parsed it as "
a weird way to say mountebanks"
ben_vulpes goes to buy
a bottle of wine to fuel the ruby rage
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> i'd guess that many folks can't even think about this subject without their brain melting from rage <<
a good eighth of my time is spent talking smart young guys down out of
a shartup-inspired rage attack
mircea_popescu: whether most women in x population are more like californians or saudis has nothing to do wit ha cunt being
a cunt.
mircea_popescu: "the education which gives
a man
a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments,
a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and
a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle
a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant."
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel or what they are. or how to look for them. essentially he's
a girl that'd like to fuck but never heard of clothes, or make-up or going out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the idea wasn't that, but to educate thiel so he's less of
a schmuck.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:05:50; gabriel_laddel: "measuring the fucking crystals" << "MPEX is just
a bitcoin security exchange, just like any other bitoin security exchange"
gabriel_laddel: 4) perhaps the fault lies with those attempting to peruse basic science, for not giving him
a heuristic
gabriel_laddel:
A summary of my points. 1) there are some people attempting to fund basic science 2) I don't agree with all of their funding decisions 3) this isn't the first instance of this occuring in history
gabriel_laddel: ^ here is
a blog I've not gotten around to reading yet
gabriel_laddel: (conceptually basic, atoms and the like, or basic in the sense of
a starting point that is eventually abandoned, e.g., alchemy)
ben_vulpes checks to see if
a > 1mb block is floating around
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 23:06:12; asciilifeform: the 'time microscope' thing is typical of aging inventors who, by virtue of being cut off from competent peers (either by having none alive, or being on the wrong side of
a jail of one kind or another)
gabriel_laddel: can you predict exactly what
a WoT enabled world will look like?
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: "measuring the fucking crystals" << "MPEX is just
a bitcoin security exchange, just like any other bitoin security exchange"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as if. but somehow,
a billion idiots picked this bit of shoeshiner's philosophy as their foundational line.
mircea_popescu: decimation there's
a reason i don't live in "civilised" shitholes. i can taste their "feasts of engineering".
decimation: hair. But
a range of new-wave yeast extracts is increasingly replacing E910. "
decimation: "The strapline for
a product called Butter Buds®, described by its makers as “an enzyme-modified encapsulated butter flavour that has as much as 400 times the flavour intensity of butter”, sums it up in six words: “When technology meets nature, you save.”"
decimation: I had
a similar experience when I went to italy on holiday
mircea_popescu: the usians have
a fucktarded chain selling the worst goop.
mircea_popescu: there's even
a chain of HORRIBLE icecream. in this town, that has the best icecream i have ever tasted, by
a long shot, and abundantly supplied by numerous artisanal gelaterias
mircea_popescu: i can't tell you how many times i've stormed out of
a shithole, inexplicable in context.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if they deliberately constructed
a home away from home, these people.
mircea_popescu: i grew permanganate crystals, at least that's
a meth precurso.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's
a thought : if al spent the past five years measuring things rather than skulking, he'd be in
a much better position todasy than five years ago.
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2014 02:36:41; asciilifeform: 'If you're
a defendant, you don't get to claim your fingerprints miraculously appeared at
a crime scene... If you're
a bookkeeper, you don't get to say money miraculously disappeared from your company...'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is
a fundamental difference between lysenko (nutter whose shit DIDNT WORK) and this (if it works)
mircea_popescu: not is of course practice, which is to say : if I were to declare I am ignoring "all that Einstein jazz", all physics penned after 1900 or so, and then built
a cathodic tube television that worked just fine without accounting for quantum effects, the trashing and bashing of Einstein fans would be all in vain : I'll just shrug my shoulders, keep building and selling my television sets and care not on whit of whatever th
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: walk where? wants grant money for himself as
a result of the discovery?
gabriel_laddel: the US is fucking nuts right now. you live in
a bubble of sanity
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 15:36:04; mircea_popescu: no wonder everyone in the us needs
a college degree. there's no way native intelligence could deal with
a tenth of the cognitive dissonance dished out on
a daily basis.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: but this is not germane to the issue. << Oh, but it is. These people are prepared to lie at every turn. See the stack overflow post, or the output of the Eot-wash group. If Al or Stan were make
a mistake in the run, they'd never be able to test it again.
gabriel_laddel: The Eot-wash group won't test this. And the string theorist in that stackoverflow question is more than happy to state that because
a large construction of molecules falls at the speed we expect it to, it couldn't possibly happen on
a small scale.
gabriel_laddel: What Al would like to test is pretty simple. Is gravity mirror-symmetric? If it is, then you can drop two stereoisomers in
a vacuum, and they'll fall at the same rate. We don't know that this is the case, and the universe actually violates mirror-symmetry on many scales. Perhaps
a violation will be observable.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: how would i learn to play footsie if not via
a wikihow article?
gabriel_laddel: iirc, it was an even bet whether the effect - if real - is even large enough to measure with current instrumentation at all << this makes
a great deal of sense
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu stoner paratrooper << fighters have
a lot of relaxing to do!
mircea_popescu: incidentally, in the ideal model which sits at the fundament of us academia, this would have been arranged over
a phone call and tried the next week.
mircea_popescu: think of it in terms of throwing bowling balls at
a tree from outer space. you won't get within
a mile. and if the first ball lands 735`331meters rom the tree, the next five won't land 735`331 meters from the next five threes.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel string theorists are
a lot like freudian psychanalists. the better ones follow the lieberman line.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nonsense. the middle east always was enternally-warring. this is like husband stuck with
a bad divorce, "at least i made her into
a slut"
gabriel_laddel: nah, the obvious, in the case of category theory: Sucking up all the mathematics ever via some OCR routines and categorizing it via computer. Have an intern write
a parser for latex -> ast