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a111: Logged on 2017-05-19 17:22 asciilifeform: in other news, a 4096-bit A**B
takes approx 14 seconds (3GHz) .
a111: Logged on 2017-06-18 23:30 asciilifeform: and realized, while doing
this,
that in fact you don't need 2k+2 bits for
the karatsuba intermediates, you can do instead of (x0+x1)*(y0+y1) , (x0-x1)*(y0-y1), and
then you don't need
to propagate carries, but only
take absolutevalue and xor
the borrows
to see if gotta invert
the resulting
term
mircea_popescu: it's even better
that nobody (tm) is even bothered by
this, exactly like
they weren't in
teh self-same soviet union.
mircea_popescu: phf incidentally, it's a great
thing
the free world (tm) defeated
the soviet union where people couldn't be published for writing
things outside of
the yemu sam's letters.
mircea_popescu: but you can't sell your vampire story unless everyone in it is very
twinky.
phf: i don't
think you could get published in america if you were
to imply
that gayness is biologically viral in nature
BingoBoingo: Of course it must have. I
thought
that's what
the 1980's in "activism" was about. Vampire disease
phf: there was a young adult novel about vampires, and i can't remember
the
title or
the author, but it was written by a virologist, had all kinds of
trivia about
this sort of viral parasites (obviously vampirism was explored from
that angle
too)
mircea_popescu: a lot more work
to change behaviour ~in all mammals!~
than it is
to aflict one narrowly defined sort of ant.
mircea_popescu: however, rabies is a much better example :
the virus specifically accumulates in
the salivary glands, for
the ~purpose~ of being
transmitted
through bites, and shuts down
the deglutition behaviour.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, people get all excited re
the fungi
that grow out of ant's heads and change
the ant's behaviour etc.
mircea_popescu: though
the last word from harvard
trained Psychologists (!!!) is psychopath, i hear.
mircea_popescu: kinda how folk-whatever goes. "he had
the devil in him" ie liked
to
touch girls between
the legs and drank.
phf: there's
though a comedic dimension
to
the word, by 19th century you had a stereotype of bumbling deacon,
the kind of person who would blame "daemons" on personal insignificant follies
mircea_popescu: makes for much better demonography
than
the southerners had at any rate.
mircea_popescu: (both because
today's culture is mostly interhuman masturbation and because it has mostly lost
the ability
to reflect reality.)
mircea_popescu: yeah. at
the
time and in
those parts, wolves were a much more serious problem, and correspondingly a much larger part of culture
than seen
today
phf: yeah, бешентсво,
that is rabies, is derived from bes
mircea_popescu: of course,
they don't really have rabies in galilea, but wut-eevars!
mircea_popescu: afaik
the slavic notion of
the devil is muchly indebted
to a)
the observation of lyssaviri in action and b)
the passage about jesus and
the herd of pigs. so
they mostly understood demons as rabies agents.
phf: goes back
to slavic mythology, but i don't know what bes is
there. in old slavonic bibles it was used
to
translate
the word "demon"
phf: apparently from greek pithakos (monkey)
through latin foedus (ugly)
mircea_popescu: kinda
the whole story of socialism, as it happens. what
the pantsuits are doing is === voluntary apnea, and what happens
to
them is always "well, you ran out of money, so back
to capitalism whore!"
mircea_popescu: "voluntary apnea works out until
the brain shuts down from lack of oxygen and
the stem restarts breathing reflexively" ?
phf: which doesn't have a good direct
translation. "they will soon stop
throwing a
tantrum" but
the verb is from bes, i.e. old russian word for demon, so kind of like "they will run out of
the idiotic and chaotic energy, and will eventually calm down"
mircea_popescu: kinda why buying
the ourdemocracy pantsuit lolboat is such a ridiculous deal.
the only
thing you know for sure about it is
that, "wait a few years,
they won't like it anymore".
mircea_popescu: and so
the poor kid has allergy
to clothes and
the black kid
to learnin and
the injun
to sitting still.
mircea_popescu: the "uncles" ie uppity aunts don't like it anymore
these days,
though.
too much nigger in it, not
to mention a very strong vein of "things are as
they are not only because
that's how
they are but also because
that's how
tyhey should be".
phf: oh
that i don't know, i was 10, so i intentionally avoided learning what
the point was, i just had an uneasy sense
that it was
there
mircea_popescu: phf really ? i utterly missed
that out. i
think
to
this day. what was
the point ?
mircea_popescu: to
this day my idea of "who can be bothered
to read "other americas" or "trainspotting" or you know, watch coffy fightin' crime for
the black "homeland" is, 11 yo boy.
phf: i liked
twain, but he was also a
touch wholesome. like an older uncle,
telling you a yarn,
that has a Point
to it
that you're expected
to notice, because
the uncle grins every
time
the point comes up
mircea_popescu: then i discovered romania actually had a niche equivalent of
the us pulp, spinrad & all, so i moved on
to
that.
mircea_popescu: i preferred
twain, but
the problem is
twain wrote enough for a coupla weeks, verne for a coupla months. every day as a 10yo i'd come home from school, stop at library, buy another jv book an' go read it.
phf: i have
to be honest, i barely read jules verne. i
think it's just an incompatible
temperament issue, i preferred my romantics
to be a bit darker.
mircea_popescu: "bring back
that
time when ''your job is
to watch
tv'' actually WORKED."
mircea_popescu rather suspects
that actually star
trek figures principally as
the G in
that MAGA. it really was
the best of
times,
that worst of
times, for all
those involved.
mircea_popescu: afaik it was all about
that big screen and
the various people gathered around in
that livingroom
to watch it.
mircea_popescu: phf except
the soviet writer jules verne later wrote star
trek, "how great would it be
to sit on your couch watching
tv on which
they show you some dorks sitting on couch watching
tv"
phf: asciilifeform grew up on russian romantic literature (like
the soviet writer jules verne), yearns
to live on Nautilus
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform show me pics with naked chix sunbathing on
this submarine deck.
mircea_popescu: rules
to fucking live by, you know, "by
the
time you feel like you wanna live in a submarine, it's
time
to gtfo and find a better place."
☟︎ mod6: i dunno, if you feel like you wanna live in a submarine,
then perhaps its
time
to gtfo and find a better place.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what, you are going
to have a CONVERTIBLE sub ?
mod6: i feel like
that was once every 3 months
though. haha.
mircea_popescu: i dunno man,
there's many kinds of people and i dun expect
to understand all, but going by observation
to date
the only reason people even put up (for brief intervals) with
the many and significant inconveniences of navigation is access
to
the sun and
the wind and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno you'll be able
to find anyone willing
to indulge, so in
theory not but in practice likely.
mircea_popescu: they give
those out for free, you know, even in your jurisdiction.
mircea_popescu: mostly hits people like fishing boat crews, which is why
they never
take more
than X% noobs no matter what.
mod6: heheh. i can see it
though, mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mind
that
there's
two sea sicknesses, also, early and late.
though
the late is rare.
mircea_popescu: nudity is a start, but it's just... people have a bubble, it depends on many
things and i suppose is of various
types. if you pack
them
tighter
than
their bubble is
they'll get increasingly pissier.
mircea_popescu: possibly only
thing in nature
that actually occupies negative space.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it helps immensely if you only
take slavegirls along.
mircea_popescu: but
the insanity of one group does not affect
the bedrock of reality any.
mircea_popescu: which is why i said don't buy it in
the us, cuz yes
those people are SO into papers and empty signifiying by now
that it's a legitimate problem.
mircea_popescu: "you marry a girl, it loses 10k whoring value right
there" is rank nonsense.