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mircea_popescu: whichy is how "EVERYONE" loved obama in 2009 and everyone hated him in 2011.
mircea_popescu: the problem of examples (symbols, generally, whichy is what they are) is that everyone looking at them understands their own thing.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to illustrating what you see of the world with examples.
mircea_popescu: that's how we got in the fucking mess in the first place, if that's all you wqanna do how about we just microsoft.
mircea_popescu: "by the power invested in me i hereby call him my 00000boyfriend! all is well now!"
mircea_popescu: o i see. nominalism gonna save you from the buttrape ?
mircea_popescu: what, if you arbitrarily chunk content into "humbers under 256" you've now done something ?
mircea_popescu: do not speak to me without backing, for i will eat your words.
mircea_popescu: did you count alphs ? do you have a definition of alephs ?
mircea_popescu: nobody "in computing" seems to have understood or even wanted to think about "wtf is this text"
mircea_popescu: this sort of thing is what i MEAN when i say "understand rng".
mircea_popescu: the ~ reason ~ "programming" decayed into its present shape IS THAT there is no difference to be had.
mircea_popescu: rng is imo least understood part of the box. a sort of equivalent of magnetism in physics.
mircea_popescu: all the work and expense that goes into not saying anything at all...
mircea_popescu: ascii_field live it looks like nothing in "practical, engineering terms" of people who do not, for that very reason. what does a mechanism that will allow you to step on the moon look in practical terms, of chairs and stacking strategies ?
mircea_popescu: if only i had better food! like say blue food. who hid all the blue food ?
mircea_popescu: is it because i eat the tainted food of argentines, who are the sort of people who don't fly, and probably for a reason ?
mircea_popescu: is this because i live in argentina, where no one flies ?
mircea_popescu: omaigerd anyone who would invite a 16yo into life is a psychopath!!1. which really masks "omaygerd being 16 is so fucking scary!111" which he can't confront. because 15. but maybe next summer, after camp...
mircea_popescu: wherein tlp sides with alf in the alf-mp debate over assange/wikileaks etc, but wherein tlp also SHOWS (do, don't tell!) the fundamental weakness of that position. "oh truth without context isn't truth [and let's not mention how this is only because our science isn't actually science - if it were this problem wouldn't exist, but since it isn't then NECESSARILY wikileaks can only be true]".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the reason there existed ten thousand types of typewriter and exactly one ibm xt is that typewriters suck.
mircea_popescu: globalization's a thing. market competition is a thing. there will be always a dominant type of anything.
mircea_popescu: table: yes, you're hot, but you don't look like Rachel, you look like the other hot chick right next to you. And, bafflingly, you did it on purpose."
mircea_popescu: "most hot chicks, in order to be hot, copy something a celebrity wears; remember the Rachel-do? No problem, they look hot in it; but their delusion is that they are referencing Jennifer Aniston and not the millions of other women with the exact same haircut, i.e. that they draw their identity only from the celebrity's identity-- "This look really says me!" Yet sit along the wall of the bar and the conclusion is inevi
mircea_popescu: anyway, all this aside : digging out the whole rng story is a huge hot core of useful, important inquiry.
mircea_popescu: (also, the RNG content of a computer is not strictly found in a box labeled such).
mircea_popescu: b) is obviously "a girlfriend that's also god". of course.
mircea_popescu: but the more interesting question is twinfold : a) why would you not think of a calculator as the omega of computing and b) what would be the omega of computing then ?
mircea_popescu: well, acceptable or not im pretty much persuaded it's something that must be in there.
mircea_popescu: i got a perfectly fine thinkpad, asciilifeform doesn't think much of it as a... what's he call it, "workstation girlfriend" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "not good enough". really ? not good enough for what ? "networking!!1". o ?
mircea_popescu: and i'm not judging anyone for wanting to fuck their box. i understand the impulse, and hey, it beats trying to fuck your station wagon. or mains socket.
mircea_popescu: the usecases for "computer" precludes the calculator model, let's put it this way.
mircea_popescu: you want to fuck your computer, that's all there is to it.
mircea_popescu: you are NOT content with it being a simple calculator. it gotta wear fucking heels and lipstick for you.