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mircea_popescu: the difference is that if you ignore the former you get paid, and if you ignore the latter you get hit in the head.
mircea_popescu: there is a very fundamental difference between constructed complexity ("web technology", astrology, political science etc) and actual complexity (protein folding, moving bodies in grav fields, etc)
mircea_popescu: "The Monte-Carlo approach to engineering, if you will, but with humans doing a really bad job of playing RNG." << how mp's view of VC world sounds, without any of the bile.
mircea_popescu: "all of their tools live in the Web, that bloated, miserable heap of accidentally co-executing text-as-sort-of-program."
mircea_popescu: duralumin, which is its first serious application, and what those large cow milk receptacles were made out of, in the 1920s pictures of farmers throwing milk away
mircea_popescu: the only thing is that "aluminum" is not like steel, it's like iron. ie, an element.
mircea_popescu: well depends what you alloy it with and how well you do that.
mircea_popescu: ALUMINUM DOESN'T CHIP << yes it does ben_vulpes ; poorly formulated aluminium's major problem is chipping. that's why it wasn't used in airframe fabrication from the get-go.
mircea_popescu: it turns out to be not only the best green tea i ever had, but so fucking great i'm actually drinking some.
mircea_popescu: so i spent four dollars for eight ounces of jasmin green tea.
mircea_popescu: as to archeology : find a source. that is the only way archeology works. you must find someone who remembers the history.
mircea_popescu: what shall be remembered of the thousand year archive is exactly what should be remembered : that which touched something that still interests.
mircea_popescu: some people who wrote deeds are dead. some are not. some LINES of deed writing exist ; some are dead.
mircea_popescu: trinque yes. imagine there's a millenium worth of deedbot, in the library of republixandria ; and imagine this is burned. now, we aim to reconstruct it.
mircea_popescu: dja understand how this models out or should i go into it ?
mircea_popescu: trinque pull out the whole bundle with a fingerprint in it, not just the deed
mircea_popescu: (this is turning more and more into the only legitimately useful implementation of "blockchyain technology" known to date)
mircea_popescu: and it delivered a blob consisting of all matter signed by that fingerprint, encrypted to that fingerprint
mircea_popescu: here's what i was thinking trinque : how much complexity would it add if the download was of the format
mircea_popescu: "So I bought a sewing factory makes a good title but the truther is that I bought a near perfectly sized industrial building and remodeled it to become a sewing factory."
mircea_popescu: one day im going to understand how stupidity in very smart people works.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: " you can support associative array lookups, appending to unbounded-size arrays, and the like, as fundamental machine operations."
mircea_popescu: trinque hey, is there a url to download deedbot's db, i forget ?
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_> <-- perhaps you'd also like to have girlfriends, but never see or fuck them << you don't understand what the internets is for, or what the mobile revolution all about.
mircea_popescu: dawg, that's where they play that game. you wanna play that game, gotta go where they play it.
mircea_popescu: what am i, like harlan ellison's noob that fell off the turnip truck ? so excited to be published i forget to pick up the check ?
mircea_popescu: how about "i don't feel like wasting any of the women i can stand enough to fuck on this fool's errand" ?
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't raise them myself anyway, what do they have mothers for ?
mircea_popescu: yet another reason i don't feel inclined to procreate : i don't actually know of a group for whose sake i'd be willing to lie to eventual daughters.
mircea_popescu: who did you think was prescribing all the ritalin, obgyns ?
mircea_popescu: "lie to little boys about their value, which is absent ; lie to little girls about their inferiority, which is nonsense. come out ahead of "saner" people."
mircea_popescu: and no, bismarckian public education is the original PRODUCTIVE scam. that's why the system even survived through centuries (and really, the same shit held up classical antiquity, just, different name)
mircea_popescu: it's rather instructive to compare the "what they were telling 5yo boys" sides of historical conflicts, with the "who won", check out that r!
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the point : unless you actually spend the inordinate amount of effort and make-believe into getting boys appear (to themselves, and to others) actually worth the effort, they won't be. and from there on the whole shebang unravels.
mircea_popescu: yes murican "educational experts" never got wtf the thing is for or about. because whatever, paint copysts.
mircea_popescu: to the extent it EVER worked, it was specifically designed koan-style by koan-aware people for that one guy.
mircea_popescu: school is for providing the background where korolev grows up. both he and the background are unaware of what they're doing there.
mircea_popescu: who designed their winning rockets, and more importantly, who decided to even go that way ?