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mircea_popescu: beats wood off the authentic cross and holy water from the whatever.
mircea_popescu recalls many winters ago going through books, discovering $680 express charge. turns out that if you want nyc service "within three days" you gotta pay like a week's wages. otherwise, the waiting list's 5 weeks long.
mircea_popescu: stories from the deep, for my good friends in nyc (paging mike_c ) : plumer called yest ; said he's gonna show up today between noon and 3. showed up at 1. fixed thing with his own parts, half hour labour, certified sort of task. the bill ? ~120.
mircea_popescu: it's a typical surface-and-radius problem, and we for some reason fell on the lucky side of it.
mircea_popescu: they'll get all the effort underway for a "sting operation", easy 100k worth, then you can just point and laugh at them.
mircea_popescu: precious few people living in coffins were "people rich"
mircea_popescu: this makes it a better thing to do than any alternative, for the guy in question.
mircea_popescu: anyway, inplainer terms : the point of rolly by some schmuck's house is that you get to be in the car, and the clock is ticking, and you almost certainly won't get shot.
mircea_popescu: dude, if they had the fucking balls to be effectual they wouldn't be themselves, now would they.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, the ba log is really nothing other than properly kept minutes.
mircea_popescu: she actually does have a point, tho im sure she made a mess of it. or maybe not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my main problem is that i find interacting with meat people to be a very mentally taxing thing. << explain ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i surmise that the oak may sleep to everything, except those times when it's awake ? :D
mircea_popescu: the interaction between the fantasyt of the superhero and the constraints of the reality got resolved by the above observation resulting in the field of the "private eye"
mircea_popescu: the happy travelling salesman is the salesman that has a girlfriend in every town on the route and a friendly boss at every competitor.
mircea_popescu: we are all people and we will successfully rebel against the necessary effects of the mistaken belief that we are people through the mechanism that people can do whatever they want and we are people too!
mircea_popescu: ask the fucking "start your own country" crowd, not me.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as you perhaps intuited, mp's private island is really populated by pirates and harlots.
mircea_popescu: yo Naphex wouldja consider putting "get in the wot" among the tasks for performers that earn them a fee reduction ? i'm willing to support it on the other end with the cents for tits programme.
mircea_popescu: The music of John Cage, Charlotte Moorman and Annie Sprinkle will take you by the hand, correlating Gamma zeros with prime numbers! Imagine deriving Euler's constant from Stirlings asymptotic series! Imagine never living in fear or embarrassment again! This life can be your own!
mircea_popescu: "Hooked on Differential Equations" sets each of these simple concepts to music. Twisted Sister, Metallica, The Dead Kennedys,
mircea_popescu: There are only 90 primitive functional, algebraic, polynomial, logarithmic, trigonometric, exponential, and differential transformations. There are only a dozen basic tactics for methods of solution. There are only 33 rudimentary sine and cosine transforms. There are only 29 elementary classes of Fourier transform functions. There are only a few score series expansion modalities.
mircea_popescu: wolf has many liberties, but among them is not the liberty to move around ignoring the cattle herd.
mircea_popescu: same thing. at least in romania, at some point the fuckable herd, 20somethings in pr and design and whatnot, decided this is the cool.
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure twitter pivoted from the "come advertise us for free, you canthen read yourr stuff" to the v2.0 model of "thanks for all the free advertising, you can't really do anymore so now fuck off".
mircea_popescu: (from the "if money's a curse, may god strike me down with it! and may i never recover!" series)
mircea_popescu: it is a curse, not entirely unlike, say, being born intolerant of the smell of farts.
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with either, but large groups have come to significant grief trying to deny the wall / piss uphill.
mircea_popescu: internal discipline never exists in a void. either you are a discipline factor, in which case you will, willy nilly, attract slaves and construct an ordered space, by the act of mere existence, or you are a discipline beneficiary, in which case you will slowly gravitate, also willy nilly, towards a structured space.
mircea_popescu: also, drunkenly beating your wife because the food was burned does not represent domestic discipline. scl.
mircea_popescu: also, three ring binder management is not a good representative of management.
mircea_popescu: the freedom to waste time is not equivalent to lack of accountability.
mircea_popescu: exploratory does too. /me has run scouts in the field, knows.
mircea_popescu: taking advantage of sociocultural shifts that made such masquerade feasible.
mircea_popescu: to me this is a good indicator of the subiacent truth : orwell was not really a writer, just masquerading as one.
mircea_popescu: some writers write poorly under stress (orwell) ; somee other writers only wrote because hungry and hounded (balzac)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this incredible drive of the hobo to file off some gold from el dorado and run off with it back into the gutter.
mircea_popescu: the reason "notation is worth 30 iq points" is specifically that good notations = properly crystallized topic.
mircea_popescu: ALL SORTS of previously inapproachable problems became mechanically solvable.
mircea_popescu: once newton/leibniz fixed notation, for instance, to take a very easy historical example,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it is not terribly useful, in that nobody has a fucking clue how to approach the serious problems.
mircea_popescu: so, yes, it's math (ie, proven, correct, what have you), in which sense it physically exists, with so and so properties. just like the petrified shit in the peat.
mircea_popescu: it needs to be A LOT more crystalline before it does any serious damage to the walls of the world.
mircea_popescu: currently it could be fair to say we have a large lump of peat bog math.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel a large part of the problem is that math is very poorly structured.
mircea_popescu: right for a definition of right that didn't even exist pre 2015.