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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.
mircea_popescu realises that probably no one else's light went off when alf was getting all excited about vmath that what he was seeing really was "omfg, usable molecular chem."
☟︎ mircea_popescu has never been involved in the field, some minor amateur interest, and the math.
mircea_popescu: oh right, cuz you used to work at the mice farm, it's starting to come back to me
mircea_popescu: anyway, leach, great book. i dun think i understood most of it, but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: you think linux is in bad shape, that just means you don't know enough math.
mircea_popescu: the models are shit because math is broken because idiots do strings theory and social fucking "sciences"
mircea_popescu: contrary to what you might think, these are basically human pick-and-place machines.
mircea_popescu: just... god help the army led by an argentine general ; or the country led by an argentine president etc. it'd do about as bad as the usarmy/usa.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd trust a ba mechanic. cook. dentist. plastic surgeon.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the street has yet to be invented in romaniawhere all the cars are parked within the same two inches from the sidewalk.
mircea_popescu: it gets WINDY. parking on a 30% incline with 50mph winds.
mircea_popescu: no, i know the thing, and ftr a number like that has been thrown around pretty much ever since the major synth advances of the 80s
mircea_popescu: you realise i can declare a compound of arbitrary complexity right ?
mircea_popescu: so can i have polymerizable water ? or is this "anything" limited by other criteria than "what you can describe" ?
mircea_popescu: ie, the better industry won that time. obviously you can throw some away because "variance'
mircea_popescu: so much so high street jewelers were taking full page ads lambasting the hoarding.
mircea_popescu: moreover... i seem to recall some bigshot names trying and miserably failing to corner the silver market.
mircea_popescu: if it was the lesser industry, it had the lesser bankroll.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ the problem you face is explaining why the guys with the lesser bankroll won.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, the soy because estrogens thing has a much better conspiraci score than the dupont hemp thing.
mircea_popescu: trinque the notion that devil ~= altered mental state is older than africa really. it's an universally recognised human truth.
mircea_popescu: rope factory, first factory, harbringer of industry. so it was.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, ropemaking was THE FIRST industrial process. everywhere.
mircea_popescu: sure pays off happens. but why did the inferior side prevail ? didn't the better industry have more money ?