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mircea_popescu: (i really use very little software, and most of it either 30 years old or made by people i know)
mircea_popescu: i live in the dirigible world past the horizon, my shit dun crash.
mircea_popescu: works fine for lines of code. i guess if i programmed more.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my takeaway from teh reading is that s.mg should probably at least try and support steam. so if there's someone who actually has experience with this, talk to me.
mircea_popescu: i actually have great hope for the future ofthis system yes.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the original point ofthings likethe mit ai lab, or the xerox parc, or etc, was that people could grab each other by the tie in the hallway
mircea_popescu: diana_coman that's the other thing. the odds of me giving two pre-compressed, freeze dried rat shits on the "article" of some random derp i dunno... hm.
mircea_popescu does a dozen or more of these "so let me run this by you" citizen arrests things.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the point of convenience, of course, and the humane way to do this, is where you know the people who'd have written articles on that topicanyway, so you put some bagels in the oven, ring them up, invite them over, and talk the matter through over wine.
mircea_popescu: and then five years later you discover it hid for no reason one article out of 6
mircea_popescu: so yes in this sense, google is here to supersede "smart contracts" or vice-versa, whatever. either way really, nonsense's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the google problem is in any way different from the colored coins/ripple/ethereum problem, or generally "automated trust" issue.
mircea_popescu: but then once people are aware of the scoring, you're lost and it's irredemable.
mircea_popescu: the original idea was superb, the pr thing. it's a great way to score a graph.
mircea_popescu: the general population may be happy to pop sugar pills, but that doesn't make them medicine, right ?
mircea_popescu: this is all nice and good, but it still does not make it useful.
mircea_popescu: and that said, i am probably in the top 1% when it comes to understanding the higher level issues involved, which means i canhammer together a search string like few others. so google would probably be lot more useful to me, were it to be useful at all, than to the general population.
mircea_popescu: even when i'm playing way out of field, google still fails.
mircea_popescu: and right now, im doing (atypically) a foray into discussions of a topic im not particularly familiar with (indie game devel). i read upwards of fifty pages, i did not use google at any point throughout. because, here's the snatch : you try googling something to get you these results.
mircea_popescu: in short, google may perhaps maintain the illusion of utility for as long as the needs are superficial and stay that way.but if you're mostly looking for specific stuff and tend to go beyond the surface of things, it doesn't actually do anything whatever.
mircea_popescu: (and btw, i found it by typing se in myaddress bar which took me to search.bitcoin-assets.com/ rather than typing anything into google. because THIS always works and is way faster)
mircea_popescu: anwyay, google as bookmark organizer, which is what you're describing, is about as useful as that goes, sure. could just as well use any other
mircea_popescu: tho i have homebrew talent, you know those people who know ALL THE ACTORS and ALL THE SONGS etc ?
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between these two classes of questions, you know, like in tech support.
mircea_popescu: (i rarely ask "gimme the recipe", because i'm actually sa pretty good cook. usually i ask "is this white sauce or what did you do ?!"
mircea_popescu: not useful is like untrustworthy. doesn't mean "absolutely and in all cases zero use". it just means unreliable enough to be 0.
mircea_popescu: ah, sure. it can. it can also send them to paycoin, just as well.
mircea_popescu: but see, the only reason i could conceivably be interested in is because a woman made them and i liked. then i ask her, such as my mom, or the chick in the cofee shop, or whoever. i don't think i ever wanted to make a random item.
mircea_popescu: maybe in the end the story reduces to "i'm just uncurious enough"
mircea_popescu: i simply do not care what those examples may be, i expect to be the example for them.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've used style templates in the past twenty years. conceivably this may be a difference of style.
mircea_popescu: how do you know the places google takes you to have any info ?
mircea_popescu: if it's a complex enough graph it really doesn't matter where you start.
mircea_popescu: if i want to find out what X said i don't go to ask google, i go ask x. etc.
mircea_popescu: and if you don't believe it anyway, then why bother with the box ?
mircea_popescu: do you now go through life with the notion in your head that chicken broth is a fuel oil ?
mircea_popescu: but in general, what sort of information do you obtain by putting words in a box ? suppose you search for "chicken broth" and they explain to you it's a heavy fuel oil. do you believe that ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if it's some pop cult reference i either ask someone in the know or else ud/tvtropes. if it's some actual thing i usually know enough to know what to read.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'm not the sort of hayseed that needs to search the web. but i assume there isn't, because it's a hard problem. there not being, however, does nothing for google, imo.
mircea_popescu: "this pressed shit gun doesn't work" "is there an alternative ?"
mircea_popescu: jurov dja happen to have any idea how to package linux code for steam ?
mircea_popescu: o btw, do you have a reddit acct that's aged enough to make subreddits ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: punkman the article is very carefully engineered to bilk, which is why i linked it.
mircea_popescu: (very often these numbers are fudged, it's not x people, it's two famblies. sort of like swining, except they don;t fuck.)
mircea_popescu: i have my doubts indie efforts can manage more than ~4, really, which is essentially a double date
mircea_popescu: "We ended up operating for five months without money or payments to the team here. It was a difficult period, where some of us were awkwardly standing in front of cashiers having our credit cards declined, drawing from any possible savings, and borrowing money from our friends and family. But we made it to the other side!"
mircea_popescu: never move for babes. the whole concept of babedom is they gotta move.
mircea_popescu: moved for babes returned for food moved for babes returned for food ?
mircea_popescu: the mutatis mutandis equivalent of this nonsense has existed for a longtime. doesn't even need that much mutation.
mircea_popescu: the intellectual decay, over two short generations, is fucking awesome.
mircea_popescu: “I used to play a lot of complicated games like Dungeon Keeper " oh come the fuck on. dungeon keeper's main appeal was that is simplicity incarnated.
mircea_popescu: "but it enhanced my creativity" "so get a blowjob, eat a cookie, whatever".
mircea_popescu: that's the guy's entire shtick. if your paradigm is stupid enough to not allow useful statements to be made, its inconsistency can not be proven. !godel approach to linguistic production.
mircea_popescu: "his shit makes sense, in its own paradigm" "sure. so does anything. his paradigm is pretty stupid" "can you formally prove this ?" "no. because..."
mircea_popescu: In fact death isn’t mentioned at all. Neither is failure. Death in the traditional video game sense is absent."
mircea_popescu: "This feeds directly into Hall’s development process. Pac-Man 256 – a new version of Pac-Man that, if you’re good enough, literally never ends. Pac-Man as an endless runner. Or Crossy Road, an endless version of Frogger. In both games you are never punished for dying. Often you are rewarded.
mircea_popescu: "Penny’s hatred of losing is legendary in the Hall household. Every time there was a possibility of her losing a game, she’d close the app and toss the phone away. Every time a game threatened to kill her she would quit. Immediately."