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mircea_popescu: (notice how
this cycle goes ? i recall a 1990s large font craze also.)
mircea_popescu: heh.
the web progresses, alf. what do you want all
those old websites for.
mircea_popescu: anyway, but
the misnotaiton : it's not /a/ it's /ə/. dr/ə/kula.
mircea_popescu: now
the ~kid~, was named draculea /drəkulea/.
this is a diminutive, exactly in
the way "little boots" worked in latin.
the
term'd denote exactly
that, little dragon-guy spawn.
mircea_popescu: if anyone's curious,
the "drakula"
thing is phonetic misnotation.
the guy's father, vlad, was surnamed dracul /drakul/. drac means devil in modern romanian, but it also meant dragon at
the
time (1400s). dracul is articled form, -ul is how you make "the x" from "an x".
the man got
the surname because of german decoration he wore, which
to locals looked like dragon.
ben_vulpes: the female lykkins get impregnated by
the male lykkins and
then spend all
their
time bitching about how his salary isnt enough for her and her spawns needs instead of you know buckling down and cooking, cleaning, making
the shelves and other fixtures herself like any wife worth having.
a111: Logged on 2014-02-17 15:20 asciilifeform:
try
this one on for size
then. 'once drakula proclaimed: let it be known
throughout all of his lands,
that all who are old, or invalid, or diseased, or poor, shall come
to him. and so came
to him an untold multitude of beggars and vagabonds, awaiting generous alms. he ordered
them all brought
to a house for
this purpose built, and had food and wine brought
to
them.
they feasted amidst great merriment. drakula
t mircea_popescu: the amusing
thing being
that
these are in
the vast majority male. for all
the black eyes women get for free.
ben_vulpes: worm relegated
to
the bowels of amazon because never ranked over
three, and never at risk of firing because never ranked at
two is happy
to munch
turds forever.
ben_vulpes: not giving
the practice any sort of legs
to stand on, merely pointing out
the american plastic version of another correct republican
thing.
mircea_popescu: and
the simile is, "if your lungs and liver and etcetera worked
the way you code, you'd be just as dead as
this guy."
mircea_popescu: this is what education is all about : putting
the inept's ineptitude in
terms he can understand. simile is
the fundamental device
thereof.
mircea_popescu: don't like
the guy's driving, shoot his kid. sure, "kid is innocent", "that was uncalled for" bla bla. point fucking remains -- now he has
to make another one, which
takes no driving. at driving -- he sucks, so he can't appreciate what
that means. putatively at other
thing he doesn't suck nearly as much, so he CAN appreciate.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
the most important
thing being
that
they must be ~shot~. it's not
that you lose "standing in
the profession you were befouling". you must lose unrelated
things.
mircea_popescu: the romans specifically and explicitly despised men
that
thought.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the romans didn't
think.
the romans did.
mircea_popescu: it works for
the same reason ratios don't work in prisons etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but
the usual retellings don't include
the EMH reference,
there's no explanation as
to why it worked.
a111: Logged on 2014-02-16 23:53 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fave story re:
tepes: 'Некогда же обедоваше под трупием мертвых человек, иже на колие саженых, множество бо округ стола его; он же среди их ядяше и тем услажашеся. Слуга же его, иже пред ним ясти ставляше, смраду оного не могии тер
mircea_popescu: efficient market hypothesis -- he correctly judged
that by
the
time music is being played and dancing is going on,
the faux beggars had pushed out
the real ones.
mircea_popescu: vlad
tepes famously offered lavish banquet for
the city poor (which at
the
time meant, men crippled so
they can not work, are reduced
to begging). he gave
them ~
two hours, after which burned down
the
thing / guards cut down anyone
trying
to get out.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu:
they attempt
to emulate
this in safe-space style with "stack rankings"
mircea_popescu: but
the best
thing
that you could do as google manager is, have swat
teams round up all
the employees in a field somewhere, randomly shoot 10% and
tell
the rest
the next round of shooting is in six weeks,
they'd better impress.
mircea_popescu: right. stalin had
the right idea -- some remnants even visible under putin.
mircea_popescu: their copy has all
the virtues of a xerox of a statue.
mircea_popescu: they
tried
to copy what
they
thought
the great america was doing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i still can't fucking believe
the ivan ivanov
thing.
mircea_popescu: then stalin gave amnesty for people willing
to fight zee germanz, and a bunch went. when
they were picked up later for going back
to
the life... well...
there were some philosophical disagreements inside.
mircea_popescu: vory/suka, for
the record, is
this ancient dispute in ru penal system, whereby it is verboten for respectable criminal
to help
the government.
this going about as far as
the jews, dudes won't push a fucking button.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-29 19:40 phf: but if
the argument is really reduced
to воры/суки
then guys above are idiots, because иван иванычи and have all
the intelligentsia deficiencies
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 14:50 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657315 <<
there's very little interest
to even ask who
the fuck
this peter norvig is. i was going
to
the first
time it popped up five lines up, but
then i was, eh, whatever. i guess ima ask since it got discussed a little. who
the fuck is peter norvig ?
mircea_popescu: ie,
the us krill is laughably vulnerable while
tiny, sometimes
transitions into outrageously mendacious
through growing larger.
ben_vulpes: probably
tastes great with react native
mircea_popescu: the way scum reproduction works is
that when scum's
tiny it does dumb shit like
this and nobody really cares about it ;
then as it grows up it moves
to stealing mysql and naming it something else, like facebook.
ben_vulpes: 'saas'
thing
that...does user related stuff? i have no idea.
ben_vulpes: i only have
the vaguest idea from #saltminesocial
mircea_popescu: 2013, right ? PUBLISHED. online. "nobody knows". oh, who's mp,
that guy who pre-leaked
the original cable leak by like a day and forced guardian & friends
to release ??? NEVER HEARD OF HIM!!11
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 14:39 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657300 << heh. and
the roman "empire" outsourcing
to barbarians creates big barbarians and imperial shell game. see also
the lulzy story of how
the palace mayor became king of paris etc.
mircea_popescu: so
they installed all
the
trampolines and
tubes and whatnot, and guess what --
the retards spawned by
the dumbest generation of autists in history LOVED IT!!11 omaigerd it's literally like being six all over again!
there's even stylisized changing station on
the wall
to remind us of how mom "had
to" keep us in diapers
till we went
to school! OMG LOVE!!!
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 14:05 phf: also doesn't leverage
the competitive advantage of google. massive datasets, crowdsourced solutions (hire all
the developers, hope something works!1)
mircea_popescu: story of kid who gave up on dating because he finally discovered masturbation, all hail Saint Elliot Rodgers,
the martyr of his people.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 14:03 phf:
there's an earlier
talk he made, maybe 10 years ago, where he basically said "we used
to do all
these analytical algorithms
to AI, but
turns out you don't need none of
that, because we have massive datasets instead."
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657324 << funnily mirror of
the "We used
to go out and
talk
to women, which was interesting, but it
turns out you don't need
to do all
that, as
there's all
these... um... uh... massive...errr... data..sets, yeah,
that's right, massive datasets
to explore!"
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 13:53 phf: i doubt
there's going
to be one,
the
talk was made at lispnyc, but is otherwise very
thin on lisp. ("LISP had exploratory programming, and we need exploratory programming,
therefore, you lispers, go and ugh do
things!1") i doubt
there's any interest
to
transcribe it.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657315 <<
there's very little interest
to even ask who
the fuck
this peter norvig is. i was going
to
the first
time it popped up five lines up, but
then i was, eh, whatever. i guess ima ask since it got discussed a little. who
the fuck is peter norvig ?
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 13:43 phf: i guess
that's aligned with
the "we moved from SICP
to python, because programming is no longer about writing code, but discovering libraries"
that's periodically discussed in logs
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 13:37 diana_coman: I saw
this
thing in action; and brighter kids effectively perking up when
they finally find someone sane
to laugh at such idiocy, call it by its name and actually help
them understand something; in eternal words "it actually MAKES SENSE now!!"
mircea_popescu: then
they show up at
the office and expect it
to be "the office", and why should people have
them do work, just make an offer already.
mircea_popescu: but
they're not learning anything, which is
to say, as a self-transformative activity.
they're "learning" in
the sense of "raising awareness" about
themselves, which is
to say :
they expect, or rather act as if
they rightfully expected,
that
the whole world changes so as
to accomodate
them as
they are.
that's
the whole story of
this "learning".
mircea_popescu: it fucking didn't, which is
the fucking point. ~IT~ didn't.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 13:28 phf: “What was it like
to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016) (quora.com)”
mircea_popescu: or, for
that matter
the lulzy story of how us "coalition" works out in practice. "gee, i wonder what happens if we have no soldiers and keep paying arabs
to soldier for us...."
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 07:50 BingoBoingo: Anyways,
the morality
tale is
thus: Big American companies outsourcing
to small Chinese upstarts creates Big Chinese companies and small American shell games
phf: also doesn't leverage
the competitive advantage of google. massive datasets, crowdsourced solutions (hire all
the developers, hope something works!1)
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-02-18 22:29 asciilifeform: '... what was once dedication is replaced by greed and sometimes sheer need as
the motivation
to enter
the field.'
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 13:47 diana_coman: it certainly fits it perfectly, yes; and overall it also fits
the more general pattern:
the moment everyone gets
to do it, one can
tell
that "it" is a. only a pale shadow of itself, b. going
to shit full-speed ahead anyway
phf: there's an earlier
talk he made, maybe 10 years ago, where he basically said "we used
to do all
these analytical algorithms
to AI, but
turns out you don't need none of
that, because we have massive datasets instead."
☟︎ diana_coman: he got... googled and has no more lisp
to offer :|
phf: well, he also wrote an ai
textbook with exemplary lisp
diana_coman: well, 45 minutes
to watch
the video seem more like 45 minutes wasted;
tbh
the
title reference doesn't bode well either
phf: i doubt
there's going
to be one,
the
talk was made at lispnyc, but is otherwise very
thin on lisp. ("LISP had exploratory programming, and we need exploratory programming,
therefore, you lispers, go and ugh do
things!1") i doubt
there's any interest
to
transcribe it.
☟︎ phf: reading, like some kind of
terrorist
diana_coman: ugh, I can't seem
to find a
transcript of
the
thing
phf: ...where he made a point
that "computer science" has become an empirical science, done
through experimentation, and "look it up on stack overflow" is part of
the process. i
thought he was joking