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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform notice
trilema doesn't suffer from same problem ; read mp-wp ; live happily ever after.
mod6: it's gotta be browser related. if you copied
the PGP signed data out of
the database comments field or what not, and it was ok,
then ok. may not mangled. but perhaps
the browser does some weird formatting hijinx and
that's fuckin us up.
mod6: I wrapped with <pre></pre>
tags.. i feel like somewhere a \n got snarffed or something
mod6: yah, I
think it's a good conversation
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 01:39 asciilifeform: imho it ought
to return an ~algo~ for attempting a better-than-chance prediction of nth bit, given n;
mod6: I was going
to finish all
the
tests, compile some info,
then if he still hadn't written
to us or shown up here, I'd write him.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6, mircea_popescu : no word from
the dh d00d, eh <<
tbh, I haven't even reached out myself yet.
mircea_popescu: for all i know dood hasn't even found
that clicking plate with square nubbins on it for
the past eight months.
mircea_popescu: there doesn't seem
to be more rhyme or reason behind
their decisions / behaviours / choices / "engineering" generally speaking
than behind movement of clouds.
mircea_popescu: honestly, from
the past few years of involvement with "software engineers", i can squarely say i have no fucking idea what goes on in
their heads, but if it came
to light
they're just randomly squirming like froglegs on electric plating i wouldn't be much surprised.
jhvh1: shinohai:
The operation succeeded.
mod6: asciilifeform:
thanks for sharin'
mircea_popescu: start giving
them six months for going around dressed and obnoxious shit like
that, i say.
mircea_popescu: about 2.55mn women in jail by fall,
to sit
there
two or
three decades at
the latest.
mircea_popescu: i would say
that in order
to rectify historical injustices,
there's strict need for about
mircea_popescu: this DOESN'T constitute some sort of misandrism, and it's NOT
time
to change
the laws
to you know, punish more girly shit ? how about 5 years in jail for watching netflix without a partner, speaking in a shirll
tone, being fat or being obnoxious ? and striking male crimes suck as you know, fucking, from
the books ?
mircea_popescu: and
to continue
the penitentiary discussion : i don't seem
to see all
the fuckwits insisting
that black dudes being jailed constitutes some kind of racism etc notice
that a) google will serve you
the "37% non-hispanic blacks" figure on a search for "us inmate population by gender" front and center, because who cares what you're actually searching for, have some nigger figures in any case and b)
there's only 12k women for 175k
mircea_popescu: did
they catch
the homeless dude responsible or still shopping around ?
mircea_popescu: orwell,
technically, was physically present in india
the dominion. similarly, failed
to understand
the working of
the mechanical details, similarily for all
the shit between
the eyes : more committed
to not admitting he's a shithead
than
to understanding anything.
mircea_popescu: the contention is
that he wasn't in any position
to understand
the working of
the mechanical details, for all
the shit between his eyes.
mircea_popescu: doesn't really have much
to do with either prison, or my book.
mircea_popescu: the item was not yet borne into being
that'll force me
to include anything. he's welcome
to figure prominently in any she-anglotard "story of prison".
mircea_popescu: and for
the record i've not
that much respect for solzhenitsyn. yes, very accomplished child, child nevertheless. so he famously went and
told mommy
things and mommy really cared. good for
the fucking
tuna ; meanwhile what
the fuck is he
to know about
the point in discussion.
mircea_popescu: if
the dorks outside don't slosh
too hard, what're you gonna get.
mircea_popescu: so you can actually end up with selected space where,
to quote in
translation, "with any luck i can go an entire week without drinking after an idiot"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
thing is, loser jailbirds get killed in normal prison.
phf`: “One day
Trurl decided
to build a reddit user, but he was afraid
that Minsky was going
to built one before him. Meanwhile Minsky was building a reddit user of his own, and was
trying
to hide him from
Trurl. etc.
mircea_popescu: reddit users were rendered obsolete by "ai" back in
the days of minsky.
trinque: ever closer
to
the goo-tube life
mircea_popescu: then again fwih ru prisons also went
to shit. all hope left is i guess brazil ?
mircea_popescu: anyway.
this phf` - enabled short survey
through
the us penitentiary culture leaves me unimpressed. not much of a culture, is it.
mircea_popescu: gimme a break, anyone who's someone can get a bottle or
two of whatever
they like. wtf.
mircea_popescu: "Mix a can of Cherry Dr. Pepper with instant coffee, cocoa, cappuccino mix, a carton of milk, and some leftover sugar packets
to make a drink
that
tastes as close
to cognac as you will get in prison."
mircea_popescu: ahahaha. really, chicks in female jail pretend
to be butch for money ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of
this, here's something
to piss alf off in so many ways :
mircea_popescu: wtf is with all
the ramen anyway.
they've no pasta where
these people live ?
mircea_popescu: he'll oppress his own
tastebuds gleefully for
this purpose.
mircea_popescu: see, alfie ? social behaviour.
the dude will gladly state a nonsense
to
the outgroup (us)
to gratify
the ingroup. he's not even a part of it notably, but he aspires
to see himself and hopes
to be seen by us as if he were.
mircea_popescu: "Quite frankly some of
the
tastiest food I have ever eaten was cooked in
the microwave by inmates." o brother.
mircea_popescu: well my experience is ancient and from outside
the best korea
mircea_popescu: strangely enough, none of
the people i knew in jail ever complained.
mircea_popescu: but yes, i expect prison food is a shade below rather
than a shade above what
they feed
the cattle normally at
the mall food court.
mircea_popescu: i dunno about
the last point.
they used
to pay someone for just
that, in
the middle ages.
mircea_popescu: that nobody makes use of
the library part seems rather a comment on
the nobody.
mircea_popescu: it seems rather certain at
this point
that us "SHU" ~= being locked in library.
phf`: the one dude who reads
through chemistry
textbook in solitary also probably doesn't make
the headlines of "horrors of solitary"
mircea_popescu: can get family visits! "o noes, it's
through phone/plastic windows!!"
mircea_popescu: truth be
told,
the human brain isn't either intented or designed
to exceed 30 years of continuous abuse.
mircea_popescu: still,
the boredom angle... let
them prove all
the
theorems yes ?
mircea_popescu: it's not implemented by
the batiscaphe, at least not usually.
mircea_popescu: afaik
they get a book a week or some shit, i dunno, haven't followed.
mircea_popescu: if your
theory of man had any feet, solitary confinment weren't regarded as
the mother of all
torture. physiologically, people lose
their minds. maybe you or i wouldn't care, or maybe we
think so in our ridiculous, adolescentine misapprehension. but
this anecdote doesn't do much.
mircea_popescu: monkeys are social rather
than solitary.
this goes with "have
two limbs and opposable
thumbs". how exactly
they make use of
those limbs or invest
that sociality is also up for grabs, but doesn't speak
to
the principle.
mircea_popescu: us environment
threats, such as you know, other civilisations, volcanoes and aliens landing is entirely up for grabs.
these points make
the good/bad adequate/inadequate distinction, not whether
the "inmates" "like" it in
their "hearts of hearts". for one
thing
they're not inmates, lacking
the capacity of outmating ; for
the other
thing
they can't like and for
the
third
they've no heart of hearts.