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mircea_popescu: it's not "this is moot to mp, with army of slaves". it's "he who refuses to buy into, can't help but end up with army of slaves".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i actualy had to do that i'd hire a mexican to drag a desktop and use special cabling before i'd use a fucking proprietary laptop.
mircea_popescu: what, you needed to render the film of fucking stoya in your hotel room ?
mircea_popescu: so was the reported death exaggerated or the name misspelled or what gives.
mircea_popescu: i have a dead sand nigger on file, but his name was spelled differently.
mircea_popescu: ontogenesis repeats all the accidents of phylogenesis in a distorted, cursed form.
mircea_popescu: which is to say, fucking divination and assorted theatrical bullshit.
mircea_popescu: so they ended up with an exact equivalent of "idiosyncratic medium, creative artistry"
mircea_popescu: for the reason discussed! no access to verifiable, predictable small parts
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the point re peripueral fever is important. see, the people DIDNT KNOW pottery is no good for reuse. so couldn't get to chemistry. guess why ?
mircea_popescu: this is starting to feel like fucking highschool all over again. shit, i missed that.
mircea_popescu: problem is the people giving the latter peripueral fever didn't really realise
mircea_popescu: corpses are almost pregnant women for almost any purposes
mircea_popescu: dude, nobody had to wait for glass to do chemistry either
mircea_popescu: a half-baked implementation of V is what i had been maintaining in my head throughout my schooling years.
mircea_popescu: but V is the best simulation of how actual math learning happens (in those brains actually capable to learn math) that we ever had as a fucking species.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now if only i was in prison and i had the fucking undisturbed time to actually do this.
mircea_popescu: which... you know, i slept on this, and it occurs to me that ACTUAL MATHEMATICS might be the perfect thing to implement over V.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (also, the proposed device does not actually work. the female ass is exactly antithetical to the steel ball. negative ricochet factor. fortunately.)
mircea_popescu: in spite of pretense to the contrary, nobody can tell teh difference.
mircea_popescu: (if you sautee the eggplant first, then you use the butter to sauce...)
mircea_popescu: cut the chicken in very long thin strips and butter fry them lightly, can also add sautee'd eggplant
mircea_popescu: the former home made because srsly i have never seen a restaurant that made edible white pizza
mircea_popescu: most recently i've had white pizza with fried chicken and artichoke and margherita with extra anchovies
mircea_popescu: <phf> you mean like a bell pepper pizza? << absurdly the us figure spicy salami can be propperly called "pepperoni", which is normally a veggie.
mircea_popescu: phf they can go discover the moscow school of psychology for all i fucking care. idiots.
mircea_popescu: but no, you're not supposed to eat american processed meats, if that's actually what you had in mind. if what you had in mind was actual salami, say with peppercorns or something... sure.
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt people who call salami "pepperoni" ever had proper salami anyway.
mircea_popescu: there's >10k dubious establishments that pretend all sorts of things, up to and including HAVING INVENTED THE DAMNED THING, but otherwise never saw one.
mircea_popescu: well on the other front, i just got taken to the only actual pizzeria in buenos aires
mircea_popescu: ty internets. you might not know wtf fractals are, but you certainly spring the goods when it comes to naming strippers.
mircea_popescu: i also have cherysse which apparently is my own invention
mircea_popescu discovered he had got candi and candice on his very own!
mircea_popescu is naming his heroes in this game, and he decided all the thieves get stripper names (for obvious reasons) that start with the letter c.
mircea_popescu: byzantium when it fell to the turks was 4-5 villages lost among pastures surrounded by ancient walls, and american english is similarly a huge complex architecture maitnained by the remnants of a leper colony
mircea_popescu: im not even sure it's any sort of alteration above and beyond simple decay through disuse.
mircea_popescu: as the headcount of romanian kids toiling with gheba during five decades.
mircea_popescu: i don't think as many people lived the bible as a whetstone in their life during the whole history of christianity
mircea_popescu: and so all the books were called "exercitii si probleme" or "probleme si exercitii"
mircea_popescu: In fact, even the term “word problem” is not used in Russia, because the word “problem” usually means a word problem, while non-word problems are called “exercises”. << exactly correct ftr. the difference was even enshrined as such, in the ro equiv of "standards" cca 60s.
mircea_popescu: (and once you've done that you're right over on cantor's doorstep and so forth. this might even be the best way to even introduce numbers altogether.)
mircea_popescu: (and if you're doing that, pretty much every bright 12 yo kid has been playing mentally with the peano curve while taking a shit and following the tiling, but didn't know it's called that. so you could of course tell him.)
mircea_popescu: (ironically, the concept can be correctly introduced - if one's willing to take the geometric route, and in so doing miss out on most understanding available in the topic - by first explaining what a tangent is and then demaning a closed continuous curve be drawn that allows no tangents. good enough for a bright 12yo, plus minus. but otherwise, fractals are of analytical rather than geometrical interest.)
mircea_popescu: and with this observation, the world as observed suddenly makes significantly more sense.
mircea_popescu: see, this is the problem. we go around like we're all people and shit. but then some of us go home to where we know what fractals are, and some of us go to whatever that is, where they don't.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: jesus fucking christ no english speaker can produce a definition of this concept.
mircea_popescu: "A fractal is a never-ending pattern" quoth "fractalfoundation.org".
mircea_popescu: From: Doctor Douglas Subject: Re: Fractals Hi Boris. The key idea in the definition of fractal is "self-similarity". What this means is that the object looks the same no matter what power magnifying glass you use to view it.
mircea_popescu: From: Boris Subject: Fractals What is the definition of a fractal?
mircea_popescu: "An object whose parts, at infinitely many levels of magnification, appear geometrically similar to the whole. Fractals are used in the design of compact antennas and for computer modeling of natural-looking structures like clouds and trees."