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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you get 0.0726 between -1.15 and -.85 deviation.
mircea_popescu: it is rare, yes. look at the normal distribution, between say 88 and maybe 75 you get what, 4% of the population ?
mircea_popescu: it is generally rare to find a woman so stupid her actual optimal level is housewifing.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the model breaks down on low states. which is why the housewife is such a problem for your approach : she's hot alright.
mircea_popescu: maybe a sufficient approach if all you care about is handling and predicting
mircea_popescu: a housewife is exactly that : someone completely adherent to the mob. so much so she can spend all her time with children and not care.
mircea_popescu: that most creative people throughout the ages would prefer to pretend "they're insane" rather than make plain their complete inadherence to the mob is readily understandable
mircea_popescu: i see little more at work than utter contempt for "fellow man" in the common sense this is given.
mircea_popescu: i write the occasional bit of poetry/literature, and i don't either regard it as some sort of gain or myself as insane (for it)
mircea_popescu: so there's a number of different problems with this "ev activity" line of reasoning.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also, art is always and by definition a -ev activity, and people engage in it. for that matter, love and childmaking idem.
mircea_popescu: this is what being intelligent means : the more intelligent you are, the less often you get more than what you put into things.
mircea_popescu: and re vi - whatever!!1 i used it for years. nowadays i find i mostly use nano. then again nowadays i mostly read other people's reports.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in computing (the actual kind) the record's not as bad as in most other disciplines.
mircea_popescu: and yes, the "scam money rots your brain" think is also a very powerful theory.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not that i'm persuaded, but one can't not notice the coincidence.
mircea_popescu: maybe you're right, and it's incidentals. or maybe lisp to the young mind is like meth-lsd
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform name a guy who did lisp and survived mind intact.
mircea_popescu: this "take one side of the story and run with it" is speciufic of ambitious if none too bright 15 yo boys.
mircea_popescu: 2) graham spent his mind on thinking about lisp, ended up a 60 yo too fucktarded to understand even the most basic points of math.
mircea_popescu: 1) naggum spent his mind on thinking about lisp, ended up a 40year old too fucktarded to get out of the rain. this is literally what happened, and one will have a lot of trouble talking around the failure of some guy to avoid dying of perforated ulcer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform look at this perhaps very worrisome set of two examples.
mircea_popescu: afaik they're about as fucktardedly puritan as the anglos
mircea_popescu: i've been up an hour i've been reading nothing but scandalous stupidity.
mircea_popescu: so techniucally it'd be an improvement. and if he stops eating at all and instead starts puking edible vomit like some sort of invertebrate cornucopia, he might even be socially useful FOR ONCE IN HIS SAD EXISTENCE
mircea_popescu: rather than the 99.94% his piece of shit "ventures" are currently.
mircea_popescu: he's so hyperfucktarded, he's only going to be 50% behind actual entrepreneurs.
mircea_popescu: here's what i propose : paul graham eat 500 calories for every 1k calories he expends.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Now suppose you're so un-rapacious that you only extract half as much from your users as you could. That means two years later you'll be making $80k a month instead of $160k. How far behind are you? How long will it take to catch up with where you'd have been if you were extracting every penny? A mere 15 weeks. After two years, the un-rapacious founder is only 3.5 months behind the rapacious one."
mircea_popescu: "Some examples will make this clear. Suppose your company is making $1000 a month now, and you've made something so great that it's growing at 5% a week. Two years from now, you'll be making about $160k a month.
mircea_popescu: i thought graham was supposed to be a competent old lisp hand. is this the brainrot lisp instills in people ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: p, and when anything grows at the rate of a successful startup, the Y axis will take care of itself."
mircea_popescu: "I told him not to worry about it, because so long as he built something good enough to spread by word of mouth, he'd have a hyperlinear growth curve. If he was bad at extracting money from people, at worst this curve would be some constant multiple less than 1 of what it might have been. But a constant multiple of any curve is exactly the same shape. The numbers on the Y axis are smaller, but the curve is just as stee
mircea_popescu: /0xfe6404ba34ea4c30538ff4d058f4bf883220fd79 is the fucking aliens, how about that.
mircea_popescu: instead it's "hey, let's fix my being a monkey with more monkeying around!"
mircea_popescu: fucking monkeys already. so he fucks up, once by getting involved in a piece of shit scam, the other for sucking at math. and what he wants to know ain't "i wonder how i could be less fucktarded" at any point.
mircea_popescu: that's her right nipple and her left tit under that pinkish mess.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, at meta-kehlsteinhaus, herr metahitler plays metahide&seek with meta-y maids.
mircea_popescu never could have predicted the "should be enough for anyone" magic number really discusses "how manby people may be alive"
mircea_popescu: WHERE the actual cosmos is in this entire new "computer universe" never ceases to shock and amaze.
mircea_popescu: there's a limit on how many humans may be people at the same time
mircea_popescu: dulap may be the latest piece of software in actual use that doesn't actually benefit from periodic rebooting
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dulap may be the latest piece of software in actual use that yeah
mircea_popescu: i think the latter kids don't really grok this "don't reboot machine " thing
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