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mircea_popescu: anyway. they sorta-read ba, mostly indirectly, and pretend like they're their own item. which is... you know, most people out there anyway.
mircea_popescu: none of the names mentioned belong to anyone of any consequence, in bitcoin or in their immediate communities.
mircea_popescu: "people like mp who don't have to retract shit on a daily - or even decade-ally - basis would be at an unfair advantage!11"
mircea_popescu: "imagine how nervewracking it were if you had to stick behind what you say! as a politician no less!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's fascinating what preoccupies people at any given juncture.
mircea_popescu: you can tell by all the breadcrumbs the use of pgp is so insecure it's outright spurious.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they say knowing what's needed is half the battle!
mircea_popescu: ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued."
mircea_popescu: "I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary
mircea_popescu: (which is why people fuck their secretaries. you really can't be any good unless intimately acquainted)
mircea_popescu: a well trained woman to whom you can say "do so and so" and she can and does.
mircea_popescu: they exchange pictures and isn't it adorable what did the mean people say blablabla.
mircea_popescu: now it's like the fucking women took over, everyone's in the "mommy community".
mircea_popescu: except at the time everyone was a scientist in their garage
mircea_popescu: that there's so precious little intellectual effort dedicated to the topic is prolly the saddest manifest of a dead culture.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, there seems no possible question that the nakamoto paper is a (tenuous) footbridge rather than any sort of wall.
mircea_popescu: ah, i'm disorganised. from literary criticism to actual agriculture
mircea_popescu: orwell for that matter displays it plainly, which is among the few facts pleading in favour of his intelligence.
mircea_popescu: i think anyone with a serious interest in human thought has a corner they use just in that manner you describe.
mircea_popescu: two extant problems being alf's provability and my economics/scam thing.
mircea_popescu: i think ironically the "basic bitcoin" exercise has illustrated we're not yet in a theoretically-complete position. damned close but not there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, is there an academiwank dedicated to programs that prove properties of themselves ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is something there i think but not usable as is
mircea_popescu: i thought all southern dishes that are fried are fried in groundhog fat.
mircea_popescu: it was rigurously defined and understood long ago, and we're not adding anything
mircea_popescu: also hanbot has it : idempotence IS fundamental to bitcoin. but unlike shit like sybil attack, or pgp, which were scarcely used or thought about before we came around,
mircea_popescu: mike_c honestly i suspek your intuition is certainly correct. more money to be made teaching this than 90% of the stuff taught online. "be a better you" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and im passing on the next 2, they're nice but more in a "basic guide to being a gentleman scholar in 2015"
mircea_popescu: 2. sybil. the purpose is irrelevant. all mitm is a degenberate case of sybil.
mircea_popescu: 1. locust. i did not say irrelevant, i said locust is not part of agriculture. it isn't.
mircea_popescu: there's been more than one case of people who'd have been much better served through tutoring than trying to drink from the river here.
mircea_popescu: * Adlai assumes the business model would be "pay us to troll you gentlyer" << for srs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason rawls is in there is because it gives perhaps the best approach for average derp to touch his derpitude. the reasoin no discussion of scamming is in economy is because i do not believe it is in there.
mircea_popescu: how "common" something is in principle does not mean it doesn't have to be on the supply list.
mircea_popescu: (one will note that the arithmetic basic is in pm economy too - the original way to lose your coinz was to not know how to count)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the one sad result of this exercise is that in fact it turns out a privileged relationship to randomness is an ingredient.
mircea_popescu: not that it's not interesting. but this is already a major asspoking.
mircea_popescu: lemme see if anything occurs. ima keep it open for a little bit see if i become suddenly unhappy with b overnight, then ima set it in stone an' give out some symbolic prizes for first completors.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the way this test is designed, not only is lying a theft against oneself, as these things usually are - but moreover it leaves a trail and there's something to bitterly regret later.
mircea_popescu: Adlai the idea being that if they have a decent understanding of fundamentals