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asciilifeform: Framedragger: unless you are in academia racket yourself, and get paid to participate in the idiot kakubi where 'i'll pretend your crapola has relation to reality, you -- pretend that mine does' -- you can safely ignore such 'research', yes
asciilifeform: or suppose asciilifeform threw his priv p,q to the crowd at his hanging. then henninger goes to another town , where they have nfi, and 'hey folx!! i broke this evildoer's rsa key!!! with new! algo'
Framedragger: to remark in jest, this makes my own work more easier because i can dismiss any cs papers relevant to $work if they deal with data but do not also publish data. "not science, boss!1"
mircea_popescu: Framedragger what stretch ? i did an "early publication" of my research! was worth jack shit to you!
mircea_popescu: "oh, that hustler bit was interesting". same thing.
Framedragger: well the latter, of course, but how you can stretch this example i'm not sure...
mircea_popescu: will you mark it as "alf key craked" or "alf key maybe vulnerable, gotta read this tomorrow" ?
mircea_popescu: besides, you operate on the same exact paradigm, except when you deliberately turn off your brain and any sense of decency to participate with the empire of idiots. witness : if i now say "hey guise, i found way to crack asciilifeform 's key, will publish tomorow"
mircea_popescu: the most practical thing is to write junklets about how potent and sexy obama is all day.
Framedragger: it's just too extreme, i believe, and *impractical* (i wonder, did feynman publish raw data?)
mircea_popescu: and why is that ?
mircea_popescu: that we look down at people with "lower" standards ? that we deem "lower" == "absent" ?
Framedragger: i take issue with disqualifying *everything* which does not also publish raw data, though.
mircea_popescu: well so then what do you disagree with ?
Framedragger: i don't disagree there, of course.
Framedragger: look, i agree with this attitude; the ssh banners, etc etc are and will remain publicly available. these are *important* standards to have.
mircea_popescu: because it's the only fucking stance because what the everloving fuck.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger this great stance happens to have been held for many years, sucyh as for instance when in 2010 diana_coman didn't sleep a weekend to liberate the ro min of edu's data.
mircea_popescu: wtf else would they be and how would they be it.
diana_coman: and the fact that there is a lot of null published doesn't make it less null
Framedragger: that's a great stance of course, but i do believe that this disqualifies all but, i don't know, to speculate, "30" publications SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME ☟︎
asciilifeform: Framedragger: this is why we fight.
mircea_popescu: all publications which do not publish the data are newspaper articles.
diana_coman: Framedragger, yes, they are
mircea_popescu: "oh yeah, he totally did, here's my testimonial" ??
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: then all of the publications which do not publish raw data are null?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger this is a ridiculous stance. not published = not existing
Framedragger: asciilifeform: how little of the data is public is indeed *shameful*, and in that regard, phuctor should be lauded for making all data available.
asciilifeform: it is in terms of fucking ~publication of data~
mircea_popescu: where's the pre-phuctor phuctor ? can i has links ? something ?
asciilifeform: Framedragger: are you familiar with what henninger et al claim to have done vs what they actually made public ?
mircea_popescu: except it is, in terms of scale.
Framedragger: diana_coman: you are forgetting the detail where phuctor wasn't the first to do what it did.
mircea_popescu: you can claim all you want, but what's it to do with anything. for all you know i'm drunk. what's that change.
diana_coman: Framedragger, the issue is that it is RELEVANT
mircea_popescu: in what sense first (actually) biggest (actually) project to factor rsa is "not that important" ? who did something more important in the interval and what was it ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: not emotional; in fact i will go further and claim that *your* evaluation stems from a bit of butthurt (which is human, of course.)
diana_coman: it's like saying "oh, that guy is not 'important' hence his findings can be stolen"?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger is this evaluation based on something outside or just emotional ?
diana_coman: Framedragger, understand: this is not about "importance"
diana_coman: very little bullshit allowed to stand quickly expands until there is (nor can there be) anything else than bullshit
Framedragger: diana_coman: i don't believe that phuctor is *that* important, yes.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger so it doesn't fail it in your book. what of it. i brought a whore to my grandma's dinner once, it didn't disqualify her in my book. that's what books are for.
diana_coman: " will even perhaps address this point." <- omfg
mircea_popescu: and yes people take umbrage with very little bullshit, which is not unreasonable, because a) very little bullshit is never alone (we know this, because unlike the dicklets involved, we HAvE EXPERIENCE in the fucking field) and b) it doesn't take much to throw everything off, bullshit compounds while truth decays.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i am quite content with their bibliography section. they did not include phuctor (but included the other studies before and after phuctor), and that is a failure on their part. they can be informed and will even perhaps address this point. that does not fail *the whole paper* in my books, however.
asciilifeform: if you don't maintain the chain.
asciilifeform: thing very quickly degenerates into gaggle of charlatans each of whom goes to look for who will believe him that 'i! i! invented the integral calculus!!!'
diana_coman: Framedragger, the underlying issue from my point of view is that intellectual dishonesty essentially bars one from claiming to do research; they might be doing advertising, writing, experiments or anything else, but not research since they are not after finding things out as they are, but about finding something to eat or whatever
mircea_popescu: failing to maintain the knowledge blockchain - is.
mircea_popescu: it exists in nothing and in no way outside of this. this is all it is. raping your students is not relevant
mircea_popescu: this chaining of knowledge, for your info, is the CORE of academia. ☟︎
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i see what you mean. do you think this "it then necessarily follows" is truly "necessarily"? what do others think? i do see what you mean, tho.
asciilifeform: as per mircea_popescu's old piece, 'They tend to show up late at parties because they figure they can always steal the cake anyway, so why bother go early ? Let the suckers figure out first - on their own dime - where the good cakes are' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: did they live up to what they swore to do, in your evaluation ?
mircea_popescu: this is usually included by the shorthand string "bibliography" ☟︎
Framedragger: they *did acknowledge the first study* (2012 - before phuctor.)
mircea_popescu: Framedragger so if it does not make that statement, it imports, like any research paper EVER, the following "the authors have conducted a full review of extant literature relevant to their topic, and swear that the following list is complete and correct :" ☟︎
Framedragger: asciilifeform: i don't see how this is enabling. by that metric, *everything* is enabling. someone used phuctor to hack into box, phuctor enabled them?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: no; and in fact they did carry out experiments, in the sense of data being gathered (including new data - about the state of onion DHT.)
Framedragger: asciilifeform: yes that part is despicable, sure.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger alright. does this paper make the statement "we conducted no research of extant art, because [we're too cool for that ; princeton forked off reality ; whatever]" ?
asciilifeform: Framedragger: the next act of the opera ( which we've already watched a few times ) is the chorus of seekoority bloggers etc going on and on re the 'discovery'
diana_coman: first and foremost I take issue with pretending that an unaknowledged repackaging of other people's work mostly pretends to be research
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: *any* pointers to the methodology; *any* untrue or glossy parts; *any* stretching in the conclusion sectoin.
mircea_popescu: hold on to yer horses young'un.
Framedragger: "#trilema dislikes a random irrelevant paper for not having mentioned phuctor; the rest of the discussion is about how academia used to be better."
diana_coman: Framedragger, the alphabetic ordering of names is inconsequential; that was just chuckles really
Framedragger: diana_coman: do you take issue with any *particular* points, or just the "alphabetic ordering of names oh no"?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman yeah, recall all the hissy fits about "oh this prof translated work, EVIL!11"
diana_coman: it used to be at least translating useful stuff
mircea_popescu: the only problem with this is that it's essentially fraudulent : princeton goes about to old people pretending it's a college, but in reality it's a diploma mill like any other. EXACTLY in the vein of how argentina goes about europe pretending it's a country an' trying to borrow money, when irl it's less of a country than my model train set.
diana_coman: a bit like "it's not plagiarising since this is what academia is now"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the interesting bit is that the enemy applies mircea_popescu's 'outsiders may NOT have ideas' thing quite well. 'oh, those terrorists made sonething? hiw cute. we'll take it and get $100 mil in grantola.' ☟︎
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, I suppose that's pretty much the thing here: by now this is the "best" one can see from that area
Framedragger: i mean, a large part of the paper is exposition. rsa, dht (relevant to how onion services work), etc.; so, it's not *interesting*. but it's not in any particular way shitty. i wouldn't have read it otherwise and certainly do not see it as very valuable.
Framedragger: btw the "which onion services targeted by those malicious relays" part of the paper is quite nice (from initial glance).
mircea_popescu: which is the best possible construction i can put on Framedragger 's notions. "hey, this is what college MEANS NOW. sorry."
mircea_popescu: now, i can see the merit in an argument along the lines of "what the fuck do you want mp, research ? how the fuck is that going to happen if you insist on sticking all the cowpokes indoors ? they'll do what they can, nod along with the rest of the "academia".
diana_coman: esp for those in the know of academia-on-the-topic-of-author-order it screams desperate hunger
diana_coman: on a side note, the only truly lulzy part in there is the footnote on page 1 "All four authors contributed substantially and share first authorship. The names are ordered alphabetically"
mircea_popescu: what a difference a decade makes to academic standards i swear.
Framedragger: diana_coman: i haven't read the method section yet but so far so good.
mircea_popescu: no, this is where we waste cycles. too much productivity is bad for management.
Framedragger: wasn't a rhetorical question. but i certainly do not wish to waste tmsr's cpu cycles, so no need to answer, either
diana_coman: Framedragger, does that paper seem to you like an honest piece of research work in any shape?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger no you didn't see it because i had a discussion over coffee before taking the pics with a girl, so this matters now.
diana_coman: Framedragger, fwiw there really is no meaningful way to defend that paper
Framedragger seen that post, amusing
mircea_popescu: mp's genuine original theatre. doing things that are useful and interesting. give me tax money nao!
mircea_popescu: (there was also some work done with blackface in 1715, but that was in france. that's it though, since 1715!)
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-two-aspects-of-my-urban-negro/ << there you go.
mircea_popescu: also, i invented blackface last week. want to see the first best greatest blackface performance in history of world ?
mircea_popescu: look, there's people with all sorts of strange beliefs. i'm not in the business of forcing ideological compatibility. you can live with it, more power to you.
Framedragger: (i certainly do not have any intention to troll.)
mircea_popescu: Framedragger if that's what you believe, fine by me.
mircea_popescu: fucking ridiculous question. "what did soviet nuclear programme take from allies ? IT IS ALL BASIC SCIENCE!! THERES NAPKINS WITH FARTS DRAWN ON THEM SINCE 1933!111!!"
Framedragger: there is no cognitive dissonance in my mind. i know those peeps personally and also simultaneously do not observe any plagiarism. they used things from those 2012 and 2016 projects.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: there is more than one way to steal.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger you've not any standing to ask, so i guess you mayn't ask.