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shinohai: ( Just give him some laced coke and
take for phree )
shinohai: Doubt even
the shittiest back-alley clinic in Guatemala would pay 10% of
that for dudes kidney.
mircea_popescu: shinohai i read
that as "the system has decided
the value
to it of
this $random is 200k."
shinohai: lol @ homeless crackhead being given $200`000 bail for setting
the freeway fire.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: ^ (but i don't have a point
to prove, just
that i didn't see much
to blame
there, however i could just be my usual naive)
Framedragger: or you mean
that yet somehow his general spiel still mirrors some general faulty 'american' structure (difficult
to prove/disprove
this)
☟︎ Framedragger: "and have my esteemed pedigree
tree"? isn't part of his (by now,
tired, yes) point
to
the effect of
the exact opposite? ("trust your biology, folklore, etc.,
they're better
than experts
telling you
things"; "i won't give advice on $currency because i don't hold positions in $currency hence not exposed
to
the risk", so on)
mircea_popescu: the parts where he applies himself
to other principles are quite good nevertheless.
BingoBoingo: saifedean of Lebanon, expert who would not deedbot was cast out for
the rice in his pork
mircea_popescu: chronos,
the god
time, who devoured all his sons, was wounded by a diamond sickle borne by his own creation. it happens.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> as far as
the forum is concerned, his latest foray was some very overreactive bs
triggered by my refusal
to
take rice out of my sushi or somesuch. << AHA
mircea_popescu: i don't specifically care re "arrogance" or whatever other emotional manipulation in
the
text. i can read
the barely literate productions of poorly washed 5th century jews figuring
themselves "god". what's
taleb gonna do
to max my dosimeter.
mircea_popescu: my positive view comes from specific
things, such as
take
the recent article of his
that was discussed here : his references are good.
mircea_popescu: sadly
there isn't such a
thing as "brilliant
trader" in nature anymore
than
there is "masked crime figther wearing a cape".
mircea_popescu: and bitcoin replication isn't
the best of
topics for
this
theory anyway.
mircea_popescu: until
they are replicated, all successes can't be replicated.
mircea_popescu: well worship is a complex
topic. for one
thing, why'd you worship anything
that dun fuck you.
jhvh1: Hello
thorntron. Who is your daddy and what does he do?
mircea_popescu: because
the latter have
to move, and consequently must be graceful and etcetera.
mircea_popescu: the problem is
the rope frays at
the other end : bama dillert's father, who plows, does not appear in any james hones novels ; bama dillert himself, who figures if a man's gonna gamble anyway, might as well do it without plowing, does.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's
two kinds of animals, at
the basics.
those who "make something with own chloroplasts" ie, algae, plants etc ; and
then
those who eat
them.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-02 15:18 Framedragger: maybe
this is an instance of
turning $1b into $1m,
tho
mircea_popescu: because
taleb is no mark cuban (the poster child of "pro wrestlert accidentally sold pair of used undies for 5bn, now
thinks self businessman in spite of mountain of evidence
to
the contrary accumulated over
the decades)
mircea_popescu: if it's indeed
the case
that
taleb is your orlov, i'll comment
that i'm missing out on less
than you are.
mircea_popescu: very similar reaction in a certain sort of mousy librarian brain (like for eg
the population of something awful) wrt yours
truly.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-02 14:54 asciilifeform: also fwiw i can't stand
taleb for exactly same reason
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1635912 << i don't personally find
taleb objectionable.
this position my be significantly bolstered by my disinclination
to actually read him. anyway -- i suspect it might be a case of anaphylaxis. you can't stand specific antigens which he expresses mostly
to protect himself from
the idiot soup he bathes in,
the
twitter world etc.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (in other words : males
tend
to put up all sorts of inept acts because, literally, manhood is a practical impossibility.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's hard out
there for a pimp, yo, when he
trynna make da mony fo da rent.
mircea_popescu: as far as
the forum is concerned, his latest foray was some very overreactive bs
triggered by my refusal
to
take rice out of my sushi or somesuch.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-02 14:48 asciilifeform:
the basic q for him, per diana_coman earlier, 'who
the hell ~are~ you,
to ~speak~'
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1635906 << lebanese iirc expat ; did some research work in
the us. not actually stupid but altogether lazy and possessed of a very inflated sense of self-worth and self-importance (it seems
to rub off on foreigners faster
than on locals,
this
typical ustardism. i guess it would be because
the immigrants self-select for sensitivity
to
the infection).
☝︎ jhvh1: mircea_popescu: ERROR: Failed
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the verse or page. Check your syntax.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 17:47 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he "will spend significant
time"
to find... "Research"
tasks adequate
to
that fuckdolls "level" yet he can't be bothered
to figure out how deedbot works ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-02 09:36 diana_coman: it seems
that academia meanwhile went even faster downhill
than I
thought possible; at
this rate it will soon produce colouring books and "educate" people on how pencils are not even good for much besides making marks on paper (for which one can use
their hands anyway!
there's one chapter on
that plus 10 on history of mark-making and its perks)
jhvh1: shinohai: ERROR: Failed
to load/parse
the verse or page. Check your syntax.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-02 08:20 saifedean: i see
the postdoc years have
taken
their
toll. Academics are incapable of actually
thinking of anything other
than rituals of methodology
Framedragger: maybe
this is an instance of
turning $1b into $1m,
tho
☟︎ Framedragger: (well he did retire in his 20s by doing
trading and also correctly shorting for
the 2008 meltdown)
shinohai: Not like my
timeline isn't full of all sorts of
things
that could help with
that. :)
shinohai: I sometimes read his stuff, but he is very arrogant for someone
that simply parrots existing works.
shinohai: He replied
to me on
twitter: "the groupthink, navel-gazing & ritualism can be a little overdone!" ( Asking one
to cite sources = ritualism ? )
a111: Logged on 2017-04-02 08:20 saifedean: i see
the postdoc years have
taken
their
toll. Academics are incapable of actually
thinking of anything other
than rituals of methodology
trinque: !!gettrust deedbot
trinque
trinque savors
the irony re: "rituals for exclusivity"
shinohai: tfw peer review requires you
to get out
the crayons ....
shinohai: Such entertaining logz
this morning, courtesy of diana_coman ! >.>
diana_coman: it seems
that academia meanwhile went even faster downhill
than I
thought possible; at
this rate it will soon produce colouring books and "educate" people on how pencils are not even good for much besides making marks on paper (for which one can use
their hands anyway!
there's one chapter on
that plus 10 on history of mark-making and its perks)
☟︎ diana_coman: lolz @ ritualism; I ask for practical, hands-on experience
that would give him something
to say on
the
topic and he points me
to bla-bla; I point out it is bla-bla unsupported and without any concern
to even allow people
to verify it should
they be inclined
to do so and he claims it's rituals I'm asking for
saifedean: in any case,
these only inform
the last couple of chapters of
the book.
the rest is mostly economic history and austrian economics on sound money and its perks & fiat money and its disasters
saifedean: academic disciplines as we know
them have degenerated into rituals for exclusivity, not communicating ideas.
these papers have been quite helpful
to disabuse a lot of people of
the retarded notions
that altcoins and "blockchain
technology" are going
to revolutionize all
teh
thingz
saifedean: this is bezzle-funded ritualism, meant
to create an aura of prestige around bezzle-funded bullshit "science"
saifedean: i see
the postdoc years have
taken
their
toll. Academics are incapable of actually
thinking of anything other
than rituals of methodology
☟︎☟︎ diana_coman: the links you sent are essentially bla-bla; not even
theory since
there isn't even some clear methodology one could evaluate, nor clear supporting arguments
to
the claims; I won't waste any more
time on it
diana_coman: I didn't mean
to get involved and do something useful with "blockchain
technology"; I meant at
the very least running a node, exploring
the network
saifedean: other
than bitcoin-envy,
there's absolutely no reason for anyone
to use "blockchain
technology" for anything
saifedean: sounds nice in principle except
that you can't actually do anything with "blockchain
technology" other
than bitcoin
saifedean: agreed entirely, and
the only
thing
that will kill
this worthless zombie is sound money cutting off
the bezzle spigots
diana_coman: no need
to: it
thoroughly disabused me of
the naive belief
that academia is actually worthwhile aka
truly doing research (in some 1% cases it might still be doing it, but mostly dieing out)
diana_coman: might mention
that I was a post-doc at some point in life
☟︎ saifedean: and I'm happy
to send you
the work in progress first draft, but don't want
to publish online yet
diana_coman: saifedean do you have
the work and results
that mean something? if yes - link; if no, no
diana_coman: in other unrelated or possibly related happenings, my 4 year old got a book about
the iss (int'l space station); he got quite obsessed with it for a week so now he knows it inside out;
this morning he came with a construction made out of lego pieces and informs me:
THIS is IIISSSIII!
saifedean: it's a good answer when you consider
that I have
the bullshit mainstream credentials most cattle imagine would qualify one
to opine on
this
topic, and
that I did not mention
that
to answer your question because I know cattle credentials don't mean shit.
diana_coman: that's a very poor answer; people's
time is a scarce resource
saifedean: I guess you'll have
to read it and judge for yourself. In any case
the
topic isn't bitcoin per se, it's mostly about sound money, and how bitcoin is
the digital solution
to
this perplexing age old problem
that has fucked humanity eternally
diana_coman: saifedean WHAT makes you an expert on
the
topic?
saifedean: If any of you good folk would like
to get a sneak peak at
the first draft, I'd appreciate
the feedback
saifedean: (also, I've got a good few names happy
to blurb it and hawk it
to publishers)
saifedean: I'm sure you agree it's about
time someone wrote something about bitcoin beyond
the 'muh cheap latte processing fees'