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mircea_popescu: ascii_field nevertheless, the strategic considerations involved are what they are.
mircea_popescu: (formally, once it no longer can be used to make predictions)
mircea_popescu: you never can know whether you have or have not considered "the history", for the plain reason that history is something you only know once it no longer matters
mircea_popescu: "orthodoxy" is such a laughingstock people'd just switch with a sigh of relief.
mircea_popescu: but in actual fact the usg idiots have done such a good job at burying themselves, that it likely wouldn't even be needed, today.
mircea_popescu: normally the switchover from prototype to actual product might have needed a little prodding, so reserve funds make sense, yes.
mircea_popescu: the satoshi hoard poses very little threat to bitcoin as is. the real threat is, an ~ACTUAL~ bitcoin client emerging, that's thje actual son of the original, not a bastardized clump of nonsense.
mircea_popescu: doesn't this prove without a doubt that half the bugs were left behind ?
mircea_popescu: "During the following 24 hour period, our CRS was able to identify vulnerabilities in 65 of those programs and rewrite 94 of them to eliminate bugs built in their code. This proves, without a doubt, that it is not only possible but achievable to automate the actions of a talented software auditor."
mircea_popescu: because a ship sinking is stil lthe worst time to do research
☟︎ mircea_popescu: at the one time when buying ibm was actually the rigfht move.
mircea_popescu: he just got stuck trying to make it work afterwards, and got his ears nailed to the headboard when he couldn't.
mircea_popescu: but yes, it does not follow that the heads ought to stay on.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field beheading the popist priests will not banish gluttony from your lands, kind sire.
mircea_popescu: i think actually curtis yarvin is a very fine example of what's the problem with derps "reviewing the whole history"
mircea_popescu: yet most of everything that works was built by people doing the incremental bs.
mircea_popescu: in short, unpalatable as this is, im afraid it'd be a field where no formal examination is possible.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is that you can't have people mechanically NOT follow their betters just to maintain the shattered scabbard of an "intellectual independence" they do not actually possess.
mircea_popescu: this is universally a bad habit anyway. heck, not doing THAT is even in the rules, such as they are.
mircea_popescu: the proportion of actual humans coming out, about the same throughout.
mircea_popescu: 't ya ?!), the result is a lot of obnoxious, self-centered, lazy twerps.
mircea_popescu: anyway. historically there's no impact. for many years teachers soundly and loudly despised their pupils. this resulted in a large mass of insecure, neurotic schmucks, freud fodder. for some years now teachers loudly and perhaps soundly love their pupils. outside of a few cases of coabitation which are apparently a criminal offense for some contorted reason (what sense does it make, you asked them to love the kids didn
mircea_popescu: and i do mean this no. prolly met more mothers than you met reverse engineers, too.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, the reverse case can also be made. no mother i ever met was actually aware how shitty her offspring was.
mircea_popescu: do you suppose torquemada was the worst anatomist of his age, because unlike the other jews, he was contempt-powered ?
mircea_popescu: things like how trilema shapes the future irrespective of how many derps deem themselves to be "offended" by it and attempt in their meagre way to resist are obviously not well explained by that theory.
mircea_popescu: a rare enough trait, which is why periods of abundance do not increase the population.
mircea_popescu: so the doctor example is particularly cogent. the doctor, and more generally the scholar (called scientist these days) is the person whose curiosity is inflamed by what makes others puke.
mircea_popescu: so you know, if you decide you hate it then you couldn't possibly (in this worldview) ever learn anything from it, or even examine it critically.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the root is, i suppose, the unwarranted expectation that choice predates existence, and that it necessarily is (not even by god's grace or anything, but immediately) accessible to "thinking people" which the subject will always see himself as. consequently, given that choice predates existence, and given that it is necessarily accessible, it then follows that one may only be informed by things one approves of.
mircea_popescu: ironically, half the time this happens in response to someone asking b-a to stop being so radically self-centered.
mircea_popescu: well, the role of b-a in most people's lives at this point is i suppose this critical if at times forcible examination of mental habits and automatisms they hold dear unexamidely.
mircea_popescu: such as you know, things written by english native speakers.
mircea_popescu: as best i can discern atm, a curiosity steeped in burning hate is by far the best approach when dealing with maggot swamps.
mircea_popescu: moreover, and more importantly, other than the "palatable" part, which is entirely your own aesthetic judgement, i'd like some substantiation as to the "nobody gains" part. how do you know this ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, it became apparent that they're not kids but actually mentally retarded, and they certainly do not mean well.
mircea_popescu: the chicken scriblings coming after were originally excused under the "they're kids and they mean well" header.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the claim is not that the original code is bad as in, bad penmanship. the claim is that the original code is no good as in, not sane design. this is consistent with a prototype and not particularly reflective on the capacity of the author.
mircea_popescu: they were added by you (ie, hearn), and by gavin and so on.
mircea_popescu: it makes very little sense to actually bother even trying to get the fine shit alligned
mircea_popescu: the big problem intel faces is that in a world where you can get a billion dollars for free just for being where the pellet landed in iraq,
mircea_popescu: ascii_field good. i still can't get my nodes to eat the block in question.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell gavinandresen how's the moore law coming along, shithead ?
mircea_popescu: should insta-ban a node sending that, just waste of bw.
mircea_popescu: i don't see that it'd make enough to pay for the servers.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is possibly the oldest rule in the book.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the anthropologic record is unmistakingly opposite : black WOMEN have a lot of sex.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, this stupid shit' sapparently a century old.