asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: collect the most desirable children from outside : teenaged women with big tits << building harem then, not mathematical monastery, i take it.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i wasn't suggesting it as a practical recipe. more of an overall reagent.
asciilifeform: -ev, but no day job, you pay with pain
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, neal stephenson (in fiction) proposed a pill against 'the moment creation is +EV, all the narcisists flood in' - monasteries
asciilifeform: no sane ceo actuallyhas to work, ever << so then!
asciilifeform: 'Ist dis Nazi Land so good? Would you leave it if you could? Ja, dis Nazi Land ist good! We would leave if we could.' ('der fuhrer's face', 1942)
asciilifeform: and hence 'not real places' is factual
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is not accidental. folks who travel from usa to english-speaking (or most western eu in general) aren't actually leaving the empire
asciilifeform: 'Kazakhstan! greatest country in the world! all other countrys are run by little girls...' (tm)
asciilifeform looks for al schwartz's table of plant toxins; can't find at the moment, but recalls that chickpeas were near the top for something or other
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i was thinking about a hypothetical larger world where there are many worthwhile things
asciilifeform is eminently unqualified to comment on the hypothesis itself, if this is it
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: so is your hypothesis that allocating btc between investments is so difficult and/or uninteresting that no one can do it for you for a fee and there still be anything left over to work with ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what would be an example of an active investment ?
asciilifeform: even aside from the ooda loop, the #1 thing in a library is serendipity
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what do you mean by 'passive investment' ?
asciilifeform: PeterL: where most of the things i take an interest in actually happened.
asciilifeform: PeterL: have you looked at open access journals like http://www.hindawi.com/ ? << even if, through divine intervention, everyone suddenly began to publish there (they won't) - this doesn't solve the 20th century
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the quoted log in your post reads with great difficulty because of the choice of snips
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: you would do just as well to learn ru
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: him. he has a book, about his life and how he was tormented in punitive psych hospitals
asciilifeform is not convinced that there was anything interesting in 'nazi academia' that we aren't already using in consumer tech (german chemical work, mostly, manufacturing techniques)
asciilifeform: unfortunately pete_dushenski is right about the unavailability in english of most of the interesting material.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: plus the post-war rescue of virtually all of the weirdos (most famously von braun but many others)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: chemical industry, for instance
asciilifeform: the 'fine things of life' invariably are destroyed in a proper collapse.
asciilifeform: say what you like about library of alexandria, but usenet '85-'2000 was home to virtually all of the technically competent folks who exist today.
asciilifeform: trinque: they bought up the dejanews optical disks. and i'm be rather surprised if they didn't still have them.
asciilifeform: i still can't tell if it was mere neglect, or shitgnomery, or specifically the folks who posted silly things on usenet in the '80-'90s are trying to run for political office, or what.
asciilifeform: but i happen to live here. and to me the availability of this or that piece of dead tree - matters.
asciilifeform: i kinda wish i could think myself into the mindset of 'immortal olympian' that way
asciilifeform: since mircea_popescu is out, i will fill in for him and observe that library of alexandria burning is no loss, when cockroaches evolve and replace man they will rediscover everything.☟︎
