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mircea_popescu: it should be standard class in disinfo ministry, but hey. they're also saving these days.
mircea_popescu: even the most cursory effort to consider the matter sunks people like orlov.
mircea_popescu: a superlative form of hermeneutics if you wish. certainly decent training exercise for the more advanced students.
mircea_popescu: (but this is perhaps the most obscure field of all scholarship - constructive cultural antrhopology, which is to say : construct FUTURE development of science on the basis and with the methods available in X context.
mircea_popescu: for my curiosity, how'd such a roman proof look like ?
mircea_popescu: and so it came to pass zeus eventually ran out of book.
mircea_popescu: i propose that gcd is one of the few smart things we know.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. improbable, which all reality ever is.
mircea_popescu: they're not so stupid, and the measure of their superior intelligence is to be found in the joyous cries of the noble roman's girlfriend.
mircea_popescu: that's what late empire matrons tell their effette offspring that just lost at the races to the hearty barbarians : "don
mircea_popescu: it is drastically unwise to imagine a certificate of intelligence as a sort of consolation prize.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ << that's basically the ideology of butthurt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and at some point, america teemed with fucktarded savages and nobody came to kill the males and rape the females.
mircea_popescu: actually more floor space = better for a short interval at the place they're now.
mircea_popescu: they don't understand that if you sell for yourself, and not to put in a desktop, you have diff engineering constraints
mircea_popescu: the packing thing is a result of the consumer electronics market
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're just going through the motions. they don't really know what they're doing, nobodyu sat dowqn and thought things through.
mircea_popescu: o, wait, that schmucky chick. what was it, chamber of buttsex ?
mircea_popescu: what else has first mover advantage ? making a bitcoin foundation ?
mircea_popescu: i am not unaware of this possibility, yet i apparently discounted it, preferring a divergent approach. maybe i'm just that dumb.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. chief among them, a poor handling of cooperation.
mircea_popescu: it isn't the worst play, but hard to get the notion through.
mircea_popescu: people have this fixed idea that getting others involved is the worst play.
mircea_popescu: they are kept in warehouse for same reasdon you want untouched pogo
mircea_popescu: of course, sold != deployed, but the error isn't great.
mircea_popescu: do the math, sometime. a miner earns 0.2% or some shit.
mircea_popescu: and if it were the case the commercial value of piece of pluto ten times exceeded the commercial cost of sending miner ?
mircea_popescu: but if it does exist, then yes, it will necessarily be found eventually.
mircea_popescu: or whatever, your hero also bleeds, there's a lengthy cultural history of this idealisation problem.
mircea_popescu: this is traditonally pointed out to the shy young male as "you know, even the lady of your heart farts"
mircea_popescu: i am merely pointing out that if both things you discuss exist, then both necessarily, by definition of existence, are approachable.
mircea_popescu: the curse of existence is that it is approachable. just like a tool has its uses, irrespective of a maker's intention.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as they both exist, they both exist. inasmuch as the one you're good at doesn't exist, you're basically wanking.
mircea_popescu: "oh it can be the case i can lift rocks but not railroad metal"
mircea_popescu: there is an ennumerable list of people by their intelligence. this usually reduces to sorting them by score
mircea_popescu: in any case, weren't you bravely accusing ME of viewing things as scalars ?
mircea_popescu: so is a guy paralised on half his body half an athlete ?
mircea_popescu: and yes, redditards are not necessarily unintelligent in the sense of derp.
mircea_popescu: for this is the definition of intellectual faculty : the driver.
mircea_popescu: if one is purportedly intelligent, how is it then that his brain does not work intelligently ?
mircea_popescu: but that's not where the problem lies. the problem lies at the spot where you propose there exists an "intelligence" that nevertheless does not have control of the processor.
mircea_popescu: me ? you're the one to fire. you proposed pink shapeless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you ready for the will/intelligence discussion ?