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mircea_popescu: i'll tell you in reasonable advance when to cancel it.
mircea_popescu: this is an up to date historical (2011) copy of the blockchain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform looks like i'm going to have a (full chain) bitcoin up in a coupla days.
mircea_popescu: Jun 23 02:27:40 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<info@qntra.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=10940, secured, session=<K5i5f
mircea_popescu: well, i deleted > 50k messages from queue, the email in question, and hopefully gmail, yahoo and everyone else will at some point forget the fact that i spammed them to shit for the first time in my life.
mircea_popescu: yeah it's not a php thing, seems 100% certain it simply guessed the credentials for that acct, used them for pop3
mircea_popescu: 1(actorsivakumar.com)[69.162.107.83] info@qntra.net gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
mircea_popescu: 1([127.0.0.1])[113.165.162.6] info@qntra.net gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.133.26]
mircea_popescu: 1(213.17.193.245)[188.252.64.178] info@qntra.net spamfight.mdsnet.it[81.208.4.144]
mircea_popescu: a) no and b) actually, my server is sending email because somehow someoine signs in as info@qntra and i naively faield to disallow qntra account from sending email
mircea_popescu: how did someone end up sending spam off qntra server is what i mean
mircea_popescu: but it has to be on a publicly accessible ip, port 8333 open
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> ben_vulpes: does the node have to be synced already to join the partay << no.
mircea_popescu: im evidently not set up to support teh esteemed efforts of the republic over here. working on it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ben_vulpes well it seems an entire intricacy with stacked nat routers
mircea_popescu: and THAT is where taleb engages traditionalism - where it matters. nobody is still left at the wheel who can talk back, so nobody does, all that's left is a cargo cult of the dead st. thomas, trudging along.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in any case, THAT is traditionalism for you. between "nobody went out of business buying ibm" and "our gauss copulae indicate the future will be rosy", crash after crash and disaster after disaster.
mircea_popescu: mkay. there is this psychogenically-driven assumption in financial circles that the past may be used to evaluate future risk. this is incredibly stupid and absolutely perennial (the only thing perennial in human cultural history is stupidity, by the way - smart stuff has no root)
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 you familiar with the fantabulous history of the gauss copula ?
mircea_popescu: Hasimir well you live in a place that doesn't exist anyway >D
mircea_popescu: (this also is why nobody seems to ever want to engage him)
mircea_popescu: aha. no authors specifically, because he does not specifically understand that he's battling westerners that have joined the choir invisible centuries ago.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and wtf is "perennialism" even supposed to be, pico de la mirandolla and friends ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and this is also why "social mobility" is such a big deal, representationally, notwithstanding the nonsense it is in practice, and why the worst thing you can do is kick a black dude out of your clubhouse or whatever.
mircea_popescu: so now you're in a position to understand why strong (ie, absolute) cryptography is such a threat. it actually annuls a fundamental presuposition of western culture. if there exists something that is in fact inaccessible, then there can be no such thing as "humanism", and thus therefore socialism is just stupid, rather than being what the "nordic system" chicklet claimed for it : stupid but universal.
mircea_popescu: which is exactly contradictory to the hermetic tradition, nothing else. (which no, is not simply "jewish")
mircea_popescu: or for that matter even recognize pearly gates if you saw 'em.
mircea_popescu: at its core, humanism is the proposition not that there exists a saint peter by the pearly gates, nor that he would understand your language, but that ~you~ would understand ~his~,
mircea_popescu: (and humanism is the proposition, beyond naive, that there exists an universal aspect to everything which is immediately accessible to people. if this sounds stupid well... it's because humanism, like any socialist ideology, is made by the stupid for the use of the stupid)
mircea_popescu: stuff like taleb is a much more damaging criticism of traditionalism than structuralism ever was or could aspire to be.
mircea_popescu: and traditionalism, for the record, is the fundamentally correct observation that there can not be such a thing as a new phenomenon, and the fundamentally flawed proposition that for this reason, it is more important to interpret phenomena through history than through any other lens.
mircea_popescu: (praxis being the usage of a language, or more properly, representational system)
mircea_popescu: post-post-structuralism is in no sense and to no degree a return to "Traditionalism", which is strictly distinct from the humanism the original structuralism was supposedly a reaction to. it is merely the observation of coexistence : the stupid generate their pseudo-meanings out of iteration, the smart (i've called these before language creators) have thei own dictionaries, the two categories interplay in praxis.
mircea_popescu: this model is very stupid, notwithstanding interesting results it produces in some cases, and the failure of google exactly illustrates the failures of the model.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 the entire thing started with the absolutely correct observation that words have i nfact no meanings, not anymore than any one website has google pagerank. a theoretical model was proposed where meaning of all words is produced through iteration, exactly in the same manner pr is calculated (and this is why google used to be notable - it implemented a major tenet of culture at the time)
mircea_popescu: it'd be interesting if you can show how its flaws impede its intended results and how can they be cheaply remedied.
mircea_popescu: to say that any paradigm is flawed is not to say very much at all.
mircea_popescu: of the crooked timber of humanity no correct thing was ever made.
mircea_popescu: this is a complex point not accessible to the novice, and so nothing to be taken cavallierly.
mircea_popescu: structuralism is the proposition that elements of human culture are defined by their relationships to other elements.