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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.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is pretty good progress and intel seems to indicate you're actually ahead of the curve, so, dun stress.
mircea_popescu: i'm not going to not name something america because obama.
mircea_popescu: what idiots did can not now, nor ever be a consideration.
mircea_popescu: this is the sequence, logically. buncha derps made some rejected "versions", who cares what they numbered them as ?
mircea_popescu: unless, of course, they're from ms. then they need 8. or unl;ess they're running boost and qt.
mircea_popescu: tho kinda long imo. nobody should need 4 digits of versioning
mircea_popescu: funny that derps using numbers like retarded children use playdo should at any point expect to be engaged by sane people as if serious.
mircea_popescu: since we're making up numbers, i would say he needs to have at least 8megapercent support, or else his support won't scale.
mircea_popescu: down from the 100% he thought he had back in janaury ?
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 ironically enough, im sure teaching will be fine. schools tho... hard to say.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it would by the very fact of connecting. shows you its ip
mircea_popescu: (seeing how a transaction lives as such a finite interval before being included in a block, the % of txn that live as "known to one" vs the total "known to all" is of particular interest)
mircea_popescu: (for the amaterus : txn propagation has a lot in common with epidemiology, a topic recently trouched upon here. in any case : the spots where a transaction goes from "unknown" to "broadcast through one node" to "broadcast to the whole net" are interesting in the general case. and the first move thereof a very good measure of "quality", basically speaking the inverse of an infection's pathogenicity)
mircea_popescu: the number of txn broadcast through one node used to be pretty much zero. i would guess by now it's over 10%. which is fucking insane.
mircea_popescu: i swear the quality of tx relaying is shittening every day.
mircea_popescu: hopefully someone named schultz joins. i think you haveto have one.
mircea_popescu: btw, check out how nicely the cult's gangster outlook is rounding out! we now have a guy nicknamed babyface even.
mircea_popescu: total mismatch between meaning and expression, babyface.
mircea_popescu: were you basically meaning to say "my idea of ideal marriage is where im just rich enough to not give a fuck" but misstated it as "woman should not work out of the house" and ended up irritating random people ?
mircea_popescu: fucktarded progressive sectarian nuts. "i have no religion except this wonky religion that i claim not to be one"
mircea_popescu: "Because I am not religious, I have no mystical conception of an afterlife. To me, a person lives on not in Heaven or Hell but instead in the minds and hearts of those they touched while alive"
mircea_popescu: if it's worth paying for is work, and if it's not then it doesn't answer to this line.
mircea_popescu: don't the online whores these days call it exactly that ?
mircea_popescu: never mind what's obvious, nobody asked your impression of collected social pressure. question's what you would rather.
mircea_popescu: are you looking for a woman to worship you, that you really don't give a shit about ; or for a woman to worship yourself, that doesn't really give a shit about you.
mircea_popescu: strangely enough, two very different problems manifesting in the same can.
mircea_popescu: either because he wants to buy a whore rather than rent ; or because he wants a mistress but is affraid of her bulls.