asciilifeform: i for one would like to know if any thiel folks have been 'fired'

asciilifeform: only from gabriel_laddel's summary thus far

asciilifeform: and avoid doing yyyyy

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a job if you gotta do xxxxx to keep'em coming

asciilifeform: if they dole it out month at a time - it's a fucking -job-

asciilifeform: decimation: nothing - it's called army

asciilifeform: but evidently i was wrong!

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i didn't think the thiel thing could get -more- snoreworthy

asciilifeform: aha so kommisars.

asciilifeform: make something thiel-flavoured

asciilifeform: i thought that was the point

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: wai wut

asciilifeform: what if getting killed with honour is precisely what he wanted and needed

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what, he buys bazooka ?

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: play nicely ?

asciilifeform: if someone sent me 100k (magically, tax-free) i'd do... what? take 3 mo. off, spend the next 9 looking for next gig ?

asciilifeform: because it's a temporary parole, for one thing

asciilifeform: !s self-licking

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the u.s. military technical term for this is 'self-licking icecream cone'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are the only folks for whom there isn't already $maxint in handouts

asciilifeform: http://store.steampowered.com/app/203290

asciilifeform: was commissioned as a recruiting gimmick

asciilifeform: 'realism'

asciilifeform: 3d 'shooter' where you had to 'pass bootcamp', dig pits, die in ten minutes of firefight dropping like potato, etc

asciilifeform: iirc it was freeware

asciilifeform: http://www.americasarmy.com

asciilifeform: or some other kind of game meant here ?

asciilifeform: 'america's army'

asciilifeform: except afaik they do 'get to eat' instead of 'walk free'

asciilifeform: decimation: sop in china

asciilifeform: and 'why 27 of'em'

asciilifeform was thinking 'which six letters'

asciilifeform: decimation: aha, that'd be the point

asciilifeform: and get days off your term for playing 'russian roulette'

asciilifeform: where you get a probability spread as sentence

asciilifeform: i came up with this based on the more well-known 'schrodinger jail'

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: in that the occasional escaped maniac is outweighed by the folks who will sit for decades flipping digits

asciilifeform: this, incidentally, might be a fairly good 'business model'

asciilifeform: can always open the lock, no ?

asciilifeform: i can picture that if mircea_popescu ever opens a jail, all of the cages will open from the inside with a 32-bit combination lock. nobody will 'have to' sit in this jail

asciilifeform: (he takes a strange fixation with the gypsies)

asciilifeform: '5 stages'

asciilifeform: described in, among other places, orlov's

asciilifeform: but basic point stands

asciilifeform: eh betcha it's been deluxurized by chinese tiger farms

asciilifeform: complete with wall carpets?

asciilifeform: (by 'plumbing' here mean 'not shitting where you drink')

asciilifeform: decimation has it.

asciilifeform: or why 400 years of plumbing school at gunpoint had no effect

asciilifeform: derivatives trading?

asciilifeform: but whatever it is they do to keep the trucks coming

asciilifeform: what 'work' means in the gypsy palace, i haven't any notion

asciilifeform: unless the gurl photosynthesizes - yes, they have to, or starve.

asciilifeform: hm?

asciilifeform: gets small pension from usg, lives alone in tiny flat, eats little

asciilifeform: but his self-portrait isn't in any way stretching belief

asciilifeform: must confess, i don't know him in person

asciilifeform: plenty of folks do - simply that most of them don't write oddball os

asciilifeform: i've no reason to doubt the fact of it

asciilifeform: he gets usg pension.

asciilifeform: not according to his account

asciilifeform: unbeatable taste

asciilifeform: aha air

asciilifeform: *solution

asciilifeform: but this is not an algorithmic soluton.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is true in that, technically, i could cough up tomorrow's lottery number and play and then 'not have to' and no physical law prevents it

asciilifeform: after he croaked, that kind of thing was - at least on paper - somewhat curtailed

asciilifeform: just then << 'peak stalin'

asciilifeform: (or, if very talented, beat another fella into digging your share)

asciilifeform: in ru prison circa 1951 - aha, job. want to eat? dig

asciilifeform: iirc i described the kinds of thing i do for living..

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wai wat ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to keep the lights on

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: he doesn't have to work a day job

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'his place' - thinking man who found, by accident or otherwise, an escape hatch from arbeit macht frei

asciilifeform: starvation pension, but enough to keep his computer lit

asciilifeform: his 'thiel fellowship' came from usg.

asciilifeform: etc

asciilifeform: you - yet else

asciilifeform: i, in his place, would come up with something quite else

asciilifeform: and ends up with certain things, some interesting, some not, with a heavy flavour of jizzus jizzm

asciilifeform: terry davis doesn't have to answer to a grant committee

asciilifeform: for good or ill

asciilifeform: see also link to classic thread re: 'cranks' coming 'untethered'

asciilifeform saw five seconds, saw enough

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: eww opengl blackbox

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a perfectly good epidemiological work.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no, but it does go into the subject of stupidity

asciilifeform: 'too much fun'

asciilifeform: i don't expect it tested in mouse or man in own lifetime

asciilifeform: they'll test.

asciilifeform: check back in 10,000 years when the cockroaches replace us

asciilifeform: ^ i had a physical, testable hypothesis

asciilifeform: !s myelin sheaths

asciilifeform: as are a thousand mental dysfunctions most of which haven't even a name

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i gather, intelligence is only slightly heritable, but stupidity - is very