mircea_popescu: i will just as soon as smickles gets back online ;/

mircea_popescu: i am 12 and what's a towel.

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well this guy was like "i have no idea what's going on"

mircea_popescu: o i c.

mircea_popescu: (also i'll pay for teh hosting of it)

mircea_popescu: FabianB meanwhile i'd prefer two bots. what if kako gets sick one day

mircea_popescu: Vexual: i like to slow cook the way the flavours develop << aye.

mircea_popescu: I reached the top and had to stop and that's what bothering me

mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: jeezus mp, there 23 footnotes in this article << I'm the king of the footnotes, the references V.I.P

mircea_popescu: benkay: i miss the cream in argentina. << dude you have no idea what cream is. go to transylvania, have some, let me know.

mircea_popescu: i have no idea. the shrimp isprettygood tho

mircea_popescu: i don't do pot.

mircea_popescu: depends, some ukrainian guy i know picked up a chick in the street and moved in with her. no rent.

mircea_popescu: then i called in the cavalry (ie, my own intel dept, english speakers that don't live there) and i was fixed up the same day.

mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> I realize you had some troubles identifying entities that do in fact rent :D << well yeah, about a dozen orso argentine "experts" took two days to derp about with no results.

mircea_popescu: well then i dunno

mircea_popescu: well no but i mean if ima gonna publish this...

mircea_popescu: "So I hold that giving someone a bad risk measure was just as CRIMINAL as giving someone the wrong medicine. For a long time nobody sanctioned doctors who poisoned their patients. Why don’t we take on the proponents of quantitative risk management, put them in jail so they stop harming us?"

mircea_popescu: ately, but lead people to TAKE MORE RISK foolishly thinking they know something. [This is the reason I singled out Fannie Mae in The Black Swan as a firm sitting on dynamite & the International Association of Financial Engineers as a society of snake oil vendors harmful to society]. After > 1 trillion in losses I can safely say that my statement that the banking system has been taking more risks than they thought SHOULD

mircea_popescu: "Having a risk number is not trivial. It does lead you to do foolish things, even if you knew that the measure was wrong. If I can show that, many people [who offered quantitative risk measures in finance] will have to be held accountable –& I can show that! One of Fannie Mae director’s, a quack & proponent of “Modern Finance” charlatanism, kept promoting “scientific” risk measurement methodologies that do not measure ri

mircea_popescu: "So, by tinkering, I figured out that I fare best under the following conditions: no breakfast, working out randomly (but in a lumpy way: long walks & intense weight lifting without a scheduled time limit), "working" randomly, fasting when working out, avoiding modern carbs (and modernized fruits), avoiding contact with economists and finance idiots, taking red eye flights & fasting during episodes of jet lag and similar

mircea_popescu: "Finally, beyond the current mess, I see no way out of this ecological problem, except through that tacit, unexplainable, seasoned, thoughtful, and aged thing crystalized by traditions & religions --we can't live without charts and we need to rely on the ones we've used for millennia. Le 21e siecle sera religieux, ou ne sera pas!" << someone needs to shout bitcoin at him in such a way that he understands wtf we do here.

mircea_popescu: i absolutelylove taleb

mircea_popescu: kes "doing science" lose their tenures after the endowments (and charity) run out of funds, they will be barely fit to do anything in the real-life ecology. I wonder what you can do with an unemployed, say, academic orthodox economist. You could do better with non-post-academic cab drivers. Clearly those the most fit at dealing with "just evidence" will be idiot savants outside their evidence domain."

mircea_popescu: "I leave aside the confusion absence of evidence/evidence of absence--and the misunderstanding of the very notion of "empiricism". It is a fact that in the real world of our daily decision-making 1) we do not have much evidence of most relevant things, yet we need to take action; 2) in most situations, "true/false" is never symmetric (one side is more harmful than the other), so the burden of evidence is one-sided. Which

mircea_popescu: someonewaslooking forsomething but i forgot who. fluffy maybe ?

mircea_popescu: . Just fucks me off when I see super rich fucks chuck their money around like confetti. Fiat or bitcoin. ( and yes bit of jealousy, but if I was that rich I would share the wealth in a more meaningful way)

mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/w6ir4L0.png

mircea_popescu: well i'm sure that multiple passionate, disparate, interested curators will work too :)

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c let me know once you approve my comment so i know it hasn't just been swallowed up by the machine and can erase the pasted version i've saved just in case.

mircea_popescu: so i bet you if you do all the fluff your summaries will exceed the space of the log, prolly 3x