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mircea_popescu: yeah. the sorta-fat, cowardly, euglena-scented kid everyone beat the shit out of in school.
mircea_popescu: shit fucking hurt, "you seriously mean he makes us choose between this and that ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: it's like... that's where the entire "mp is a troll" thing came from.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the amusing tactical implication here is that well... they actually would have loved to say rsa is bad.
mircea_popescu: western animation would languish until someone signed mr spiel to do 100`000 movies a year.
mircea_popescu: if there was ever a bad cartoon, hanna & barbera made it.
mircea_popescu: the studio was taken over by the jenius creative minds in questions. you probably also know their names, because they are intricately connected to the absolute worst shit animation ever saw.
mircea_popescu: then, after decades, and NINE oscars, ie, his weight in fucking gold, he retired.
mircea_popescu: or even any interest in the subject of his profession.
mircea_popescu: which he ran exactly like a fish market. opressing the ever-so-creative creative ppls, and famously lacking any sort of a sense of humour
mircea_popescu: now this man... he was a sales manager. hired away iirc from walmart, or some such, to run an animation studio.
mircea_popescu: cartoons exist in your mental universe because fred quimby lived at some point.
mircea_popescu: because fred quimby is the man that made cartoons be a meme. tom and jerry, loony tunes, all of it.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the fascinating case of fred quimby ?
mircea_popescu: however, that doesn't matter - how cheap it is in absolute terms. whether you have 100 outfits each owing 1mn or 5 outfits each owing 20mn
mircea_popescu: yes, it is, which is how we got 100 tries rather than 3.
mircea_popescu: nobody plays a game because "i hate it but whatever, it works"
mircea_popescu: you understand good games are a lot more elitist than good os right ?
mircea_popescu: there WERE cases which'd have been the "Competent symbolics that didn't do unix"
mircea_popescu: however, because > 100 tries, rather than the 3-4 you see in os market,
mircea_popescu: this scenario played itself there numerous times : people with great ideas sucked at business.
mircea_popescu: i am more familiar with games market 20 years later by a long shot.
mircea_popescu: im not familiar enough with the text & its context to call it
mircea_popescu: engineers suck at management is the long and the short of it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do i recall correctly that at some point they squandered a mn or so on some dumbass real estate deal ?
mircea_popescu: it didn't work for karpeles, it didn't work for lawsky, it ain't gonna work for graham, or for anyone else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. of course. when caught lying... freeze.
mircea_popescu: they were used as exploration drones, basically. see what fruit is poisonous etc.
mircea_popescu: the historical utility of children for human society is that they are more than happy to stick random things in their mouth.
mircea_popescu: you know womenz can be fiercely loyal in spite of their better knowledge.
mircea_popescu: so no, for a capitalist it is eminently impossible for something to not be and then come into being.
mircea_popescu: and as to "if you're a capitalist everything exists" - it's a subtle point, but in order for one to be a capitalist, the requisite premise is "that which is is and necesarily is, and that which is not is not and necessarily is not", ie, parmenides.
mircea_popescu: forget most people. you've not even made something and are already blunting it ? make it be good first, most people after.
mircea_popescu: moreover, and this is the important part, it's a poor premise because only idiots start their stuff with "most people"
mircea_popescu: now, the reason the quote is factually incorrect is pure godel. what you imagine as "simple" is only simple because you're using an unsimple language. otherwise, if you face the problem directly, it's very complex.
mircea_popescu: the problem with your theory is exactly that : it's a theory. life on earth is emergent pattern in chaos, not sensible arrangement.
mircea_popescu: (which is why "does" not "will" - the bourgeois has no adherence to metaphysics.)
mircea_popescu: in any case, this approach illuminates the fundamentally pessimistic outlook of the socialist.
mircea_popescu: so he spends his life chasing the world that doesn't suck, a dollar at a time.
mircea_popescu: so 5. he goes to work, makes more money. this of course scales up the price.
mircea_popescu: 1. world sucks ; 2. capitalist would pay any sum for a world that doesn't suck ; 3. sadly that world doesn't exist ; 4. but the capitalist simply presumes it exists, and it's for sale for the money he has + 1
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "the world sucks, and id pay any sum for one that didn't. well... suppose it exists and it costs what i have +1 ... best get to work then"
mircea_popescu: i think for the record most capitalists work on this concept
mircea_popescu: so imagine it exists and it costs the money you have + 1.
mircea_popescu: so imagine it exists and they don't let you work on it oh oh oh i see.
mircea_popescu: i thought you had bills in arrears. how would you pay a 10k bill ?
mircea_popescu: ie, you can't have the things that make it make money without the causes of the braindamage
mircea_popescu: mathematica only makes money because it's braindamaged imo
mircea_popescu: (historically this is the EXACT contribution of the artist to the world, your "I have lived in a river of shit my entire life" or as jourdain put it, "i had no idea i was talking in prose".)