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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".)
mircea_popescu: aka, art (in the "what is art" on trilema sense - work for the lord).
mircea_popescu: but w/e, im a bad example. suppose for someone it matters, and it saves them 10 billion pula.
mircea_popescu: notrly. the sticking point atm is the art and my game design, not the code.
mircea_popescu: well, i don't code much, so it's unlikely to make much difference to me. but in any case, this is how a good joke goes, or a good book. good books don't make much money.
mircea_popescu: i still don't see the money part. this is art, at best.
mircea_popescu: "how many lcd screens do you get by adding seven oranges to a bucket of water ?" "8"
mircea_popescu: a : user B, because his PMT are cars, whereas user A's PMTs are empty cherio wrappers.
mircea_popescu: politicomathsocioscience 101 for the new generation : let there be user A who has 43 positive meaningless ticks and 22 negative meaningless ticks ; and user B who has 12 PMT and 17 NMT. who would win in a fight between homer simpson and a himalayan sherpa ?
mircea_popescu: this user has produced 77 productions and consumed 52 consumptions. 991 users approve.
mircea_popescu: fake meaningless numbers processed as if they weren't. fucking fiat mindrot
mircea_popescu: "Contributions in the last year". what the FUCK does this mean.
mircea_popescu: "HotSlut22" #P"/root/quicklisp/local-projects/masamune/images/hot-slut22-avatar.png"))) o.O
mircea_popescu: that is a very different statement from the statement you're actually making.
mircea_popescu: "From this point forward it is assumed you have set aside some time to learn Masamune and need no justification for as to why any particular abstraction has been chosen." << so is this a cult then ?
mircea_popescu: see, this is the golden rule of magic numbers : if you use one and then need context to indentify it, you've misused a magic number.
mircea_popescu: okay so... how;s this oging to pay your internets bill ?
mircea_popescu: are you in like a public library in guatemala or something