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mircea_popescu: i don't care how it looks. the point is that it's there, none of this "o, she just took the beadspread to the bathroom" bs.
mircea_popescu: fucking bs tv. THAT is what it's supposed to look like.
mircea_popescu: Namworld so do it for six months, take a year or two off.
mircea_popescu: anyway, hanbot has a point : join a fishing ship / oil rig / something. they'll pay you 5k a month to live in a 50 sq ft space,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: right. so if you pick up a girl what do you do, take her to a motel ?
mircea_popescu: how long can it all predate it ? sakharov is contemporary with feynman not with bohr
mircea_popescu: actually afaik the one thing that came out of that field was magnetic bottles, years latr.
mircea_popescu: anyway, pogos should be geographically distributtsexed.
mircea_popescu: would have been great for mining, because metal structure, unheated by default.
mircea_popescu: only time i ever bought such a thing was off the auction block. had no use for it, but fuck. dat price.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in a time long ago i had a 3 phase washing machine.
mircea_popescu: except if the girls start fighting because they're crammed too close together.
mircea_popescu: lolz all you wish, but let me tell you something : to anyone i knew in the 80s, "you will never own your own pair of jeans" would have been possibly the worst conceivable curse.
mircea_popescu: that's your job Namworld. can't be asking us. (there's even a rule about it!)
mircea_popescu: sometimes i think i'm too terse. then i look at the logs and shudder. what's a gal to do!
mircea_popescu: check it out! asciilifeform DOES get my original point!
mircea_popescu: Namworld so then what's the bitch ? you're not seriously contemplating cutting out of that 500 are you ?
mircea_popescu: Namworld so send the roommate out to turn tricks ? should be 100 an hour at least.
mircea_popescu: as hanbot sez, "the space to draw one's conclusion is big and fulla dragons."
mircea_popescu: but it was fully unintentional, they just kept running themselves into the wall
mircea_popescu: cazalla i had an entire fucking lulz with the elec corp in romania. they wanted to give me a deal if i prepaid, so i prepaid for like a year. then the eu elec price explosion happened, and so they paid me to get out of the prepay deal. then prices went back down.
mircea_popescu: the best advice i can give is, if you're having the girls living separate, pair them up. much happier girls, cheaper.
mircea_popescu: EXACTLY the same. "oh, we have money, oh, we're in it to get it right"
mircea_popescu: basically, a video game producer's view of MIT AI lab is "hey, it was a field-sized Daikatana"
mircea_popescu: not because it wasn't done. but because the idiots doing it (yes, minsky and all) were idiots about the one thing that matters, which had little to do with their actual target.
mircea_popescu: it is my considered belief that it was SPECIFICALLY the unwarranted delusion that ai is special that ruined it.
mircea_popescu: the relation between games as produced and games is about the same as the relation between intelligence as produced and intelligence
mircea_popescu: so, why ? why did the geniuses of mit fare so very much worse than the rag tag band of idiots and imbeciles coding for z80 in their bedrooms ?
mircea_popescu: 99.x% loss in sales, most commentators agreeing "it was prolly a fad" etc.
mircea_popescu: supposedly ai had much brighter minds at its disposal. what made the difference ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a snippet that will be perhaps insturctive. the ai winter and the vg winter happened almost in tandem. the latter resolved within a year.by the end of the decade vg was WAY ahead of the beginning.
mircea_popescu: to wit, the usians got beaten at it, so now it will have to no longer exist
mircea_popescu: i don't see a future for the stuff covered by moore's law, for the very simple reason we could call "obama's arab league failure"
mircea_popescu: where is the mit ai lab ? it was SO respectable in the 60s
mircea_popescu: what EXACTLY is the progress, past 30 years ? ballas has the story in detail
mircea_popescu: supposedly a major contributor to gdp worldwide is, mental health medication.