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mircea_popescu:
<@fenn> you could have a dialysis membrane in a microfluidic chip i guess
<< speaking of vaguely this : the great success of the new microflora research chips was so great it even made it to qntra! seems an eminently crowd-source-able item, in a useful way at that.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1705282 << i think empiricist, but also perhaps a mystic would be another alternative, i.e. knowledge through divine revelation. i think perhaps also traditionalist, i.e. inherent knowledge
☝︎ mircea_popescu: 14:43
< kanzure> i was just going through "the list" in my head (i don't really have a list, i'm just making things up that sound important)
<< ehehehe. this is becoming very alike that seinfeld episode where they had an opposite world and there was an opposte alf named fenn and so on. THE RSMT!!!
mircea_popescu: kanzure> i wonder if people just signed their work with leibniz's name as a way to get it preserved
<< your reference points are pythagoras and perhaps
mircea_popescu: 12:23
< kanzure> there is a certain argument about not always throwing away legacy code, but i currently forget the exact argument
<< it was joel writing up netscape implosion.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 12:22
<@fenn> how many lines of code is OCC?
<<< see, he is asking the right question. i knew my patience will be dug back out from the hole by the unfolding of events!
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704897 << see, the problem is not THAT it's ponyfic ; but that it's bad. there's plenty of demand for good fearmongering (don't stick your tongue in wall socket, son!), the problem is there's no demand for bad fearmongering. it's the quality, not the kind of item, that's the problem.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 14:26 asciilifeform: 19:41
<@fenn> the patent was the excuse everyone used for not sharing their homegrown plasmids
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704886 << my understanding of " a mentat from dune" was "a guy who takes a lot of showers", rather than what i discovered later was the general us view on the matter, "guy who does lots of xword puzzles". i have nfi where that typically 80s idea "xword puzzles make you smart" came from.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 12:57 phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704716 << i don't think it matters which faction of ultra rationalist posthumanists you belong to. either way the nature of your misunderstanding of tmsr take certain predictable shape, and so are your interests, etc. nobody thinks that you literally suck yudkowsky's cock, but personally i don't even care.
BingoBoingo:
<kanzure> yea had to get a forklift to move this thing
<< Do you still have forklift? What kind, is it for sale?
BingoBoingo:
<kanzure> it's literally the answer i was given
<< I can't find this re-reading log at all
deedbot: trinque rated kanzure -1
<< No one here need prove himself to you.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704716 << i don't think it matters which faction of ultra rationalist posthumanists you belong to. either way the nature of your misunderstanding of tmsr take certain predictable shape, and so are your interests, etc. nobody thinks that you literally suck yudkowsky's cock, but personally i don't even care.
☝︎☟︎ BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> nothing hates old women society as much as dogs do.
<< lettuce not forget the Human Society's other priority, the cats! Cats who fleece old women society while snorting catnip and other drugs during pussy grabbing orgies.
mircea_popescu: 16:53
< nmz787> hmm, there's a new biotech thing starting on the floor below genspace (or at least where genspace was)
<< i wonder if this sorta thing ever gives them any pause.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: d00d had some quite musculatured, and not otherwise mutilated ( as far as anybody could tell ) rat
<< And time + selective breeding some well built bulls in Belgium
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: funnily enough, BchE is ~the~ preantidote. inject couplea grams, and walk right through vx.
<< AHA, an innovation to revolutionize pest control!
a111: Logged on 2017-04-07 20:17 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-07#1639964 << one of the (~the~ ?) advantage of tmsr work for intelligent folk is that there isn't a braindamaged/choiceless manager in the loop going "i know it's stupid but it must be done".
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> it's in the last link, re teh HeLa.
<< For further reading ask Hussein Bahamas about the trechery of Big Headed Yakub.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-28 22:44 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-28#1703856 << moreover the "effects of loci" thing is rank nonsense of the level of "here's my thermometer-based debugging tool. who wants to measure cpu quadrant temperatures as software runs ???". there's no localisation in that sense.