mircea_popescu: quantum != modicum, mostly because latin works as a language.

mircea_popescu: "Every system has to have some quanta of uncertainty affecting it." << that's not a correct use of the term. a quanta is a fixed, measurable, known quantity which quantifies a quantized system, such as 1 is the quanta of binary computing. in physics and so the surrounding world, (macroscopic)energy is usually hν, ie planck's constant (the quanta) times th frequency.

mircea_popescu: it makes perfect sense that there'd be backflow mostly on the obvious grounds that afaik for most of the history a sports journo was better paid than a political comentator

mircea_popescu: dude you're like... a lolgod by now.

mircea_popescu: a well.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo hm. that's a point.

mircea_popescu: there can not be such a difference.

mircea_popescu: that's a point.

mircea_popescu: punkman i can't really distinguish latin languages enough to have an oppinion, other than that modern french is perhaps having a similar if unrelated problem.

mircea_popescu: and it creates a spiral of doom. as the language stops working positively, people stop caring, and so it'll just rot further.

mircea_popescu: contemporary english being a major example of this sad situation. a point expressed in today';s english is actually LESS than what it was before it met expression. that's a sad state of affairs,

mircea_popescu: some other languages however act as a confounder of thought, i am discovering, and a hindrance to expression.

mircea_popescu: well, here's the thing : some languages act as a metamind for the speakers. the collected intellectual effort of antecessors having constructed the linguistic equivalent of engineer's rulers and whatnot. so that through the mere workings of the language, one's point is refined.

mircea_popescu: you can't run with your eyes closed. you can';t act in a world inhabited by these phantasms.

mircea_popescu: it started as this literary device i had thought i had invented like a decade ago. we even tried to work it into our book with chet.

mircea_popescu: thus parallel discussion is not a funny occurence but the vast majority of all interractions, people happily arguing with self-constructed dopplegangers of each other respectively. basically, a strawman is not merely a logical error, but the substance of all english language discourse today.

mircea_popescu: goat sperm'd have a better shot impregnating toad eggs.

mircea_popescu: there's a bunch of academics no less, discussing a topic of no particular interest with utter abandon : some palestinian guy who's also a professor got offered a job and then de-offered the job, because urbana admin didn't like him ranting about israelis on twitter.

mircea_popescu: the possibility of text meaning something to the reader is quite severely restricted by a whole list of novel issues, not directly familiar to the historian of this topic.

mircea_popescu: basically, that's what b-a reduces to : using english as a language rather than as a lingo is so uncommon by now, it takes intelligent people some effort to accommodate.

mircea_popescu: him:lol yeah, it's an unusual writing style. It's like a mix of technical , story telling and stretched analogies. I'm sure you get a lot of hardcore readers who follow along. from a technical standpoint, its somewhat of a nightmare lol.

mircea_popescu: me :i have a lot to say :D

mircea_popescu: you have politics/current affairs, which are mostly a bunch of who we're calling the bad things this week, putin "doesn't understand how the world works" for having dared to humiliate our beloved leadership bimonthly for the past year, and israelis are whatever and on and on

mircea_popescu: you have "science" which mostly consists of the sterile nonsense of "creationists" and a few fringe groups (homeopaths, scientologists, whatever nuts), some very primitive "o look, I discovered fractals" repackaging of basic understanding ("i fucking love science!11") and a bunch of bureaucracy-serving faux debates (o, really, 97.x% of the "scientists" hoping for a govt grant agree the govt position has scientific valu

mircea_popescu: you know, english as a discussion space is getting incredibly boring these days.

mircea_popescu: i guess that makes me a terrorist AND a sociopath dunnit.

mircea_popescu: they're only discussed because we don't really give a shit about the prisoner himself. if we did, we'd discuss how fucktarded he is instead of how x is failing y and other statistical wankery.

mircea_popescu: yeah, the more general point being that no structural considerations can ever excuse personal ineptitude. obama is a failure first and foremost because he, himself, personaly, is an imbecile, not nearly up to the task he asked to be allowed to undertake. every poor black person in jail is in jail because they, personally, are fucktards. the "system", family and all else come vehehehery distant seconds, and of little pr

mircea_popescu: so woul have the forum. if bitcointalk weren't run by a random 20yo kid with nary a clue of this world and a random gang of otherwise unemployable, it'd have not failed into the scam swamp of all time.

mircea_popescu: closed down a decade into it. author realises she'd rather be a mommy than a ho.

mircea_popescu: "This is why I have not written about the most meaningful relationship of my life so far, or about my realising I want a life partner and children."

mircea_popescu: i guess rational consistency isn't that big a deal when one's got feeeehlings.

mircea_popescu: the breeding of a new type of tard.

mircea_popescu: Ok, so Coinbase advertised (via a popup that appeared when I logged on) that if I complete my verification (which was already done), I'd get $5. It looked like a bug, but for $5 I clicked it anyway and apparently got nothing. And then of course like an idiot I complained about it on reddit. Now (several days later), I get $5 in bitcoin from Coinbase with a message that it's for completing my verification. Thank you Coi

mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well do you have a namecheap account ?

mircea_popescu: you don't have to sign a contract with an arbitration clause if you don't want to.

mircea_popescu: that's the motherfucking point of a court system in the first place.

mircea_popescu: it's the dubious blessing of being raised in a system, that with the safety this entails for as long as the system survives comes intermingled the complete cluelessness and inability to survive.