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mircea_popescu: The reason Dr Green is not a salaried academic is partly because her ideas are out of sympathy with the prevailing intellectual climate, but also because her education was ruined. A child prodigy, she was the victim of a hostile state education system, and an unsympathetic college when she was an undergraduate at Oxford. She is uniquely suited to doing research, and could be making significant progress in several areas
mircea_popescu: "Dr Green currently holds no salaried academic position, a situation her associates regard as profoundly anomalous and unjust. One of the purposes of Oxford Forum is to reinstate her in the academic world."
mircea_popescu: "why ellipses ? because circles in 4 dimensions project to 3 dimensional ellipses, that's why!"
mircea_popescu owned a half lb flashlight in TM. yet it had no processor.
mircea_popescu: it kicked ass, an dprobably set my expectations of machines in fields like responsivity for instance. or stress tolerance
mircea_popescu: 10 more if it's built from the ground up with anything in mind.
mircea_popescu: 10 points for beginning the description of your theory by saying how long you have been working on it. (10 more for emphasizing that you worked on your own.)
mircea_popescu: shakespeare was also not the first to derp about derpy themes
mircea_popescu: pretty much all of the us consists of john smiths, rewriting the bible in their own name.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ^ cheap n-th generation plagiarism of weizenbaum (of eliza) 'computer power and human reason' << this diagnosis is exactly correct, i am persuaded.
mircea_popescu: as far as i know, not even linus "decides what is written"
mircea_popescu: yeah. the powerful software elite is out there crushing its cessna in irs tax offices.
mircea_popescu: hasn't even been investigated at any point, it's just revelation or something.
mircea_popescu: somehow this idea that "privilege = bad" is getting passed around a certain group of idiots as given gospel.
mircea_popescu: decimation i've noticed that a good heuristic is, if (grep -c "privilege" > 1) break;
mircea_popescu: decimation someone here had written the algorithm for that.
mircea_popescu: girls have private collections of "like mp but with stupid"
mircea_popescu: that everything can be put into a tree is a trivial bit of graph theory.
mircea_popescu: all it takes practically is to break it once, then it's broken.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes also "myriad scripts and patches to said are written" is not useful.
mircea_popescu: the idea here is that payments clear across a continent as if they would in the home market.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard europe already did this. it's called sepa, and it doesn't do anything.
mircea_popescu: "economy of scale" is simply one item in the shanonizer.
mircea_popescu: you don't understand, "The State will use economies of scale to make the bitcoin network too expensive/impossible to use."
mircea_popescu: hopefully the pilots brought flap actuator batteries and whatnot
mircea_popescu: what pray tell will you figure out, that thing steers like a battleship.
mircea_popescu: cazalla who in the us ~doesn't~ face 20 years in jail, i wish to know. it's what that country is predicated on, by now. "i am a us citizen and i face twenty years in jail three times before breakfast. i hope they give us marmelade today".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as a result, the countless shanonizers are inches away from reproducing shakespeare.
mircea_popescu: the social studies million army may well be useless, but it is not in point of fact idle. the important difference is that while the printing presses of money are run as fast as they can run but by a central authority, the printing presses of discourse are run in overdrive independently.
mircea_popescu: but generally, you can find incredibly ample if very well unknown networks of prose dedicated to any random nonsense you wish to pick.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of the free market is that it doesn't require intelligent participants, nor does it allow governance.
mircea_popescu notices in the churned "social media" data that "address reuse" has gone from "unanimity" to "most people recommend" "in most cases".
mircea_popescu: williamdunne you might have to change scoopbot_revived to a new key then associate the old one to the nerw nic
mircea_popescu: (and so is bitcoin-otc.com's. these together make probably 90%+ of our inbound links atm)
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> specifically from ^ ? << sure, seeing how his link is also to the same source.
mircea_popescu: which i found to my surprise at conference that still exists!