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mircea_popescu: you seriously believe that if you split up the value wikipedia added to human society over the years, in "making experts laugh" and "everything else", the 2nd bit would be anything even remotely comparable to the 1st ?
mircea_popescu: this is a rube goldberg cube. entertaining, for us. wasteful, for the random derp/.
mircea_popescu: i happen to know what things are, having had the good fortune to exist before wikipedia did.
mircea_popescu: no, iut's a tool for laymen to bolt down their ignorance in such a way that they'll never ever become good, at anything.
mircea_popescu: but it packages it with a very dangerous false sense of competence.
mircea_popescu: it's a starting point for misunderstanding, which wouldn't be a big deal
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 internet is large, and mostly inhabited by the clueless.
mircea_popescu: also, every encyclopedia consists of original research of its editors
mircea_popescu: Chillum everything even remotely worth reading is out of the scope of a wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: presenting rank ignorance as, rather than humiliatory, a sort of "problem". it's no problem.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 derps ennumerated their db rather than hashing it.
mircea_popescu: "[W]hen a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong." << in romanian this is known as "a waiter at one of these places where university professors gather can actually soak up a lot, often enough to pass himself for one"
mircea_popescu: and i guess ima hammer the shit out of fetlife now, anyway.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 nah, inept dc caved over a fraudulent dmca notice. will be skinning them for it, next week.
mircea_popescu: we had a guy, long ago, that cared. it is to his memory that i dedicate that line.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, these ignoramuses have branded the memory hole effect too ?
mircea_popescu: the reason is that... as decimation points out... nobody gives a shit about wikipedia
mircea_popescu: bitcoin forum is dedicated to making "free bitcoin content" as well.
mircea_popescu: Chillum last i saw the begging campaign, it was a very pointed "sucks we can't afford 1/100000000 of what google can"
mircea_popescu: i object to the spurious pretense that wikipedia is anyuthing but myspace on white
mircea_popescu: whereas wikipedia whines about not having 5k to pay for servers, and nurtures inferiority complexes @ google and everyone else.
mircea_popescu: which is why d'alembert's is d'alembert's, and why it turned europe upside down
mircea_popescu: this is what an encyclopedia is. not a piling of "information", as the acultural imagine.
mircea_popescu: an encyclopedia, fundamentally, imposes a political hierarchy upon the world, and that of a known and verifiable pedigree.
mircea_popescu: wikipedia is not "pretty good by the standards of any encyclopedia", it is "pretty good by the standards of any encyclopedia that were not an encyclopedia but a wikipedia instead"
mircea_popescu: Chillum again, that an elephant which counts to three is pretty great as far as elephants go does not make this a mathematical discussion.
mircea_popescu: also significantly not either usable or an encyclopedia.
mircea_popescu: Chillum the philosophy is that you can aggregate meaning out of contextless snippets, by using self-propelled monkeys. this is so much nonsense.
mircea_popescu: i wish to see the female alf. and her shoe collection.
mircea_popescu: Chillum intel says your 0.003% figure actually very likely accurate.
mircea_popescu: which i must say for dali, and he'd have said it if he thought of it first : fucking genius.
mircea_popescu: perhaps. in the sense the russians mounted it all on oxcarts.
mircea_popescu: bauhaus on the cheap = soviet prefab flats. from berlin to pakistan.
mircea_popescu: actually ... it's pretty much incipient socialism realism. perhaps a little better. not much.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how familiar you are with 1930s german art - but it's pretty damned bad.
mircea_popescu: decimation it would be all straight edges and very fucking stolid.
mircea_popescu: Chillum i don't think that's the shade of caring he had in mind.
mircea_popescu: Chillum you're gonna control information about jupiter ?
mircea_popescu: Chillum if that thing's information i'm a sort of misunderstood pope.
mircea_popescu: some other people have to see which common mistress is awake to bail the couple out.
mircea_popescu: some people have to explain to the wife why they're in jail.
mircea_popescu: moreover, it's relevant support. the support of people you're not intimate with is worth about as much as the word of people not in the wot.
mircea_popescu: in strict contrast to the woman he had before, that bogged him down.
mircea_popescu: and it's unclear they actually need anything. slim is the controlling example. chick empowered bogart.
mircea_popescu: this isn't strictly chillum's "she helps with the rent". recall convo re 40k ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yet women live on average on a dollar a day.
mircea_popescu: decimation sadly usg is not directly involved. this is more "let's make vague laws to satisfy an abstruse expectation of good". the only result is, whenever contrary interests meet, the provider is caught in the middle.
mircea_popescu: not that i care, i'll be making money on this deal, but from a systemic perspective it sucks.
mircea_popescu: the us legal system has managed to put anyone trying to provide services into this position of "fucked either way".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i know, i'll be suing a dc, moving the thing etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's again put it in terms of sex. given the choice does it seem a better strategy to keep long term warm intimate relations with a long list of sluts, or does it seem more workable to just keep the yellow pages close and hope the massage salon person understands what you mean ?