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mircea_popescu: what motivates the monkey to pick up the rock isn't some sort of contorted dream about becoming a rockthrowing revolutionary ceo.
mircea_popescu: most of human history, and the vast majority of everything nice and good, came out of cause-oriented. so common in fact it didn't even have a name.
mircea_popescu: whitelabelling and dropshipping and all that is how the "service economy" operates.
mircea_popescu: better ways to grow fungi and afids on your walls if you're really into that.
mircea_popescu: i used to have a huge library, i wouldnt buy a book today.
mircea_popescu: Chillum this is how it worked in belle epoque paris rly.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, politicians are pliable, policemen respectful and judges amenable. in all times and places. that's what these do.
mircea_popescu: imo it's kinda dweeby, but hey. one doesn't get to choose the times
mircea_popescu: shinohai dawg you're trying too hard. how about you get in the wot, settle down to some reading ?
mircea_popescu: it's how fucking africa runs since... oh i dunno, 1500 ?
mircea_popescu: what exactly would prevent me from beating the shit out of the 'villagers' each day, having them digging out gold nuggets till they drop so i can have more guns flown in ?
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, same people actually believe the equivalent of beggars in a river somewhere are... a communal co-op!
mircea_popescu: oh, the weimar stuff ? yeah that was incredibly disciplined.
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as group delusion. that's how the french ended up with the urinals.
mircea_popescu: nor have you read stuff written by people outside of this particular cultural space.
mircea_popescu: they CAN be, but they can also not be, and it's hard to know aforehand.
mircea_popescu: i am perhaps the only one here that has actually gone through a collapse, and if that's worth for anything - goods aren't helpful.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't just keeping a bunch of drug dealers (actual kind, not the derps) on your rolodex work better for the purpoise ?
mircea_popescu: my question is, where did the guy find condoms that small.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> and i could have easily built all of this by 25 y.o. <<
mircea_popescu: be happy if you manage to ever actually make it, or at least nudge towards it. 25 or 55.
mircea_popescu: im just saying, alt-universes aren't much of a guide for anything.
mircea_popescu: but this is good news : new stuff is cheaper to build than retooling old stuff.
mircea_popescu: yeah, for none of this is any of the current toolchain useful, from plant to emacs.
mircea_popescu: incidnetally - would you also have the selective inhibition design ?
mircea_popescu: but i have no doubt this is correct, chiefly because that';s how the brain works.
mircea_popescu: ie, you'd end up with half the space or more taken up by indexes
mircea_popescu: if you do that the current addressing schemes would never work
mircea_popescu: which is what "not leaking" is, in mathematical terms.
mircea_popescu: and no, it's not an argument against abstraction period. it's an argument against using abstractive methods outside of their domain of definition
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel for one thing, natural languages can not be modelled in terms of computer langs.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you're on very slippery ice sheet there. i'll save you the egg and point out that you can't form an apriori representation of why X model is no good.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, contrary to common belief, well used holes get better, not worse. woman is not made out of soap.