230800+ entries in 0.094s
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.
mircea_popescu: there's a guy who learns and his learning is wasted effort. there's a different guy who learns for sport.
mircea_popescu: then it suddenly becomes fascinating, like a puzzle of sorts.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field that gets extremely easier once you fuck his gf. you notice the subtle difference between the same object as he perceives it, and as it is.
mircea_popescu: see, and this is a FINE example of what i mean by "leak like a sieve". your observation was in fact accounted for in my model. because i hadn't leaked it. because it doesn't leak there.
mircea_popescu: perhaps the cpu also gets tired, but the rate of loss due to that has not yet been apparent, at least to me.
mircea_popescu: so : better mental models, less domain lossage - > mega shrinkage of time and effort required.
mircea_popescu: if you crash less often, you need less computer time to do the same work.
mircea_popescu: another approach to it is to point out that human brains leak like a fucking sieve.
mircea_popescu: that's a good approach to explain it : imagine you can disqualify bad teachers earlier. well... that's definitely saving time.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i wouldn't want to go back to being 20 anymore than i'd want to re-take kindergarten.
mircea_popescu: but im not going to because i see wtf that is freom a mile away, including the gender of the author and her parenting errors in her own kids.
mircea_popescu: and yes, probably the 22 me would have gotten through the fucking with phase in seven weeks and it'd take me 9 now if i tried it.
mircea_popescu: that a lesser brain would have fucked with for eight weeks"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes much deeper than that. like "i readily see THE REAL REASON this is so, so i can skip eighteen paragraphs worth of confused "explicatory" nonsense
mircea_popescu: of course this could be backed in my case by a solid wall of "i don't have to do anything i don' want to do"
mircea_popescu: depends ben_vulpes. the problem chiefly is that as the mental models get much better, learning speed collapses.
mircea_popescu: i was fucking dumb at 22, and less dumb but still fucking dumb at 25.
mircea_popescu: im i the only guy too absorbed in self-love to notice this phenomenon ?
mircea_popescu: and as nubbins would point out, not doing enough whippets.
mircea_popescu: list of things slavegirls think aforehand "kill the mind" ? 559876985975 items.
mircea_popescu: you have any fucking idea how desperate those guys are ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally : if your boat breask "by itself" nudge nudge grin grin, you can go back to biochem.