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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.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field btw, how about you get them personal friends in the wot and start a something.
mircea_popescu: for your peace of mind : the last time a mast broke off in a storm the year was 1715.
mircea_popescu: like invention of tools to make aeroplanes safer in 1915
mircea_popescu: ascii_field your problem is that you're premarket in that.
mircea_popescu: and i understand WHY they hire the way they do, with contests etc.
mircea_popescu: except he doesn't want tyo compete with the 16yos those guys hire.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field so this would be in demand either a) by the nsa or else b) independent work a la s.nsa
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field "here's this binary, find out what it does" ?
mircea_popescu: which did you mean ? and neither of these are programmers.
mircea_popescu: "problem solver" is either a) cocky bs major from minessotta (we had examples ridiculed in here) or else b) collin powell.
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's very dissonant for me because he seems to come from this place where exactly the opposite of what i see is true. backwards world of alf.
mircea_popescu: this simply reflects stuff discussed all over trilema. why would it not be.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field that there is no serious demand for highly skilled computerizers
mircea_popescu: i must say im still broadly unconvinced by the entire thing.
mircea_popescu: in any case, this would present excellent cause to disallow acces of women trying to appear *as women* in this field. either they learn how to be men or learn to live without participating in technology.
mircea_popescu: makes no difference for a bankrupt corp why it's bankrupt. still out of sight.
mircea_popescu: if women have it, and "do what i mean" and "i should be safe whether im naked drunk or not", then yes, semiskilled shanonizers in microsoft garb everywhere.
mircea_popescu: if a company can either secure its network or lose its ass... then the professional will be in demand.
mircea_popescu: if this is true, which i still doubt but perhaps just as an artefact of my limied circle, then the pill is simply destruction of the legal protections.
mircea_popescu: i suppose to the degree this phenomenon exists, it is driven by the feminization of the internet (the sort of retarded behaviour illustrated by that comment i quoted earlier).
mircea_popescu: is this true btw ? i am sensing this trendwhere people go "real professionals are not in demand"
mircea_popescu: my point is softer than that. specifically, it is that simply having put this there would not have tarnished your blog, but been smart an' convenient.
mircea_popescu: just put it there so it can be found conveniently and forget about it.
mircea_popescu: whjat the fuck difference does it make to the book how many read it?
mircea_popescu: dude, let's burn the library of alexandria because nobody ever read it. i bet that's how it actually went down.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you know you really should blog/link these things. srsly.
mircea_popescu: the entire "we're obeying the law because the law produces foodstamps" and "keeps the terrorists at bay" doesn't really look too functional at any rate.
mircea_popescu: could as well obey this law as any other, and in the end none at all.