asciilifeform: picture if there were only 10 regulars here in #b-a, and one of them were ninjasp4mz0r
asciilifeform: herr naggum was in the unfortunate position of inhabiting a very small space where idiots could not be routed around, but had to be actively hounded into exile
asciilifeform: and therefore able to sustain the illusion that most of the bipeds around are 'people' worth 'respect'
asciilifeform: naggum, imho, suffered from the crucial handicap of not growing up in the shark tank
asciilifeform still, as when first encountered it, parses word 'reddit' as 'red edit' - a kind of intellectual kolkhoz.
asciilifeform: the 25 y.o. 'editors' are editing the 19 y.o. yesterday's redditors.
asciilifeform sometimes visits coffee shops in wash.,d.c. area and amuses himself by reading front page of the local fishwraps and counting the schoolboy-level homonym and grammatic mistakes.
asciilifeform: something i can certainly sympathize with.
asciilifeform thinks mr. o is preoccupied with anglo-demolition.
asciilifeform shudders to imagine what else wouldn't
asciilifeform: does anyone actually disagree with above?
asciilifeform: wn mind at zero cost is better than what must be dug up from reality at great effort.'
asciilifeform: 'I have concluded that it is a phenomenal curse when it is and children experience that they can guess faster than they can learn. This latter thing is what I mostly associate with stupidity, however, and why I do _not_ equate intelligence with absence of stupidity. Quite the contrary, the more intelligent, the more potential to be stupid in just this crucial way, to believe that what you can pick out of your o
asciilifeform: what know domain is this new domain most like << 'google' and its now nearly-unusable 'text matching'
asciilifeform: dogs and fleas have been living together for quite some time, but afaik dogs never invented ddt. perhaps because not cost-effective.
asciilifeform: whether this is happening presently, or has been for two years, or the trigger will be pulled for the first time tomorrow - only devil knows.
asciilifeform: fundamentals << as things, presently stand, the most cost-effective 'mining' presently is... to pwn existing operators.
asciilifeform: in ru net, there is actually a perversely reactive 'memecult' based on 'lookatme, i'm not a special snowflake at all!' - folks replacing their 'avatar pics' with little red squares with 'serial number'
asciilifeform: (back to the titanic pile of acorns, it did - if only by accident - make a useful point: sufficiently concentrated pile of $goodies is a 'target-rich environment')
asciilifeform: there is something in him of the 'freedom-loving sp4mz0rz'
asciilifeform: imho he just imagines preferring to be buggered raw by 'nature' than molested however gently by... tech-augmented molesters.
asciilifeform: the 'clef' to the 'roman a clef' of orlov is that he wants, more than anything, to live to see some kind of 'curtain call' on technological civilization and coherent culture -as a concern.-
asciilifeform does not disagree, in fact fumed indignantly when first read that piece
asciilifeform: but, suffering from some of the same intellectual vices, i find him entertaining
asciilifeform: have lost track of, somehow. Once δ > 0, you have achieved diminishing returns, and once δ > 1, you have achieved negative returns.'
asciilifeform: o keep track of, and your concerted effort to keep adding one more to the pile while fighting off squirrels may cause small children to start calling you silly names. The bigger the pile grows, the more likely you are to have to take inventory, and in the process you are increasingly likely to make a mistake, so that it turns out that 1,000,000 + 1 is in fact 1,000,001 - δ, where δ is the number of acorns you
asciilifeform: 'Mathematics uses induction—the idea that if 1 + 1 is 2 then 2 + 1 must be 3, and so on up to an arbitrarily large quantity. In the real world, if you are counting acorns, then 1 + 1 acorns is not the same as 1,000,000 + 1 acorns—not if there are squirrels running around, which there will be once they find out that you are the one who's been stealing their acorns. A million acorns is just too many for you t
