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mircea_popescu: the other direction being that you DO NOT WISH the attenntion of most of those women.
mircea_popescu: so, filling reddit with apparently correct but actually provably falsifiable nonsense is not something that concerns me.
mircea_popescu: while also providing sufficient proof for 1% that in fact someone's trying to interfere
mircea_popescu: BUT! if the solution they come up with is to make an artefact which convinces 99% of the women sorted by stupidity that they shouldn't fuck you,
mircea_popescu: now, the reason this is stupid, on multiple planes, we won't dsiscuss here, for space.
mircea_popescu: they're all naked and dripping. suppose that someone for whatever stupid reason does not want you to fuck, because they imagine this is how you don't get to kill them.
mircea_popescu: suppose you are in a room, with women. there's 100 of them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok, prepare for a lengthy explanation then.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they will, to ~their detriment~. i'm not sure this is getting through, or that im doing a good job of explaining it, but in fact such victories are more expensive than the respective defeats they supposedly keep one from.
mircea_popescu: back to the usg-tb thing : people like a congressman or an ex ciadirector are very poor examples, because a key part of the cure is maintaining very hard counter-terrorism measures on the ground. no colby, owens, petreus etc ever said "you will have to shoot me, and expect to fail unless you bring armored units, and to lose a score of operatives in any case."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from what i understand the theory we're discussing, they'd be all the same thing ?
mircea_popescu: to imagine the usg, or for that matter any bureaucracy like a PERSON rather than like a disease is imo to be very, very wrong
mircea_popescu: "you mean to tell me we could use these to run bitcoin nodes ourselves ?!?! FU NOT SELLING THEM NAO"
mircea_popescu: "Can you tell me what you're wanting to do with them? " ?<< lol nubbins` got teh usms curious nao
mircea_popescu: (protip : "onlyallfours" is a very bad idea, especially on hard floors. bursitis is at thing, if you give a horse shoes to protect hooves from hard pavement, might as well give the slavegirls kneepads.)
mircea_popescu: i thought those were the nutteries we were digging aside.
mircea_popescu: i mean, sure, it's not watercooler conversation, among 10-20 an hour derps.
mircea_popescu: chomsky actually said that the joe stack grievances are legitimate, and will take over if not tackled.
mircea_popescu: whilke it's arguable if it makes the point more or less persuasively than that thing, nevertheless, it does make it, and who exactly argued with it ?
mircea_popescu: ie, if "all the women you've talked to" spit, and also are not wearing skirts, maybe sample is no good.
mircea_popescu will underscore there's nothing wrong with cheap ikea stuff. what was at stake above was the expectation that a sample with weird homologies may be representative for "the world"
mircea_popescu: what is the intersection of this everywhere and prefab furniture ?
mircea_popescu: "where three thinking people gather" or w/e the soviet expression was
mircea_popescu: that usg courts are a sad joke, again uncontroversial.
mircea_popescu: leakers that actually trust the entire press-to-public model are idiots in the first place.
mircea_popescu: that guardian is an intel asset, and greenwald in particular just gavin in a different color scheme is again uncontroversial.
mircea_popescu: a while later (about the same while later) it was exactly the same thing : "wikipedia at top of all search results because wikipedia at top of all search results".
mircea_popescu: also, originally, an attempt to resolve the "find sites" problem by iteration over the graph.
mircea_popescu: note the exact same fate of the only similar thing to date : imperial chinese examination.
mircea_popescu: the only thing is, i do not believe the degradation of google's model from algorithmic to "algorithmic" to "whatever, we'll just do it by hand" is in any sense cia's work.
mircea_popescu: ayway, i don't mind. questioning is the core of progress!
mircea_popescu: alf's lizard hitler seems pretty similar to the original hitler cca 1944.
mircea_popescu: then, once that worked as well as you'd expect, moving on to "oh, nothing notable, many things just like it" ?
mircea_popescu: first, trying to attack bitcoin with the nonsensical "oh, nothing notable except blockchain technologee"
mircea_popescu: at least large herbivores lookl like they were basically built for it
mircea_popescu: in short - this is why academic wankery is called academic wankery. it has all the characteristics of useful work save a few.
mircea_popescu: moreover, "n confirmation doublespends" still needs you to produce mined blocks of a proper difficulty, which is just as hard as on the main net.
mircea_popescu: the idea you are going to "monopolize" connections to a node is laughable, as they are all implemented to have hardwired connections you don't get to touch, in a pedestrian, difficult and unwieldy reimplementation of a wot system.