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mircea_popescu: Adlai i suppose he meant bitwise identical star, to be translated as, same txn
mircea_popescu: because it distracts from a discussion about how they suck, and people should fire them
mircea_popescu: when met with any novel thing, the bulk will shrug and carry on, the 19% marginals will yak about it,
mircea_popescu: this is fine as far as the system goes, it's own "democratic" logic, et all.
mircea_popescu: then bureaucrat drones are going on about weapons and whatnot, with nary a clue about anything but what could be persuasively argued to a mostly clueless public.
mircea_popescu: davout pilots did not make anything up. they say it's fucking annoying. im sure it is.
mircea_popescu: pretty much exactly consistent with what i[ve been saying last time we did this laser thing
mircea_popescu: and if maximally zoomed (looks about 16x) it very briefly shines.
mircea_popescu: but those facts don't make derpy lasers "weapons" and etc etc.
mircea_popescu: now, mind you, i'm the first to agree the lasers are fucking annyoing and the idiots wielding them need better hobbies.
mircea_popescu: no, you don't. so don't miss shit on your fucking checklist.
mircea_popescu: anyway, all this beating around the bush. here's to making the penis a dangerous weapon.
mircea_popescu: "omaigawd stuffwas illuminated, i totally lost my trtain of thought. o look, unicorns!!1"
mircea_popescu: what next, this is a legitimate car crash reason ? "police lights illuminated my cockpit your honor. let the police dept pay."
mircea_popescu: it will iluminate the cockpit less than what fucking police lights do.
mircea_popescu: davout and your windows won't protect you, because... antiglare's not been invented.
mircea_popescu: they're sort-of like turkeys, which have caused problems in the past, so planes have been shielded against them, so it no longer matters.
mircea_popescu: "These gutless and cowardly attacks have to be stopped," he said. "I am preparing a proposal to cabinet to consider making these items a prohibited weapon."
mircea_popescu: i was like omfg australia, large spiders, larger lasers.
mircea_popescu: only job to score consistently under tradecraft for security.
mircea_popescu: anyway, last fucking job you want in a conflict zone is flying the helicopters.
mircea_popescu: im sure driving a car is pretty awesome to fish, and for the same reason : "mamma mia if i crash this tank im fucked"
mircea_popescu: that in turn being because helicopters exist in the first place.
mircea_popescu: davout but then again, they don't have to be FOR something. they may well just be BECAUSE of something, that something being "we got a helicopter"
mircea_popescu: with all this digitality of modernity, it turns out the postwar mobsters were eerily before their time.
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mircea_popescu: which was a great run, a point that'll be made obvious by the anger of all the hanger-ons once itstops
mircea_popescu: point being, the trillions needed for 10nm and beyond aren't forthcoming and that's the end of this run.
mircea_popescu: there's that big bitch in there. ~economically~. the cost for 10nm is alreadyu not covered by the density benefits
mircea_popescu: decimation look at it this way : 14nm was demonstrated in memories cca 2005, intel shipped it in 2015.
mircea_popescu: decimation from what i recall reading on teh topic, the 14nm process was a total debacle and 10nm is a theory only thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right. only failure can be kept from the public knowledge.
mircea_popescu: as if old code somehow gets forgotten or something, dunno.
mircea_popescu: once people start having to optimize, the doocracies are dead.
mircea_popescu: and yes alf's right, the end of moore is also the end of ms, apple etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform unrelated, that. obv it'd be of chinese make in any case.
mircea_popescu: decimation litho is already dead, intel's cancelling narrower process etc.
mircea_popescu: once improvements go away, infrastructure starts to decay.
mircea_popescu: because industrial infrastructure has been kept in new state by constant improvement.
mircea_popescu: besides the point. here's mp's prediction : the computer that can be had for a one ounce of gold in 2025 will be inferior to the computer that can be had for an ounce of gold today, on computation measures.
mircea_popescu: current computers are best computers, and fu humanity.
mircea_popescu: "Progress in computer hardware has followed an amazingly steady curve in the last few decades [17]." << by now moore';s law is currency in trading for everyine, from usgavin to vince whoever.
mircea_popescu: anyway, you know those stories about how rich guy heard the paupers / shoeshine boys discuss stocks and bailed ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that vinge dood thinks progress in biology does not depend on computers ?
mircea_popescu: decimation no idea who'd build on land he didn't own, but hey.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, some state authority or other decided to cut cables. the city hall nearly caught fire as a result, and the plan was discontinuied.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is exactly how ro internet worked, and the reason ro internet is today in the top 5 worldwide, with 4 azns : that pressure ten years ago
mircea_popescu: "Hank Pellissier is the director of Brighter Brains Institute, and the producer of eight transhumanist conferences in 2013-2015."