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mircea_popescu: "This article is about the futurist ideology and movement. For the critique of humanism, see posthumanism. For the pattern of seasonal migration, see transhumance. For persons experiencing incongruence between their actual gender and the gender assigned to them at birth, see trans man, trans woman, and transgender." << best part imo.
mircea_popescu: why so shy you know ? what's wrong with "Transhumanism is Thiel's stab at b-a. He thinks Omidyar's stab at qntra failed for reasons unrelated."
mircea_popescu: "Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities."
mircea_popescu: even patently retarded stuff like "Smart contracts" seem preferable by that experience.
mircea_popescu: once people try to be run by a bureaucracy however... god help'em.
mircea_popescu: for as long as bureaucracy = the slaves of peter, or julius, or w/e, that may well work.
mircea_popescu: the other thing is : bureaucracy makes an excellent woman and an applaing man.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the computer of meat approach may well explain why it sucks so bad since 1900s. not a bad heuristic.
mircea_popescu: voltaire was a great fan, what are you talking about ?
mircea_popescu: sorta like how wolves would make excellent guard dogs, if only they stopped going and killing all the sheep and stayed at the fucking door instead.
mircea_popescu: trinque bureaucracy has its uses. the problem is that the context it'd be useful in and the context in which it thrives are so wildly divorced.
mircea_popescu: (the Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts, et des metiers. was essentially a b-a of the time fork of human knowledge of the time. it was wildly successful in spite of being mostly wrong)
mircea_popescu: nonsense through and through, but whadda ya want, encyclopedists, ie transhumanists v1.0
mircea_popescu: god isn't the first warrior anymore, which all other warriors owe fealty too, god is now the first contract which all contracts are derived fro
mircea_popescu: markov how, all the dude was talking about before were genius biznis ideas and stuff.
mircea_popescu: interestingly enough, all the idiots are the same one idiot.
mircea_popescu: Jun 07 17:31:33 *ninjashogun (~User@catv-212-96-61-236.catv.broadband.hu) has joined #bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: srsly, random shitheads know what things are now. what is this, the future ?
mircea_popescu: <n3xtb1gthng> is there a philosophical reaosn you don't build some level of seigniorage into bitcoin? (as some alt's have)? << about the same sort of philosophical reason as not building a tail into you.
mircea_popescu: especially seeing how the ~60 or so nodes left running are really not enough for 2012.
mircea_popescu: to no-one's surprise except i guess a coupla code monkeys here and there who really bought the "doocracy" koolaid.
mircea_popescu: the bitcoin rules are defined by what important people use, and as it happens gavin & co are unimportant.
mircea_popescu: if that were the actual criteria, then "bitcoin" would be green and printed on paper.
mircea_popescu: and no, bitcoin's rules are not defined by "what people use".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how about that one! they've not sold anything to anyone since last year. and yet...
mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised cisco still pretends to be in business
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't ask cisco for their own heads on a platter.
mircea_popescu: i can see why the gavin troop would like the defense of "we have already moved the protocol once" to rely on, but it's simply not true.
mircea_popescu: and the second time it won't, if that happens, its chain will be also abandoned.
mircea_popescu: but the first time it didn't submit its chain was abandoned
mircea_popescu: but in his defense, pretty much his entire career consists of party entertainment in costume, so...
mircea_popescu: you don't have support, principally because you were not good enough, and failed to grasp this in time.
mircea_popescu: same dope that they weren't smart tosling in the first place.
mircea_popescu: every time you change anything you're stuck auditing the whole thing you changed./
mircea_popescu: where does all this braindamage stem from, seriously. what's the difference between an "only audit the changes auditing process" and dead reckoning ?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1058664 << contrary to what you might have erroneously come to believe a) 0.5.1 version as printed by the bitcoin foundation is the cannonical version of bitcoin ; b) various groups of scammers trying to attack bitcoin are continuously pushing their own versions of solidcoin, which has all the importance of ms boring's bitcoin chamber of commerce.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i'm sure it'll do just as well as all preivious rehashes of this process.
mircea_popescu: through a bunch of ignorant twerps using words they don't understand the meaning of, in the context of their self-allocated importance ?
mircea_popescu: this having already been done... we'll have to figure something out.
mircea_popescu: only way to manage it i can think of at the moment is disallowing the power ranger imbeciles from further commits
mircea_popescu: i tyhought they were stuggling with getting it to work.
mircea_popescu: the actual unit is tiny, makes the crate look like it's 60% packaging
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic i don't think anyoine's using them anymore seriously.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, me in istanbul. very competent local secret service guy wants to know where i'm from. "i'm american" "no you're not. you're bulgarian or something".
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, lulzy scene. my in bucharest, with slavegirl, at mother's appartment. she goes "oh, so she's X ?" "yeah. would you like to see her naked ?"
mircea_popescu: that's the golden standard as a field anthropologist : once the gorillas start plucking your lice.
mircea_popescu: lol oddly protective. you have to learn a foreign language yo. you have to love a woman that's perfectly incomprehensible for your parents. that's what travel is . the rest's tourism.
mircea_popescu: well, did you ever spend time abroad ? how much ? did you learn the local language ? did you fuck local or brownbag ? etc.