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mircea_popescu: oh and d) make a deed stating what deedbot does, who's maintaining it, what addy it takes for funding etc.
mircea_popescu: foundain of fucking youth : sit in b-a all day, everything will have happened coupla weeks ago.
mircea_popescu: dude srsly, we had that spacestation gayness convo A YEAR AGO ?
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.trinque.2:83bd96c94c9f5b079148413fb831bb5be8a9354344140ef0d01bf274b81c4eab
mircea_popescu: mostly because autofill adds a space then i have to delete it etc. serves no purpose either.
mircea_popescu: danke. but rly, add-deed is spurious, it should just presume it if a naked url is presented. and i hate those :
mircea_popescu: trinque : a) could deedbot be registered so it autovoices ; b) could the website be edited so as to be arranged as discussed ; c) could the syntax of this thing be fixed so i can actually use it!
mircea_popescu: i've formed a psychological aversion to dividends because i keep fucking the sums up ;/
mircea_popescu: jurov you know it only just confirmed a few hours ago!
mircea_popescu: you don't buy X because it's good, you buy it because it'll outlive everyone else, shitty as it is.
mircea_popescu: making corpses is a surer way to power than making money.
mircea_popescu: even so. look at it this way : zimmerman died, his pgp still in use.
mircea_popescu: which is why one's own two legs are such valuable infrastructure, moreso than any car.
mircea_popescu: and mind that "more dollars are printed" does not in fact work to maintain infrastructure.
mircea_popescu: both classes of problems are being controlled atm with artificial restraints, but technology esentially means arbitrage between actual and artificial restraints.
mircea_popescu: on very long distances they suffer from low desnity problem (ie, if you want this sent 5000 miles away, odds are there's not a road leading to your destination)
mircea_popescu: on very short distances they suffer from high density problems (ie, if we live three blocks from each other in manhattan anything';s better than trying to ship you stuff)
mircea_popescu: (length in this impoverished model means nothing other the inverse of density : the longer the distance the lower the density)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes let me put it this way : trucks are an excellent midrange solution. if the distance they travel is neither too long nor too shoirt, they do fine
mircea_popescu: ie, do you count what it costs to run the trucks starting with what it costs to build the roads they run on ?
mircea_popescu: i know there exists a us corp by that name. it originalyl did books, then junk, now hosting.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but you have to send someone to hunt these down and use them.
mircea_popescu: but correcting my usage of sky makes them dumb, and their ignorance is no excuse.
mircea_popescu: so in this perspective, not knowing what the sky is makes one ignorant, not dumb.
mircea_popescu: it's also the deep reason women have been throughout human society and the centuries been regarded as intellectually inferior : it just so happens that for very good biological reasson they're primed to accept new circumstances.
mircea_popescu: which is why things like "x animal sought to find its home" makes the animal seem smart, or w/e the opposite of dumb is.
mircea_popescu: dumb in my head is the situation of one who takes his circumstance, whatever it may be, as the complete story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imo, the " and why do you use that weirdo archaic word 'sky' anyway, it's 'ceiling'" is exactly definitorily dumb.
mircea_popescu: people not washing is easier to tolerate. much easier.
mircea_popescu: it bothers most thinking people, on a very fundamental and not necessarily conscious level, to interact with anyone exhibiting this particular idiocy.
mircea_popescu: it's a) exactly my experience and b) the fundamental reason the cattle is despised, actually.
mircea_popescu: but they don’t understand what the calculations are really telling them, like Searle’s chinese room but with numbers.
mircea_popescu: ilometers. No one would notice when answers were wildly wrong. [...] Since I began working in the business world I’ve noticed that most people never develop that skill. Stick a number in a sentence and people just mentally run right over it, you might as well have inserted some klingon phrases. Some of the better actuaries do have some nice numerical intuition, but a surprising number don’t. They can calculate,
mircea_popescu: The first time I taught undergraduates I was surprised to learn that most of the students had no ability to judge if their answers seemed plausible. [...] You could ask a question about a guy throwing a football, and answers would range from 1 meter/second all the way to 5000 meters/second. You could ask a question about how far someone can hit a baseball and answers would similarly range from a few meters to a few k
mircea_popescu: any physical location takes well over 100 man-hours of research before it can be livable.
mircea_popescu: the us is principally annoying because of the challenge finding edibles is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aka punishment room. small room no windows where bad girls go to meditate.
mircea_popescu: very supportive home market. "oh, our empire building boys abroad found blue rocks ? FINE! we will make hats with them! they're very valuable now!"
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, england had jamaica, only thing it was good for was sugar.
mircea_popescu: well, it's a historical accident. on one hand, "this wine is pretty good, could we add shit to it ? maybe make it thicker ?"
mircea_popescu: brendafdez how about something simple like, bar and dancing pole ? that's 100sqm right there.
mircea_popescu: you can't have a basement in the swamp. or good cheese, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: or if too old to get it up anymore, prized wine collection.