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greenspan_fan: if I have reasons to believe it will continue to increase, I should invest in it

greenspan_fan: I realize I have a typo in the above: "process might be IMperfect" **

greenspan_fan: no that's not what I was saying initially

mircea_popescu: unless by "my own" you mean "1k random people i've chosen to represent as my own pebbles"

greenspan_fan: sure. my contention is that alternative possibilities, like "I am not able to control my own actions" are in some sense unhelpful

greenspan_fan: the argument was, I think, that even if he were a brain in a vat (or being tortured by demons, whatever), he could still claim to exist

mircea_popescu: i'm a great fan of descartes, just, not ready to marry him.

mircea_popescu: it's a fiction, this. "i think". pray tell, what do you think.

greenspan_fan: well, for instance, I don't know my mom haha

greenspan_fan: yeah I wasn't arguing based on that

greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu yes, but I'm reasoning based on the assumption that my process might be perfect

greenspan_fan: I fit that into my reasoning, though

mircea_popescu: for all i care.

mircea_popescu: how would i know ?

mircea_popescu: cause i have to also feel like it.

mircea_popescu: yeah well... i don't.

greenspan_fan: then I should buy it

greenspan_fan: and I am confident in my reasoning

greenspan_fan: if I have reasons to believe it will increase day over day by a certain percent

greenspan_fan: but if I make predictions based on similar lines of reasoning, then the meta-level model is tested

greenspan_fan: I don't know whether my reasoning was correct or if other factors decided things

greenspan_fan: insofar as I can't sample all possible histories after the fact

mircea_popescu: you'll look back and go... well i guess the prediction came through. now what ?

mircea_popescu: succeed, i mean.

greenspan_fan: for instance, I predict altcoin is more likely to succeed than other, uh, altcoins because it does things "better" than others and is backed by people who are credible and talented

thestringpuller: i think it's more of how a doctor operates

mircea_popescu: well why wouldn't it be ? maybe it was. maybe i can read the future in uvulas.

mircea_popescu: but in any sort of scientific sense i made no prediction. people even today object to this approach

mircea_popescu: and if i had, we wouldn't know if the disclosure was complete,

mircea_popescu: we don't know, i never disclosed any basis,

mircea_popescu: or in fact, i don't even exist.

mircea_popescu: as far as a sufficiently entrenched glbse "investor" idiot is concerned, i just got lucky

greenspan_fan: yeah, but assume that I'm not just some internet troll who'll say anything to win an argument

mircea_popescu: this'd be more of the berkely approach. who said i don't try ?

greenspan_fan: I am not sure how you can live if you don't try to understand the world around you

mircea_popescu: what, am i askin you to act /

greenspan_fan: again, I agree

mircea_popescu: all i'm saying is that you don't really have the priviledged relationship to it you readily grant yourself.

greenspan_fan: if you get me to change my mind, I learn something new. Only upside here for me. I'm just trying to understand what your contentions are.

greenspan_fan: no, I am trying to understand

mircea_popescu: i never said that.

greenspan_fan: but I can model it using math

greenspan_fan: But if I say "she fucked me because she loved me", and proceed to test that hypothesis, do I not either increase or decrease my confidence in it?

greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu I don't really understand that, though. Are you saying that human decisions are too complicated to analyze after the fact?

greenspan_fan: "I can calculate the movements of the stars and planets, but not the madness of men"

mircea_popescu: i see no value in this approximation.

greenspan_fan: so I have observed

mircea_popescu: and i don't particularly care.

mircea_popescu: for instance, there are people right here working for me as we speak and probably reading this. i have no fucking idea where their working for me is going,

greenspan_fan: tell me, and I'll strive to correct it, insofar as such is possible

greenspan_fan: so what I'm saying is that having 1000 people who listened to leaders was a necessary (but not sufficient) condition to launch some revolutions

mircea_popescu: just because i use some matrices to describe eigenstates does not mean matrices are now integral parts of quantum mechanbics.

greenspan_fan: it's true, I've only read books on history in english

greenspan_fan: yeah, I'm not saying everyone should be an automaton

mircea_popescu: no still. i really don't.

mircea_popescu: i don't employ idiots.

greenspan_fan: well I mean agency in the "standing athwart the bow of history" levels of agency

greenspan_fan: yeah but I mean, people are more effective than that

mircea_popescu: if i don't find the coal over here i'll find it over there

asciilifeform: for all i care, tlp is a martian.

asciilifeform: personally i suspect that TLP is a bourbaki.

asciilifeform: wish i could remember

greenspan_fan: "So I decided to try again, I told myself that there was going to be porn at the end of it, took off my pants, and watched. No, I didn't go back to the theatre; fortunately, the major studios have joined together and created a website called "The Pirate Bay" which allows you to watch a movie for free before you decide if you want to buy it from Amazon for 4 bucks"

ozbot: The Last Psychiatrist: My name is NotMichaelBay, and I just fucked your girlfriend

greenspan_fan: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/07/my_name_is_michael_bay_and_i_j.html

mircea_popescu: i actually translated it in romanian cca 2011 so as to equip teh countrymen with t\he tool

mircea_popescu: ok i love this article/author.

mircea_popescu: The system not only pays poor people, it employs lots and lots of almost poor people. I'm not saying this is a good thing, or a desirable thing, I am simply stating a fact. Some of these are direct government jobs (e.g. staff down at the SSI office) and some are pretend private sector jobs. If you're a psychiatrist at an inner city clinic, you may think you're an independent contractor, but you're really working for Th

mircea_popescu: works before you spew nonsense to your local Fox affiliate. "Hi, this is Bill from Cleveland, and I blame liberals." Son of a bitch, why didn't I think of that.

mircea_popescu: I'm guessing that this probably upsets people, on both sides of an imaginary political divide that only took 40 years to perfect. Thanks TV! Certainly I have my own opinions, but it doesn't matter what I think, what matters is what is. This is the system. If you think you can effect a huge social overhaul then feel free to vote for Hope And Change and ongoing Afghanistan deployments, otherwise understand how it

mircea_popescu: i thought we just established it ain't.

greenspan_fan: also I'm kidding, the above kinda defeats the purpose of git

cads: I can't imagine this part will have sold much: https://www.shapeways.com/model/1496035/doge.html?li=productGroup&materialId=26

cads: I wish I had access to shapeways' production statistics

mircea_popescu: i could see a case for disabling push

ThickAsThieves: the commands i normally use work fine

ThickAsThieves: i did

ThickAsThieves: i forget who

ThickAsThieves: maybe i'm not using pympex?

ThickAsThieves: i'll get my friend to help i guess

ThickAsThieves: hmm i see a 'plain' command for sending strings as is

ThickAsThieves: i just realized something awesome, next week i will never have to read the Asicminer threads again

ThickAsThieves: thats what i'm trying to suss

ThickAsThieves: i could swear i saw her handle switch from Fawn once

mircea_popescu: i think i was at some performance of this thing

mircea_popescu: wait wait, "I have been paid by a member of this board and high value shareholder within the NeoBee security."

ThickAsThieves: i type like i have wires crossed

mircea_popescu: i see they want to give it to everyone. good for criminals, good for students, good to go.

mircea_popescu: o i c it's a substitute phenethylamine

nubbins`: well. i should say, it stimulates the part of their brain that makes them pay attention

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves maybe he thinks i believe i'm thermos.

mircea_popescu: or else i actually am in which case the post won't last long

mircea_popescu: but i mean... either i believe myself in which case the post is unmolested

mircea_popescu: is the theory therein contemplated that the post won't last long because of how close I BELIEVE myself to the higher echelons blabla ?

mircea_popescu: ok, did i snort too much or is this a little... strange ?

mircea_popescu: "Due to the real identity of these troll accounts belonging to Mircea Popescu and how close he believes himself to be to the higher echelons of Bitcoin including the Mods/Admins of this forum, i don't believe this post to last long."

mircea_popescu: i kinda miss the old days

kakobrekla: i checked ep 1, no gox, ep 31, gox is sponsor

asciilifeform: reminds me of an incident, many years ago, when i snarfed what what supposed to be a warez copy of a text on the programming language 'ruby'. turned out to be renamed 'ruby.avi', a cheap porn, entitled 'Ruby Breaks her Sybian.'

kakobrekla: i guess gox gave up by ep 12