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mircea_popescu: only if they don't include it. once you've included it... you've made it general.
mircea_popescu: far be it from me to diss fiction - the creation of "proofs" we know from the outset to be false and then their taking apart to examine where they stole our eyes is exactly shakespeare's trade.
mircea_popescu: the mere fact that you have such proof is sufficient proof that it is wrong.
mircea_popescu: for as long as the proof is wrong, yes, it provably exists.
mircea_popescu: what is the correct code gcc approximates as it churns on cygwin ?
mircea_popescu: it "works" like all fatlogic works : because it's easier
mircea_popescu: at its core, the "optimal retrospective investment" problem is a nude and rude proposition to replace the action imperative ("mouse must escape or die in the act of trying") with an imaginary junk. ("it could have been"). this is not substantially different from what the usg does when it invents a new name for the homeless and pretends to have "resolved the problem".
mircea_popescu: now look at it from the fallacious "purpose" perspective.
mircea_popescu: the time direction thing never stopped anyone from thinking "hey, i could have done better!" or be bitter about how things turned out etc.
mircea_popescu: like, the complexity problem guarantees no government will ever succeed. yet who's deterred from "empirebuilding".
mircea_popescu: in any event, all human folly is based on the failure to come to terms and trying to go through the wall.
mircea_popescu: another is the complexity problem. the simple fact that once the father has said "i know shit", if he opens his mouth enough to say as little as some basic math, he's now wrong.
mircea_popescu: there are a number of hard rules of the world we inhabit, that children take some time to internalize. one is, of course, "move backwards through time" thing. what adolescent did not ponder this, wish it, etc.
mircea_popescu: to put this to intuition : suppose in the alt-universe where your microscopic trade happened, another trader happened to see it and panic.
mircea_popescu: the moment you start doin this sort of thing it no longer behaves thusly.
mircea_popescu: yes, it does, provided you don't take it out of there.
mircea_popescu: '(what bits would you send back in time to time T1), if you could, from time T2, (to maximize profit from investing C coin)'
mircea_popescu: nope. you use in one phase symbols that don't exist of the other.
mircea_popescu: hm. it was discussed but i think long long ago, pre searchable stuff.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nope. the notion of "optimal" is undefined.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all the major differences between them and us, it occurs to me there's a very painfully obvious stylistical point : b-a.com doesn't have traffic tracking, github.com doesn't let you search.
mircea_popescu: open source is safe because it's read by millions of eyes, which we ban.
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform was just ip-banned by 'github' for 'too many requests from your addr' << lmao.
mircea_popescu: n his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller> and enron ruined pensions for everyone << if only. "My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to i
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 40% or 90% is purely a wordchoice matter, much like the zhim thing. 5%ish is where it matters.
mircea_popescu: PeterL being prepared. there's definitely going to be one.
mircea_popescu: any system where taxes exceed maybe 6 or 7% is de facto a command economy,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will remember we're discussing markets here. the phenomenon of alleged "prices" in a situation where the government is the largest economic actor is laughable anyway.
mircea_popescu: "how the fuck am i supposed to do any scioence in here!111"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform slippage is not friction, slippage is your lab getting hit by earthquakes.
mircea_popescu: the www soup is scarcely to be pinned on one man, and if one man were to be found it's likely not this one.
mircea_popescu: yeah he has a disco in la he's been fighting the gobmint forever over.
mircea_popescu: the crowning nonsense of all nonsense, seriously. why is it not obvious that if you give up agency you also give up... agency ?
mircea_popescu: not the past, as this never existed, but a magical future where things work by themselves in the way ~you~ want them to.
mircea_popescu: the entire "i want government to just work by itself and let me to my affairs" has worked splendidly in the us, 70s to 2000s.
mircea_popescu: if one is willing to take this tack, i wonder why one's not going the whole nine yards and throwing out the keyboard.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : elf does not contain a windows byte. netbsd, linux, system v etc.
mircea_popescu is mildly offended at this "i will persist in being a redditard" attitude, for the record.
mircea_popescu: "18* adlai wonders what evidence you're expecting to see of the auctions" << complete misstatement of the situaiton. read the logs. search for "foia" might help
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> "implying she might run in 8 years?" << no, being facetious.
mircea_popescu: which is why the democrats have alternatives. because she's not running.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not my country, whadda i care. she's still the only not braidamaged runner so far.
mircea_popescu: the other obama is not really qualified to run kim's shoe boutique.
mircea_popescu: she's definitely the more intellectually capable husk they got floating around. who else, jeb, bush's retarded brother/cousin/sister in law ?
mircea_popescu: derp. emails still travel in plaintext, and this is the sigint we get ?
mircea_popescu: "The development on Capitol Hill came the same day The Associated Press reported the existence of a personal email server traced back to the Chappaqua, New York, home of Clinton. The unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official running her own email server would have given Clinton — who is expected to run for president in the 2016 campaign — significant control over limiting access to her message archives."
mircea_popescu: the blockchain is not an evidentiary record for third parties.
mircea_popescu: sure, it's "not been 100% proven as a scam". this however isn't the criteria. you lie, you get caught, you're fucked.