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a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 14:51
mircea_popescu: yes, it's broken, NOTICE it's broken, eat the scrambled egg, try again.
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: ACK, and that is cool. i do understand re. master actually working *against* learned helplessness models, at least an *actual* master anyway hm
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: sure.. well hm, i can see what you mean; dunno if example is sound, but i prob know even less about pastry heh
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: hmm; but you did supply her with some "aesthetics" feedback, maybe even a floating point value, as in, "better/worse than before", perhaps
diana_coman: by this model, I'd say that those poor students I failed were actually trying to apply exactly
mircea_popescu 's approach!
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 14:26
mircea_popescu: now, it is real easy to grant that "machine can't resolve because irl it takes more neurons than there's atoms in the cpu". but this is a total cop-out, i can string together an infinity of computers, as bitcoin has shown.
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: do you mean Dolly the cloned sheep? i've heard of it, but only just
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 04:02
mircea_popescu: yeah. but that doesn't change the fact the ~only intellectual in the entire north of the continent is that old jew talking to himself in a room.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 14:13
mircea_popescu: it's shocking how little the school system does to teach anyone anything. but anyway - what the program MEANS should be decided on the basis of what it can't possibly fucking mean,
diana_coman:
mircea_popescu> nothing actionable or useful that i can discern. just the simple observation that a) code the size of the body of work of respected past intellectuals is not maintainable by teams or individuals, while the writings were maintainable by the author solo ; b) the correct solution to scale is not increase in rigidity, but flexibility. which is how skyscrapers work or japan defends from earthquakes. <- fwiw the diffe
diana_coman: <
mircea_popescu> damn i mean, diana_coman how many students can you fail. <- myeah, I know; thing is also: they shouldn't have gotten that high to fail basically, not that many
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 11:13
mircea_popescu: and b) a RICO-worthy criminal conspiracy, replete with fraud etc, to marginalize, intimidate and if need be assassinate "opponents" as defined by a group of nuts
Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487858 << this i agree with! however, be it as it may i've never seen mp graciously accept to being wrong on some point. now, that *may* be because mp isn't wrong a whole lotta times, i contend, yes; but it's still hilarious to me (in a stimulating kind of way, fwiw). e.g. the chinese konspiraci thing, it was posted on qntra by
mircea_popescu, and then later
mircea_popescu says the theory is legit becau
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 10:30
mircea_popescu: speaking of that, asciilifeform any idea how it's possible that Submissions: 3305302 Known Moduli: 2708380 Moduli Waiting for Test: 3677 ? shouldn't these add up ?
☟︎ diana_coman: asciilifeform> other reason is that most programmers don't write code in the sense that, e.g.,
mircea_popescu writes essays. instead, they take a shit, and strip away elements of the shit until the compiler is happy and the 'tests' pass. <- fwiw I don't think that those are programmers
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 09:54
mircea_popescu: ps : why is "common wisdom" in agreement that "no man could possibly hold 1mn lines of code in head" when i actually have 10mn words worth of trilema articles in my head ?
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: heh can't find much on the internets for "golf club pattern" indeed, but also don't get its initial idea/appeal? O.O
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: if you mean "nobody smart", then that's one thing, but if you mean in terms of actual numbers, then i'd probably have to disagree. shitloads of ecdsa ssh host public keys anyway (stats and breakdown to be published at some point in teh future)
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: what time is it in Argentina?? It's late, isn't? Here is 5 AM.
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: why they are so distance from the reality? They continue to buy this shit.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 00:30
mircea_popescu: no, if they just throw everything they have randomly at everyone you get exponential chattering-up
a111: Logged on 2015-05-18 23:49
mircea_popescu: admittedly, i'm more like a 1700s mind.
Framedragger: i was just made aware of this term; i wonder if this may help me to conceptualize
mircea_popescu in my mind
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 18:46
mircea_popescu: how THE FUCK do they get away with it. i mean, they still give the bums the sort of stuff bums misrepresenting tghemselves as "students" and "With potential!" get all over the world
a111: Logged on 2016-06-21 01:13 asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: i found it especially entertaining how reddit folk (at least used to) believe the 'if only male birth control pill' thing would make any difference (if such thing existed, 'paternity' would simply get redefined, french style, to accomodate cuckoldry)
phf:
mircea_popescu: i was trying to describe the kind of thinking that goes into the "linux on desktop" drive
hanbot:
mircea_popescu they prolly shaved their best pencils for that coffee. lapices ain't cheap!
ascii_deadfiber:
mircea_popescu: seems like the 'littoral combat ship' is 500-600mil each.
ascii_deadfiber:
mircea_popescu: it was and is - hilariously - one of their few 'cultural universals'. ~everyone in usa has seen the film.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 17:17
mircea_popescu: $up (ascii_deadfiber
ascii_deadfiber:
mircea_popescu thinks that he is veteran zoophile but his 'cows' ain't fat.
gernika:
mircea_popescu: jurov's suggestion was to declare the thing invalid for any use case in a deed. It's not clear to me what good that would do.
ascii_deadfiber: was it
mircea_popescu who showed me what i was quite certain was an old ru key
diana_coman:
mircea_popescu> lol. "on the plus side, i have my own kitchen. on the minus side, let's go eat out." <- that's the full story of uni dorms really
ascii_deadfiber:
mircea_popescu would be delighted to learn that americans (at least around here) also aren't especially fond of signalling turns.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 16:00
mircea_popescu: consequently, the troop that got fucked (mit) is in favour of "defend this perimeter at all costs!111" attitude. whereas the rest of them (ie, cornell, stanford, etc etc) are more of a "this perimeter is not defensible, retreat and create a new one".
ascii_deadfiber: ty
mircea_popescu. which butthurt in particular? i've not been taking in the shithose wholesale
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 06:07
mircea_popescu: anyway. the lulz has cost usg more turkey dollars than mit has cost usg this year. that's an accomplishment right there, they could have made ten thousand hookers and fifty thousand "aides" happy for that money. this means 10k angry hookers and 50k passive-agressive pencildicks extra to deal with.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 04:51
mircea_popescu: but there is in fact an externality here. either "you" can go only some places, and "he" can go only some places ; or else "you" can go anywhere, but he can't. there isn't a way where everyone can go anywhere.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: nah, because Ashton Kutcher had a how all about people getting punked like this.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I predict many more months of "Where's Ashton Kutcher to tell us it was a joke?"
gernika:
mircea_popescu: I hadn't considered the socialist angle there
gernika:
mircea_popescu: Well, any libertarian who believes in a borderless society
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: sure it does. subjective dreamer sees 'ad infinitum', third-party observer sees dreamdreamdreamdead.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 04:07
mircea_popescu: no natural process can repeat ad infinitum.
gernika:
mircea_popescu: interesting I thought he was the one that would pull out of the ongoing invasion...
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> o look, meanwhile paul ryan is actually quitting ? << Indeterminate, but as I suggested "backup GOP"
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 03:53
mircea_popescu: sooo... clinton's trove of emails actually proves the us & nato deliberately destroyed lybia. you still think she's got a chance alf ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 03:41
mircea_popescu: and losing more men than they can replace.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: fanfic all the way down at the bankrupter
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 03:30
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486654 << the "Submissions: 3182582 Known Moduli: 2657917" part is pretty cool though. what's total damage going to be, from 20 to 56 mn or somesuch ?