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mircea_popescu: i grew permanganate crystals, at least that's a meth precurso.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a thought : if al spent the past five years measuring things rather than skulking, he'd be in a much better position todasy than five years ago.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel the problem isn't exactly of the equipment. the problem is that if you make new equipment, you don't know if you're measuring the new equipment vs the old equipment or an actual effect.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform look, irrespective of all that : he can just do the thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is a fundamental difference between lysenko (nutter whose shit DIDNT WORK) and this (if it works)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing keeps him from forking chemistry tho.
mircea_popescu: not is of course practice, which is to say : if I were to declare I am ignoring "all that Einstein jazz", all physics penned after 1900 or so, and then built a cathodic tube television that worked just fine without accounting for quantum effects, the trashing and bashing of Einstein fans would be all in vain : I'll just shrug my shoulders, keep building and selling my television sets and care not on whit of whatever th
mircea_popescu: "This flat, unyielding ignorance-as-the-forerunner-of-oblivion is both perfectly safev and exactly the adequate pill for the poison in dicussion, because it expends very little productive effort on the part of the productive members of society, while at the same time forcing upon the unproductive the exact Gordian knot they've been trying to talk their way around (and plenty, no doubt, hoped they had succeeded). That k
mircea_popescu: this meta cancer upon the modern brain. people spend so much time considering "the implications" of shit that never happened they have no energy left to do stuff.
mircea_popescu: imagine! "i won't accidentally discover clorophorm unless it can be used as an anesthetic!"
mircea_popescu: well it's certainly closer to being pursued after being measured than before eh.
mircea_popescu: all this nonsense of little girl stuck on the trans side of maturity river, discussing whether she wants to cross or not, what if the cis side won't be all that it's cracked up to be etc. wtf.
mircea_popescu: you will notice that the scam foundation is being fucking buried. in spite of... welll... consensus.
mircea_popescu: just measure the damned thing. if it doesn't come out, either refine the machinery or give up.
mircea_popescu: the shit's hard enough without waiting for complex voodoo to allign.
mircea_popescu: i never heard of this bizarro shamanistic approach to research.
mircea_popescu: and the proponent can't be doing or not doing "because of other people" (tm)
mircea_popescu: we're not discussing why some other blokes aren't testing it, we're discussing why the proponent isn't.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller makes you wonder how children were made before they invented shoes.
mircea_popescu: this is science not politics, what's biding your time do.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. he didn't want the experiment made in the end ?
mircea_popescu: re alexa : last time i measured their accuracy, it came out to about 96% error rating. ie, if alexa reads 100, it can see anything between 4 and 2500.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, in the ideal model which sits at the fundament of us academia, this would have been arranged over a phone call and tried the next week.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> that could easily be tested. << not easily, no. but yes, they could be.
mircea_popescu: think of it in terms of throwing bowling balls at a tree from outer space. you won't get within a mile. and if the first ball lands 735`331meters rom the tree, the next five won't land 735`331 meters from the next five threes.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel string theorists are a lot like freudian psychanalists. the better ones follow the lieberman line.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nonsense. the middle east always was enternally-warring. this is like husband stuck with a bad divorce, "at least i made her into a slut"
mircea_popescu: liek teh child. in this sense, children are animals. not "people" in the sense of, "just like me".
mircea_popescu: that one. important part there being about understanding the animal is an animal, which is a category of things to be.
mircea_popescu: you ever read the discussion wit hthe slaves re the dead rabbit ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel if you got a purpose in mind, you need a tool not a child.
mircea_popescu: the situation where i never had children yet understand more of parenting than all these people with children depending on them is about as alarming as the situation where i'd not be a woman but know more about fucking than all women. what a shitworld!
mircea_popescu: in africa there's a market for gold encrusted trabant, not so much for an actulaly good car.
mircea_popescu: that everyone may be happy. Instead everyone's frustrated."
mircea_popescu: "That'd be your VC circuit : a bunch of old men who have no time to spend with their actual children. They claim this is because "they have to work", but in fact it's because a) they're afraid of their actual children and b) their actual children hate and despise them, in no particular order. This in turn because they've failed to live, as an actual act in this world, and impose their existence upon those children, so
mircea_popescu: now where's that trrilema article i want to reference. the one pointing out this entire vc thing is old guys dating.