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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.
mircea_popescu pictures asciilifeform in bed with a woman he picked up earlier in metro. she goes "oh honey, that was SO FUCKING GREAT!" he goes "or maybe i wasn't even in!"
mircea_popescu: spears thought she "recorded records", altman thinks he "made reddit gain more users than hn has in total"
mircea_popescu: i fully expect they elect 15yo christina ricci as the next president.
mircea_popescu: not aryan white, either. dat vampire look, darkhaired goldilocks
mircea_popescu: (argentina is moar racist than 1850s charleston, you gotta be white.)
mircea_popescu: ahaha that pete mercedes pic. dude looks like a total stoner paratrooper.
mircea_popescu: us has been run on the path of least resistance since at least the 60s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's nothing whatever optional about these "plans". they're not plans in the normal sense, moar like, "what is the plan b of yonder artificial lake, once dykes fail ?"
mircea_popescu: btw i sent the archive.today guy a note, if he shows up him
mircea_popescu: you ain't bought a license to kill bookies, and today i ain't sellin' any.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> probably 'name own price' << yeah, right. usg would rather have google translated material by some crafty armenian at "pay grade" than pay what competent guy asks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can read russian poetry a lot better once someone's conveniently done 99% of the work, found the equivalents, set out the rhyming scheme etc