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mircea_popescu: in the woods cabin that is this world, the us shirt sits on the chest of a 16 yo, and his brother the 15yo yurp wears a dirtier one. Nevertheless, the absolute dirtiest one is worn by the 32 yo chinese man, whose shirt is dirty because he's the ony one who gets to fuck the only local woman
mircea_popescu: anyway, it doesn't matter that the us is the cleanest shirt in the room. that's not really the criteria.
mircea_popescu: "cleanest shirts of the shirts we're willing to see" doesn't have quite the same... flavour
mircea_popescu: except china has more and much dudlier assets than you could ever imagine.
mircea_popescu: there are people who would take a fucking picture of a fucking poster for fifty bucks
mircea_popescu: this stench of desperation is like overpowering by now.
mircea_popescu: jurov: well, there is a torrent published for bootstrap.dat. atm only > 0.9 supports it << are we desperate for old style blockchains ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: let's put a pin in this for down the road << you're keeping screenshots aren't you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: nubbins`: incentive program << this is what makes zero sense. the buggers have infinite fiat budget, and to their soldiers, they offer... pocket change << you have to understand the extrmely problematic nature of infinite budget. suppose you were trying to fly an aeroplane that had infinite thrust.
mircea_popescu: in any case, i guess they don't manage in however many posts to get to addressing the key point of "who pays davis' salary these days".
mircea_popescu: so im having the 2nd breakfast of the day. like the previous one, this one also consists of milk and apple pie.
mircea_popescu: "I was told that this sample set was too small so I performed the same test over four to five years until I reached the sample size of 10,000 in total split into tranches of 100. Every time the answer effectively remained the same. All the samples lie between a 94% bias and a 100% bias."
mircea_popescu: "I originally performed this test 5 times and found approximately a 95% skew" << :D
mircea_popescu: Even among losers, there’s hierarchy : the better ones leave, the scum of the scum sticks around."
mircea_popescu: If only more people in your unfortunate situation had the intellectual honesty to look their failure in the eye and take the jump, the world would be a much better place.
mircea_popescu: Congrats for figuring it out, and doing the right thing.
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mircea_popescu: they're down to food bloggers now ? no further bankers left ?
mircea_popescu: unrelated : Teacher explains superlatives, then has children give examples. Little Johhny : Big, bigger, biggest. Little Sammy : Hard, harder, hardest.
mircea_popescu: it is incontrovertible fact that most people alive today will have cost more than they were worth by the time they die, and this by orders of magnitude.
mircea_popescu: dealing with the after effects of having bought them, however, different story.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> doesn't take much to feed them << this is true. cigarettes also don't take much to buy.
mircea_popescu: chetty they won't be roads i imagine, more like hovercraft pads.
mircea_popescu: very true. however, you don't HAVE to fight a war to suit the artisan.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "artisan can do things cnc mill can not"
mircea_popescu: there's no doubt in my mind that the "every fuckhead's sacred, god needs every one" current mantra is headed the same way monty python saw catholicism go.
mircea_popescu: once space no longer such a constraint, very easy to do.
mircea_popescu: much like that vacuum cleanner manages to keep the house clean
mircea_popescu: and we actually have the technoogy to make the robots work together and automatically
mircea_popescu: i seriouslydon't see why anyone would be laying optic fibre by hand.
mircea_popescu: take out 99.85% of the population, suddenly roads can be straight np.
mircea_popescu: the only reason it's not automated ? roads aren't straight. and that is because ?
mircea_popescu: currently you have machinery that can cut up, melt and re-set the asphalt. much like a sort of "3d printer for roads", really.
mircea_popescu: you don't seriously imagine that "people" out and about are in fact efficient ?
mircea_popescu: "he was a drug lord and thief, moving many thousands of dollars and running an unpaid bill of at least 50 bux"
mircea_popescu: punkman "''a giant theft machine,'' moving billions illegally around the world, engaged in financing the heroin trade, tax fraud and wound up bilking innocent investors of at least $50 million." << the substance of unsubstantiated journalism.
mircea_popescu: the need for police, for instance, is a strict function of population density. places with < 1 person / sqkm do not need any police.
mircea_popescu: no further need for makework jobs, no more government crapolade, etc.
mircea_popescu: imagine a web without all the idiotic "web start-ups".
mircea_popescu: punkman depends how you select them. if well selected, something pretty cool i imagine. like, a world in which nobody is going to spam.
mircea_popescu: it will be BECAUSE he lost control, but the losing of control would have happened long before
mircea_popescu: if some drunk driver loses control over vehicle at t=0, goes over embankment at t = 1.8s and explodes at t = 3.5s,
mircea_popescu: but megatrends may well be observable in a short interval even if they are not in fact contained in that interval.
mircea_popescu: (the reason one can be ^ -2 while the other is at ^ 3 is the hugeness of population : you only need one guy to push complexity up. so in this sense, lower population is in fact insurance against decreasing average life quality)
mircea_popescu: something like smart = Cx / t^2 while complexity = Cy + a t ^ 3
mircea_popescu: people have factually gotten dumber. AND the world has got more complex.
mircea_popescu: and you can't you know, "make everything illegal so idiots have a chance". it will be tried, obviously, but with no expectation of working to any degree.
mircea_popescu: this is the case for it : people of average intelligence are not actually smart enough to survive.
mircea_popescu: kinda why defranchising of most of the population / having money and resources controlled by a tiny minority / having most people live in ever larger harems, as ever more abject slaves of whoever's brain still works is unavoiable.
mircea_popescu: now im 35 and the average 35 yo CAN NOT support himself.
mircea_popescu: as average iq keeps dropping and average intelligence drops with the square of the iq, and as complexity increases like a fucking cube of time or something, there's bound to be more and more of these.
mircea_popescu: "they won't give you money directly ? that's fine, trick them into giving it to us! "
mircea_popescu: Naphex yes, it's what one of these things is, "con your family and friends".
mircea_popescu: Naphex: lmao. that ByExpress scam is insanely funny and totally retarded << teh accent lol. &teh mouthbreather speech speed...