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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...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo aww, and all this time spend claiming it was teh russians!
mircea_popescu: at any rate : they can't have that much. bitcoin is NOT a democracy. votes DO NOT count. in fact, votes are squarely irrelevant in this matter.
mircea_popescu: sort of bullshit. whenever you run into it you can be pretty sure you've run into an usg nest, it's like the fox scent and the fox.
mircea_popescu: "Regardless of whether you waive the fine or not, and despite conditional terms added to reassert authority", that sort of stuff, "it doesn't matter which way it goes as long as you accept our framing of the issues"
mircea_popescu: i find it quite amusing how gavin's 5th column are trying to turn their laughable defeat around into a sort of victory along the lines of "well we can';t have what we want, and that's okay as long as you admit democratic process".
mircea_popescu: whaack not being stupid usually yields some mercy 1's. also doing something useful.
mircea_popescu: that thing when you notice an event that's been announced weeks ago that nobody is going to go to, declare you're going and within six hours everyone's going and teh oirganizer emailed to thank you. twice.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: Guest85903, just use the name that your mother and father gave you; honor them. << not a bad principle.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform someone in biotech had this sad story a while back about a lost farm. i had one too
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Except for midsession disconnections << xchat irssi and all others can be config'd to not autoreconnect. so you can handle manually./
mircea_popescu: Guest85903: i'm working on setting up all the shit in the wiki << this really should be in the bash lol
mircea_popescu: IHB actually no, there was a strike or something. they weren't going.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: sadly, got banned. even mircea_popescu couldn't out-chat him. << gtfo that's so totally not what happened.
mircea_popescu: yeah well i tell you something, nobody who knew me in a pervious life ever imagined i'd leave cluj.
mircea_popescu: actually arond there, from say vienna to about moscow, people are fucking fixated on the soil.
mircea_popescu: what, you think ukrainian peasant has no material or emotional properties ? just because you discount them as alien doesn't make them go away.
mircea_popescu: decimation but you are that, in that situation, and you're sitting put :)
mircea_popescu: decimation you gotta understand, europe is europe. think texas during the 1800s, mix-y.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: he was top notch. << not really. too much anger.