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mircea_popescu: it's funny how the free market naturally evolves towards a corner to wedge itself in.
mircea_popescu: the results of that market becoming "usgized", which is to say, they stopped selling to the general public.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> oh, nevermind. those are minimums. you can't be closer than that, but have no responsibility to be particularly close? << well not stated as obligations, but generally it's his job to get close.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> dang did you guys really crap out over 1000 lines while i was sleeping? << we didn't crap them bish. now eat up!
mircea_popescu: <jurov> looks like it can be opened from news.ycombinator.com without the paywall << see ? CLEARLY propaganda piece.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> dear ddoser, please add more bots as it is not clear if you are still ddosing or not <<< yeah this srsly. i was half considering replacing the voice model with a ddos model, but srsly, you gotta provide better servcice for free if you wanna be part of infrastructure here!
mircea_popescu: generally, idiots revel in offering an idiotarian version of mainstream concepts. like, the usg right ? ALSO OFFERS INSURANCE.
mircea_popescu: mike_c> this is too funny. scamfunding sites now offer insurance! << so did usagi.
mircea_popescu: <davout> yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's a blocker i'm missing tho << it's nonsense, what exactly is a future that has no future date ?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> you don't like the 15th 12:00 GMT, you want to change it, no? << nah he just wants a shorter break. than ONE WEEK. which he gets.
mircea_popescu: <xanthyos> [...] your My Wallet account [...] << logic.
mircea_popescu: adlai> nubbins`: yes, but it could ignore text within blockquote tags << it does actually.
mircea_popescu: <artifexd> Are there any plans for new profit centers in MPIF? << yes. got an idea ?
mircea_popescu: moreover, trying to pursue a "science of health" is the hallmark of pseudoscientific cockery.
mircea_popescu: same way carnies pick out their marks, it's nothing novel.
mircea_popescu: as i said, all sorts of heuristics can be useful. i tend to not pursue relations with the intellectually slow, which i often judge in seconds on simple cues such as eye movement.
mircea_popescu: adlai because they're not introduced by intelligent people./
mircea_popescu: problem is i can build a machine with zero crosstalk and i won't have built an ai.
mircea_popescu: so the best way to be intelligent is doing speedballs ?
mircea_popescu: adlai ah, this isn't an argument against such stuff. sure, reaction time is even a good proxy for things you may care about,
mircea_popescu: it's that endeavour where anything can be a principle.
mircea_popescu: a pseudoscience isn't that endeavour lcking principles,
mircea_popescu: belongs as a subset obscure philosophy, right there with aesthetics.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i think it's pseudoscience, the whole lot of it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right, because a field without a definition can exist.
mircea_popescu: (ie, stuff nobody would intuitively accept as intelligence)
mircea_popescu: and in particular attempts to define intelligence in terms of statistical fitting and survivability yield monsters
mircea_popescu: adlai that sexual selection exists is very poor grounding to claim beauty.
mircea_popescu: perhaps, but the label of magnetism is at least applied on some sort of interaction that yields a force.
mircea_popescu: but honestly while there are intelligent people trying, i think it's a snipe hunt.
mircea_popescu briefly participated in some "transdisciplinary" efforts many moons ago
mircea_popescu: "ten youths from downtown accidentally construct the godmachine
mircea_popescu: and "culinary science" is the sort of nonsense you'd expect ou tof english speakers. otherwise l'arte culinaire isdoing fine
mircea_popescu: problem is any set of stupidity definitions are incomplete
mircea_popescu: 106 somethingawful.com kinda interesting this, i wonder how entirely baseless it actually is.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me it's giving different numbers to diff people.
mircea_popescu: adlai: uhoh, site affinity for reddit.com is 51.2x! << i see slashdot.org 151.7x wired.com 83.3x zerohedge.com 81.3x dailydot.com 52.7x boingboing.net 51.7x
mircea_popescu: " The public schools are intended to create complacent "good citizens"—not independent thinkers—because political leaders do not like boat-rockers who question things too closely. They prefer citizens who pay their taxes on time and leave them alone to chart the course of the nation. The growth in government power since the advent of public schools is hard to ignore."
mircea_popescu: "Organised crime groups continue to make use of darknets to harbour trading in illicit commodities, including child exploitation material, illicit drugs and firearms, stolen credit card and identity data, and hacking techniques." << check it out, hacking techniques the illicit item ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: hardphork! << i never applied that, no sympthoms. so no, not a fork at all.
mircea_popescu: i imagine the time to stock up on chinese memorabilia was right before the great leap forward.
mircea_popescu: do you mean "value that would be present in any unverse which allows for bitcoin" ? or do you mean "value which would be present in this X thing whether it be bitcoin or not"
mircea_popescu: Naphex yes, but intrinsic to what. see, when i say "kim kardashian has intrinsic value" i mean specifically, the hole(s) in her ass.