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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in virtually all encounters,
the "toy" costs more
than
the intended victims.
a111: Logged on 2015-03-26 20:43 asciilifeform: one
to break doors, gates; one
to
threaten bystanders, if any, with 'accidental' fire; one
to shoot; and perhaps one with a cage
that arrestee -might- be permitted
to surrender into, if
the bot's voice-recognition system works and if orders included a possible live capture
a111: Logged on 2015-03-26 20:42 asciilifeform:
that is, heavily-armoured box shows up with puppeteer, who controls (via radio or fiber) several deathbots
a111: Logged on 2015-03-26 20:42 asciilifeform: expect
this kind of policing
to become sop
mircea_popescu: looks pretty cheaply made, al/composite. more of
the same "we can attack very well and defend nothing at all"
technologees ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Is
that a different one
than your shotgun bot from
the South St Louis standoff?
mircea_popescu: but
the notion of helping
the fucktarded brits is anathema, jesus f christ.
mircea_popescu is out of
the loop, no idea what bnr might have gotten out of
the deal.
mircea_popescu: (it's something like a coupla billion worth, ie just enough
to bridge britain
through
the brexit)
mircea_popescu: similarly fascinating, how women grew hair on head
throughout
the roman empire, showed up on coins with currently fashionable hairdo nevertheless ; or how
they've had
two
tits and a slit for millenia yet always dressed in period dress everywherw!
trinque: fascinates me how
the ancient instincts wear whichever "politically expedient" mask is available in
the
times
mircea_popescu: some derpy chick by
the name selin goren got raped by a bunch of arab immigrants, liked it, reported
to police
that she was robbed by a group of german men.
mircea_popescu: these can't possibly participate in any sort of forum where actual people intercourse, simply because
they've not what with.
mircea_popescu: somewhat relatedly, most people don't figure
they have ANY authority.
therein included,
the authority
to decide what
to do with
themselves at any point (gotta be in school in half hour! shiot im late for job interview! omg office hours!) or for
that matter what
to believe.
mircea_popescu: and of course it's perfectly understandable,
the whore has a whore's personality not because she's an evil harpy shrew but because it's
the only way
to survive at
the bottom of
the shit ocean : batten
the damned hatches.
mircea_popescu: time, or more likely,
the grave will straighten out
this hunchback.
mircea_popescu: it's infantile, sure, and moreover
they're pretty miserable at it. nevertheless, it's what
they're doing, and
there's no outside flippable switch
to get
them out of it.
mircea_popescu: "this is
the code i'ma run, see how much of
the world i can despoil on its basis"
mircea_popescu: but
the invisible line
that unites curtis yarvin,
that "lesswrong" derp, spandrell fellow,
the restaurant manager chick yesterday, and on and on an endless list of
these, is specifically
that
they welded
the head shut.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway,
to formalize
this, i figure
there's people who're looking
to
take ; and people who're looking
to give
themselves away asciilifeform .
tmsr is entirely and
to some degree by design inadherent
to
the former. it may, maybe, work for short intervals, but not
too likely, and certainly less likely over
time.
this results in a lot of butthurt, calling it a cult, whatever.
mircea_popescu: i could
think of a more ridoinculous proposition but not readily.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wonder how much he makes out of selling books in 2016 for
the love of lols.
mircea_popescu: good
translators ? without exception
they're major actors in one, often both cultures.
mircea_popescu: (though you'd
think he'd fucking know better if he were
that window - neh ?)
mircea_popescu: which is fine and all, i mean waste of his life but what's
that
to me.
mircea_popescu: iirc it was more a case of "hey, i'm here
to promote ; oh you're not really an audience ? ok, ima go promote down
the street"
thestringpuller: asciilifeform:
the same rationale behind why
there is no "sane computer"
thread. i.e. dumbness is institutionalized. so wouldn't useless students be merely a symptom of
this?
mircea_popescu: fucking "take moar oestrogen" confucius & "wanna hear our inept
teenage boyish oneupmanships" zeo-dan derps.
☟︎☟︎ thestringpuller: They are useful, but are not rewarded for
their usefulness...how is
this sustainable?
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: so
the fate full nodes are facing, is a similar fate good
teachers face?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 14:31 mircea_popescu:
though
their classics give me hives.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: not sure where
that abroad would be. <<
the ones I would
trust with money usually studied in China.
mircea_popescu: there is no us citizen alive
today who is qualified
to as much as
teach latin.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: illicit experiments in your cellar. << What about a good
teacher? Is
the
teacher extinct from a scholarly perspective.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller not sure where
that abroad would be. damascus maybe.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't really experiment with
the other kind however ; an
tomes lie. not by design but in effect.
thestringpuller: This is why an advisor with good intentions usually pushes students "with potential"
to study abroad.
mircea_popescu: alf has it. you can not, for any sum of money, acquire a classics education in
the english language
today.
thestringpuller: the actual education even if considered "top class" results in MIT graduates unable
to light a bulb with battery + wire
thestringpuller: you can't get "marketing" STEM degree in USA.
that is degree is more of advertisement for self,
that bears no real meaning.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: a classics education always beats a stem <<
this doesn't get undergrad children jobs in
the US. interesting
though,
that having gotten a stem education, i feel extremely deprived of not having studied as many classics
mircea_popescu: but whatever, i have no expectation
to explain
to ustards
that a classics education always beats a stem education. not in
this life.
the contrary nonsense's been derped
too much, and
they've never seen anyone with a classical education anyway.
mircea_popescu: you know... it's social interaction
that fell behind
their redittardedly advancing
technologee
mircea_popescu: "One of
the more interesting long-term practical benefits of
the
technology and concept behind decentralized autonomous organizations is
that DAOs allow us
to very quickly prototype and experiment with an aspect of our social interactions
that is so far arguably falling behind our rapid advancements in information and social
technology elsewhere: organizational governance. " << apud buterin, 2014.
mircea_popescu: it's like infants were locked in a
tower somewhere and asked
to imagine how
the world could be.
mircea_popescu: think about it alfie, if i want
to buy a
thousand votes i'm going
to say so and pay a million, rather
than
talk
to a
thousand derps and pay
them a cent each.
mircea_popescu: Quadratic voting is a procedure
that a group of people can use
to jointly choose a collective good for
themselves. Each person can buy votes for or against a proposal by paying into a fund
the square of
the number of votes
that he or she buys.
The money is
then returned
to voters on a per capita basis. Weyl and Lalley prove
that
the collective decision rapidly approximates efficiency as
the number of voters increases. By cont
mircea_popescu: and speaking of purely academitarded wankatrons, "Glen Weyl has uploaded a new version of his paper, Quadratic Voting (written with Steven Lalley),
to SSRN, which now includes
the completed proofs. Quadratic voting is
the most important idea for law and public policy
that has emerged from economics in (at least)
the last
ten years.
mircea_popescu: gotta economize on
the lulz, comedy goldmine running out of gold.
mircea_popescu: "This is why I love Ethereum.
The main net is live for less
than a year, yet
tthis is
the
third big convention. "
to quote
the locals.
mircea_popescu: atm all hopes pinned on microsoft-sponsored "devcon" for
the scamcoin. basically, mit can either get another usg agency involved or
they're dropping it,
they lost all
they were gonna lose on it already.
mircea_popescu: i don';t recall when
that was,
they had like a week maybe ?