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mircea_popescu: it's the fact that she now can't plan, because lo and behold, randomly sent to jail.
mircea_popescu: bounce it's not the month in jail, just like the problem with stealing isn't really that omg, someone's going to miss what you stole.
mircea_popescu: fucking oneself ain't all that it's cracked up to be anyway.
mircea_popescu: i'm with him. telling an asshole to go fuck himself is hands down the hardest thing for people.
mircea_popescu: exactly, an abundance in practice does not speak as to how the behaviour is expensive.
mircea_popescu: uhm. enough to pay girlies to show their tits ? i dunno.
mircea_popescu: bounce never knew one that had ulcer. plenty of govt drones did, tho. fancy that.
mircea_popescu: and here we make the junction with how lying is an expensive activity - you gotta keep track of all the lies.
mircea_popescu: and since we're on it, the "keep her busy" ideology of metastatic xtianity is exactly the same. "no time to think evil." they actually go out and say it.
mircea_popescu: bounce yes, you will. spending their cattle rustling money trying to impress the wenches.
mircea_popescu: the "good hardworking type" myth is exactly that, too fucking exhausted to be evil.
mircea_popescu: aand where's malice going to be found as an art for its own sake ?
mircea_popescu: back when urban and rural even meant something anymore.
mircea_popescu: bounce also, postmodernism is fucking with me. pretend the year is 1950.
mircea_popescu: if i show you two people that's all you know about em.
mircea_popescu: where do you suppose it's more likely for a suprlus to accumulate, urban or rural setting ?
mircea_popescu: im saying routers are expensive, you're saying there's a lot of internet traffic.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the implications of a call aren't always obvious, which is a point well understood by security analysts, especilally with all the practice of late, and also how we ended up with all that sweet greek mythology about fate.
mircea_popescu: should take care of about a year's worth of your time.
mircea_popescu: but if anyone's looking for intricate ways to waste their time, feel free to model a 5 layer system of successive binary calls like that, see how it affects population survavibility and how much space you need to be able to safely fire off both kinds.
mircea_popescu: brain is a repeating mechanism. next time person is in situation he may call wrongthing() again at a wrong time.
mircea_popescu: but the intricacies of calling wrongthing() in such a way as to not break the entire fucking stack are staggering.
mircea_popescu: now, obviously, person could also call wrongthing() steal bounce's sandwich.
mircea_popescu: body gets low on glucose. pancreas calls rightthing() releases some glicogen from liver
mircea_popescu: cell gets low on adp. cell calls rightthing() gets more energy.
mircea_popescu: suppose we live in a fully defined world with a fully exposed api consisting of two functions
mircea_popescu: let me go into details here, make a full model, save you some effort.
mircea_popescu: the expense is in that it's fucking hard to have asm instructions add one way
mircea_popescu: and it's broken because malice is expensive to write in software.
mircea_popescu: which is how they get caught. because the code is broken
mircea_popescu: they get out, still burdened by the ill effects of their mismanaged flipped bit
mircea_popescu: not in one way, but who says that's got to be the way.
mircea_popescu: they're not like 10x more difficult to catch each pass, are they ?
mircea_popescu: if you actually flip a bit in there, you'll need a shitton of boundry tests to not kill yourself with it.
mircea_popescu: to bluntly simplify, what's good for the cell is good for the organ is good for the organism is good for the group is good for the world. and that's how it naturally acts.
mircea_popescu: no, the cost is there. conscience is just the name for it.
mircea_popescu: hence the "conscience", a pop reference to that fixed cost.
mircea_popescu: bounce no see, the brain is not an abstraction, it's an evolved mechanism. thus it has some channels which work a certain way to maintain it alive. malice requires your ability to isolate super processes from micro processes, so to have the former work backwards.
mircea_popescu: the nonlinear junction is the machine. and nonlinear junction is expensive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're basically looking at the cables. the cables aren't a machine, the transistors are th machine.
mircea_popescu: sure, but it's easier to teach someone math than to teach someone to be effectually malicious
mircea_popescu: which is a sort of engineering, for people thatdidn't get into metals scohol.
mircea_popescu: and ftr, watershed management is, if somewhat staid, perfectly valid agriculture
mircea_popescu: which, contrary to what people think, is extremely expensive and thus quite a rare thing.
mircea_popescu: first explanation i ever heard that fits the observable data and doesn't require active malice.
mircea_popescu: MolokoDesk you know thinking about it... you're very likely exactly correct.
mircea_popescu: or otherwise, an underpaid public worker. like you know, a schoolteacher.
mircea_popescu: bounce "idiots seldom differ" is apparently a natural law, not merely a clever theorem.