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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.
mircea_popescu: the current masquerade is not unlike that famous monkey
mircea_popescu: i miss the old days when us people were still living in africa where they belong and they fought "climate change" by digging holes in their labia.
mircea_popescu: chetty fortunately for all of us, the sulphur lobby ain't got money,
mircea_popescu: but as a great man once said, "it is forbidden to teach nonsense. but the study of nonsense, that's scholarship"
mircea_popescu: i'd rather discuss actually self-aware religions than bizarre cults that claim they're not.
mircea_popescu: MolokoDesk only thing i can agree about re keynesianism is that it's retarded
mircea_popescu: MolokoDesk as to your what happens : he becomes a stakeholder. there's a nice little fable re the nsa stash in the logs relating to this.
mircea_popescu: the future of any group of people is not certain, but nor does it matter so much,.
mircea_popescu: it's not like the future of the theory of gravity is uncertain. it's quite certain.
mircea_popescu: MolokoDesk that's not an adequate model for things such as gravity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this philosophical arcana aside, i can see that people got bills to pay and so on, so. no argument from me.,
mircea_popescu: MolokoDesk in the sense the sun is "trying to survive".
mircea_popescu: it's offering a narrow window for people to be friendly, is all.
mircea_popescu: MolokoDesk the thing is, bitcoin isn't trying to make friends.
mircea_popescu: bounce wait wtf, german telecom wants to charge users for being spied ?!
mircea_popescu: MolokoDesk among other things bitcoin is not very friendly to the fiat world model of work for hire. it very heavily favours the linux style of doing things.
mircea_popescu: <MolokoDesk> or for whom you do it. << well, yes, plenty of idiots manage to cosy up with the clueless and live decently in the process. not rly my cup of tea, but th world's full of tims and andreases.
mircea_popescu: which is why things like linux can exist in the first placew.
mircea_popescu: MolokoDesk retainers are useful where work is abundant and workers scarce. this is not the case in coding,
mircea_popescu: derping around with bitcoin can in principle be very lucrative, but in practice it depends what you do.
mircea_popescu: heck, there's not so many ugly women in btc. which makes one think... what if there's more to hotness than usually thought ?
mircea_popescu: MolokoDesk don't be shy about it, we're all assholes anyway.
mircea_popescu: why the hell does everyone think everyone's the same person as everyone else.
mircea_popescu: MolokoDesk well that's why it's very important to be loud and clear about what you have in mind.