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mircea_popescu: decimation it's worse than that! consider : you could pick arbitrary assumptions and arbitrary data sets so as to theoretically and practically justify a particular theory sufficiently so that it gives the desired results for a FINITE time interval, calculated to exceed the probable testing period.
mircea_popescu: hence boundless ignorance ? that ignorance ignorant even of bounds ?
mircea_popescu: you can't become prickly just because people are idiots. it's giving idiots too much say.
mircea_popescu: me splitting with everyone's cash because some redditard says things ?
mircea_popescu: but what would be the equivalent to "lisp people being prickly" in context ?
mircea_popescu: nevertheless the world and his like have no common points.
mircea_popescu: important to remember that his declarative statements are powerless to influence reality, and as much as he'd like to live in a world where there's no incentive for me to stay honest,
mircea_popescu: this should make it obvious. of course redditard monkey would love nothing more than for his idiocy to be confirmed.
mircea_popescu: "The site is owned by the most annoying, donkey riding arsehole involved with bitcoin." "Unlike all the others, owned by nice people that ran off with your coins." "I wish that arsehole would run off with all the coins if it meant never hearing from him again."
mircea_popescu: and if you conform by doing the "since they call me a thief anyway might as well", you are actually giving away that much power.
mircea_popescu: this is what i meant, obliquely. if you allow the "community" of screaming monkeys to decide whether you are antisocial type 1 or 2, you're giving them too much power.
mircea_popescu: "advertising is a symptom of insufficient demand or insufficient supply." naggum o.O
mircea_popescu: i can't read locklin without him annoying me. such a total schmoozeball.
mircea_popescu: everything that passport.net did or w/e that crap was called
mircea_popescu: if your highschool peers can make you antisocial by claiming you're antisocial then there's no incentive for them to abstain is there.
mircea_popescu: "But part of it definitely stems from the incessant stream of ignorant criticisms leveled at the Lisp community by outsiders" asciilifeform it occurs to me that if the outsiders can do that then the whole ecosystem empowers outsiders to an outrageous, unwarranted and quite dangerous degree.
mircea_popescu: "one of the great strengths of the APL ecosystem so far are the user community. Lispy people are a preposterously pricklish and unhelpful bunch in comparison."
mircea_popescu: trilema is really non-js friendly so i guess it prolly has more nonjs readers than average interwebs
mircea_popescu: well i guess if they have silent (non js, non url-forwarding etc) browsers it could be from anywhere
mircea_popescu: they're not redirects. in fact, linked traffic has always been 10% or less, as far as trilema is concerned.
mircea_popescu: seriously, 20% of my search traffic came looking for... "true" ? what the fucking hell of a cosmic joke is this.
mircea_popescu: decimation i'd see it as search not as direct. meanwhile search incoming is dominated by keywords like "true"
mircea_popescu: sooo... yesterday was trilema's largest reading day. yet nothing happened. 90%+ of it direct, too. wtf.
mircea_popescu: "let's save the environment by shipping natural gas across the atlantic because we're too bigmouthed to fit a cock"
mircea_popescu: moriarty no, because the us is getting screwed in its imaginary economic war.
mircea_popescu: because the eu is so fucking married to the us and everything.
mircea_popescu: russia is fine. the us is too high to notice how fucked it's getting.
mircea_popescu: aggression is when it comes to bomb canada and expects the us to mind its own fucking business.
mircea_popescu: or we could read secret dispatches, check out how the various actors behave around it, who knows, even go to a military expo.
mircea_popescu: you can tell this by the very good predictor that when china told the us to get fucked, the us secretary of state promised to carefully avoid misunderstandings in the future
mircea_popescu: while england's own "fleet", w/e it is lol... do they still have it btw ?
mircea_popescu: seemed to me putin's counter to the ukraine. fuck with us, lose the uk sorta deal.
mircea_popescu: or maybe i don't well understand the structures of incentive, not living there
mircea_popescu: i still dunno wtf they did to make such a wide margin happen.
mircea_popescu: the ones it keeps you didn't want. much like africa forever, much like renaissance europe ec.
mircea_popescu: not sure how long that lasts, and it selects negatively.
mircea_popescu: quite. and intellectually dead places go beddy-bye whether they agree they're intellectually dead or not.
mircea_popescu: for all anyone cares, the ideas of midwest people re cattle and rain are right.
mircea_popescu: it's not even a matter of whether social justice and pc and the rest of the crap is right or wrong
mircea_popescu: "it sucks at home". course it does. cause boring place with boring people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wants to escape it. why ? and how is his desire different from young peasant kid in village in russia cca 1814
mircea_popescu: the american caesar, if he exists, will caesarize in chile or w/e.
mircea_popescu: but as such he exists because new york, not because lincoln, nebraska.