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mircea_popescu: in the sense that a boring place can not have interesting people.
mircea_popescu: left to stand on its own, buffett's "immense potential" will die under the paws of some young lion
mircea_popescu: it got a lease on life once eu once again decided to mismanaged, ]
mircea_popescu: decimation the 1800s worked because at the time europe was mismanaging human resources, and so you could actually get free value by just taking its rejects. then early 1900s worked because the whole country obeyed its betters, so carnegie, rockefeller et co could create a monopoly on the world.
mircea_popescu: by now it's a good three centuries plus a world explored past its sell by date
mircea_popescu: the current libtards are really just trying to do a sort of "being cinderella" except a little deeper than disney
mircea_popescu: back then princesses went into the hovels to rescue genius.
mircea_popescu: in a sense, the renaissance was the golden age of us libtardism.
mircea_popescu: moriarty just some random twerp, no relevancy no relation.
mircea_popescu: decimation really it started during the renaissance, as an attempt to bite the fruit of life fully.
mircea_popescu: greeks, roman republic, roman empire, middle ages, renaissance, industrial revolution, modernity, post modernity
mircea_popescu: you'll confuse people who study history, it's a term of art
mircea_popescu: traditionally it's the fall of rome to the discovery of america.
mircea_popescu: do you mean like 5 people in the renaiisant italy or what.
mircea_popescu: o hey, trilema is not on the "dark enlightenment" map w/e that is. i guess im cool like that!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'lesswrong' would be a harmless heathen pit if not for the inescapable fact that it is a tarpit for a good number of otherwise intelligent folks << this is a major problem in search for a solution.
mircea_popescu: kinda like the position of the girl being propositioned. if hte guy is good enough, not her place to have an opinion, not really.
mircea_popescu: not likely, but if it decided to... who is yudjowsky to say no.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems pretty banal. what else would it do.
mircea_popescu: o, that's bad because it could mp them out of existence ?
mircea_popescu: "ETA: How concerned should we be that DARPA is going full steam ahead for strong AI? Perhaps not very much, given the failure of at least two of their projects along these lines"
mircea_popescu: well, i didn't mean b-a-hood in the "it's sensible and it works" sense, i mearly meant it in the "rule the wrold" sense.
mircea_popescu: possibly one of the more stupid things to come out of academia.
mircea_popescu: what's left is the multi-millenial selected scum of humanity.
mircea_popescu: moriarty there's nothing to fathom. africa is the craddle of civilisation. better people leave, so they left.
mircea_popescu: and resistance will be washed away on the simple grounds that well... fiat world is going to africa anyway.
mircea_popescu: moriarty it would work as a wot system, and as that only.
mircea_popescu: the chinese got there, but with thinking. their thinkers can't reproduce w/o the state. it proved ruinous but it is not yet abandoned.
mircea_popescu: recall your argument re the statist agriculture endgame ?
mircea_popescu: proceeds to act as if the static image he perceived, more or less blurry, is made out of diamond.
mircea_popescu: the average idiot tasked with "making policy" and "framework" for absolutely no reason doesn't get this,
mircea_popescu: moriarty it's a problem of dynamic equilibrium. peer review worked before weight was put on it.
mircea_popescu: bounce: apropos earlier point, you need the idiots though. how else are you going to know you're not? << this is such nonsense. why would you care ?
mircea_popescu: <moriarty> asciilifeform, to be fair it was somewhat of an adjustment coming from the open world of academia and studenthood into proprietary work << that'd explain why you so drastically overestimate the "conversation" going on between empty barrels rolling downhill.
mircea_popescu: so about 1/7000 the recent involvement in the middle east ?
mircea_popescu: bounce it is a strange argument on the face, but perhaps the idea is such a hard problem can only be conveniently breached at this angle. much like satellites aren't launched from tiera del fuego
mircea_popescu: so the idea is, the tool required (os/stack/machine) has no industrial utility and without convincing the industry it needs ai to sponsor the thing, there's never going to be either ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems a weak reason tbh. i mean, there are good lisp implementations today, or not ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess ima publish, save myself the effort next time i feel inclined to explore teh ircworld.
mircea_popescu: i just handed them their ass too, i suspect either a ban or a wambulance coming
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for shits and giggles i asked if anone knew him. no answer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can readily see a us religious nut sponsor for that.
mircea_popescu: this is a nonsensical object on par with the "foolproof" engineering item.
mircea_popescu: how do you give idiots something to do that hides from reality the fact of their idiocy ?
mircea_popescu: this dovetails neatly with your expectation that you have to spend bitdimes to be in the wot.