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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.
mircea_popescu: no. what becomes plain as day is how to interact with the few women nobody can be bothered with, and how to miss out on the value in the set.
mircea_popescu: the whole theory is broken. there's no "other plane", and there's no "women" as a one thing.
mircea_popescu: it's incredible how broken other irc channels seem to me. "where's the logs ?" "we don't have logs because reasons and we're primitive idiots" "so i guess i don't even need to ask about gribble or wot then huh."
mircea_popescu: it's not particularly hard, either, just as long as you comprehend that the "differnet plane" bs is bs, and that there's more variety between different women than between women and men.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron generally people don't know what the things they claim to want imply.
mircea_popescu: moriarty i have my doubts about that model, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: seems to me the black guys are already doing it, and that may explain their preeminence over the prude whites.
mircea_popescu: for the simple reason that he's an idiot. what's he going to do ? whine ?
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact, the 51% of which idiots like xmj are part would NEVER overcome the 49% which includes me.
mircea_popescu: even if british society in the 1800s miscalculate dthe value of muscle.
mircea_popescu: the intellect-muscle debate has nothing to do with the loser-winner debate
mircea_popescu: this is so much derpage reflecting the extremely narrow case of where a bunch of people worked with their muscles.
mircea_popescu: aka "beg someone much better than you to tolerate your presence"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "social escorts" is a much better euphemism,.
mircea_popescu: suddenly the us dollar could compete with the singapore dollar.
mircea_popescu: what if that entire population were put in its place ?
mircea_popescu: the problem with us noobs is that instead of sucking cock and being humble, they reddit.
mircea_popescu: it's just that the parent may not whine as audibly as the child. but you can't rule by whining