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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is very true. same could be said of plastics themselves tho, early on
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose modern cars are all practically printed anyway
mircea_popescu: modern fucking browser, has autocorrect. doesn't think phosgene is a word, doesn't think any latin is a word, even common expressions, i do more correcting of it than it does correcting of me
mircea_popescu: the resulting flame covered like 800 comments or some shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform other than cooking pork fat on burning coran pages, i once said that all old romanian people are scum for having been willing and eager commie sluts.
mircea_popescu: i have not come to this internet for people to be mean to me!
mircea_popescu: instead of joining the harem of a dominant male as slaves and enjoy all the concha they can eat, they derp about as independent shegoats, imagining that they can ever score anything this way. as motherfucking if.
mircea_popescu: hm, don't tell me she went underground to learn armenian or something.
mircea_popescu: chetty: jurov, well the premise probably not but the goal I suspect he would approve of << not really. i don't mind the bulk of male derpitude, just as long as my women insulate me from it. actual extermination tho is an iffy proposition, you'd end up with a huge bulk of marginal and nul women with nothing to occupy them. best not alter nature's balances.
mircea_popescu: ew planet each week and you have to both introduce a planet and tell a story all within a single episode.
mircea_popescu: On their Wagon Train to the Stars, our intrepid heroes come across a planet with a single defining characteristic. Everybody is a robot, or a gangster, or a Proud Warrior Race Guy, or an over-the-top actor, or wearing a Nice Hat. To some degree, this is unavoidable; you only have so much screen time or page space to develop and explore a culture. This is especially true in episodic series where the heroes travel to a n
mircea_popescu: jdanks: Well, I are engineer. I no talk good. But I math well. So I'd like to be let known if someone is crazy enough to start a town (; << ok so if you math well you must think good. what is the advantage of trying to implement irl a planet of hats ? it's a device of fiction, borne out of insufficiency of resources. here's your must-read:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetOfHats mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: if mp buys an Island, I might move there << why an island dood. so idiots can try and blocade it all the time ? arent ddoses enough for you ?
mircea_popescu: lesbian chicks would like a little manhandling and dunno how to ask properly ? what else is new.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell X-Rob 104.131.60.126:8559 use bingo's address as before.
mircea_popescu: o wait, gotta make an account or something first right ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller wait is this new ? or just the feb thing ?
mircea_popescu: i don't need everyone to be an idiot, i just need a few to make my case.
mircea_popescu: and for all the error-fiends : you can't correctly represent decimal numbers in computers today, it doesn't stop anyone from derping on the pretense computers are ideal machines.
mircea_popescu: jurov perhaps more a "Can shit we need done be phrased such that wetware can do it better than the turing machine"
mircea_popescu: the archetypal "rather than explain your job to you i'd rather just do it"
mircea_popescu: this, in an ideal way, suppose you have Ontologizer, which makes be whatever molecular structure you describe.
mircea_popescu: the question is more like, suppose i give you piles of C N H O etc molar equivalent to the contents of a live creature,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you readily know the volume of "silicone" computation that goes by in the average cell ?
mircea_popescu: suppose i don't multiply 5 x 7, but i do a fft over a large domain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know it's a bad habit to state the problem thus.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know, after the first steam machines were introduced in the 1800s, people saw that horses and oxen are replaced, but believed the intelligent movement of man will remain emulated for a long long time
mircea_popescu: jurov i still think wetware comes before quantum, so there.
mircea_popescu: apparently bitcoin mining starts 12 months ago. who knew.
mircea_popescu is picturing kakobrekla sitting on a huge pile of coal, pumping the server furnace as needed
mircea_popescu: o look at that, gizmodo links images off gawker-media. they're not even worth their own directory :D