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mircea_popescu: suppose there's a well respected, honorful general of this one tribe
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you got the stomach for some mysticism ?
mircea_popescu: or maybe sleep is a very high level cognitive function, and humanity still struggles with logic.
mircea_popescu: i don't think sleep improvement is impossible per se. but i do think what's herein contemplated is of the level of improving cpu caching with drills, lathes and other mechanical tools.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i dun sell gherkins to gardners and vodka to russians.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so then just lie down with yourself and relax, it's doable.
mircea_popescu: can you normally tell what's wrong with you, if something's wrong, and what food item was the cause, if you're sick ?
mircea_popescu: i think the more likely producitve approach is psychologic tho
mircea_popescu: theres really nothing to know, you just... lie down and sleep
mircea_popescu: well... so what does the pill do again ? allows you to rename things ? i can do that w/o pills :D
mircea_popescu: but at this point, we suddenly face the danger of falling into nominalism. consider a pill that zaps 1&2 so you can 3-4 only, withj the caveat that to be used safe over a century, you have to lie down for two to three hours each day and relax independently of sleep.
mircea_popescu: only problem with that test is you won't be able to distinguish the source of any side effects - from the rocketing or from the rocket.
mircea_popescu: i read the hypothesis here as "stages 1 and 2 can be safely removed"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note that for me to disprove your stance, all i need is an example of possible failure, which i've satisfied. for you to support your stance giving a counterexample is not enough.
mircea_popescu: there were some renaissance mechanical models for this.
mircea_popescu: the human body being a final case of "the protocol is the code". it works like we've discussed, as this insane collection of things repaired by malfunction in unassociated things
mircea_popescu: now, having a period of time where it can relax and clean up may be exactly what it needs. even if this is enforced by cnc paralysis rather than another venue
mircea_popescu: the reason for this is that the heart can't do too many regime change cycles a day
mircea_popescu: people who use it outside of that envelope, such as for instance habitual stimulant abusers, stock brokers and other such "high stress" occupations usually die of heart failure.
mircea_popescu: the heart is a well designed pump, that works very well in its own engineering envelope.
mircea_popescu: it isn't. you're saying it's "a waste of time", a spandrel merely means "not directly resulting from selection"
mircea_popescu: but even if it were, that's still not enough for what you're arguing.
mircea_popescu: and yes, you can login with nameserv from a webirc session as well as from any other session
mircea_popescu: (i also have a bet with some unfriendly parties as to whether that film' gonna be criminal insanity or not, but that's a different story)
mircea_popescu: im curious who's gonna be the first b-a alumn to become famous in an unrelated field.
mircea_popescu: so for some inexplainable reason 93% of all the comment spam sent to trilema has to do with bags
mircea_popescu: it's a sf story about how the exposure to fractals make brains pop.
mircea_popescu: it's a biological protection on the level of "dead by holding his own breath", except implemented in nature rather than in the body.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the close is flawed. the mind can not on its own recreate the damagingly illogical. this is pretty much the largest most important safety we have.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the fundamnetal idea is sound. if one could weaponize idiocy at will one wouldn't need any further wishes from the djinn.
mircea_popescu: surgically attached to toilet bowl, shower curtain or bedstand ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, one wonders what happens when a coupla gals working canada's best whorehouse move in with nubsy.
mircea_popescu: because you're canadian, and that makes you weird ? :D
mircea_popescu: cazalla lol speaking tours. this is roughly the equivalent of the plague, don't envy a man his misery.
mircea_popescu: no wonder all the eskimos are gone with only some scroungy inuit left
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "computer monitor of better than 600 x 300 pixels resolution." pandering to the new ega displays i see ? :D
mircea_popescu: i think fluffypony was going to charter a plane or i dun remember how that went.
mircea_popescu: that's why that bot command is so handy. easy to miss things in the deluge.
mircea_popescu: lol this guy. hey RagnarDanneskjol is there something you won't try to do ? :D
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol ima wait for delivery on that other thing first, and i have a queue there anyway.
mircea_popescu: xmj what exactly makes you think my money isn't where my mouth is, nooblet ?
mircea_popescu: anyone want to make a fork of git and implement all this ?
mircea_popescu: that's what github'd be doing, if it weren't wasting its time with imbecile females vying for attention the only way imbecile females know how.
mircea_popescu: as a v0.1. then for v0.2 of this, have an actual crypto signed procedure where everyone who reads a line of code signs and it's wot-abble this.
mircea_popescu: other than proper cryptography for all foss, as discussed coupla days re gentoo overlays etc, i would fucking love for all lines of code to come with a counter.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i wouldn't expect any problems. in fact it's probably better reviewed code than w/e it's been replaced with anyway.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony afaik lcompat just does a gettimeofday clal anyway
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: So shock therapy is old? << just about contemporaneous with electricity itself.
mircea_popescu: to me all this "let's improve sleep" stuff reads a lot like "this cnc control code would be a lot better if we took out all sleep() references"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: 100hz - i do lean towards the soviet hypothesis that at least a third of the sleep cycle is a vestigial waste of time. <<< why ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Oh, apparently the brain electricity stuff for sleep et al is being commercialized << well of course, everything's being commercialised, from cow piss (redbull) to an app to prove you're rich. dun really much matter if it works, as long as someone somewhere thought of it, it's available to buy.
mircea_popescu: and it's priced 10:1 which seems reasonable more or less.