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mircea_popescu: that event had repeated itself > 100
times by now, or at least had, in
the 90s when i stopped
tracking.
mircea_popescu: what happened when
the planet didn't appear on
time ?
they
took
the whole plumbing of math and physics and instruments apart.
mircea_popescu: and yes, "lower bound", you know ? like
this : "if
the universe ends up being less old
than X, we'll have
to re-do all
these calculations, somehow. i have no idea how
the fuck, so let's hope it doesn't happen - and also
thar mars rises on
time. fucking precession.
mircea_popescu: "a proper prince's penis should be as long as my
thumb" said
the 12 yo princess in her diary.
mircea_popescu: even
the sentence as stated, "oh, universe begun x bn years ago". "really, it was years ? what spun around what sun,
that
top of a mother of yours ?"
mircea_popescu: hence a certain quaint oldstyle philosopher merit in
the stance. "fuck you, you don't know anything" said diogenes in his 3600 yo
tub.
mircea_popescu: there are all sorts of problems once you get out of
the 3600 year bubble, so
to speak.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter we know for a fact
that speed of light isn't a constant at large
timescales.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's say
that
the resulting "age of universe" constant is more a function of what subset of experimental data you look at ;
than anything else.
mircea_popescu: that happens
to be exactly
the same argument supporting
the 3600 year world ; except with different equations.
mircea_popescu: it's all a matter of "hey, check out how well
these variables fit". "mmmkay ?"
mod6: faith
that instruments and math/physics are correct?
mircea_popescu: ftr,
the "official" notion as
to
the age of
the universe is not ~fundamentally~ better
than
the "3600 years ago, fixed value".
shinohai: That debate was one of
the lulzier
things I have ever watched.
mod6: bill nye,
the science guy
shinohai: Where
the word of Ken Hamm reigns over Bill Nye
shinohai: My mind is boggled
that danielpbarron could actually believe earth is only 6.1k years old.
danielpbarron: even
the star-light is 'planted' in
that
those stars couldn't possibly have been burning for billions of years
mircea_popescu: ie,
that it may seem like stuff is around proving otherwise, but it was planted.
mircea_popescu: whether anything is
true or not is a complex matter ; but it could be arguabe ~to
the same standard~.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron why even bother, rather
than declare a number, and preferably a platonic number or something, and
then forever stick
to
that. "it's been 3600 years ago".
danielpbarron: that's about how long it's been if you add up
the years between all
the guys listed in
the geneology in
The Bible, and
then add how long it's been ~since Christ
mircea_popescu: the logical construction of "naked eye" in
this context is, visible in
the armored pubkey as user is expected
to manipulate. whadda ya want now.
mircea_popescu: like for instance, nipples are visible
to
the naked eye.
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> for
the record, as ridiculous as
the whole "earth was created ~30k years ago << more like ~6.1k years ago
mircea_popescu: anyway, by
the same logic, about half should be divisible by 3. scarcely any are.
mircea_popescu: what naked eye ? i paste you a pubkey and you
tell me if it's even by looking at
the armor ?
mircea_popescu: so he rolls 2 ints, randomly.
that neither come out even is 1/4
mircea_popescu: it doesn't become religious until someone extracts some spurious "should" and starts
throwing it at others.
mircea_popescu: tons of inept shit people believe, chiefly because of
the convenient insulation
time provides.
mircea_popescu: ty evolved 50k years ago ; or
that "temperatures have been raising", or or or.
mircea_popescu: for
the record, as ridiculous as
the whole "earth was created ~30k years ago by a
trickster
that salted it with fossils
to fuck with you" is ; it is no more or less ridiculous (seeing how absolutes aren't comparable)
than all sorts of commonly accepted idiocies. such as
the notion
that man "always" had some sort of "equality" notion, along with a whole host of imbecile anachronisms
the general herd entertains ; or
that humani
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 05:33 ben_vulpes: i am likely going
to buy a license because what, i pay half
that per year per staff member just
to derp on ios shits with some modicum less of friction
mircea_popescu: nope. not anymore
than "unwashed herd avoids music like soap" is hard
to square with "vast majority of mp4 kilobytes date from period"
mircea_popescu: why not ? what you say and what i say aren't in any sense exclusive. yes it was
the
time of a horde of imbeciles "saving hte world".
the behaviour of such horde is exactly as per
the soap example. an item will not be used because it exists and is useful ; consequently existence and functionality aren't predictive.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 12:12 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475422 <<
that
the herd is instinctively repelled by pgp, much like soap, so it's perfectly possible NOBODY uses some arbitrary windows offering. much like in
the "creative writer and activist"'s house,
the broom's not nearly as worn down as
the mirror.
mircea_popescu: they got great sensors, what. not
the sort of item
that can be usefully made in kitchen.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 13:08 mircea_popescu: it has never been
this great
to be a
teenager, i swear.
mircea_popescu: that selfsame bounty does not work
to somehow magically
turn junkie into person.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-23 15:08 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not even a matter of sons ;
the usg has no sons, nor any vigor in
the seed. it's a matter of desperation - everything americans don't buy,
the chinese buy,
take apart and move
to china.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 12:09 mircea_popescu: (weirdly enough, how is it
that
the "bounty" experience has failed
to inform your opinoin of bounties, much like
the "new pogo" has failed
to inform your opinion of "oh noes end of pogos" ?)
mircea_popescu: yeah we could never make as cool robots as kid can
today
mircea_popescu: if one could somehow be protected from his imbecile ecofeminist mother / limpdick sec compliance father,
that is.
shinohai: or litmus
test, however you prefer
shinohai: God I love
trilema mircea_popescu ...it
triggers so many people.
shinohai: I'm on @21's shitlist for showing
them
the picture of
the Bitcoin "embassy" from
trilema.
mircea_popescu: im sure it's yet another "technical leader" company consisting of
the skeleton administrative crew of a failed dropshipper.
shinohai: 'We're gonna make pennies a day selling
the data
this
thing collects guise!"
shinohai: crack rock being an adafruit sensor
the simply rebranded and called
their own
shinohai: BingoBoingo: would you publish an article
titled "21 dot co releases rebranded crack rock for
the reddit niggers" ?
mircea_popescu: think about all
those memory offsets
that suddenly can't be ints anymore.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 05:11 ben_vulpes: blessed be
those who port c
to php
shinohai: dammit Qntra feed died on
twitter overnight
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475422 <<
that
the herd is instinctively repelled by pgp, much like soap, so it's perfectly possible NOBODY uses some arbitrary windows offering. much like in
the "creative writer and activist"'s house,
the broom's not nearly as worn down as
the mirror.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: must be some sort of "this is how
things MUST BE i say, and i dun care what
the lab results show" sorta item.