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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah i see what you mean. i took it literally :D
mircea_popescu: where is the locklin one. basically his thesis was that "printed guns will never work because the barrel isn't sexy"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was this where i was disagreeing with locklin's similar idiocy ?
mircea_popescu: and by too clean i mean the sort that doesn't bareback random whores because "who knows what may happen"
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a particular sort of methodological error strategists of the "too clean" variety make. the error is to imagine that what's in question is whether the new thing is promising (positive) rather than broken (negative). fact is any new thing that isn't broken will probably outperform any current thing simply because business is about growth.
mircea_popescu: wasn't he the guy who overengineered a diode while neglecting transistors to the point nobody could afford it ?
mircea_popescu: from experience girls will forget flamboyant failure much easier than boring drudgery.
mircea_popescu: at least hughes was not a boring stolid "social improvement" type.
mircea_popescu: shockley is perhaps the best example of totally nutso master running his harem straight into a wall.
mircea_popescu: and again, the idea that there's something wrong with the people involved is patent nonsense. kids come from the vilage to town and do better than kids born in town all the time.
mircea_popescu: people who have to come to b-a to start a successful operation don't need just the money, or even the money at all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform probably related problem, tho those are usually hunters.
mircea_popescu: decimation mind, i'm not arguing the people themselves are broken.
mircea_popescu: now this may be just fine and dandy "for some applications", but it's not a computer.
mircea_popescu: to put it in the terms of the anonimity as urban/rural dispute article : the rural guy can run software without ever needing a garbage collector, because no program ever covers memory.
mircea_popescu: think, the rural noob in town has been the lol of the town's margins anywhere anytime, pick a society. coincidence ?
mircea_popescu: it's because they don't get the incentive or the opportunity to use a large swath of the brain.
mircea_popescu: this is the reason you broadly cabn't have intelligent rural people : too contemplative, by the nature of what rural means.
mircea_popescu: fuckwit discovering the ancient sources of greek philosophy by hand on his own, two milenina late.
mircea_popescu: one of the worms in question is a shepherd. he says, 1950ish : "con le stelle se puo parlare".
mircea_popescu: he is incredibly popular with the worms, for the obvious reason : a shot at their idea of a better life.
mircea_popescu: meh i can't find where i said it. anyway, in that film, which is predicated on the notion that an urbanite goes in the rural other world (he's a fraudulent film talent scout, cinecita was a big deal in post war italy).
mircea_popescu: you absolutely muyst see this film. the italian renaissance is important particularly because they peddle such exceptionaly clear, deep reaching intuitions.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is impossible to have rural nonsimpletonism also for fundamental reasons.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: why did the rulers of ussr, china, etc. push so aggressively for mechanized agriculture? to free the plow-pullers from their toil so they can watch opera? << for efficiency.
mircea_popescu: (as to the other point, the orbital spybots are a crapshot. earth based antenna is obv the right approach to the problem)
mircea_popescu: this is untrue, it only looks similar because they're too far away.
mircea_popescu: the hayseeds imagine the urban despisement of their simpletonism is the same as the utopian hatred of their self sufficiency.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the folks pushing the 'urban' ('totalitarian', etc, pick favourite term) << these seriously aren't equivalent.
mircea_popescu: obviously a car without an engine will continue to be a car without an engine for as long as hills and people willing to push can be found.
mircea_popescu: of course it will continue. it will continue not to work lol.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: eventual goal, for the state, is an endgame where you can't grow your own potato in secret any more than you can produce your own 14nm cpu. << eventual endgame, for the utopian socialist/nazist state, as for any utopian/figment of imagination, is human relevancy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure it's in the sub ed in colleges everywhere.
mircea_popescu: a war is won by a) making fat targets that b) the enemy tries to take out but c) fails.
mircea_popescu: handwaved as "well if there's too many subs to track then that says all we wanted to know anyway rite ?"
mircea_popescu: it's not currently able to handle massed targets well. this is, and has been, long known documented weakness
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine some sort of copulatory connection will be standard.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing to do submerged anyway. the only real reason to move is abvout the same as getting new ips, ie, avoid the enemy.
mircea_popescu: decimation i tell you, if the tesla experiment works out we're going to see subs.
mircea_popescu: "yes you may gather together to overthrow the state, just as long as you get an approval form stamped by said state"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: a historical annoyance, for all forms of state, is that folks can, in general, grow food without asking it permission first. <<< this brings to mind the ridiculous "permit to assemble" device.
mircea_popescu: no, srsly. controlling masturbation in little girls was much more a priority in victorian england that in teh case of boys
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa indeed, and ironically i suspect it's exactly for this reason.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform teacher rubbing vulva on corners is no indication of an absence of hands, pockets or brain.
mircea_popescu: people'd have been sticking cunt drawings on her back for the rest of her life.
mircea_popescu: see, a teacher like that'd have never survived in mp's school.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at lulzranch : carnivores having well developed teeth is in no way a predictor of their preference in eating meat over say photosynthesis.
mircea_popescu: something being asserted by a state sponsored "ed" program of any kind is more a predictor of the something being wrong than right.
mircea_popescu: yeah, made by the same people, with the same political aggenda, and with the same utter ignorance and disrespect for observable reality.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to see a psa "ed" effort that was accurate in details.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't begin to give less of a shit about what sex "ed" programs say there, wherever that is.
mircea_popescu: so composed out of thermal electro plant, battery recharge stations and a fleet of subs...
mircea_popescu: what with its super vulnerable carriers and errything.
mircea_popescu: and im not sure who can afford to piss off a nation of submarineers, but it wouldn't be the us.
mircea_popescu: in any case : international waters are international waters
mircea_popescu: let there be electric recharge stations on the ocean floor.
mircea_popescu: tell you what : a current car spends 90% of time in the garage. fu that.
mircea_popescu: well, lettuce see. the submarine is submerged. it does not care about "weather" in either fluid sense. with the new fleshlights and tumblr pr0nz... i defy you to find a bunch of 20somethings whose current life would be differen if they were subbed.
mircea_popescu: it's not that familiar to me, i'm a sf noob/ignoramus :D
mircea_popescu: leaving the landspace to be inhabited by the proles, toiling in the mines and sub factories under the carcinogenic sun
mircea_popescu: making orlof a sort of low tech early pioneer in the right direction.
mircea_popescu: the sub having replaced the car that replaced the knight's horse
mircea_popescu: so what if ben_vulpes has it his way and by say 2050 most people that are people actually live in one ?