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mircea_popescu: i bet you ddos on the range would actually significantly disrupt their infrastructure. nuke the email server half hour before some important summit, embarrass them to all shit.
mircea_popescu: Amazon Web Service, while the other IPs are in the range:
mircea_popescu: quantum != modicum, mostly because latin works as a language.
mircea_popescu: well technically quanta is the plural of quantum, so i should prolly say quantum, but anwyay.
mircea_popescu: "Every system has to have some quanta of uncertainty affecting it." << that's not a correct use of the term. a quanta is a fixed, measurable, known quantity which quantifies a quantized system, such as 1 is the quanta of binary computing. in physics and so the surrounding world, (macroscopic)energy is usually hν, ie planck's constant (the quanta) times th frequency.
mircea_popescu: but theyd have also taken the tools of their trade, that made them better paid in the first place, along for the ride.
mircea_popescu: consequently, it'd stand to reason that as sportscasters became unemployed, they'd have started the huffpo of their time.
mircea_popescu: it makes perfect sense that there'd be backflow mostly on the obvious grounds that afaik for most of the history a sports journo was better paid than a political comentator
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's an interesting theory. someone should probably run lexical analysis over sports coverage and politics in the us, past century.
mircea_popescu: she is pakistani, not palestinian. how are these people to be taken seriously ?
mircea_popescu: she did not quit it earlier in protest of say strikes against pakistani that resulted in what, 1mn people displaced ?
mircea_popescu: so this Sayeeda Hussain Warsi chick quit the uk govt in protest of its support of israel
mircea_popescu: in retrospect, look at the trouble fluffypony started!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it doesn't stop there tho. i used to watch formula one, but then... guess what ? david price intervened in the middle of the game and took everyone's bats away and forced them to use curtain rods.
mircea_popescu: well every time someone talks about me, interestingly enough.
mircea_popescu: differentiation presumes meaning. if you can't have meaning, you can't say "that's not sports, that's politics"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what is the whole "x random team owner is racist" thing ?
mircea_popescu: chetty kinda interesting how teh black square is trying to do the same "i;m opting out of your fucktarded language space"
mircea_popescu: i guess wrestling actually IS the mother of all us sport.
mircea_popescu: maybe it's all the fallout of television, who's to know. "here's what three generations of visual 'thinking' barbarians will do to language" sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: punkman i can't really distinguish latin languages enough to have an oppinion, other than that modern french is perhaps having a similar if unrelated problem.
mircea_popescu: and it creates a spiral of doom. as the language stops working positively, people stop caring, and so it'll just rot further.
mircea_popescu: contemporary english being a major example of this sad situation. a point expressed in today';s english is actually LESS than what it was before it met expression. that's a sad state of affairs,
mircea_popescu: some other languages however act as a confounder of thought, i am discovering, and a hindrance to expression.
mircea_popescu: this used to work in english too, three centuries ago. "put your idea in writing to see what it actually says".
mircea_popescu: well, here's the thing : some languages act as a metamind for the speakers. the collected intellectual effort of antecessors having constructed the linguistic equivalent of engineer's rulers and whatnot. so that through the mere workings of the language, one's point is refined.
mircea_popescu: i suspect for the average english as sole language speaker action is actually impossible today.
mircea_popescu: you can't run with your eyes closed. you can';t act in a world inhabited by these phantasms.
mircea_popescu: so you know, when the markov chain-based invaders finally take over, they'll be welcomed by the populace.
mircea_popescu: back in the 70s when politicians started doing this, engaging in pseudo-debates on "issues" that had no coherent definition in their respective systems, people derrided the entire process as nonsensical. enter the internet, everyone is doing it. everyone. everwhere. find the most obscure blog and you'll have two nobodies doing it to each other for sport.
mircea_popescu: but the more i read the more i realise that actually... it's not me inventing something novel, it's my brain trying to cope with nonsense.
mircea_popescu: it started as this literary device i had thought i had invented like a decade ago. we even tried to work it into our book with chet.
mircea_popescu: thus parallel discussion is not a funny occurence but the vast majority of all interractions, people happily arguing with self-constructed dopplegangers of each other respectively. basically, a strawman is not merely a logical error, but the substance of all english language discourse today.
mircea_popescu: so i suspect pop culture and the (very specifically english, btw, and chinese!) tendency towards the lowest common denominator and cultural sterility is the result of this chasm : on one hand people expect to be belonging together, unwarrantedly. on the other hand, they share exactly nothing.
mircea_popescu: goat sperm'd have a better shot impregnating toad eggs.
mircea_popescu: now this is all about as irrelevant as you like, but if you read what these commenters say to each other it becomes rapidly obvious they fail before even remotely engaging.
mircea_popescu: there's a bunch of academics no less, discussing a topic of no particular interest with utter abandon : some palestinian guy who's also a professor got offered a job and then de-offered the job, because urbana admin didn't like him ranting about israelis on twitter.
mircea_popescu: the possibility of text meaning something to the reader is quite severely restricted by a whole list of novel issues, not directly familiar to the historian of this topic.
mircea_popescu: it all dovetails neatly into BingoBoingo's recent stuff about sublanguages. and i guess my recent post, at that.
mircea_popescu: punkman i believe it'd be the proposition that words work unequivocally and logic may be applied to natural language constructs.
mircea_popescu: basically, that's what b-a reduces to : using english as a language rather than as a lingo is so uncommon by now, it takes intelligent people some effort to accommodate.
mircea_popescu: him:lol yeah, it's an unusual writing style. It's like a mix of technical , story telling and stretched analogies. I'm sure you get a lot of hardcore readers who follow along. from a technical standpoint, its somewhat of a nightmare lol.
mircea_popescu: him : It's gonna take awhile to digest this. You like writing eh.
mircea_popescu: that's it. im surprised people even bother learning the language for this crap. o wait... they don't, do they.
mircea_popescu: and then you have some stale local interests topics, mostly molded in this mold, and some (bad) sports.
mircea_popescu: you have politics/current affairs, which are mostly a bunch of who we're calling the bad things this week, putin "doesn't understand how the world works" for having dared to humiliate our beloved leadership bimonthly for the past year, and israelis are whatever and on and on
mircea_popescu: you have "science" which mostly consists of the sterile nonsense of "creationists" and a few fringe groups (homeopaths, scientologists, whatever nuts), some very primitive "o look, I discovered fractals" repackaging of basic understanding ("i fucking love science!11") and a bunch of bureaucracy-serving faux debates (o, really, 97.x% of the "scientists" hoping for a govt grant agree the govt position has scientific valu
mircea_popescu: you know, english as a discussion space is getting incredibly boring these days.
mircea_popescu: i guess that makes me a terrorist AND a sociopath dunnit.
mircea_popescu: it'd be fucking ridiculous if i took my capital out of the bezzle, but allowed the emotional soliciting nonsense to continue.
mircea_popescu: what, gotta have my emotions available for use as part of the "productive future society" ? that's okay, i'm opting out.
mircea_popescu: they're all fluffy magical unicorns, too. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: they're only discussed because we don't really give a shit about the prisoner himself. if we did, we'd discuss how fucktarded he is instead of how x is failing y and other statistical wankery.
mircea_popescu: yeah, the more general point being that no structural considerations can ever excuse personal ineptitude. obama is a failure first and foremost because he, himself, personaly, is an imbecile, not nearly up to the task he asked to be allowed to undertake. every poor black person in jail is in jail because they, personally, are fucktards. the "system", family and all else come vehehehery distant seconds, and of little pr
mircea_popescu: so woul have the forum. if bitcointalk weren't run by a random 20yo kid with nary a clue of this world and a random gang of otherwise unemployable, it'd have not failed into the scam swamp of all time.
mircea_popescu: it would have worked fine with better people at the top.
mircea_popescu: closed down a decade into it. author realises she'd rather be a mommy than a ho.
mircea_popescu: "This is why I have not written about the most meaningful relationship of my life so far, or about my realising I want a life partner and children."
mircea_popescu: lmao look at this, perezhilton still exists. xiaxue still exists.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well at least it gets him to reorient towards writing nonsense supporting "global warming" so us comedians can talk about how 97% of "scientists" agree
mircea_popescu: i guess rational consistency isn't that big a deal when one's got feeeehlings.