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mircea_popescu: mike_c i dun think it was intended to be read, i think it was intended to get me to read all this crud.
mircea_popescu: "in the end, success is 1% reading and 99% getting your name out there!"
mircea_popescu: (quite unsurprisingly. it is the curse of the us-ian, this particular stupidity, to have to reinvent everything, make it shoddier and flimsier and strut proudly. but hey, at least some stones in a hat taught him ancient aramaic)
mircea_popescu: fuck me, i thought myself the alpha and omega of right wing anarchy. i guess i don't get out enough.
mircea_popescu: mike_c well one doesn't have to be a scammer for the roi to not be there.
mircea_popescu: it's not worth it for any of them, just, they don';t have the option not to do it. if they don't do it they don;t exist. so gotta do it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your site's not that obscure, for one. 4k is not much on the other.
mircea_popescu: you have got to be kidding me, 400k impressions a day is ludicrous. trilema does more than the tardstalk ?!
mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah, cex.io is spending a lot on advertising. google too.
mircea_popescu: mike_c yes, for as long as it lasts milking the scampit is lucrative.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a point of great wonder, the man not only had the means to find a girl actually named fox after her father, but sense enough to switch names.
mircea_popescu: mike_c's fate, to linger between indifference and insanity.
mircea_popescu: you don't hear reports about keto hipsters throwing fire trucks at airplanes.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> PCP is a dissociative anesthetic similar to ketamine, but with less effect on the ability to move skeletal muscles << exactly so.
mircea_popescu: "We charged him with sexual assault but our daughter would not cooperate and he was not convicted." << this doth not sound much like rape.
mircea_popescu: Long story short - I hired Shawn and Pixeldust Marketing late in 2013 to redesign our web site
https://www.pinnaclecredit.com/ (note: his design was junk and we did not use it) Shawn started a relationship with our 14 year old daughter Paige behind our back. We found out Jan 2014 she had gotten pregnant by Shawn and had an abortion! Shawn is in his 30s!
mircea_popescu: basically just pick up w/e the cats are dragging in the street.
mircea_popescu: people from tennessee imagining beijing is a suburb of chattanooga.
mircea_popescu: ;;tell genericpersona that's not your call to make. now stop dicking around while you still have a dick to dick around with.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: is copying mircea_popescu << no he's copying pete.
mircea_popescu: the cost with a car should be 5% the car, 95% the gas. not 95% the car then sit around it listening to music.
mircea_popescu: rithm: right then we just devolve into some sort of ruling wot class << this is not properly called "devolve". this is improvement.
mircea_popescu: just like there's one global currency for everything, that's the nature of currencies whether they measure trust or capital or whatever form of that same underlying.
mircea_popescu: however you implement it, the situation in fact is that you have one global wot for everything.
mircea_popescu: jurov: the solution is to not have one global wot for everything << i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: now you can't escape the system << this is exactly true.
mircea_popescu: it's not enough to have high ratings from disconnected subgraphs.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: well nanotube should make it so you can always give ratings, or maybe base it on an L2 thing like assbot does <<< it already is. in order to be able to rate you need to be linked to google.
mircea_popescu: political views are just as valid as economical views. the distinction is not nearly as clear cut as you'd like it to imagine.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was more. anyway, for a long time kako had usagi + even if the consensus in the chan is -.
mircea_popescu: from this profile it becomes clear why he's dangerous : superficially trustworthy tool = mole.
mircea_popescu: people wanting to figure him out can ask mp and find out he's a total tool, and ask you and find he's trustworthy with btc
mircea_popescu: you can. which is why i didn't bitch at you when i finally beheaded him.
mircea_popescu: in general tho, the wot benefits from fostering variety of approach. centralising a "set of rating practices" is actualy a valid attack
mircea_popescu: i won't presume to interfere in experts manner and expertise.
mircea_popescu: well, how the fuck would i know ? maybe that's hoiw your magic works.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: rithm: but it's only harmful if 'total points' is a thing. joe schmoe isn't going to change thhe gettrust between you and others. <<< if the wot db ends up larger than ten blockchains it may become a problem to host.
mircea_popescu: the wot would really work just as good as a balnced ternary sistem really.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony some of us are supposedly very good at reading people.
mircea_popescu: rithm: no one will document that and take it seriously << a) no you can't and b) i seem to recall footage of hruschev with his shoe.
mircea_popescu: so it's at least in principle and often practically difficult for a third party to dispute your ratings as appropriate or inappropriate.
mircea_popescu: that's the big point there. your rating quantity is not about them at all. it's about you. you're describing yourself, as a repository of knowledge.
mircea_popescu: but of a meta-question. you're basically scoring yourself. "hopw likely am i to be able to answer someones' q's about this guyu"
mircea_popescu: maybe i trade 5k btc a week with someone and i can't go past 1.
mircea_popescu: maybe i know everything i need to know about a girl from seeing her tits online. that's a solid 10.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the new orthodoxy being that ratings reflect the quality of your knowledge of the person. not the deal.
mircea_popescu: "how did you manage a total score of 5000 while nobody of the 300 people i know ever dealt with you ?"
mircea_popescu: mike_c srsly, think about it. if his score implies a 40% probability people you know know him and yet nobody does.. isn;'t that informative ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell genericpersona are you looking to get negrated or what exactly is it ?
mircea_popescu: hopefully within not so very long having to pay someone already in the wot to be able to get in the wot will be common practice, and then all will be well.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is not optional, bitcoin is mandatory. failure to get in line is punished, not tolerated.
mircea_popescu: and slavery is right and proper. if you're not into the wot, that is at your peril, and at great cost to you.
mircea_popescu: it is GOOD that existent users can make new users unable to become users. this is the bitcoin implementation of slavery.
mircea_popescu: one could keep a machine on non stop to just bloat nanotube's db, making accts, rating everyone, rewash
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: i think all users should be able to give ratings; doesn't matter if they are trolls or scammers << it's not really a good idea, because spamming.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: nanotube: why show "total points" on rating page? i thought that was supposed to be a meaningless number. << it's not entirely meaningless. it reflects the probability of a user being in your network.
mircea_popescu: Blazedout419: for a business bad ratings can hurt more than for a regular user << this is widely held but empirically disproven. consider the muchly discussed case of bitbet.