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mircea_popescu: it specifically says you're not supposed
to play as a 0.00x
mircea_popescu: 72 * 0.0001 = 0.0072, and allow me
to remind you what
the mathematical notion of optimal play is
mircea_popescu: should you decide
to make it go 72 units
to
the left, which you can do, what guarantee you can offer re "shortest distance from origin" ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you have 3.141592 squnits of brain. you get
the option of making it into a circle [mens sana in corpore sano!!1] and you are guaranteed
to be no dumber
than 1.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if
the meta-brain was made of plasticine, and with a fixed origin. yes you can make it go as far in one direction as you want, but
this
thins it out in all others, meaning
there's an exponential relation between "furthest out" and "furthest in" points
mircea_popescu: no, no, protect smart people from scaling up
the dumb.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this, incidentally, is
the one cure / amulet of protection / curse removal / whatever actually worth finding.
phf: mircea_popescu: i don't
think so, since moses was a man on a mission from god, it would be a distraction for him (from
the mission)
to choose
to become a magi, hence
the story
mircea_popescu: you lot can not be
trusted.
the smarter you get,
the less you can be
trusted not
to be dumb.
mircea_popescu: [hence why jews have
the best old stories -
they had
the courage
to do what good writers always do, go in
the middle and subvert
the
trope]
mircea_popescu: phf
this breaks down once moses gets box of covenant ?
mircea_popescu: is it a wall,
that
the impotent can not fuck, for
the not fucking ?
phf: also stories about dimwits getting genie bottles always have some moral
to
them
that's applicable
to "real life".
there's really no moral
to solomon getting genie bottle, since solomon is
that with or without one
mircea_popescu: if roxy goes into
the bath in front of
the
trusty eunuch, is she a pile of bricks ?
mircea_popescu: they are both selected for dullness, arguably of distinct kinds, but ultimately very much
the same :
they're
the sort women want
to raise
their babies [if not
to make
their babies].
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell
trinque
the problem with deedbot being offline is
that i am forced into
the dilemma of either
turn ben_vulpes req for voice down, or else voice people outside of
the model. i don't like either horn, at all.
mircea_popescu: it's a case of "the cure seeker never really needed a cure - magic was always in him ;
the non-seeker... well..."
mircea_popescu: not anymore
than "can i
trust
this eunuch with my dear roxy" is political.
mircea_popescu: knowing as we do in fact know
that children normally develop into whole men almost half of
the
time,
their presence is proof of artifice,
phf: none of
these people are hired
to do something out of
their nature,
they show up how
they are, hence lobotomized
mircea_popescu: there's a deep reason
that works, and
that deep reason is
that
these aren't whole men.
mircea_popescu: in
the second kind, highly intelligent BUT SPECIFICALLY LOBOTOMIZED male is gently nudged back into
the pen.\
mircea_popescu: in
the first kind, random derp ends up with some chumpatronium. being random he is randomly distributed re skill, and normally
the juice leaves him. similarly if i
took a marketable blonde and
told her
to go live with random guy on
the street, which she will because
they do what i say, he'll STILL manage
to lose her over
time.
phf: esr is
the guy who's into guns
mircea_popescu: oh ers was just begging generically, at
the same
time orlov needed new engine
mircea_popescu: didn't he have a webbegging page up for a new engine back when
the lulz at him started ?
mircea_popescu: [i suppose we're all
too distant from our sailing ancestors
to know what age at sea does
to man]
phf: in
the end wreckers ended up being much more effective against rms
than esr's oss
mircea_popescu: gnu mostly rode on
the coattails of
the pgp panic of 1990
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but for
the record,
the brief, illusory "wealth" rained on idiots like ers et all had much more
to do with zimmerman's work
than with, say, murdock's.
phf: mircea_popescu: nah, worst case it doesn't return
to a default (typically much more permissive) umask after handling
the keys
a111: Logged on 2016-04-21 16:11 asciilifeform: where pgp seemed
to 'threaten
to go mainstream' and usg had not yet decided what
to 'do about it'
mircea_popescu: moral being "don't use salt", nfi
that anyone does/would.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am mostly reading
the names so
they're in
the search.
mircea_popescu: "good
this was changed, world wasn't doomed before". who
the fuck is madduck
mircea_popescu: looky, even here,
the faux is obvious : "solamente correos cifrados porfa
thunderbird/enigmail" ? gimme a fucking break.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm sorry, i can't go
through
the introduction
mircea_popescu: and fucking luchemos omfg. everything is wrong with
these people. EVERYTHING
mircea_popescu: here's a
thought, nobody
that needs
to discuss computing in his dumb mother's
tongue has what it
takes
to "luchar".
mircea_popescu: i'm guessing users can't just re-enter
their orders or something ? anyways.
phf: oh i should add date ranges
to search..