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mircea_popescu: people want
to have achieved rather
than achieve, apparently. it seems
to me a modern affliction,
this, but who even knows.
mircea_popescu: and i suspect a lot of
the popular hatred of inflation has absolutely nothing
to do with inflation's ills, but quite
the opposite ; and instead is a nude and rude displeasure at
this "oh, now
that i'm on
the pig i can't just sit here and pick my nose ?!?!"
thing
adlai: all i know is
that
the 'accounts' abomination
thinks i move more coin
than s.mpoe at peak frenzy
mircea_popescu: adlai ok ok, but
the discussion is re old
timers
that got left behind. you're what, 2015 ?
adlai: mircea_popescu: member of
the peanut gallery, warmer of bleachers, leader of cheering squad, etc.
mircea_popescu: the problem is
that nobody kicked
them out.
the
thing grew,
they stayed
the same.
mircea_popescu: yes, all
the indians, and
the prospectors, and
the homesteaders and
the whatnot can be all
the butthurt
they want at how
they got "kicked out of
their
thing"
mircea_popescu: he's a bright fellow, an an economics professor. and
the opportunity has passed him by.
mircea_popescu: back in 2014, after
the wot split,
tried
to get him
to fix gribble so it's no longer retarded. guess what ? still retarded, stateful auth, you name it.
mircea_popescu: absentee owner of dead irc channel,
the kakobrekla before kakobrekla. what's so well about
this ?
mircea_popescu: (yes, yes, "exceptions exist". sure, not all idiots are equally idiotic. nevertheless - none kept up with
the coin.)
mircea_popescu: they could have been someone and done something. instead -
they chose
to be
themselves.
mircea_popescu: i was
there for it - you weren't
there for it. i
tell you it was a lot more of
this
than of
that. but yes both existed.
mircea_popescu: which
the imbeciles passed on, because hey.
they fucking know better
mircea_popescu: in one view. in
the other view, it was pure opportunity
mircea_popescu: because why,
there's connection between words and
things now ?
ben_vulpes: > and in general remain committed
to
the success of Bitcoin << aw,
that's sweet of you
ben_vulpes: PeterL: did you /read/
the
thing? it is not longer even remotely possible
to own a stake in
the
thing anymore.
mircea_popescu: to force a comparison slighty : mergers and acquisitions in new york don't necessarily result in gold reserve
trucks moving back and forth between ny and virginia or w/e.
PeterL: but it's mostly just mp shifting coin from one pocket
to another, what changed, really?
mircea_popescu: but -
that someone noticed & reported within 20 seconds is rather flattering o.O
PeterL: mircea_popescu meant
to
take down bbet and removed mpoe instead?
jurov: mircea_popescu: pls
to mpex
jurov: fetching from mpex via rss works fine,
too
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell mike_c i dun recall what you answered. are you planning
to move btcalpha over
to deedbot data or ?
deedbot: mircea_popescu updated rating of kakobrekla from 5
to -5 << Cap'n of industree, borrowed my blender,
then decided
to
try and make gravel and... it just didn't work out!
mircea_popescu: $rate kakobrekla -5 Cap'n of industree, borrowed my blender,
then decided
to
try and make gravel and... it just didn't work out!
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated kakobrekla 5 at 3571240878 <<
too much stuff
to list. inquire within..
mircea_popescu: seems very dubious any of
those derps actually have any money, other
than what
they hope
to get from
the
thiel warchest/spoils.
mircea_popescu: but at least
the issue of what's yurtowski's actual name has been resolved.
mircea_popescu: for
the obvious fucking reason! more concrete details, more verifiable claim, more risky claim
to make for
the sort of dateless derp
that's
the internet weenie,
thus less likely
to be made lightly,
thus more likely
to be
true!
mircea_popescu: except... OBVIOUSLY
the proposition "internet weenie has a girlfried" is
to be judged as less likely
than
the proposition "internet weenie has a girlfriend and her name is Samantha".
mircea_popescu: Experimental psychologists use
two gold standards: probability
theory, and decision
theory. Since it is a universal law of probability
theory
that P(A) ≥ P(A & B),
the judgment P("Bill plays jazz") < P("Bill plays jazz" & "Bill is accountant") is labeled incorrect."
mircea_popescu: "Sometimes experimental psychologists uncover human reasoning
that seems very strange - for example, someone rates
the probability "Bill plays jazz" as less
than
the probability "Bill is an accountant who plays jazz".
This seems like an odd judgment, since any particular jazz-playing accountant is obviously a jazz player. But
to what higher vantage point do we appeal in saying
that
the judgment is wrong?
mircea_popescu: with apologies for sullying
the logs with
the ditties of imbeciles, under promise i shan't do it again
this year, let us quote.
mircea_popescu:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies << in other lolz of all
time, apparently
the sort of expired carcasses / h ellison impersonators
that go around writing bad genre prose heard about
the 4chan
time
thing a decade later and pulled a moot of
their own at hugo
punkman: continuity would be definitely worth something
to new owner is what I'm saying
punkman: assuming you/kako/davout would agree
to such a scheme
punkman: suppose new owner pays davout
to hold
the coins he already has until
those bets are resolved.
pete_dushenski: or speak
to where exactly 'line in sand' is for resolutions,
though i suppose
this can be inferred from sums in given accounting columns
pete_dushenski: speaking of lee sedol (and other bitbets), sorta surprising davout didn't seem interested in moderating more of
the "sure
thing" bets.
pete_dushenski: i can't help but lol at zaz when compared and contrasted with
the lexus lfa mega-manufacturing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A2s61rT_30 (those uninterested in cars, but fascinated by either carbon fibre, circular
textile looms(!), or simply obsessive engineering and exactitude will likely find
this latter one of interest)
mircea_popescu: (in fairness
to be distinguished from bayes' own work, about in
the sense re
tolkien above)
mircea_popescu: ironically it's exactly
the sort of machine he understands and proposes, neh ? markov chain on steroids, ==== "rationality" in
the sense of bayesian derpage.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, and unrelatedly - what's
the derp
that put out a purple prose challenge, got
totally owned on
trilema but
then pretended it never happened have
to say about
teh alphago ?
mircea_popescu: "On my father's death it fell
to me
to
try
to bring
the work into publishable form." dude.... why.
mircea_popescu: let
the permanent record permanently reflect
that
the horrible company i keep drives me
to sin darker
than damnation itself.