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mircea_popescu: If a 12 year-old were to write 'I fink that Enid Blyton iz bettern than that Emily Bronte bint cos she has written loads more books' then one could reasonably excuse the spelling as reflective of the stupidity of the mind that produced the content.
mircea_popescu: dents to learn this and many attended, including students who had attended a course incorporating logic programming the previous term. It was a battle to get the students to do this, not least because two senior lecturers criticised the exercise as presenting too much of a challenge to the students.
mircea_popescu: After seven years of the new regime, I had the opportunity to compare the class of 1999 with the class of 1992. In 1992 I set an course in Artificial Intelligence requiring students to solve six exercises, including building a Prolog interpreter. In 1999, six exercises had shrunk to one; which was a 12 line Prolog program for which eight weeks were allotted for students to write it. A special class was laid on for stu
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not necessarily a bad thing, unless im having a brain fart
mircea_popescu: next they're going to count the holes in the mains socket to get the voltage.
mircea_popescu: how people pretending to be in math and philosophy can be this fucking dumb is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: and srlsly, ditch the dumbass "total wot score" model they use
mircea_popescu: the bot that only cares of its own history has max, and the bot that ignores its own has min.
mircea_popescu: a bot that takes a betrayal against itself as badly as a betrayal against the world has average ego.
mircea_popescu: now, on this information, each both has an ego, defined as the balance between the weight they give their own history vs the collected world history
mircea_popescu: c) each bot has idem 0 to 20 of their type and also 0 to 5 of all types.
mircea_popescu: b) each bot has a 0 to 20% chance of knowing how their opponent player against each bot of their type
mircea_popescu: specifically : a) each bot has a 0 to 20% chance of knowing how their opponent played against each other bot. this is fixed for the respective bot.
mircea_popescu: so make 400 bots, 20 of each type, meet everyone 500 times and play for n where the probability is .95
mircea_popescu: on it goes. 5 reasons why fucking up is okay and starvation isn't imminent.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 5 reasons why losing 10 years' investment in iraq isn't a disaster, 5 reason why higher inflation isn't higher inflation, 5 reasons why the failure of each and every obamapolicy isn't a failure of the left, or of blacks, or of the electoral system, or of the general public,
mircea_popescu: by now the research paper journals are little more than blogs anyway.
mircea_popescu: punkman L.D.Landau and E.M.Leifshitz. all the math one could ever want.
mircea_popescu: nubsy is a contrarian. he doesn't have altcoins, he doesn't have blogs, he goes his own way damneit@!
mircea_popescu: but yes, tomatoes, definitely, and mushroom,s and artichoke hearts and anchovies and so on
mircea_popescu: anyway, trained girlz, can make it. i care not for the city :D
mircea_popescu: ah. well we're trying to make a canonical version of 2012 - april 2013
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves can't be large ? hm. the hansa was very large. i believe it can be quite large.
mircea_popescu: "democracy" as practiced among a hundred that know each other is no democracy anyway
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the smaller it gets, the harder it is to say
mircea_popescu: so... they've modified themselves, to take more cock with less fretting.
mircea_popescu: decimation and so they have modified themselves. no man living with carlyle would regard the average existence of today's westerner as anything but the most abject imprisonment
mircea_popescu: well yes, but this was before a time people expected the king pick up their apothecary bill.
mircea_popescu: but that's exactly the concept. my slavegirl might not want to visit you in a room you can lock at your option.
mircea_popescu: and so in this sense, it's not that bitcoin isn't insured in that way. it's moreover that bank deposits etc aren't, and the continuance of the fraudulent pretense to the contrary promulgated by various usg agencies among which the sec above strictly depends on it not being needed.
mircea_popescu: that type of insurance is typical manufacturer insurance, "that the product be free of defects or replaced"
mircea_popescu: nobody can insure bitcoin in the sipc/fdic sense, because nobody can print them.
mircea_popescu: Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial. Registre su marca hoy.
mircea_popescu: let it not be said that irresponsible laziness has not made nice things
mircea_popescu: to be a modest chap, the logs kinda exist because i had this irresponsible attitude where i'd only log while awake, and so things got lost.
mircea_popescu: in other words, two mice disagreed once on how to split a chunk of cheese they had found. so the cat ate the cheese, and the mice.
mircea_popescu: only THAT is the correct way to solve all the world's p[roblems
mircea_popescu: decimation no no, "we should tax everything and put the money into '''research'''"
mircea_popescu: mthreat seems reasonable. were yopu able to find my 2012 bits or did i accidentally only send you one file of two ?
mircea_popescu: benkay problem is that approach contradicts the "world peace" approach. not burn anytihng at hand but clothe and feed anyone at hand ?
mircea_popescu: "lo and behold, we should be affraid that democracy is now in peril of falling out of the box and revoting cape horn"
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many of the inept scientists of today realise just how amusing their global warming pretenses are
mircea_popescu: such are the blessings of closed society : that art may flourish. democracy and social mobility allows for no such thing.
mircea_popescu: and the audience knew the craft better than any debutante.
mircea_popescu: consequently the producers were forced to iterate a lot and fail fast
mircea_popescu: turns out, it's that they were all produced for a small audience of the same people.
mircea_popescu: here's an interesting if unrelated point : what characteristic of classical english theatre, cca 1600s, was shared by both classical french and italian, but not ever since ? so that 99.x% of all good plays, all good actors and all good performances have this one thing in common, that's not been seen again ?