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mircea_popescu: these are as far as i've seen
the
two mindbugs of
the republic : a) A -> B
therefore B-> A, ie backflow ; and b)
the above.
mircea_popescu: but look at
the jump : 1) unexplained item can be explained by a or b ; 2) it's a b-olympics!
mircea_popescu: what is
this. mayhap
the explanation isn't
that mp lives in a heat-death immune dirigible (upgraded from atomic) but simply... does not care ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i wonder why asciilifeform is so convinced
that one may only see
the
truth of
things
that don't affect
them personally.
trinque: portland wants
to be yurp bad enough
to have put some in
mircea_popescu: later finding herself at a good
time for such, inquires why parts were shiny ?
mircea_popescu: so we go
to cross some
tracks and i say "careful not
to
touch
the shiny parts!" and she carefully steps
to not
touch
the shiny parts.
mircea_popescu: did i ever recall
the story of
the slavegirl
that had never seen railroad
tracks ?
mircea_popescu: at
the expense of other processes, of course. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: recall pigeon experiments ? brain is plastic,
takes over function of lost partys
mircea_popescu: but anyway, so animal
that stops locomoting gives up brain cells used for handling
that.
mircea_popescu: must not be
the same animal, sea cucumber i
think of is an echinoderm.
mircea_popescu: the root of
the problem would seem
to be
the self-serving but otherwise bluntly unwarranted assumption
that "intelligence is useful in all circumstances".
mircea_popescu: that you don't like
the outcome is not cause
to alter
the definitions lol.
mircea_popescu: now why'd you strawman
the "adaptive behaviour" ? what
the fuck do you care what
the outcome is.
mircea_popescu: but it is more reliably notstupid
than people, for sure.
mircea_popescu: the adaptive behaviour is
teh intelligence -
the rest, will, if you will, or whatever.
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2016 11:27:35; mircea_popescu: intelligence is an adaptive behaviour ; which is why anyone with a clue would rather spend
the
time chatting up a random whore or street urchin
than some jewish princess or "young exec".
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2016 11:21:59;
thestringpuller: you ever read mimsy and
the borogoves? short sci-fi story by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for CL Moore and some other person
that wrote as a duo)
mircea_popescu: the whole deal was something like "and lee sedol will now play
the whole nation of china - elect a representative, or
two, or whatever.
the go competence of
the entire han race is being judged"
mircea_popescu: machine is not a
thing in
the sense here contemplated.
mircea_popescu: teh dsc sounds like a pretty kickass patron deity,
thinking about it.
mircea_popescu: actually
that's a great name for
the
temple for
this here cult,
hanbot: phf / anyone who mac-erizes or might mess with gpgtools,
tell me menu option & any steps involved in exporting pubkey if you have a moment? i'm
trying
to put a eulora wiki guide
together and
these derps have like zero documentation.
mircea_popescu: amateur hunter returns empty handed from swamp. "nothing but migs out
there good god what's
the world coming
to!"
mircea_popescu: "on
the basis of
the leaks coming from
the invisible aircraft we have learned
that it is a duck."
trinque: jumped onto
trb intending
to cause myself severe pain such
that gears of progress and whatnot
trinque: and shitting my own
txns in from elsewhere
mircea_popescu: or, in
the words of
the ballas master, " Yet given
the infinity of
the internet you still surf
the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like a baby playing peekaboo in a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and..."
mircea_popescu: both
the "shittier
than historical" and "new addr for change" bits are satoshi's dubious kludges
to protect "anonimity"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: even historical order would acvtually beat
trb on
this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how exactly is
the notion ludicrous in itself ?
mircea_popescu: "Fix
the motherfucking code before you have
to be fired.
To recap : a. If I want
to make 1 Mb
txs I make 1 Mb
txs ; b. correct inputs are selected
to feed
the outputs as if a human or better was doing
the selecting." << also march, as fate would have it.