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gabriel_laddel: <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel he's very tender on the topic for some reason. << the lady doth protest too much, methinks
gabriel_laddel: Lol, this has been discussed so much I've actually a list of foods to bribe stas with
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: We're not discussing you though. We're discussing whaack
gabriel_laddel: My point is that food and rent are cheap if you go to the correct place. Also, if you're betting on btc taking over the world, bet on it.
gabriel_laddel: Move to argentina, purchase pallets of rice + lots of steak. Code.
gabriel_laddel: I always wonder about the people who see this sort of thing everyday but never connect the dots, how do they internally deal with actual reality? I once flipped through the book Dangerous Thoughts by Yuri Orlov. He claimed that in the soviet collapse people would have multiple "selves". When they would break the law that would be their "off work" I, vs. the at work I who would report such a transgression to the poli
gabriel_laddel: <asciilifeform> we have these here in abundance << I saw one outside the Palo Alto four seasons just the other day... 20 guys just standing around more or less.
gabriel_laddel: since the beginning, that's the whole of puritanism, no?
gabriel_laddel: <mircea_popescu> what was the fucking soviet term for this, << kommunalki?
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: is the guy an actual lunatic or just a deviant his "family & friends" decided to reformat (in your estimation).
gabriel_laddel: "Only a man from Budapest can enter a revolving door behind you and exit ahead of you" -- jvn
gabriel_laddel: the machines in the shop roar so wildly / that i often forget in the roar that I am ; / i am lost in the terrible tumult, / my ego disappears, i am a machine. / i work, and work and word without end; / i am busy, and busy and busy all the time. / for what? and for whom? I know not, I ask not! / how should a machine ever come to think?
gabriel_laddel I'll note that I hate the perspective of the author in that book but liked the information he had to present.
gabriel_laddel: cazalla: see also John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death
gabriel_laddel: See also China's Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China
gabriel_laddel: By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race. -- A.N. Whitehead
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: the language doesn't help. For example, a chinese mathematics undergrad from Peking U. I know thought that using a computer algebra system to do mathematics was "cheating". Person in question had no notion of "playing with mathematics". This is more of a cultural thing, but much of human thought is captured in language.
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: the chinese I know who learn "english for programming" have all sorts of massive misconceptions about computers, language, mathematics etc.
gabriel_laddel: my point is that chinese as is must go away if they want to work with computers
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: the english (or korean!) language maps to computers becuase the characters compose. you'll only have to learn how to talk to a computer instead of a whole new system of language + computers.
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: doesn't matter. Let's say that you are a super good people person but can't verify any of what your computer is doing in the future.
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: their language doesn't map to computers all that well
gabriel_laddel: cazalla: do you mind if I ask what books you're reading your son btw?
gabriel_laddel: cazalla: I'm still not sure why you want quiet hobbit land fyi
gabriel_laddel: e plug on that thing three months later, at the end of which they.had.not done.anything. I'm not sure you exactly grok me, it's not that they hadn't round up the town's minorities and set them on fire. It's that they couldn't get together to make some stencils which someone (hopefully, someone else) was perhaps sometime (2015 ?) going to use for some purpose. Somewhere. Whatever."
gabriel_laddel: "The one thing which Timisoara does consistently and well is failure. In 2007 I attempted to organise an art exhibit, on the terms that I was going to pay, in cash, for everything involved. They didn't manage to do it. Last year, I attempted to support a nascent local party, by paying for a quarter's rent and other expenses (a quarter ton of alcohol, mostly) for a bunch of self-styled neonazi local kids. I pulled th
gabriel_laddel: all these "right wing" "conservitive" organizations or whatever are pathetic. I was looking into e.g., the golden dawn earlier tonight...
gabriel_laddel: the political position of "they're cattle, we're not" is totally A OK.
☟︎☟︎ gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: what, you're a "attractive-ist" for only fucking hot gurlz?
gabriel_laddel: and the "right" (or whatever) was weak enough to allow them to