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mircea_popescu: wait idle for 4 hours on webirc and she didn't get cut off ? helluva great connection she's got
mircea_popescu: i'd guess the berkshire bet will have reached half its total bet sum sometime this autumn
mircea_popescu: how about the right accomplishes firing your wife, dear economist, from her "womens studies" uni position ?
mircea_popescu: "The Economist @TheEconomist · 2h The far-right may triumph in the EU parliament elections but they won't achieve much there"
mircea_popescu: it is insanely difficult to interface with the world, mostly because the world is principally made out of people smarter than you will ever be.
mircea_popescu: it is very easy to interface with a computer : it's pinned down in place, mechanical and stupider than you.
mircea_popescu: and so they end up with the stupidest contributor doing the most important parts : interfacing with the world.
mircea_popescu: because nobody ever has to put effort where they already suck, because they don't suck, it's just the problem that's unworthy of attention.
mircea_popescu: clearly thus therefore cooking and cleanning is stupid, and definitely not something one should learn or study or do well
mircea_popescu: there's these things people like doing, like say rubbing their scrotum. and then there's these other things people don't like doing, like cooking and cleanning.
mircea_popescu: o look at that asciilifeform... not a whole lot of confidence.
mircea_popescu: (granted, my interest in this sort of minutia is faint)
mircea_popescu: "And while I’m setting the record straight, the original (TECO-based) Emacs was created and designed by Guy L. Steele Jr. and David Moon. After they had it working, and it had become established as the standard text editor at the AI lab, Stallman took over its maintenance."
mircea_popescu: "or example, remember that the first viable Windows O/S, release 3.1, came out in in 1990"
mircea_popescu: "Symbolics signed long-term leases on big new offices and a new factory, anticipating growth that did not come, and were unable to sublease the properties due to office-space gluts, which drained a great deal of money."
mircea_popescu: "Meanwhile, back at Symbolics, there were huge internal management conflicts, leading to the resignation of much of top management, who were replaced by the board of directors with new CEO’s who did not do a good job" i dunno..
mircea_popescu: course... i seem to also remember some massive rms drama
mircea_popescu: they mismanaged pretty much every aspect of market dominance.
mircea_popescu: Also, a lot of Symbolics sales were based on the promise of rule-based expert systems, of which the early examples were written in Lisp. Rule-based expert systems are a fine thing, and are widely used today (but often not in Lisp). But they were tremendously over-hyped by certain academics and by their industry, resulting in a huge backlash around 1988. “Artificial Intelligence” fell out of favor; the “AI Winter
mircea_popescu: " We at Symbolics were slow to acknowledge this. We believed our own “dogma” even as it became less true. It was embedded in our corporate culture. If you disputed it, your co-workers felt that you “just didn’t get it” and weren’t a member of the clan, so to speak. This stifled objective analysis. (This is a very easy problem to fall into — don’t let it happen to you!)"
mircea_popescu: work into those, but they were never publicized or advertised."
mircea_popescu: "We had great success amongst primary customers. I think we could have found a lot more of them if our marketing had been better. For example, did you know that Symbolics had a world-class software development environment for Fortran, C, Ada, and other popular languages, with amazing semantics-understanding in the editor, a powerful debugger, the ability for the languages to call each other, and so on? We put a lot of
mircea_popescu: "At the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, fifteen researchers shared a computer with a .001 GHz CPU and .002 GB of main memory."
mircea_popescu: we're perhaps approaching a strange "collapse of the roman empire" situation from an entirely different angle
mircea_popescu: nor do they have any sort of a clue as to how and why and what and so on
mircea_popescu: i mean even the notion of a blog is maybe 20 years old tops. that's within reasonable lifespan.
mircea_popescu: right. the time's advanced enough for this problem to start showing at the edges
mircea_popescu: this isn't something we're really too apt to handle, the material published on their own blogs by meanwhile long dead people
mircea_popescu: have gone through a long list of conservatorships and whatnot
mircea_popescu: willy-nilly the various blogs left by various people important in 2015, if still extant,
mircea_popescu: weinreb's passing actually makes me think about the following
mircea_popescu: i suspect the problem had a lot more to do with them being plagued by bob becks than anything intentional.
mircea_popescu: "well, by midnight we should have about twelve ticks or so"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, decay experiments, i dunno if you know, are - or were ? - this particular brand of evil.
mircea_popescu: they had this huge round air vent thing, kinda comfortable to sit in
mircea_popescu: eventually it just became a toy for students to play with
mircea_popescu: this was actually homebrew, originally made by the atomic physics folks at magurele
mircea_popescu: apparently it doesn't even exist on the internet it was so sikrit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no lol, this closet sized pdp-clone wannabe
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno what your noise issue is man, i used to live with the large ventilated felix
mircea_popescu: and other than that, have an open and relaxed negotiation strategy. tell the acquirer's expert that you aren't interested in anything but a position with the authonomy you enjoyed previously, and they can let you know.
mircea_popescu: you'll discover, even if you overpay today, you'll discover in time you wouldn't have undone it.
mircea_popescu: blow a few grand on hiring someone, it';s the right time to do it.
mircea_popescu: there's no way you can get pertinent advice without the details.
mircea_popescu: artifexd listen, you need to hire a tax attorney at this point.