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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know sooner or later you'll have to make the plunge and learn how to make a bot
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves> "Obviously, a criminal justice system that punished only those who volunteered for punishment was unworkable << this is what the contemporary thinks.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves technically his could have been correct
mircea_popescu: HeySteve "certainly, the welfare state sucks. it incentivizes behaviour."
mircea_popescu: but anyway, since we're doing great covnersation : someone should write an essay on the possibility - in principle - of distinguishing between "common good" and "groupthink". writer out criteria, give me a method, break that shit up.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve the only reason i comment is because you seemed to want to know why i wouldn't use it.
mircea_popescu: merely pointing out how easily dysfunctional this "common good" argument is.
mircea_popescu: hugely compelx anthropotopic, this. and i am not actually arguing against clothes per se
mircea_popescu: what about my firm conviction that you should go around naked ?
mircea_popescu: this is what bitcoin is here to do : make it impossible for pompous assholes to raise taxes on cigarettes.
mircea_popescu: for it to be bad, it suffices that there is one case where it's bad.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve do you see why incentivising people to marry is bad ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex definitely. gribble is just an incremental improvement.
mircea_popescu: it's been the curse of the humancondition, this, for most times and places most bipedal life forms were bios rather than zoon
mircea_popescu: nobody;'s fault the rest of the bipedals aren't human.
mircea_popescu: to a large degree it already is, in the offices that matter anyway.
mircea_popescu: soon enough political office will be decided simply by wots.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve not that narrow. the wot holds all trust in human society. all of it.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve i think you misconstrue the scope of the wot.
mircea_popescu: if no wot identity is involved, the thing's irrelevant economically, might as well be two somalis trading cowries
mircea_popescu: all purported economic activity that's not taking place between wot registered identities is deffective. if only one wot identity is involved, the whoile thing is in no substantial manner different from the medieval relations between peon and his lord.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves are people who will sell you a house/car but not sign a contract also part of the real estate/car markets
mircea_popescu: next youi're going to claim the us is part of human culture, just, not the elitist part of it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is like saying women that don't have sex are part of the dating market, just not my elitist subsection of it
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so then... they aren't part of the economy. lol
mircea_popescu: force them to wot as part and parcel of doing business with them, know that their refusal to comply means they're scammers.
mircea_popescu: anyweay davout's argument is souind : if they had no wot they were not part of the economy in the first place.
mircea_popescu: this is the problem : clueless people are trying to mix forum into pg.
mircea_popescu: but you askled "since when", when in point of fact it was always the case. only recently have courst strayed into this heresy that they have authority to judge over unwilling participants.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> you see, if the WoT is a punishment gazette, since when do criminals register for such themselves? << since forever. read up on "peine forte et dure" ?
mircea_popescu: <davout> ThickAsThieves: i wonder if that's really a good idea << i don't think it is.
mircea_popescu ponders that DrewPistols would be a pretty decent stripper name.
mircea_popescu: indeed, adding a history of past ratings would be a good idea.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve so in those terms, it's valuable for enforcing the point 2, permanence.
mircea_popescu: DrewHorne kinda what we're trying to work out atm. there is a wiki, but not too fleshed out yet
mircea_popescu: something not necessarily covered by wot anyway yet, as some people rated each other in 2011 might have known each other since 2001
mircea_popescu: pankkake course the canonical way around is to just ask the rater. he can tell you how far back the relationship goes
mircea_popescu: like above the history phd bit. obviously useless to you, as youre no historian by trade, but we are a diverse bucnh with diverse needs.
mircea_popescu: DrewHorne you can read the logs of this chan. ocasionally things pop up for people to do.
mircea_popescu: pankkake it does have a chilling effect, because sometimes i'm hesitant to update very old ratings, and just let them be "good enough"
mircea_popescu: so either gribble actually keeps track of the oldest rating oyu ever got and someone modified their oct 15th rating
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller that rated since is about my rating, not generally.