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mircea_popescu: besides. gotta explain all
the other lifeless planets out
there ~somehow~.
mircea_popescu: unlike
the qc
thing, i can't even say
this is not in
the cards.
mircea_popescu: "here's where washington used
to be,
that crater
to
the left. oh, you never saw
that 100cc of methane gas, did oyu ? awww!"
mircea_popescu: ie, anyoen can make drugs and you won't be able
to detect
them and fuck you.
mircea_popescu: in a very "sf"
take of
the
thing - actually workable, and perhaps miniaturizable laser-initiated compression would put
the nuclear issue on about
the same
terms
the war on drugs finds itself.
mircea_popescu: "ideally, it would want it not
to exist ; but if it must exist, it wants
to be
the only one
to ever have it"
mircea_popescu: ie, not high
temperature, cold. but
the meaning contemplated in
the expression is, i suspect, quite, "+ev, ie cold"
mircea_popescu: otherwise... all sorts of "more expensive
than it's worth" methods are known
mircea_popescu: i
think
that's what
the "cold" part is
trying
to suggest.
mircea_popescu: note
that mom and dad of virgin
teen can liberally hold either of
these views, interchangeably.
mircea_popescu: they're both where virgin
teen is on prom night. is it going
to be a good experience/marriage/life ? who knows ?
mircea_popescu: note
that cold fusion has been approx where rocketry was in 1930 for a good century now.
mircea_popescu: but i know people who put satellites in orbit ; i know no one who made
the answer
to
the
tree question.
mircea_popescu: now, granted, in re
the
trees, while it stands
that you can't do it, i suspect you're right in suspecting it CAN be done.
phf: goes back
to cause/purpose
thing
mircea_popescu: note in any case
that "operative" in
that context specifically seeks "wooden pit"
type answers.
mircea_popescu: so basically
this discussion just became 'explain
this
to me, and if you do i'll just pretend
the explanation doesn't exist"
mircea_popescu: but you UNDERSTAND
the meta point, which makes you lie
to yourself about your capacities, because you really really want
things
to be a certain way.
mircea_popescu: don't flatter yourself. you can't arrange
this, and
the answer would provably be > petabytes long.
mircea_popescu: you'll have
to one day
tell me what's
the "operative difference" between peach and pear, but not in
the sense of "one has a wooden pit". instead, in
the sense of "what do
the
trees do differently"
mircea_popescu: listen
to prophet, be entertained ; follow strategist, survive.
kakobrekla: yeah, his
talks have been a carbon copy for a very long
time on all
the confs.
mircea_popescu: well wtf, i get
the same results from my dog. i don't make
the dog a strategist. FOR
THIS REASON.
mircea_popescu: oh, he "didn't know" what was in front of him ?
that's
the definition of blindness. and he didn't know WHAT WAS GOING
TO HAPPEN ?
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2016 14:55:06; mircea_popescu: everything is on
the exam. including stuff from
the future.
kakobrekla: if i had
to guess mps argument here; 'shit doesnt know/care about itself bathing in shit, only actual person does'
mircea_popescu: but, back
to
the original point : catastrophic blindness and strategic worthlessness.
the embodiment
thereof,
this is it.
mircea_popescu: well, it's an opportunity for him
to make nice for 500 bux.
phf: well, it's an opportunity for him
to get his
talking points in
mircea_popescu: you have
to BUY A LICENSE
to run a public house and be protected by
this "publichouse"
theory.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla
tell you what, if maddof has a
talk
there as well as obama, it'll be
the ponzi conference.
mircea_popescu: and i do mean street urchins quite literally,
the sort of mostly-nude eastern flesh
that'd follow europeans begging for candy, either as a freebie or in
trade for butthole.
mircea_popescu: stallman has reduced himself
to
the position where street urchins are pulling
the "i'm paying you, stand up
to attention"
trick on him
mircea_popescu: to put
this in proper perspective : "genjix" is
the garbage-eating, underage-cousin-pimping, imbecile on a stick amir
taaki.
trinque: playing
the role of slovenly hacker guy who chews his
toenails
trinque: rms strikes me as a few rounds of imitation back from poettering and
that ethereum kid
mircea_popescu: enough illustration - he went
to fucking glbse conference.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the ridiculousness of form aside, i can readily see
the
twin point
that rms is catastrophically blind and strategically worthless.
phf: back against
the wall
phf: is
that drepper quote?
mircea_popescu: also,
the proper quote is "modern real-world
technical issues and
the bigger picture". gotta get
that MODERN in
there, it is a key element of
the belief system of idiots
that
the problems
they encounter are novel.
punkman: "Here at
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, he has made his home - literally, sleeping for 13 years on a narrow cot in a cubbyhole
that resembles a nest, littered with candy wrappers, food containers, papers and magazines. Garbage
tumbles off every surface, piles up in corners, allowing only a narrow
track
through which
to navigate a life."