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mircea_popescu: well now
that we understand
the positions in
theory, a negotiation for functional practice may begin.
mircea_popescu: everything makes sense, my dear alf, as long as
the cane doesn't cut into one's own buttocks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so
they did. and women beaten for cutting cabbage wrongly. and on it goes.
mircea_popescu: Texting and social media's slowness gives
them
their power for
this purpose. You read a
text, and it lingers, it keeps your attention because it's all
there is; and
then you respond with a piece of your real self, and wait for a response... what's happening is
time
travel-- while you are on pause,
the rest of not-your life goes faster. It is far more efficient at killing
time
than a phone call.
mircea_popescu: hen
the "natural" conversation stops being interesting-- and it will, even if most of you weren't bad at it-- it would be a judgment about your relationship, about you. And you'll beg St. Jobs
to blink a path
to safety because otherwise you have
to sit
there with no existential support.
mircea_popescu: opularity of Downton Abbey, not
to mention alcohol and iphones at dinner. It is against
this background of "phony" convention
that
teens can productively "rebel" and find
their own individuality against a status quo; fighting against an emotionally illogical, arbitrary, unpredictable structure results in learning
the opposite lesson, "whatever gets me
through
the day..." Without
this structure
to social activities, w
mircea_popescu: ity is freeing, it allows self-conscious physical bodies
to get used
to standing next
to each other without having
to be acting,
this includes husbands and wives. When dinner is a controlled process with "manners" and expected
topics of shared conversation and start and end
times, as boring as it may get, it is boring, not you. Women are especially sensitive
to
this absence of convention,
this is one reason for
the p
mircea_popescu: But why do we need "the balance?" What does it replace, what went missing?
The very
thing Holden Caufield hated: "phoniness", protocol and ritual for seemingly no purpose. Politeness is fine, but why do I have
to make small
talk? Why do I have
to pretend
to care about
the weather? Why, after a decade of marriage, should dinner be a regular review of
the somewhat boring goings-ons of "the day"? Because
that formal
mircea_popescu: hmmm where's
that article about boring family life, and hating
the boring structure but nevertheless benefitting from it
mircea_popescu: the deep secret here being
that
the potatoes are objectionable FOR BEING POTATOES, whereas
their absence is objectionable universally.
mircea_popescu: you can't be a clinician without
treating people, which yes, peeliong potatoes.
mircea_popescu: to
this day
the only way
to become a carpenter is
to carpent.
the only way
to become a whoremonger is
to fuck.
mircea_popescu: what you get when you
take
toil out of psychologi is lacan. he is not a psychiatrist,
mircea_popescu: what you get when you
take
toil out of painting is warhol. he is not an artist
mircea_popescu: this is a fantasm.
that you'd like it be
true, i believe you.
that it is, i do not believe you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this is why
the v is so important. does away with any exam.
shinohai: ;;later
tell mod6 Done: f400ba5417274972a8a0da799d916983987156f949955d2bb9c6a4f146be2b31 bitcoind
mircea_popescu: which is why
the same proteins make dog and dog vomit.
mircea_popescu: look no further
than yourself : are you a bad person for living in dc ?
mircea_popescu: if not "relief from
the antiquated chains of monk copying"
mircea_popescu: i see no problem with SOME software must progress. it does not follow
that all must, or all should. bitcoin provably shouldn't.
mircea_popescu: which was not
terribly relevant : it could ford in places nobody knew
there was a ford before.
mircea_popescu: but
the notion
that code can be owned is so idiotic as not
to be able
to stand. it's fucking code!
mircea_popescu: reading
the fucking code is not
time wasted, keeping you from
time you could have "better" spend writing more code.
mircea_popescu: "why should i
talk
to
the woman ebfore fucking her!!11"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform>
the work
that goes into 'regrinding' is idiot waste. << it is NOT waste. not anymore
than
the work
that goes into brushing
teeth is idiot waste.
mircea_popescu: "who cares how many nights student has
to stay up until x clicks in his head"
mircea_popescu: similarly moscow university
teacher does not care about candle burn.
mircea_popescu: if you wish
to care about sweat you'll end up with
the maggots on
the meat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> 2) what if he wants, e.g., a mod6+ben_vulpes
tree. << in general it's
to be expected you'd see a lot of replication of code.
mircea_popescu: the face of alf when he becomes privy
to
the evil matroshka mp, whereby he only argues
things one way for
the ease of arguing other
things later.
mircea_popescu: it is not, but merely
the necessary result of
trying
to keep milk in reed baskets.
mircea_popescu: you choose
to view
this as a sign of
the omnipotence of usg.
assbot: Logged on 20-02-2016 22:25:16; mircea_popescu:
the important parts here being
that v does away with
the concept of developer control over code ; and with
the concept of code ownership ; and instead introduces
the concept of signature-driven responsibility.