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mircea_popescu: (speaking of which - de-stupidification of
the logging process would be a fucking blessing already. debug.log, srsly ? how about error.log mempool.log connect.log blocks.log for starters ?)
mircea_popescu: 0^61, which is one hell of a coincidence
that it should allign so right now! (same results can be expressed looking at
the schwarzschild radius,
too). )
mircea_popescu: (the problem, in
the simplest
terms, is
that for h
to be constant energy and spacetime must stay coupled. as such, it's impossible
to have an original singularity (aka
the big bang) seeing how everything solves neatly for a radius of 0, yielding a pretty field of 0's and a pile of nondetermined constants. conversely : in planck
terms,
the age of
the universe is about 10^61, its radius about 10^61 and its energy about 1
mircea_popescu: (actually
the only sane model of physical cosmogony i know doth require shifting planck constant, if ever so shyly)
mircea_popescu: so far
the score's about a
trillion
to 0
the other way.
mircea_popescu: this conception of "novelty" is not so dissimilar
to creationist's conception of darwinism. "he said my auntie's a dog!"
mircea_popescu: monkey-human divide cybernetically equivalent
to non-recursive / recursive systems.
mircea_popescu: contemplation.
that's
the divide. reflexivity. once
the hardware started doing recursion, it split.
mircea_popescu: it's a visual joke. imagine me saying "hmm, i wonder how best
to do
this" whille scratching
the
top of my head
mircea_popescu: or
to put it in more familiar
terms, you know why
the german goes bald arouind
the corona, and
the romanian arfound
the forehead ?
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the difference between man and monkey is
that man realises it's not actually worth
the hassle.
mircea_popescu: lest
the academic has
to publish
to justify his high station, an'
the inventor must invent, hence so many new inventions all
the
time.
mircea_popescu: now, whether a natural
tongue or one surgically bifurcated is a change worth
the mention... well... i suppose we must leave
this up
to
the inventor.
mircea_popescu: trinque well, an argument can be brought
that yours are a lot more cleaved. like, you know, you can separately desire
to lay with
the woman as in cuddle,
to lay with
the woman as in fuck her brains out,
to lay with
the woman as
to impregnate her and so on. whereas poor simple he, just lay with
the woman.
trinque: why is
the egyptian man's desire for food, a place
to shit, and women
to fuck different from mine? and if it isn't, whence
this idea
that my motivations are manifold (and advanced!), his few?
mircea_popescu: possibly a contributing factor in my distaste with
the damned
things.
mircea_popescu: eh, period in my life, i'd go
to a party and inexorably leave with a half sack of books.
mircea_popescu: there's another great difference, which may be easier
to ford. socialism - sacrifice now for later paradise.
this - is enjoyable. now. so much so i have not
the least care if paradise or no paradise, or as
the old man of
the mountain said
to allah,
mircea_popescu: but no. your
thesis is
that "can only result in" goatfuckistan.
trinque: mircea_popescu │ eventually, if nothing was cut off, duck in
the yard can no longer resist
the call of ducks in
the sky and
takes off. << I'm going
to go ahead and carve
this one into
the inside of my skull.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 01:09:02; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381724 << if anyone in afghanistan etc were not fully employed in countig rocks and fucking goats
thus managing
to find
their way here, i'd definitely finance a project
to fly a quad
to a drone and use
the old komet
trick
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 03:40:38; mircea_popescu:
the people who don't care if
they life or die either live or die.
the people who do care - end up paying rent
to
the ones
that live.
mircea_popescu: eventually, if nothing was cut off, duck in
the yard can no longer resist
the call of ducks in
the sky and
takes off.
mircea_popescu: but
this is not unlike retarded mother bringing boy up in skirts.
mircea_popescu: now, it's
true
that miseducation can bring one up
to
think himself
the other kind, whichg CAN be remedied.
mircea_popescu: it isn't up
to
them. some people dont' care. some do.
they can't change
this anymore
than you can be a woman.
mircea_popescu: not like photons went you know what ?
this planck constant's boring, let's get a new one.
mircea_popescu: the only news in
the world is
the history you didn't know and
the measurements you
took incorrectly.
trinque notes
the former SU guy's fixation on novelty
mircea_popescu: you still value what you lost more
than what you gain by
that loss. you still need stimuli
to grow geometrically for subjective sensation
to progress arithmetically.
mircea_popescu: there's exactly nothing
to change. what'd you change ?
trinque: it's simply staring at
the
tool and
thinking of it in isolation, rather
than inside
the human process in which it is used
mircea_popescu: do you miss
the
things
that'll be discovered after you die, perhaps ? nobody cares. you happen
to have seen
telegraph.
they saw
the complex calculation of how
to pi, and counted
them very civilised for it. big whoop.
trinque: they used
to have feet. so what?
mircea_popescu: so what did not repeat ?
the shape of
the woman's pants ?
mircea_popescu: "Whether 'tis nobler in
the mind,
to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or
to
take up arms against a sea of
troubles and by opposing, end
them ?"
mircea_popescu: besides,
the discussion in civilisational
terms is besides
the point. i guarantee
that
there was an alf in upper egypt bemoaning
the vagaries of fate in
the following exact
terms :
mircea_popescu: you flatter yourself if you imagine
there's more difference here
than
there,
to an archeologist so distant in
the future.
mod6: danielpbarron:
thx for
the heads up
mircea_popescu: (if for instance your aim is "population", mind
that
they started on a very narrow base. hard
to beat.)
mircea_popescu: also you'll be very hard pressed
to argue
that 5000 years of egypt were less
than 5000 years hence.
mircea_popescu: fortunately or otherwise, few live
the millenia required for most of it
to wear off.
mircea_popescu: the inventor is in
this matter very closely related
to
the fashion designer.
mircea_popescu: history is precisely an endless loop of
the same
thing. also, it has
to be.
mircea_popescu: anyway -
the exact same sort of people sifted
to
the
top in
the su as do anywhere else all
the
time. which is why yeltsin didn't survive and putin did.
mircea_popescu: right. but generally fambly kept
the place, for mere conviction. it had
to be political-wrathful
to dislodge.