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mircea_popescu: nubbins` point in case as to the "we don't deserve to run a business" thing
mircea_popescu: not proposing any of the foregoing as factual or anything, merely exploring teh theory of it.
mircea_popescu: four is an odd number of arms for a man to have, the only both odd and even number is infinity
mircea_popescu: the thought process being, napoleon was a great general, great generals are forewarned, being forewarned is like having an extra pair of arms,
mircea_popescu: they let it run overnight, among the conclusions it had arrived to by morning was "napoleon had an infinite number of arms"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "at mit, they made this self-learning machine which would try to make deductions sylogistically on a dictionary of natural language constructs
mircea_popescu: this is probably apocriphal as such, but it is reflective of various actual events. normally it's retold as
mircea_popescu: nubbins` btw, you know the "great generals" machine learning fiasco ?
mircea_popescu: i always respected that guy. occasionally obnoxious but he had what you'd need from a rector : fucking rectitude.
mircea_popescu: the rector guy was like "if you can't speak you can't be a university professor."
mircea_popescu: at the one uni where i sort-of flirted with academia, this was banned on campus.
mircea_popescu: imagine a truck driver that can't drive double clutch.
mircea_popescu: all the guy ever does is derp about in the conference freakshow, you'd expect he has at least the basics of that profession down pat.
mircea_popescu: cazalla this is kind of sad, incidentally, because it's roughly like a stripper with bad genital hygiene
mircea_popescu: i don't actually hate the guy, i just dislike him because he's very inept strategically and we kinda need to purge the stupid.
mircea_popescu: they rheally thought they're somebody worth something.
mircea_popescu: take it as a measure of just how badly hurt the foundation scamnest is by this defeat in the field
mircea_popescu: i mean work in the sense of being in a constrained space with a bunch of idiots where you gotta watch what's on your screen
mircea_popescu: well no i don't mean work in the sense of doing something useful
mircea_popescu: generaly pseudomonas sp is a good bet for BingoBoingo's purposes cause they're pretty metabolically diverse.
mircea_popescu: it can live off caffeine. it can break down polystyrene
mircea_popescu: this thing is valuable because it can break down pretty much anything
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : pseudomonas putida is the first living thing that was "patented" according to the us courts.
mircea_popescu: and the other who is an alumni of "15 aluminum salesmen to watch in 2012"
mircea_popescu: but i mean if you have two alcoholic bums sitting on a garbage dumpster somewhere
mircea_popescu: doesn't the observation that "soo... if i had been watching you since 2012 i'd have seen nothing ?" come to them at all ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the thought process is when some chick ends up putting on her 2 line resume "i was a X to watch in 2102"
mircea_popescu: "Founder @dailymuse, YC alum, Inc 15 Women to Watch in Tech 2012, Advisor @hackbright, Productivity expert, Parisian, Former McKinsey, avid cyclist"
mircea_popescu: basically the consensus of idiots in fiat is that somehow magically the laws of nature have been cancelled for the sake of convenience.
mircea_popescu: " this is a bid for power and the return to the pre-crisis paradigm of "
mircea_popescu: "It’s tempting to dismiss the decision as incomprehensible legalese or the inability of justices to understand that contemporary financial systems rely on a powerful lender or dealer of last resort to weather financial crises."
mircea_popescu: germanz just ruled ecb may not act as lender of last resort.