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mircea_popescu: and your shitty empire trying to infiltrate it will pay through the teeth for no results at all.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan technical talent DOES respond to patriotism much more than to money.
mircea_popescu: they'd hire some people who wouldn't be spilling their beans each year.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan if the nsa, intel, whomever actually could hire more people
mircea_popescu: you're desperate to spend it, and the people you need to do things aren't desperate to get it.
mircea_popescu: their bitcoin being, of course, dollars, we couldn't, of course, care less.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the trap VCs in their own mind struggle with atm.
mircea_popescu: the people who can make asics are ALREADY doing it, on their own account
mircea_popescu: ok so. they spent a trillion "Dollars", but those trillion dollars could not have bought a trillion one dollar ringdings
mircea_popescu: not that you couldn't have run, achilles, but that you neglected the turtle.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan but a) they're not inviting him anywhere, because wherever they are so is he already
mircea_popescu: of course children expect to be the kings of creation. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: but merely that of course he expects it is no ground to say of course it can be done.
mircea_popescu: more importantly : your average kid on reddit could not survive if i teleported him to a random place on earth.
mircea_popescu: now, on these reasonable expectations you posit that the government can somehow take the shine out of metal for their benefit ?
mircea_popescu: they also do expect it to continue making their lives possible, as it has in the past.
mircea_popescu: so now... the people whose livelihood depends on government do see it as on their side. it is.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c here's the actual data : since jan 1st mpoe bot has quoted 7192 times, for a total book exposure of 62930 minutes, = ~43.7 days (out of 51.4) so like 85%. of these in turn 7 (so like 90%) have been since the 14th, ie since the signal divergence.
mircea_popescu: describing the people the govt actually extracts value from to give to a3.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan your axiomatic system is incomplete. the redditards live off the govt dole. since the govt can not create value out of thin air, you're missing an a4
mircea_popescu: dude five minutes ago we were in perfect agreement on complex math stuff, now i have no idea even what you're on about.
mircea_popescu: not missing the point is not something you can do on your own ?
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan so then act that way don't expect that way :D
mircea_popescu: if she finds a new type of berries, you really expect her to run home and come back with a new type of berry bag ?
mircea_popescu: jurov you going to go for a "what they think they see is not what is there thus no recognition could have taken place" ?
mircea_popescu: today what shocks me about the soviet aparatchicks is how horribly uncomfortable their stuff is.
mircea_popescu: one thing that always shocked me about soviet aparatchicks was how horribly bad their suits were.
mircea_popescu: sure. lawsky will probably invent a whole new way of fucking women in your office
mircea_popescu: take the great plague. what difference does the church pronouncement against a great plague, or for it, or about it
mircea_popescu: there's no such power of expression function that can be discussed over the set.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that at the time french didn't exist latin had been used continuously by millions for millenia
mircea_popescu: "they'll fuck up the values of our variables and break all the code"
mircea_popescu: benkay no. "it will take more than they can carry to teach them what we mean by all the words"
mircea_popescu: the original argument against moving away from latin service in church. "what and lose all that abstraction power ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: benkay the original argument against teaching the plebs to write.
mircea_popescu: that's why the scapegoat is NOT a "horrible crime" in a 1700s culture, but quite fucking required, sane and reasonable.
mircea_popescu: all flow from trying to keep the machine as sharp as possible.
mircea_popescu: and a whole slew of things such as group selection, and marginalisation, etc
mircea_popescu: that's why it takles 197 fucking years to even compute anything usable.