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mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan that's the beauty of natural language vs math.
mircea_popescu: but it IS a better fit than the modern climate science.
mircea_popescu: it's not either very good or very fixable (or actionable, scientifically)
mircea_popescu: will make and diffuse observations, which is not so unlike asciilifeform's light problem solver yest.
mircea_popescu: so a bunch of derps cca 1700 who are desperately aware of farming, cause their life depends on it
mircea_popescu: much like bitcoin is running on supercomputers but basically oding some very primitive scripting.
mircea_popescu: let's say that we are chemical machines which fit a very primitive lua.
mircea_popescu: you perhaps imagine mankind hasn't been using computers before the numeric machines. this would be false.
mircea_popescu: i think you underestimate the majorly powerful computer natural language is.
mircea_popescu: not knowing you can do complex poly fitting means you'll just draw a line through the datapoints
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan nah, they simply don't know math. that's their saving grace.
mircea_popescu: benkay the book is better, strictly because it doesn't have the tools to overfit with.
mircea_popescu: it'll drain somewhere. you don't really want to buy the riverbed, i guess, but if you disperse your ownership you gotta average out ok.
mircea_popescu: obviously some places will be better and others worse, but we're discussing the birdseye view here
mircea_popescu: im not a geologist employed by a venture fund trying to buy siberian lands, so what do i care about the water table et all.
mircea_popescu: they overfit to all hell, which is the bane of noobs and politicos in science.
mircea_popescu: This exceptionally cold and snowy winter has shown that government climate scientists were dead wrong when it came to predicting just how cold this winter would be, while the 197-year old Farmers’ Almanac predicted this winter would be “bitterly cold”.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan nope, you can't "analyze" the blockchain,
mircea_popescu: and it should be, because just like with the poker table : if you live with no masters it just means you're an idiot.
mircea_popescu: B007 of interest re the boss being smarter always or not, see the mp 50-50 rule, too.
mircea_popescu: decimation more like, it's your duty to live in a sane world.
mircea_popescu: you don't want to keep the job where he a) isn't smarter and b) can't cope.
mircea_popescu: suddenly you have a society in which censorship is not at all absurd, but quite logically sound and flowing from what the people do.
mircea_popescu: well... in this context censorship is merely the enforcing of the obligation of coherence.
mircea_popescu: and if anyone else does, whay! THAT ASSHOLE! THAT BROWNNOSE.
mircea_popescu: not like you go to the boss and say, hey, it just dawned on me, you're so much smarter than me. thank you for taking the time to be my boss.
mircea_popescu: i mean, take the notion of censorship. you consider it unbearable to be told to shut the fuck up, keep your bitching to yourself and disperse right now. but... you DO keep your thanking to yourself as a matter of course, as if it's ordained from on high.
mircea_popescu: this is how socialism starts : by encouraging the slaves to not be expressively thankful.
mircea_popescu: because, turns out, keeping teh girl content is not exactly trivial. it seemed trivial back when the other guy was doing it, but it is not in fact trivial.
mircea_popescu: now, stealing her and trying to get her dressed is the best exercise a young boy could possibly attempt.
mircea_popescu: suppose a guy who is older than you, and better than you, and smarter and more connected and cultivated and powerful than you has a number of slaves, among which this absolutely breathtakingly stunning young lady.
mircea_popescu: decimation the idea isn't to "skim stuff" and try to pass it as your own. the idea is this :
mircea_popescu: i know the general opinion is that omg copying is bad or w/e, but i don't hold it. any painter worth a shit was made by copying the old masters in his own hand. it's how you become a good writer, rewrite fucking hemingway
mircea_popescu: anyway, kids about his age in romania used to do this all the time.
mircea_popescu: a rare day when what you thought mp meant is what mp actually meant.
mircea_popescu: middle class folks looking through the press always imagine that the protesters are you know, like them. house and two cars.
mircea_popescu: i mean, he'd be camping somewhere else if not there, not like he has a house or anything.
mircea_popescu: what, srsly, passionate people can't lie ? what's this.