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mircea_popescu: the longer you go w/o spending it, the more your prize turns out to be.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, it occurs to me that bitcoin makes th ebest fucking prizes you can give :
mircea_popescu: if nothing else we'll at least get to find out about shit everyone else thought we knew about (tm)
mircea_popescu: the fact remains that whatever interests us is what matters in the world henceforth, and whatever interests whoever else, seven billion anon rats, is not worth a cigarette butt.
mircea_popescu: if ppls wanna do physics too we do physics too. with a focus on rocketry or w/e interests us.
mircea_popescu: that's why godoshi has given us the concept of altcoins.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe. i mean... you know, do whatever we want to do.
mircea_popescu: cads herbi and whoever else this goes for you too, even if you're poor.
mircea_popescu: so srsly, no trolling, try and come up with a broad criteria. like a sentence or something, a paragraph.
mircea_popescu: a mechanical turk you can have, an automated gentleman you can't have.
mircea_popescu: may be a good idea, tho i fear automated trust systems may be hijacked in the way kakobrekla describes.
mircea_popescu: im just trying to export my boardroom into your lives over here. i tell you, it works!
mircea_popescu: gotta have disagreement and scream at each other to end up with a good prize.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's that retard someone was recommending buying puts on the stock indexes for 10 years, showing like -5% on his hedge funds lol
mircea_popescu: plus you're buddy-buddy with the entire fucking academy.
mircea_popescu: what's to keep them from it ? let the entire rest of the world learn what it has to do in the nwo.
mircea_popescu: definitely herbi or mike_c could get one if they keep with their blogs.
mircea_popescu: the sponsors (ie, members of the academy) would have to be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the recipient wouldn't have to be in the wot,
mircea_popescu: because those are too busy giving the prize to retarded monkeys.
mircea_popescu: there's hundreds to pick from, and none of them EVER make it on the libertard-run nobel rolls
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "for outstanding contributions in the field of economics"
mircea_popescu: which is kind-of the point of it in the first place anyway.
mircea_popescu: well obviously we can't let this run as a dollar auction.
mircea_popescu: w don't want any random tard's calls and notions anyway.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'm definitely supporting this but more like a matching thing.
mircea_popescu: so looking in the deep of the deepest of your soul!! and such, what would be the criteria one'd actually meet you'd respect
mircea_popescu: i don't remember seeing such penmanship since britney spears bio
mircea_popescu: take obama, he's not rich because he melted down the peace gold medal, he's rich because he bleed dry a quarter billion idiots.
mircea_popescu: after all, someone winning the nobel prize for actual merit is already independently well paid anyway.
mircea_popescu: this is supposed to work so as to humble the nobel idiocy, not necessarily as to make the recipient rich.
mircea_popescu: r3wt well being here works wonders to defuse such tension.
mircea_popescu: all we need is to agree on some gross criteria, then people construct a nominee list and all contributors vote on it
mircea_popescu: we collect a pot by donation, whoever wants to contribute. then the pot is on a fixed date distributed to one recipient.
mircea_popescu: which nobel prize story inspires me. shouldn't we have a yearly prize of some sort for some thing ?
mircea_popescu: totally worth a nobel prize for going "hey guise, wouldn't it be better if we ipo that shit ???"
mircea_popescu: ed. So in June 1929, a new plan was enacted, floating more U.S.-backed bonds and reducing Germany's payments to $28 billion paid out over 59 years.
mircea_popescu: In 1924, an American banker named Charles Dawes outlined what came to be known as the Dawes Plan — a new reparations agreement under which U.S. banks such as J.P. Morgan issued bonds to private investors on behalf of Germany, which agreed to pay them back when the money became due. Dawes won the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on this plan. But when the first batch of bonds came due in 1928, Germany again default
mircea_popescu: nah, gotta keep publishing the logs to be just like the paris club or w/e.
mircea_popescu: that is actually the most suspicious thing from all you've dug up so far.
mircea_popescu: quoth birladeanu "here's in the soviet archives lenin recorded speaking of it"
mircea_popescu: quoty Kosighin "what gold ? we have never heard of such a gold"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform romania sent about a billion trillion tons of gold and shit back when russia was run by the tsar (and close ally / relative of the romanian king)
mircea_popescu: i wonder if germany is/will be told "fu, we're keeping the gold cause ww1"
mircea_popescu: that'd be roughly 30 to 50 or so thousand tons of gold, at the time
mircea_popescu: but anyway, we're talking 10 to 20 1930 bn dollars worth here.
mircea_popescu: well, that's the problem with ww1, for the first time in history governments became a majority of the gdp,
mircea_popescu: the entire thing ended in the 30s as perhaps the first major fiasco of the government-owned financial system.