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mircea_popescu: speaking of lays : benkay take the girls pic, post it, have her come by i'll give her a bitcoin so she can build her independent wealth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform keeps giving us these immortality pills, we'll be here forever.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke you'll ahve to put that in the form of a question.
mircea_popescu: the only difference being that in the 2000s humanity is fed by technology, whereas in 1900 it was fed by politics, which meant, of course, deploying the force of arms to acquire wealth.
mircea_popescu: ie, could we say the same things we say of our current fashion (ie, large scale tech project) about yesteryear's fashion ?
mircea_popescu: now, can we transpose the manhattan argument in terms of novemberverbrecher argument ?
mircea_popescu: Dolchstoßlegende is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy. Advocates denounced the German government leaders who signed the Armistice on November 11, 1918, as the "November Criminals" (German: Novemberverbrecher).
mircea_popescu: "Even if the initial miners in the "Satoshi Gang" were not initially part of the USG - they would be hunted down and forced to turn over their Bitcoin at gunpoint." oh for the love of christ.
mircea_popescu: "it's disposal" that's not how you spell the possesive.
mircea_popescu: "and the remaining states are all allies of the US" < ahaha what!
mircea_popescu: "and Israel" << wtf ?! how do you reason francis_wolke ?
mircea_popescu: "A group of people associated with multiple world powers." << no. actual internationalisation happened in 2013, was announced on trilema.
mircea_popescu: " Anyone intelligent enough to create Bitcoin will have aligned themselves with some sort of governmental body." << this is a weak assumption.
mircea_popescu: half the time when i select something a final char is omitted
mircea_popescu: in a world where every "idea" is in fact chewed and spit and chewed so many times by so many generations by now all that's left is the spit itself, in which vaguely one can recognise the marks left by the spit of whoever long ago, in the manner new spits mix today because of the presence of that old saliva of yore,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i loved dame dench. "Be careful with my name, or you may wear it out!"
mircea_popescu: it's neither large scale nor important in that context.
mircea_popescu: <francis_wolke> A large scale, important project, developed in secret by USG. << how does bitcoin meet any of your criteria ?
mircea_popescu: if every great painting in history is a manhattan project then venice and the low countries own the us in manhattanness, srsly.
mircea_popescu: a manhattan project is like escavating a tunnel under the nunnery.
mircea_popescu: creating a new currency is like fucking an altar boy. nobody needs to know anything.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke but a new currency isn't a manhattan project.
mircea_popescu: "go fight in the arena for glory or rot in turda salt mine boi"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, the romans used the salt mines (in transylvania) to much the same effect.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke but you never engaged my argument at all.
mircea_popescu: benkay tiikoni and tis. you tease you. what happened to cunny and tits ?
mircea_popescu: i got lucky, cause btc came around, but how many cycles do you think i can take ?
mircea_popescu: i first retired aged 24. i came back because i got bored out of my mind.
mircea_popescu: that aside, i do believe we'll probably be the first immortal generation,
mircea_popescu: i mean marginally, like i'm interested in whatever new chick takes her top off, but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: why do you think so ? i wouldn't personally be interested in such.
mircea_popescu: your average tattoo "artist" doesn't do so well with letters.
mircea_popescu: they never got far, i imagine cause they're so hard to make and unwieldy to weart
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and legal to import into the us in your luggage, but then again illegal to export
mircea_popescu: well not THAT man in the street. not the mobile vulgus, the beasts of the field, strictly interesting for their flesh, the cockroaches in your fabled ny apartment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought we were strictly discussing secrets as "man in the street" affairs.
mircea_popescu: russia is less "civilised" which means more convergent ideologically.
mircea_popescu: whereas the nsa is leaked yearly, in spite of supposedly being better.
mircea_popescu: which is why the fsb does not have documents leaked, in spite of it sucking,
mircea_popescu: when the options are a1, an you will not find out of a population of k, k <n, a single person capable of keeping secret X.
mircea_popescu: when the options are a1, a2, you will out of a population of 100mn find 50 people able to keep secret X
mircea_popescu: the limits on the largeness of scale and importance are placed by said law of large numbers.
mircea_popescu: maybe we don't mean the same thing by manhattan projects. what's your definition ?
mircea_popescu: as things progress the complexity of ideology grows and so grows the number of boxes in which we put balls. soon enough you have no box with over X balls.
mircea_popescu: when you have simple ideologies, you have much easier coherence. thus activity with greatly leveraged effect.
mircea_popescu: the reason of course being ideological convergence, which happens because of the law of large numbers :
mircea_popescu: in the third case, the guy was able to not cause anything outside of measurement error.
mircea_popescu: in the second case, the guy was able to cause massive resource redistribution
mircea_popescu: in the first case, the guy was able to cause civil war.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke let's consider a simpler alternative. obama fdr and lincoln all broke the law, grossly. in all cases the courts duly signed off on this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform now you're screwed, it looks like you'll have to write that article
mircea_popescu: i do that to women occasionally. they generally love it.