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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.
mircea_popescu: *that* is a figment of your imagination, like the tits on the goddesses.
mircea_popescu: there is no nor can there ever be such a "kill switch".
mircea_popescu: "sarac dar cinstit" = poor but honest, ion iliescu, the ex dictator-s golden boy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun anecdote : romania's ruler for the 90s decade owner... a house.
mircea_popescu: and this is so for very good reasons long explored in the history of thought.
mircea_popescu: listen, while i agree with the reverse (ie, indeed reality iwll have some bearing, no matter how tenuous, on your imagination), the reverse is completely baseless.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke you know this hardly is showing, do you ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on your circumstance, yes. on the reality of the matter, none.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 you know you'll have to first define some criteria.
mircea_popescu: turning "them" lose is like turning the cockroaches in your kitchen "loose", admitting you live in ny.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's never any question of turning them loose because they just won't leave.
mircea_popescu: or moreover it's simply THE maintenance of the historic norm, independent of human agency, which is being mentally digested in ways consecvent with the current social text.
mircea_popescu: not everybody needs a college degree, even if they're white, and even if their parents have "expectations".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the problem is more like this : if i give you a debt package, there will be a cost to evaluate its value. if that cost likely exceeds its value, you may opt to just throw the whole thing away.
mircea_popescu: yes. our discussion started with me asking if you realise the thing you quote has more to do with the mokeys involved than with anything of import today.
mircea_popescu: but this is in no way time based, and in no way a festival.
mircea_popescu: this happens all the time. there are 1000s of bankruptcy courts all over the world hearing millions of cases as we speak.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke it would be the breaking of SOME tablets
mircea_popescu: this requires an economy built by people who see more than a year into the future.
mircea_popescu: they still wish and expect tvs running water and generally to be able to play around on the intenret.
mircea_popescu: the fact that the bulk of the live humans are about as stupid today as in 3000 bc has little bearing
mircea_popescu: yes well. back in those days a one year interval was far outside the mental abilities of even "specialist" "bankers" to plan.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke you realise the entire breaking tablets thing is strictly a function of man's early monkey-like state and has no practical importance today. do you ?
mircea_popescu: 2.47% of total Mpex.co traffic in last 3 months is social < that part was lulzy.
mircea_popescu: you know that is beautiful, 1.30 for 30 days, 1.09 for the week
mircea_popescu: FabianB good to see the mkt is actually healthjy, i had a moment of panic.
mircea_popescu: make a fucking killing, buy futures worth 0.003 at 0.002