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gabriel_laddel: my basic understanding of category theory is that there are interesting things that can be derived when you break down basic mathematics into some abstractions such as functors, mappings etc.
gabriel_laddel: nah, the obvious, in the case of category theory: Sucking up all the mathematics ever via some OCR routines and categorizing it via computer. Have an intern write a parser for latex -> ast
gabriel_laddel: it seem to me that they're not doing the obvious, which bothers me somewhat.
gabriel_laddel: I'm not going to claim to know that the math works out unless I do it myself though
gabriel_laddel: glosses over the whole point of the experiment, which he would know if he has read it)
gabriel_laddel: btw, I was using the word "mooc" the other day, and I think you read it as "mook". I meant "MOOC" as in "massively open online course"
gabriel_laddel: nope. The one where you detailed your relationship with your father
gabriel_laddel: Incidentally this is what Sean Parker's father did, and Sean is one of the coolest Silly con valley people
gabriel_laddel: I've nothing else to say. Your grasshopper article coupled with the rabbits exposition covers it all. Don't try and make things into that which they are not. And if you have a kid, care for /them as an individual/. Your life is over. Make way for the next generation.
gabriel_laddel: The reason these things are interesting is becuase they exist independently of us, they're unavoidable.
gabriel_laddel: If your kid is asking question - answer them. They'll arrive at coding and mathematics by themselves.
gabriel_laddel: I might as well explicate my thoughts on the matter, perhaps I'll learn something from someone else who has thought about it.
gabriel_laddel: he then tries to convince the kid that they should go home and code instead of answering the kids questions
gabriel_laddel: this is exactly correct. PG, for example, sees me coding in a coffee shop, is there with his kid.
gabriel_laddel: "This in turn because they've failed to live, as an actual act in this world, and impose their existence upon those children,so that everyone may be happy. Instead everyone's frustrated."
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: do you have pointers to any information about Uncle Al's roach repellent other than mailing list / forum posts and the patent?
gabriel_laddel: Even if he knows what he is doing, still a fuckwit. Everyone knows the story of the scorpion and the monk, right?
gabriel_laddel: He has people run their grubby little fingers through all HN comments, and they warn people who are too "right-wing"
gabriel_laddel: That sam altman is a fuckwit isn't in contention amongst those in here.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: local political situation (are the orcs known as such?), number of useful nuclear engineers to take care of the two reactors you've got etc.
gabriel_laddel: perhaps mircea_popescu will expound on the situation there?
gabriel_laddel: I will note for those reading, Argentina's orcs look the part.
gabriel_laddel is not entirely sure how things will play out, but MF's prescription is really the only available option
gabriel_laddel: nah, those who invest in voodoo will get slaughtered by those who enact the plan you voiced on Mr. M's blog.
gabriel_laddel: Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. when that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. that I belive is our basic function: to develop altenatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: Vaguely related to the conversation above, I'm hoping for a war sometime soon - they are a good way to go about separating content from nonsense. Von N., Teller, etc. wouldn't have been able to work on the atomic bomb without the various powers that be helping out.
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: well yes, c does modify the rewards pathway, but one neednt do it.
gabriel_laddel: related to "cocaine" - the only way I can do boring parsing tasks anymore is by drinking enough caffine to get high.
gabriel_laddel: also, I've been doing this programming thing for going on 3 years - let me be clear - I /hate/ it.
gabriel_laddel: my search failed, but I specifically remember you complaining in here about what you currently do. You've been doing this for some time now iirc
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: after putting your brain through x86 etc. you're unable to think non-von neumann?
gabriel_laddel: If your goal is to do a chip level restart, one needn't start there, from a business perspective.
gabriel_laddel: I disagree. You want to do this in one fell swoop. There are other ways to go about it.
gabriel_laddel: My point with the 20k is that there are individuals who are willing to fund such ventures. Yes, MP hasn't put up 5MM usd for sane computing, but afaik, no one has proposed such a plan to him.
gabriel_laddel: I'd happily pay 100k for a computer that actual /worked/
gabriel_laddel: Also, MP gave 20K to openBSD - there are people willing to fund such ventures.
gabriel_laddel: Yes. Someone needs to specify their requirements, then someone else needs to take a trip to china, find suppliers etc. and assemble somthing sane. Like system76, except not for Ubuntu crap
gabriel_laddel: (I have a $300 compaq that I prefer to any apple crapware - same one as MP iirc)
gabriel_laddel: unsurprising. Mine would get extremely hot for no particular reason.
gabriel_laddel: Also, I /don't like/ the macbook retina, fancy as it may be
gabriel_laddel: Eh, perhaps I'm strange, but these things don't tickle me in the right places. Mountains of coke? Fun, surely, but it gets boring after a while...
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: "why funded and by whom ?" << I really can't figure this out, it's like the relationship the USG club have with the Saudis. *mumble mumble* ... little boys... *mumble mumble*
gabriel_laddel: I don't think it's a scam exactly... what they want is for nothing to change, and he provided it. :/
gabriel_laddel: "Where do you want to go today?" To a Sharashka or garden-variety GULAG? Largely a matter of taste (and luck.)