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gabriel_laddel: I hope you like carving toys (or demunging databases) for Mr. Altman and his ilk. Because that is what we'll both be doing soon enough. If permitted to live...
gabriel_laddel: Has anyone considered the possibility that the living dead are kept around, safe from the Soilent Green pot, encouraged to be fruitful and multiply, etc. precisely to help make arbeit macht frei ever so slowly more palatable to the remaining humans?
gabriel_laddel: Could we instead ask for concertina wire, mine fields, and automatic turrets separating the human beings - with their robotic plenty - from the zombies, with their decay and hunger for flesh?
gabriel_laddel: Who gets to become a "delicate aristocrat," dodging carving duty, and why?
gabriel_laddel: In an "arbeit macht frei" world, will you - in particular - be permitted to busy yourself with writing unorthodox operating systems - or, for that matter, articles like this one? Or with carving wooden toys?
gabriel_laddel: I think this "Stanislav Datskovskiy" guy has the right idea though...
gabriel_laddel: I've listened to my friends talk about their sibling's lives at google. They make (nominally) lots of money, but it all is consumed by the costs of living.
gabriel_laddel: Incidentally, a friend of mine from Romania told me a story about what happened to his family's house during the communist revolution: It was seized, concrete was poured on the (expensive hardwood!) floors after it was stripped of any valuables.
gabriel_laddel: "Nope. All he did was sprinkle some holy water on me and say 'your father in heaven accepts you. Amen'"
gabriel_laddel: * Eliana enters the church while Abigail waits outside. *
gabriel_laddel: The daughters Schwartz were walking home, and see a sign "Become Catholic, receive $50"
gabriel_laddel: Stunna: This is why I was asking. Google's OCR will solve your CAPCHA.
gabriel_laddel: danielpbarron: and there we go, he only let's you pull yout over 0.001 BTC
gabriel_laddel: that I know can be solved by an OCR program running on my pc right now
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: he appears to be giving away free bitcoin, and all you have to do to get an account is supply and IP and a stupid little "read the letters thing"
gabriel_laddel: danielpbarron: same question I just posed to BingoBoingo
gabriel_laddel: I want to try sending you some coin from the account I just put together on prime dice
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: I was looking for an article with photos from MP touring the US where he comments something to effect of "the US is fucked, it is a collection of people who have nothing in common". In any case, the hotel article should suffice.
gabriel_laddel: !s ethnic war is just like regular war except that the uniforms are glued on
gabriel_laddel: eh, not what I wanted, and I don't care to find the article. In any case, what is 'your country' anyway?
gabriel_laddel: they don't have the same sensibilities, being a different people (*gasp*).
gabriel_laddel: it seems to me that if the west would just fuck off and let China have Africa everything will go swimmingly.
gabriel_laddel: what, the burning of the great library of Alexandria was just a blip?
gabriel_laddel: On that timescale, sure. when it comes down to Schwartz and Stan having years of their lives wasted...
gabriel_laddel: "You don't need to take my proposal seriously because it is so ridiculous that I am obviously completely out of touch with the real world. But that kite won't fly, for I know the real world only too well: the problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions. So, let us try again."
gabriel_laddel: I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty."
gabriel_laddel: "So, if I look into my foggy crystal ball at the future of computing science education, I overwhelmingly see the depressing picture of "Business as usual". The universities will continue to lack the courage to teach hard science, they will continue to misguide the students, and each next stage of infantilization of the curriculum will be hailed as educational progress.
gabriel_laddel: Yep. It takes a while for people to figure this out though - especially when there are the remnants of actual intellects (von n., ulam) hanging around.
gabriel_laddel: ;; google Henry Kissinger "the battles are so vicious because the stakes are so small"
gabriel_laddel: I've been having fantasies about WoT for academic matters. The ability to turn off an entire viewpoint in a graph-traversal. Ah.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I remember that a while ago you mentioned you lectured at local universities. Was this in Romania aor Argentina?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: Yep. Aggressive intelligence frightens the luddites(?) who have temporarily taken over.
gabriel_laddel: (allow me to retract "flip out" - they don't address any of the arguments, say that it pattern matches for 'crank'. I point out that this isn't an argument and that every sentence is clearly falsifiable. Conversation terminates.)
gabriel_laddel: I've given a few people links to PERUSING THE LIMITS OF FAILED SYMMETRY
gabriel_laddel: ascii_field: has complete set of Uncle Al? Worth every satoshi?
gabriel_laddel: t about this young man. His net worth of 607MM should say a lot to."
gabriel_laddel: "The intelligence level shifts because the experience level shifts. Warren speaks on his experience from 1930 – Jay is from a different culture and different time in history. His intelligence should be measured by the decisions that he makes, not by stories he tells of his previous environment. Just the fact that he is making the decision to surround himself with a mentor like warren buffet should tell you a lo
gabriel_laddel: It seems to me that again, the basic mechanism is the same. But then again, I wasn't there, and surely cannot comprehend the suit fetish in its full absurdity.
gabriel_laddel: I had that quote in the scratch buffer right along with some others prior to posting in the chat. Did read.
gabriel_laddel: That class has grown considerably, right along with inflation.
gabriel_laddel: 's the same problem. Lack of contact with reality. Without a war or some such you'll have a class of people who revert to judging others by their suits/hoodies/lack of personality
gabriel_laddel: eh, not much has changed in the intervening years. s/moocs/knowledge-based decision aids