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mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:ab62ac49dc6fe5b52726b421d41eb2c753a4056ad1457349660e8819
mircea_popescu: "hello i am your new waiter after eating here for three weeks i am now qualified to make food. the brainwashing is real good, please try it."
mircea_popescu: "I want to introduce myself. My name is Michael from Cloudhashing.com, and I have taken over the public relations work there after being one of their customers since August. I will be the only one writing from this account now. "
mircea_popescu: also just made them an offer to sponsor them, curious if they manage to find their way out of the paper bag.
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as they don't really work for that which they are for, arguably it doesn't matter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is the first time a dns server has to handle 10gb of cruft to resolve a query.
mircea_popescu: diginforce is Gridseed total online sales agents, sales are now sold out yesterday, there is no development board conference
mircea_popescu: Hot Search: pumpkin baked cat butterfly KNC Bitfury Bitmine Avalon TMR
mircea_popescu: possibly. many people involved in mining are from the "old world"
mircea_popescu: natural language does not allow specification, and most fields of interest for humans do not allow formal language.
mircea_popescu: this is the exact equivalent of the "poorly specified bitbet bet" fallacy.
mircea_popescu: you are wrong to imagine this problem can be solved by specification.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, do you know the story of the kid who wouldn't pass physics exam ?
mircea_popescu: as all cognitive tests, the one proposed measures more the bias of the tester than the subject.
mircea_popescu: "otherwise you need to use the 'code-cracking' part of your brain to try and infer a meaning from an unknown syntax."
mircea_popescu: incidentally, there is a good objection there : the example given seems very tilted toward people with experience in a C-like language.
mircea_popescu: either back into anorganic matter, or else chinese re-education or w/e.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch their problem is a relation to the self rather than to the world, the only way to have them relent is to change them
mircea_popescu: which in the end boils right back into the old trunk of crafting the perpetuum mobile.
mircea_popescu: it's not so different from the conviction one can patent medicine,
mircea_popescu: and he imagines this means the conclusions of the test only show how desperately the world needs more teachers.
mircea_popescu: check out this guy. he's a teacher who feels able to help people fake the test,
mircea_popescu: But to blame the poor education methods on students willing to acquire the knowledge is just ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: e to blame the students and not the teachers. Now if a student is *unwilling* to learn the material then that is another question.
mircea_popescu: "The interpretation of the results of the above assignment test make me feel angry. I am not a teacher but I am confident that I can teach (in less than 15 minutes) any person smart enough to be admitted to a computer science class how to pass the above test. The results speak volumes about the utter ignorance of educators regarding the nature of human knowledge and how to acquire it. It is a tremendous act of injustic
mircea_popescu: lmao, so anything to avoid an actual delivery bet huh ? we make a fake bitbet out of forum paste & spit, pretend and pray.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you were saying a few days ago about being disgusted with ppl lauding scams just because they hope they get a little back ? where is it, i want to quote it.
mircea_popescu: if the box ain't functioning, there's no guarantee you end up with a web. even a not working one.
mircea_popescu: you seen the pictures of spider;s webs made by high spiders ?
mircea_popescu: it went from "indicator light" (algebra) to "execution squad" (bitcoin)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. because abstract algebra does not allocate resources
mircea_popescu: what bitcoin does is it meaningfully sepparates the population, and i see nobody credibly arguing for extending human status past the 2nd bump
mircea_popescu: i wasn't kidding when i said they're turning into niggers.
mircea_popescu: if they had the mental power to catch up they'd be doing better money than whatever foodstamps "the press" pays.
mircea_popescu: pankkake yeah, noobs handle their ignorance differently. but still, how else do you know a noob's a noob ? by their ignorance.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing new in this world except for the history you don't know.
mircea_popescu: i see that, what i read is "i am a noob, hear my uninformed convictions and care enough about my worthless persona to set me straight"
mircea_popescu: internet epeen competition. "save the whales, power your compiler".