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mircea_popescu: and NO, idiots are not able
to propagate anything without
the printing press. which is why prior
to it
there were 5000 different idiocies summing
to 0 and ever since
tyhen we've been deluged in organised imbecillity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but
this is
the problem of
the bloody book. in "removing
the requirement for a wot" it creates more problems
than it resolves
punkman: somebody has, and
they will spend it on eth "development", "conferences", etc
punkman: or maybe never had
the keys
punkman: he already had a chance
to do
that
punkman: Buterin doesn't get
to keep 44k btc
assbot: The danger of unchecked assumptions, or
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assbot: The danger of unchecked assumptions, or
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BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski
Tag Heuer is more $1500
than 10 k price range
punkman: asciilifeform:
that'd be
the braindamaged pack rat approach, and yes, it has adherents << dunno, I like archive.org
mircea_popescu: it is UPON
THE BOOKS.
they, chiefly, mostly, did
this.
mircea_popescu: i just don't want
the easy mistake be made where
the stupidity of
the children of books
today is ascribed
to non-bookdom.
phf: asciilifeform: right, i'm not arguing your original statement, just
trying
to understand
this part of
thread. if i wanted
to grok electrodynamics, can get scan, or easier
to just walk
to friend and get landau of
the shelf. doesn't matter
that he has millions of other books, or
that
there's an archive of book scans somewhere. mp's point seems
to be
that
the activity should be
treated as
tomb raiding either way, rather
then "i have a
mircea_popescu: or in other words, books, much like plutonium, are liable
to make your stupid and your offspring monstruous. handle with care.
mircea_popescu , perfectly willing
to wipe books altogether
to get rid of rousseau & friendz.
mircea_popescu: o know
the way. We came at last
to a great hall... It was
then I realized my companion hadn't been gaining strength. He had been losing what was left of his humanity."
mircea_popescu: "My companion drew in
the dank, cold air of
the
Tomb. It seemed
to... strengthen him. I stood in
the doorway between Light and Dark. What was left of my sanity implored me not
to enter. But
that voice... was just a whisper now. As we worked our way down, deeper and deeper into
the Crypt, I began
to see a change in my companion. He seemed
to be gaining strength. I could hardly see in
the gloom, but my companion seemed
t mircea_popescu: just for as long as you understand
they're
tombs. you don't belong
there.
funkenstein_ once had pictures of dog eating beets. Sadly
they were never put on paper so lost after a decade or so.
mircea_popescu: do you need all
the ars longa you don't currently have ?
phf: well, it's very medieval idea (without
the negative connotation) or reminiscent of samizdat culture. scans only come when someone asks for a scan, rather
then
the other way around, i.e. "archiving initiatives"
jurov: and burning
the books helps how?
mircea_popescu: what barbarian apostasy is
this,
the
talisman of book ?
mircea_popescu: not like anyone invented a substitute for actually re-derivign
the whole group
theory IN YOUR HEAD as part of "grokking" it.
mircea_popescu: i expect you
to be happy
that your life ends before it.
mircea_popescu: to put it another way, if you
think
the SCANNING is
time consuming you have nfi.
phf: is
the idea
that ascii can read book, or whatever, can even give me copy
to read, or whatever, but ultimately
there's not going
to be library of b-a, because only relevant knowledge is whatever ascii or i (in
this example) say in
the logs, how we got
there is our own business?
mircea_popescu: (i lie, i never read
the actual book, it was online or it wouldn't have existed.)
mircea_popescu: and im not linking
to
the book. because, elementary, can't. because IT is fucking islam.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ill be sure
to recall
this if we dispute computers in
the future :)
funkenstein_: as long as
there are people of means archiving
the log, i agree
mircea_popescu: it is culturally irrelevant now, because i expect my
text searchable and my lines logged and indexed and so forth.
mircea_popescu: kinda why/how
that "ustards keep rebranding
things" article came about.
the comment in
the house of mp was "check
these idiots out, like
the second coming of some castrated soviets"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, it was gauss'.
the romanians sat omn
the sidelines poking fun at
the russians.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, "america" (the ideal construct,
that never really existed) SCANNED
the fucking europe books.