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mircea_popescu: you gotta throw out large swathes of "possibilities" in order to be able to do something useful.
mircea_popescu: this is fact. as explained by kuhn et all, scientific endeavour is impossible absent some sort of paradigm.
mircea_popescu: cca 1920 it was the scientific consensus that we will never have nuclear reactors.
mircea_popescu: "any one who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine"
mircea_popescu: "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration."
mircea_popescu: apparently not just people are getting fatter. ursides and rodents too.
mircea_popescu: it's not the case that i know ALL OF THE THINGS to the degree i can immediately summarize any argument of any deepness in any field.
mircea_popescu: in any case i wouldn't read too much into the happenstance that i know what c-y is. shit looks cool, it's naturally interesting to my particular mindset.
mircea_popescu: or theoretically, never even touching a chess table, studying graphs or w/e
mircea_popescu: im not sure there's an imbalance of that kind. you can get to be a great chess player either practically, spending all your time in central park playing chess with the dudes
mircea_popescu: "dude, you gotta talk to X, she's cute/cool/knows der quantz. come by my place friday ?"
mircea_popescu: i can't immediately discern and meh, i have a bunch of other shit to do atm
mircea_popescu: mod6 on the face of it there's a brighjt young canadian guy and his grad student that either found some shortcut in c-y or else are just repackaging it for the media buzz.
mircea_popescu: they;ve been diddling with drawing it for... 30 years ?
mircea_popescu: if not physically necessarily, then in a certaion metaphorical sense.
mircea_popescu: the only people that can be helped by others are on their knees.
mircea_popescu: and then whine as to why it's 300 bitcoins worth 10k usd each by then
mircea_popescu: i don't push it. let them come begging for it in their own time
mircea_popescu: experience shows kids with that sort of mental issues end up in a corner.
mircea_popescu: basically they're begging to die the dearth of irrelevance
mircea_popescu: why sell FI stocks, reason #5467554698 : they comply with government regulation.
mircea_popescu: Rulother i used to but freenode decided taking donations is too much of a pain
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla will prolly make assbot talk spam in -trades
mircea_popescu: i wonder if the fbi still does anything over tehre or not really.
mircea_popescu: so i just had a dork try to impersonate me to dc ppls. us ips/us phone numbers.
mircea_popescu: so basically we're back to "why isn't your forum graph linear"
mircea_popescu: you mixed the diffs in the wolfram alpha ? i thought you meant in yoru original formula, and the prev wa formula is it.
mircea_popescu: just because some particular thing you were invested into fails to pass muster does not mean the entire world has been obliterated. simmar down.
mircea_popescu: i don't get why this sort of broken thought process is so attractive to you.