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mircea_popescu: i do believe him when he keeps saying he drinks a lot. he'd have
to.
the damage imbecile "social agreements" do
to smart people.
mircea_popescu: but it's a lot more likely he just found something
to shut
the brain up with
mircea_popescu: one could hope
that
the reason he dropped off
the map is because existential crisis finally
triggered
mircea_popescu: he just understands some stuff exceptionally well, but it didn't seem
to have percolated
through.
mircea_popescu: haha. well, in
truth
the guy's politics are utterly indefensible.
mircea_popescu: all it says is
that a system of
thought is ipso facto worthless, but hey, i can see why he prefers
the counterfactual statement of it.
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 01:21:28; mircea_popescu: "the end which is so obvious and predictable but at
the same
time
the only one
that would speak
to
this generation of narcissists: when we need a hero, heroes are obligated
to rise up and serve, but please have
the decency
to die afterwards so we can go back
to second guessing
the ethics of your actions. " >> and when "we" need a monkey
that knows how
to push
the levers one has
the moral obligation
t trinque: mod6: sounds dangerous... here, kid, have
this iPad and watch Kung Fu Panda.
mod6 tries
to upload some kungfu
mircea_popescu: "The Economist, an excellent magazine which offers excellent analysis of complex political and economic questions, yet still manages
to be on
the wrong side of history every single
time"
mircea_popescu: We got a brief moment of
the possibility of 1980s style black and white American might with George Bush after 9/11, when half
the country went, "hell yeah, let's go kick some ass!" and
the other half went, "wait a second, don't you guys know we suck?"
That being
the full extent of our national dialogue. You see
the results.
mircea_popescu: Well,
the possibilities never came
true, so heroes can all go
to hell. And God,
too, while we're at it, he didn't deliver either.
mircea_popescu: skills would be uploaded straight by God when needed, sudden and immediate, just as
they came
to JCVD in Bloodsport. Life is a movie and movies are only 90 minutes long. Not a whole lot of
time for
training.
mircea_popescu: What happened? I
think
the generation raised on action movies felt betrayed.
Those movies promised possibilities, promised
that when you grow up, your powers will kick in. When you grow up, if bad guys
take over a bank, you'll be able
to use kung fu on
them. It seemed not
to have occurred
to anyone
to learn actual kung fu, or look up how banks are
typically laid out, where
the alarms are-- just in case. No,
these
mircea_popescu: it's really a nicely coalessced dementia,
this post-cold war west.
mircea_popescu: ided of course he doesn't expect and in any case doesn't get any actual power over
the derps
through
this.
mircea_popescu: "the end which is so obvious and predictable but at
the same
time
the only one
that would speak
to
this generation of narcissists: when we need a hero, heroes are obligated
to rise up and serve, but please have
the decency
to die afterwards so we can go back
to second guessing
the ethics of your actions. " >> and when "we" need a monkey
that knows how
to push
the levers one has
the moral obligation
to materialize, prov
☟︎ mircea_popescu: faster, even faster
than cheating wife stories,
than detecting hypocrisy in
the elites."
mircea_popescu: "This generation,
this,
The Dumbest Generation Of Narcissists In
The History Of
The World,
they hate heroes-- except dead ones,
they're ok, and superheroes are ok
too, people with magic or from other planets-- but human heroes are anathemas,
they want
to
tear
them down and show
them
to be regular mortals, flawed-- and
the best is if
they can catch
them being hypocritical, nothing brings an impotent narcissist
to orgasm
mircea_popescu: but seriously,
the libtards/hipsers actually need " People aren't seeing Eastwood play Walt;
they are seeing
The Man With No Name now aged 70 and living alone, still clinging
to his horse, I mean gun, I mean car.
That's
the guy
they want
to see "grow,"
that's
the guy
they want
to see admit he was wrong. " ?
mircea_popescu: im not about
to see
the movie, for one
thing i never gave much of a shit about eastwood and for
the other he certainly went
to shit in his later life (what is with
this, pacino doing incredibly bad bullshit a la simone and de niro doing
the worst infomercial "movies" conceivable ?)
mircea_popescu: so in
this sense, finding shit in yourself is about as valuable as growing
tomatoes on your window sill.
mircea_popescu: that book is useful
to people ~with independent clincal experience~, even if it is read first, before
the experience is actually had (on
the expecation
that it will sturcture
the comparatively more expensive process of actual clinical exposure,
thus gettiong more bang per buck)
mircea_popescu: it has a much deeper root.
the problem with medical education is
that your own body constitutes no clinical experience.
mircea_popescu: you know,
the ancient "sophomore's disease", where young minds encountering
the big book of medical semiology for
the first
time diagnose
themselves with everything is not MERELY an amusing story.
jurov: i'd expect you of all people
to ruthlessly follow any stupidity
to its root, if you found it in yourself
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 16:25:15; mircea_popescu: one day im going
to understand how stupidity in very smart people works.
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck permits
these imbeciles
to pretend like
they're faculty i have no idea.
mircea_popescu: "She can't understand why
the ideal isn't
the same as
the average. So she wants
to create reasons why
the average is
the ideal. " <<< Elizabeth Cashdan, woman in science.
mod6: i'm workin on it here. i forget my build rank... 70 somethin i
think.
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 18:16:21; mod6: i just pulled down
the new version of eulora btw. about
to
try
to build it...
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at reality ranch,
training a sex fied
takes me six weeks,
training a perfect soldier
takes six months, and
training a PASSIBLE intel summarizer
takes six years.
mircea_popescu: yes
the result is directly equivalent with "enemies control
the decision process at all points and at all levels". but
the cause is much more pedestrian :
the innate MISTAKEN belief
that "anyone can make a summary".
ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell funkenstein_ submission came
through
this
time
phf: (the program is at
the end and worth
the study
to grok
the meaning of
the word "hack" before perl corrupted it)
phf: i
think canonical example of solving
that sort of problems (i.e. generating command language from a higher level lisp solution) comes from cltl2 section on
trig functions for complex values, where guy steele for whatever reason decided
to include pretty graphs of function behaviors. he also included
the program
that he used
to generate
the graphs, by producing .ps from lisp
ben_vulpes: i'm dinking around with clnuplot as we speak, already seeing
the end of its utility for me.
phf: ben_vulpes: for something like gnuplot i've discovered
that learning all kinds of fancy ways you can output a string with #'format is a lot more useful skill
then learning a specific library. short of writing an equivalent of gnuplot command ast you're going
to run into impedence mismatch one way or another
cazalla: mircea_popescu, can you revise a copy of
the contract with correct date in historical recitals (2015, not 2014)
ben_vulpes: any point
to using a cl wrapper/bridge
to gnuplot or just pipe out?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: any suggestions on
time series plotting from cl?
trinque: must be counting
the desk and room!
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck did you get a laptop
that supplants a half
ton desktop ?
mircea_popescu: yes well,
the eulora box is maybe 30lbs, and it's made of common materials.
mod6: pre-september desktops for
the win
mircea_popescu: the only example i can
think of would be "consumer designed laptop". you go in
the shop with
the definition files and
they fedex you
the item later
that week
mircea_popescu: you don't even have
to boither with anything, keeps its own logs,
they get awked and gnuplot.
mod6: If
that's what you mean, yeah.
mod6: I saw a mining map
that seemed
to be autogenerated by
the bot?! Looked fantastic.
mod6: I saw
there is some structures in
the pictures, gotta check
that out.
mod6: wow yeah,
think i read
that. lol, I've used 2 of 'em.
mircea_popescu: it's
ten minutes
to set up and
ten minutes of use
to make itself indispensable.
the chick can code, i don't remember a
tool becoming
THIS FUCKING NEEDED in recent
times.
mod6: i like manual mining
though... in a way, it's just some
time for me
to do some clicking and
thinking about other
things.
mod6: i gotta learn how
to use Foxy's bot!
mod6: i just pulled down
the new version of eulora btw. about
to
try
to build it...
☟︎ mod6: i just need
to get a fantastic display array like asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu:
there was
that eulora demo for which you had a whole computer set up.
mod6: ben_vulpes: yeah, i couldn't imagine
trying
to do
the same with a
tablet or something. but i like
the desktops
that I have at home for stuff
too.
mircea_popescu: it occurs
to me i have in
this selfsame year never showed anyone anything.
ben_vulpes: someday i'll offload all
this onto staff.