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Chillum:
mircea_popescu: self propelled humans
assbot: Logged on 21-02-2015 01:19:34;
mircea_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"
decimation:
mircea_popescu: is this related to the dcma thing?
assbot: Logged on 12-03-2015 01:35:08;
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone know how cockney got to be called that ?
Cummerbund:
mircea_popescu: Do you mean if the subject matter is poor? I'm merely referring to sentence structure. I would at least like to pretend that the subject matter is okay
decimation:
mircea_popescu: of course, most of the actual slave driving is directly done by.. engineers in management
decimation:
mircea_popescu: I would note that singapore exhibits all the signs of burning through their 'stored fuel'
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Nah, I want serious "get off my lawn" power. Also tilling the garden hydraulicly would be pretty sweet.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I need to get in far better shape. Volunteers get Illinois "pensions" so very competive.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: It turns into a crude glass and absorbs heat energy in the course of that. Worthless if on wooden desk, pretty useful if on bare concrete
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Sure. but even place with indications of value can hold a lot.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I mean fire's favorite direction is up. That and Lithium batteries have a shit lifetime anyways.
Chillum:
mircea_popescu: she would not get it
assbot: Logged on 07-05-2014 03:00:40;
mircea_popescu: this is like having a 40 yo chick come to you for dancing lessons and you telling her "missing ingredient is you being 20". why tyvm, mr expert guy!
assbot: Logged on 07-05-2014 03:02:32;
mircea_popescu: if you have 20 bux spare you'll get a manicure, maybe you find some guy that's not an asshoel.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: whaack why would nickserv drop an account ? i never heard of this. << They drop registrations after just a few weeks of disuse, because Freenode
trinque:
mircea_popescu: indeed; that job was a shitshow
Chillum:
mircea_popescu: that is an interesting idea. How does bidding work? People just send their bid, then what happens when someone outbids them
Chillum:
mircea_popescu: there is a youtube video of a guy making a wifi controllable lamp
Adlai:
mircea_popescu: excellent the quote, or the thread-annotator concept?
trinque:
mircea_popescu: alf says the guy needs to burn all his women to make the computer
Adlai:
mircea_popescu: no! envision a secretary, lurking in-channel, tagging each message with the 'thread' to which it belongs
trinque:
mircea_popescu: what is the alternate phrasing?
trinque:
mircea_popescu: stan likes to bring up russian scientists
trinque:
mircea_popescu: is this idea of the colossal project a russian thing?
trinque:
mircea_popescu: right, this seems directly at odds with the multigenerational, self-sacrificial quest for truth
shinohai: may iask
mircea_popescu what u think i try so hard at ?
shinohai: I have actually quoted you before
mircea_popescu ascii_field: to wrap up the thread, when i spoke of 'fanatic' i was referring precisely to
mircea_popescu's 'act from cause not towards purpose' maxim.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 21:13:46;
mircea_popescu: the entire "act from cause not towards purpose" thing on trilema is exactly a vaccine against that.
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 00:10:01;
mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
Chillum:
mircea_popescu: gold, silver, equipment
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: largely because i am not
mircea_popescu and not in control of the variables.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: what'd you have it do << a number of things, which resolve to 'the contents ending up where needed by dependency-graph without being asked every time'
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: actually, re-reading your last message - isn't that really an argument against abstraction period?
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: nonsene. We know any programming language that doesn't allow the operator to manipulate its own ast programmatically is going to waste the operator's time.
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: learning latin is very different from learning $random-african-grunt-lang
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: is there a difference between how smart/dumb one is and how quickly or slowly one learns?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: why do you suppose i'm not there
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: the other fella lost his key
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: it will make more sense if i reveal that
ascii_field: let's narrow down -which- particular thing
mircea_popescu is unconvinced by, before i answer
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: not if 'arse covering' works as well as 'secure'
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: it is not untrue, unfortunately
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: feel free to recycle it into your next mega-article if you feel like
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: don't get me wrong, i shall write again. and yes - for the archaeologists, as before. but presently cut among 1) dayjob 2) s.nsa 3) sleep,eat,...,write
ascii_field: but it could almost have been written by
mircea_popescu ...
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: the boys are biologically equipped only to be cannon fodder, really
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: that it is not unreasonable to say 'i will not compete with 16 y.o. if i have any choice in the matter'
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: this is the boon of late adolescence/early adulthood : that you can do any stressful job and you'll be fine. what you can't really do is slef-manage tho. which is kind of why i'm indignant over all the wastage sv/the us generally is doing to these eager kids making them "ceos" of "start-ups". << hence, >>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-04-2015#1094083 ☝︎ BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Once you set the cows free they stop going to Walmart
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> it's not heritable but a weak indicator. and one of the prevailing theories is that it's kindled, ie, you could be fine but then you had to go stress it to all shit. 99% get ptsd, 1% actually gets schizo. << Kindling is the dominant theory among the credible people.
PeterL:
mircea_popescu: you were looking for me?
mike_c: <+
mircea_popescu> you know it's a major sign of early onset schizophrenia among other unsavory things ? << unsavory things like parenthood..
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: speaking of tweaks, you have "gullbile" in your last article in footnote v
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: It's what it appears to be.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I'm seeing decimal odds pay 2.69 x stake for betting on Pacquiao
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Yeah. Him and Pacquiao have just been doing old people set up fights these past few years, because boxing is uncompetitive as hell
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: it isn't an on-demand print, either
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu could convince an eskimo that he is an eskimo ?
☟︎ BingoBoingo recalls suprise at
mircea_popescu's default chimp being the blowjob species
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: now you know why i'm in my mousetrap.
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2015 17:38:08;
mircea_popescu: "Jaron Lanier is one of the world’s great polymaths. He’s a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and the author of a new book, Who Owns the Future?, published last month "
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: not only this, but feeds the academic mandarin class