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ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: useful for hauling around
the office, showing stuff in meetings etc.
mircea_popescu: i own like 3 of
the
things, i used
them for maybe five hours
total
the past year.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how come
they make sake argument and not say wine argument, or rum argument.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just because he's richer
than you doesn't automatically make him not poor you know :D
mod6: lol, we didn't see one, just a lot of books
that probably never get read.
mod6: In minneapolis
they'd have never let
them put
that in
the same neighborhood. So Iowa is a bit cooler? Still shocked by
this.
mircea_popescu: maybe
the managers were like "hey, b-a luminary and
trb maintainer mod seeks is coming over, EVERYONE ON ATTENTION!!1. Joe, call your wife, I know we said we'd never put her on but man...
THIS IS
TMSR!"
mod6: Ahah. You know.. it was funny how
this place was zoned...
there was a Library with a childrens place across
the street. few other bars. Post office.
mod6: So yeah,
the reviews were pretty much bullshit -- at least for
that night.
mod6: The reviews on google for
this place was HORRIBLE, but we were like "fuck it".
mircea_popescu: i've yet
to find a strip joint
that's not really a kindergarten of
the retarded.
mircea_popescu: for hall in
the wall
this sounds actually far above buenos aires' best and brightest.
mod6: This other girl with
the hula-hoops had me mezmorized. :D
mod6: lol, I had
to look up at her.
mod6: she was about.. 6'2", 6'3", maybe
taller in 5 inch heels.
mod6: naw. didn't say much
to her. just let her dance on me.
mod6: there was a
tall blond with a nice rack-of-lamb
that was just for you Mr. P. You would have liked her I
think. :]
mircea_popescu: oh dude... am i going
to hear cca 2500
that i had a sideline in "poetry writing" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy was
tycho brache's cock puppet, what.
mod6: long drive. girls were pretty hot
tho.
mod6: this weekend was going
to
take a long road
trip.... my buddy pussed out in Des Moines so we stopped at a hole in
the wall stripclub
then proceeded
to drive directly back.
mod6: oh yeah, i see now,
those
three
things are in a line of my ls output in one of my
term windows.
mod6: haha. just checked
the log and was like "what in
the heck?!"
ben_vulpes: mod6: i
thought it was a sneaky release
mod6: wtf? sorry about
this line: log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-10-2015#1299790 I must have accidentially pasted it. :/
ben_vulpes: the higher level point is
that normal schmucks like me must suck cock.
mircea_popescu: you are promised at birth a life on your own
terms, or
to
the breaking of your bones, whichever comes first.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but if ignorant why pick at all. do you also run in
the dark ?
trinque: I have put
that doc back
through.
ben_vulpes: but i am an orc, ignorant history and might be picking
the wrong feller.
mircea_popescu: "even lord
tolstoy had
to write shakespeare
teardowns
to justify
the great russian novel!"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: even greats had
to write horoscopes
to justify
telescopes
mircea_popescu: (the reason is
that mine's really
the affirmative -
the dictum masquerades a negative as a pop-positive, is all)
mircea_popescu: does
the jump make sense or should i drop some pontoons ?
mircea_popescu: ansd you know,
the universal supreme goat council (USG) had a secret conspiracy
to import wolves into
the forest,
to keep
the baby goat herding behaviour going\
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2014 18:31:23; asciilifeform: chetty:
the whole purpose of 'biometric' crap is
to administratively fix
the designated chump as
the permanently-designated chump.
mircea_popescu: also, my nirvana inducing anal pole doesn't have
to work
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 20:06:41; asciilifeform: folks familiar with usg 'scientocracy' will laugh, but
the fact is,
the mind-reading box does not necessarily have
to... work.
to be put in use.
mircea_popescu: derstanding of
the ethical progressivism of society-- better
than lawyers or engineers or
teachers or priests or anyone else-- ethics which
they admit are constantly evolving-- but have
thankfully, magically, and conveniently reached
their culmination with
today.
The end of history. 4000 years of ethics, useless;
they got it all right with a grant from
the NIH and a subscription
to
The New Yorker."
mircea_popescu: "Do you want
to live in a world where
the criminality of an act--
the culpability of a person-- is based essentially on
the moral ADHD of a bunch of doctors with
third hand understanding of MRI results? Strike
that-- on a very select bunch of doctors who purport
to speak for
these other doctors, who claim
to have
the greatest grasp of
the science, and who claim in complete and absolute seriousness
to have
the best un
mircea_popescu: trying
to package and sell stupidity as racism is mostly a symptom of
that same problem.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless,
the argument is almost always presented as "the glucose consumption picture in
this guy's brain looks like
THESE splotches of blue/yellow/whatever,
therefore he's so-and-so like
these other guys whose pictures look similar".
mircea_popescu: quite exactly. it's not okay
to say "this man is black,
therefore he's guilty, because
that's
the nature of people
that are black"
mircea_popescu: n
the justice system. I'd argue any association studies have no place in court, especially when
they are read backwards ("because he has
this, he is
this.")
mircea_popescu: But more importantly, forensic brain scans represent
the worst kind of classism.
They say, essentially,
that because your brain looks very similar
to other brains,
then you belong in
that class; and you
take on
their other qualities.
They may be appropriate for scientific investigations-- as early clues directing further research, "hey,
this is interesting, let's look over here from now on"-- but
they have no place i
mircea_popescu: "TYRANNY IS A PREREQUISITE FOR QUALITY, APPLE RETCONNERS." << holy shit
this may even actually be defensible.
mircea_popescu: the difference is
that if you ignore
the former you get paid, and if you ignore
the latter you get hit in
the head.
mircea_popescu: there is a very fundamental difference between constructed complexity ("web
technology", astrology, political science etc) and actual complexity (protein folding, moving bodies in grav fields, etc)
ben_vulpes: the "web
tekmologys" assemblage is approaching
the complexity of protein engineering, and
the only
thing
that can be done is shake your problem space really hard until usable building blocks fall out.
mircea_popescu: "The Monte-Carlo approach
to engineering, if you will, but with humans doing a really bad job of playing RNG." << how mp's view of VC world sounds, without any of
the bile.
mircea_popescu: "all of
their
tools live in
the Web,
that bloated, miserable heap of accidentally co-executing
text-as-sort-of-program."
ben_vulpes: short walk? or did
the walk end in a shart?
mircea_popescu: duralumin, which is its first serious application, and what
those large cow milk receptacles were made out of, in
the 1920s pictures of farmers
throwing milk away
ben_vulpes: is
the ceramic-puffed "gold" in
the "watch" gold?
mircea_popescu: the only
thing is
that "aluminum" is not like steel, it's like iron. ie, an element.
ben_vulpes: "in aggregate
though,
the chemistry's
totally right!"
ben_vulpes: "but i can see
the coke bits floating in it. and it shatters when i hit it with a hammer."
ben_vulpes: if your al is chipping under hand load i'm not really willing
to accept
that it's aluminum
mircea_popescu: well depends what you alloy it with and how well you do
that.
ben_vulpes: yes, crack propagation under vibratory load is a
thing, but shouldn't
this shit be deforming instead of chipping?
punkman: mircea_popescu: great flavour for home-made pastries
too
mircea_popescu: ALUMINUM DOESN'T CHIP << yes it does ben_vulpes ; poorly formulated aluminium's major problem is chipping.
that's why it wasn't used in airframe fabrication from
the get-go.
mircea_popescu: it
turns out
to be not only
the best green
tea i ever had, but so fucking great i'm actually drinking some.
mircea_popescu: so i spent four dollars for eight ounces of jasmin green
tea.
mircea_popescu: as
to archeology : find a source.
that is
the only way archeology works. you must find someone who remembers
the history.