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mircea_popescu: and now think -- that for his great merits, aristotle was in fact given by the city "2000 btc", ie exactly what you mean by it, "sufficient money so as i can be a righteous man alone".
mircea_popescu: this scandal is why aristotle didn't even fucking want plato's disgusting silver.
mircea_popescu: and aristotle had to face this desert before his eyes : here, you did what you thought best, and here's what came of it, your students trying to force innocent men to take part inb murders to avoid retribution.
mircea_popescu: nevermind phaedo. socrates tried, his whole life, to make people capable of standing on their own. and his products, among which plato is a minor outlier, held that bloody affair, where most of the city was gutted.
mircea_popescu: do you understand the terrible shame plato was, for socrates ?
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 so i take it you're familiar with history as retold by the esl : how socrates died, and how plato did not die.
mircea_popescu: but i affirm that you equivocate "lesiure", in that your idea of leisure is never what occured when actual civilisation was produced.
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 but you are aware how the economics of either greek philosophy or jazz music worked irl ?
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 so where's the 500 rembrandts ? (do you know the reference ?)
mircea_popescu: tis infinitely better to be a promising systems developer than to be a guy who wasn't cool enough for the chunk of bitcoin he got.
mircea_popescu: and in all cases the answer comes back again and again, "i was an inadequate successor to a greater past".
mircea_popescu: "What were you in this life ?" is no small matter. and yes it requires a correct answer ; what's the trust fund do for that ?
mircea_popescu: occasionally hollywood nuts leave pets behind in the ~same situation also. they get a daily pellet and so on.
mircea_popescu: but what is the difference ? some ancestor decided to preserve his degeneration. as a rock or as a grandson, whatever. are they more than this ?
mircea_popescu: you're not about to tell me these shambling ruins are people or something.
mircea_popescu: and i know jewish cemeteries with upkept graves. what's the difference ?
mircea_popescu: you have to answer questions, and answer them correctly, and for ~all time.
mircea_popescu: money has specific needs of you, duh. what, you think it cares about your family ?
mircea_popescu: if you want a lot of monyz, business is the only way. there, you risk losing it, and you learn what it is and how it works. if that's not of your interest, you can never have it. period. even if you think you do, for whatever reason. are you familiar with the all-amusing ers example ?
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 looky, the only reason you want "an infinity of monyz" is "so that i don't have to tihnk of monyz anymore", which is simply the way you've rephrased "so i can be stupid with impunity" in a way to meet your blindspots.
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 this certainty is borne out of nothing in particular. i've been sitting here for many years, watching many kinds and sorts of people getting power beyond their means.
mircea_popescu: and in exactly the way a toddler suddenly getting 2000 Nm impulse would be worse off.
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 you'd be terribly worse off, and so would be the bitcoin ecosystem.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: douchebag it's almost certainly due to their not having had keys ; because otherwise payments work.
mircea_popescu: evolution at work, the reason the fish doesn't remove the bloodsucker is that the bloodsucker is so designed as to sit in the fish's blind spot.
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 understand, this self-flattering notion that you're in control is bunk. you're in no position to be in control in that sense. all that you're filtering for by that mechanism is "bullshit deal i don't comprehend". which... of course you would be.
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 it relates specifically to the "which is why real funding for wireguard would be so much better". no, it wouldn 't be. you'd just end up trapped in some sort of bullshit deal.
mircea_popescu: costa rica is starting to rub off on me, biodiversidad Y TECHNODIVERSIDAD!
mircea_popescu: i promise you it's worth the read ; if you read it and think otherwise you can come here an' complain.
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 it's more generally about how the whole sucker business works.
mircea_popescu: understand, being poor is like being skinny : no lion running after you.
mircea_popescu: kinda why i never bothered ; basically the whole "tech" imperial flea circus is this game of trying to outsource your costs on a sucker. whether it's ugc or gsoc, or "investing" or w/e else.
mircea_popescu: except of course if they're also dreaming of great towering riches in exchange for doing what they were going to do anyway.
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 how's that work out btw ? i vaguely considered it for eulora but never actually bothered to push the point.
mircea_popescu: douchebag maybe i checked too late. anyway, ima wait for the man to come by and set this straight.
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 you pretty much work alone on the thing, don;t you ?
mircea_popescu: where luck mostly evaluates to "making sense to people in power".
mircea_popescu: so then do what you like. you'll never be rich, but with some luck you'll never die
mircea_popescu: why are you doing systems programming if you're after great flowering riches ? go into business.
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 i don't get it, you just got a coin, should last you a while neh ?
mircea_popescu: thatbitchlola not this long usually ; im waiting for trinque to show up there's something weird going on.
mircea_popescu: thatbitchlola you can voice yourself now ; say !!up to deedbot in a pm, then !!v the string it gives you (have to decrypt first)
mircea_popescu 's experimentation in wetware computing & networking is proceeding apace.
mircea_popescu: hanbot these are gonna become incantations lol. "hi i'm here to show you my tits" "<< it's good for about half a n hour, don't dilly-dally." and so on.
mircea_popescu: haleyyyyy 96ddc81a << it's good for about half a n hour, don't dilly-dally.
mircea_popescu: will give the old farts in the chicago senate heartburn.
mircea_popescu: that way you can move into the future, conduct your negotiations as "three bitcents for 9348aafb and 2.5 bitcents for ffa03994"
mircea_popescu: so then what's yo lazy ass waiting for, get the hos writing neh!
mircea_popescu: douchebag so did we mostly see thatbitchlola 's stable, or are these actually unrelated caches ?
mircea_popescu: SluttyDiamond 2fb5eb10 << it's good for about half a n hour, don't dilly-dally.
mircea_popescu: so now... you're still not going to say how much the all-nighter is for a pair ?