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gabriel_laddel: e.g., don't let smelly homeless into
the neato hacker fortress in SF
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my main problem is
that i find interacting with meat people
to be a very mentally
taxing
thing. << explain ?
gabriel_laddel: if
they'd just get out of
the way, it would be a lot of fun.
gabriel_laddel: Hrm. In
the silly valley
the problem with
these hackerspaces is
typically idiots everywhere.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:43:46; asciilifeform: i mean, say 241st
tank regiment rolls down your street every morning
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i surmise
that
the oak may sleep
to everything, except
those
times when it's awake ? :D
mircea_popescu: the interaction between
the fantasyt of
the superhero and
the constraints of
the reality got resolved by
the above observation resulting in
the field of
the "private eye"
mircea_popescu: the happy
travelling salesman is
the salesman
that has a girlfriend in every
town on
the route and a friendly boss at every competitor.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:33:48; phf: apartment living goes well with other outsourced infrastructure, i.e. ghetto warehouse for your lathe-placement-needs. you can do it on
the cheap by pulling resources at a hackerspace
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:28:38; asciilifeform:
then anything bigger
than a lift cabin is burned $
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:28:13;
trinque: most of my work involves
the device in my lap currently, don't need
tons of space
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:22:48;
trinque: and
that wasn't even because of
the beautiful women living
there
mircea_popescu: we are all people and we will successfully rebel against
the necessary effects of
the mistaken belief
that we are people
through
the mechanism
that people can do whatever
they want and we are people
too!
mircea_popescu: ask
the fucking "start your own country" crowd, not me.
mircea_popescu: yo Naphex wouldja consider putting "get in
the wot" among
the
tasks for performers
that earn
them a fee reduction ? i'm willing
to support it on
the other end with
the cents for
tits programme.
mircea_popescu: The music of John Cage, Charlotte Moorman and Annie Sprinkle will
take you by
the hand, correlating Gamma zeros with prime numbers! Imagine deriving Euler's constant from Stirlings asymptotic series! Imagine never living in fear or embarrassment again!
This life can be your own!
mircea_popescu: "Hooked on Differential Equations" sets each of
these simple concepts
to music.
Twisted Sister, Metallica,
The Dead Kennedys,
mircea_popescu: There are only 90 primitive functional, algebraic, polynomial, logarithmic,
trigonometric, exponential, and differential
transformations.
There are only a dozen basic
tactics for methods of solution.
There are only 33 rudimentary sine and cosine
transforms.
There are only 29 elementary classes of Fourier
transform functions.
There are only a few score series expansion modalities.
mircea_popescu: wolf has many liberties, but among
them is not
the liberty
to move around ignoring
the cattle herd.
mircea_popescu: same
thing. at least in romania, at some point
the fuckable herd, 20somethings in pr and design and whatnot, decided
this is
the cool.
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure
twitter pivoted from
the "come advertise us for free, you canthen read yourr stuff"
to
the v2.0 model of "thanks for all
the free advertising, you can't really do anymore so now fuck off".
mircea_popescu: (from
the "if money's a curse, may god strike me down with it! and may i never recover!" series)
mircea_popescu: it is a curse, not entirely unlike, say, being born intolerant of
the smell of farts.
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with either, but large groups have come
to significant grief
trying
to deny
the wall / piss uphill.
mircea_popescu: internal discipline never exists in a void. either you are a discipline factor, in which case you will, willy nilly, attract slaves and construct an ordered space, by
the act of mere existence, or you are a discipline beneficiary, in which case you will slowly gravitate, also willy nilly,
towards a structured space.
mircea_popescu: also, drunkenly beating your wife because
the food was burned does not represent domestic discipline. scl.
mircea_popescu: also,
three ring binder management is not a good representative of management.
mircea_popescu: the freedom
to waste
time is not equivalent
to lack of accountability.
mircea_popescu: exploratory does
too. /me has run scouts in
the field, knows.
mircea_popescu: taking advantage of sociocultural shifts
that made such masquerade feasible.
mircea_popescu: to me
this is a good indicator of
the subiacent
truth : orwell was not really a writer, just masquerading as one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this incredible drive of
the hobo
to file off some gold from el dorado and run off with it back into
the gutter.
mircea_popescu: the reason "notation is worth 30 iq points" is specifically
that good notations = properly crystallized
topic.
mircea_popescu: once newton/leibniz fixed notation, for instance,
to
take a very easy historical example,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it is not
terribly useful, in
that nobody has a fucking clue how
to approach
the serious problems.
mircea_popescu: so, yes, it's math (ie, proven, correct, what have you), in which sense it physically exists, with so and so properties. just like
the petrified shit in
the peat.
mircea_popescu: it needs
to be A LOT more crystalline before it does any serious damage
to
the walls of
the world.
mircea_popescu: currently it could be fair
to say we have a large lump of peat bog math.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel a large part of
the problem is
that math is very poorly structured.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I remember reading it, and at
the
time I couldn't
tell if you were discussing seriously using V as a basis for academics, or just
the general notion of having a explicit academic WoT.
mircea_popescu: right for a definition of right
that didn't even exist pre 2015.
mircea_popescu realises
that probably no one else's light went off when alf was getting all excited about vmath
that what he was seeing really was "omfg, usable molecular chem."
☟︎ mircea_popescu has never been involved in
the field, some minor amateur interest, and
the math.
mircea_popescu: oh right, cuz you used
to work at
the mice farm, it's starting
to come back
to me
mircea_popescu: anyway, leach, great book. i dun
think i understood most of it, but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: you
think linux is in bad shape,
that just means you don't know enough math.
mircea_popescu: the models are shit because math is broken because idiots do strings
theory and social fucking "sciences"
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform:
the models being shit is because of
the von-n bottleneck, no?
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:14:54; phf: hah, i know some people working on
that nci db of plausible compounds, part of
the whole potomac russian jews community
mircea_popescu: contrary
to what you might
think,
these are basically human pick-and-place machines.