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mircea_popescu: (but nice trick with the archive there, got me to check out
reddit and it wasn't even talking about me!)
mircea_popescu: this sounds shockingly dumb when stated, but then again in point of fact average usian has "many sources of information :
reddit, wikipedia, six different fake news outlets + nature!"
mircea_popescu: amusingly, this is 2010 trilema. recently making the rounds on
reddit, and such.
mircea_popescu: every dick and jane's expectation that "we did it
reddit" is the faint echo of, man walked on the moon and generally speaking drove a wedge forcing a reevaluation of the celestial peerage. "as eternal as the nile flood" is no longer equal to "as eternal as the tide".
mircea_popescu: no dude, it's like, on
reddit. and our democracy. what do you mean!
trinque: by now "we did it,
reddit!" has leaked into every other rag on the net
shinohai: Lol Roger Ver got suspended from
reddit mircea_popescu: so, yet again : either you know computers, today, in which case you don't need the "open source" usgtards ; or else you don't know computers, today, in which case YOU NEVER WILL. period. no escape, no buts, no nothing. you NEVER WILL. and consequently it fucking does not matter one diddly what you do, be it github or
reddit or writing lengthy missives to asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: somewhat odd, i actually see trilema as #2, above
reddit and below something called ibtimes
mircea_popescu: (yes, yes, "prb nodes will outcompete". sure. and
reddit/wikipedia/etc outcompete us, totally.)
mircea_popescu: good thing there's
reddit. now that yahoo "finance" closed the public boards, where'd all the scum go.
pete_dushenski:
http://archive.is/Q0e9f << and another example of
reddit delusions not being confined to ethereum and shillary. apparently these poor kids are making up their own non-existent 90s movies now.
mircea_popescu: this otherwise defensible stand (at least in general) is why computer languages may never become more than shopping lists ; but then again fashion-behaviour (as seen in both languages and github/
reddit) may have the last word.
mircea_popescu: the first gives youy ballista AND
REDDIT ; and the other gives you praxitelles and alf-s-gentoo
mircea_popescu: there ISNT an outcome where they go on
reddit and wikipedia to say the opposite of what they think, see ?
mircea_popescu: if luck/skill/process/whatever feeds them, they'll be fed and go on
reddit and wikipedia to say what ~they think~ about it. right or wrong.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587072 << the evolution of paul graham's internet : first, ashley madison made a site where scripted "women" interacted with loser men ; then, a bunch of kids made a bunch of sites where scripted "users" interact with scripted "users" : facebook,
reddit, instagram, twitter, you name it. ALL of them, simply put.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-12-16 17:49 phf: oh, shit, we've got a
reddit consensus over here
phf: oh, shit, we've got a
reddit consensus over here
☟︎ Framedragger: mircea_popescu: that subdomian forces
https on traffic, was originally intended for '
reddit gold' (sic) users, but is available to all nowandgodwhydoiknowthis
mircea_popescu: if you feel like anything good ; and if you feel like nothing in particular
reddit's that way.
mircea_popescu: (arguably this is also in the past - not like i'm actually forbidding redditards to
reddit, even as i am squeezing the cream from the thing)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no ; because modernism hadn't ended yet. but the chick herself - if she weren't twerking she'd be on
reddit . there is literally NOTHING for her to do.
mircea_popescu: i have no interest in the misguided speculations of
reddit as such, they're not a demographic as much as a random number machine.
mircea_popescu: same repeats for all the various bright minds in their own /
reddit's estimation.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-05#1577731 << also 2005 (if you search the logs knowing what you're looking for) is a stand in for "decade of tail end of somewhat sane computing". linux on desktop hasn't wrecked the ecosystem yet, apple is selling unix boxes (and not phones), ibm is selling professional laptops, no
reddit, no smartphone culture, no facebook, etc.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: before the "digg revolution" which subsists today in derpy wanan-be incantations like 9gag,
reddit etc, and before the great "internet revolution" of aol shitting all voer the place, there was another substantially identical "revolution", where pointless college degrees started sitting pointessly in offices cca 1970 and creating "office life". but BEFORE all that scum and rot, most dumb kids were farmers, and smart kids were
ben_vulpes: not precisely my link, but
reddit appears down from here
mircea_popescu: i think maybe it was
reddit's rendition of a cock ? crushed ?
shinohai: There was an enterprising lady on
reddit iirc who charged 0.1 to keep the tards locked up in one weekly.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile according to
reddit, theguardian.com is a respectable source and qntra.net is the spamsite. because totally.
mircea_popescu: they have a point -
reddit is now not really protected by the whatever act.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i'm quoting from that qntra article. apparently it's
reddit admin or somesuch
Framedragger: heh. labour theory of value for
reddit: i spend hour at
reddit while you spend hour at
reddit at work - why we unequal
mircea_popescu: "why myspace users make myspace gold which is worth three
reddit gold ?!?!? UNFARE!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform none of (
reddit clicking / forum derping / bdsming) is a profesion.
mircea_popescu: because hey, selling the dumbasses for actual money would expose a) their collective poverty and b) force change. so they use tokens, which supposedly come "from activity", ie like
reddit gold, but in practice are a transparent ploy to enforce a social hierarchy without social basis. ie, EXACTLY ycombinator.
mircea_popescu: which is why - write 2500 pointless comments on
reddit, yay! but make yourself a key nay!
mircea_popescu: i don't think the general public is mentally capable of using irc. it just doesn't fit the
reddit/disqus/chatroulette/4chan/whatever thing
Framedragger: i think that many of them do not, in the sense that e.g. you understand "conversation". i don't know. i got that picture when i had spent time on
reddit.
mircea_popescu: and in other side chuckles, everytime someone mentions me on
reddit everyone KNOWS shit, in the sense of having personal library of "outrageous mp quotes", and the whole thing turns into a contest of whose list is better.
mircea_popescu: if anyone cares to put it in ... what was the shithole,
reddit ? hacker news ?
mircea_popescu: this is what they mean when they say
reddit makes one stupid : "social media" tends to drive this name-object confusion in young'uns.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it was ok for the
reddit hordes to not read that. because why ? and i suppose it was acceptable for college kids to NOT LEARN IT. since when is self-directed education a thing ? and why would it be ?
mircea_popescu: "pay us to pay
reddit to show you the
reddit link you paid us at" ?
mircea_popescu: i dont' get it, what's this, "advertisement" on
reddit for
reddit run as a sort of kickstarter ?