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phf: mircea
_popescu: did werther turn to evil?
shinohai: mircea
_popescu: it does not have gribble wot
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: "The beta-males also wish to be alpha, but for whatever reason they are realistically incapable of it, so they must accept the role of trying to impregnate a female when she is fertile by keeping her away from an alpha-male." interesting perspective.
☟︎ shinohai: iit already has this mircea
_popescu
phf: it's like you're now on the other side in the gabriel
_laddel mcclim debate
felipelalli: mircea
_popescu: znc running in a fucking rubish vps. any problem please swear at me again.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> if mircea
_popescu had written that rodgier ought to have ~been buggered~, or enslaved by arabs, or similar, i would have no dispute. but it is just as fantastic to posit schmuck going into pederasty willingly, as to picture him growing taller by effort of will << He probably would enthusiastically have embraced getting buggered if he was a level 70 chocolate elfhole while recieving buggery
phf: mircea
_popescu: i misplaced my eulora account, can i get a password reset?
phf: mircea
_popescu: oof, there aren't any. i've not updated the build scripts for the new version and it's not a "some pointers" kind of process
shinohai: bit of a voluptuous girl there mircea
_popescu !
shinohai: only one i know is flash mircea
_popescu, at yer own risk
a111: Logged on 2014-10-30 23:55 mircea
_popescu: undata: if only there were some way to organize the efforts of a large number of people around projects <<< there is. you're watching it. just because leadership is not in your face doesn't necessarily mean leadership is absent and it's your time to shine. it may also mean leadership is extremely good at what it does.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-26 01:15 mircea
_popescu: back in the days trinque was called undata i made the point to him that merely because management is not apparent is a sign that management is extremely competent ; not an invitation to try and scare up some "management stone soup".
adlai waves goodnight to mircea
_popescu
adlai: asciilifeform: again, i stand corrected. maybe it's past my bedtime, if mircea
_popescu hears 'glee' in my keystrokes.
mod6: <+mircea
_popescu> o hai << hey! also had some lulz reading part III of Rodger on the train.
trinque: mircea
_popescu: hm, right. I'm describing a particular brand of neurotic american stress, not petrification.
trinque: diana
_coman was commenting on the biological fact that being permanently afraid shuts down memory retention
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 14:45 mircea
_popescu: this is because you also don't grasp the concept of "learning" correctly. there is no required participation of the fucking subject in learning actual matter, such as philosophy. if i were teaching them cooking i'd be interested in their own fucking contribution and whatever. but the point of philosophy is to shut the fuck up and LEARN. what "the text makes you think" and what "you feel about X" is entirely uninteresting, bec
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman in english, "petrified" denotes the situation of the mouse beset by snake, who can't move away ; not the situation of sodomites turned to salt by a vengeful god.
diana_coman: mircea
_popescu, that sounds then like an excellent class in waking up early, but with dubious results philosophy-wise :p
shinohai wonders when mircea
_popescu will offer him full-time staff position as curator of players and tits
shinohai: mircea
_popescu: khaos49 has key, needs acct
shinohai: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu new Eulora blood awaits your arrival.
mircea_popescu: indoor
_jellyfish a lot of the stuff is pretty perplexing.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 00:29 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-24#1528679 << not all the children are fit to live ; all the parents are liable to lie to themselves on this score. this impedance mismatch is the first and in plenty of approximations the only business of social science.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 06:02 mircea
_popescu: it's so fucking weird - kid evidently comes from money. he didn't find a brothel ? a roach peddler ? nuttin' ?
deedbot: indoor
_jellyfish voiced for 30 minutes.
phf: mircea
_popescu: you're totally right, i have no idea what i was thinking
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 00:56 mircea
_popescu: "better ai" is no improvement when it traduces in practice to "must play a game with known/computable solution" .
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 00:55 mircea
_popescu: (it's also not terribly fun to play over the age of about 12 or so, for this very reason. supaplex, which had dumber scissors (always left/right hand rule) AND allowd you to turn them around was much more interesting game (when scissors applied))
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 18:26 ben
_vulpes: reminds me of a conversation with the excavator operator the other day: "how'd you get your wife to let you buy a corvette?" "let?!"
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 15:41 diana
_coman: true that; my thought there was informed by the fact that a 2 years old can be happily kept occupied with perfectly-adequate stuff IF someone points them to it; on the other hand if left on their own, they will ~always find a destructive thing to do
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 17:23 asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu: as i understand (and this is quite certainly not an expert view) most mmporg tried to use robotic 'npc' to fill this eco niche.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 14:36 mircea
_popescu: diana
_coman i wish to meet the father that actually does this.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> ben
_vulpes: i half-expect to hand out otp's at the next meat gathering. << werd.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-23 23:23 pete
_dushenski: true, having whole gang together is rather appealing tho
shinohai: mircea
_popescu well i hope you're having fun. <<< least I could do in exchange for the #trilema girl
a111: Logged on 2014-08-27 01:00 asciilifeform: 'pardon my cynical twist, but what are you doing with that 20,000×20,000 double-precision floating point matrix you say you need to invert
_today
_? If you answer "nutt'n, I jus kinda wondered what it'd be like, you know", you should be very happy that I am most likely more than 3000 miles away from you, or I would come over and slap you hard.'
trinque: I have started lurking in #clim to see how gabriel
_laddel's climwars are going.
shinohai: mircea
_popescu: the eulora post?
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman hip displasia also "always was, and always will be".
diana_coman: mircea
_popescu> also consider - someone like the young rodger is the result of careful selection over the generations. <- thing is: if ancients were aware of the type, this selection thing is not really that relevant: there probably always was, there always will be
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 14:26 asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu: being run over by a 2-horse carriage at age 7 would have helped.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 14:33 mircea
_popescu: asciilifeform wouldn't have been judged fit for service since 1800s