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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: lol
this break is exactly
the point i'm making on my 'second crack' update
mircea_popescu: not unlike
trying
to approximate pi on
the basis of fortran four.
mircea_popescu: much like bitcoin finance is so slippery, even for
the best financial minds.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nonstandard stuff is nonstandard, disruption is disruption.
the bitcoin (tmsr~) management model is simply difficult
to grok
mircea_popescu: what measures could
they be ? shift
the active from
this
to
that,
therefore disrupting
this now ?
mircea_popescu: same
thing, it'd seem. "our enemies", ie, sloth and stupidity, have disrupted our webcomic. LET US
TAKE MEASURES!11
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski as an exercise for you : what is
the difference between
the disruption caused by
the absence of
the comrade joke webcomic, which nobody has started yet, and
the disruption caused by
the absence of x service, which equally doesn't exist but at some point did ?
williamdunne: trinque: How can
that emerge? Already exists nope?
mircea_popescu: italians only woke up
to
the model a half millenium later, but basically doing
the same.
pete_dushenski: cazalla: just
that it's a function of 'inherently bad' incentive structures
mircea_popescu: spend persia's money, spend rome's money, spend
turks money, spend british money, spend usian money,
they will spend someone else's money.
williamdunne: trinque:
Thought I'd read something about
them not being willing
to do so, can't find it now
though so probably
the effects of alcohol
pete_dushenski: cazalla: it also encourages more frequent posting and more in-depth research, so i'm not saying it's an unreasonable
trade-off
mircea_popescu: the greeks have exactly zero incentive
to do anything other
than "housewife" and haven't, for ~2300 years now.
pete_dushenski: cazalla:
the incentive is
there is all, hard
to
tease out
the psychology past
that
trinque: they've got craploads of natural resources in
their wallet aside from other
things
mircea_popescu: it's going
to simply leech money off a different husband
mircea_popescu: williamdunne no dude. greece has
the african scam down pat.
cazalla: i really don't
think he does
that in order
to scoop up a few additional shares
though
trinque: from within
the wotnet I may (depending on its design) be able
to explicitly delegate
the hosting
task
to some other
trusted party should I be absent
cazalla: pete_dushenski, be specific because i go so far as
to exclude
the monthly reports from
the word counts
trinque: pete_dushenski: part of
the answer
to
the question of making
the republic's bot services fault
tolerant is getting
them within a damn wotnet
assbot: Logged on 27-06-2015 21:21:25; mircea_popescu: yes, but
the deliberate design of incentive structures is a bad idea.
williamdunne: Massive decline or outright collapse, followed by
the rise of a Nazi party or similar?
williamdunne: Any speculation on what's going
to happen with Greece in
the coming years
then?
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pete_dushenski: either way, an *index* losing 19% in
two weeks is 2008-level of panic
jurov: my favourite motto was lately "Historia meretrix vitae" .. on seeing
these examples I'm
thinking how
to get it more...er.. penetrating
jurov: (just some snippet i found
today, might be vaguely related, but smells by lingua latina canina)
jurov: orly, nobody hunts
the cocks?
punkman: I
trimmed
the bison's butthairs, but
they grew back.
mircea_popescu: cum's
the
tastiest
thing i nature from what i hear, nobody hunts
the cock.
jurov: dunno about reward
there
mircea_popescu: The Most Serene Republic Of~ <<
this sounds great i gotta say.
mircea_popescu: ftr,
there is no serious evidence as
to
the exact fisiology of vaginismus either.
mircea_popescu: (amusingly enough, romanian even has expression
to describe
this in man - "s-or catelit" ie,
they've doggied
themselves)
mircea_popescu: think of pc as "vaginismus
that declared while guy was inside"
mircea_popescu: but very related. a spasm is always at
the root of both
mircea_popescu: (because of
the
tearing, vagal never innervation makes
the smooth muscles over-reactive)
mircea_popescu: (btw - never ask virgin
to clamp down on you. it's a little discussed fact
that vast majority of penis captivus cases come out of something lik
that)
mircea_popescu: seems you've fucked
that hole into some looseness by now...
pete_dushenski: is providing something
to hunt, or
the directions
to
the hunting field, not 'incentive structure' ?
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, people also need self-esteem. i'm not about
to "provide" it for
them, in vacu-sealed packages. and
they need
to hunt, which does not reduce
to "i'ma let a half dozen naked girlies loose in
their room see what happens".
that's how rich people destroy
their children.
mircea_popescu: much like
tests in school select for and breed
test
takers.
mircea_popescu: because
the only
thing it does is select for and breed rats.
mircea_popescu: yes, but
the deliberate design of incentive structures is a bad idea.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: sometimes financial, sometimes honourary, sometimes a million other
things in a million other ways
mircea_popescu: just not what
this
thing's supposed
to be, in my dreams.
mircea_popescu: i don't see why i'd want
to have an equivalent of
the mcd supervisor, calling people at home
to remind
them
they work.
mircea_popescu: "the demands of meatspace readily overwhelm
the demands of #bitcoin-assets" <<
this is everyone's own measure
to measure.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:
the ibmpc buildroot sounds like a spec for
the 'trilema jobs board'
mircea_popescu: kinda why i keep asking people "who are you". nobody seems
to ever be anyone, which is odd, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: for artists i suppose it's eulora work etc.
there's really no shortage o shit
to do.
mircea_popescu: atm
the entry level
thing for coders is, "follow
the pogo
thing, build along,
test cases etc". for non-coders is, qntra.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know
this isn't a random process. what makes you
think it's for him ?
mircea_popescu: a loosely maintained list of posts, and a loosely maintained list of "don't shoot
that way dummy" makes sense, but s'about all.