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mircea_popescu: the discussion here is carried statistically, not "exceptions". i haven't picked up a phone in decades.
mircea_popescu: "In what we denote as "primitive societies", the superstition that knowing someone's true name gives you magic power over him is not unusual. We are hardly less primitive: why do we persist here in answering the telephone with the most unhelpful "hello" instead of our name?" << motherfucker. because if we TELL the name instead of hello, we therefore have no resources left to verify whether the other party called us or just ca
mircea_popescu: will eat my left foot will eat. legions do not cross the rubicon because the "emperor" knows full well they'll join the barbarians the next night.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, you know what the default reason is. "they would, if they dared".
mircea_popescu: as the saying goes, "and next year -- we launch rockets"
mircea_popescu: shinohai hey, i spent more on weapons systems than computers this year, for the first time since republic.
mircea_popescu: i deplore the archeologists of the future ; for whatever they do they shall be wrong.
mircea_popescu: the pic linked at some point, with the two sluts being fucked on bikes in the 60s, was remarkable specifically because those two guys might've been the yhoungest bike owners in history.
mircea_popescu: there's no 19yo biker. there's mostly 50-something war veteran.
mircea_popescu: do you picture him better going to academia in the same continous way, and faffing about "o, radical nvoelties" ?
mircea_popescu: dont' give me the "woulda but couldn't". fucktarded bikers had their own republic.
mircea_popescu: people have bene FAFFING ABOUT with "bdsm" and "castles in europe" for FIFTY YEARS.
mircea_popescu: "how to program if you cannot" is an absolutely fine soundbyte ; and correctly descriptive. but reading the stuff it is mouted in, i can't help but think maybe he meant something entirely else than what it self-evidently means.
mircea_popescu: instead he mentions that some guy said nobody will ever run a 5 second 100m.
mircea_popescu: (quite literal example, impedance is the EXACT name of resistance of medium to em )
mircea_popescu: this is substantially fine ; but as presented it's a jumble of disjoints. resistance of the medium is in there, but not alone.
mircea_popescu: ie they expected a continuous process where n osuch thing was available ?
mircea_popescu: there is ~something~ there being parasitized by all the nonsense, but it is screamingly NOT what he tries to make it be.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, his nonsensical discussion of radical novelties has one effect and one effect only : to drive the pantsuit narrative.
mircea_popescu: this is not an isolated flaw : his notion that "oh, those dumb spanyards who didn't think at university" is a typically ustardian misretelling of counter-imagined history.
mircea_popescu: applying the "o noes, computer is much faster now" meme as if it meant something only drives home the nonsensical view that "computer is faster". which it fucking isn't, computer of today is well slower than computer of 1980.
mircea_popescu: one's in the winter and the other's in the ocean are the important considerations there.
mircea_popescu: there's no substantial difference "that has to be accounted for" between bridging the san francisco bay and bridging the mostly dry three metre wide obscure rivulet in ontario that are due to "hey, 3 degrees of magnitude distance ! 12 degrees of magnitude water debit!!" etcetera nonsense.
mircea_popescu: so, the differential of computing speed and movement speed are not directly comparable as he proposes.
mircea_popescu: for the record, i find it impossible to discern sense and nonsense in this dijkstra article, they're so tightly coupled together.
mircea_popescu: in other news, diana_coman now using "faffing about" ; trinque prevails linguistically!
mircea_popescu: incidentally, deedbot behaving quite well ounder heavy loads...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so ? a principle is not "this thing i believe while it pays me to do so"
mircea_popescu: orderly wound down. which in itself is a feat in this space.
mircea_popescu: he's older and has a lot of that protestant "thou shalt not make a scandal" cockroaches in his head.
mircea_popescu: ^ dude got raped by the canadian government, who the fuck heard of this nonsense, "you are a respected businessman with a functioning business, here's the petrol"
mircea_popescu: dooglus yo, i like you, but at some point you'll have to choose between sticking with the stockholm syndrome and moving on with your life. i'd like to hear it explicitly ; and for that matter so would you.
mircea_popescu: !!rate DicePower -1 tried teh anal child behaviour, didn't do anything for him. by all means, "he just didn't try it the right way", i'm sure.