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empyex: mircea_popescu: Next conference starts in 6 months and 26 days. Estimated cost today: 3.29826841 BTC (Details: http://trilema.com/2014/the-conference-third-edition/ )
Dimsler: mircea_popescu, did ukraine in the summer
The20YearIRCloud: Are your anchovies imported fresh/live mircea_popescu ?
mats_cd03: 14:14:38 <+mircea_popescu> mats_cd03: inquiring minds want to know - is it even possible to do SEO these days? without blackhat methods, that is. << trilema ranks for pretty much any noun i deign to use, so yes.
ben_vulpes: brought her around once upon a time for a reason mircea_popescu
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu sounds like cartman sometimes.
ben_vulpes: lmao mircea_popescu stop copying me
chetty: well I didnt say good ones, mircea_popescu
julia_: are you being sincere +mircea_popescu
thestringpuller: how did mircea_popescu ask for you?
thestringpuller: where di mircea_popescu go?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> mircea_popescu: i'm always confused by your "copyright and IP lolol" attitude contrasted with the "these contracts are copyright MPEx 20**" lines in the MPEx contracts << there are some places ip makes sense.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm always confused by your "copyright and IP lolol" attitude contrasted with the "these contracts are copyright MPEx 20**" lines in the MPEx contracts
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: some sort of consistent treatment of focus << 'ratpoison' has 'polite mode' and 'rude mode' (window can open, on current display, or cannot.) i've them set to single key toggle.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu is a real human being and a real hero
cazalla: mircea_popescu, nothing to report, i am going to get back to it though
ben_vulpes`: mircea_popescu: regarding the north american indians - is their land theirs? is it not granted to them by the arms which surround, and worthless even at that?
decimation: mircea_popescu: Your "a woman's story" link is a nice story, but it does not present a picture of usg employment law today.
asciilifeform agrees in principle with mircea_popescu. but only gets to eat by 'turning correct screw' because of a set of personal connections which, as usual, aren't portable.
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> you know... i wasn't born rich. < http://www.tubechop.com/watch/3623336
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: know the 'which screw' joke ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one of my jobs is indeed a company i co-own - but the only customer is usg, and the office is required to be within a few km of a particular institute.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's he to do in argentina? teach the pampas cats and ocelots common lisp ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that part i understand.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, precisely that buffett thread
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3129896583995790@naggum.no.html << naggum & the tax men
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: yea. She's a lurker for sure.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> chetty well you're not in the demographic you know ?// you mean libtards? I dun have to be in it to be sick of it
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: is chetty a robot?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu you would get a kick out of gamersgate
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'On January 31, 2009, Bauman reported that ZVUE fired him and the rest of the staff and replaced them with a new team. Furthermore, Bauman claimed ZVUE are falsely using his name in connection with new material, making it look as if Bauman is still employed...' (pediwikia)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: anyone can pretend - even in antarctica. but if you mean, that audience will believe - sure. but what good does it do - if audience is broke.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just what is it a 'good place' to do? not even - to die. (ever see what even a pauper's burial costs here?)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the actual impedance of a stepper almost never matters
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not entirely complete mount bracket for this: http://imgur.com/Cd4Kghs
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu well it does have that stock market growth resembling line.
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu mike_c its on.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: symbolic maths packages traditionally err on the side of irreducibility
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the extreme computational poverty of the 20th c.
decimation: mircea_popescu: the bane of numerical analysis students?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on a lisp machine, you actually could.
decimation: mircea_popescu: the kernel kinda works that way
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'antisocial' in this case is same kind of 'antisocial' as, e.g., mathematicians who won't ask to learn from redditors how to do topology 'correctly according to the kommyoonity!'
decimation: mircea_popescu: presumably people were googling for reasons why bitcoin prices were falling
moriarty: mircea_popescu, as russia is finding out as a result of ukraine
moriarty: mircea_popescu, economic aggression can be just as painful
moriarty: mircea_popescu, the passport outlines where china thinks its borders are
moriarty: mircea_popescu, have you seen the latest china passport?
moriarty: mircea_popescu, china is actually pretty aggressive territorially
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ^ precisely why this outcome wasn't on the menu.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i'm misinformed, scotland runs deep in the red.
decimation: mircea_popescu: you mean educatin' the local youths?
moriarty: mircea_popescu, are you a fan of Dan-Mircea Popescu?
moriarty: mircea_popescu, self-employed, entrepreneur, corporate cog, etc
decimation: mircea_popescu: sounds legit, I'll try to adopt that nomenclature
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the man is, approximately, usa and colonies.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lw was itself, for a time, a 'solution' to reddit and hnews
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well, he'd like to have a say in whether anyone gets to research.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you were to listen to mr. y, mis-programmed 'agi' is likely to, e.g., disassemble the known universe into constituent atoms to build a gigantic live mendeleev table. because it likes to sort things. or the like...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they have an elaborate narrative where 'intelligence' can take on the role of uncontrolled fissile chain reaction (of the kind that was thought to be possible pre-1945)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'artificial general intelligence' in their parlance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: except that they subscribe to every dogma of present-day usg (incl. 'climate science', 'equality', 'democracy') and so maintain various pretenses.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: approximately.
moriarty: agreed, mircea_popescu
moriarty: mircea_popescu, it doesn't help that the metrics of a good academic is the number of publications, one that seems to be robust in the face of peer review, but take a peek behind the curtain only to unveil the editorial committee having ties to the same university, sigh
moriarty: mircea_popescu, yeah i don't care too much for academia, when i've realised the amount of crap coming from most institutions
moriarty: mircea_popescu, lol
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: It’s a one time universal library card << yes, yes it is.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, others : http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/not-all-programmers-alike/#comment-3728 << smbx for the impatient.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the death of smbx corp. is almost an entire field of scholarship..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: had industrial utility (one of largest customers - 'american express') - but - smbx spent $maxint on r&d, relied on usg to pay for this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to understand, it is necessary to see it. e.g., http://www.loper-os.org/?p=932
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the final doom of smbx corp. was sealed by 'ai winter.' in turn, the demise of the lm ensured that there would be no 'spring' - because carrying on the work in a non-homoiconic language is much like attempting algebra with roman digits.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall your quip about heart and liver ?
moriarty: mircea_popescu, lol let me see
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'anyone' where?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sponsor for what ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lesswrong << i was de-facto banished there.
decimation: mircea_popescu: then don't eat, if deemed shitty in the subjective opinion of the bureaucrat of the day
decimation: mircea_popescu: you can't, so you put it on display. your job: wash the sidewalk
moriarty: mircea_popescu, i assume ironic humour, rather than any attempt to negate oneself ;)
moriarty: mircea_popescu, i was just being euphemistic :P
moriarty: mircea_popescu, it's the quintessential Veblen goods
moriarty: mircea_popescu, the value in the set may be so economically, but socially? you attain more value by going for the unattainable
moriarty: mircea_popescu, you have to appeal to their emotional side :) and the flip side of that is, you don't even have to spend a dime
moriarty: mircea_popescu, buying them items in hopes to get in their pants would not be very successful, as xmj attested
moriarty: mircea_popescu, all i'm saying is, once you understand women to be a bag of emotions, rather than logical creatures, their motivations, what it takes to motivate them, becomes plain as day
moriarty: mircea_popescu, you give a little to get a whole lot more :)
moriarty: mircea_popescu, in the confines of a conventional western society today
moriarty: mircea_popescu, lol
moriarty: mircea_popescu, lol i would need to trade bitcoin in order to get a wot acct, right?
moriarty: mircea_popescu, and in not so many words, it's easy to put yourselves in the shoes of a woman, if you imagine them to be first a man, take away reason, and accountability
moriarty: mircea_popescu, i've been told by a woman that women exist on a plane different to men
moriarty: mircea_popescu, i like your take
moriarty: mircea_popescu, what is your take on marriage?
moriarty: mircea_popescu, they have potential, but are limited by the ability to realise those potential, because of their minority status and not many people defending them really
moriarty: mircea_popescu, lesswrong is filled with people who have fallen between the cracks of society
moriarty: mircea_popescu, what model is this?
decimation: mircea_popescu: re: lesswrong they push that 'hard-ai' bullshit pretty hard
moriarty: mircea_popescu, well that's why all politicians are liars, in order to be a man of the people, you have to ascribe to philosophies you don't truly believe in to win them over, just so you can fuck them over later on, to protect your class, your clan and family