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asciilifeform: ww2 and after, grantola, explosion of (per kuhn) 'ordinary science' i.e. stamp collecting, is what did it
mircea_popescu: they still feel that way with or without "i fucking love science" marketing depts.
esthlos: asciilifeform: you mean wikipedia? i agree its shitty
mircea_popescu: esthlos myeah. but i mean... how can it "only work in 3d", ie, what, no solutions in 5d ?
mircea_popescu: oh i see.
esthlos: mircea_popescu: as to quantum computers, I don't know a whole lot about quantum, but i believe that an information-theoretic approach to spacetime is the best bet to quantize it
asciilifeform: esthlos: i tuned out when 'serious' people started talking about 'testability and parsimony aren't mandatory'
mircea_popescu: "i guess they just DON'T LIKE HEROES AROUND HERE!11"
phf: asciilifeform: i've been trying to build "mpv", a video player that notoriously relies on a lot of shit packages. i've actually tried homebrew over netbsd's ports, because later fails to build mpv that actually works on mac. now so does homebrew. i'll try macports, but i doubt it'll deliver
asciilifeform: i'm ok with sr/gr
asciilifeform: for the lack of any contact with 'expert perceptions of time', i'll leave this item where it is
mircea_popescu: naive perception thereof, i guess. anyway.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure it gets to computer implementations halfway through...
phf: cazalla: nod, i in fact befriended a guy who has the largest whisky collection on the east coast (an old texan drunk), and despite sampling a large variety, i'm just going to stick to bottom shelf
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have an entire collection of these somewhere
esthlos: mircea_popescu: I haven't see that of naggum's
mircea_popescu: esthlos i take it you read naggum's overfinnicky in parts, overloose in other parts time essay ?
cazalla: phf, 26yr excellence was nice, but maybe i built it up in my mind to be something other given its cost, i'd be just as happy to drink the 18 or 15 tbh, not that i drink much at all these days anyway
mircea_popescu: in other esthlos-powered insta-lulz, "I wish to God these calculations were executed by steam..."
mircea_popescu: cazalla phf all your questions are answered i presume ?
sofiababy: i did drink glenf
sofiababy: when i did
sofiababy: i dont drink
phf: cazalla: what'd you think of 46yr glenfiddih compared to their 12yr etc. stuff? i've had a variety of vintages, and i can't for the love of me feel ~that~ much difference. meanwhile a difference between a 10 and 40 year port is very tangible
sofiababy: i play gta
sofiababy: u have to use paypal i guess
cazalla: sofiababy, no, stopped watching twitch after it was inundated with gamer girl camwhores, but i read they do well sparking up league of legends, chatting to virgins and getting them to donate to their patreon ☟︎
esthlos: mircea_popescu: i apologise for disappearing. I was in meatspace this weekend
sofiababy: yeai did i used to play ps4
sofiababy: i was jus saying u need to update it
cazalla: i bought a bottle of that reserva, was nice, i still prefer bundy rum (although the one i like can't be bought now) ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i regularily buy the 30yo rum
mircea_popescu: i despise grain alcohols.
cazalla: know much about whisky mp? bought myself a $500 bottle, bit disappointed, not sure what i expected or if scammed lol (26yr old glenfiddich)
phf: eh, i'm not picky
mats: lel, i tuned in a couple weeks ago after spam in another chan - weev was brought on and proceeded to rave about using btc to place shorts on papa johns stock
phf: mircea_popescu: i was saying we should invite him, but i realized that was stupid as soon as i said it
phf: this l0de show is now trolling all the people who showed up from the mass advertisement and raging in the youtube live stream section. i'm away from internet for one day, come back it's the same amount of shitshow
indiancandy1: how do i get a key again
mircea_popescu: lol i see.
indiancandy1: cant i reclaim?
indiancandy1: i have to create a new 1
indiancandy1: so i dont need to getvoice al the time
indiancandy1: i need to create a new id
indiancandy1: i swear
mircea_popescu: no, i didn't like it. it's fucking offensively terrible.
indiancandy1: yea i wathed it
indiancandy1: s i left
indiancandy1: i cant do it
indiancandy1: but i cant
indiancandy1: i thought i could
indiancandy1: i dont compromise
mircea_popescu: o by the way, i checked out some indian films recently.
indiancandy1: i knew it
mircea_popescu: i dunno.
mircea_popescu: im not in argentina, i'm in costa rica.
indiancandy1: i sold the for 80 euro
mircea_popescu: of course i did.
indiancandy1: i regret selling myne
mircea_popescu: eh, what do i care about this world.
indiancandy1: i dont have it i read it the other day
indiancandy1: i read ur peice
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 20:57 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752726 << the part i dunget is , why is the '1 fork' scenario contemplated at all ? are washing machines a waste because 'whole cubometre, you say, for 1 sock' ? for instance asciilifeform has 0 problem filling regular-sized dishwasher in <1day , and that's with 3 meals and a crew of only 2 .
indiancandy1: i read ur peice on credit cards mp
indiancandy1: i couldnt find u on skype either
indiancandy1: i have been trying to find u
asciilifeform: i suppose if you colour its bottom half 'high functioning tards', it's 34 . but idea is that test is only really accurate to 1sd
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752723 << bucket3 (i.e. 'normals') was -- definitionally, and now as then -- 68% , i.e. +/- 1 sd . ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 17:45 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752690 << aha, quite. i dunno if we ever actually formally discussed the item, just vague "is iq a thing or not"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752726 << the part i dunget is , why is the '1 fork' scenario contemplated at all ? are washing machines a waste because 'whole cubometre, you say, for 1 sock' ? for instance asciilifeform has 0 problem filling regular-sized dishwasher in <1day , and that's with 3 meals and a crew of only 2 . ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 14:56 asciilifeform: as 'iq tests' were used 100yr ago, worked great . i.e. on ~small children~, who don't train for it or expect it ; and worx fine for sorting folx into the 4 basic buckets,
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752690 << aha, quite. i dunno if we ever actually formally discussed the item, just vague "is iq a thing or not" ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: as 'iq tests' were used 100yr ago, worked great . i.e. on ~small children~, who don't train for it or expect it ; and worx fine for sorting folx into the 4 basic buckets, ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752680 << i dun recall ever disagreeing with this: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1541407 , http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-09#1428213 , and elsewhere ☝︎☝︎☝︎
mircea_popescu: this suddenly clarifies a lingering... not quite disagreement i wouldn't say, but something or the other with asciilifeform re iqs. i don't credit the concept at the upper bound -- saying this guy is smarter than this other guy because 138 > 133 is a very dumb way of approaching the matter ; or othersise stated, IQ > 100 is entirely meaningless.
mircea_popescu: aand in other news, "What is the lowest IQ that allows some person to write a peer-reviewed paper that proves that IQ is meaningless? Another curious paradox that I noticed was how the anti-IQ camp fears that acknowledging the existence of IQ would result in some people being classified as "subhuman" and treated accordingly. However, every single time that I have actually seen somebody being called a "subhuman", this has
ben_vulpes bbl, a deserving lady has a christmas movie i'm not grinching about for once
mircea_popescu: i expect.
ben_vulpes: when i ran a small coeterie of staff the steel spine of our success was the chain of command from whence sense and marching orders came, and everyone's utterly clear understanding of where they stood
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 15:02 asciilifeform: the 'good climate makes folx lazy and slowly climbing 'back up to trees' ' item is an old saw, but i'm not aware of any major hole in the theory
mircea_popescu: ie, yes http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-08#1748753 may well be the case ; but meanwhile i suspect the north actually invented madness. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental statement of the problem, i'd say unavoidable. rich "software engineer" of the 70s (ie, architect, like those guys in the swiss pornos always seemed to be, recall?) goes off his rocker and kills a woman.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that i record protest only should not be construed in a negative view of the man. on the contrary, he has many good points chief among which the systematic deployment of the view that whatsoever the pantsuit claim to think, believe, etcetera has absolutely no direct value, and is no more meaningful than the finch's call. the finch doesn't MEAN something by the noise it makes ; it merely intends for other finches to be
mircea_popescu: that's what i'm fucking here for.
mircea_popescu: i was using "continuous" to people's confused disbelief. apparently continuous just means "has value for all x in interval"
mircea_popescu: brushing off the "here's how stupid people use microscope as hammer because they're hammer folk and irrespective of microscope in any sense" as thoroughly uninteresting : it's fundamentally true that science, even if properly understood (as in eg http://trilema.com/2017/is-it-still-rape-if-i-write-science-on-my-penis-first/ ), is still nothing more than one "text", ie, one possible read of pheomena.
mircea_popescu: o justify the right of the white male patriarchal capitalist phallogocentric power hegemony to dictate its values and lifestyle choices on the oppressed groups and silence all hedonistic and rebellious dissent against it. Fast forward to the present day, and now the humanities and liberal arts are solidly left-wing in the culture wars, for various reasons. Surely I can't possibly be the only one to laugh at the unintentional
mircea_popescu: "If I had to describe using only a couple of sentences what it feels like to be a conservative, I would probably compare it to the hypothetical but surreal experience of noticing how many people around you have headaches because they keep banging their heads against the wall. If you don't do anything, that makes you objectively a "part of the problem", especially if you express any distaste towards having to pay for some incr
mircea_popescu: for the first time in a decade, at that. BUT I DID IT!
mircea_popescu: i just cut myself a slice of cozonac, and put my own ice in my own fucking cinzano. and then, when i wanted a refill, I STOOD UP AND GOT IT.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, i work!
asciilifeform: ( specifically how -- i do not know. but entire case is notable because , unlike typical academitard, fella was known to have balls , and successfully fired said balls even on 1 occasion. but he was not mp, worked for a living, eventually defeated. )
asciilifeform: he collected, and self-published as shitazon + deadtree ( which i even have, picked up before it was banned ) . then zapped.
mircea_popescu makes no claim to knowledge re swedes. i just fuck'em is all.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752381 << hey, turns out there's a term for this! i had nfi. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i still have nfi wtf happened to the swedes. in '40s they were an actual thing, supplied something short of 100% of german iron
asciilifeform: i.e. empire ( unless martians were to drop food... )
asciilifeform: what am i missing
trinque: aha, I recall. can confirm.
trinque: this was not always true of the 6.x series; I've done 4.9.4 on it in the past.