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mircea_popescu: just write out the exhaustive topiclist per item and then count links.
mircea_popescu: in any event hanbot 's attempt actually suggests an approach to quantifying the "That the republic readily exceeds the literate production of the combine of "modern democracies" should be unsurprising ; that they sorry shelters of the stunted ever manage to reach its quality is altogether dubious." claim.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, the argument may be brought that dewey was a terrible cost upon human culture and ~the reason us never amounted to anything : the tendency to pick a topic is not unlike the tendency to pick a gender. "i can't think now, since i'm a girl" sorta bs.)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the problem with books in a library isn't even that terrifying, seeing how they usually pick a topic. trilema article picks like a dozen, ikt's all about the interlinks.
mircea_popescu: this actually may be the like... ONE known case to date where i'd rather go to the site and click buttons than type in !~tadb comments=1&blabla
mircea_popescu: part of the problem is that the syntax is complex, if I want to search for something i have to remember what's what.
mircea_popescu: can always waylay the possibly-useful later on, not like we don't know whose mind works.
mircea_popescu: hanbot on meditation, i think it belongs into discreet. i think the idea is very sensitive to idiots "helping", you really don't want rando "contributing"
mircea_popescu: but what do i know, i dun have fifty +1/+1 green beret cultural experts on the ground to write me briefs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mats i don't expect isis is more islamic than "fuck the us".
mircea_popescu: aand in other lulz from the meatmarkets, "lady_canesworth".
mircea_popescu: PIZDI NO PILI, BITCHES! and next time say what and where you read that gave you teh existential angst.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's a good thing the usg "coallition" totally won the isis war.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767519 <<< o look, when the saudis "bought" that piece of shit it ... wasn't "corruption" and the saudi state very much does not need to take measure to eliminate the "corruption" of giving usg money. it's only when non-usg gets dough that the idiot neets need to stand up and herpderp on social media about "corruption" amirite ?
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: shinohai hanbot maybe posting the form via get would allow me to search directly ? or how'd i use this a la !#s ?
mircea_popescu: in short, i don't want to read what sort of code apple wrote ; i want apple to never write any code again as long as any of them live.
mircea_popescu: consider : if microsoft word worked correctly, I WOULDN'T EVEN NEED TO READ ITS CODE. not because "oh, practically no need" but because I WOULD ALREADY KNOW WHAT IT SAID. because there's no other way to say it.
mircea_popescu: the point is to force the sort of people who are actually insane out of the production process entirely ; and to keep them out permanently.
mircea_popescu: also re "epicycles", should prolly link
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1487207 (or the other one, iirc we had a better discussion somewhewre as to how actual clocks were "hacked" over time to catch up with the moving solar function, resulting in these cvasi-organic piles of patches upon patches making the original mechanism barely comprehensible). imo the better example ; anyone who's seen a medieval clock can't help but b
☝︎ mircea_popescu: in fact all code is first and foremost literary work. that (some of it) machines can run is about as interesting as which kinds of smoothies flies favour.
mircea_popescu: hanbot it can get pretty fucking 9 digit detailed. i just vaguely remember the general leads
mircea_popescu: (tbh, i think it's somewhat shameful the item doesn't come preloaded as a default in wordpress ; it SHOULD by rights, that's what fucking culture is about in the first place, offer the classes preloaded ffs.)
mircea_popescu has toyed with the idea of replacing current "Categories" with some kind of dewey-ism.
mircea_popescu: well, to the sort of people who have it preloaded in their heads, it'd offer an advantage of convenience. also perhaps machine-classifiable.
mircea_popescu: i'm vaguely curious how useful this'd be, "article X includes 003/101/209/309/402/801/908 !"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hanbot i just looked, it's actually only 8`119. somehow.
mircea_popescu: i suspect that secret consists of alf not having looked at anything other than.
mircea_popescu: (contrary to what literary personages like to pretend, there's no hardware hack for this, can parade all the missile trucks they want, it's still a literary phenomenon.)
mircea_popescu: well, the fanfics are in the business of credibility, generally.
mircea_popescu: costs them more to run it than it makes them, but, by all means, please, more of the wahwahwah special cuntlet behaviour, i don't mind.
mircea_popescu: all this self-important nonsense. "ban" don't you know.
mircea_popescu: massmarketization visible from moon, by specific scar tissue around item
mircea_popescu: similarily salted fish, grain, women, and a few other staples.
mircea_popescu: they're distinct threads in human civilisation (as opposed to human culture). textile was mass produced long before it was industrialized also.
mircea_popescu: the item in "industrial revolution" has ~nothing to do with toyota.
mircea_popescu: "it puts the cream on or it gets the knuth again" shall be the whole of the law.
mircea_popescu: back then, you didn't have (in the sense, you didn't perceive a batshit insane, thoroughly delusional obligation) to explain shit to the plebs.
mircea_popescu: habsburg empire was built by the knuth. the ~other~ one.
mircea_popescu: it'd be ~nothing to preheat the water in comp. but... why think and especially why obey when could instead go wahwahwah special cuntlet.
mircea_popescu: tho from an engineering pov this is quite trivial, if you look at how kitted the euro natgas heaters are...
mircea_popescu: you'd expecvt the "watercooling" folk went that way, but neh.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "easy" and "miner" goes trogether about as well as "sexy" and "fat" pair.
mircea_popescu: but, human species consisting of ~morons, obviously that STILL wasn't done.
mircea_popescu: but there's a) permits required to bauxite refinery which includes inspections and b) trivially ennumerable set.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes kinda hard not to know ; sensitive to the same process of discovery as "hydroponic" pot farm
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