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mircea_popescu: leaving aside
the
torturous logic involved... srsly, 15k paid accounts ?
mircea_popescu: "a
total of 15,495 accounts were identified as having premium FetLife memberships” and
that “Male doms make up far and away
the largest proportion of FetLife’s [paying] customer base, accounting for 3,452 (22.28%) of
the
total customer accounts identified."
cazalla: ;;later
tell bingoboingo your pino rooster didn't deliver
the goods, i ended up betting on mayweather at
the last moment :P
mircea_popescu: one needs a particular sort of ingrained uselessness outlook
to come
to
that sort of worldview.
mircea_popescu: similarly
the entertainment racket creates
the superficial chumpatronic appearance
that some chicks "have it easy"
mircea_popescu: go do something useful, so your
thoughts may be worth
thinking in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i do not personally believe
this "pay me
to
think"
thing has any merit whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: it seems she literally intends
to remembrance her youth ?
decimation: asciilifeform: or
to be more precise, what
the wreck off
the rail looks like
mircea_popescu: Oxford Forum's aim is
to expand into an independent college cum university which would generate and publish research in several areas including philosophy, economics,
the psychology and physiology of perception, and
theoretical physics.
mircea_popescu: The reason Dr Green is not a salaried academic is partly because her ideas are out of sympathy with
the prevailing intellectual climate, but also because her education was ruined. A child prodigy, she was
the victim of a hostile state education system, and an unsympathetic college when she was an undergraduate at Oxford. She is uniquely suited
to doing research, and could be making significant progress in several areas
mircea_popescu: "Dr Green currently holds no salaried academic position, a situation her associates regard as profoundly anomalous and unjust. One of
the purposes of Oxford Forum is
to reinstate her in
the academic world."
decimation: he said recently a sea change has come with kids coming out of school;
they want
to specify massive cpu, memory for very simple micro-controllers so
they can run java
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "why ellipses ? because circles in 4 dimensions project
to 3 dimensional ellipses,
that's why!"
decimation: asciilifeform: I have a friend who is an old graybeard EE, been working on actual circuitry since
the 80's
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 18:31:23; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: flashlight article << a decade or so ago, i had a flashlight
that... crashed! when destroyed, it revealed a microcontroller, with eeprom...
mircea_popescu owned a half lb flashlight in
TM. yet it had no processor.
decimation: asciilifeform: my hp48 was doing
tons of processing under
the hood, would never delay or have a 'boot
time'
decimation: actually lcds are worse in nearly ever respect other
than power draw
mircea_popescu: it kicked ass, an dprobably set my expectations of machines in fields like responsivity for instance. or stress
tolerance
mircea_popescu: 10 more if it's built from
the ground up with anything in mind.
mircea_popescu: 10 points for beginning
the description of your
theory by saying how long you have been working on it. (10 more for emphasizing
that you worked on your own.)
decimation: he didn't even write it, another guy with
the same name did
mircea_popescu: shakespeare was also not
the first
to derp about derpy
themes
decimation: "Application development,
thus, will soon require no programmers. An analyst or manager will specify
the requirements by interacting with a sophisti- cated development system, and
the computer will do
the rest: “There is a major revolution happening in software and system design....
The revolution is
the replacement of manual design and coding with automated design and coding.ӄ "
mircea_popescu: pretty much all of
the us consists of john smiths, rewriting
the bible in
their own name.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ^ cheap n-th generation plagiarism of weizenbaum (of eliza) 'computer power and human reason' <<
this diagnosis is exactly correct, i am persuaded.
mircea_popescu: yeah.
the powerful software elite is out
there crushing its cessna in irs
tax offices.
decimation: he reminds me of
that jeron lanier guy
decimation: yeah
this guy seems
to be derping
that
the 'software elites' have seized control and are starving
the masses
decimation: "The mechanistic software beliefs, in particular, have permitted a powerful software elite
to arise. In just a few decades, organizations
that have in fact little
to offer us have attained so much power
that
they practically control society. As we will see in
the course of
this book,
their power rests almost entirely on mechanistic software delusions, and on
the stupidity engendered by
these delusions."
decimation: sure, but does
that mean
that hierarchical classification is a conspiracy?
decimation: well, he is also melding
the idea
that
the 'software factory' model is retarded into
this
mircea_popescu: somehow
this idea
that "privilege = bad" is getting passed around a certain group of idiots as given gospel.
mircea_popescu: decimation i've noticed
that a good heuristic is, if (grep -c "privilege" > 1) break;
decimation: yes, another quote: "Along with
the mechanistic myth, our elites
too have
turned from good
to 24
the mechanistic myth introduction bad.
The elites defend
the mechanistic myth because it is
through
this belief
that
they hold
their privileged position."
mircea_popescu: decimation someone here had written
the algorithm for
that.
decimation: I was
thinking about
the quantity of language as I was going
through my books
today. amazon has an app
that lets you scan a book - even just
the cover picture - and it will instantly return
the price
assbot: Logged on 01-05-2015 17:50:39; mircea_popescu: in a "consumer driven" ideas market...
the "ideas" will look like
the derps.
decimation: " But programming is a new human endeavour, and
the software charlatans gained control of our software-related affairs, and restricted
them, before we could discover all possible alternatives – all
the ways
that human minds can find
to create and use software. Software controlled by an elite is
the only software we have ever had, so we cannot know what we have lost."
decimation: "We are aware of lost alternatives only if we once had
them. If we had
to abandon words, for example, and restrict ourselves
to ready-made sentences and ideas, we would immediately recognize
the dramatic impoverishment in language-related processes."
decimation: apparently he goes on for 8 chapters about how
this 'myth' is ruining western civilization
mircea_popescu: that everything can be put into a
tree is a
trivial bit of graph
theory.
decimation: "In
this book we are concerned with one particular myth –
the mechanistic myth; and we are especially concerned with its latest manifestation –
the software myth. Mechanism is
the belief
that everything can be represented as a hierarchical structure;
that is, as a structure of
things within
things."
decimation: note
that
the complaints of
the rabble never hold up
to any reasonable examination
mircea_popescu: all it
takes practically is
to break it once,
then it's broken.
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2015 23:17:43; jurov: fucking police state,
this