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mircea_popescu: right. and here the same : paste your text
as a "review", or publish it on your blog.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 17:48:00; thestringpuller: probably not your cup of tea because it is an implementation of "communitas" or rather an existential communitas
as Victor Turner explains.
thestringpuller: probably not your cup of tea because it is an implementation of "communitas" or rather an existential communitas
as Victor Turner explains.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: fluffypony: That is a great experiment. The PGN format is maximally user and machine readable. Amazing how the blockchain makes some stuff people try to pass
as "big data" seem much smaller.
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: the 'adults' are not going to be happy about you writing a program that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into a useful format via a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery << Plain OCR is normally sufficient for books without advanced mathematics
as long
as you are willing to liberate the pages from the spine. Test it with a sheetfed scanner sometime.
ben_vulpes:
as a guy who's cobbled together the odd machine or two, the notion that you can have a million little bits cooperating to give you the power of a purpose-designed driveshaft one moment and slither through a keyhole the next strikes me
as wankery of the first degree.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you didn't end up beaten
as a result of this ?
gabriel_laddel: He presented someone else's program
as his own. They didn't check, being fuckwits, but eventually found out.
gabriel_laddel: monkey @ lisp term ?! << outside of that, have you ever seen any program written
as "fluidly"? Which comes back to the original discussion of "what is intelligence"
decimation: from the book: “In any case, you are not going to learn tomorrow that all the cognitive differences between races are 100 percent genetic in origin, because the scientific state of knowledge, unfinished
as it is, already gives ample evidence that environment is part of the story. But the evidence eventually may become unequivocal that genes are also part of the story. We are worried that the elite wisdom on this issue, for years
mircea_popescu: what part of english
as a single language ISNT perpetual and universally equivocal synonymy
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: this is,
as far
as I can tell, roughly the equivalent of reading your blog.
mircea_popescu: anyway, whatever would happen would come
as a surprise to everyone, including in no particular order : a) the people running btc-usd exchanges ; b) you ; c) the friendly usg log reader delegate ; d) isabelle boring or w/e her name is ; etc
mircea_popescu: what you describe is a what, 3 sigma event ? there's not a plan in place for two sigma events even. banal shit like "they used plane
as rocket"
mircea_popescu: for instance i said null hypothesis
as part of a deal with my brain to allow me to continue to exist.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gabriel_laddel i just parsed it
as "a weird way to say mountebanks"
mircea_popescu: "the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things
as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant."
mircea_popescu:
as if. but somehow, a billion idiots picked this bit of shoeshiner's philosophy
as their foundational line.
decimation: yeah in fact the reason the us succeeded
as it were for the first hundred years was because there was much empty virgin territory, so people could 'express agency'
decimation: "Over the past few years, the food industry has embarked on an operation it dubs “clean label”, with the goal of removing the most glaring industrial ingredients and additives, replacing them with substitutes that sound altogether more benign." "If you noticed that it contained an amino acid such
as L-cysteine E910, your enthusiasm might wane, especially if you happen to know that this additive can be derived from animal and human
decimation: "The strapline for a product called Butter Buds®, described by its makers
as “an enzyme-modified encapsulated butter flavour that has
as much
as 400 times the flavour intensity of butter”, sums it up in six words: “When technology meets nature, you save.”"
mircea_popescu: it's almost
as if they deliberately constructed a home away from home, these people.
kyuupichan: Got rejected
as no zeroconf but they were, so either reconsider or refund, but at the moment
as you think zero was sent you won't be refunding anything right?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: well,
as the resident expert, would you mind expounding on these costs?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: well, I was asking Stan specifically becuase he could supply detailed information
as to costs and political constraints
gabriel_laddel: so
as to demonstrate exactly why it isn't
as easy
as "just measure the thing"
gabriel_laddel: Not
as easy
as it sounds. Life is finite,
as exemplified by MP not reading Al's experiment spec, and Al not being MP
mircea_popescu: "This flat, unyielding ignorance-
as-the-forerunner-of-oblivion is both perfectly safev and exactly the adequate pill for the poison in dicussion, because it expends very little productive effort on the part of the productive members of society, while at the same time forcing upon the unproductive the exact Gordian knot they've been trying to talk their way around (and plenty, no doubt, hoped they had succeeded). That k
mircea_popescu: imagine! "i won't accidentally discover clorophorm unless it can be used
as an anesthetic!"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: walk where? wants grant money for himself
as a result of the discovery?
gabriel_laddel:
As far
as I can tell, it comes down to the basic strategic necessity of killing your enemy when you indend to.
gabriel_laddel: he isn't giving up,
as far
as I know, but biding his time
gabriel_laddel: my basic understanding of category theory is that there are interesting things that can be derived when you break down basic mathematics into some abstractions such
as functors, mappings etc.
decimation: asciilifeform: not having an intelligence agency of my own, i regard it
as an open question just how usg might behave should it ever begin to lose < My prediction is 'descent into regional civil war'
decimation: asciilifeform: another colleague of mine is shipping his back
as we speak - kernel panics every 20min or so << I'm convinced that the 'gpu issue' happens on even more recent macbooks
gabriel_laddel: btw, I was using the word "mooc" the other day, and I think you read it
as "mook". I meant "MOOC"
as in "massively open online course"
gabriel_laddel: I've nothing else to say. Your grasshopper article coupled with the rabbits exposition covers it all. Don't try and make things into that which they are not. And if you have a kid, care for /them
as an individual/. Your life is over. Make way for the next generation.
gabriel_laddel: I might
as well explicate my thoughts on the matter, perhaps I'll learn something from someone else who has thought about it.
mircea_popescu: the situation where i never had children yet understand more of parenting than all these people with children depending on them is about
as alarming
as the situation where i'd not be a woman but know more about fucking than all women. what a shitworld!
gabriel_laddel: "This in turn because they've failed to live,
as an actual act in this world, and impose their existence upon those children,so that everyone may be happy. Instead everyone's frustrated."
mircea_popescu: "That'd be your VC circuit : a bunch of old men who have no time to spend with their actual children. They claim this is because "they have to work", but in fact it's because a) they're afraid of their actual children and b) their actual children hate and despise them, in no particular order. This in turn because they've failed to live,
as an actual act in this world, and impose their existence upon those children, so
mircea_popescu: i fully expect they elect 15yo christina ricci
as the next president.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: local political situation (are the orcs known
as such?), number of useful nuclear engineers to take care of the two reactors you've got etc.
gabriel_laddel: (I have a $300 compaq that I prefer to any apple crapware - same one
as MP iirc)
gabriel_laddel: Also, I /don't like/ the macbook retina, fancy
as it may be