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mircea_popescu: once people start having to optimize, the doocracies are dead.
mircea_popescu: and yes alf's right, the end of moore is also the end of ms, apple etc.
asciilifeform: might expensive toy just to keep microshit alive another 2 yrs
mircea_popescu: they were onthe path to, decided not to follow it.
decimation: I thought they were already on the path for 10 nm
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform unrelated, that. obv it'd be of chinese make in any case.
asciilifeform: ^ if industrial collapse carries on, it will be difficult to imagine a computer of any description being constructed in 2025 other than out of 'junkyard wars' pieces
mircea_popescu: once improvements go away, infrastructure starts to decay.
mircea_popescu: besides the point. here's mp's prediction : the computer that can be had for a one ounce of gold in 2025 will be inferior to the computer that can be had for an ounce of gold today, on computation measures.
asciilifeform: and if you're building computers in the tens or hundreds rather than quajizillions quantities there is no reason not to use germanium, gallium arsenide, doped diamond, etc. chemistries
mircea_popescu: i am firmly persuaded that the wall's coming.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I have no definiteive evidence, but I have obsrved trends
mircea_popescu: "Progress in computer hardware has followed an amazingly steady curve in the last few decades [17]." << by now moore';s law is currency in trading for everyine, from usgavin to vince whoever.
mircea_popescu: anyway, you know those stories about how rich guy heard the paupers / shoeshine boys discuss stocks and bailed ? ☟︎
BingoBoingo offers now that if any motherfucker named Dallas Cook is trying to dope me with malware I would advise stopping that felony.
nubbins`: got the paranoia right anyway
asciilifeform: (saw as darker, more demented version of their own time, naturally)
asciilifeform: the only american sf author who 'knew the future' was robert sheckley.
mircea_popescu: i thought he knew the future.
asciilifeform: the massive sequence alignment thing wasn't a going concern quite yet.
asciilifeform: check the date.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that vinge dood thinks progress in biology does not depend on computers ?
decimation: you would quite literally need to buy a plot of farmland in the middle of nowhere
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, i don't own there.
asciilifeform: (not even speaking of taxation)
decimation: asciilifeform: even in middle america it's the same, on any newer home
mircea_popescu: http://maria-konovalenko.typepad.com/blog/2010/06/the-blocking-point.html << check out this transhumanist project. "let's pretend like we're valuable and have skills and people should be queing on our door to give us moneys"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by that token scarcely anyone on u.s. coasts owns land
decimation: when you buy a home on such land, you automatically agree to whatever fucktarded idea was popular in 1982
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, some state authority or other decided to cut cables. the city hall nearly caught fire as a result, and the plan was discontinuied.
decimation: in the us, it is common for nearly all homes built after 1970 to be built upon land which is part of an 'hoa'
mircea_popescu: but i think alf has it : population of psychopaths.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is exactly how ro internet worked, and the reason ro internet is today in the top 5 worldwide, with 4 azns : that pressure ten years ago
asciilifeform: where there is an eternal war between the electric and cable (internet) utils
asciilifeform: and of never having to traverse city land
decimation: but the probability that a given set of 100 homes in the the us would be occupied by owners so enlightened..
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah exactly that. for a few thousand bucks each, it would be trival to make a small neighborhood isp of great quality
asciilifeform: works in ro where there were sentient lifeforms about, circa 1994 or when
asciilifeform: or what, proposing to connect the suburbanites to each other?
asciilifeform: decimation: digging rights in throughfares.
decimation: asciilifeform: it's more than just digging rights. surely the majority of surban homeowners would be more than happy to make their own comcast if they could
asciilifeform: thiel (and possibly friends) seed it. the chumpatronium sustains.
mircea_popescu: i guess to the random eye this is === bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "Hank Pellissier is the director of Brighter Brains Institute, and the producer of eight transhumanist conferences in 2013-2015."
decimation: why is it so hard to run a fiber to a neighborhood data center
asciilifeform: and hence doomed to happen
asciilifeform: but even cheaper than 'brown fiber' (see earlier sewer article)
decimation: data over mains cable is a terrible idea
asciilifeform: works great to the nearest transformer booth (where you need an active amp)
decimation: or your power supply. or whatever, because who the fuck knows what is going on in your uninspectible 10gbs bus
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on the other hand, data over mains cable is sop in eu
mircea_popescu: i gues tptb don't see fiber in the future of america.
mircea_popescu: i think the plan is to merge coaxial and power lines.
asciilifeform: which (stolen from korean coffee pots) was the one good idea apple forced through the thick skulls of other vendors
asciilifeform: and a retreat from the magnetic plug
decimation: because it makes so much sense to have the same plug for your power port and your video signal
decimation: later google et.al. jumped on the bandwagon
asciilifeform: (apple released a machine which is entirely unusable without the dock gizmo)
mircea_popescu: fuck, i had no idea there's a transhumanist party.
mircea_popescu: The Speaker List includes: Zoltan Istvan – 2016 US Presidential candidate of Transhumanist Party
asciilifeform: decimation: aha, their dock connector
asciilifeform: more like reptilia's 'conference' thing
decimation: asciilifeform: did you read about the new fucktarded appleism - the USB type C port?
asciilifeform: speaking of the 'genuine article'
mircea_popescu: e HERE." << asciilifeform i doubt about that maxint.
mircea_popescu: "The conference begins with a “Meet & Greet” session from 12:15 – 1:00 pm, followed by speakers from 1:00 – 5:00. After the conference, participants will be encouraged to continue the discussion at a nearby bar (location announced at the event). The cost to attend the mini-conferences is only $20; only $15 for students, seniors, and people who travel more than 50 miles to get there. Tickets on sale at EventBrit
mircea_popescu: say timmy... anything you could do with these two burnt matcsticks TO CREATE A BETTER ALPHA CENTAURY FOR MILLIONS OF STARS IN THE GALAXI ?!?!?
mircea_popescu: ahaha this is such a delicious target.
mircea_popescu: "What are the Transhuman Goals in the near future? How can these Transhuman ideas permeate the mainstream? Are there ways Transhumanism can assert itself in the political sphere? How can Transhumanist ideas and innovations create a better world now, for billions of people on Earth?"
asciilifeform: special weapons onanism team ?
mircea_popescu: maybe they slip up and built the transhuman bureaucracy, complete with transflipcharts.
mircea_popescu: "Venue: Prospect SIlicon Valley Categories: Brighter Brains, Transhumanism Tags: communications, strategic planning, strategy, SWOT"
decimation: does anyone here live in the bay area?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thiel plus wannebee panhandlers on his door
BingoBoingo: Almost has to be
mircea_popescu: this can't be a thiel thing can it ?
mircea_popescu: What are the Transhuman Goals in the near future? 0 comments"
mircea_popescu: "“Transhuman Strategies” conference March 21 in Silicon Valley—- Tickets Limited! Posted: February 26, 2015
decimation: yes, the business model is failing. it still exists, but it is a victim of its own success in the sense that it has trained the masses to ignore radio
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "It's wise to keep track of what your mortal enemies do, and there's little that more exemplifies Pure Evil in this world than Eliezer Yudkowsky." << Dude is harmless can't even kill the little girl without a troll
mircea_popescu: more of a 90s thing, record label as master of payola.
decimation: the music label's real 'problem solving' would be knowing how to push the right bellybuttons to force a song to be played in a large chunk of the existing radio stations/youtubes/ipods
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell pilo_ I read the whole Yudo Harierzer thing
mircea_popescu: not the market. you're a record label for having 100 singer-songrwiters, that'll make whatever shit, not for having 100mn customers who'll buy whatever you put out.
mircea_popescu: the very strange thing here is that he somehow thinks the "releases" are the problem record labels solve.
asciilifeform: although to mr mold's credit - the man once proposed that moldbuggerites dress in tweed 'to rebel'
mircea_popescu: lbum by Young Boy Hybrid. Currently Collective Conscious Records has eighteen releases available and we have several more on the way this year."
mircea_popescu: "I started the record label because I wasn’t happy with any of the offers i got from other record labels. It’s a way I can release my own stuff on my own terms. After the first couple releases people started getting interested in the label. I’ve even started working out deals with some artists. I recently released a few tracks with Lonnie Dangerous and Collective Conscious Records is getting ready to release an a
mircea_popescu: (la haine = to clothes, in ro.)
asciilifeform: you won't catch them dressing up as mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: decimation: aha. nor will they put on a cravat
mircea_popescu: it's scary what kids today use to describe themselves.
decimation: asciilifeform: re: look alike < note that they are all 'alterntive' in the same way. none of them choose to dress like 15th century nobility, for example
mircea_popescu: "Jerm La Haine: I’ve been doing music production and graphic design for just under twenty years now." ☟︎
asciilifeform: no prizes for guessing how much use came of this. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "We thank Stanislav Datskovskiy for his assistance with the measurement of telomerase activity in some of these experiments and Martha Kirby for her expert assistance in the analysis of apoptosis." check you out.
assbot: Induction of Telomerase Activity During Development of Human Mast Cells from Peripheral Blood CD34+ Cells: Comparisons with Tumor Mast-Cell Lines ... ( http://bit.ly/198wH6A )
asciilifeform: http://www.jimmunol.org/content/166/11/6647.full << mentioned in the 'monkeys' section
asciilifeform 's first paying job, while student, pertained to telomerase
asciilifeform: srsly, why must these folks all look alike ?!