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mod6: i'll check back in
tomorrow.
mod6: let me know how it goes. my full-sync
test with
the static bin is up
to height=273236 currently.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
They
tend
to do
that. Amazing
though on
the other side how over
time it
takes increasing enticements
to get
them
trapped in
the first place.
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BingoBoingo: Granted it normally
takes
the better part of a salad
to make
the cage
traps enticing
to groundhogs
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> it bloodied its nose against
the cage for 20 min. or so,
then gave up <<
They
tend
to do
that. Catch a good number with bad intentions
towards
the garden
that way.
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 22:36:47; jurov: i'm
trying
to make do under some constraints, which i explained several
time here
mircea_popescu: it's basically a sort of windows nt,
to replace windows 3.1. look, flashier plumage and mating dances!
mircea_popescu: he doesn't understand
the implementation details. but
the situation, he understands just fine.
mircea_popescu: it's about not spending your
time writing fiction under
the pretense of "thinking".
the mouse excels at
this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, us had a much better view of
the soviets
than
the soviets, and vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: the hoodlums
trying
to be drug lords in detroit have a lot more sense in
this matter
than
the "business majors" coming out of harvard.
mircea_popescu: and
that is, joining
the wot early, and helping set
the world on fire. it. strictly it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but
this is conservation. one does not acquire wealth except one single way
mircea_popescu: otherwise,
there are some classes of optimization problems ~once you're already rich~.
mircea_popescu: if you are one of
the people buying belgian rubber concessions on
the stock exchanges, you make money. if you're in africa, you make quick with
the hands and feet.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: making money is a purely ~political~ function. if you are among
the favoured elite of
the respublica veneta, you
then may invest in
the ships, and make a profit. if not, not.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: making money is not a function of one's hard work and dilligence in
the schoolhouse sense.
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 22:15:35; asciilifeform: you would have done better
than 'perfect info' bot << impossible by definition
mircea_popescu: looky here : for as long as you don't aim
to use
the "shortest program"
thing for
the purpose of attacking my statement, it is ok.
mircea_popescu: only if
they don't include it. once you've included it... you've made it general.
mircea_popescu: far be it from me
to diss fiction -
the creation of "proofs" we know from
the outset
to be false and
then
their
taking apart
to examine where
they stole our eyes is exactly shakespeare's
trade.
mircea_popescu: the mere fact
that you have such proof is sufficient proof
that it is wrong.
mircea_popescu: for as long as
the proof is wrong, yes, it provably exists.
mircea_popescu: what is
the correct code gcc approximates as it churns on cygwin ?
mircea_popescu: at its core,
the "optimal retrospective investment" problem is a nude and rude proposition
to replace
the action imperative ("mouse must escape or die in
the act of
trying") with an imaginary junk. ("it could have been").
this is not substantially different from what
the usg does when it invents a new name for
the homeless and pretends
to have "resolved
the problem".
mircea_popescu: now look at it from
the fallacious "purpose" perspective.
mircea_popescu: the
time direction
thing never stopped anyone from
thinking "hey, i could have done better!" or be bitter about how
things
turned out etc.
mircea_popescu: like,
the complexity problem guarantees no government will ever succeed. yet who's deterred from "empirebuilding".
mircea_popescu: in any event, all human folly is based on
the failure
to come
to
terms and
trying
to go
through
the wall.
adlai: When we differ, Charlie usually ends
the conversation by saying: “Warren,
mircea_popescu: another is
the complexity problem.
the simple fact
that once
the father has said "i know shit", if he opens his mouth enough
to say as little as some basic math, he's now wrong.
mircea_popescu: there are a number of hard rules of
the world we inhabit,
that children
take some
time
to internalize. one is, of course, "move backwards
through
time"
thing. what adolescent did not ponder
this, wish it, etc.
mircea_popescu: to put
this
to intuition : suppose in
the alt-universe where your microscopic
trade happened, another
trader happened
to see it and panic.
mircea_popescu: the moment you start doin
this sort of
thing it no longer behaves
thusly.
mircea_popescu: yes, it does, provided you don't
take it out of
there.
mircea_popescu: '(what bits would you send back in
time
to
time
T1), if you could, from
time
T2, (to maximize profit from investing C coin)'
mircea_popescu: nope. you use in one phase symbols
that don't exist of
the other.
mircea_popescu: hm. it was discussed but i
think long long ago, pre searchable stuff.
adlai: (log itself, not
the channel)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nope.
the notion of "optimal" is undefined.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all
the major differences between
them and us, it occurs
to me
there's a very painfully obvious stylistical point : b-a.com doesn't have
traffic
tracking, github.com doesn't let you search.
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 22:12:30; asciilifeform: folks with a clue - comment, would
the result have any useful connection with reality ?