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mircea_popescu: the airforce won. it won by trickery -- had some girl that did ~6 hours all through 1990s, then did most of her actual hours in 2000s.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't have a full vierw of the problem. allow me to recount a lengthy story that shall make my point for me.
mircea_popescu: now, i didn't happen to give a shit. but think what they try to sell to these unfortunate kids.
mircea_popescu: there's also the very problematic... consider. the highlight of my entirely negligible theoretical physicist career such as it was, was pariticpating at this "international contest". it was named... "the first step to nobel prize in physics".
mircea_popescu: this is how coffin liners are mostly produced. for as long as you still hold it, it still has something going for it.
mircea_popescu: this "the work" is also, a surrender. in the terms of the item being burned down.
mircea_popescu: which is why we can have color television sets with short tubes. they, smart or not smart, couldn't have.
mircea_popescu: the view was wrong -- the complete science was actually neither complete nor even correct
mircea_popescu: and they were right, except... there's a categorical error.
mircea_popescu: good physicist NOT ALLOWED TO THROW OUT COMPLETE SCIENCE!!!
mircea_popescu: consider the problem of mechanics in 1900. physics "complete science" and why can't you 1900 alf explain the mercury precession ?
mircea_popescu: doctor is allowed to assign miraculous cause ; and the curtailing of that allowance exactly mirrors the technicalization (ie, de-liberalization) of medicine.
mircea_popescu: mind that police detective is not liberal profession. this is SPECIFICALLY what it means : that not at liberty to consider all possibilities. that's what makes a technical profession.
mircea_popescu: why did you fart when you farted as opposed to at any other time ?
mircea_popescu: no. physics stuck in ditch because smart people have fallen into a sort of sartrean hell, very much equal parts Кто ты по жизни? and "how do i know i exist"
mircea_popescu: much simpler than that : if your rng is broken someone somewhere will exploit it.
mircea_popescu: and so ipse, not because government grants therefore flatten forests printing drivel.
mircea_popescu: not "because charlie manson, therefore here's a list of dozen+ teenagers who fucked on the first day" but quite vice-versa : "because oodlebunches of such teenagers, therefore here's weirdo cult nonsense".
mircea_popescu: where there's teenaged runaways, a charlie manson will be found
mircea_popescu: where folks suffer insanities a marketing will be found.
mircea_popescu: is the jewish young female sluttery the problem, or merely the pimp's ready marketing of it ?
mircea_popescu: well, for many different reasons, but let's set on the very convenient tu quoque approach. you yourself think all sorts of insanities about what you can and can not do, which vary according to mood. it's no different for anyone else.
mircea_popescu: they still feel that way with or without "i fucking love science" marketing depts.
mircea_popescu: but it's absolutely and eminently NOT the case that smart people were doing smart people things and some bureaucrats came in su style and "henceforth you shall publish or perish". it was rather the case that some smart people sat around doing existential anguish, and some bureaucrats came by, packaged it as "publish or perish" and then proceeded to sell it to them (in exchange of an island of manhattan worth of "scientific" s
mircea_popescu: whether it's for credit or for free makes little practical difference. the problem's in the brain not in the statute.
mircea_popescu: they went in for the bologna BECAUSE they felt they DO have to.
mircea_popescu: this is irrelevant. whenever the state manages to enforce some idiocy, it's not the case the state enforced it, it's the case it followed a fashion!
mircea_popescu: cuz relative size problem, they perceive themselves as small.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why do milkmaids sell their milk for 10cents a galon to walmart to be sold to consumer for a buck a bottle ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of all this geometry, did they find the 4d smooth sphere ?
mircea_popescu: as opposed to what exactly, the experts sex change source of all software ?
mircea_popescu: esthlos myeah. but i mean... how can it "only work in 3d", ie, what, no solutions in 5d ?
mircea_popescu: "the us economy, named for mccain's father in law, is a piece of marysue fanfic written home by foreigners".
mircea_popescu: "The Chern–Simons theory, named after Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons, is a 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory of Schwarz type, developed by Edward Witten." << wikipedia fucking delivers.
mircea_popescu: anyone recall that great scene where tom green "Saves the day" at the maternity ward ?
mircea_popescu: but let me point out a cheval that various investigations in the nature of the number cca 1700s were equally ill regarded.
mircea_popescu: what-else-can-be-a-naive-perception-of-time-than-trying-to-build-clocks
mircea_popescu: then again, the notion that a perception of time might not be naive is a pretty tough argument in the first place.
mircea_popescu: esthlos jesus christ could your items not be pdfs for the love of things not sucking.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure it gets to computer implementations halfway through...
mircea_popescu: if it's not made from fruit, it'd better be 99%'d and then diluted back down.
mircea_popescu: esthlos so what's your take on the imminent quantum computer in a thousand words or less ? :D
mircea_popescu: esthlos i take it you read naggum's overfinnicky in parts, overloose in other parts time essay ?
mircea_popescu recalls somewhat fondly old days of "put the model in and wait a few hours for to find out how you fucked it up this time"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other esthlos-powered insta-lulz, "I wish to God these calculations were executed by steam..."
mircea_popescu: cazalla phf all your questions are answered i presume ?