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mircea_popescu: voldemort jacking off by himself
to visions of a destroyed enemy is not unlike harry potter "studying magic really hard".
mircea_popescu: b) agency means growth. you can recast any actual situation into something
that's a personal experience, and vice-versa.
this is a major power.
mircea_popescu: anyway, some comments in
the general, for
the aspiring writer : a)
the most important weapon in
the quiver of
the scammer, which is what all fiction is, is misdirection. you were being misdirected into
thinking harry potter should have agency by all
the insistence on how he doesn't. (look up chekov's gun, while at it).
the correct solution of a problem of agency is
to attack
the agent.
jurov: it's good. But not clear if voldemort going completely insane implies "allow Harry
to evade immediate death"
mircea_popescu: i never read
the damned books, but
the challenge is interesting.
mircea_popescu: for
the record, i just started writing a solution
to
that harry potter
thing.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's a spin off of a spin off of a spin off, because when people develop a
taste for a particular shit, why not enlist more orfices
to produce it
thestringpuller: nah it's seth mcfarlane
trolling amercians cause
they're
too dumb
to realize what's really going on
thestringpuller: "When Francine
tells Stan she wishes he hadn't spent all
their savings, he says he needed
to spend money
to make money. Francine
then says
that Stan didn't make any money, which Stan says implies
that he didn't spend any money either"
mircea_popescu: approximately
the life plan of a sexually worthless, narcissistically superlative 15 yo priss.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much
the entire story of
the us : let's pay everyone pretend money so
they pretend we're important enough
to invent money.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 18:18:36; punkman: ""We're getting beaten on volume, so
the only way
to compete is by aggregating, curating and amplifying existing content," Richard Stengel, under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs"
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 18:10:24; punkman:
totally gonna work "With a clear deadline, get everyone on board
to reach a voted decision and say good bye
to all
the bikeshedding."
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.
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo i
think you need
to cut
the space
there
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 17:03:26; BingoBoingo: Ah jurov you found
that oglaf before
the bot could
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell gabriel_laddel argentina has a fixation on electing newspaper men. mitre, frondizi, etc.
mircea_popescu: i could scarcely conceive of an experiment
to more convincingly verify
the "our audience is entirely worthless"
theory. it's verified alright.
mircea_popescu: then idiot usians had debates about
the
true dress and
the biological causes of not seeing it right
mircea_popescu: so fucking
transparent by now. you seen
the buzzfeed "great idea" ?
punkman: ""We're getting beaten on volume, so
the only way
to compete is by aggregating, curating and amplifying existing content," Richard Stengel, under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs"
☟︎ punkman: "The foundational document of
The Net Party is its manifesto. Written in a collaborative process by
the founding members, it consists of 60 expressions in
tweet form so it can be easily shared in any kind of network. It expresses our deepest beliefs on how democracy and
the net can help improve our institutions."
punkman: "But aware
that in politics not everything happens online, we also created a new kind of political party: The Net Party. Its candidates are committed
to always vote in Congress according
to what citizens vote online."
punkman: oh it has a blockchain
too "Trust is deeply built into DemocracyOS using decentralized authority
to certify every single decision made."
thestringpuller: punkman: i
think democracy and cryptofeudalism are incompatible
punkman: totally gonna work "With a clear deadline, get everyone on board
to reach a voted decision and say good bye
to all
the bikeshedding."
☟︎ punkman: asciilifeform: it's a web
thingy, not ubuntu
thestringpuller: "With 2 million+ citizens, Buenos Aires is one of
the most demanding cities in
the world. All 16 political groups in power helped
to make it
the first one in Latin America
to let its citizens have direct input on its bills." Uh huh.
thestringpuller: probably not your cup of
tea because it is an implementation of "communitas" or rather an existential communitas as Victor
Turner explains.
☟︎ thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: and what IS burning man but fuck club ? << not entirely
this is about 1/3 of it. Another 1/3 is "Holy shit I'm on so many drugs what's even going on, how do I survive, OMG
this is so fucking awesome I wanna run around and do nothing cause I have no obligations or worries at
the moment." Another 1/3 is "Holy fuck
that giant
thing is burning holy fuck holy fuck
that is fucking awesome." IMO Burns are probably
the
jurov: gotta start
the monthly stuff now
BingoBoingo: Ah jurov you found
that oglaf before
the bot could
☟︎ punkman: maybe I've never seen
the good Java
fluffypony: why? it's not accessible on
the open Internet
BingoBoingo: It sounds like if hadoop appears
to solve a problem,
then you have a number of other problems
fluffypony: and
then all you're doing is re-assembling
the small set of results you get and doing any final analysis on it
fluffypony: so map->reduce works by sending
the queries out
to all
the servers,
they do
the analysis, reduce it, and send
the results back
fluffypony: what it does better is
that each piece of data is stored on at least 3 servers in
the cluster
fluffypony: like in
the multi-terabyte or multi-petabyte range
BingoBoingo: I dunno
that hadoop does anything
that can't be doen better with key value stores
punkman: everyone's wants
to work on "big" data now, you use enough buzzwords you get a raise
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: loading
the "rails" stack into my head.
ben_vulpes: ugh
this conversation makes me downright mournful
ben_vulpes: this brings back my hankering for real
time optimization problems.
ben_vulpes: right,
there's a recursive aspect
to
the problem.
ben_vulpes: superimposed waves
traveling
through wire applying force at arbitrary points?
ben_vulpes: we don't even have computers
that cooperate.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this is a great convo but bed's better, so!
tomorrow.
ben_vulpes: several joints, some
tension mechanisms and some springs.
mircea_popescu: "if you're willing
to pay for
ten million of
these, i can prove
to you
that in any conceivable situation no less
than 3 will be useful
to your purpose"
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.