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mircea_popescu: whether most women in x population are more like californians or saudis has nothing
to do wit ha cunt being a cunt.
mircea_popescu: but not for any structural reason, is
the important point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's
the matter with it, you writing with different letters or something ?
mircea_popescu: in
this line : "oh mp must be insane
to spend all his
time on irc, if i was rich i'd do [???]".
mircea_popescu gleefully notices how alf is now using
the "you yourself" device.
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."
gabriel_laddel: it remains
to be seen if he'll grok bitcoin. if he does, he'll probably end up funding interesting
things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude gtfo, nobody said management is required
to be illiterate.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel or what
they are. or how
to look for
them. essentially he's a girl
that'd like
to fuck but never heard of clothes, or make-up or going out.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:09:13; decimation: in
the sense
that some crank comes up with an idea
that happens
to be right, rather
than
the result of some carefully arranged program of research
gabriel_laddel: if you watch
thiels videos in particular you can see
that he wants
to fund interesting
things but doesn't know how
mircea_popescu: people with money
they don't know what
to do with are
the very definition of schmuckdom
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect
the idea wasn't
that, but
to educate
thiel so he's less of a schmuck.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:05:50; gabriel_laddel: "measuring
the fucking crystals" << "MPEX is just a bitcoin security exchange, just like any other bitoin security exchange"
gabriel_laddel: 4) perhaps
the fault lies with
those attempting
to peruse basic science, for not giving him a heuristic
gabriel_laddel: A summary of my points. 1)
there are some people attempting
to fund basic science 2) I don't agree with all of
their funding decisions 3)
this isn't
the first instance of
this occuring in history
mircea_popescu: this is
the very stuff of life, following our flights of fancy.
mircea_popescu: but
the proposition
that one shouldn't or understandably wouldn't for it may
turn out
to be just fancy...
that's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand, i'm not proposing anyone's obliged
to follow any particular flight of fancy.
decimation: so did
the swiss patent office 'organize'
to advance physics by paying einstein in exchange for clerk-serfdom?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but what if your work is meaningless without $b synchrophasotron ? <<< i
thought it was 50k.
gabriel_laddel: I'm not saying
that I beneficiary agree with
Thiel's funding decisions, but I am pointing out
that
there are people attempting
to fund basic science, and
that
there are
two specific people I've cited who can be vetted for
their contributions.
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 04:19:51; mircea_popescu: if you ask
the slut, often enough it's because "he's
the only one
that asked, and i was getting bored"
gabriel_laddel: they will exist in
the future, assuming we don't end up glassing
the whole planet
decimation: it seems
to me
that basic science is something
that is only obvious in distant hindsight
gabriel_laddel: Christopher Olah,
Thiel fellow. Does research on conv. neural networks.
gabriel_laddel: Does
this qualify? will she produce anything of interest? I don't yet know.
gabriel_laddel: ^ here is a blog I've not gotten around
to reading yet
assbot: math is art | "Discovery is
the privilege of
the child:
the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing
things like everyone else." — Grothendieck ... (
http://bit.ly/1DF4iA9 )
gabriel_laddel: (conceptually basic, atoms and
the like, or basic in
the sense of a starting point
that is eventually abandoned, e.g., alchemy)
decimation: what 'basic science' did
the manhattan project advance?
gabriel_laddel: "it's admittedly
the case
that 'basic science' seems
to be advanced mostly
through 'dumb luck'"
gabriel_laddel: and sometimes it happens
through e.g., MIT, Stanford, library of Alexandria, Manhattan Project
ben_vulpes checks
to see if a > 1mb block is floating around
decimation: sometimes
this happens in unconnected pairs
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 23:06:12; asciilifeform:
the 'time microscope'
thing is
typical of aging inventors who, by virtue of being cut off from competent peers (either by having none alive, or being on
the wrong side of a jail of one kind or another)
decimation: I'm not using
the word 'random'
to mean 'acausal'
gabriel_laddel: we know sorta-kinda how it is going
to function, but I expect
to be pleasantly surprised
decimation: but
the earlier masters couldn't have predicted
the results of
their erudition
gabriel_laddel: decimation: afaik, no one predicted leonardo, but
there were
three generations of masters preceding him. He learned from
their works
decimation: gabriel_laddel: who was
the 'herri seldon' who foresaw
the development of leonardo?