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CoraCrisT: also robots can do
things humans can`t
mircea_popescu: there's no doubt in my mind
that
the "every fuckhead's sacred, god needs every one" current mantra is headed
the same way monty python saw catholicism go.
punkman: because human can do
things robot can't, even if it has a brain
to remote-control it
mircea_popescu: once space no longer such a constraint, very easy
to do.
punkman: hard
to replace human repairman with robot currently
mircea_popescu: much like
that vacuum cleanner manages
to keep
the house clean
CoraCrisT: becouse as a cable company, we pledge
to offer jobs ;))
mircea_popescu: and we actually have
the
technoogy
to make
the robots work
together and automatically
punkman: friend wanted
to buy one of
those, but local council wasn't gonna fire 12 man-crew
CoraCrisT: and
this is how you become
the favorite architect of every dictator in
the world
chetty: no more cities ... everyone lives in
the country on
their own estates?
mircea_popescu: take out 99.85% of
the population, suddenly roads can be straight np.
mircea_popescu: the only reason it's not automated ? roads aren't straight. and
that is because ?
mircea_popescu: currently you have machinery
that can cut up, melt and re-set
the asphalt. much like a sort of "3d printer for roads", really.
punkman: doesn't
take much
to feed
them
mircea_popescu: you don't seriously imagine
that "people" out and about are in fact efficient ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: downsizing would of course remove large swaths of complexity/scarcity, but I was
thinking if "global village", how many people do we need so I can have computer and underwater fiber network, 10m doesn't sound like enough
mircea_popescu: "he was a drug lord and
thief, moving many
thousands of dollars and running an unpaid bill of at least 50 bux"
mircea_popescu: punkman "''a giant
theft machine,'' moving billions illegally around
the world, engaged in financing
the heroin
trade,
tax fraud and wound up bilking innocent investors of at least $50 million." <<
the substance of unsubstantiated journalism.
chetty: may not be
that far off, if us declares it public utility
mircea_popescu: imagine a web without all
the idiotic "web start-ups".
mircea_popescu: punkman depends how you select
them. if well selected, something pretty cool i imagine. like, a world in which nobody is going
to spam.
mircea_popescu: it will be BECAUSE he lost control, but
the losing of control would have happened long before
mircea_popescu: if some drunk driver loses control over vehicle at
t=0, goes over embankment at
t = 1.8s and explodes at
t = 3.5s,
punkman: re: 10m people, what kind of world can you run on
that considering current complexity?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but megatrends may well be observable in a short interval even if
they are not in fact contained in
that interval.
chetty: well
the
time between your 18 and 35 is not enough for actual species change, so its environmental ?
mircea_popescu: (the reason one can be ^ -2 while
the other is at ^ 3 is
the hugeness of population : you only need one guy
to push complexity up. so in
this sense, lower population is in fact insurance against decreasing average life quality)
mircea_popescu: something like smart = Cx /
t^2 while complexity = Cy + a
t ^ 3
mircea_popescu: people have factually gotten dumber. AND
the world has got more complex.
chetty: Have people actually gotten dumber or has
the world just gotten more complex?
mircea_popescu: and you can't you know, "make everything illegal so idiots have a chance". it will be
tried, obviously, but with no expectation of working
to any degree.
mircea_popescu: this is
the case for it : people of average intelligence are not actually smart enough
to survive.
mircea_popescu: kinda why defranchising of most of
the population / having money and resources controlled by a
tiny minority / having most people live in ever larger harems, as ever more abject slaves of whoever's brain still works is unavoiable.
mircea_popescu: now im 35 and
the average 35 yo CAN NOT support himself.
mircea_popescu: as average iq keeps dropping and average intelligence drops with
the square of
the iq, and as complexity increases like a fucking cube of
time or something,
there's bound
to be more and more of
these.
Naphex: yeah but
they just send it upwards
mircea_popescu: "they won't give you money directly ?
that's fine,
trick
them into giving it
to us! "
mircea_popescu: Naphex yes, it's what one of
these
things is, "con your family and friends".
Naphex: and essentialy just defraud
their aquantances when it busts?
Naphex: do
they get busted?
they use real names I assume
Naphex: is
this
the early stages, or just selectively picking idiots?
Naphex: thing is
this guys seem
to be starting from local, so basicly ruining any market
Naphex: i'm just amazed.
that people will "invest"
that high amount and do zero dilligence
Naphex: mircea_popescu: apparently
they are official google partners as well :O
mircea_popescu: Naphex: lmao.
that ByExpress scam is insanely funny and
totally retarded <<
teh accent lol. &teh mouthbreather speech speed...
punkman: 1990's Europe, in a low-poly
Trabant
punkman: "a pilgrimage
through 1990
punkman: or DIY with
thick foil/sheet metal
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo aww, and all
this
time spend claiming it was
teh russians!
Vexual: Qntra got a world affairs
tab yet?
mircea_popescu: at any rate :
they can't have
that much. bitcoin is NOT a democracy. votes DO NOT count. in fact, votes are squarely irrelevant in
this matter.
mircea_popescu: sort of bullshit. whenever you run into it you can be pretty sure you've run into an usg nest, it's like
the fox scent and
the fox.
mircea_popescu: "Regardless of whether you waive
the fine or not, and despite conditional
terms added
to reassert authority",
that sort of stuff, "it doesn't matter which way it goes as long as you accept our framing of
the issues"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
They are 'Murican and can't distinguish consent and consensus
assbot: I checked with Carol at
the mini-golf hut and no pants were found on
the fence.
mircea_popescu: i find it quite amusing how gavin's 5th column are
trying
to
turn
their laughable defeat around into a sort of victory along
the lines of "well we can';t have what we want, and
that's okay as long as you admit democratic process".
cazalla: well, landed on
the wikipedia page first
cazalla: BingoBoingo, beat ya
to it
Vexual: Bb I saw some mall managers measuring shopfronts for glossiness ignoring
the knock off asian disney shit in
the centre of
their center
mod6: selenium lets you automate fuctional
testing of a
http framework -- you can use it
to drive
through a website, click on stuff, fill out forms, etc.
Vexual: Whats selenium for
then? A cheaper version of 10k iphones?
mod6: it's a free
tool. other perf
testers can get expensive. *shrug*
assbot: Spider-Man is now a part of Marvel's Cinematic Universe |
The Verge
mod6: there's jmeter for load
testing, but it bites, mainly. and it's scripting sucks even more.
mod6: selenium doesn't really do perf
testing if
that's what you're looking for. it mainly can just drive
through html like a browser.
Vexual: Err whats
that load
testing suite of
trickiness?
Vexual: Now her eyes are aligned mores
the pity
Vexual: So I slammed
the
thing hard
whaack: alrightie well I'm out
thanks for
the help with setting up
the WoT shit
Vexual: Whilst strolling
thru some summer city
whaack: mircea_popescu: was
the pun on my name intentional?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Preet seems
to whack himself pretty well
whaack: financial capital of
the world!
whaack: What's
the best way
to break
through
the I-have-no-trust catch 22
mircea_popescu: that
thing when you notice an event
that's been announced weeks ago
that nobody is going
to go
to, declare you're going and within six hours everyone's going and
teh oirganizer emailed
to
thank you.
twice.