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adlai: there may not be any such
thing as "beauty", but "sexual selection" exists
mircea_popescu: but honestly while
there are intelligent people
trying, i
think it's a snipe hunt.
adlai: or rather, what attributes do
they usually measure?
mircea_popescu: "ten youths from downtown accidentally construct
the godmachine
adlai: "ability of a brain/computer
to model, predict, etc external processes"
adlai: ... and why is
there no usable definition for intelligence?
mircea_popescu: and "culinary science" is
the sort of nonsense you'd expect ou
tof english speakers. otherwise l'arte culinaire isdoing fine
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mircea_popescu: 106 somethingawful.com kinda interesting
this, i wonder how entirely baseless it actually is.
adlai: something something river
twice?
mircea_popescu: don't
tell me it's giving different numbers
to diff people.
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mircea_popescu: "
The public schools are intended
to create complacent "good citizens"—not independent
thinkers—because political leaders do not like boat-rockers who question
things
too closely.
They prefer citizens who pay
their
taxes on
time and leave
them alone
to chart
the course of
the nation.
The growth in government power since
the advent of public schools is hard
to ignore."
badon: Yes, I'm doing
that now.
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badon: Ah,
there we go. I had gribble on ignore.
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nubbins`: eventually someone's not going
to notice you were -v'd :P
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badon: All
the cool enameled art in
that article is from
the East. All
the Crayola kiddie enamel is from Europe, haha.
badon: I compared what Europe was producing in
the 11th century with what China was producing, and it's pathetic. You have
to wonder if Europeans collectively decided
to be retarded for a
thousand years.
badon: nubbins`: In 500 years - heck, in 80 years, most of
that stuff will be broken.
The surviving specimens will be
the proverbial "Ming vaaaaz".
nubbins`: weighted down with shit like
that
nubbins`: you should see
the mantles in my mother's house
nubbins`: yup.
the
town's full of
that stuff.
nubbins`: occasionally you'll find people afraid
to offer a rare coin for sale
badon: It has a mintage of 200 for
the silver version, and only around 10 specimens are known
to have survived so far. More will probably show up as
time goes by, but $4000 price
tag did not bring any new ones
to
the market, which is strong evidence most of
them are either melted or permanently in someone's collection.
badon: A lot of people got
that wrong
too.
mircea_popescu: "Organised crime groups continue
to make use of darknets
to harbour
trading in illicit commodities, including child exploitation material, illicit drugs and firearms, stolen credit card and identity data, and hacking
techniques." << check it out, hacking
techniques
the illicit item ?
badon: I was wrong.
The "museum" is actually
the Emperor's palace, also known as "the forbidden city".
badon: I
thought it was a museum gift shop
thing.
badon: nubbins`:
The silver version I sold for $1200. A few months later
the specimen was back on
the market, and it sold for $4'000!
nubbins`: there's a couple hundred common ones
that most koreans know
badon: I love
that stuff.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: hardphork! << i never applied
that, no sympthoms. so no, not a fork at all.
nubbins`: went
there for a big pottery festival
badon: Korea was part of China in ancient
times, due
to proximity, so it makes sense
they would have some impressive enameling
technology.
nubbins`: there was
this one
town i visited, it's all anyone did
badon: nubbins`: Oh yeah,
the pottery enamel is famous.
nubbins`: i saw some sick enamelling when i was in korea
too
mircea_popescu: i imagine
the
time
to stock up on chinese memorabilia was right before
the great leap forward.
badon: They probably sold it for 50 cents in
the 1980's, haha.
badon: IN
that case, it's on a box, not a coin, but it's ridiculously intricate. Something like
that in
the West would cost a
thousand bucks just for
the box.
badon: Hopefully
there will be some cool errors or something.
nubbins`: yeah
the canadian mint did a series of Great Lakes coins where
the lake bed was carved out of
the coin, and filled with
translucent blue enamel
badon: The started out by "colorizing" with really crapping printing
techniques. People
thought
they were ugly, and didn't buy
them.
Today,
the ugly ones are more valuable
than
the pretty ones because
they're rarer.
badon: nubbins`: China mastered enamel in ancient
times - and I mean
truly MASTERED it. I saw some enamel work
that I mistook for being modern, but it was ancient.
badon: nubbins`:
They copied
the Chinese enamel.
nubbins`: they have some coins
that are actually painted w/ enamel
that are nicer
nubbins`: tbh
the cmyk-printed coins don't look great up-close
nubbins`: their
tree canopy ones are okay
mircea_popescu: do you mean "value
that would be present in any unverse which allows for bitcoin" ? or do you mean "value which would be present in
this X
thing whether it be bitcoin or not"
badon: I collected
them for a while.
badon: They used
to make some nice stuff.