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nubbins`: as far as casascius coins go,
the marketplace is already pretty focused
nubbins`: in
the sense
that someone could use
the google
to buy my coins
badon: For example, every sighting for a coin specimen has a venue URL data bit attached
to it. So, if you're posting your coins on your blog and you arrange
to have
them entered into
the CC,
then yes, someone could use
the CC
to buy your coins.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: not interested in such experiments. <<
try have
the girl go naked for a day, srsly.
nubbins`: you should bump heads with melbustus on
the forums, he runs spotcoins.com
badon: People come up with new stuff I hadn't
thought of.
badon: The CC does
things
that I don't even know it's doing.
nubbins`: can i buy and sell coins on
the CC?
badon: The CC can do everything
that can do, of course.
badon: No,
that's nothing at all like
the CC.
The CC is far more sophisticated.
nubbins`: badon: "i wonder if
this bob dylan album i bought at a flea market is a first pressing?"
badon: As far as I know,
there has never been anything like
the CC before.
mircea_popescu: kinda shows
that stupidity is unpatriotic by its nature. only has one country.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but
that 'removes moral dimension!' << eerily similar
to fundamentalist xtians objections
to hymenoplasty.
badon: I don't know what
that is.
badon: Like mircea_popescu said, "you're getting some
traction"
nubbins`: so what, it's like a
trade/price wiki?
badon: The funny
thing is
that he had heard of
the Coin Compendium before he met me, which is
taking a while for me
to get used
to.
badon: nubbins`: punkman seems
to have an interest in numismatics
too.
badon: nubbins`: "The guy with
the stuff for
the
thing"
nubbins`: depends on if you
talk
to my accountant or not
nubbins`: i guess we can just call you "the guy",
then
adlai really must go
though
mircea_popescu: NOW,
the faster she runs,
the less of a woman she is. objectively. how do you get out of
that shit.
badon: Yep,
that's me.
They used
to call me
the silver guy, or
the palladium guy, or
the art guy, or whatever it was I was making money in back
then.
mircea_popescu: adlai no but see, even in your running and geneder example, you diverge.
to my eyes, womanhood has
to do with a nice layer of fat on he ass, as exemplified by kim say.
adlai holds up his copy of
tensor analysis, pointing at
the uncracked spine.
this actually exists and has actually not been cracked yet.
adlai: eg "the average man is faster
than
the average woman,
the fastest woman is faster
than most men, but
the fastest man is MUCH faster
than
the fastest woman"
adlai: it seems completely obvious
that evolution of geographically separated populations progresses separately... a more interesting question is what proportion of population A fall behind
the median of population B
mircea_popescu: there's no fucking usable definition of intelligence, we've yet
to build a computer model of intelligence, yet
these people
talk of some sort of statistical intelligence as if it were a
thing.
mircea_popescu: given
that clams are somewhat intelligent, is a large enough collection of clams more intelligent
than victoria nuland ?
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mircea_popescu: i mean seriously,
the intelligence ~of groups~ ? wtf does
that even mean.
mircea_popescu: such a ridiculous point
the soviets have chosen
to center
their purges around.
assbot: Fury at DNA pioneer's
theory: Africans are less intelligent
than Westerners - Science - News -
The Independent ... (
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adlai: ah
the sciam article
mircea_popescu: anyone willing
to argue against
that has my full attention.
mircea_popescu: His views are also reflected in a book published next week, in which he writes: "There is no firm reason
to anticipate
that
the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in
their evolution should prove
to have evolved identically. Our wanting
to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough
to make it so."
mircea_popescu: quite instructive piece on
the mechanics of us socialism, all
the various bits in full view.
mircea_popescu: "In order
that
the unfortunate views not overshadow
the big scientific contribution, some of
these folks would rather we stop
talking about Watson’s having made
the claims he has made about racial difference (although Watson shows no apparent regret for holding
these views, only for having voiced
them
to reporters)." << and
the mechanics of "regret", ie, we won't stop being stupid,
the victim has
to abjure!
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically
this entire
thing is a "you don't get
to have any ~intellectual~ capital either, it all belongs
to
the state,
to be used as slate anon editor directs it
to be used".
mircea_popescu: but
that's utter nonsense. objectivity is exactly heroic.
mircea_popescu: i find
this quite scandalous.
the "everything of value comes from socialism" narrative is pernicious enoughm
mircea_popescu: "Indeed, part of
the danger of
the hero narrative is
that scientists
themselves may start
to believe it.
They can come
to see
themselves as individuals possessing more powers of objectivity
than other humans (thus fundamentally misunderstanding where objectivity comes from)"
mircea_popescu: "knowledge-building
team" is it now. a hunter^H^H^H^H^H^H-gatherer perspective on science!
there's no hunters, just a buncha women sitting around by a bush doing knowledge-building.
mircea_popescu: IF YOU MAKE A DISCOVERY YOU DIDN'T MAKE
THAT DISCOVERY
mircea_popescu: nt of great men (and yes, in
this narrative, it is usually great men who are recognized).
This narrative ignores
the fundamentally social nature of scientific knowledge-building and
the fact
that objectivity is
the result of
teamwork."
assbot: James Watson’s sense of entitlement, and misunderstandings of science
that need
to be countered. | Doing Good Science, Scientific American Blog Network ... (
http://bit.ly/1pMvB8m )
badon: adlai: Haha, yeah, I
thought
that was snappy!
adlai steals "That's like causing a
tsunami in Japan by flushing
the
toilet in Detroit.",
thx badon!
mircea_popescu: "It is a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works for him
to
think
that his expertise at one level of analysis—a molecular level—predicts anything at a higher level of analysis.
The structure of DNA does not predict
the workings of a cell, which does not predict
the shape of a body, which does not predict
the characteristics of a culture."
davout: "these are not
the problems you are looking for"
mircea_popescu: jurov why is it supposed
to be anything i nparticular ?
jurov: realized while putting
together
the statement
jurov: mircea_popescu: how is
the foundation supposed
to be zero asset corp. when it maintains
treasury?
mircea_popescu: cutting out like 2/3 of
the value of all
that collection (the actual guy wanting receipt copies etc) because well...
they gotta be weird
teenagers about it and do it voyeuristically. not
the same
thing if you know about it. except of course you know. but wait, suspension of dsibelief!
mircea_popescu: decimation: like, you know, so you can share in
the bounty of
their information? << good point
this.
mircea_popescu: "for your safety, please suck my cock" is what all
those
things reduce
to.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: for "my" safety. except i'm not liable for fraud. so actually
they are being a pain in my ass for
their safety. fucking home depot. << haha EXACTLY.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: and aha,
these aren't piss-ant led lights either. ccfl
tubes - which means
they can't be cranked down all
the much (and stay lit) <<<
this is
the deal breaker for me. i actually run
the monitors at about 50% gamma.
mircea_popescu: it's how
the entire "do-ocracy" nonsense got its cognitive start.
the rebellion of
the cleaning ladies, basically.
mircea_popescu: decimation: why should I
trust some derp who 'volunteers' for arch over
the upstream creator? <<< so very much
this, o lordy.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: assbot plz send donation
to b-a donation address. << lol
troll!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: it wasn't
the vendor. <<< maybe it was
the vendor's useless bf.
assbot: The mobile "revolution", or what consumers have come
to expect pe
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assbot: Logged on 21-10-2014 00:34:41; BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: And maybe people learn not
to visit datacenters uninvited...
badon: mircea_popescu: Just how
to register with it.
badon: mircea_popescu: Can you
tell me about
this "wot"
thing
that does voicing in here?
badon: It's in my head somewhere, but
the problem with having lots of info is it can
take a while
to find it.
badon: Usually
they can't be retrieved like
the movie showed, because it's
too dangerous.
badon: I
think
there was a movie scene
that showed something like
that happening
too, which was interesting.
badon: Most of it is secret information, but I seem
to recall an event in
the 1990's, but I don't remember where.
There might have been one more recently
too.
badon: The USA has missilized downed satellites with nuclear material on
them when
they land in places like Iran.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in what parallel universe do
the
thorns on
the cactus prevent
tequilla production ?
badon: Plutonium's existence can be easily detected from mere air sampling in
the general region. You can't hide
the fact
that someone near you has it.
BingoBoingo: Sure, but also deters other people from walking up and
taking
the pile.
badon: Simply having plutonium just makes you an easy
target for a drone missile.
badon: That protection needs
to be rigorously organized.
BingoBoingo: What about once you have it? Hypothetically... At
that point concerns about headcount
to protect it go out
the windows... Kind of
the flipside of gold.
badon: Well, difficult
to produce salable quantities,
that is.
badon: It's extremely difficult
to produce plutonium unnoticed, and you have
to have a military
to
tell other militaries not
to
try
to stop you from producing it.
BingoBoingo: I'm just wondering if
there's any risk someone might start up production on a scale
that hypothetically/allegedly would
tank its value