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undata: asciilifeform: social media is
the shriek of
the headphones
mircea_popescu: "By
their nature as vigilantes, acting outside or above
the law, most superheroes have a
troubling undercurrent of aristocratic, undemocratic, authoritarian values."
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2014 03:30:35; asciilifeform: nitpick with pediwikia -
the 'batman' in
the epic is not wearing a 'batman' costume. he's a bloke who smashes heads with a baseball bat.
BingoBoingo: From
the lulzmines: "Batman is a rich white psychopath who beats up poor people for fun. He is not now and never has been a hero."
mircea_popescu: english has
the funcitonal equivalent, "the deal fell
through"
decimation: I get
the feeling
that's
the wrong
translation at
times
decimation: asciilifeform: in Stierlitz,
the poor English
translation for
the word
that refers
to when a spy is killed 'doing his duty' seems
to be 'failed'
mircea_popescu: and
to
think
the derps are going o nbout "blockchain
technology". as if.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> it's not even a 'technology' in
the sense semiconductor is - but more as arithmetic is. << quite agreed,
decimation: yeah I also found it interesting in 'stierlitz'
that he didn't send his own morse/radio
traffic
decimation: the original idea was
to mark a strip of paper with
the morse characters, but very soon after
the
telegraph was introduced it was realized
that operators could send by ear much more quickly
decimation: as nearly all enigma
traffic was sent by hand morse
decimation: later, when
the germans started
to encrypt
the 'headers',
they were able
to sort out each crypto link by
the intercept operator's ability
to recognize his opponent's hand
decimation: the uk operators at
the "Y" stations became familiar with
the 'hand' of each german operator
decimation: asciilifeform: when I visited Bletchley park,
they
told a story about
this. Apparently
the germans initially sent
the 'headers' in enigma
traffic in plaintext before
the message
undata: asciilifeform: how does it compare
to emacs claw?
decimation: I was amused
the reference
to
the lady morse operator's "hand"
mircea_popescu: "hard
to keep people from observing water is wet once
their wanderings
take
them
to an ocean"
mircea_popescu: nothing as indomitable as an idea whose
time has come eh
mircea_popescu: but
the unbreached fortress is exactly as fortified as any other unbreached fortress : infinitely so.
mircea_popescu: just how well fortified it actually is =-
that's a
technical discussion'
mircea_popescu: "god help us if people are in charge of
their own lives, anything b ut
that" ?
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu
The idea being
that any current “social media” website is a defective implementation of
the WoT, what I intend
to do is prove
this point. Because
the sort of idiots involved won’t figure it on
their own, and
the assholes a la zuck and conde nast have about as much interest in
the matter as your random bank cares about getting off shitty buggy ms software.
assbot: Spamming reddit, an “experiment”. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: hear what five hundred internet imbeciles
thought about racism in
THIS film
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which is why
the "unspecified" website i asked for someone
to make a month ago and punkman volunteered is EXACTLY a wot-driven film database.
undata: given a BTC
transaction which represents an "item" in
the catalog,
there could as well be
transactions which refer
to
that one and rate it
mircea_popescu: while
the exercise is instructive, i don't really believe it's
the girls' fault exactly.
mircea_popescu: but
the problem is not merely storage. retrieval is up
there
too. consider
the simple
task "let us watc ha movie".
the girls now have
to find one. i've distributed more lashes for failure
to find good films
than for all other reasons combined, in 2014.
mircea_popescu: "and here is where we keep
the books" . "what's in
them ? " " letter"
undata: it seems
that kind of incentive structure could be
tweaked
to reward preserving
the obscure
mircea_popescu: in fact,
the way digital stuff is handled, it reminds me of how books would be handled in
the house a functionally illiterate peasant from
the 1900s.
undata: the sites I'm
thinking of solve
this by making upload credits capital you spend on download, effectively
mircea_popescu: imagine if libraries of
the paper variety were organised on
the principle
that "well if you want something
to read we prolly have a coupla books"
mircea_popescu: suppose i wanted
to do something of
the substance of actual reason, knowledge, science. da fuck do i do ? pray ?
mircea_popescu: yes, it serves someone wanting
to jack off just fine, because nobody needs
three hours of video
to rub one out
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'll
tell you something about obscure. perhaps
the best franchise in
the history of western pornography is kink.com. best in purely aesthetic
terms. now,
their various brands,
things such as i dunno, publichumiliation exist on
the piratebay in
the sense of maybe a dozen items out of what, 500 ? 1k
total ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how's
the russian
thing work ? mostly as undata's idea, right ? loosely affiliated, % enforcing warez sites
undata: asciilifeform: what about
torrent sites with seed ratio requirements?
They seem
to have done well as archives, even of
the obscure.
mircea_popescu: how about
this canonical formulation of it : most of what i know i know alone, because
the "internet" is made out of knowledge in
the sense
the earth is made out of grass.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter,
the current state of
the web, 50% or more linkrotted away
mircea_popescu: problem goes deeper : if "who can add is finite"
then you have a point of failure baked in quite nastily.