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mircea_popescu: the more you sit on btc
the greater
the pleasure gets.
jurov: btw, anyone can submit any other proposal. not like it's destined for me
to sit on it forever
jurov: mod5, ben_vulpes: i hereby submit a proposal for
the foundation's fund
to be used for x.idiff marketmaking
assbot: Ah, your hair. Your hair is soft. It's like a girl's. Now how do you get it
that way?
assbot: Maramu’ pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
saifedean: coz it's kept it in its original shape, i
think
saifedean: but
there's
tables and crap... but i guess you don't really need
to visualize brazilian ethanol production
saifedean: any idea how
to convert it
to
txt?
assbot: Contact : PGP pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: <saifedean> i dug up
the old phd and can email it
to any of you who are interested. not sure it's worth publishing as it's still
too academese
to interest normals << let me gues, it;s pdf ?
mircea_popescu: <saifedean> science by committee and public grant <<
totally.
BingoBoingo: <saifedean> so what do you gentlement do around here? what
time are
the virgin sacrifices? <<
Those happen on Reddit
thestringpuller: Seinfeld and a bunch of 90's commedians are coming out as aspies << i couldn't
tell
BingoBoingo: So
the big stories from NBC Nightly news
tonight: Berlin wall fell, Seinfeld and a bunch of 90's commedians are coming out as aspies
saifedean: lol,
touche... i had meant normals in
the sense of non-academics...
though
to be fair,
this didn't interest
the academics either :)
saifedean: i dug up
the old phd and can email it
to any of you who are interested. not sure it's worth publishing as it's still
too academese
to interest normals
hanbot: saifedean, small world, among others, is pretty much
the story of
this problem
saifedean: but of course
the vast majority of people who play
this circle jerk end up sucking and not getting sucked, somewhere along
the line, funding dries up, a department closes down, a professor dies and you're left unemployable and with nothing useful
to contribute
to anyone
saifedean: science on a public budget is a self-referential circle jerk: get with
the system and suck
the cock above you and you might be lucky
to get your cock sucked below sometime soon... you'll spend your life sucking and getting sucked and soon won't even remember your cute
teenage aspirations of doing something useful
assbot: Logged on 01-04-2014 02:12:07; asciilifeform: 'The basic problem is
that
the robber-barons of Silicon Valley, unlike
their Victorian forebears, do not realize
that, if
they want all
this science,
they will actually have
to pay for it -
themselves. Instead,
they look at
their
tax forms and
think: I gave at
the office. But
they didn't.
They gave
to scientocracy. Now,
they need
to figure out how
to patronize science - or
there will be no science. Ju
saifedean: it's
the DMV-fication of science...
bounce: so in a sense a side-effect of
too many scientists
saifedean: the only way
to get into a phd program, get a grant, get a job, get into a journal is if you buy into
the premises... once you bought into
the premises,
the 'scientific method' will bring out
the right result.. if you
try
to rock
the boat, you're simply wasting
the
time of people who have research grant deadlines
to meet and so can't be bothered
to sit and actually
think of anything
saifedean: well, it is very soviet, but it's more subtle
than 'using grant money
to coerce lies'
mircea_popescu: saifedean so basically, would you say
the usg is using grant money
to coerce lies being published as "science" and
to force people who won't do it leave academia ?
saifedean: imma dig
that heretic version up and see what it's like, havent looked at it in years...
bounce: also, I'ma leave
that
tyop right
there.
saifedean: well
taleb was
the reason i went heretical, or
the gateway drug at least, i met him and became friend and
then went heretic... he liked
the heretic version and was happy
to be on my committee as
the external examiner... but
the columbia folks didn't like it so i had
to rewrite it and do my Hail USG's, and he still sat onmy committee for
that one and helped me defend it from
their fangs
cazalla: working on an article atm,
this sr2.0 kid is either really dumb or stole
the coins himself when sr2 was hacked
twice
saifedean: it's on my hard-drive, a long
talebian/popperian/hayekian fisking of climate science and its pretenses of knowledge
pete_dushenski: and how did you
turn
that heretic paper into a friendship with
the guy?
saifedean: i had already got my job but needed
the degree, so after i started
the job, i had
to basically write a whole new phd, get a new advisor and make it ivy-league-approved...
the result is
the derpage you saw above. read at your own risk
mircea_popescu: bounce
the femiwhales "warning" normal, healthy women about [their delusional notions of] "rape" aren't doing it because "they fear healthy women might be hurt". what
they fear is
that healthy women may live an independent life.
thestringpuller: bounce:
they
taught us single variable calculus in high school
bounce: math is hard on children. because kiddie-huggers feared it might be so
they came up with kiddie math and now
the real math is
too hard
mircea_popescu: i suppose
this is excellent proof
that people derping random derpage may be idiots, but are not just for
that reason actually evil.
saifedean: there's a long ass story about how
this came about which i may
tell
to you some day near a fire... i basically started reading
taleb in my
third year and went off
the good Ivy rails... by
the end of my fifth i had written an absolutely heretic phd and submit it, and when my adviser finally got round
to reading it,
the day before
the defense, she decided it wasn't acceptable and wasn't going
to let me defend it
saifedean: there are more intellectually stimulating cat pics on
the net
saifedean: i really hope none of you waste any
time reading
this phd...
saifedean: but
there's math.. it's rigorous and shit... don't you people value science? don't you care about
the children? why does nobody
think of
the children :/
mircea_popescu: should be interesting
to meet
the columbia webmaster someday.
Adlai: saifedean:
there's a fart joke in
there somewhere but i fear sharting if i push
too hard
saifedean: here's 226 pages of a young man's
twenties spent
tackling carbon emissions :D
mircea_popescu: <bounce> quick, submit
to qntra. arabic bitcoiners hold
tea party! << lol good one.
bounce: quick, submit
to qntra. arabic bitcoiners hold
tea party!
saifedean: the arabic bitcoin space is basically me and 5 other friends. I met one of
them for a
tea yesterday and
that might be
the
top news of
the month
gribble: herbijudlestoids was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 15 weeks, 6 days, 6 hours, 18 minutes, and 10 seconds ago: <herbijudlestoids> anyway, 3am here, just wanted
to login and check on yall after i noticed mpex was down. lots of love.
pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell peterl why didn't scoopbot pick up my last contravex piece?
kakobrekla: i give you over 50% of chance
to fit here.
saifedean: kakobrekla well, in my day job i
teach
textbook macro and micro economics
to undergrads... pays
the bills and passes
the
time while i live in gorgeous lebanon, and also allows me
to innoculate
them against
the
textbook garbage
chetty: oo a bonfire? what are we burning? someone at
the stake I hope
mats_cd03: who has
the fuel? lets do
this
thing.
kakobrekla: saifedean what we do si in
the logs, what you do is i dunno,
tell us
pete_dushenski: in b-a we mostly share stories,
tell jokes, and dream a dream
saifedean: so what do you gentlement do around here? what
time are
the virgin sacrifices?
thestringpuller: based on
the statements first submission are considered for future work. but if
the first submission is accepted is
there a gpg
transfer of IP? (and for a bill/price)?
mircea_popescu: bounce well,
the enemy is working
the workings
to prevent it.
bounce: so did
the debian bunch decide
to flop or are
they staying flipped on
the poettering fanclub vote?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla but he's coming from windows. best make
this a stages
thing.
pete_dushenski: “In fact, potatoes rate highest on what’s most important
to Millennials.”
assbot: The best
thinkpiece about millennials and potatoes -- Fusion
mircea_popescu: well,
these days prolly gentoo. just get
their stock install, whatever
that may be
thestringpuller: reminds me of Huxley's Brave New World where
the kids are allowed
to
touch each other "exploratively" as
they grow up in
the nurseries
saifedean: <mircea_popescu> i have
two laptops and can do
that, but can you recommend a guide
to starting with linux?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: like
that
time when you kissed a girl
tho it seemed kinda stupid << how is
that ever stupid?
mircea_popescu: <saifedean>
this is
the point when i must confront
the brotherhood with my inadequacies... I still use windows and have no fucking clue what
this GPG business is. << seriously, but an old laptop, put linux on it. it's like
that
time when you kissed a girl
tho it seemed kinda stupid.
bounce: lack
that and we're in _why johnny can't encrypt_
territory
bounce: that is, for someone used
to
the CLI and
the general crypto geekery weirdness
that gnupg is made of