asciilifeform one day will visit parts of the world where one can actually hunt deer

asciilifeform: (point re: deer was that habitat creation, rather than destruction - as envirowhiners normally focus on - is a thing)

asciilifeform: doesn't help that no one hunts the beasts here (densely populated, shoot one deer and bag three random bozos)

asciilifeform: who feed on the brush at the border.

asciilifeform: a road was cut through forest, and pestilential explosion of deer

asciilifeform: in the past season i got to watch precisely how deer work.

asciilifeform relaxes analogy a bit, lest it stretch so taught that it snap.

asciilifeform: (back to the titanic pile of acorns, it did - if only by accident - make a useful point: sufficiently concentrated pile of $goodies is a 'target-rich environment')

asciilifeform: there is something in him of the 'freedom-loving sp4mz0rz'

asciilifeform: imho he just imagines preferring to be buggered raw by 'nature' than molested however gently by... tech-augmented molesters.

asciilifeform: the 'clef' to the 'roman a clef' of orlov is that he wants, more than anything, to live to see some kind of 'curtain call' on technological civilization and coherent culture -as a concern.-

asciilifeform does not disagree, in fact fumed indignantly when first read that piece

asciilifeform: but, suffering from some of the same intellectual vices, i find him entertaining

asciilifeform: hasty and prone to leaps of wish.

asciilifeform: ^ his attempt to address the question of gravitational collapse of maxint gold

asciilifeform: have lost track of, somehow. Once δ > 0, you have achieved diminishing returns, and once δ > 1, you have achieved negative returns.'

asciilifeform: o keep track of, and your concerted effort to keep adding one more to the pile while fighting off squirrels may cause small children to start calling you silly names. The bigger the pile grows, the more likely you are to have to take inventory, and in the process you are increasingly likely to make a mistake, so that it turns out that 1,000,000 + 1 is in fact 1,000,001 - δ, where δ is the number of acorns you

asciilifeform: 'Mathematics uses induction—the idea that if 1 + 1 is 2 then 2 + 1 must be 3, and so on up to an arbitrarily large quantity. In the real world, if you are counting acorns, then 1 + 1 acorns is not the same as 1,000,000 + 1 acorns—not if there are squirrels running around, which there will be once they find out that you are the one who's been stealing their acorns. A million acorns is just too many for you t

asciilifeform: clever optical trick.

asciilifeform: might as well tally up all of rome, etc

asciilifeform: ah, but trick is - not all at once.

asciilifeform: where's the steel pyramid?

asciilifeform: (from the entire planet!)

asciilifeform: a black hole to vanish into.

asciilifeform: 'if all the elephants in the world were dropped in one pile, the whales - in another...'

asciilifeform: remains to be seen, if could

asciilifeform: because that amount of actual money, in one place, would collapse into a cosmic singularity

asciilifeform: it would not even be too fantastic to say, that nothing in fact costs 5bn

asciilifeform: 5bn in bezzlatron. use soviet figures (converting to modern 'weights and measures' is a separate voodoo) for a bit closer to reality.

asciilifeform: let'em dig into the silt.

asciilifeform: no reason these need to float.

asciilifeform: what storm at the bottom.

asciilifeform: also to have the cake.

asciilifeform: who goes willingly to the fermenter?

asciilifeform: for them - biodiesel.

asciilifeform: precisely because the alternative is for their children, if for anyone

asciilifeform: if given an 'alternative' that's slightly more attractive than drooling despair and starvation, they'll bite.

asciilifeform: (idiot fuffle that fudged numbers)

asciilifeform: we even have the financial equivalent of 'ramdoubler'

asciilifeform: from the food replaced with synthetic garbage, to the car which costs a few years of avg. pay (hello ussr 1950) to... whatever.

asciilifeform: but, as various people proved to the satisfaction of any but the thickest case of maliciously ignorant - it's everywhere.

asciilifeform: the man on the street is gagged with 'shuddup plebe, where's the hyperinflation, nowhere'

asciilifeform: so what if yesterday there was a penny and today - two.

asciilifeform: it may very well be the case that, in the bulk of it, gram for gram, the answer is: printing press.

asciilifeform: incidentally, the hunt for 'who pays' in cc fraud may be a unicorn hunt.

asciilifeform: with the enthusiastic cooperation of 'paypal' et al.

asciilifeform: buy worthless domain for 1mn, then laundered 800k out of it << incidentally, the ancient 'secret' of 'ebay'