asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nuffin but the critter's own word!11
asciilifeform: i r disappoint, i thought this was a jaguar , that mircea_popescu taught to use a keyboard
asciilifeform: esr. ( for fyootoor log searchers pulling their hair out )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am hard pressed to think of any kind of tradesman ( outside of, i suppose, walmart gulag ) who has ~less~ to show for his years, than the typical tech d00d
asciilifeform: searle could've been , say, chemist, but wohler happened
asciilifeform: vitalists escape from field to field like roaches in nyc flats
asciilifeform: this is the kind of pseudo-pithy item that folx cough up the day they first encounter a lisp , and then walk around ashamed of for years
asciilifeform: тяжело в учении -- легко в бою (tm)(r)
asciilifeform: i have even sadder item , re subj , dedicated chinese pogolike thing for watching film on. it dun even go on the lan. just eats usb drives.
asciilifeform: there is occasional competent guild impostor , e.g. the fella who was jailed after decade of flying commercial jets with forged license , name presently escapesme
asciilifeform: it's a recurring thread , 'so you fooled'em into thinking yer a doctor, now they bring you a bleeding wreck , naowat'
asciilifeform: therw was a similar piece by mircea_popescu re some d00d who tried to lie his way into 'manager' work
asciilifeform: hey bureaucrat sees ~everythign~ as usg org chart, climbable, naturally has steps! itmust!!☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: i know what they sell to them. worked with the asian phd folx who got diploma for washing glass, 'first step to...' various.
asciilifeform: i found interesting that blondlot continued leading 'institute' of his 'n-rays' until he died. lived for ~decades~ after wood raped'im
asciilifeform: very rarely anyone abandons the dead end crud. the adherents continue to sit in their chairs, and eventually die, and next generation puts the dead end item in rubbish bin where it belongs , instead of picking up.
asciilifeform: observe also that in practice the so-called 'physicists' ~never surrender, and how field 'advances 1 funeral at a time'
asciilifeform: it's a victory. the only kind there is.
asciilifeform: how the everliving fuck is that a surrender
asciilifeform: drawing, quartering, burning out with hot irons a out defective paradigm is ~the~ work of actual thinker.
asciilifeform: 'hard' is irrelevant. it's a 'yer not smart enuff, go sell used horses'
asciilifeform: it's a surrender. quite analogous to soldier surrendering.
asciilifeform: 'allah farted' is not a possibility that merits considering while having the activity still called 'thinking' and the folx engaging therein, 'thinkers'
asciilifeform: same applies here. thinking people may not retreat to 'allah farted and therefore.
asciilifeform: recall the 'police detective may not entertain hypothesis of miraculous disappearance when confronted with empty safe' ?
asciilifeform: afaik pediwikism dun count as 'publication'
asciilifeform: milkmaid gotta eat. nobody's forced to pediwikiate.
asciilifeform: q is, why maths folx sit and edit pediwikia, which gives them nothing in return, censors/'curates' the work, and leverages it to spray respectability perfume on their politclaptrap ?
