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mod6: ben
_vulpes: indeed.
mod6: mircea
_popescu: yeah, perl v5.005 or whatever has been in use since 98, lot of systems have from that version forward. would be good to support older versions.
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 00:26:51; mircea
_popescu: "If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's a big player. You don't realize that if he didn't exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn't discover
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes ytou ever found that tlp where he says "x derp is just there because the seat existed" ?
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 18:49:20; pete
_dushenski:
http://altwork.com/ << save the 'angel investor' 'prototype' blah blah, this is an intriguing workspace concept. only about a 2016-btc too
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2015 06:51:36; mircea
_popescu: i<asciilifeform> 'yellow' is, one might suppose, wet pants ? << dja know the stephen the great jokes ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> who the fuck came up with gyms and why the fuck would you want the women working out outside the home. << To bring grief to the Mayogendered with a demonstration of gender. Also squats build booty.
BingoBoingo: <pete
_dushenski> BingoBoingo: 2 legs good, 4 legs better ? or what was it... << In the end it reverses as the pigs become nearly indistinguishable from the humans, except fatter. ESR in that pic seemed to have bagged a descendant of "napoleon"
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:31:11; mircea
_popescu: that if you don't despise yourself and your own achievements, you'll never get anywhere. but not too much! because you also won't get anywhere! etc.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 21:07:48; mircea
_popescu: stop throwing the motherfucking curve. have some productivity enhancement.
trinque: pete
_dushenski: I see two things there: a deep, pervasive obedience in human beings and a total lack of sane input
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:45:17; ascii
_field: there is, iirc, a clinic in ru that does it. booked for years in advance.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:40:43; mircea
_popescu: which is why teaching slavegirls to orgasm on command is important. the internalised sexuality is a good and useful proxy for a great many other things they need.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:26:00; mircea
_popescu: ascii
_field there are two kinds of three year olds. all three year olds sooner or later threaten their parents with holding their breath. all parents laugh at this, as it's a physiological impossibility : if you do any sort of a good job you necessarily pass out, and once you pass out autosomatic control restarts breathing. the two kinds of kids are : the ones that are dissuaded by this ; and the one
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: You do remember how Animal Farm ends?
BingoBoingo: * pete
_dushenski eagerly awaits BingoBoingo's reaction to photo << Pretty sure ESR was always a pigfucker
shinohai: I dunno but it just cost pete
_dushenski a bitcoin.
shinohai: I must banish that from my memory with a pricey escort. I may send you the bill pete
_dushenski.
davout: mircea
_popescu: irloled at parrot joke
shinohai: ascii
_field: funeral for one of the Russian air disaster victims.
mircea_popescu: <pete
_dushenski> though i grant that some actors only have one character, but we shouldn't even know the names of such fungible plebes << like who, bogart ?
trinque: ascii
_field: ah ah you said death first!
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: 'method acting' does raise the question : as opposed to what ?
trinque: ascii
_field: or perhaps when it's time to quiet the neuroses and ponder the structure of DNA, LSD
mircea_popescu: <ascii
_field> MOAR return for GIVEN amount of discipline. << this is fundamentally how it doesn't work.
ascii_field: i would like to see how much attention mircea
_popescu would pay if he NEVER got a full night of sleep
trinque: perhaps; I would not know. as with modafinil, would mircea
_popescu say "yes, this is called paying attention, you idiots"
trinque: ascii
_field: you know very well I'm merely saying "not drunk/high"
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 00:34:39; mircea
_popescu: better model; always asks current ego to die because current ego is a piece of shit.
ascii_field: hey wasn't it mircea
_popescu writing prescriptions for ego amputation ?
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:50:44; mircea
_popescu: you have to understand ontogenesis is a two step process. first, a blob develops.then, controlled apoptosis, a process so fundamental cells have signalling baked in for it (but not for hunger, not for pain etc) makes the spaces between what will be your fingers.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: i am speaking of those who did not buy
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field imo they answered alright. nature works in the following way : the punishment is the deed. those people who bought into it got their life ruined.
adlai: ascii
_field: the telegraph decentralizes the market for rate limiting, rather than requiring baroque schemes of varying arbitrarity
ascii_field: does mircea
_popescu recall the 'repressed memory' trials in usa ?
adlai: trinque: not criticising deedbot-, saying that it's the answer to mircea
_popescu's question
adlai: ascii
_field understood :)
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 20:05:45; mircea
_popescu: how do you ascertain the truth of this ?
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 20:01:08; mircea
_popescu: They consider themselves leaderless. They can have representatives, they can have "evangelists" but they have to believe that their conclusions are all their own, through individual reflection and objective consideration. Interestingly, and on purpose, they believe their brains can handle such an analysis, any analysis. This isn't arrogance. They are told, by universities and the media, that their
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: are you an aficionado (or the reverse) of m. minsky's 'society of mind' thing ?
trinque: mircea
_popescu: certainly is; I'm not opposed to the notion, but stating it
ascii_field: we know how to stretch a man's legs to make him taller than mircea
_popescu, but not this
ascii_field: i think mircea
_popescu also believes in this
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field and at about the same age, i wanted to fight a lamb! headbutting ftw
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: there is a sov joke about this!
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:14:16; mircea
_popescu: I totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960."
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field there are two kinds of three year olds. all three year olds sooner or later threaten their parents with holding their breath. all parents laugh at this, as it's a physiological impossibility : if you do any sort of a good job you necessarily pass out, and once you pass out autosomatic control restarts breathing. the two kinds of kids are : the ones that are dissuaded by this ; and the ones that are now.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:19:07; mircea
_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:19:07; mircea
_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: in usa, it is traditional for folks showing up for a job opening to be asked whether they have been tried/convicted
mircea_popescu: (kinda shameful how we omitted the entire deedbot and btcalpha infrastructure from the things, becuase hey, fuck trinque and mike
_c we got the stuff made so we no longer need it made so we can forget about it right ?
jurov expects mircea
_popescu will end up with colored coins :D
punkman: ascii
_field: no place that does cremation, despite endless plans.
ascii_field: btw latest word is that majorana is prolly in mircea
_popescu's graveyard
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: it will soon be my 8th year of 'fix computing'
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 23:05:37; mircea
_popescu: c worked in the 70s just fine, also.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 22:00:59; mircea
_popescu: Thing 1. We're trying to reduce bitcoind to a form where it's actually worth cutting trees to print it ;
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 01:06:40; mircea
_popescu: in other news, johnny cash is fucking great.