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mircea_popescu: besides, one day i found a correspondence between the direction in which my dog barked and whether it was gonna rain that day.
mircea_popescu: nothing. i'm convinced of that.
mircea_popescu: i didn't read it no. i skimmed.
erlehmann: have you read the paper i linked? » http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-14#1670094 ☝︎
erlehmann: i am thoroughly glad that i do not find work fun because it means i do not lose motivation when others do not have fun.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i ever met anyone i'd let into the house who was death-avoidance-oriented.
erlehmann: i made a tripping haskell programmer smile when i was like ALGOL – NO FUN ALLOWED
diana_coman: fwiw I talked to former army pilots; they had lots of pictures of lots of males as you might imagine; the punchline was...WHAT FUN WE HAD ☟︎
erlehmann: i am kinda glad about that
erlehmann: my coworkers say similar things. i always answer that work does not feel enjoyable for me and programming is not fun.
erlehmann: oh, i won't sleep, probably. but i have mindless work to do and i feel in the right state of mind for that.
erlehmann: i feel enlightened, but also sleepy. bye
mircea_popescu: ok, not bad. i guess i didn't spend enough time staring at that part of europe at the rightr age.
erlehmann: mircea_popescu http://i.imgur.com/hyLRDo1.jpg
erlehmann: i understand completely
mircea_popescu: i think you might've had the people/vermin division wrong.
mircea_popescu: right. i'm sure it is.
mircea_popescu: i have no objection : when you beg the question, you get what you begged for.
erlehmann: i interpret choice fighter/faggot as a) fight in war, die soon b) go away, die probably much later
erlehmann: i should have been more precise, probably.
erlehmann: i don't see the dilema, re syria
mircea_popescu: erlehmann what do you mean what do i consider thorny ? things that have to be approached indirectly, or else.
erlehmann: worst thing on conference was drunk guy who wanted to have my contact details after i told him that his captive portal will be truly fucked soon-ish and every other stranger at the lunch table agreed.
erlehmann: i am http://oglaf.com/honor/
phf: not an oglaf fan i see
erlehmann: i approve
erlehmann: re agency: i had a talk with a syrian electrical engineer yesterday. he needed a ride and explained that mostly young people flee that conflict because every side sees them as potential fighters. that was the moment where i decided that the neo-nazi meme “they wan't our jobs and our women” ascribed way too much agency to immigrants.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to encounter someone who was in power in the sense of making clothing rules. consider augustus tried to get people to wear the toga.
mircea_popescu: i think everyone's a wimp when they're 12.
erlehmann: i was a wimp when i was 12.
erlehmann: i get the point
erlehmann: i observed differently, but my first girlfriend was probably some kind of underage succubus.
mircea_popescu: i also observed that 9th graders all agreed sucking cock is very vulgar, only to agree four years later that only losers don't eat the penis.
erlehmann: regarding elective sexual behaviour, i observed people acting slutty if they know it is a) acceptable socially (i.e. their friends are doing it) b) they learn that it is possible (e.g. non-monogamy)
erlehmann: i see where you are going with this
erlehmann: mircea_popescu i get the car analogy. i would not ascribe agency to the car, therefore i might at best assume that car owners conform to their neighbours.
erlehmann: i do not feel confident enough in my knowledge about biology to be able to answer that one.
mircea_popescu: i do not.
erlehmann: i guess were chatting about people conforming to their peers regarding elective behaviour. i think most do. if i understood you correctly, you do not share that opinion.
mircea_popescu: i thought.
mircea_popescu: alright, i guess that brings us in sync then.
erlehmann: i read that already
erlehmann: i get it
erlehmann: i know this “we hire only the best” meme and would consider it dishonest, but maybe acceptable if used as idiot gauge.
mircea_popescu: suppose i own a company, as i happen to. suppose this company employs one hundred widget lickers, as it doesn't. suppose one day one widget licker dies, and i advertise the open position. suppose one hundred candidates present themselves, and one is selected. suppose this happens a few times over a year, and over the years.
erlehmann: i read the airplane text. i like it, actually. tits-in-dirt accounting, breast-fixated fuckwits, slutty statistics – that text might fit into any queer zine for all the wrong reasons.
erlehmann: i just automated parts of it, that is why it took some time
erlehmann: probably not. i have no idea what you are referring to right now.
erlehmann: i see stuff like that everywhere. might be confirmation bias, though.
mircea_popescu: erlehmann i am aware, yes.
mircea_popescu: erlehmann you said "people do because peers do". i do not see any grounds for the proposed causation.
asciilifeform: aaha but i was speaking of the very threadbare usian world asciilifeform actually lives in, vs porn plumber planet
erlehmann: mircea_popescu i have problems parsing “i do not credit this because one whit.”
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think i have a story about a plumber. supported a buncha them.
mircea_popescu: i do not credit this because one whit. what proof do you have to support the notion ?
erlehmann: it actually turns me off if people instead of saying “no” outright start to tell a story about their issues i might or might not want to hear (even if true)
erlehmann: so for example a women came up to me and asked “can i smack your ass?”. i consented, she did just that. when i asked, if i can do the same to me, she declined. a weird moment occurred when she told me a few moments later that she only declined because she wanted to practice saying no.
mircea_popescu: if i were a woman, i'd be seriously put off by some dude who wanted to give me anal fissures and isntead of fucking asking me about it, recited some recipe he had found online / at some conference / whatever the fuck.
erlehmann: i know i have no problems asking whatever, in most circumstances. EV of asking a person for sexual favors is positive in many situations.
erlehmann: spoiler: i did not learn anything new
erlehmann: at the conference i was at the weekend there was a workshop on anal exploration
mircea_popescu: erlehmann i still have nfi what can be just or injust about ELECTIVE FUCKING BEHAVIOUR.
erlehmann: also i stopped attending the group soon after i learned about that
erlehmann: asciilifeform i had such an experience in a group as well
mircea_popescu: just 100% "i'm here to take selfies of having been here for my fb page"
asciilifeform: i might even have it filmed, collecting dust.
asciilifeform: i mean literally. as in , as erlehmann described.
asciilifeform: i watched with own eyes.
asciilifeform: e.g. 'this dollar here, i can buy literally NOTHING with, why not drop it on Shitstarter'
mircea_popescu: i suppose maybe it's a conversation piece, "pay 10 euro and get to avoid how obviously you lack anything to say for one evening"
erlehmann: re activism, i suspected quotas work like “we found that women talk significantly less in our gatherings than men, even though they represent ⅔ of in-group. this is an injustice. let's make a rule that men can't talk more, that'll fix it”
erlehmann: i did not donate. lesson: other people care about things i do not care about.
erlehmann: i once crowdfunded new underpants for a known troll who lost them during moving. people donated 300€.
erlehmann: originally i assumed that this kind of activism works like “i measured variable X, which is a proxy for injustice, let's just fix X by some means”
mircea_popescu: erlehmann ah ah i see. well, why is person dedicated to seeing specific classes of people code ? i don't care.
erlehmann: i suspect welding might not have enough prestige to get that attention. but that's speculation.
asciilifeform: where do i send cheque ?
erlehmann: mircea_popescu maybe that is exactly the point. making it happen, i mean.
mircea_popescu: i have never seen a african-american (which is very dubiously black, but anyway) female coding.
asciilifeform: and for all i know, usa began to sink when the last ww2-gen d00d checked into alzheimer home
asciilifeform: i.e. appear where there is already a smell of gangrene
mircea_popescu: remind me btw, if i ever end up ruling a new fledged us of a cca 1800, the law will be to shoot all preachers and to hang all menopausal women.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, the whole reason "Cowboy" was even possible at all was that chicago canneries (where all the cowboys were headed) got rail link to new york, where all the corned * got et.
BingoBoingo: I haven't seen a single Karpicturales de-karpicting from head all the way to foot on floor without scaffolding to support weight
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> phillipsjk i have nfi what that's supposed to mean, if you care. what back taxes and how does it help ?! << Generally a perk of dishwashing is that doing one's taxes means the government pays dishwasher. Very import subsidy supporting the ApplebeesMcHoulihams chemical industry.
mircea_popescu: where i come from it's not even legal for a court to make orders re foreign currencies.
mircea_popescu: i had nfi japan abandoned they en
mircea_popescu: i can't be bothered.
BingoBoingo: <phillipsjk> I found the concept of V interesting. I worry it may have hidden fragility though. I may port it to BSD when I have time. << Already works on any OS with a runtime for a language V is implemented in. Can run on OS/2 Warp
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i've been sitting here trying to recall which irrelevant scam "exchange" kraken is, can't really come up with much. was in the one the tradehills scammers made in their doomed but cheeky attempt to "come back" the usual coupla years later ? or was the one named after a pirate-era mpoe-pr post ? << The USG created "Goxcatcher" created mostly to have a place to receive the legal effigy of MtGox
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> danielpbarron do you recall why you negrated the dood ? << no i do not
phillipsjk: I make little enough money that the government tops me up a bit if I actually file.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk i have nfi what that's supposed to mean, if you care. what back taxes and how does it help ?!
asciilifeform: nooo, i wanna hear about how v is 'fragile'!!1
phillipsjk: well, I guess I am out for the night.
asciilifeform: phillipsjk: i hate to disappoint but : it's astrology.
asciilifeform: phillipsjk: i was one of these people, for a spell, hi.
mircea_popescu: no, "computer assisted proof checker" is jsut another way to say "i wave it before my cat and see if it mews".
phillipsjk: wizard as in wise person yes. Last estimate I saw said about 160 people are do the work world-wide (mainly for the US military). (they want to know war-only weapon modes will actually work as intended)
mircea_popescu: oh oh oh i see, 1 from me -one from daniel ok, i got confused. sorry trinque nothing unusal here.