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mircea_popescu: which is what i mean by "entropy work". $value-of-entropy work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "if one built a cylinder with independent pistons and a partition, and put a single molecule in, and knew on which side it found itself, that one could extract entropy work out of the assemblage!"
mircea_popescu: it is purely theoretical! as in theoretical physics theoretical.
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as information theoretical, seeing how information has an actual thermodynamic backing.
mircea_popescu: too tight and it won't be worth reading, like all the nature science being pushed out by the shovelful.
mircea_popescu: too loose and he won't be comprehended, like poisson couldn't read galois, notwithstanding certain talent and ability.
mircea_popescu: and the problem is also a LOT bigger than commonly understood. a scientist's ability to produce anything meaningful is forever trapped in the superifical tension of a very narrow menisc : between him being caught in a certain box ("paradigm") but not in the other one ("orthodoxy").
mircea_popescu: well you could also call it graham, or yarvin, or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: i suppose you could stretch "hypocrisy" to try and fit it, if you must.
mircea_popescu: that's the advantage of living in a small pond, the exact opposite of the problem of math.
mircea_popescu: no, because the first romanian to ever notice this exists was called mircea popescu.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, the convention is that girls who feel a deep urge to be so abused answer "moo" to that pic.
mircea_popescu: back when teh usg still had any hope, it was 0.14x even
mircea_popescu: well, so you deed a good deed, released some schmucks from their burden
mircea_popescu: anyway, the blm bullshit is straight up argentina import.
mircea_popescu: hey, aborting a whole ream of escaped avortons in one go. i can see the arousal potential.
mircea_popescu: bush fambly perhaps best example of how not to keep livestock.
mircea_popescu: it's funny, what multi-generational retards the us breeds.
mircea_popescu: really, anyone expected Obama II embodied in Hussein Bahamas turn out any fucking different from Obama I dry run, CIA and Mobutu love story ?
mircea_popescu: somehow the earlier "change you can believe in" / "hope and change" blue usg brought to congo as obama I never stuck to them.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo fwiw that's a charged term in central empire (царь-государь lands) because the main character in crna macka was zare. and he doth get the girl.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what's so contortionist about hand over tits ?
mircea_popescu: for the same money i'd like some flying submarines and you know, maga.
mircea_popescu: as if there even could fucking be such a thing, as an intellectual, ie, somehow who cultivates his mind, who is left, which is to say dedicated to stupidity.
mircea_popescu: september 14th says hello to you, brave soviets of yesterspring!
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : New York U.S. attorney Preet Bharara says Trump fired him - USA Today mar 11 ; New York AG Hires Bharara Corruption Guy to Look Into Trump - NYMag mar 20
mircea_popescu: he meant, "it's good enough for random mfa, why not good enough for ogilvy-mathers". and he has a point -- it is good enough.
mircea_popescu: of course that's the next step, but it's a step down in in-universe terms.
mircea_popescu: and soudnbyte count, and quotability index and in general, before the mayo got cut by trilema & friends, it was an actual mayo.
mircea_popescu: this is the thermodynamic brick wall of socialism. it's sterile in fiction.
mircea_popescu: that's what "too expensive intellectually" means. they can't keep coming up with the dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: the proof positive of how expensive the idiocy was, is that they've failed to keep it up over time.
mircea_popescu: so, look at the shit krugman was churning out, or for that matter look at the shit paul graham was churning out. or yes, yarvin.
mircea_popescu: because there was some "economist" that was churning out curtis yarvinesque pieces that got similarily von flondored, except quietlier-ly
mircea_popescu: god. wtf was the wanna-be big deal da who got von flondored recently ?
mircea_popescu: but look at the idiotic pieces that fucktard "economist" meanwhile entirely ...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform under the pressure of necessity, it has to be.
mircea_popescu: in other words, pravda was a cutout triangle, whereas this is a 3d pyramid. way the fuck more material sinks in.
mircea_popescu: as none of this has anything to do with reality, none of it is in any way beneficial, but 100% overhead.
mircea_popescu: it was comparatively easy to discern bad pravda copy from acceptable ; it is nigh on impossiblew to do same for washington post, nytimes and other fishwrappers, which is why the cloud of successive layers of "discussion" and "disagreement" and "critique" and so following.
mircea_popescu: this is very much a work of "it was a rainy night in december, i was having my tonsils basted when i stumbled on a copy of the gosplan blablabla"
mircea_popescu: pravda was intellectually very simple and unassuming : here's shannonized gosplan.
mircea_popescu: i didn't even mean financially, that part is you know, necessary bundle with the bezzle. i meant actually in ideal terms. intellectually, ideologically, however you'd call it.
mircea_popescu: perfectly reasonable in economic terms, as they cost more than they make, but entirely incomprehensible in jew press terms, because they really thought they were princesses, somehow.
mircea_popescu: in an amusing turn of events, dnc is actually shedding the jew press.
mircea_popescu: but esp for phuctor, why bother. what are the local techs gonna do with the old hdd, not like it's not all on the web anyway
mircea_popescu: beats airpl;ane, yes. not even a matter of cost, a matter of time and wear-and-tear of the human capital.
mircea_popescu: if one dies, have them mail it to you, then you mail back.
mircea_popescu: BUT what i meant was, have a box of phuctor racked, and an identical box, stored at the dc (they do offer storage), or even also-racked.
mircea_popescu: you can't be jumping in a plane seat every time some toshiba pos dies, it's unsanitary.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you want to do with own hands the correct approach is to seal the box, have redundancy in there, and just switch over, ahve the box mailed to you etc.
mircea_popescu: doesn't take an hour to do this ; but they do have nimimums so.