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mircea_popescu: and romanian has ESPECIALLY a problem with orthogonality (as a necessary drawback of its insane bond power), which is why and wherefore it ends up thinking all languages are just badly spelled romanian.
mircea_popescu: but yes, this provides on the side an excellent explanation in this context's terminology of why man must learn languages : it is the ONLY way to have orthogonality in natural speech.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah, that is always the case, with that max = 0.
mircea_popescu: the only case where this happens is when there's in fact two language. such as in polygotism, or else argot-mainstream disjunctions. THERE you can have orthogonality in language.
mircea_popescu: a language where ALL parts are orthogonal is entirely the phone book, unable to mean anything. i thought the contention was language where SOME parts are orthogonal.
mircea_popescu: and in short -- fucking up this fundament of language convicts one to solipsistic solitude.
mircea_popescu: also, we're stuck getting lucky with women, because we can't meaningfully talk to them BEFORE we actually can talk to them.
mircea_popescu: then we find it impossible to talk to strangers as the first symptom.
mircea_popescu: note that i'm not saying ~your notion~ of up and left can't be orthogonal. of course they can be, in fact they'd better be. but the WORDS thatr denote them, can't be, at least not while staying words.
mircea_popescu: but i think the point transpires, if metaphorically : the fundamental reason language even exists in any usable, useful form is the rejection of orthogonality as a possibility.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform give me an example of two items of language that are orthogonal.
mircea_popescu: language as used by humans is actually predicated on the impossibility of orthogonality.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really, because there's no such thing as orthogonality in natural language. that's a property of a correctly constructed theorem ("let it have no overlapping lemmas") and therefore relevant in computing.
mircea_popescu: very much throwback to the problem of "man is that animal with flat nails" / "here's a chicken" issue
mircea_popescu: (who are borne out of the interaction between their stupid mothers and a weak language)
mircea_popescu: which brings back the sad fact of the matter : there's no such thing as a weak language ; only imbecile speakers
mircea_popescu: a fine example in that very same paragraph : "I don't expect I've done" is very much different from the "plain english" "equivalent" "I don't think I've done" : as there is no relation between expectation and reality, saying "i don't expect i've done" is a perfectly fine sendoff on a masterpiece. not same in the case of the latter
mircea_popescu: which is why english is ~soup. unless fortified with a lot of latin / middle french, shakespeare style.
mircea_popescu: very direct measure of the power of a language -- weak languages only have van der waals links and thereby can't support complexity such as life
mircea_popescu: textual tension is a measure of relation complexity per unit space.
mircea_popescu: modesty is good and well, as an solipsitic limit for the self. it can not stand against others' telling you to make it.
mircea_popescu: i second the blog idea. PeterL you have a healthy output phi, you should not leave it at the mercy of archive-bot-saved-a-paste.
mircea_popescu: in any case -- it is not the job of columb to make sense of the new world.
mircea_popescu: why do you think that description you're trying to add to it can possibly be made to stick ?
mircea_popescu: there can be no further accomplishment than this, in the sense of fundamental research.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it increases by one the length of the list of items god must maintain.
mircea_popescu: turd, like all others. whereas the first petawatt laser IS, as a factual matter, the first such laser ever built. for all we know -- every built anywhere in the universe.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's, again, no obligation to meaning for fundamental research. that is still industrial research you're thinking of.
mircea_popescu: these are, literally, items that never before existed in the strictest categorical sense.
mircea_popescu: you understand, it's not that "this is a new model of spoon, we had spoons before but this is just a different take".
mircea_popescu: the former is physics, the latter is math. the building of items THAT NEVER BEFORE EXISTED is a defensible activity to a degree most others (spawning, doing art, including shakespeare, etcetera) are not.
mircea_popescu: let god judge his internal state, i care little past the deeds.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i think i said it before. and if i didn't, here it is again : curtis yarvin may be stupid, or else he may be evil, but in either case he's done more to ruin his country than quisling did to ruin his.
mircea_popescu: useful to implant "republic can never exist, socialism and government===society is all there is" in their stupid fucking heads, then they'll look at trilema and "form their own opinions" on the side.
mircea_popescu: or else, guy very well preyed on the substantial, idiotic naivite of esl tards who had such nostalgy, and also very gullible.
mircea_popescu: except for the part where "republic can never exist, socialism and government===society is all there is".
mircea_popescu: this still doesn't change the categories. it is not the business of government to pick up the slack of facebook being intellectually bankrupt.
mircea_popescu: they'rte the ones whining for relevancy. why the fuck did zuckershithead spend 100bn on "instagram" or w/e random spamsite with "here's a number we printed on a webpage and we labeled it USERS!!!" instead ?
mircea_popescu: the criterion for fundamental research is "was it ever done before", and high energy particles meet it out of the gate. ~nothing else does.
mircea_popescu: understand something : the criterion for FUNDAMENTAL research is not "whether it's promising", in any sense or packaging. that is the criterion for INDUSTRIAL research, and let industry fucking do it.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, if i were allocating fundamental research funds, i'd spend most of it on high energy particle research.
mircea_popescu: i'm entirely unsure why these two items (string theory ; high energy particles) are so strictly welded together in your head.
mircea_popescu: say phf ! since you're in moscow, what's the bdsm scene like ? do they have a club ? mind doing a field report ?
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: good thing they keep whining about all the inept consensus events tho, THAT is important.
mircea_popescu: one of the foremost things 2017 us has to be ashamed of, alongside pantsuited hilarity and friends.
mircea_popescu: inept dork, can't even die at a normal pace. everything with him was slow.
mircea_popescu: so is that vomit mccain dead yet ? or still clinging to a world that really has no place for him ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, physics is only broke in the us, and mostly because us is broke. euro physics is doing fine, spending about the entire us welfare budget on things like large lasers, ciclotrons and the like.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a correct, if not novel idea, near-equilibrium and far-equilibrium physics.
mircea_popescu: (which fraction of this via
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-27#1703771 they're not required to declare, as per "fair and balanced" pseudo"legislation" enacted by self-same pantsuit. but it'd be a fair guess half to two thirds of comcast income is entirely fake, govt gifting, putting them at a hefty 20 to 30bn loss a year from continued operations)
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (speaking of subtle differences : wikipedia has a mention of televisa's income (700mn profit over 5.3 billion gross, 2012 figures) but not of nbc's. this is of course not a meaningful omission, IF you're the sort of mentally dull retard that actually takes wikipedia seriously. the word fucking "income" is not on the nbc page.
mircea_popescu: wait, which is the us tv station again ? disney is not for people, nature is not for people... news stations are for ohio blondes... which is the us tv again ?
mircea_popescu: here's an inconvenient fact : more white trash us citizen females under 20 ran off to mexico to be TV stars on televisa than brown trash mexican citizen females under 20 ran off to california to be TV stars on.
mircea_popescu: because whatever the fuck, algonquin round table and saving their stale "jokes" for weeks.
mircea_popescu: but yes, they never fucking imagined THAT is going away. us never managed to write a novel, nevertheless new york hacks off tin alley readily imagined themselves some kind of cultural power.
mircea_popescu: yes, it's "mean", but at least it doesn;'t leave your ass flying as a kite the moment the "everyone wants to be a roman citizen" dries off.
mircea_popescu: chose the wrong thing because "it's what mother cunt would have wanted". except what mother cunt would have wanted is ~always the wrong fucking thing.
mircea_popescu: just goes to show the libertards are actual retards. who the fucking hell picks "headcount" over "metaphysics" as a tool to bezzle, if given the choice. and they did have the choice.
mircea_popescu: it's very vulnerable to border strangulation in a way the republican corporatelandia is not (their scam is "high tech" instead of "job creation")
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo re
http://qntra.net/#fn2-7835 : this is both correct and well grounded. pantsuit exists by and for a certain section of us corporatelandia ; which entirely exists of and for "job creation" as the racket through which to launder "public funds" ie fake money printed by fed on the basis of chinese indiscriminate crediting of the us foreign account.
mircea_popescu: due to (), there seems to no actual movement () to compete with ().