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gabriel_laddel: but yes, there are a lot of indians, which I didn'
t previously notice
mircea_popescu: incidentally : this would be a great prison. judge doesn'
t give you a term. judge gives you a frequency count.
mircea_popescu: is really the small part of the discussion. thiel is smart, and it doesn'
t help him
gabriel_laddel: people try codifying common sense to make it more palatable - doesn'
t work
decimation: not exactly, but he wouldn'
t be invited to any parties at cpac
mircea_popescu: "but honey, you can'
t marry this guy. his parents have no library in the house!"
mircea_popescu: in your craziest models you don'
t have a hitler lizard tribe capable to handle such sudden bends of activity.
gabriel_laddel: Youtube doesn'
t have grep, and I'm not going to troll through all these videos to find the one I'm thinking of. In any case, in one of them he states that "scientists have been replaced with baccarats" and that "MOOCs are not going anywhere"
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> i'd guess that many folks can'
t even think about this subject without their brain melting from rage << a good eighth of my time is spent talking smart young guys down out of a shartup-inspired rage attack
gabriel_laddel: if you watch thiels videos in particular you can see that he wants to fund interesting things but doesn'
t know how
mircea_popescu: people with money they don'
t know what to do with are the very definition of schmuckdom
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the idea wasn'
t that, but to educate thiel so he's less of a schmuck.
gabriel_laddel: A summary of my points. 1) there are some people attempting to fund basic science 2) I don'
t agree with all of their funding decisions 3) this isn'
t the first instance of this occuring in history
mircea_popescu: but the proposition that one shouldn'
t or understandably wouldn'
t for it may turn out to be just fancy... that's nonsense.
gabriel_laddel: they will exist in the future, assuming we don'
t end up glassing the whole planet
gabriel_laddel: Does this qualify? will she produce anything of interest? I don'
t yet know.
decimation: but the earlier masters couldn'
t have predicted the results of their erudition
mircea_popescu: the story of individual america is basically one line : "there's no difference between the rich man and the poor man who hasn'
t yet decided what to buy".
mircea_popescu: decimation there's a reason i don'
t live in "civilised" shitholes. i can taste their "feasts of engineering".
mircea_popescu: decimation i think it was here. i didn'
t care to check it out.
mircea_popescu: i can'
t tell you how many times i've stormed out of a shithole, inexplicable in context.
kyuupichan: Got rejected as no zeroconf but they were, so either reconsider or refund, but at the moment as you think zero was sent you won'
t be refunding anything right?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I don'
t know the cost associated with calibrating these instruments and can'
t speak to the truth of that
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2014 02:36:41; asciilifeform: 'If you're a defendant, you don'
t get to claim your fingerprints miraculously appeared at a crime scene... If you're a bookkeeper, you don'
t get to say money miraculously disappeared from your company...'
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel the problem isn'
t exactly of the equipment. the problem is that if you make new equipment, you don'
t know if you're measuring the new equipment vs the old equipment or an actual effect.
gabriel_laddel: so as to demonstrate exactly why it isn'
t as easy as "just measure the thing"
mircea_popescu: imagine! "i won'
t accidentally discover clorophorm unless it can be used as an anesthetic!"
mircea_popescu: all this nonsense of little girl stuck on the trans side of maturity river, discussing whether she wants to cross or not, what if the cis side won'
t be all that it's cracked up to be etc. wtf.
mircea_popescu: just measure the damned thing. if it doesn'
t come out, either refine the machinery or give up.
mircea_popescu: and the proponent can'
t be doing or not doing "because of other people" (tm)
mircea_popescu: we're not discussing why some other blokes aren'
t testing it, we're discussing why the proponent isn'
t.
gabriel_laddel: The Eot-wash group won'
t test this. And the string theorist in that stackoverflow question is more than happy to state that because a large construction of molecules falls at the speed we expect it to, it couldn'
t possibly happen on a small scale.
gabriel_laddel: What Al would like to test is pretty simple. Is gravity mirror-symmetric? If it is, then you can drop two stereoisomers in a vacuum, and they'll fall at the same rate. We don'
t know that this is the case, and the universe actually violates mirror-symmetry on many scales. Perhaps a violation will be observable.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: the opposition lie through their teeth at every given moment, you don'
t want to give them anything to work with
gabriel_laddel: he isn'
t giving up, as far as I know, but biding his time
mircea_popescu: i don'
t get it. he didn'
t want the experiment made in the end ?
mircea_popescu: think of it in terms of throwing bowling balls at a tree from outer space. you won'
t get within a mile. and if the first ball lands 735`331meters rom the tree, the next five won'
t land 735`331 meters from the next five threes.
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2015 21:54:23; asciilifeform: with regards to 0.5.3, i was expecting to see some technical discussion re: total rework of the blockchain sync mechanism and its idiocies, but this didn'
t happen
decimation: apple assumes that you don'
t need to use your computer to compute, so it isn'
t designed for sustained levels of cpu-pegging
gabriel_laddel: I've nothing else to say. Your grasshopper article coupled with the rabbits exposition covers it all. Don'
t try and make things into that which they are not. And if you have a kid, care for /them as an individual/. Your life is over. Make way for the next generation.
mircea_popescu pictures asciilifeform in bed with a woman he picked up earlier in metro. she goes "oh honey, that was SO FUCKING GREAT!" he goes "or maybe i wasn'
t even in!"
gabriel_laddel: That sam altman is a fuckwit isn'
t in contention amongst those in here.
gabriel_laddel: Vaguely related to the conversation above, I'm hoping for a war sometime soon - they are a good way to go about separating content from nonsense. Von N., Teller, etc. wouldn'
t have been able to work on the atomic bomb without the various powers that be helping out.
gabriel_laddel: If your goal is to do a chip level restart, one needn'
t start there, from a business perspective.