mircea_popescu: o lol wyw showed up by himself. lol nm then

mircea_popescu: nor is there room for human purpose, or human goals. kinda the point of bitcoin, after all. kinda why all the "equalitarian" coins and mental devices, and all the preoccupation with accessibility or w/e are so funny.

mircea_popescu: princessnell: economies are aggregations of human actions << and in that they become unhuman. basically a major point of that article is that this desperate clutching at straws, people trying to retain their people-relevance in economics is a little lulzy. there's no room for politics in economy.

mircea_popescu: moiety, ask him to take you next they do something in his area :D

mircea_popescu: princessnell: i think it's bizarre to call it non-teleological personally << this opens up a large debate as to whether life has purpose. i happen to hold that it doesnt, which informs the choice of vocabulary. it'll have to be translated (apolitic ?) to avoid linking that dependency in there.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: I also take issue with "perfect" << now we're getting to the knickers of it :D

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: penguirker is bog-slow << it's actually broken pankkake. it sometimes publishes 2nd article in list when the 1st shows in rss.

mircea_popescu: jurov: extract more absolute observations << a fool's errand << quite true, but also all of humanities is exactly this fool's errand. human condition, what.

mircea_popescu: o, definitely. that's well canon by now.

mircea_popescu: i wasn't there.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, was transparently obvious what it was doing to anyone with two neurons to rub together neh ?

mircea_popescu: alternatively the polish guy, wywliam or what was it. dba numeristrade

mircea_popescu: also ask princessnell for tutoring, she's actually competent in this field.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i want to make sure i'm not inventing ideas someone else has already << the problem here is that you're looking at reading by the bookshelf, not by the book. there's an immense load and no directly obvious way to even systematize it. hayek tho may be a good start if you've not read him fully.

mircea_popescu: experience shows the most successvful (as measured by gross intake, of course) scams are never the intellectually respectable ones.

mircea_popescu: it's a case of "definitely reality is like our experience, because totally civilisaiton looks like it could have been built by people sitting in starbucks"

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, they don't know wtf they're talking about

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i venture to guess that it is because the temptation to 'go retarded' (e.g. premine, insert 'egalitarian' crapola like demurrage, reward phriends, etc.) is overwhelming. << cattle lacks motivators outside of grass.

mircea_popescu: as if there is more reality to an identity than wot and keys. but anyway.

mircea_popescu: cluelessweek and all the other derps can move on to wonder about "the real identity" of the mystery buyer

mircea_popescu: most likely scenario, you'd just have a "myserious belgian buyer" soaking up 300% of Belgium's GDP each month and that'll be that

mircea_popescu: major stakes are regularly sold and bought in any equity, russia just sold it's satoshi stash of T bills and the same idiotic press isn't harping about how the T is dead

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: it could be near-death << such nonsense. he holds what, at most 9% of supply ? who the shit cares 9% of supply is sold off.

mircea_popescu: wtf are they for, im not 12.

mircea_popescu: and renting instead of buying makes attacks cheaper <<< you had it earlier tho. if it's mined then more gear will mine more ; similarly, if it can be bought it can be rented. fwiw, fee simple is rent anyway. what bought.