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mircea_popescu: srsly now, you lot gotta try this place. it definitely gives la estancia de buenos aires a run for its money.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not only do i own vintage german cars (which, btw, were made for de market and imported here, not made in fucking us/brazil like the rest of the toyotas with bavarian paintjobs), but I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW i just ingested a 28 oz porterhouse steak!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: some cultures are a boon, but some cultures are a baboon, and i've yet to meet the (actual, as opposed to "african-usian" ersatz) black person whose black culture wasn't a terrible burden on their mind.
mircea_popescu: | | | | PROXIMITY || || || | CLOSURE ][ ][ ][ ] DESTINY >>>>>>> CONTINUITY —|—|—|— Modus Ponens is made of this… To achieve mastery of Gestalt self-programming you must start using the method of mentat computation (after Frank Herbert, of course) that I describe in the paper in this link:"
mircea_popescu: ohohoh this is pure gold. "To achieve this, you must first study the Gestalt laws and learn to Gestalt-program your own mind. For, we are self-programming Gestalt-computers, Stanislaw. Relax and look at these five patterns while sensing their perceptual force. Note how they are self-defining in any language. Through perceptual induction they govern all the logical deductions that you will ever be able to make:SIMILARITY | | |
mircea_popescu: (much more of a torture implement than commonly realised btw)
mircea_popescu: (for the record -- while i do believe that IA (as opposed to ai bullcrap) is both perfectly achievable, in many ways achieved, and the ~only reasonable use of the machine in the first place ; i nevertheless think the problem is catastrophically ill posed in the "you know, like bullzoder" sense. yes there was such an application for digital computers, it is called "the numeric method" and still not widely deployed notwithstand
☟︎ mircea_popescu: vi very fucking definitely isn't even vaguely attempting to support this upwards expansion. it rather dedicates itself to trying to compactly symbolize the diffs downwards.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i expect "Before the lecture was through, I had formed a very clear picture of the mythical photographic memory simulator. With only a few keystrokes, it would allow me to enter any thought which occurs to me, along with any associations. The latter set would be expanded by the program to include anything which logically relates to the entry in question." is pretty much exactly what emacs users expect to obtain,
mircea_popescu: "at the time (october 2006) i was spending a lot of time jacking off to stuff i downloaded from the piratebay and i saw their hilariously republican blog ; so i figured... hey, i'm an american and therefore worse that a shitstain in a paki's undershorts. how could i possibly try and run off with as much of that as possible to sell to my nigger masters for some mountain dew ???"
mircea_popescu: fuck justin roiland with a spiked hot poker what the fuck is this poisonous crap.
mircea_popescu: ir lawyers to arrive. That’s actually why it’s so filthy. I was just looking to “troll” a big studio. Then, as I began editing the radio play and boarding it, the two characters ended up becoming something different than just a bad impression of Doc and Marty from BTTF. They slowly became two of my favorite characters that I’ve ever voiced. I backed down on the cease and desist bait and changed the spelling of their
mircea_popescu:
http://roilandtv.com/the-real-animated-adventures-of-doc-and-mharti/# << "I actually made this as a way to poke fun at the idea of getting cease and desist letters. At the time (October 2006) I had nothing to lose and my original intention was to call this “back to the future: the new official universal studios cartoon featuring the new Doc Brown and Marty McFly” and then I’d just sit back and wait for a letter from the
mircea_popescu: the politruk blather has reached absolutely soviet levels by now. what the fuck are they about even ?
mircea_popescu: they're industrial plumbers, you realise, they stick those meter-wide pipes in the ground.
mircea_popescu: "Pape-Dawson will continue to emphasize character and moral integrity; develop solutions in the best interest of the client and public; constantly re-evaluate and sharpen our engineering skills; provide an environment that encourages employee development and satisfaction; actively participate in professional, religious, and civic associations; nurture trusting relationships; and offer services only in our area of technical ca
mircea_popescu: well, i imagine people connect to their local email account on the basis of ssh ? so you can masquerade it and read their mail.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: incidentally, broken ssh key of a mail.pape-dawson.com server is kinda how you get all those hilarity emails isn't it ?
mircea_popescu: it's just that it was so far of left field i dinged you before actually looking into it. because "did you attempt to reg your privkey" was not on my "you are speaking english online and therefore dumber than rocks" checklist.
mircea_popescu: which is not a trivial proposition ; and can kinda allow you to decide who to convict.
mircea_popescu: i'm thinking of the whole palette of anthropogenic chemicals.
mircea_popescu: also with other things -- heavy metals are conjunctive-stored in preference of fat, but let's not go so deep.
mircea_popescu: sure. there's however also this tendency to fat store that correlates with mass.
mircea_popescu: touch two of the four you're probably taking it to the coffin.
mircea_popescu: there's a number of factors : water solubility ; electric philoreactivity ; specific enzimatic pathways ; molecular size in rough order.
mircea_popescu: most crap works that way. from ddt to hwat have you. it's not the safe dose. it's the fact you'll never clear it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they do have a point though ; costa rica imports some stuff from the us, and you can always tell. don't even have to taste, smell is enough 90% of the time.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how a pound of bloody porterhouse can possibly be worse for you than ~anything else ; but hey, who's gonna make 300 mn pounds of prime cut for all the idiots each day.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. the "meat is bad for you" totally got people off ribs and tbone steaks and onto mcd patties and soycrap.
mircea_popescu: (perhaps nobody noticed that the large 70s push away from "bad" meats exactly coincided with the failure of us agro to produce enough meat for the enbulkenking middle class.)
mircea_popescu: i've kinda waiting fgor the "veggies ... are actually bad for you" trend reversal. because you know it's coming.
mircea_popescu: let's wonder whether the most serene republic can actuallty dictate us policy and let's not wonder whether our "groups" of 3 idiots including the speaker and the "leader" are worth the mention. hurr durr and gtfo already.
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck. they dare call this crap "a group" ? fuck this dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: "Attendance was scant—three people including the leader and me—" <<< aaaand it lost me.
mircea_popescu: "maybe these broadleaf plants are hepatotoxic" "you know... how could they not be ?" "umm... well, if the horse were spherical and didn't need a liver at all..."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: sort-of like how all window-piercing ammo is glass shattering. actually, strike that. not sort-of. exactly like.
mircea_popescu: here's a temporary moment of clarity : ALL physchoactives are neurotoxic. this is the DEFINITION of psychoactive.
mircea_popescu: wait wait. you mean to tell me every time i walk into a damas lavatory i'm misgendering myself ?
mircea_popescu: this is like not even horrid, as far as coinages go. where do they find flocks of seagulls with still firing neurons anyway ?!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wait, is this "large scale pot usage undercovers pot not being panacea" ?
mircea_popescu: tes before the story rapidly folds as if this horror of horrors, the fucking trip, is so scary it can't even be contemplated, just a glimpse suffices and should be immediately forgotten."