asciilifeform: at any rate, if kanzure knows how to make, e.g., transgenic muscle men, or thicker bone, etc. he should not settle for small change, go, make
asciilifeform: ( this is in the l0gz somewhere, ancient thread , if you give a damn )
asciilifeform: kanzure: objective was to economically make (by the kg) a (modified) butyrylcholinesterase☟︎
asciilifeform: picture if some martian got a hold of a number of pc and gave them same treatment as the geneticists : 'mov rar, [ecx + ebx] at 0x40000000 associated with 0.5% increased memory allocator performance !!1111'
asciilifeform: re the linked piece, i'm not satisfied with the direction of the causal arrow having been established☟︎
asciilifeform: i can't speak for him, but i only very vaguely know you, kanzure , through n-th degree meatspace .
asciilifeform: i'll also warn that neither mp nor most of the folks here, engage in 'private' conversation with folx they do not know.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/n1IbD >> 'The training of today’s SWOs was further eroded by the Pentagon’s focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before 2010, many Navy officers who were expected to learn on the job were not on ships at all. During critical times in their professional development, they were taken away from their ships and sent to serve as individual augmentees with soldiers and Marines fighting in land-bas
asciilifeform: shinohai: 'What's the latest on Mircea? I've not heard about him in a while.' 'I think his followers actually kind of excommunicated him after he lost their bitcoins. I don't pay much attention to them though.' << didjaknow !☟︎
asciilifeform: ( interestingly, we don't get shown which 'derealization' exactly the 'tru man' character ends up descending into. left to imagination. )☟︎
asciilifeform: but i gotta disagree that the chix was unrealistic. she is exactly realistic, and that's how 'the west was lost'.☟︎
asciilifeform: was exactly as mircea_popescu described.
