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BingoBoingo: That is an interesting and surprisingly easy how
to
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BingoBoingo: Yalta actually seems like a really nice place
to have a summer house
BingoBoingo: Crimea 2 Electric Boogaloo has been submitted
to BitBet
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Nah, I prefer my Saturn. I just
thing
the diving suit would be fun.
cazalla: i was going
to buy a
toyota 86 but decided
to keep driving my shit box until it goes no more
Chris_Sabian: I have a
transcation
that I sent out almost 5 hours ago and it is still unconfirmed. broadcast
through 99 nodes. miners fee of 0.0005 sent. any idea of why it is
taking so long?
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BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves:
They might exist? I dunno of any communications from
TF
this year. Maybe moiety would have some information?
BingoBoingo: That is a very good question
ThickAsThieves
kakobrekla: the guy doesnt know
they squated it
themselves
kakobrekla: ( someone did a redirect
to kraken.com )
kakobrekla: >>You may want
to inform your server guy
to BLOCK all
traffic coming from referrer getgoxed.com
kakobrekla: hey but
the clock amount is still low!
mircea_popescu: anyway, enough excitement for one day. catch you all
tomorrow!
greenspan_fan: in gratitude for
this interesting discussion, I've decided
to spread your fame
to
the r/bitcoin subreddit
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu but I'm cutting
the knot knowing
that it's not
the complete solution, but at some point you just have
to do
things
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greenspan_fan: it seems
to me
that you're implicitly
truncating
the process of
trying
to evaluate
the world
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan you know how mothers
tend
to end coversations with "because i say so,
that's why!" ?
nubbins`: it's one of, if not
the only, starbucks in
the world
that doesn't have "STARBUCKS COFFEE" written on
the outside
nubbins`: greenspan_fan: i've actually been in
that starbucks
nubbins`: you know
that's not a japanese starbucks, yes?
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greenspan_fan: yeah, I am just wondering what your alternative
to rationality is?
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan it just reduces
to yet another faced of your rationality dilemma.
greenspan_fan: then
this reduces
to some sort of weird pascal's wager like scenario
greenspan_fan: it's worth more
than everything in
the world, yet by symmetry any
transaction's balanced out by whatever you're paying me not
to kill you
mircea_popescu: seeing how it's clearly awesome and whatnot, stands
to reason it should be worth something
to you.
greenspan_fan: man
that's another great y-combinator startup right
there
greenspan_fan: I heard facebook was
trying
to get into
that space vis. dead friends still posting links
to ads...
mircea_popescu: lol, now
there's some revolutionizng and disrupting in a
tang package
mircea_popescu: you ever been on
these new social media
things
they have ?
mircea_popescu: not out of anything
than
the holy "if you give
this nimrod 1500 i'll kill him on general principle"
mircea_popescu: i suppose
to some degree, at
the level of a challenge, as in, some schmuck pulls a gun and i blow his head off
greenspan_fan: insofar as "attempting
to act rationally" has benefits associated with it, and insofar as I understand how
to do so
greenspan_fan: I do
those
things
to
the degree
that it's
the rational choice
mircea_popescu: you should also clean out your room, and
the fridge, and eat healthier
greenspan_fan: this reasoning includes a sort of meta-level reasoning about whether or not
the stock selection process is likely
to be correct
greenspan_fan: if I have reasons
to believe it will continue
to increase, I should invest in it
mircea_popescu: or else you
think of
the world, in which case you come
to
terms with your own inexistence
greenspan_fan: I realize I have a
typo in
the above: "process might be IMperfect" **
mircea_popescu: either you act in
the world, in which case you come
to
terms with imposing your arbitrarity upon it
mircea_popescu: anyway : you'll never be able
to have both a) agency and b) rationality.
greenspan_fan: yeah, it's difficult
to avoid
that semantic blurring
mircea_popescu: it's on some level unavoidable
tho, because shoulds link into
the superego.
greenspan_fan: plz stop w/
the mom references, you're bumming me out
mircea_popescu: or you can control
their effects, provided you don't act at all.
mircea_popescu: well, so you can control your own actions, provided you don't control
their effects
mircea_popescu: unless by "my own" you mean "1k random people i've chosen
to represent as my own pebbles"
greenspan_fan: We
treat
the world around us are being "real" because perhaps it is
mircea_popescu: but
this is wildly different from what we were discussing
greenspan_fan: sure. my contention is
that alternative possibilities, like "I am not able
to control my own actions" are in some sense unhelpful
mircea_popescu: but
that does not extend
to "and by
this light make his decisions acceptable"
greenspan_fan: the argument was, I
think,
that even if he were a brain in a vat (or being
tortured by demons, whatever), he could still claim
to exist
mircea_popescu: the cogito goes as proof of existence, it's abused
to all hell by people who lack
the context
to understand what's being said.
mircea_popescu: i'm a great fan of descartes, just, not ready
to marry him.