mircea_popescu: ie, this isn't a place to be worried about making a mistake ; mistakes are self-correcting anywya.

mircea_popescu: i dun see anything wrong with either approach. having them all have current block height as trinque says, correctly reflects present situation. having them have whatever other denotation you choose (some kind of reconstructed "blocks as it were") has the advantage that it reflects historical knowledge. neither of these is important : FUTURE manifest.txt versions can reflect w/e we want them to then.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this cleverness leads to "implemented solar panel out of wooden stick" ☟︎

mircea_popescu: well whatever the syntax is. runs here too, just doesn't hourly announce.

mircea_popescu: yes, out of 1k humans 900 are morons. but out of the 100 remaining, 99 females "are morons" because "muh babies".

mircea_popescu: illustrative example : 1. ruler says "whosoever eats this delicious treat will be whipped". 2. john and jane eat it. 3. john is brought for judgement, "wtf ?" "i did not understrand eating the treat i ate is the eating of the treat you were talking about" "a ok, moron" ; 4. jane is brought for judgement, "wtf ?" "i did not understand you saying so and so whipping applies to me." "what ?" "i am pregnant."

mircea_popescu: the male/female divide that produces the batallion-to-one ratio is "grasps, grasps, but does not care", not "fails to grasp".

mircea_popescu: going the other way is against nature, though.

mircea_popescu: now the ~other way around~, where male becomes a sort of parasite, is widely seen, from fishes to insects (and, as per "they're just little boys" common discovery of middle-aged whores), humans also.

mircea_popescu: yes well in that sense, the soi-dissant "united states government" being as it is an uppity (and, shamefulyl, tax-avoidant) group organized under the republic's millet system and so on.

mircea_popescu: the "strictly impossible" was re a ; b is likely impossible becasue of space-starvation. the deep reason male mammals have nipples even if no uterus is that the "proper" signification of every-single-fucking-detail exceeds the "storage space" so to speak available to the physical process. so ~everything is overloaded, and generally >10 deep.

mircea_popescu: there's very much not a central switch, whereby the blastule goes "now we completed stem, moving on to ganglia". there's no such phase ; future neocortex structures predate such diversification as separate digits.

mircea_popescu: this is not even how the brain works.

mircea_popescu: so you're talking, actual decerebrated mammal. how would it work ?

mircea_popescu: this is strictly impossible, btw, the "evolved nonsentient female".

mircea_popescu: and on this note, /me shall get to item he's been procrastinating!

mircea_popescu: in entirely unrelated non-news, the surprised by joy thing has been most read article this month since the day it was published. it's so fucking rare for a same-month article to even rank... i wonder wtf happened there. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: want is the expectation projected into the future ; expectation is the want projected into the past. the zek is of the opinion that "really ? we still have to DO this ?!" re "the conversation" about how he's to do work. what fucking work!

mircea_popescu: not even "want to". EXPECT TO be paid for existing.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform certainly, and the "hr" office as full as ever, for every factory. just, not full with anyone worth hiring applying to do any job. just fulla derps who expect to be paid for existing.

mircea_popescu: so the us can at any time you wish field large helpings of "support personnel", but not the useful kind (that cleans latrines). the ustarded kind, that wants to "let's all make a circle" and "just talk"

mircea_popescu: kinda how us army was disbanded, to be replaced by the us "core of training". "teaching" the orcs is almost not insulting to the idiots' notions of self-importance.

mircea_popescu: anyway, it's shockingly rare to see kiddo come up to instructor with anythiong but "i wanna be * commander". because http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-08#1848730 amirite, erryone's a lord and there's no serfs anywhere. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that if either logic or experience have any say, should a multi-century "space colonization" thing occur, women'd be EXACTLY that, taken for the ride chained to a post. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "women would never agree to be taken over to alphaq centauri chained to posts as slaves"

mircea_popescu: that, i can explain. us 80s notion of space travel (inherited from 1960s french, as seen eg in http://trilema.com/2013/hibernatus/ ) involves the notion of sending families in ecosystems.

mircea_popescu: is this your way of discreetly letting us know you do drink it ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is like confessing you like the smell of gasoline. du nhave TO ALSO EAT IT!

mircea_popescu: "o hey! this works so well!"

mircea_popescu: "let's have deeply unqualified nobodies in particular puke some text under a deadline"

mircea_popescu: predates the other atrocity by a good decade.

mircea_popescu: "cheap computer game aiming to mass market will expose in garish tones the idiocy common to all people"

mircea_popescu: ah. yeah this is a better theory

mircea_popescu: avortons that didn't even PLAY civ. spawned by idiots who also did not play it -- but were somehow osmotically influenced by the players ?

mircea_popescu: i am starting to suspect civ was a lot more influential than previously realised --a whole generation of morons literally imagine "the nation of africa" was spawned forh by shaka the bahamas.

mircea_popescu: think about it -- if she hadn't given zee germans zee letter z, what'd they have done!

mircea_popescu: and all through bronze age, subnormals derped around with wood.

mircea_popescu: all through iron age subnormals derped around with leather

mircea_popescu: all through computer age subnormals derped about with plastics, as a substitute (look baby! it's so colorful! almost like a real computer!)

mircea_popescu: turkish woodworking tradition is 100% imported from ro/arvnaut/macedonian tradition on the west and the iranian on the east.

mircea_popescu: well, two! there's one that came from the jenissary music, as a brass instrument (goaran) and there's one that came from the thessaly/macedonian pastoral tradition earlier, as a wooden shepher's whistle (caval)

mircea_popescu: ~same thing the vuvuzela came from.

mircea_popescu: pro tip : jews ~= gypsies. after five centuries spent on the same caravan roads...

mircea_popescu: it's not jazzy lol, "manea" is a trad turkish thing.

mircea_popescu: but no, the actual item is "paul lica de la roman", "sunt sofer de camion"

mircea_popescu: just about ; radio station producer chick hit me for their "guilty pleasures" segment.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's me on the radio, like a decade or so ago.

mircea_popescu: (i just mean the my spoken segment, not the whole atrocity)

mircea_popescu: lettuce offer a mn ECus to whoever of the rotaku club that produces the correct notation of that thing. hanbot diana_coman an' spyked are kindly asked to stay out of it!