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mircea_popescu: "Having just gone
through
this from
the other side of
the fence I
thought I would share some perspective.
The reality is no successful startup founder wants hundreds or
thousands of investors. Contrary
to
the silly games you see on "crypto exchanges" with startups issuing billions of shares
to
thousands of investors no founder wants
that. Less is better when it comes
to investors because it means less overhead and m
deadweasel: working with aspies on a regular basis, I find
that hilarious.
ThickAsThieves: assburger's
that could be
the name for
the ketard sriratchup company
ThickAsThieves: since i cant even
tell my jokes from my seriouses, i wanna note
that coelho is retarded
mircea_popescu: actually
this company could come up for its first product
mircea_popescu: then you'll have
to have 500 mixed bottles and people will argue over which was used.
ThickAsThieves: i can
tell you
that mixing sriracha and ketchup is pretty good
Jere_Jones: You can already buy peanut butter and jelly mixed
together.
mircea_popescu: "hei guise, wouldn't it be cool if ketchup and mustard came in
the same bottle ?"
deadweasel: the jumping off point, for idiots, is as soon as
they have an idea.
bones`: Getting passed
that first failure helps
deadweasel: knowing where
that point is, I
think, is a skill derived from failing continously up until
that point.
ThickAsThieves: “There is only one
thing
that makes a dream impossible
to achieve:
the fear of failure.”
mircea_popescu: bones`
this sounds smart but it is really just a moving of
the
trash under
the rug
bones`: Just
try
to fail with satoshis instead of
tens of BTC
deadweasel: i see what you did
there,
ThickAsThieves, and I agree.
mircea_popescu: rather
than as
to repeat
the history of common mistakes.
mircea_popescu: do fail in such a manner as
to advance
the common
truths
Jere_Jones: If I believe
that I am incompetent, I won't act until I believe
that I am, at least minimally, competent. Always
thinking
that I am
totally incompetent would lead
to paralysis. At some point I have
to open up
the editor and lay code down or I am useless.
deadweasel: your heaven sounds lame. I'd like not
to administer ALTCOIN in heaven.
bones`: Trying
to find utility in delaying your progress for an afterlife is hard for me
deadweasel: so... like, was
that it, or is
there something after dead?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves never quote me on
this or i'll kill you, but,
the only reason
this hjolds
true is because us nuttery about "encouraging" people and so on and so forth. in other cultures
the opposite holds
true.
deadweasel: then, when you act, and fail, you'll be well ready
to know exactly where and how you failed.
ThickAsThieves: although it's
typically more fruitful
to assume you are wrong
than right
deadweasel: Jere_Jones: it's best
to always
think you're
totally incompetent, until you are
the expert in a field.
bones`: Jere_Jones, reducing
the number of unknown unknowns is a good
thing, but
takes
time
Jere_Jones: My opinion of my own competence is irrelevant
to my actual competence?
mircea_popescu: deadweasel quotation marks
to be supplied by
the parser.
mircea_popescu: whereas if you
think you're competent enough
to create x and need no improvement you have ~50-50 odds
to actually be competent enough.
mircea_popescu: in fact, empirically, if you
think you're not competent enough
to create x you must improve you have ~50-50 odds
to actually be competent enough.
deadweasel: Jere_Jones: you're doing it right
then
Jere_Jones: The more
time I spend in here,
the more I realize
that I know exactly squat.
mircea_popescu: but what if you lack
the metacognitive capabilities
to see
this ?
mircea_popescu: omg look at
this,
there's no anaxagoras on
teh english web
Jere_Jones: Why can't I say "I am not competent
to create X. I must improve."?
Jere_Jones: A label
that must be applied by a
third party?
Jere_Jones: Seems
to me
that being incompetent is a
transitional phase
that must be passed
through.
The key is
to minimize outside exposure
to my incompetence while I work
through it?
deadweasel did way
too much introspection
this weekend.... or just enough?....
mircea_popescu: and /me beams at having injected into conversation like
the oldest remaining
text as well as various other classical bits
deadweasel: i'm just saying since we don't know
the final outcome, assuming it ends at death is a big jump.
mircea_popescu: even so. no presumption as
to your body or mind was made.
deadweasel: What if 'I' is not only
the body/mind, what if
there is a consciousness beyond
this.
mircea_popescu: that which is is, and necessarily is, whereas
that which is not is not
deadweasel: and if I really know what
the
truth of
that is.
deadweasel: you don't eat you die, happens all
the
time.
mircea_popescu: if not ignorance,
then what ? if not hunger leads you
to sate,
then what ?
deadweasel: i'm aware of rabbit hole I stuck my head it here, but not
the formal proposition of it.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel you aware of
the neoplatonist loophole you got
there right ?
mircea_popescu: most of
the high
ticket scammers are going for
that angle.
deadweasel: ThickAsThieves: i'm just saying
that
the ignorance itself doesn't lead
to comptence
mircea_popescu: "any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from
turpid stupidity"
pankkake: well,
the ones I've seen do it were fresh out of school
mircea_popescu: pankkake i
think
that may be leftover from
the old days of cobol horror.
pankkake: mircea_popescu: some programmers check
twice, or allocate a variable
twice,
to be sure. I'm not kidding.
mircea_popescu: what, everyone gets a banker certificate with
their birth certificate now ?
mircea_popescu: im really looking forward
to clauses like if i ==== j
then else if i === j
then else if i == j
then else if i = j
then.
Jere_Jones: "Sucking at something is
the first step
to being kinda good at something."
mircea_popescu: and speaking of magical php, any language out
there which isn't served enough by 3 and has 4 or more ?
Jere_Jones: Incompetence is something
that everyone starts out with.
mircea_popescu: there not existing any malice anyway,
their character ===
their
trustability.
mircea_popescu: i shall now charge myself for self-zinging commentary a 5 atc
tax.
Jere_Jones: So "scam" is used, not as an attack on one's character, but as a characterization of
their
trustability?
mircea_popescu: because it is impossible
to establish malice at all, a difference predicated upon establishing malice is meaningless.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones
this revolves around
the concept of meaningful difference.
Jere_Jones: Speaking of scams, I have always
thought, and
the dictionary agrees with me,
that a scam was defined by dishonesty. BingoBoingo made a comment
that a scame is defined by "not paying". Whether not paying is due
to malice, incompetince, or a natural disaster is irrelevant.
ThickAsThieves: "So if I buy some shares in NeoBee from havelock now will I get more dividends
than if I buy
the shares after
the 23rd of Feb?"