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mircea_popescu: "oh, you mean you want me to work for $institution for free ?" "yes, it's prestige!!! you realising any portion of the value you add would make the value you add worth less--for us!"
mircea_popescu: somehow twisted "ethics" into justifying the practice.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck anyone would be on a "committee" is beyond my meagre imaginative powers.
mircea_popescu: want a good $item find an old $item final age of glorious socialism is upon us huh.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: he doubles every day ? since when, a coupla months ago ?
mircea_popescu: but in other wtfs, meteorologists report it already rained here 30% more than average for the whole month.
mircea_popescu: plus cane sugar and fresh vanilla bean. very strong femobedience aura.
mircea_popescu: did i tell you about rthe mango-pineapple jam i made ?
mircea_popescu: yeah. sold for i dun recall, 30k i think a few years later.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ever told you about the time i traded color tv set for flat in condo ?
mircea_popescu: supermarket here regularly has 3-4 people working at bagging / ferrying my groceries to car when i visit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform whores. restaurants. clubs. bars. you name it -- anything that dun has to do with govertnment.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's not terribly expensive, let's put it that way. not a steal either.
mircea_popescu: ironically, while cr is in fact just about that, it has better services than argentina. or the us, for the most part.
mircea_popescu: there isn't in math a possible classification of errors. any one is sufficient to "prove" all others.
mircea_popescu: ie, ANY error, no matter how justified, IS, exactly, ~exactly~ equal any other.,
mircea_popescu: anyway, to humor you and with absolutely no dispositive intent : let f(x) = 1/x ; let g(x) = 1/x*2. let x ->n. 0**0 = 1 implies x -> 1 when x->n.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this isn't a business transaction. i dun give a shit who suffers from math.
mircea_popescu: anyway, danielpbarron original approach, ie with limits of functionals, is imo also the correct one. and in this perspective f ^ g when both f and g ->0 is properly undefined.
mircea_popescu: n ^ 0 is practically speaking the mathematical notation of aristotle's prime mover. "before anything, everything was one."
mircea_popescu: moreover, the strong argument is ex nihilo nihil. n ^ 0 is validly something, but 0 processed in any way can't properly make anything besides itself.
mircea_popescu: well... by the same argument raising to the 0th power is no raising to any powers ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but could equally well argue it should equal 0 on the basis that 0*x = 0.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron it was when i went to hs, but i figured they've progressed past that
mircea_popescu: good thing they included femvoices in the public sphere.
mircea_popescu: anyway : some people say it's not for the people to shoot theresa may. i disagree.
mircea_popescu: ics are these things that go into the fridge so you can play mario while figuring out what to take out of it.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, NOBODY to date, and outside of us, nobody at all ever conceived of using digital computers for cryptography. period and full stop.
mircea_popescu: which was the thing, back then, "of course he's not going -- to ag or anywhere else. too far from home, country boy."
mircea_popescu: anyway, the only reason this is lulzy is because (different) girl estimated him incapable of going further than a few hundred miles for cultural / mentality reasons.
mircea_popescu: then they worry about ~my~ bitcoin income. i suppose cows also worry about human dwelling -- no large salt rock in livingroom, how do those poor people live!
mircea_popescu: which takes us right back to the kako lulz. i was sitting with girl earlier, idly observed "check out that dork, argentina was too far for him. china -- not. what the fuck is wrong with people." and she explained. "you know what it is. bitcoin went up. you're thinking, eh, he made hundreds, what does he care. he cares -- because he mostly sold them as he got them, good little soviet."
mircea_popescu: well yes, the thing is weak in all articulations, including that one.
mircea_popescu: cow finds out how to walk on two legs, extract ore, smelt metal, build helicopter, fly over to californy come back with another bushel of oats ? what is this, supercow al rescate ?
mircea_popescu: conceivably someone in the eg donner party went over to the cattle, to tell them that they're fucked, feed's running out, etc. if they did, there was certainly no observable change in cattle behaviour. the fuck were they gonna do ?
mircea_popescu: the result of making all possible change, even the most dismal and unimportant, mindboggling expensive is a large set of cows. they dun care. why shouyld they care ? while the oats & hay lasts they eat and foal ; once it ends it ends. that's all.
mircea_popescu: can't even argue with it. in their environment, it dun pay to care. what's gonna happen, gunman shows up massacres the lot ? hurr, not like ~anything their brains could come up with'd help in that situation. what other environmental pressure do they encounter ? nothing surmountable. if the corp trough has pepsi that day, they can stand on fuckiong head won't get coke. "company policy".
mircea_popescu: "for a purpose so secret no one may know what it is" etc.
mircea_popescu: sure. well... 300 years ago it was "chartered companies".
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure that's right, they literally don't give a shit about anything that's further out than lunch break / takes more thought than lulzpic etc.
mircea_popescu: just what perpetually lazy greeks & co need --- bout time for another "marshall plan".
mircea_popescu: basically, they're not afraid. this bodes well for fiat o.O