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BingoBoingo: krlbrgmn: I hear lorezapam works wonders
too.
mircea_popescu: well, why is it hard ?
that's why
the long
term strategy is a long
term strategy.
BingoBoingo: krlbrgmn: Maybe buy back in at $187.50? Everyone has
to price and stratagem on
their own.
krlbrgmn: but when you see a 25% decrease in
the price, it's hard
to keep calm
mircea_popescu: in general it's a good idea
to set a long
term strategy and follow
that.
krlbrgmn: is it a wise
thing
to buy back in?
krlbrgmn: oh well,
the fuckers got me into a bear
trap
mircea_popescu: yeah, kinda par for
the course here. you certainly can't say "crash" if
the price isn't at day lows.
BingoBoingo: krlbrgmn: It is
too late
to blame Pirateat40 so blame LabCoin
Vexual: big yuan influx will enjoy
this
type of risky
trading in
the coming 12 months
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BingoBoingo: Pragmatism in
the
tradition of James (and Pierce would distinguish himself by surrendering pragmatism
to
the label or pragmaticism) isn't quite
the utilitarianism of Hume or Dewey as it is often presented
though. So long as you stop reading James before he goes all Jebus, and spz world peace.
krlbrgmn: what did just happen
to
the price?
mircea_popescu: Vexual
the idea
to school people comes from a desire
to have
them powerful and idnependent citizens, rather
than worthless dependent subjects.
mircea_popescu: and i don't
think dewey ruined anything. i
think dewey just "cut
through
the cuts
that were
there" as
the old azn story goes.
Vexual: if one was
to create a programming language,
then
the idea is
to school people
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
the list is longer
than pierce, who is imo respectable, but exactly : logic is logic, and "utilitarianism" isn't much philosophy.
Vexual: that one guy isnt
trying
to school anyone
mircea_popescu: and i don't want
to school anyone,
there's about 10mn people pretending
they are schooling a hundred million kids in
the us.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, it was
the age before you could deform a
turtle into a peanut. Before and greater
than James
there was
this Charles Pierce fellow, but he ate garbage even
though in set
theory papers are still now not uncommonly found
to have proofs he offered earlier. Logic isn't quite philosophy
though either.
mircea_popescu: hardly a point.
this seems
the
three year old's expectation
that his mother will feed him because she can.
Vexual: who do you want
to school?
mircea_popescu: schooling is all about putting people in controlled environment designed for
their changing.
Vexual: you could
throttle every internet user
today
to 300 bps and give
them a book on asm.. one guy would make
the porn come fast
mircea_popescu: well ok, but psychology is not philosophy. and for
that matter, really difficult
to argue it into much more
than a fashionable lady passtime.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
There was once.
This fellow William James at a point finally overcame his neuroses and condensed his principles of psychology into Psychology a Briefer course.
Then his own dementia and
this Dewey asshole had
to undo his good work.
mircea_popescu: maybe if some actual philosopher ever visited and felt inclined
to
talk
to
the hordes, which seems improbable.
mircea_popescu: i don't know americans ever had
the opportunity
to listen
to philosophy lectures in
their country.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I
took a seminar on
the Kritik der reinen Vernunft where after covering
the
transcendental aesthetic and analytic
the professor just stopped.
The
transendental dialectic, pure reason, and
the doctrine of method remained. In a graduate seminar where physical hunger ought be expected of
the students.
Thus I stopped
taking academic philosophy seriously as covered in
the program.
Vexual: the comparative success of peeps at
the pointy ends of a bell curve isn't realteable
to
the hardship of
the masses
mircea_popescu: it's funny,
they go
to all
this
trouble
to make school as much like a prison as possible, but
then fail
to
take advantage of any of
the implicit benefits.
mircea_popescu: well... it's easier, and more comfortable, and always easier
to find cheap waitresses
than cheap mistresses, so...
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
They probably ought not be so separated, but when a 'Murican school feeds all of
the students like
the football
team everyone gets fat and no one really wants for anything. Having heavy a fat offensive line undermines
the school's educational mission.
mircea_popescu: "either write a chess program in asm or starve for one month" seems a perfectly healthy proposition for any 20 year old
to confront.
BingoBoingo: Ah, I butchered
the
typing on
that sentence...
BingoBoingo: I've always counted on malware wuthors being necessarily more sophisticated since
they are more likely
to have primal motivations like hunder fueling
their master of
the craft.
BingoBoingo: Once I finally got internet access programming
the computers fell into
the backseat and finding pr0n on
the computers moved
to
the fore. A failure of education may be one factor.
There is probably also a failure of inflicting hunger as well
though.
mircea_popescu: that
this isn't required of sophomore it students in
the west speaks more of
the poor quality of it education in
the west.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact asm is quite
transparent and quite
transparently used by actually competent programmers, such as malware creators.
mircea_popescu: this is basically institutional laziness created
to not
throw
the curve for black people.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: At some point even a big head faile unless is surrenders
to
the aspersorzing.
The
TI-89 and
the 0x0 Macs were
the last machines I remember assembler and BASIC flavors being comparably organizable,
though my experience in
the matter is limited.
mircea_popescu: it's a homologuous problem
to beating
the machine in
the numbers game earlier.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Probably, but it is quite a leap creating code
that can be organized in assembly for
the
TI-89 and assembler for a modern x86 chip. I imagine
the leap
to
the assembler OCL compile
to would be still harder
to organize.
mircea_popescu: the balance is between (laziness, ignorance and
their offspring) in
the human operator on one end and (sugar spice and everything nice) in
the machine on
the other.
mircea_popescu: this is untrue. writing directly in assembler is both
the most control and
the most speed.
BingoBoingo: I
think in computing
there might be some almost necessary balance between complete control and optimal speed.
BingoBoingo: Of course. As are people
trying
to substitute interpreters for compilers a la
the Lisp machine.
BingoBoingo: I mean
the armory wallet is a python program where going
through
the interpreter on Linux it is unbearably slow
though when compiled for Windows it was fast.
BingoBoingo: Yeah. I've only ever dealt with C++, Fortran, and Python in
that order. C++ I remember as fast, fortran was verbose, and I never wrote anything important enough
to feel slow
though other people's .py programs have.
mircea_popescu: lisp started doing
the same
thing strictly out of frustration, like
the geek
that's now wearing a new jockstrap each week maybe he gets
to be as popular with
the young ditzes as
the jock
mircea_popescu: im not sure what's fashionable now
that java and ruby are dead, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: c has been repackaged 12+
times in
the intervening 50 years
to appeal
to retarded
teenagers
mircea_popescu: no, language is a fine distinction.
the practical choice one has
today is still
the same one had in 1960 : eiher something algol-like, something haskel-like, something lisp-like or perhaps an stack insanity a la asm.
BingoBoingo: Who cares how many person hours Python saves if
the code runs 100x slower.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Depends on what you mean by code. Language would probably be a dubious distinction.
The way
they organize
their code is probably
the point.
mircea_popescu: competent people still use
the 1950s C and
the 1970s C compiler
mircea_popescu: in general in computer science people split into
two groups, ie,
the retards and
the competent, by
the code
they use.
BingoBoingo: I mean RSA is old, 70's math and still stands with proper key pairs. It seems
the kind of asymmetric encryption still. I mean how did Rand corporation grow so big?
mircea_popescu: i doubt
there will be five liches active at any one
time in eulora.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: A form of Eulora is available. I wonder how many people might want
to buy 5+ Demigod or Lich characters in Eulora versus people who might see a need for as many Cardanos.
mircea_popescu: at least in
their lifecycle. eulora for
that matter is already available.
BingoBoingo: I'm still inclined
to believe a production Cardano will ship before Euloria hits production.
BingoBoingo: I see.
This is why I bet rather
than invest.
mircea_popescu: no. s.nsa sold ~4mn, which became
the
total authorised float. s.mg sold ~88mn, which became
the
total authorised float
BingoBoingo: I might also be a bit drunk
to math, but... I was under
the impression S.NSA and S.MG were both 100 million shares and S.BBET was 10. I may have mathed or contracted wrong
though.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
The BitBet? I just mathed
the last prices into market caps
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BingoBoingo: I
think
the new idiots are going
to
take us
to a new high
taub: short
term 1-2 days i'd say bearish
to rangeish
taub: basically means "yea
there was a huge selloff, no big deal got absorbed, on we go"
taub: if we go back up above
this high (204 on bitstamp) its not good :D
taub: i want it
to drop hard again
nubbins`: on
that note, it's 4:30am. nite
ozbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well
the f or
the h pawn depending on how he decides
to struggle. Preferably
the f
though
to avoid a forced stalemate.
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Your board also lacks
things
to
take on c5
mircea_popescu: still, probably
the one applciation of asciilifeform's slavecoin
BingoBoingo: I have a feeling raw IQ like mining probably has fundamental problems in
that
the people anticipating profits don't know how
to wipe.
mircea_popescu: (in
the sense
the 100 iq average is periodically resampled)
mircea_popescu: by
the way, didja know fiat-iq is also inflation prone ?
BingoBoingo: I'll get
to reading once
the kingdom of nubbins` falls
ozbot: In which I discuss
things I have no idea about pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Isn't neoreactionary an #Urbit
thing?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Wait a bit, nubbins` needs
to learn
this chess
thing
mircea_popescu: so who here has heard
the
term "neoreactionary" before ?
mod6: yeah, back
this spring it went down for quite a long
time.
BingoBoingo: I was
thinking April. I didn't realize
they still pretended
they had volume.