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mircea_popescu: pretty sure that's also a romanian tale. something with valley of eternal life and the maidens thereof ?
mircea_popescu: that latter part happens here all the fucking time, at that.
mircea_popescu: which in turn is driven by -- the fact that you're capable to abstractly form criteria is not useful if those criteria exclude "the whole world", because well, by definition that's not a criteria ; and if this situation is passible of occuring, you're in the meta-unfortunate position where you lack the outside authority that may challenge the parts where your abstracted criteria are actually misstated.
mircea_popescu: because that's entirely what sadness is : the perception of the impossibility of a criteria, formed on the basis of extended periods of absent criteria.
mircea_popescu: in short : there's no shortage of distractions, and sorting through them requires a criteria, which is fundamentally incompatible with sadness.
mircea_popescu: it's built over numerous attempts, through miscalibrated point "improvements"
mircea_popescu: socially inept males aren't born socially inept, nor do they build their ineptitude in a day.
mircea_popescu: not to mention, it wouldn't be the first time. you understand this ? most tried things, in a widening fan, a la alf's own nsa attempt.
mircea_popescu: there's plenty of bottles everywhere ; and one who's blind drunk already has serious trouble seeing straight
mircea_popescu: how did that go, "but my son and my daughter came out of the water and said papa you'd promised you'd play..."
mircea_popescu: which is the mirror statement of this -- peasants can be kept packing mud in the buff by a round table. 40 knights aren't 4, which aren't 2 etcetera.
mircea_popescu: anyway, much more in the general -- the republic of intelligent people will only succeed in rendering the idiots back to their chains if it somehow actually gets the intelligent people involved.
mircea_popescu: some can sometimes be seduced, evidently, but it's a very iffy proposition.
mircea_popescu: so trb-ing is a huge anti-impedancer for everyone who could be working on it.
mircea_popescu: that's a large part of the true problem, i suspect -- people who are truly capable are VERY used to labouring in solitude, becauyse hey, ever since about 6 they encountered the unleashed idiocy of world and formed bad habits.
mircea_popescu: anyway, but the "i go write trbi" thing is not particularly useful as an exercise in solipsism, herculean or otherwise.
mircea_popescu: me too, but i'm not intelligent enough to be able to say something this soon.
mircea_popescu: the syren song of "oh, how wasteful" is always the side a of a record that goes the same old droning rooseveltism.
mircea_popescu: phf no, it is not failure or waste. it is the necessary basis for independent human intelligence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you conflate many things. having the car ready doesn't necessitate it being launched early.
mircea_popescu: sorta goes in the "parachute - folded before jumping" vein.
mircea_popescu: the "at some point the idiots pulling on the tablecloth will rip it, and the a) here's a replacement is way better than the b) i guess we should think of replacement" ?
mircea_popescu: nao not much. we have between us a literal raft of problems with tentative statement and tentative possible solutions.
mircea_popescu: i may dare say the same, especially in the evenings after a cognac or two.
mircea_popescu: i'm a low information fucking voter, bitcoin is a) unreadable and b) a humongous uncomprehended problem anyway!
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is someone who doesn't know supposed to choose.
mircea_popescu: free fucking will, suppose you go to a mall where they blindfold you and take your credit card.
mircea_popescu: "and having so judged, i will now apply myself to problem i selected by criteria."
mircea_popescu: and in general, the hallucinant delusion that person is in position to "own free will" and "self determination" and fucking humanism is five quarters of the whole problem.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how to address the problem (clearly generated by the unfortunate combination of deep imbecility inborn in americans and the deep suicidal streak of the female state as it is), and so what can i say.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to come back to it : there's a particular vacuum occuring in bitcoin, 2016-2017 so far, whereby the technically competent are relatively improductive, and the inept, instead of standing to attention before them, are stuck producing the inane bs they produce
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i expect it;s some flimsy attempt to attention whore through keyword stuffing by some inept cunt in california, who has a lot of college debt and utterly no skills to speak of.
mircea_popescu: tons of retardedness with morgan freeman, aaron schwartz, what have you.
mircea_popescu: in other news in the same vein, the pirate bay doesn't seem to have... the story of o.
mircea_popescu: but i'm not about to burn regency furniture for heat, and i'm not about to set girls that can go out and talk to people in front of a computer to ada.
mircea_popescu: well, there's no if. i dun need, tis the fucking point of life in any sense. the less you need the better off you'll be.
mircea_popescu: i'm not going to squeeze the world through the eye of a needle because i'm so infatuated with conceptual beauty that i can't resist. i can resist jus' fine.
mircea_popescu: understand, i was mp before bitcoin was invented. i will be mp after it crashes and burns. tis not a need, for me.
mircea_popescu: anyway. not all good things are for that goodness necessarily permitted to exist. maybe humanity is altogether too dumb to have a bitcoin. i guess in time we'll definitely find out.
mircea_popescu: so no, there won't be any turning of gurls into dudes. maybe the reverse, though it seems the process is kinda lossy.
mircea_popescu: i'm not about to turn an ox into a duck. and to be very clear, one obedient gurl is worth about fifty or so exceptional programmers.
mircea_popescu: 99.9x% of everything is done by people who have been here since founding. tis a little worrysome.
mircea_popescu: truth be told, we have a very serious problem getting new people to actually get head out of ass do something useful.
mircea_popescu: if they manage to stumble in their own robes and throusers until 2030 or so, trb might even live!
mircea_popescu: vaguely maybe we cut the wallet, i dunno, sometime in 2018, vaguely maybe we make the first steps towards testing some basics re possible db move, maybe by 2019 etc
mircea_popescu: point fucking being, technologically we're what, 10 years away from actually having a worthy replacement ? at the present rate, at least.
mircea_popescu: not like we're anymore prepared for this summer than we were for the last.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not simply that, you'll have to actually go drink the tardswamp if you want specifics.
mircea_popescu: anyway, irrelevant as it is - currently "bu" is ahead of "segwit" in terms of prbisms.
mircea_popescu: after the horrific failure of the "voting" bs last time around, most nobody gives a shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some voting bs, i've not followed too closely.
mircea_popescu: romania (well, bucharest) was at some point full of photography-artsy hipsters
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the need to cut apart the hardware of a 50yo defunct company strikes me as batshit insane
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, ttps://68.media.tumblr.com/e6b9bf1b682ab44d56edcdb0a831131d/tumblr_inline_om77i8WadD1th0i48_500.gif
mircea_popescu: but i'm sure this isn't in any sense manual ; just a very relevant site. notwithstanding no content and no links. ALGORITHMS!!!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amusingly, i noticed them because they rank for ANY GOOGLE SEARCH with ukraine in it, among plenty others.
mircea_popescu: apparently topless is perfectly acceptable where bitcoin isn't. just as long as letter from department of dorkitude.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : femen, the "ukrainian" organisation is selling shit priced in dollars via 2checkout.com, the columbus ohio us corp.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: are you a pisenlit par la racine, to use the french expression ?
mircea_popescu: of course, the point is not "whether you are mp" but rather -- whether you are orwell.