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mircea_popescu: danielpbarron, you aware
the dood has a set of detractors/"critics" yes ?
a111: Logged on 2018-05-19 16:25 mircea_popescu: danielpbarron, btw, i'm curious : has your fish friend figured out
the "He admits he cannot name one other Christian leader outside his own little band of followers—anyone who has lived in
the
two millennia between
the death of
the last apostle and
the advent of Darwin Fish—who has remained faithful
to
the
truth." bla bla bla "criticism" is very strictly a
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22there+was+a+limit+where+the+fla Mocky: wow i missed a seinfeld reference, i just watched all 6 good seasons of
that, damn 2 years ago
mircea_popescu: it's a seinfeld joke. from
the virgin. "you could get forty hooks in here!"
Mocky: the books and
the crooks
Mocky: i don't remember
that last
time anyone recommended reading
to me unsolicited, and now my post-it note reading list system is struggling
to keep up. I'm going
to need something better
mircea_popescu: aande in random words
today :
talaz, meaning wave in romanian. because θάλασσα.
mircea_popescu: it's
true
that on one hand
this failed spectacularily with chinese in my own hands (
http://trilema.com/2016/lets-do-chinese-together/ ) ; and
that a girl's on
the record as having spent A YEAR with a moderate length ENGLIS?H
text in
this way. nevertheless, no other avenues work, long and involved and beset with perils as
this one may indeed
turn out
to be.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless with patience you can construct your own dictionary
translation, which may be informative ; and in any case is a process of actual learning as opposed
to going
to us.school.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 18:37 mircea_popescu:
this is how it manages
the inapproximable "whisks" of meaning
that latin-style
then has so much
trouble noting down.
BingoBoingo: ^ Mocky you might be interested in where
the
trilemas linked in
that news item lead
lobbes: Mocky, dun feel bad, it
took me yesterday and
today
to finally get
through
that one. (well, except for
the Greek, because, well, it is all Greek
to me!)
mircea_popescu: hey,
trilema is like,
the larger half of
the internets.
Mocky: this is hard
to keep up with, i haven't even gotten
though "Democracy sucks..." yet, lol
mircea_popescu: in fact, polyamory and
the harem are exact opposites under
this aspect,
that polyamory is
transparently enough an attempt
to limit
the depth of investment (after all, good soviet shouldn't love anything more
than
the party, right) whereas harem is on
the contrary, what pitre'd call "an exagerated" investment. absolute enough
to consider "move on or burn myself" dilemma as such.
Mocky: yeah but isnt'
that why you call it polyamory, so
that after it gets jacked
then well it was never a 'harem' and it was never 'yours' ?
a111: Logged on 2018-05-19 18:14 Mocky: speaking of plot
twists, pretty surprised by
the Ada usage. I pictured usg.DOD-design-by-committee lang commissioned
to help build out
the chumpatronic-mass-programmer infrastructure for gov contracts. I guess it's
time
to reevaluate my priors.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-19 18:58 mircea_popescu: Mocky,
the empire of evil started as
the republic of men.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> doesn't ~anyone~ get
tenure anymore ?! << Promoted out of it suggest
the idle life of a single graduate seminar every other semester + lab.
mircea_popescu: and besides -- what
the fuck should happen ? eventually you're old. and
then dead. what, all of
them should kill
themselves ?
mircea_popescu: this is not so rare ; most harems end up hijacked. if slut follows soldier,
then necessarily.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-24 15:26 mircea_popescu: you should see
the panic when i send girl
to swoop her.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-19 17:38 Mocky: i read yudkowski and liked, went
to less wrong 'community' and was bunch of
tards ingrouping
the hell out of eachother
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 02:13 asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'Exploring Encryption and Potential Mechanisms for Authorized Government Access
to Plaintext: Proceedings of a Workshop.' Anne Johnson, Emily Grumbling, and Jon Eisenberg, Rapporteurs.
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001
This activity was supported by
the Office of
the Director for National Intelligence, under Contract....
a111: Logged on 2017-09-15 23:51 asciilifeform: boneh is imho an interesting example of a man who
thought
that intellectual and political integrity were severable
mircea_popescu: in
this sense i suppose djb is a boneh,
though i don't like how he runs his harem ; wheras yuk dude is a boeck.
mircea_popescu: i suppose as far as
the orcs are concerned, it's mostly a boneh-or-boeck distinction.
Mocky: surprised random dude
teaching noobs over
the web, was worth
the mention
mircea_popescu: Mocky, why surprised ?
the republic's well informed, its spies reach far indeed.
mircea_popescu: lobbes, sure ;
though it's iffier
there, in
that caesar and
then espeically augustus actually attempted a restart of
the proper republic out of
the ashes of
the shit it had ended up in. caesar in
this sense is
the polar opposite of lincoln, ie, attempted
to manipulate
the overwhelming pantsuit into
the extinction-or-sanity dilemma, rather
than being manipulated by
the underwhelming pantsuit into internecine warfare.
☟︎ Mocky: re: boneh, he seem legit as he's
teaching you
to
trivially break reused otp, and flawed padding schemes, but
that's all i know about him, just surprised
to see in
the logs
lobbes: much like Roman Republic > Roman Empire milllennia before >> mircea_popescu> [18:58:59] Mocky,
the empire of evil started as
the republic of men
Mocky: I have not read many historical
texts. i
think i've become
too accustomed
to being around people who don't read at all. i've certainly not spent
time
to date
thinking explicitly about approaches
to
text comprehension
mircea_popescu: (ie,
the constructive read
theory of
the legitimacy of
the historical read would be, "it reproduces
the structure of set
theory without explicitly importing
the priors,
therefore it's valid". or something in
that vein.)
mircea_popescu: ructive explanation of itself, making it meaningful in
the alternative view.
mircea_popescu: n in
the reduction of
the
tree of "what could
the author possibly have meant" built on first pass is "what was author aware of". a direct way
to bruteforce
this problem is
to look at dates -- exactly like we did above re FG question. if you'll look at dates,
they become essentially
the equivalent of
the set limits in set
theory -- and it is
thereby you know
the historical approach is intellectually valid -- it permits a const
mircea_popescu: in summary : comprehension of a
text permits
two approaches, one constructive and
the other historical. if you approach it constructively, a
text means
the most it possibly can, irrespective of any auctorial considerations. it is from
this school
that we have eg,
the
theory of value in art, whereby "art are
those
texts
that continue
to mean after
their context was extinguished". if you approach it historically, a major concer
mircea_popescu: Mocky, so we know you've not spent any considerable
time in
the field between literary
theory and hermeneutics, however you'd call it. "advanced reading".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: taq/tpq : limit up
to / from which something is measured ;
there's also
terminus a quo /
terminus ad quem, but i don't like
them because confusing
to non-latin speakers.
Mocky: failed
to look familiar even after explanation
Mocky: my high school latin fails me
then
Mocky: i dont' recall seeing
taq before, is
that latin?
Mocky: on a different note, i see
this Boneh fellow, is all over
the logs. I
think
this is
the same guy i
took a video class coarsera "crypto 101' 18 months ago
a111: Logged on 2014-08-30 01:55 asciilifeform generally believes
that safety-critical code must be written in such a way
that auditor can see a
tight correspondence between every line and what machine physically does. note
that
this doesn't entail 'use C!' but can also mean different machine.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 19:42 asciilifeform: phf: let's start with
the gate count
Mocky: I have had an interest in working on hardware for
the past few years. Not in
the 'make ic fab' sense, but just like 'know how
to make something'. But I haven't known where
to start. Not super juiced
to drop some python on a raspberry pi and consider myself a 'maker'
a111: Logged on 2018-01-11 17:00 asciilifeform: so yes,
the only reason why anybody sells ice and 95xx -like 'sea of gates' at all, is
that for 'glue' (simple boolean functions of signals, for e.g. bus decoding, addressing, simple i/o multiplexing) is
that you can't actually do it reliably with
the non-seaofgates devices
a111: Logged on 2018-01-04 20:06 asciilifeform: in other 'news', it is apparently impossible
to fit even ONE 4096-bit adder into an ice40-8k (
the largest in
the series )
a111: Logged on 2018-04-30 16:16 asciilifeform: ( for
the sake of
thread-completeness, what would
the ~alternative~
to
this story look like? i suggest -- it'd be a process which does
to ic fab what 'polaroid' process did
to colour photography. find way of etching
the circuit from prefab 'sandwich' without caustic baths, sputtering, etc... )
a111: Logged on 2018-04-30 21:46 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in ~factory~ machinery, afaik
the
trend's been quite
the opposite ( small manufacturers of ic existed in 1970s by
the
thousand, in 1980s -- by
the hundred,
today -- gone. )
Mocky: asciilifeform, I must
to confess
to having been a reader of your blog years ago for a short
time. but you seemed so bitter about
the state of hardware and future prospects. maybe just my perception.
a111: Logged on 2015-02-13 23:03 asciilifeform: i suspect
that mircea_popescu would actually like ada. not writing it, mind you, but seeing it written
a111: Logged on 2014-08-30 01:55 asciilifeform generally believes
that safety-critical code must be written in such a way
that auditor can see a
tight correspondence between every line and what machine physically does. note
that
this doesn't entail 'use C!' but can also mean different machine.
Mocky: i'll have a look at
that
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 15:16 asciilifeform:
the other
thing
to remember, is
that
the win from writing in ada - but not in ada in general, but
the style demonstrated in ffa in particular -- remains even if YOU HAVE NO ACCESS
TO GNAT and gotta compile by hand into asm. because it forces
the style of algo
that CAN be safely so expressed - i.e. without presumption of pointerolade arithmetic, gc, or other cost-externalizing electrosocialisms
Mocky: speaking of plot
twists, pretty surprised by
the Ada usage. I pictured usg.DOD-design-by-committee lang commissioned
to help build out
the chumpatronic-mass-programmer infrastructure for gov contracts. I guess it's
time
to reevaluate my priors.
☟︎ Mocky: yeah he sounded so smart and clear
thinking, but in
the end ,spoiler alert, cryogenics and save
the world from evil ai, wtf!
mircea_popescu: dude's become a bit of a laughingstock here, after
that.
Mocky: i even liked his harry potter fan fic, at least better
than actual harry potter
Mocky: i read yudkowski and liked, went
to less wrong 'community' and was bunch of
tards ingrouping
the hell out of eachother
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nobody said
the devil doesn't have a nice,
thick, pleasant penis.
the problem with
the devil isn't
that EVERYTHING is wrong.
Mocky: hey i'm not an evangelist of it, but at least it has an actual spec, coherent memory model and
thread model. but if i have
to write one more corporate java web app imma choke
mircea_popescu: well, "lesswrong" included. dood's checked all
the checkboxes. recovery should have been impossible, if one credits
the "merituous recovery"
theory of recovery.
Mocky: i used
to
teach java for sun microsystems long ago