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mircea_popescu: but it was not sterilized by straining through semi-permeable membrane.
mircea_popescu: "Plus ca e o nesecata fantana de umor. De exemplu : Cum isi gaseste un inginer cheile de la masina ? Construieste o membrana semi-permeabila care ingaduie trecerea oricarui obiect dar impiedica trecerea cheilor de masina." eerily apt in this conversation.
mircea_popescu: there isn't a better approach to this. in particular "creating a semi-permeable membrane" is not one of them.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: both because not that many corners, and not that many shitters.
mircea_popescu: which is how you end up with an operating room : a neat place with few nooks and crannies where only surgeons (as opposed to mice ; cockroaches ; bacteria) are allowed access. as a result, no shit hiding in corners.
mircea_popescu: there is no good solution to this problem, but small codebases aka fit-in-head is a very strong paleative, and to my mind its chief merit comes from just this.
mircea_popescu: in summa, this then is the covenant of the republic : that everything here exists to serve your needs ; and that you can't have needs that can't be.
mircea_popescu: yes, i'm aware palm calculators exist for a while now. they don't "fix math" for the blonde ditz.
mircea_popescu: for the exact same reason classical antiquity couldn't have blind emperors ; we today can't delegate "the people stuff" to others. we also cant' delegate "the numbers stuff" to others. there's no mechanical way out of this.
mircea_popescu: skills are skills. the expectation that one will go from craddle to grave without having to touch arbitrary class of skills "because i just don't go that way" is entirely hallucinant nonsense.
mircea_popescu: which she isn't, visibly, to me. and to her. and to no one else.
mircea_popescu: so obviously her task at some point turned to... go out and talk to women. IN THE FUCKING STREET. she broke up in hives, she got gastritis, but my stick was firmer than the flesh and within a few short weeks retrospectively (that no doubt seemed endless then) acquired all the required skills, abilities and practices, and now can talk to random person on cue, with the best of the salesmen.
mircea_popescu acquired new $slavegirl. intelligent girl, very educable (i don't just mean in terms of training-for-slavery, a la BCT, i mean scholarily, with a native thirst for knowledge and a natural dedication to clean thinking) and altogether very pleasant. for historical reasons, unexperienced socially (twentysomething, second time she was in a bar, i took her there) and not particularily capable of talking to people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me recount a different story, if you will.
mircea_popescu: ~nobody wants their name on their tits ; a degree of magnitude more than that ~nobody want the blouse off the tits.
mircea_popescu: if it actually were what it pretends, they'd be topless.
mircea_popescu: that's what it pretends to be ; what it is i nfact, at least to my eyes, is more of the same usg social-democracy.
mircea_popescu: usg.starbucks doing its part to fight the "rapey mp coffee".
mircea_popescu: Framedragger but the example shows ~shouldn't~ not ~doesn't~.
mircea_popescu: argument is "keeping track of non-wot-ids is pointless, shouldn't be done"
mircea_popescu: i know names of women ; some of which i've not fucked ; but not on that basis.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so. do you know the names of all the women you fucked ?
mircea_popescu: to quote celentano, "i already met enough people this month"
mircea_popescu: to obtain a handle one must do specific things ; if they don't, they don't. i don't give out handles like candy because why would i.
mircea_popescu: i don't distinguish between eg adlai or nubbins ; i haven't allocated a handle ; they're just $dork, whatever.
mircea_popescu: underlined as such in the wot article too. that's the important point : wot works WITHOUT the person being examined.
mircea_popescu: the wot works entirely unrelatedly to the person examined, that's the point.
mircea_popescu: womenz have identitty issues mkay ? it's not "future 50 years". it's been here forever ; will stay.
mircea_popescu: were the girls in the school were asciilifeform went to when he was 12 ever engaged in that procedure where they call up one boy pretending they're $randomgirl who trulyloveshim for the sake of seeing wtf happens next day in school ?
mircea_popescu: the basis of THAT decide i'm waking up in the same place.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how much of this is habit. consider for a second the case of the nickname dude, who is currently having a meltdown in my comment section on the apparent expectation that i somehow care what he said and i read the various comments as comming ~from the same one guy~. he actually thinks this ; actually expects me to allocate INDIVIDUALITY on the basis of anonymous. it's almost as if i were to wake up every morning and on
mircea_popescu: we can study contained examples if you wish, but the general principle is quite undisturbed.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem here is that there's no way to reason in the manner you expect to reason. IF anything about the wot process is opposable to anyone involved ; then the wot process becomes by that measure less useful. no change whatsoever appears in the swamp it's made to confront.
mircea_popescu: yes but at a cost. and in places you're too used to paying that cost.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you keep trying to design-for-ai. there's no need and no call for that ; moreover no practical way to ever do it. wot permitted me to ascertain enough information to eg behead that adlai schmuck most recently. there's no way "for you to explain how i reasoned to a machine", or even in general, and that doesn't hurt or stop me. moreover if there was such a way, then he'd simply act differently next time. and ther
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they can be so treated no matter what you do. any attemps you make to "make it impossible" simply break your tool.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what some luser must be thinking to join "dutch secret services". it's like joining the new jersey tv station. dude what.
mircea_popescu: yes, swamps "can be filled", but i'm not ready to shoot you all yet.
mircea_popescu: i understand that you see it stationary and imagine it's glass. it's not glass. it moves in response to your measures.
mircea_popescu: there isn't a mechanical process for levers and swamp water.
mircea_popescu: your "easier" is entirely illusory. every time you try to use levers on a puddle of mud water, you get mud on face AND NAUGHT ELSE.
mircea_popescu: and you also don't "must have signed gossipd lines", either. there was a mega discussion re that also on gossipd thread
mircea_popescu: anyway. not that, nor this, leads to "you MUST have signed ratings"
mircea_popescu: this is the more recent ; there was one also illo tempore but w/e.
mircea_popescu: i'm satisfied in my mental representation of the fellow and won't be changing it. that's another name for certainty.
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, it's quite unclear to me that gossipd need be related to this other thing
mircea_popescu: Framedragger hey, you've... not exactly learned a lot, but actually examined a lot in the past few months huh!
mircea_popescu: truth be told it's not directly clear there's not actually a future for both insta and letter models (ie, irc and webforums, for instance, or phone calls AND mailing lists/bbsen) irrespective of historical poor implementation.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha fucktards at ietf actually put 451 into their forked version of the internet standard.
mircea_popescu: Let it be plainly stated that you treat this sort of subhuman scum as if it were a person at your own peril. It won't benefit by your sacrifice ; you will sooner or later end up in the sad position of discovering you no longer have a soul.
mircea_popescu: To be clear re ^ : dude's been trying to attack the republic for over a year by now through the remarkably idiotic procedure of speaking as if he has some weight. Because who knows, maybe we're all dumb dumb and this contextual approach actually works, we'll end up thinking he's somebody because he's been acting as if he were for so long, everyone forgot he isn't.
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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes on consideration piece not really worth translating ; it was a short intro for clueless ro audience. read eric berne &co instead.
mircea_popescu: fancy the inept seinfeld boys of the time, trying to find the secret rubik cube configuration
mircea_popescu: (contrary to the deeply desired implication reflected in the name, there's no relation between a wizard and an apprentice wizard.)
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's a discussion of history not a proposal. woe to the apprentice wizard who fancies himself a wizard on the strength of having read the actual wizard's youth journal.
mircea_popescu: emperor norton died in his bed. well, after a fashion.