asciilifeform: fella is quite definitely a working mind.

asciilifeform: he's a goldmine of chinese lulz

asciilifeform: in up, thus reducing the likely costs of defection. The way to signal your intention to defect is to come up with a good excuse. A good excuse to be disloyal becomes a rallying point through which other defectors can coordinate and cover their asses so that the ruling coalition doesn’t punish them. What is a good excuse?'

asciilifeform: 'More likely than not, some members of the ruling coalition are not very loyal. They’d rather defect. But they can’t backstab the coalition just like that. You don’t do that; it looks bad. Your comrades will go against you. There are costs to defection. Unless you’re not the only defector. You need a way to signal your intention to defect, so that other disloyal fucks such as yourself (and they’re bound to be others) can jo

asciilifeform: venerated, and the gift of the mango was lauded as evidence of the Chairman’s deep concern for the workers. Then everyone in the factory filed by and each worker drank a spoonful of the water in which the sacred mango had been boiled. After that, the revolutionary committee ordered a wax model of the original mango. The replica was duly made and placed on the altar to replace the real fruit, and workers continued to file by, their

asciilifeform: ration. The wax-covered fruit was placed on an altar in the factory auditorium, and workers lined up to file past it, solemnly bowing as they walked by. No one had thought to sterilize the mango before sealing it, however, and after a few days on display, it began to show signs of rot. The revolutionary committee of the factory retrieved the rotting mango, peeled it, then boiled the flesh in a huge pot of water. Mao again was greatly

asciilifeform: 'Mao gave the mangoes to Wang Dongxing, who divided them up, distributing one mango each to a number of leading factories in Beijing, including Beijing Textile Factory, where I was then living. The workers at the factory held a huge ceremony, rich in the recitation of Mao’s words, to welcome the arrival of the mango, then sealed the fruit in wax, hoping to preserve it for posterity. The mangoes became sacred relics, objects of vene

asciilifeform: i've never actually met an adult who had the experience and wasn't a traumatic wreck. ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475866 << installing a wholly new mental operating system ~cannot~ be a 'rational' decision, nor is it really a decision as such, more of a 'cock action' that is done ~to~ somebody. ☝︎

asciilifeform: nor is effective army a thing if he gets to cut.

asciilifeform: i see cult as less of a religious mechanism and more of effective form of military organization. historically - misused.

asciilifeform: in what sense is, say, mircea_popescu's terrarium, where six gurls spin on cock like a peculiarly inverted set of propellers of 6-engined junkers, not a 'cult of solid'.

asciilifeform: i could even see an argument that 'screaming - you build a force field wall against, subtle - worms its way in' but mircea_popescu isn't sitting there with cheap beer watching industria argentina filmz, is he now.

asciilifeform: it is a great multilayered gag - what is even there to solder on component-side of pc mobo.

asciilifeform: because think, how heavy a fishing pole !

asciilifeform: nah but if folks with actual brainz got a hold of it - then ~possibly~ something.

asciilifeform: a 'mircea_popescu institute of physics' or whatnot.

asciilifeform: there is not yet a 3rd planet.

asciilifeform: well it was a problem in the sense that

asciilifeform: he had a very particular problem

asciilifeform: 'his' in the same sense a usg carrier is the captain's.

asciilifeform: this is PRECISELY mircea_popescu's argument in favour of 'symbolics died and it was good, we dodged a bullet'

asciilifeform: is the presence of the 2 eotvos balances a net positive? or would we actually have a handle on schwartz's result if everyone was STUCK with my $50k version of the experiment (calorimeter.)

asciilifeform: they EXPLICITLY rejected testability as a value.

asciilifeform: logic being that icbm was not a pure 'let's build pyramid to show how massive the imperial cock' exercise. it had measurable goals, like building bridge.

asciilifeform: the item in question is 'benevolent inca empire wants to give $billion to physics' but you can't give 'to physics' because that's somewhere between 0 to 3 guys and nobody's gonna give some unwashed weirdos a $b

asciilifeform: 'we forgot how to synthesize so let's collect shiny shings, like a crow'

asciilifeform: automated proofs are usg crapolade, i speak as a reformed and repented purveyor

asciilifeform: that's a surrender, may as well go back to trees.

asciilifeform: modern day unphysics is made of a thousand little adelberger scum.

asciilifeform: it is a dead end in that sense

asciilifeform: shinohai: a good chunk of usa does

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had a few 3

asciilifeform: something, i expect, quite simple, just put in a JMP over the primality check .

asciilifeform: ergo i expect that trivial keyz were not simply a matter of 'proggy P'.

asciilifeform: a modern gpg key