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kanzure: no idea. what happened to you not remembering celebrities.
kanzure: she was not blessed by the noodly appendage of pre-fame wealth?
kanzure: crowdfunding doesn't work (if the crowd had money then they wouldn't need crowdfunding)
kanzure: is fundraising == welfare?
kanzure: is that a broad wlfare of survitude to wealthy patrons or what
kanzure: i am not associated with academia
kanzure: i should not claim to be related to the codon recoding, it's a subproject that was not proposed by me
kanzure: but i like neither yudkowsy nor kurzweil :(
kanzure: apparently it would be invalid. but not if it's labeled a cause. that's my understanding of the feedback so far.
kanzure: but it can't be a purpose? okay.
kanzure: if things are so willy wonka in here that one cannot apply effort to directed intentional behavior then i'm not really sure how to communicate
☟︎ kanzure: there are in fact things that i do not know so i figured i would go figure those things out
kanzure: well originally my purpose (that's right i said it) of bringing this up with mircea_popescu was to query his preferences regarding thermonuclear war err i mean eugenics err i mean direct participation in technology development for genome engineering projects
☟︎ kanzure: 15:11 < kanzure> oh right he doesn't believe in fucking effort
kanzure: 15:10 < kanzure> i'm a little confused. i know the prepwork is really annoying and laborious in theory. perhaps he should just mean a low-effort nuke.
kanzure: 'Someone, somewhere, may well possess the secret of how to build a thermonuke using the materials of ordinary electronics.' *cough*
kanzure: do you memorize bookmars like i do?
kanzure: because you are doing it regardless of feels?
kanzure: "do it if you feel like it" is lazy and undisciplined.
kanzure: why bother listening to someone if they are just spewing irrelevant noise? bleh
kanzure: (or change the desires appropriately if they were stupid)
kanzure: and if the behavior is not actually generating the desired results, you go do other behavior, etc.
kanzure: "and as such they're not only infinite and uncountable, but even undefined" but isn't this what calibration is for. you communicate with people because you are trying to callibrate collective goal behavior shit.
☟︎ kanzure: well i suppose this is your topic of the moment. processing...
kanzure: "I don't want anything, it's a factual observation." <-- this person is lying. he was communicating for a reason.
kanzure: alright well anyway, discipline seems more like a reliable metric i suppose, but go back to your insistence on causes not outcomes
kanzure: (sweat only weely correlates with effort)
kanzure: they were sweating bullets from their sheer stupidity
kanzure: is swinging a hammer a form of effort here? i don't know man.
kanzure: could be anywhere from zero to a lot of effort, if they made no progress. but they might also be idiots.
kanzure: intelligence or specific mutation is in the weeds; i'm still stuck trying to figure out your sense of "discipline". my approach has often been: death ray made up of delibrate effort -> problem => solution.
kanzure: well i don't really know if memory has an actual size (that concept might be bullshit)-- what about retention, is that the same thing as size
kanzure: the difference between a monkey and a human is interesting. the difference between human and human, as measured by iq, is totally irrelevant to me. humans are idiots if you compare them only to each other.
kanzure: i actually am not interested in intelligence genetics. i am more interested in things like working memory, memory capacity, etc.
kanzure: "or at least, I think discipline is more correlated than effort. You can work _very_ hard at something and make no progress because your efforts are not directed."
kanzure: what outcomes are you trying to effectuate precisely
kanzure: isn't that sort of limited
kanzure: mircea_popescu: surely you don't follow the kurzweil philosophy of "sit around and wait for people to be productive on their own"?
kanzure: did you not take my illiteracy seriously
kanzure: mircea_popescu: i would say my approach has been focused towards disciplined centralized technology roadmapping and planning. and then personally financing some of the projects. although it turns out that stuff is expensive and stupid.
kanzure: BingoBoingo: bitcoin core stuff. it's not important really.
kanzure: anyway, i call him "yudzilla" or "big yud"
kanzure: (except useless because he doesn't actually do anything)
kanzure: he's basically the gmaxwell of fearmongering about x-risk/ai
kanzure: BingoBoingo: yes the fanfic guy
kanzure: so your model is disciplined folks haphazardly dwaddling along playing around with stupid technologies until they do something that turns out to be disciplined?
kanzure: in which case you don't get anything done
kanzure: unless you're fucking eliezer yudzilla
kanzure: i agree that should or shouldn't doesn't factor into it, but rate does change with intellectual effort
kanzure: ((but since you knew bitcoin people i thought you would know, but w/e, it doesn't matter.))
kanzure: i don't think he's written about it
kanzure: nah no links. he just has a deep hatred of politics.
kanzure: you know maaku's apoliticalism right?
kanzure: i am not really sure how your epistemology works
kanzure: i would argue there is a knowledge component.
kanzure: i agree that the technology is missing. it should be built.
kanzure: yea. the thing where people care what looks real.
kanzure: many would consider the illiteracy to be the primary problem
kanzure: i have no idea how to speak with you
kanzure: yes i am aware of mutagenesis and selection techniques
kanzure: yes there are many tools that are necessary to make progress, such as order-of-magnitude cheaper dna assembly and synthesis technologies.
kanzure: it's sort of weird. i asked and their answer was "he's angry". i am pretty sure they are idiots.
kanzure: they actually know nothing about you
kanzure: it's done to many mammals i'm not sure about sheep specifically. why would sheep matter?
kanzure: i understand many aspects of genetic engineering. i also understand why mammalian projects are more complex.
kanzure: i haven't internalized your post completely so i'm not sure what you are expecting me to extract from it.
kanzure: and the controversy stuff is a tacky add-on, i'll admit.
kanzure: mircea_popescu: i disagree with your evaluation of whether it's a waste of time, or that it is fashionable in the least. i simply recognize the value of controversy.
kanzure: what if i claim that i'm illiterate
kanzure: mircea_popescu: correct. i've looked at it just now but i don't see how it changes anything. shouldn't you prefer people to be hard workers, even if they can't own property?
kanzure: mircea_popescu: well actually the origin of the idea is that i am interested in genome engineering and human enhancement technology. but i also recognize that controversy is necessary to bring attention and funding.
kanzure: one of the genetic changes i have proposed is something that seems to cause 4-5 hours/night to be sufficient rest
kanzure: it's hell of a way to spend one's life, that's all.
kanzure: asciilifeform: turns out you have to actually pay people to do things
kanzure: asciilifeform: i have someone else working on a very similar project these days. it's in progress.