mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i expect once the land/ownership update makes it in, eulora will give a run for their money to a lot of peoples.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: pls to describe this war on softwood lumber? Does this mean I should build new bookshelves sooner instead of later?
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BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: And further what sort of lumber do yall even grow up there anyways?
ben_vulpes: also you know who opened the door, what's with the passive voice
ben_vulpes: now for my next riddle, what solstice gift do you get a woman who already has a baby and doesn't want another yet?
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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes a black and white cookie. you know, because solstice is like equinox.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: we grow pine, fir, cedar, and spruce, most of which come from bc. ontario and quebec grow some hardwoods like oak and maple but these aren't as practical or affordable for general construction so they're exported in smaller volumes relatively speaking. so depends what you want your shelves made out of. pine can work but obv the hardwoods are sturdier if also commensurately spendier.
mircea_popescu: i knew cedar to make great boats ; but cedar also makes great beating sticks!
pete_dushenski: anyways bb, if you missed trump's campaign rhetoric, he often called nafta 'the world deal ever made ever, like ever ever' and much of that is focused on the softwood imports from canada 'undercutting good white american biznizmen and their upstanding famblies' etc.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: pretty sure the beating stick my old man used was cedar. metal tipped too!
mircea_popescu: eh, maybe if i had boys. bu for girls no metal necessary.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's not just canadian wood ; all sorts of thing
pete_dushenski: in other canadian softness, looks like 'liam' and 'sophia' were the most popular baby names for newborn boys and girls, respecitvely, in 2016
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I don't think you know how wood is marketed. There SPF or "Spruce, Pine, Fir" for the ones that suck because the bulk of particular kinds of softwoods all suck in the same ways. Then you get outlifers which are also lumped together like Douglas Fir and Larch or the 3-ish species of Southern yellow pine.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> cedar ftw. << belongs outside or as an unfinished accent. Bookshelves need to hole WEIGHT!
☟︎ pete_dushenski has bookshelves made of indiand rosewood that he's quite fond of
mircea_popescu: dude cedar has a bending strength of like 9. better than chestnut.
pete_dushenski: the 'd' in indiand is for 'original', like in bitcoind.
mircea_popescu: get the nice aromatic red, it'll beat about half the hardwoords you can run across.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, they have this crazy shit here - picconia excelsa. the wood hardens SO MUCH as it dries you can't fucking work it
pete_dushenski: speaking of shortness and weirdness, happy longest night of the year! edm had just 7:28 of daylight today, so 16:32 of darkness. top that, equitarianists.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 04:33 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> cedar ftw. << belongs outside or as an unfinished accent. Bookshelves need to hole WEIGHT!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: King Geoge controls glass imports!
mircea_popescu: hey, there is such a thing as old money, even in the usa.
mircea_popescu: hey, my own library housed thousands of volumes in the standard romanian bookshelf, which yes had glass
mircea_popescu: (pretty clever design - you could hook the glass pane out by lifting it.)
BingoBoingo thought outside on Monkeystan everyone just had a room they surrendered to compact shelving.
pete_dushenski is currently discovering the not inconsequential expense of new starter motor in ls. $2k! how many g5s and ppcs is that, goodness.
BingoBoingo: What is wrong with just taking out motor and making crank?
BingoBoingo: Start drive with feeling of accomplishment after having turned motor over with own hards
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: ofc. discretion is the name of the game in jp, posturing the name in us.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: retrofit for manual crank would be free in your world ? or also hire mulch man to wrench this into existence as well
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I'm just trying to help you continue the natural order of things and move on to next car
pete_dushenski: actually morgan uk still makes cars with wood frames. ash iirc.
pete_dushenski: but ya, i'll move on to next car at next btc price level, or next kid, or next spring, or something.
pete_dushenski loves flying in commercial craft, gliding off clifftops. must be getting more gentilic than he realised.
pete_dushenski: there's literally nowhere better to think and write than at 30k feet.
BingoBoingo: You're just a cynic and also proud patriot like Vasily Zaytsev
pete_dushenski: on a plane there's (ideally) no wifi, no one talking to you, just the pen and the page. i miss traveling as much as i did the last decade as much as anything for the rarefied air free from distraction.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: mostly because airport is further from maison than offices and properties i frequent.
pete_dushenski: in its infinite wisdom, the city decided to turn the municipal airport into 'mixed use urban development', leaving only international airport 40km from house.
ben_vulpes: do you also pay for oil changes at the dealership?
ben_vulpes: i had a full transmission swap done on the civic for less
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 16:59 asciilifeform: neato ben_vulpes , is this mirror somewhere /
ben_vulpes: in which the inadequacies of wget for archiving an apache server become apparent or something
ben_vulpes: my patience for wwwtronic fiddling is rapidly eroding
Framedragger:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-leaked-docs/ << lulzy. "Facebook does not permit “verbal attacks” on a “protected category,” according to the documents. These self-determined categories are currently based on a number of factors, including: sex, religious affiliation, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or serious illness. Some of these groups contain sub-categories"
Framedragger: "that receive extra protection (for example, under “age,” criteria such as “youth” and “senior citizen” receive priority)."
Framedragger: "A sentence reportedly containing an expletive directly followed by a reference to a religious affiliation (for example: “f*cking Muslims”) is not allowed. However, the same does not go for the term “migrants,” as migrants are allegedly only a “quasi protected category.” Additionally, Facebook reportedly allows for posts that could be deemed hateful against migrants under certain circumstances. For example, a statement
Framedragger: "such as “migrants are dirty” is allowed, whereas “migrants are dirt” isn’t."
ben_vulpes: ahaha first line even mentions facebook
Framedragger: nice foreshadowing.. fb appears to have invented a whole calculus.. "PC speech + PC speech = PC speech", but "PC + NPC = NPC" lol
ben_vulpes: anyways the notion that anyone on facebook is anything other than a non-player character is hysterical on the face
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you know airline pilots have mostly girls, yes
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587072 << the evolution of paul graham's internet : first, ashley madison made a site where scripted "women" interacted with loser men ; then, a bunch of kids made a bunch of sites where scripted "users" interact with scripted "users" : facebook, reddit, instagram, twitter, you name it. ALL of them, simply put.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 08:58 ben_vulpes: anyways the notion that anyone on facebook is anything other than a non-player character is hysterical on the face
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, isn't it fucking weird that the progre and libtard preoccupy themselves with economic inequality so, but never seriously considered intellectual inequality ?)
mircea_popescu: "By adding "required" to the Answer box input tag solves the captcha requirement issue." is prolly the best part.
jurov: you mean "no child left behind"?
mircea_popescu: no see, that's about education. ie, equality ~of chances~ or whatever the fuck. the issue however is equality of substance.
mircea_popescu: it's maybe unfair that whoever is running that "shop" doesn't have as much money as i do. it is maybe unfair that whoever is running that "shop" didn't go to as good a school, or have as good parents, or as alf points out, didn't have as well housed a library at home. fine.
mircea_popescu: but it is CERTAINLY unfair that he's fucking dumbs as rocks and i am not.
mircea_popescu: ajajaja wait wait, i could hijack any bot loading trilema via curl ?
trinque: probably a transfer rate switch somebody just had to have
jurov: it's exploitable only if someone were calling curl_printf with like "%0128.128L" format string, no?
mircea_popescu: so it occurs to me that the ~only cold war ideological response to totalitarianism (more or less soros' mental construct of "an open society") is kneejerk nonsense of the prime order, very much in line with the proposition that "subverting cryptography increases security" or "gun bans increase security" etcetera.
mircea_popescu: evidently the correct solution is ~a correctly closed society~, not the hallucination of an open one. but then again the republic takes thinking, and so...
mircea_popescu: it's actually ~why~ it was decided aol may sell internet subscriptions.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everything current in "progressive" circles is built on that ideological platform.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, soros is not particularly relevant, bergson-popper-etc
mircea_popescu: well in retrospect it may be whatever, but at the time it was more of the same "human potential unlocking" gargle.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform during ro elections all sorts of "luminaries" of a very evident mercenary bent did pieces about how soros ain't that bad - wasn't even ever convicted!
mircea_popescu: i was amused at what the us state dept imagines average romanian may believe.
mircea_popescu: yes, and the average piece of fresh river mud can be fucked (in any hole!) even more times, even more before breakfast.
mircea_popescu: it ~may~ give you VD ; but it's not making you any children.
mircea_popescu: that's, i suppose, the actual point here : that while building chumpatrons ~is~ feasible ; and in many actually encountered circumstances it ~is~ productive ; nevertheless a chumpatron is not a tank. not merely by coincidence of design, like a spoon is not a fork, but could pass for a fork in a bind. a chumpatron is not a tank fundamentally, nor could ever be a tank of any kind to any degree, much like a stove can't cool your
mircea_popescu: finally giving a formal dress to a long held but not expressed notion that it is a waste of one's time to try building chumpatrons.
mircea_popescu: they ~are~ destined for a blow up, willy-nilly, because they're not tanks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but see the fundamental problem with this ? why should i wish to be far away from my life's work ? what am i, some sort of celenterate ?
mircea_popescu: how exactly does one defend against the very sartre-ian angoisses in this context ?
mircea_popescu: while alienation is a fact of life ; i scarcely see the merit in building it in deliberately ffs.
trinque: the rocket designers aren't far from their work in the alienation sense.
trinque: "let my name not be attached to this act"
mircea_popescu: yeah ; but i was allowing his loose coupling maybe something comes of it.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: stealership wants 800 for part, 6.1hrs labour at $155/hr. also recall these are pitiful canuckbucks, not megaU$$$D here, so chop a full quarter when converting your bezzle outrage. but yes, civic tranny is cheap, toyolexus parts very spendy. anyways, my mechanic is doing it for closer to $1300. still a slap but not quite as dear.
trinque: replacing a lexus transmission?
pete_dushenski: goodness no. just a starter. ben is comparing crapples to crystal vases is all.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: thus "natural resource value down 75% yoy"
trinque: trying to stop leaking money for no good reason on scam machines
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the pig farmer didn't experience alienation the pig farmer's daughter would be under my table begging to suck my cock or anything else so she doesn't have to go back to the pig farm.
pete_dushenski: trinque: you'd like their trucks. solid electronics (unlike ze germans), rock solid engines (unlike ze amerikans), but high resale value.
trinque: pete_dushenski: tundras are motherfuckers; they're in the running.
pete_dushenski: no one wants to go back to the farm. tis very true and the primary reason why my father's family busted their nuts to get top marks in county so as to get the fuck off the land and move to the city.
pete_dushenski: something like 4/7 kids had top marks in their respective years.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski this is not universally true however. even in the narrow urban-rural-1970s universe discussed, there are some who are more alienated by the urban than the rural, prefer to live on the farm.
mircea_popescu: however it is telling that the leavers all seek the same thing - and it isn't the city per se. it's just "self-realization" ie, the opposite of the above alienation. essentially, they seek to not be chumpatron engineers.
mircea_popescu: (and yes farming is entirely chumpatronics, of the worst ilk. as dean martin once said, "my old man used to gamble that he'd get rain. i figure if a man's gonna gamble, might as well eschew plowing."
mircea_popescu: nobody has clean hands (go to a bio lab sometime, see). however - city gamblers feel their city gambling hands to be ~theirs~ to a larger degree than rural gamblers do.
mircea_popescu: this is the essential point, that shock of the alzheimer patient who sees self in the mirror and calls the police to report a burglary.
pete_dushenski: they leavers still end up missing the quietude and tranquility of the countryside. there's no taking the rural out of the boy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really. in fact, they're just playing eulora.
mircea_popescu: could you say "whenever someone clicks on some grass to make a bundle and process it into coarse frangible thread - they are gambling with the proceeds of the actual irl farmer and miner, and soldier." ? sure. does it actually say anything however ? i dun see what.
mircea_popescu: "you" isn't anything. for while you are - you are ; and once you're no longer, you're no longer.
mircea_popescu: this is the fundamental syllogism that informs all the outwardly-insane human behaviour.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no actual link between these two planes, you udnerstand ? consider that the idiots who thought hillary will win, DIDN'T yield once she didn't win. consider the above story of dreamers, and ALL experience without exception.
mircea_popescu: there is no feedback between the hardware and the ideology ; and consequently matters of existence are irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: if luck/skill/process/whatever feeds them, they'll be fed and go on reddit and wikipedia to say what ~they think~ about it. right or wrong.
mircea_popescu: there ISNT an outcome where they go on reddit and wikipedia to say the opposite of what they think, see ?
mircea_popescu: the system is strictly bound in this manner ; and that decides the results.
mircea_popescu: and so therefore - no, they're not doing anything in town but playing eulora. it has ~nothing to do with farmer, miner or soldier.
mircea_popescu: they seek self-actualization, not reality-adequation after all.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, anyone looking for a good source of the subversion of "stem" in the us may as well go read feyerabend)
trinque trying to wrap brain around whether this is a failure mode or universally true, but will have to implement tail recursion optimization in his own head first
☟︎ trinque: "do I fuck for ideology?" "yeah, sure, whatever."
trinque: "no feedback between the hardware and ideology"
mircea_popescu: ah. it is a failure mode ; the feedback is perceived by the i-subject as dolorous, and if there's too much of it the only way to rescue the ideology is to sever the feedback.
mircea_popescu: which severance is reinterpreted internally as "liberating" - the same kids who ENJOYED getting out of the house when they were 18 then cry when their parents die. but why ? weren't you so fucking happy to be rid of them ?
a111: Logged on 2015-08-23 05:06 trinque: I demand for this to never have happened at once!
mircea_popescu: trinque quite. and also you know, "campaign against fake news", "campaign against bullying", "campain against online trolls" and what have you.
mircea_popescu: recall the time when eu zone declared short selling illegal ?
trinque: "not me but christ through me" even worse, I'd think, with apologies to danielpbarron. "I submit myself fully to the god of purpose."
trinque: at least the socialist state claims to exist *here*
mircea_popescu: "Asset stripping has presented itself to be a highly controversial topic within the financial world. The positives of asset stripping generally lie with the corporate raiders, who can slash the debts they may have whilst improving their net worth.[6] However, the general perspective of asset stripping is firmly negative."
mircea_popescu: firmly in what sense ? if the company is worth less than its parts, then this is a case of underutilization of capital goods. someone somewhere is starving because you decided to keep the warehouse empty.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, things such as "buy up all the grain and lock it in the basement", which are EXACT equivalents - antieconomic underutilization, are... also "firmly negative". well which the fuck is it!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the pedestrian notion of value and worth certainly have practical problems.
mircea_popescu: anyway, while the quoted article is remarkable in toto as a fine sample of what wikipedia is, intellectually, the "break all the mirrors" fatlogic reaction is not limited to wikitards.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is no such thing as "everyday work" anymore.
mircea_popescu: you'd expect basic numeracy to also be "perfectly adequate for all kinds of everyday work", except the kinds of everyday work in question are no longer done - the kids all see themselves you know, CEOs.
mircea_popescu: and basic numeracy is not perfectly adequate for being a ceo.
mircea_popescu: yes, but "ask.fm has 150mn users" and shopify trades as NYSE:SHOP for 40bux and then some guy wants to discuss things about you know, "MPEx has no volume you have been warned!!11"
mircea_popescu: evidently there's some expectation somewhere that the batshit insane terms of the empire will be taken at face value. by someone, somewhere. i have nfi.
mircea_popescu: but in any case - alienation and self-realization stand in an inexact opposition - if for no other reason then because derealisation often appears as a viable alternative self-realisation. "i am a pretty special snowball" is exactly the self-realised derealized individual, satisfied with his own self image in a wholly imagined world. while by definition maximally alienated ; he also is maximally self-realized.
mircea_popescu: which is why insanity is usually the escape valve for desires incomesurate with possibilities. as alf says, nothing novel here.
mircea_popescu: (and if you're wondering - the hallucinatory perception of the other known objectively as "puppy love" is precisely an implementation of this principle. as it exists in all cultures [that i'm familiar with] it seems likely to be the definitionally human trait. man is the beast who, when confronted with a shortfall, dreams up a compensation.)
trinque: would befit the creature that found a life of sorts on every continent but the totally frozen one
mircea_popescu: trinque yeah, the problem is not that it does that ; just that sometimes, it goes about it ineptly.
trinque: I'd say we like suffering, and it can get out of hand.
trinque: hm, we may have reimplemented evolution in this manner. breed incessantly, generate disjunctoins with reality at random in new meatsacks, older meatsacks that survived the last round kill the bad candidates, goto 10
trinque: they're doing exactly what they ought, then.
mircea_popescu: trinque the problem with feyerabend isn't even that he's an asshole, or whatever else. the problem is, his criticism of methodological science actually stands ; contrary to what people like to believe galilei's stance was a lot less defensible than the church's at the time ; yes he won, and yes he's from our party, so fuck the church - but this political approach to the problem is weak specifically because it tries to go up t
mircea_popescu: he tree, and you have no guarantee at all points you will have to resolve an epistemological dispute you will also have the political class available.
mircea_popescu: so, yes : science, and i don't here mean, globalwarmism or pseudoevolutionism or lulzgametheory or such ; but - physics. astronomy, things of serious. these didn't develop methodically, in history, but exactly through a process of "try random batshit and it sometimes works".
mircea_popescu: the fundamental reason weighing photons works and weighing witches does not work has nothing to do with anything inside the science ; they tried both, much like newton tried alchemy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imagine someone who actually went to the trouble of rescuing - from an intellectually powerful, epistemologically informed position - all the insanities of history. "witches weighing doesn't work because witches don't have a float mass"
mircea_popescu: and people DID spend their life hunting ether winds. irl. yes. last century.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather go far because if i stay close it looks too much like genuine science.
mircea_popescu: just the problem of optics in the time of galileo - none of that shit worked in any sensible manner. very much like in the case of string theory - they dispensed with reason. they did.
mircea_popescu: eventually "actual" science caught up with them and backed them up and here we are - but in other cases it didn't! the recon squad that sees enemy fortifying and raises a flag and calls for reinforcement may get them, and create a turning point in the whole war. or may not get them, and create half a dozen fresh graves.
mircea_popescu: moreover - the real killer - this "catching up" needn't happen in any finite time. the atomists of athens never got the support coming their way ; it was a risible sect in the place and time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes ; but coherence is also a very slippery thing. for one thing - the ask.fm cowsies are very coherent. bitcoin is ??
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pretty much reduces to "the greeks went wrong in being traditionalist, ie, expecting their negative space is universal negative space".
mircea_popescu: this is pretty easy a criticism to make universally, "from you knowing x it follows that x exists ; but from you not knowing y nothing follows about y".
mircea_popescu: (but no, steve dutch's reading of aristotle is not interesting qua aristotle, or qua greek thought. it's strictly the case of dutch speaks english and found an english translation of aristotle, so he imagines that "τῶν γὰρ φύσει συνεστώτων τὰ μέν ἐστι σώματα καὶ μεγέθη, τὰ δ' ἔχει σῶμα καὶ μέγεθος, τὰ δ' ἀρχαὶ τῶν ἐχόντων εἰ
mircea_popescu: σίν." somehow comes to "There is nothing else beyond body (three dimensional solid) because if there were, then there would be something else beyond body." which... it doesn't.
mircea_popescu: let's approach this from a more hospitable angle. dutch makes the charge (unsourced, but it's sheer anglicanism) that the reason the greeks didn't build ironclads is that they (like the chinese, natch) despised manual labour.
mircea_popescu: this is not exactly correct. they despised what you despise, which is to say sitting there and deleting 30-40 spam accounts/day
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to be precise : i can't turn the greek string into an english string for you for the same reason you can't turn trb into lisp code for me. "but alf, it compiles! a lisp version must exist!" hurr. i don't propose "because you can't take object code and make me lisp source it follows no c sources existed" do i ?
mircea_popescu: i hasn't the patience to go into detail as to echonton eisin & friends. not aristotle's fault.
jurov: heh, nice example how alphabet is inferior to diagrams. if aristotle had drawn a diagrams that would survive to this day, no translation needed
☟︎ mircea_popescu: jurov this is not actually true. but the falsity of the equivalency would be harder to pinpoint.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as per usual, it depends on what is is. so - yes, pissed. you piss idem, when you say things to the tendency of "work - for tractors ; not humans". your dislike of perl and his dislike of "observation" in the sense of "handiwork" are very close ; and closer to my eye than alternatives.
mircea_popescu: and as to the problem of translation : source code and object code make together a thing. an item can not be said to be a program without either. their relationship is particular, you can go from one to the other, and ~to a very limited degree~ from the other to the one.
mircea_popescu: now - translation operates not on the object code (ie, the string quoted, or a string quoted) but on the whole program : any string plus ~the totality~ of conceptual content of the brain that produced it.
mircea_popescu: because no, words don't "have meanings". your meanings for ANY WORD are a function of ALL THE OTHER WORDS YOU KNOW. which is why my definitions regularily blow out english dictionaries, wikipedia and other sources of "wisdom" out of the water - i know more words, and in this knowledge i know all the words i know ~better~. infinitely and irreproducibly so.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: so then : in order to go from a string in greek to a string in english, one has to reconstruct the conceptual underpinnings, the "source code". and this is not trivial.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform euclid was considerably more portable, ironically, because he was considerably more alphabetic. he eschewed ~most~ of the power of greek at his time, and ate the downside of sounding like a literal retard.
mircea_popescu: which he did sound like ; and which is why he doesn't figure as proeminently among the greeks of his time as he does among moderns.
mircea_popescu: and no, it's not at all harder to talk nonsense via diagram. more generally : there's no methodological salvation ; you won't go to heaven through not swearing ; you won't produce science by following "the science method" and so following.
mircea_popescu: i didn't say that. i said - that dutch's writing is interesting as of dutch ; not much as of aristotle.
mircea_popescu: as generally happens, mongols will comprehend the bums better than the middle class.
mircea_popescu: suppose you excavate tomb in valley of queens ; suppose you find ~live~, talking, cogent queen in there. suppose you take her to the shelf of items, and give her a questionnaire. she is to select "dildo spatula or hat" for each present item.
mircea_popescu: is she going to be disqualified from queenhood if she fails this multiple choice test ?
mircea_popescu: now we understand each other. dutch can't be "wrong" about aristotle per se. it is a fact he didn't much understand what the other said ; and it is a fact that in the dutch system, dutch's observations stand, however vaguely greek flavoured they may be.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the question before you is, were you trying to understand the greeks, or were you trying to explain to yourself why you aren't trying to ?
jurov: you can write elaborate essays in any languages, dead or alive that pi ==== three. but you can't clearly draw it.
mircea_popescu: and aristotle could read this log, smile broadly at alf, and say "hey, suppose someone comes up with a superunitary probability ; and you disqualify it for you know, being out of the defined bounds. my my aren't you a circular logician just like me!"
mircea_popescu: it's likely what he'd have said, especially if older and thus mellowed.
mircea_popescu has better greek fu than dutch, which allows him a better emulated aristotle than dutch's, which is neither here nor there.
mircea_popescu: (contrary to common belief, supernumeray probabilities are a major problem in theoretical physics ; much of the nature of the problems aristotle was struggling with in his discussion of heavens)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i;m not sure you grasp the point here. read it again!
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : structure of knowledge and content of knowledge are different concerns. dutch erroneously represents a problem with the content in terms of problem with structure.
mircea_popescu: there you go - i haven't translated, but at least discussion allowed us to build a sufficient basis so at least a meaningful summary could be devised.
mircea_popescu: yes, but the proposal to discuss a space one may never walk into may be seen with the same eyes
mircea_popescu: yes ; but its rejection does not actually constitute "circular logic". it's more like defensive skepticism than anything.
mircea_popescu: note also that all sorts of insanities are "the most parsimonious know model" for various otherwise-inaccesible psycho-systems.
mircea_popescu: (there is no such thing as an inaccessible physical system by the definition of the terms.)
trinque: just sounded like he was establishing an axiom, and would've said bring forth the man who has seen the 4th dimension if challenged.
mircea_popescu: there's many problems ; it's not even the case that the greek notion of "dimension" at all maps to anything here extant. the discussion is carried on trilema on easier things such as "power" etc ; but in any case, it's rather like having lisp types arbitrarily sloshed around. you don't just add 5+5 like that, if they're different types.
mircea_popescu: should be pretty evident that a dimension defined in terms of divisibility is very fundamentally not the same thing as the latin notion of dimension-as-extensibility.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: when you go to school in 3rd grade or w/e the teacher tells you a line is "blablabla EXTENDS TO INFINITY"
mircea_popescu: and sure, the greek style of deductive logic, from the all downwards lost in the field to the latin method of inductive "from the parts is made the ballista". i have no objections, but also can't pretend the alternative never existed.
mircea_popescu: no, the other gives you eg statues worth keeping around.
mircea_popescu: the first gives youy ballista AND REDDIT ; and the other gives you praxitelles and alf-s-gentoo
a111: Logged on 2016-12-02 20:44 asciilifeform: during dinner with hitler et al, speer (among other things, reichsminister of architecture) made a comment about 'one problem, our concrete houses will leave very poor ruins'
mircea_popescu: (also it should prolly be pointed out that aristotle was not that much of a star of the greek world, if for no other reason then because he was born realtively late. he was a major star of ~scholastics~, and discussions of aristotle esp in translation are more a discussion of early christian europe than of "the greeks" - which incidentally are also a complex thing, alexander for instance, who caused hellenism, was nevertheles
mircea_popescu: s a macedonian not a greek and spoke greek like you speak french ; whereas MOST greek life happened in constantinople, a good third to a half of it ~under turkish rule~. so... whatevers, not quite so simple.)
mircea_popescu: moreover the "physiologists" (term of art) went through anaximander's ionians AND pythagora's italics before socrates was even invented.
mircea_popescu: and after aristotle was invented, the greek world had what, -20 years of life left ?
mircea_popescu: ahahaha! ok this is sweet : "Now he's waist deep. Yes, you can describe all motion as a compound of linear and circular motion. For that matter, vectors treat all motion as combinations of linear motion."
mircea_popescu: the problem being that no - circular motion is NOT linear ; much like a taylor sum is not an integral. yes they can be made arbitrarily close, sure, whatever.
mircea_popescu: traditionally, as well as here, the value of trying aristotle is that it allows one to expose his own cluelessnes, which is generally beneficial.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i met two kinds of women in this life ; the kind that'd hang out with anyone just as long as they didn't go to jail/starve/whatever ; and the kind that'd hang out with me if it meant underground.
mircea_popescu: well wtf argument is this, "they died". sure, constantinople fell to the turks, and rome fell to odoacer. hurr ?
mircea_popescu: all philosophies are dead in this sense ; next you'll be asking "what is the sun's utility to us"
mircea_popescu: so then the greeks are the british and the work with hands the zulu ?
mircea_popescu: (is the shape of the smoking crater polygonal or circular ftr ?)
mircea_popescu: or the famous "x should be enough for everyone", be it bytes, cray computers, what have you.
mircea_popescu: i mean heck - they had atomic theory and didn't even build cyclotron
mircea_popescu: (and before you ask - yes, cyclotron CAN be built with materials found in classical athens, why not.)
mircea_popescu: or having had volcanoes and not coming up with glass ?
mircea_popescu: you know, prior to the internet MOST GIRLS didn't know they can masturbate ?
trinque: two steps beyond experience is twas brillig and the slythe toves
trinque: how could you say something out there
mircea_popescu has personally taught a bunch of young women. about say one third discover it naturally ; but the rest do not.
mircea_popescu: and i wouldn't even think it fair to say that the other two thirds are dumber or something.
mircea_popescu: and to add amusement to this : of those who do discover it naturally, only a fraction figure out THE PROCESS. most arestuck repeating the exact procedure that they originally discovered.
trinque: "what makes woman orgasm" is culture bound. gotta be able to reprogram it when they end up in another context.
mircea_popescu: so she'll still frottage the shit out of teddybears as a 19yo because hey.
mircea_popescu: you'd think "it;s on your fucking body - right there! and it works!" would be sufficient basis. turns out not. volcanoes produce obsidian but do not appreciably help the locals make glass.
mircea_popescu: adn so on and so forth. i doubt much conclusion can be drawn from this absence.
trinque: ends up a question of how conceptual symbols are formed
trinque: I will not stumble drunkenly into it, but it'd seem one would at least require input that can be contorted into the item.
trinque: saw lightning-struck sand, hm, maybe glass
trinque: otherwise from where will it come?
mircea_popescu: i dunno alfie. lava - hot. behind it - glass. doesn't seem more of a leap than what is proposed for the original "cooking meat" discovery, which supposedly is why we're even here.
mircea_popescu: ~everyone from golden crescent to mongolia and sweden had it.
mircea_popescu: but the general point here was that undevelopment or underdevelopment is not much argument.
mircea_popescu: but forget glass. ~everyone had potatoes even if they didn't have lemons, and tin and copper. who made galvanic gold plating process ?
mircea_popescu: you can make it in an hour! what were all these people thinking! clearly all languages but objective-c were wrong! false gods of a false reason!
mircea_popescu: come to think about it - ONLY RECENTLY you found out thyobatteries exist!
mircea_popescu: (srsly, i sat there and went holy shit this is so obvious wtf is wrong with us.)
mircea_popescu: maybe that's why no steam engine in pelopones transit ?
mircea_popescu: "they didn't know lightning is available in store - thought zeus only item. so they didn't make tesla coil. problem ?"
trinque: allocation of thought-power can't be done intelligently on a matter not already known.
mircea_popescu: but not shorter than from volcano to glass ; or from acid to battery.
mircea_popescu: it is altogether dubious, also, HOW will you metric these distances.
trinque: and it's being done in hindsight.
mircea_popescu: it'd better be something that compares favourably with aristotle's dimensional calculations, too! because you're so much more advanced than the zulureeks!
mircea_popescu: the question of how you metric these things re emerges.
trinque: asciilifeform: how do you narrow that from "anyone could encounter anything"
mircea_popescu: and this is a problem of much more practical import than commonly realised. if slave is punished for things she "should have figured", how to you connect the lash count / severity of the punishment to the offense ?
mircea_popescu: (yes, /me does this routinely, and the complaint routinely is presented that the severity is arbitrary etc.)
trinque: mircea_popescu: and wouldn't misapplication of this only further miswire her, and produce worse results ?
mircea_popescu: so far i'm opting out of the entire "systematic slavery" thing ; it is a private not public matter entirely opaque to they-who-aren-t-me, which makes me-as-slaveholder rather divine in nature.
mircea_popescu: the above problem not having a known solution, even if heuristic in nature, being a large part of why.
trinque: yeah, I don't suppose there's a solution in posing the question.
trinque: but it points directly to the lack of a transition path for discussed greeks aside "encounter the thing, such that pavlovian conditioning can build useful associations"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: certainly the attempt worked wonders for pete_dushenski writing readable articles. what exactly made his previous work less good than his current work ?
mircea_popescu: it's easier to not suck than to explain how to not suck, even in particular cases.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, it's just not apparent dutch is aware this includes dutch.
mircea_popescu: from his discussion of artistotle it's not evident. maybe he was.
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mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587492 << this neatly dovetails into "brain is not a thinking machine". "if you exist in the space long enough, eventually brain will work to think about the space - but if you do not, sorry buster, "probability can not be larger than 3 because 3 is the largest it could be".
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 20:10 trinque: but it points directly to the lack of a transition path for discussed greeks aside "encounter the thing, such that pavlovian conditioning can build useful associations"
BingoBoingo: <trinque> "not me but christ through me" even worse, I'd think, with apologies to danielpbarron. "I submit myself fully to the god of purpose." << Step 3!
trinque: purpose as opposed to cause
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform come to think about it, everyone, including modern folks regularly barf upon that encounter.
mircea_popescu: i dunno where this truism that "people like people" comes from, but it is spectacularily resilient in the face of unequivocal quashing irl. NOBODY, past the age of about 5 or so, likes almost anybody else to even the degree of toleration, let alone actually seeking them out. not even fucking women, hence the prostitute's job (not to fuck - but to leave after!)
trinque: the christians hacked a primordial fear here. salvation is but a word, AND YOU'RE GOING TO MISS IT.
trinque: think if you dwelt forever on the fact that by extension, godhood itself is all around you, but you've not the ability to understand it.
trinque: you'd have option paralysis and sit under a lotus tree til you died.
trinque:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-16#1584339 << now this and the notion of contorting onself to think come into greater focus. thinking ~til the answer~ without knowledge of the possiblity of an answer opens up a wide space for biological suicide.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-12-16 18:21 mircea_popescu: in any case - mental models of logic, as with mental models of anything found in nature -, are approximations. the same mechanism that allows a guy to isolate 0* from null.predicate allows one all sorts of psycho-imunological responses that are rather requisite to maintain the subjective notion of the self ~in a format comprehensible to itself~!
mod6: <+asciilifeform> even the current thread in #mod6 , is possibly an example << asciilifeform found an oversight in my latest version of V. it doesn't have a flag allow or disallow the pressing of WILD vpatches.
☟︎☟︎ mod6: Currently, if a WILD vpatch is in the flow, it will just press it as long as it is based correctly.
trinque: unsigned. better to know if you're sticking your dick in crazy tonight.
mod6: a vpatch without any signature placed into .seals.
mod6: I press them very often, infact.
mod6: But it never occured to me that the average guy might just drop on of these into patches and never consider what he is doing.
mircea_popescu: better off making a test key and adding it to seals than this
trinque: thing sounds like it needs to be cleaved into vpatch and v which calls vpatch
mod6: So yeah, need to add a flag for this.
mircea_popescu: there shouldn't be any flag - nor should it press unsigned things.
trinque: this is how cat gets a bunch of switches.
mod6: I don't think it is reasonable to sign every thing I want to test.
mircea_popescu: with the test key ? why not ? fucks with your workflow ?
mod6: I think a flag takes care of this, exactly how alf's original v worked.
trinque humbly suggests considering the combination of orthogonal, simple tools
mod6: <+trinque> thing sounds like it needs to be cleaved into vpatch and v which calls vpatch << i'm not sure i follow here...
trinque: the reason you do not use patch by hand is that it does not respect the hash
☟︎ trinque: that is a problem with patch
trinque: note that it does do a sort of squashy "this is what was around the spliced matter" which is a shitty hash
mod6: im still not groking what is being said here.
mod6: i don't have time right now. i'll come back later for this.
trinque: you are expanding the definition of "v" the word to accomodate deficiencies in the definition of another word, patch
trinque: asciilifeform: how did you ^ the first statement of it and waiwat the second
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 20:50 trinque: the reason you do not use patch by hand is that it does not respect the hash
trinque: v used to mean "tool which applies tree of >1 lord-sworn changes to definition of item" and would become "... or nobody swore, whatever"
trinque: why have that code path present at all? fix patch, apply test patches by hand
trinque: the only reason we don't manually apply all each time is we are relying upon the "sworn"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and when i provide you with a toilet, you'll stop pissing in the bath tub ?
trinque: entirely inconsistent with recent "cat" thread.
mod6: how does WILD have anything to to do with patch?
mod6: my v checks the hashes for files pressed, and pukes if not a match from the hashes in the processed vpatch.
mod6: you can't turn off the sig check, at least in mine.
mod6: mine ~does~ the check.
mod6: it doesn't care at signature time if one is WILD or not, only if the vpatch does not ~verify~ and there is a corresponding seal.
mod6: so like when your key expired, shit puked.
trinque: which alright already regarding null sets, but look how it maims the operator.
trinque: he's using "wild" to mean "bare of signatures"
trinque: they're not; one doesn't introduce a branch
trinque: I have no idea how we get from "gnu cat is shit because they added compromises throughout the thing's life" to "we will allow ourselves this same sin" because what, we're holier, can afford it ?
trinque: or we're afraid of patch? if we want an actual patch utility that only deals in single byte characters and hashes, I will write it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they aren't. the correct solution here is to have "automated low value signature process", NOT "to bypass signature checks".
mircea_popescu: if you want to not be bothered with signing things - make a shit key and use that eg in an emacs module or as an output script or w/e
phf: hmm, can make the process entirely painless with shitsign alias, that does --batch --quiet and uses a passwordless key
mircea_popescu: the nearly psychotic OUTRIGHT REFUSAL TO USE CRYPTOGRAPHY, in its universal insistence is starting to grate on my neverse.
mircea_popescu: in the same way fuckjing an ugly broad is a use of your cock.
trinque: asciilifeform does exploitation for a living, right? or reversing exploits?
trinque: how many encountered involve getting a thing to go down another branch
mircea_popescu: in all honestly if i were archeologist and discovering this i'd flip the bozo bit on this "tmsr" bs for this here reason.
mod6: I'm pretty sure i am a bozo.
mod6: I think alf should take his V much further, and mine can fall into dust bin.
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trinque: mod6: dun let vigorous discussion of the item dissuade you of working on it.
mod6: you know, i'd like to. but my thing has been around for waaay to long for no one to have noticed a huge flaw.
mod6: which basically means to me, either no one understands "vtronics" or no one who did ever audited the thing. and i'm clearly not qualified and shouldn't have written the fucking thing int he first place.
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trinque: it's why V needs to be in a V tree itself.
mod6: no seriously, i should have never been adacious enough to think that I could make that thing work.
phf: mod6: i think there's more infrastructure around V than there's V use, which leaves a lot of issues unexplored. for example there were mentions that V had a binary problem, but a serious discussion only happened recently, with no satisfactory solution. i think you were attempting to solve an important problem: how to let people outside of tmsr figure out build process without 6 months of log (seems like even more now), but i suspect
phf: that it might've been a bit premature to attempt to provide an authoritative comprehensive solution
jurov: wait a sec. mod6's build system won't work if v is to reject patches without sigs?
mod6: so... say that im the only guy in your wot.
mod6: and you only have seals from me for vpatches in your patches directory.
mod6: if you get rid of one of the seals for one of the vpatches, it'll say "WILD"
mod6: but it'll still press happily enough.
jurov: that one vpatch still has your sig or not?
mod6: anyway, i cna't talk atm
mod6: but i encourage you all to experiment with this.
mod6: should have been done long ago.
mod6: i have a subroutine
mod6: it's called 'validate_seals'
mod6: it iterates over all the vpatches and the like-named seals in the .seals dir.
mod6: it looks for valid/in-valid signatures to vpatches.
mod6: if i have a bunch of seals in my .seals dir from a guy named 'alf' that isn't in my wot, then V will complain.
mod6: or if I have bad signatures, then it'll complain as well.
jurov: ..but it goes on and presses it?
mod6: in either of those two cases, it pukes and stops.
mod6: but if you hvae ~no~ seals, then you can press it sure. the 'flow' will represent these as WILD.
jurov: ah. and why the hard feelings wrt changing that case into error, too?
mod6: no hard feelings. i said i could do this pretty easily.
mod6: i feel like this thing is a moving target.
trinque: again the null set predicates thing causes huge commotion. I am honestly (and without veiled jabs) fascinated.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 20:44 mod6: <+asciilifeform> even the current thread in #mod6 , is possibly an example << asciilifeform found an oversight in my latest version of V. it doesn't have a flag allow or disallow the pressing of WILD vpatches.
ben_vulpes: software review takes *months* if not *years* around here. part and parcel of the deficit spending and how the humans choose to allocate their time.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 20:44 mod6: <+asciilifeform> even the current thread in #mod6 , is possibly an example << asciilifeform found an oversight in my latest version of V. it doesn't have a flag allow or disallow the pressing of WILD vpatches.
mod6: iw asn't sure that the problems you're having are related to this
mod6: but never the less.
ben_vulpes: no, this is separate and not exactly a problem anyways.
ben_vulpes: the other thing is separate and not precisely a problem, i mean to say.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 21:30 mod6: I think alf should take his V much further, and mine can fall into dust bin.