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11:43 asciilifeform shinohai: bot awol ?
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12:05 asciilifeform !w poll
12:05 watchglass Polling 15 nodes...
12:05 watchglass 185.85.38.54:8333 : Could not connect!
12:05 watchglass 185.163.46.29:8333 : Could not connect!
12:05 watchglass 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.083s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=670291
12:05 watchglass 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.051s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=670291
12:05 watchglass 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.112s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=670291
12:05 watchglass 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.087s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=669687
12:05 watchglass 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.084s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=670291
12:05 watchglass 108.31.170.100:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-100.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.174s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=670291 (Operator: asciilifeform)
12:05 watchglass 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.145s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=670267 (Operator: whaack)
12:05 watchglass 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.222s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=670291
12:05 watchglass 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.262s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=670291
12:06 watchglass 84.16.46.130:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length!
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19:28 thimbronion Taleb reportedly selling his Bitcoin. WTF happened to that guy?
19:37 asciilifeform thimbronion: remind me, what did he have to do with bitcoin ?
19:39 thimbronion asciilifeform: Did you read Antifragile?
19:42 asciilifeform thimbronion: did, and, as w/ his earlier pieces, not at all impressed.
19:42 snsabot (trilema) 2014-06-18 asciilifeform: herr taleb alternates between ruminating on his personal sense of brilliance and excellent pedigree, and... punching a boxer's bag. how much fun to watch a man punch a bag?
19:42 snsabot (trilema) 2017-04-02 asciilifeform: (d00d who thinks that he's a demigod, but i have nfi what he actually accomplished with ~own~ hands other than the tired old trick of 'turning a billion $ into a million')
19:42 snsabot (trilema) 2018-08-17 asciilifeform: stinks to high heaven, 'i won lottery, hear me roar'
19:44 thimbronion asciilifeform: Guy is an asshole, but he had a point about the idiotic attempts to hide risk and the inevitable blow up.
19:44 asciilifeform thimbronion: is what meant in 'punching a bag'
19:45 asciilifeform bashing usg.'economics' dun require intellectual depth, 'insight', etc. -- is approx. as much of a challenge as bashing lysenko.
19:45 asciilifeform it aint an 'intellectual' construct, but simply ruling ideology of particular gaggle of pedigreed morons.
19:46 asciilifeform which will exist the stage with the physical destruction of said morons, and not earlier.
19:46 asciilifeform *exit the
19:46 thimbronion It was enlightening to mid-2010s me.
19:47 thimbronion He doesn't seem to know what he's talking about though.
19:47 asciilifeform ( y'know, sorta like k. pobedonostsev, was 'philosopher' in last yrs of romanov rule. )
19:48 asciilifeform thimbronion: that's exactly the kind of maculature 'trendy' bookstores in usa littered with for decades.
19:48 snsabot (trilema) 2016-12-01 asciilifeform: asciilifeform refers to this genre of writing as '10th-dimension', after infamous pseudoscientific b00k/www by same name, which consisted of highly refined 'imponade' (to borrow naggum's) , that is, writing designed to pull the reader's intellectual cock and give a sensation of 'profound insight', 'yes, NAO i UNDERSTAND FIZZZIX!' or similar.
19:49 asciilifeform 'felt enlightening' but then realize 'no signs that author actually had a clue' 'even a stolen clue'
19:50 asciilifeform thimbronion: in usa, it is almost national tradition for a gambler who finds self with a 6 fig bank acct, to turn it into a 7-8 by writing a 'how to succeed like me!!' piece of pablum
19:50 asciilifeform no shortage of buyers.
19:51 thimbronion asciilifeform: I assumed he an 8-fig, but could be wrong.
19:51 asciilifeform worx even better
19:51 asciilifeform start w/ 7-8, go to 9-10.
19:52 thimbronion He reminds of the "Classical Liberals"
19:52 asciilifeform taleb's pieces oozed just the 'right' sort of narcissism. and 'truthiness'.
19:53 thimbronion Always ready to stab in the back anyone who falls for their rhetoric.
19:53 asciilifeform delicious (to uninitiated/young folx) flavour of 'make bank, Like Me, by Sticking It To Establishment' etc
19:54 asciilifeform moar on subj, iirc the man has openly shilled for shitcoin artists. (dun have the log ptr handy, tho)
19:56 thimbronion He worships various classical figures, but wouldn't invite any of them should they be alive today to eat squid ink noodles with him due to their "racist" views.
19:56 thimbronion asciilifeform: didn't know he shitcoined.
19:57 asciilifeform thimbronion: when reading his pieces, asciilifeform could barely contain gag reflext, taleb went on, and on, and on... pete_dushenski style, re his glorious pedigree, and 'culture of the levant', esteemed ancestors, etc etc
19:57 asciilifeform *reflex
20:04 asciilifeform i suspect this kinda thing worx very, very well against the rubes described in orlov's 'The Untrustworthy and the Trustful' :
20:04 asciilifeform 'There also seems to be a certain set of traits possessed in abundance by a category of highly effective American financial operators that makes it easy for them to prey on trustful people. It may be the suits they wear, or the English they speak or their general demeanor—let us call it “trustiness,” to go along with the “truthiness” of their financial disclosures. Deep down, trustful people feel privileged to be robb
20:04 asciilifeform ed by such superior specimens.'
20:11 asciilifeform late-era sovok contained quite a few figures resembling, imho more than superficially, taleb -- i.e. 'dissidents' which were nominally in opposition to it (but vanished into insignificance with its collapse) , nominally 'oppressed' (while occupying plum jobs -- 'writer's union' came w/ massive leisure, primo food, vacation house, car, sometimes -- driver)
20:13 verisimilitude The proper term then is ``controlled opposition''.
20:13 asciilifeform verisimilitude: often enuff, doesn't require direct control
20:14 asciilifeform 'useful idiots'
20:14 verisimilitude Indirect control is still direct.
20:14 verisimilitude He who controls the drug supply has an inherent advantage over addicts, no matter how motivated.
20:15 verisimilitude On the topic of book stores, I increasingly find not a single book I actually want, and must have them ordered specially.
20:15 asciilifeform at any rate, very happy to hear that he sold bitcoin. hope to live to see him beg for spare change like eric raymond .
20:15 snsabot (trilema) 2015-09-07 punkman: then http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/12/10/0821224/esr-writes-on-surprised-by-wealth >> and now http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6835
20:16 asciilifeform there are few things on satan's green earth more noxious than a lottery winner cum judas goat 'teaching success'.
20:17 verisimilitude ``Flip thousands of coins, and the few which always came up heads will tell us how, with hard work, we can achieve what they did.''
20:17 asciilifeform aaha.
20:18 asciilifeform (see e.g. )
20:18 snsabot (trilema) 2017-04-02 asciilifeform: lottery winners have not merely 0 to teach, but 'learning' from them tends to make folx dumber.
20:21 asciilifeform lottery winning has a magick property of reliably converting otherwise-harmless folx into scum -- after winnings ~run out~, fella will do ANYTHING to keep the good times rolling.
20:21 snsabot (ossasepia) 2019-12-11 asciilifeform: RubenSomsen: fella was friend of an old meatspace friend of mine. was a kind of esr-style lottery winner, as teenager; developed severe delusions of grandeur 'oh hey lemme make a nanotech cad despite knowing 0' and just as the money ran dry, was offered job as a professional bamboozler / bitcoin disinfo artist, by the reich. and afaik is what he does to this day.
20:22 asciilifeform this is worth remembering when you find yourself turning into present-day taleb, esr, et al., because 'hey i enjoyed book in 2010'.
20:22 asciilifeform *tuning into
20:22 * asciilifeform bbl
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