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00:00 asciilifeform to the point there is a 'science', it's a box o' heuristics, not magical substitute for errything-incl-priors
00:00 mircea_popescu rather, a "retelling of old games of scientific method".
00:01 mircea_popescu but it bears repeating : there stands, and well respected for good cause, an century old result of science that shows there can not be such a thing as an explicitly consistent system.
00:02 mircea_popescu goedel directly says, "science is just one text and necessarily no complete". that this is not equivalent with "irigaray is better than average milkmaid" is true, but also who the fuck cares about irigaray enough to put her name in this.
00:03 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663960 << see also re goedel
00:03 a111 Logged on 2017-05-31 16:28 asciilifeform: and if someone wants to mention godel etc -- ethical engineer MAY NOT cite godel, EVER, just as a police detective MAY NOT cite the supernatural and admit a hypothesis of miraculous theft from a safe
00:04 mircea_popescu asciilifeform how do you say "function that has derivate in every point" in englisch ?
00:05 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'differentiable'
00:05 mircea_popescu oh.
00:05 asciilifeform ( at least so it was in asciilifeform's kindergarten )
00:05 mircea_popescu i was using "continuous" to people's confused disbelief. apparently continuous just means "has value for all x in interval"
00:06 asciilifeform 'continuous' usually is 'is defined for each point'
00:07 mircea_popescu total waste of a fucking word. that's wtf the domain is there for.
00:19 mircea_popescu anyway, back to the upstack, the "science tries to [...] silence all hedonistic and rebellious dissent against it" nonsense is a sad misread of history by people who really should know better. yes it's true that for a while scientists were also puritans, as a religious inclination.
00:20 mircea_popescu this happened because the minimalistic religion of the time appealed to people "who just wanted to", and really didn't see why they should pay court to napoleon when there were volumes to measure say.
00:21 mircea_popescu nevertheless, there's nothing fundamentally scientific about retarded anglo-neoprotestantisms ; nor anything fundamentally retarded anglo-anything about science.
00:21 mircea_popescu so no, the male phalic supremacy opressing all others, especially stupid women and dumb ethnos isn't going away ; and it certainly won't permit the leverage of this "but we like to fuck and disagree!!!" tool to unhinge it
00:21 mircea_popescu that's what i'm fucking here for.
00:30 ben_vulpes in other possibly stale lols, heathen wallet denominates in millishitcoinz
00:32 mircea_popescu iirc that always was there.
00:32 ben_vulpes inneresting
00:47 mircea_popescu o look, we run aground again!
00:48 mircea_popescu "An important role of prices in free markets is to convey information about individual needs and preferences in a world of seven billion people who can each see only a very small part of it. A while ago, a poster elicited fawning oohs and aahs in the progressive blogosphere by pointing out how absurd it is to go through all the steps needed to make a plastic fork instead of using a metal fork and washing it afterwards. Indeed
00:48 mircea_popescu , the way free market prices allocate resources can often be counterintuitive and seemingly unfair for some English major with tiny knowledge but big visions of how she would completely reorganize the entire world as the central planner [aka, http://trilema.com/2014/a-practical-exercise-for-people-who-cant-afford-airfare/#selection-35.0-47.226 's the bare-tit-floor-washers], letting them beclown themselves by calling the free
00:48 mircea_popescu market more "inefficient" compared to central planning led by "smart" people. It is certainly amazing how technology and commerce allow mass production of plastic spoons to be sold for three cents apiece, well worth the time and convenience they save me."
00:49 mircea_popescu let's try and understand this : running a house without a bipedal dishwasher, either in personam or as the role only, to be filled by whichever of the available persons according to some (arbitrary, male-oppressive-phalocentric, etc) criteria results in the situation where you gotta pay 3 cents whenever you use a fork. what has been saved ?
00:50 mircea_popescu ikka does not want to discipline NOT EVEN ONE SINGLE woman, let alone her sisters and offspring. he just wanted to science!!
00:50 mircea_popescu is this supposed to pass for sense now ?
00:50 mircea_popescu seems to me the tiny knolwedge afflicts he who should stfu and do a better job of world domination.
00:59 mircea_popescu anyway, that i record protest only should not be construed in a negative view of the man. on the contrary, he has many good points chief among which the systematic deployment of the view that whatsoever the pantsuit claim to think, believe, etcetera has absolutely no direct value, and is no more meaningful than the finch's call. the finch doesn't MEAN something by the noise it makes ; it merely intends for other finches to be
00:59 mircea_popescu able to locate it easily, and exactly same for pantsuit. they picked "gay" to worship because it's relatively cheap and easy and ineffectual (as in it dundu nuffin, see also http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750998 re this) -- because there's virtually no gays as such.
00:59 a111 Logged on 2017-12-13 19:25 mircea_popescu: consider : what makes a bad penis ? that you can rub it all you want and STILL it won't spit out. but what makes a good cunt ? that you can pound it all you want and STILL it won't in any way change.
00:59 mircea_popescu ~same with blacks, they picked blacks over latinos simply because there's fewer of them, which isn't to say this is any kind of mental process, of course. the moth didn't pick light "because", in any sort of moth-personal sense, it just got picked for it by the workings of matters external.
01:00 mircea_popescu but otherwise, "bla bla gay marriage" means exactly nothing other and above "wanna go for a beer ?"
01:02 mircea_popescu in a sense taking the garbage pouring out of pantsuit mouth as such and trying to engage it on merits is not unlike the fool of old, looking at the hand that pointed at the moon.
01:03 ben_vulpes now if only there were anything to talk about over beer but gay marriage
01:04 mircea_popescu there's some fundamental alienation at work in the german lands, of which england is a sad, marginal, forgotten island (of which colonies are ... all a sort of sadder wales). have you ever seen Aus Dem Leben Der Marionetten ?
01:04 trinque on the matter of women serving men, it's been real nice having the one in household finding various delicious liquid foods to serve up while my wisdom tooth holes mend.
01:04 trinque what the hell's wrong with it? girl's been glowing over getting to do so.
01:05 mircea_popescu trinque well, many things are wrong with it. for instance, plenty of girls never encountered a male centered enough to be able to manifest for.
01:05 mircea_popescu the resultant neurosis is ~80% of the whole "liberal-progressive" ethos.
01:06 trinque aha
01:06 mircea_popescu amusingly, you'll be surprised how many MEN are in the same position.
01:07 mircea_popescu most "couple trouble" among college-educated esl readily reduce to "two subbies tired of their bitter arguments over who has to dom for the evening".
01:07 ben_vulpes such a sad thing, the rejection of hierarchy.
01:07 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes Aus Dem Leben Der Marionetten < ?
01:07 * trinque cuts checks to a dude that does some basic software support
01:07 trinque couple years of me screaming and he's by now almost an adolescent
01:07 mircea_popescu heh
01:07 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: never seen it
01:08 mircea_popescu it's a fundamental statement of the problem, i'd say unavoidable. rich "software engineer" of the 70s (ie, architect, like those guys in the swiss pornos always seemed to be, recall?) goes off his rocker and kills a woman.
01:08 mircea_popescu compare and contrast with eg. il merlo maschio, same topic but in the olive oil lands of southern europe, and suddenly some kind of fundamental problem becomes more than evident.
01:09 mircea_popescu something in the cold, windy sky drying people out inside.
01:11 mircea_popescu ie, yes http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-08#1748753 may well be the case ; but meanwhile i suspect the north actually invented madness.
01:11 a111 Logged on 2017-12-08 15:02 asciilifeform: the 'good climate makes folx lazy and slowly climbing 'back up to trees' ' item is an old saw, but i'm not aware of any major hole in the theory
01:12 mircea_popescu and so no... there isn't anything to talk about ; over beer or over anything else. just look away with empty eyes.
01:13 ben_vulpes when i ran a small coeterie of staff the steel spine of our success was the chain of command from whence sense and marching orders came, and everyone's utterly clear understanding of where they stood
01:14 mircea_popescu i expect.
01:15 ben_vulpes american democracy is a miserable thing, demanding that there be one boss (the state) and all subservient to it without ever acknowledging their subservience.
01:16 * ben_vulpes bbl, a deserving lady has a christmas movie i'm not grinching about for once
01:17 mircea_popescu enjoy
01:21 mircea_popescu lol, "end prison sex seggregation". that'd be a show.
01:22 mircea_popescu within a half year you'd end up with a little traditional village within the walls. practically say (pre war) syria, or ukraina. reconstructed, at great expense.
01:23 mircea_popescu "Once we get rid of the social construct that men are physically stronger than women, little girls will surely grow up to be just as strong as men. We can already see glimpses of this future utopia of equality in many junior sports events where a 12-year-old girl competes with 12-year-old boys and wins!"
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01:49 deedbot http://www.contravex.com/2017/12/17/the-elusive-jumping-jew-and-other-unorthodox-pre-taxidermic-fauna-native-to-maui/ << Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - The elusive Jumping Jew and other unorthodox pre-taxidermic fauna native to Maui.
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04:18 mircea_popescu !!up gue oops too late.
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04:20 mircea_popescu aand in other news, "What is the lowest IQ that allows some person to write a peer-reviewed paper that proves that IQ is meaningless? Another curious paradox that I noticed was how the anti-IQ camp fears that acknowledging the existence of IQ would result in some people being classified as "subhuman" and treated accordingly. However, every single time that I have actually seen somebody being called a "subhuman", this has
04:20 mircea_popescu come from the anti-IQ side! In other words, members of the anti-IQ camp simultaneously believe that on one hand, everybody is an equally valuable human, but on the other hand, those who deny this, even by a tenuous implication, are subhuman."
04:21 mircea_popescu this suddenly clarifies a lingering... not quite disagreement i wouldn't say, but something or the other with asciilifeform re iqs. i don't credit the concept at the upper bound -- saying this guy is smarter than this other guy because 138 > 133 is a very dumb way of approaching the matter ; or othersise stated, IQ > 100 is entirely meaningless.
04:22 mircea_popescu at the dumb end of the spectrum, however.. o ya. iq 88 is very much ahead of iq 83, and painfully evidently so. under 100, maybe even 120 or so, it DOES put a very strict upper limit on what people can do.
04:24 mircea_popescu this view neatly explains both why mensa is fulla failures and why there's not that many iq 69s writing papers about how meaningful iqs are.
04:24 mircea_popescu !!up lu wtf.
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04:30 mircea_popescu aaand in other pravda lulz, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/13/men-charged-in-terror-plot-to-kill-muslims-want-trump-voters-on-their-jury/
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04:54 mircea_popescu aaand in further http://trilema.com/2015/the-squares-and-the-holes/#selection-343.240-343.263, ilkka k : when a woman has to fuck but "doesn't want to" then "no means no" ; but when a man has to give up his income but "doesn'rt want to" then "taxation is necessary for the good of everyone & society etc bla bla".
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09:53 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752680 << i dun recall ever disagreeing with this: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1541407 , http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-09#1428213 , and elsewhere
09:53 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 09:22 mircea_popescu: at the dumb end of the spectrum, however.. o ya. iq 88 is very much ahead of iq 83, and painfully evidently so. under 100, maybe even 120 or so, it DOES put a very strict upper limit on what people can do.
09:53 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 21:07 asciilifeform: aha. and so it looks like this is a replay of the iq thread - it is quite impossible to specify 'smart', but trivial to specify stupid; impossible - good fuck, easy to describe a useless one; the list of horrible food is easy to make (start with, say, asphalt) but not so of tasties; etc
09:53 a111 Logged on 2016-03-09 22:35 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'iq' WORKS for identifying stupidity
09:56 asciilifeform as 'iq tests' were used 100yr ago, worked great . i.e. on ~small children~, who don't train for it or expect it ; and worx fine for sorting folx into the 4 basic buckets,
09:57 asciilifeform say, 'tards who need caretakers/gasenwagen', 'tards who need tard trainers, can be made employable', 'normal folx', 'people worth teaching booklearningz'
09:58 asciilifeform !!up trobin
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09:58 asciilifeform grr
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10:06 asciilifeform ohai BingoBoingo
10:06 asciilifeform how's bananistan
10:10 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752635 << possibly we had this thread but... what exactly is wrong with mechanical dishwashers ?
10:10 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 05:49 mircea_popescu: let's try and understand this : running a house without a bipedal dishwasher, either in personam or as the role only, to be filled by whichever of the available persons according to some (arbitrary, male-oppressive-phalocentric, etc) criteria results in the situation where you gotta pay 3 cents whenever you use a fork. what has been saved ?
10:11 asciilifeform they work pretty well, to the point that asciilifeform sees dwellings where one aint installed, as roughly similar to ones with outdoor latrine
10:11 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: So far so god, aside from a critical structural failing banana'd into the hostel...
10:11 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: waiwat
10:12 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Rain revealed the roof's pitch on the hostel is bowl shaped
10:13 BingoBoingo As in there is now a pool over the center of the building ~3.5 cm deep at its deepest.
10:13 asciilifeform dun sound like much
10:14 BingoBoingo Well, flat roof pulls double duty as deck
10:16 BingoBoingo Other tenants y staff don't seem to be panicking, so it's anthropology time.
10:20 BingoBoingo The pooling would have gone unnotice by myself if it wasn't for the right side of my bed being where water slowly leave the roof for the building interior.
10:21 BingoBoingo But the colombians here this weekend have been tremendous help with the spanish.
10:21 BingoBoingo Brb, tengo que ir a la feria!
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11:33 shinohai Disfrutalo BingoBoingo !
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12:25 trinque http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752699 << surely the point was "female(s) dedicated to upkeep of the house and male in it" and not which devices ya own.
12:25 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 15:10 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752635 << possibly we had this thread but... what exactly is wrong with mechanical dishwashers ?
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12:42 mircea_popescu !!up iangeker
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12:42 mircea_popescu !!up tro hm
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12:45 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752690 << aha, quite. i dunno if we ever actually formally discussed the item, just vague "is iq a thing or not"
12:45 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 14:56 asciilifeform: as 'iq tests' were used 100yr ago, worked great . i.e. on ~small children~, who don't train for it or expect it ; and worx fine for sorting folx into the 4 basic buckets,
12:49 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752691 << sadly and to everyone's despair, bucket 3 went away sometime in 1993. there is ~0 utility for prole in postmodern world. female may make great slave/breeder, as per ye olde http://trilema.com/2016/an-immodest-proposal/ but otherwise, nobody needs a "worker" today for anything.
12:49 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 14:57 asciilifeform: say, 'tards who need caretakers/gasenwagen', 'tards who need tard trainers, can be made employable', 'normal folx', 'people worth teaching booklearningz'
12:50 mircea_popescu considering how bucket 4 was never really more than a % or two ; and how bucket 3 was a good 40% of humanity (about 80% of it male)... this is a social shock, to say the least.
12:51 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752699 << depends. what exactly is wrong with car ? "if you use it to leverage your effort, nothing. if you use it to never fucking walk on your two legs, ie, try and REPLACE your effort, pretty much everything starting with coronaries."
12:51 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 15:10 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752635 << possibly we had this thread but... what exactly is wrong with mechanical dishwashers ?
12:53 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752701 << this is silly, especially considering the discussion (washing ~one fork!!~) is specifically about the so-amply-discussed-it's-almost-a-term-of-art bad angle for washing machine. seriously, you expect me to fire up the whole cubometre machinery to wash one fork ? or what, is the one plate from today going to wait 2 weeks to be washed until there's like a third of a load ? nonsense.
12:53 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 15:11 asciilifeform: they work pretty well, to the point that asciilifeform sees dwellings where one aint installed, as roughly similar to ones with outdoor latrine
12:53 mircea_popescu leverage, yes ; replace, no. bitch washes dishes as part and parcel of her staying sane rather than taking off into lalaland.
12:56 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752713 << dun even have to be female. there is such a thing as a "house mother" that's usually an old fag in the sort of "artist communities" composed of gay males as found all over... well, seattle and sf, mostly. but anyway, item exists and proven-to-work.
12:56 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 17:25 trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752699 << surely the point was "female(s) dedicated to upkeep of the house and male in it" and not which devices ya own.
12:57 mircea_popescu in fact the pink elephsecret re "halfway houses" is that someone noticed cca 1960 HOW exactly gay communities work when they do, attempted to apply methodology to solving problem of the state (criminal poverty / criminal addiction), with ~some~ success.
12:57 mircea_popescu not that much ; but way the fuck more than is common for a state-run state-idea.
13:00 deedbot http://www.dianacoman.com/2017/12/17/my-reference-code-shelf/ << Ossasepia - My Reference Code Shelf
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13:33 shinohai Nice article diana_coman, a "reference code shelf" *is* vey good idea.
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14:14 diana_coman cheers shinohai
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15:47 deedbot http://trilema.com/2017/the-disambiguation-of-laughter/ << Trilema - The disambiguation of laughter
15:57 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752726 << the part i dunget is , why is the '1 fork' scenario contemplated at all ? are washing machines a waste because 'whole cubometre, you say, for 1 sock' ? for instance asciilifeform has 0 problem filling regular-sized dishwasher in <1day , and that's with 3 meals and a crew of only 2 .
15:57 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 17:53 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752701 << this is silly, especially considering the discussion (washing ~one fork!!~) is specifically about the so-amply-discussed-it's-almost-a-term-of-art bad angle for washing machine. seriously, you expect me to fire up the whole cubometre machinery to wash one fork ? or what, is the one plate from today going to wait 2 weeks to be washed until there's like a third of a load ? nonsense.
15:57 asciilifeform why wouldja 'wash 1 fork' ?
15:58 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752724 << unlike walking in fresh air, washing dishes by hand has 0 whatsoever to recommend it. it's busywork, plain and simple, like ru recruits painting snow white and grass green.
15:58 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 17:51 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752699 << depends. what exactly is wrong with car ? "if you use it to leverage your effort, nothing. if you use it to never fucking walk on your two legs, ie, try and REPLACE your effort, pretty much everything starting with coronaries."
15:59 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752719 << did discuss, in detail, see earlier links
15:59 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 17:45 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752690 << aha, quite. i dunno if we ever actually formally discussed the item, just vague "is iq a thing or not"
15:59 * asciilifeform aficionado of subj, has a shelf full of ancient tests from various authors and periods
16:01 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752721 << the 'errything roboticized, robo-cabbies driving robo-repairmen to their sites' item is an sv hallucination. none of these items exist, or threaten to , for so long as there are pipes and plumbers there is a role for iq100 folx
16:01 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 17:49 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752691 << sadly and to everyone's despair, bucket 3 went away sometime in 1993. there is ~0 utility for prole in postmodern world. female may make great slave/breeder, as per ye olde http://trilema.com/2016/an-immodest-proposal/ but otherwise, nobody needs a "worker" today for anything.
16:02 asciilifeform nobody's roboticizing the auto mechanic, either. or 9,000 others.
16:03 asciilifeform ( and before anyone mentions 'modern mechanic reads debug codes' -- yes he does, and then spends 5hrs disassembling the greasy, sooty whatevers, to get at $part, just like 100yrs ago. )
16:05 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752723 << bucket3 (i.e. 'normals') was -- definitionally, and now as then -- 68% , i.e. +/- 1 sd .
16:05 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 17:50 mircea_popescu: considering how bucket 4 was never really more than a % or two ; and how bucket 3 was a good 40% of humanity (about 80% of it male)... this is a social shock, to say the least.
16:05 asciilifeform it dun move.
16:05 asciilifeform thinkaboutit.
16:06 asciilifeform i suppose if you colour its bottom half 'high functioning tards', it's 34 . but idea is that test is only really accurate to 1sd
16:07 asciilifeform ( so somebody who ranked -1sd on a bad day may well score dead center , the next , etc )
16:07 asciilifeform and it's sumthinglike 70-80% female, not male.
16:08 asciilifeform ( consider who occupies ~100% of both tard farm and university maths dept )
16:09 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752728 << possibly we had this thread...
16:09 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 17:53 mircea_popescu: leverage, yes ; replace, no. bitch washes dishes as part and parcel of her staying sane rather than taking off into lalaland.
16:10 asciilifeform ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-07#1640167 and elsewhere )
16:10 a111 Logged on 2017-04-07 18:24 mircea_popescu: no, let's also de-equivocate think. there's two kinds of think, one's a forge/reflow/examination of trees resulting in analytical consumption of inputs with actionable outputs guaranteed ; the other is a neurotic behaviour perhaps best described as spinning, whereby specific emotional triggers / detriggers are visited in succession. the prussian model was never concerned with the former in any sense, but merely aimed to elimi
16:21 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752733 << this is neato
16:21 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 18:00 deedbot: http://www.dianacoman.com/2017/12/17/my-reference-code-shelf/ << Ossasepia - My Reference Code Shelf
16:22 asciilifeform !~later tell phf plox to intern sigs at http://www.dianacoman.com/reference-code-shelf , ty
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19:08 trinque omg culture appropriation!!11!
19:08 BigTexasBingo Gracias, while hacer poopoo, hade a day with a suburban girl for Thursday night
19:09 BigTexasBingo Y lol at indiancandy's ourselfism
19:09 BigTexasBingo Trinque nick on this device was set up for Houston airport
19:10 deedbot http://trilema.com/2017/the-most-chauvinist-serene-order-of-the-holes-gloriouses/ << Trilema - The Most Chauvinist Serene Order Of The Holes Gloriouses
19:11 indiancandy1 i read ur peice on credit cards mp
19:11 indiancandy1 interesting
19:11 BigTexasBingo Hecho poopoo, ciao
19:24 mircea_popescu we are good!
19:26 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752737 << laundry is dry ; dishes are wet ; laundry is light, dishes are heavy in terms of dirt -- if you ever fish as much oil out of a shirt as out of a plate you oughta see a doctor. consequently laundry keeps better than dishes.
19:26 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 20:57 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752726 << the part i dunget is , why is the '1 fork' scenario contemplated at all ? are washing machines a waste because 'whole cubometre, you say, for 1 sock' ? for instance asciilifeform has 0 problem filling regular-sized dishwasher in <1day , and that's with 3 meals and a crew of only 2 .
19:27 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752740 << so ? toenail painting just as much busywork.
19:27 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 20:58 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752724 << unlike walking in fresh air, washing dishes by hand has 0 whatsoever to recommend it. it's busywork, plain and simple, like ru recruits painting snow white and grass green.
19:27 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752745 << iq 100 is group 2, not group 3.
19:27 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 21:01 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752721 << the 'errything roboticized, robo-cabbies driving robo-repairmen to their sites' item is an sv hallucination. none of these items exist, or threaten to , for so long as there are pipes and plumbers there is a role for iq100 folx
19:27 mircea_popescu group 3 is "walmart grocery bagger", and no use for those.
19:28 mircea_popescu !!up indiancandy1
19:28 deedbot indiancandy1 voiced for 30 minutes.
19:28 indiancandy1 i read ur peice
19:28 indiancandy1 on credit cardsinteresting
19:28 mircea_popescu which pence did you read ?
19:29 indiancandy1 how people trust creditcard
19:29 indiancandy1 and not crypto curncyy
19:29 mircea_popescu link ?
19:29 indiancandy1 when its stil a digital wallet
19:30 indiancandy1 i dont have it i read it the other day
19:30 mircea_popescu ic.
19:30 indiancandy1 yea
19:30 indiancandy1 digital wallets
19:31 indiancandy1 shino
19:31 indiancandy1 mp u must be very happy
19:31 mircea_popescu whysasat ?
19:31 indiancandy1 coz
19:32 indiancandy1 the world is now learning about btc
19:32 indiancandy1 its evrywhere
19:32 indiancandy1 news
19:32 indiancandy1 radio
19:32 indiancandy1 evry1 is talkin bout it
19:32 indiancandy1 the price has sky rocketed
19:32 mircea_popescu eh, what do i care about this world.
19:32 indiancandy1 i regret selling myne
19:32 indiancandy1 well ur geting richer
19:33 indiancandy1 im sure when u first got into it
19:33 indiancandy1 u didnt predict this
19:33 indiancandy1 or did u
19:33 mircea_popescu of course i did.
19:34 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-18#1752809 + http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-18#1752810 << insta-lol
19:34 a111 Logged on 2017-12-18 00:27 mircea_popescu: group 3 is "walmart grocery bagger", and no use for those.
19:34 a111 Logged on 2017-12-18 00:28 mircea_popescu: !!up indiancandy1
19:34 mircea_popescu :)
19:35 mircea_popescu indiancandy1 o hey, remember when you didn't want to write on your tits, cuz "too little" ?
19:35 mircea_popescu what was it, 0.1 btc ?
19:36 indiancandy1 exactly
19:36 indiancandy1 i sold the for 80 euro
19:36 indiancandy1 im si could be drinkin coffee with u
19:36 indiancandy1 sad*
19:36 indiancandy1 in argentina
19:36 indiancandy1 now im making 14k usd a month
19:36 indiancandy1 and getin taxed half
19:36 indiancandy1 shocking
19:36 indiancandy1 and then converting to pounds
19:36 indiancandy1 im left with 5k
19:36 indiancandy1 a month
19:36 indiancandy1 :(
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20:00 mircea_popescu !!up indiancandy1
20:00 deedbot indiancandy1 voiced for 30 minutes.
20:00 mircea_popescu im not in argentina, i'm in costa rica.
20:01 indiancandy1 ohokay
20:01 indiancandy1 when u goin romania
20:01 indiancandy1 stop by
20:01 mircea_popescu i dunno.
20:01 indiancandy1 london
20:01 mircea_popescu eh, london blows.
20:02 indiancandy1 are ur fam in romania?
20:02 mircea_popescu yeah
20:02 indiancandy1 bucha
20:02 indiancandy1 ?
20:02 mircea_popescu nah, transylvania
20:03 indiancandy1 damn
20:03 indiancandy1 related to vladmire?
20:03 indiancandy1 wouldnt be suprised
20:03 mircea_popescu lol. possibly...
20:03 indiancandy1 i knew it
20:03 mircea_popescu o by the way, i checked out some indian films recently.
20:04 mircea_popescu THEY SUCKED!
20:04 indiancandy1 fuck that
20:04 indiancandy1 fuck them
20:04 indiancandy1 i dont compromise
20:04 mircea_popescu like, "3 idiots", you kjnow that ?
20:04 indiancandy1 i thought i could
20:04 indiancandy1 but i cant
20:04 indiancandy1 i cant do it
20:04 indiancandy1 s i left
20:04 indiancandy1 yea i wathed it
20:04 indiancandy1 long ago
20:04 indiancandy1 like it?
20:04 mircea_popescu and who the fuck is that adam sandler wannabe Aamir Khan schmuck ?
20:04 indiancandy1 heard its a rip off though
20:05 indiancandy1 yea they riip off american movies
20:05 indiancandy1 and japanese
20:05 mircea_popescu no, i didn't like it. it's fucking offensively terrible.
20:05 indiancandy1 and indianize it
20:07 mircea_popescu so what do you work in for 15k a month ?
20:07 indiancandy1 cam girl
20:07 indiancandy1 its 14k
20:07 mircea_popescu ah.
20:07 indiancandy1 usd
20:07 indiancandy1 but they take half man
20:07 indiancandy1 i swear
20:07 indiancandy1 it hurts
20:07 mircea_popescu yes well.
20:07 indiancandy1 it is what it is
20:07 mircea_popescu pimp gonna pimp.
20:08 mircea_popescu !!key indiancandy1
20:08 deedbot http://wot.deedbot.org/a886215d072240c8d8632da8564f4d7daeea5571.asc
20:08 mircea_popescu o hey.
20:08 mircea_popescu did you see trinque made a bitcoin wallet now and everything ?
20:09 indiancandy1 i need to create a new id
20:09 indiancandy1 on here
20:09 indiancandy1 to join wot again
20:09 indiancandy1 and get new info
20:09 indiancandy1 so i dont need to getvoice al the time
20:09 mircea_popescu what's wrong with that one ?
20:09 indiancandy1 shino said
20:09 indiancandy1 there is no other way
20:09 indiancandy1 i have to create a new 1
20:09 mircea_popescu did you lose your key ?
20:09 indiancandy1 yea
20:10 mircea_popescu dork.
20:10 indiancandy1 cant i reclaim?
20:10 mircea_popescu nope.
20:11 indiancandy1 okay
20:11 indiancandy1 wellim gona creata new one
20:11 indiancandy1 it wil be
20:11 indiancandy1 ....
20:11 indiancandy1 do u kno my name
20:11 indiancandy1 lol
20:11 mircea_popescu shakti something wasn't it ?
20:11 indiancandy1 sofia
20:11 indiancandy1 is my real name
20:12 indiancandy1 sofiababy works
20:12 mircea_popescu you know what that means in teh original language ?
20:12 indiancandy1 wisdom
20:12 indiancandy1 im greek
20:12 indiancandy1 duh
20:12 mircea_popescu o hey.
20:12 indiancandy1 philosophy baby
20:12 mircea_popescu lol i see.
20:12 indiancandy1 no wonder im borderline genius
20:12 indiancandy1 loool
20:13 mircea_popescu !!up da-gambl427
20:13 deedbot da-gambl427 voiced for 30 minutes.
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20:14 mircea_popescu mmkay.
20:18 phf "The l0de radio hour is a long-running live call-in show that irregularly broadcasts over the internet, and to pirate shortwave and FM stations. It is hosted by Lode Ray Dio, a gypsy hustler with a long history of fraud, grifting, and treason. The show is notable for its frequent cancellations, obscene and bizarre content, and a high rate of listener suicide."
20:19 mircea_popescu not a bad fit, but the guy is going ass-backwards about it.
20:20 indiancandy1 whose on the
20:20 mircea_popescu more of the same old http://trilema.com/2014/namecheap-goes-off-the-deep-end-anyone-know-a-decent-domain-registrar/ story of failure to cater to the elite in the blind quest to chase the nobodies.
20:20 phf ought to be invitide™
20:20 indiancandy1 someone sent me the link
20:20 indiancandy1 who is it
20:20 mircea_popescu phf hm ?
20:20 mircea_popescu indiancandy1 rando spammer.
20:20 indiancandy1 gypsy?
20:20 phf asciilifeform: will update all the thing, motherbored finally gave out on the main machine so taking some time to get my infrastructure in order
20:21 mircea_popescu don't believe everything you read ; especially not online.
20:22 indiancandy1 k im gona create a new id
20:22 indiancandy1 on hereit wil be sofiababy
20:22 indiancandy1 how do i get a key again
20:22 indiancandy1 sorry
20:22 indiancandy1 dont hate me
20:23 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-15#1752014
20:23 a111 Logged on 2017-12-15 17:04 mircea_popescu: http://www.eulorum.org/Account_Setup << ad-interim "how to set up a key" guide.
20:23 phf this l0de show is now trolling all the people who showed up from the mass advertisement and raging in the youtube live stream section. i'm away from internet for one day, come back it's the same amount of shitshow
20:25 phf meanwhile, homebrew, the mac os x package manager, finally pulled the final bate and switch. "build from source" option is now marked as "unsupported" (!!!) in the man pages, everything's being pulled using precompiled archives. building a non-trivial set of packages from source fails along the way with clearly misconfigured formulas. this is possibly of interest only to ben_vulpes (?)
20:29 phf mircea_popescu: i was saying we should invite him, but i realized that was stupid as soon as i said it
20:29 mircea_popescu he can consider self invited.
20:31 mircea_popescu phf it's bait btw.
20:32 mats lel, i tuned in a couple weeks ago after spam in another chan - weev was brought on and proceeded to rave about using btc to place shorts on papa johns stock
20:32 mircea_popescu anything but shit that works, huh.
20:33 mats and then using his aryan brotherhood pals to pimp the corp
20:34 mircea_popescu vaguely reminiscent of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-08#1748707
20:34 a111 Logged on 2017-12-08 14:45 mircea_popescu: in other shit you'll never believe, ukr chickie dun wanna costa rica because "prefers milder climates". "20 is too hot for her"!
20:37 mats from the looks of his unfinished room, none of that happened
20:37 mircea_popescu in other news, here's another thing teh republic wants to hire : an exceptional orfevre.
20:37 * mircea_popescu is thinking of actually starting a chivalry order.
20:39 phf we're finally going full knight templar?
20:39 mircea_popescu well...
20:39 mircea_popescu what the hell is wrong with it, some nice gold swag
20:42 * phf wouldn't mind having one of those oversized, drafty castles where you have to run a fireplace to heat one room out of 20 (or was it 30? we've lost count during last inspection, etc.)
20:43 mircea_popescu so far we're only talking oversized lapel pins
20:45 phf eh, i'm not picky
20:47 cazalla g'day folks
20:47 mircea_popescu how's pollacklands
20:49 cazalla yet to step foot there, still waiting on my citizenship and passport
20:49 mircea_popescu a
20:50 cazalla know much about whisky mp? bought myself a $500 bottle, bit disappointed, not sure what i expected or if scammed lol (26yr old glenfiddich)
20:50 mircea_popescu i despise grain alcohols.
20:50 mircea_popescu but if one has to, vodka. wtf is whis whiskey bs.
20:50 cazalla nigger rich!
20:51 cazalla figured why not, once doesn't hurt, not gonna double down and get the 30 yr old
20:51 mircea_popescu sure.
20:51 mircea_popescu i regularily buy the 30yo rum
20:51 mircea_popescu very much worth it.
20:51 mircea_popescu course here you can actually get it in bars.
20:52 cazalla i bought a bottle of that reserva, was nice, i still prefer bundy rum (although the one i like can't be bought now)
20:52 mircea_popescu !!up sofiababy
20:52 deedbot sofiababy voiced for 30 minutes.
20:52 sofiababy has no one updated
20:52 sofiababy this thing
20:52 sofiababy the instructions on how to create a key
20:53 sofiababy it seems somethings a slightly different
20:54 mircea_popescu how ?
20:55 sofiababy it used to say certficate
20:55 sofiababy now it says keys
20:55 sofiababy which is fine
20:55 sofiababy im not that stupid
20:55 sofiababy i was jus saying u need to update it
20:55 sofiababy who ever created in
20:55 sofiababy anyway im half way
20:55 sofiababy on creating
20:55 cazalla where do you cam sofiababy ?
20:55 sofiababy my gateway
20:55 sofiababy mfc
20:56 cazalla try twitch?
20:58 sofiababy yeai did i used to play ps4
20:58 sofiababy thereu dont make half
20:58 esthlos mircea_popescu: i apologise for disappearing. I was in meatspace this weekend
20:58 sofiababy im havin an issue
20:58 sofiababy can someone help me
20:58 sofiababy im stuck on
20:59 esthlos mircea_popescu: you can find some work at http://www.esthlos.com
20:59 sofiababy In your task bar, right click on the Kleopatra icon, go to ‘Clipboard’, then click ‘Certificate Import’
20:59 sofiababy it isnt an option
20:59 sofiababy certificate import isnt an option
20:59 sofiababy areyou a gamer cazala
21:00 shinohai O hai cazalla
21:00 esthlos mircea_popescu: my thesis is probably the most interesting.
21:01 cazalla sofiababy, no, stopped watching twitch after it was inundated with gamer girl camwhores, but i read they do well sparking up league of legends, chatting to virgins and getting them to donate to their patreon
21:01 cazalla shinohai, heya shinohai
21:01 sofiababy im not sure how much twitch take
21:01 sofiababy they dont do they
21:01 sofiababy u have to use paypal i guess
21:01 asciilifeform holy FUQ the gigatonne of 3-syllable-per-line liquishit in this log
21:01 sofiababy i play gta
21:02 mircea_popescu o cool lessee
21:02 mircea_popescu asciilifeform womenz in da haus.
21:03 phf cazalla: what'd you think of 46yr glenfiddih compared to their 12yr etc. stuff? i've had a variety of vintages, and i can't for the love of me feel ~that~ much difference. meanwhile a difference between a 10 and 40 year port is very tangible
21:03 mircea_popescu tangy-ble lol
21:03 sofiababy whiskey?
21:03 phf mircea_popescu: :]
21:03 sofiababy i dont drink
21:03 sofiababy when i did
21:03 sofiababy i did drink glenf
21:03 mircea_popescu o you did ?
21:03 mircea_popescu cazalla phf all your questions are answered i presume ?
21:04 mircea_popescu in other esthlos-powered insta-lulz, "I wish to God these calculations were executed by steam..."
21:04 phf heh
21:05 * mircea_popescu recalls somewhat fondly old days of "put the model in and wait a few hours for to find out how you fucked it up this time"
21:05 cazalla phf, 26yr excellence was nice, but maybe i built it up in my mind to be something other given its cost, i'd be just as happy to drink the 18 or 15 tbh, not that i drink much at all these days anyway
21:05 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: you'd luvvvv pcb design-manufacture loop. asics even moar.
21:06 mircea_popescu esthlos i take it you read naggum's overfinnicky in parts, overloose in other parts time essay ?
21:06 asciilifeform ( replace 'hours' with 'months' )
21:06 mircea_popescu oya.
21:06 asciilifeform and if you merely long for the days of 8 hour compiles -- will luvv large fpga wurk.
21:06 mircea_popescu maybe fondly wasn't the exactly right word.
21:06 asciilifeform lol
21:06 mircea_popescu something more in the vein of delighted relief.
21:07 sofiababy meh =[
21:07 sofiababy kleopatra dont like me
21:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform phf https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.2499 << check him out
21:07 mircea_popescu !!rated esthlos
21:07 deedbot mircea_popescu has not rated esthlos.
21:07 asciilifeform oh hey, a new german maths d00d ?
21:08 asciilifeform ( where did we put the old one.. )
21:08 mircea_popescu !!rate esthlos 1 WRT lulz.
21:08 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/kEWUz/?raw=true
21:08 esthlos mircea_popescu: I haven't see that of naggum's
21:09 esthlos mircea_popescu: spacetime is my main field of study
21:09 mircea_popescu (forlulz : item he discussed is called "chern-simons" by anglos because exactly http://btcbase.org/log/2014-06-04#700916 )
21:09 a111 Logged on 2014-06-04 00:08 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
21:09 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i have an entire collection of these somewhere
21:09 esthlos mircea_popescu: but not what the field theorists do. they can go to hell
21:09 mircea_popescu as does everyone.
21:10 asciilifeform ( su-originated items, in particular, 'rebranded' )
21:10 mircea_popescu esthlos so what's your take on the imminent quantum computer in a thousand words or less ? :D
21:10 phf cazalla: nod, i in fact befriended a guy who has the largest whisky collection on the east coast (an old texan drunk), and despite sampling a large variety, i'm just going to stick to bottom shelf
21:10 mircea_popescu esthlos http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html it was iirc
21:11 * asciilifeform finds himself in agreement with phf , ~all reasonably-clean distillates taste ~same to him
21:12 mircea_popescu if it's not made from fruit, it'd better be 99%'d and then diluted back down.
21:12 phf mircea_popescu: that one is a purely technical paper on details of code implementation for calculations with civil time
21:12 mircea_popescu "The Long, Painful History of Time" ?
21:12 phf yes
21:12 cazalla in other news, what is with hookers talking about their fkn kids
21:12 phf if you're reading it, it's for you
21:13 cazalla one burmese bitch even starting complaining she couldn't do as many men as some of the other girls
21:13 asciilifeform ^
21:13 mircea_popescu phf wut are you talking aboot ?
21:13 mircea_popescu i mean sure it gets to computer implementations halfway through...
21:14 sofiababy cazala u crac me up
21:14 sofiababy its a trick maybe
21:14 sofiababy to get sympathyy
21:14 sofiababy and sympathy means cash
21:14 mircea_popescu esthlos jesus christ could your items not be pdfs for the love of things not sucking.
21:14 mircea_popescu also pinet.* is 404.
21:15 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: phf's summary is entirely troo, naggum's item was about time ~units~, zones, seasons. rather than physical concept.
21:15 mircea_popescu naive perception thereof, i guess. anyway.
21:15 asciilifeform people-stuck-actually-implementing-clocks perception.
21:16 mircea_popescu then again, the notion that a perception of time might not be naive is a pretty tough argument in the first place.
21:16 mircea_popescu asciilifeform what else ?
21:16 asciilifeform nuffinelse, that was whole item
21:16 mircea_popescu what-else-can-be-a-naive-perception-of-time-than-trying-to-build-clocks
21:16 asciilifeform aaa hm
21:17 asciilifeform for the lack of any contact with 'expert perceptions of time', i'll leave this item where it is
21:17 mircea_popescu well, you don't like modern physics.
21:18 asciilifeform i'm ok with sr/gr
21:18 esthlos asciilifeform: yes
21:18 mircea_popescu but let me point out a cheval that various investigations in the nature of the number cca 1700s were equally ill regarded.
21:18 asciilifeform waiwat which yes
21:18 mircea_popescu the ANTERIOR yes, yes ?
21:18 phf yes?
21:19 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-18#1752974 << 'macports' iirc still worx
21:19 a111 Logged on 2017-12-18 01:25 phf: meanwhile, homebrew, the mac os x package manager, finally pulled the final bate and switch. "build from source" option is now marked as "unsupported" (!!!) in the man pages, everything's being pulled using precompiled archives. building a non-trivial set of packages from source fails along the way with clearly misconfigured formulas. this is possibly of interest only to ben_vulpes (?)
21:19 esthlos asciilifeform: wrt sr/gr
21:19 esthlos quantm field theory is a mess, everyone just wants to be the next einstein, no one cares about understanding what is going on
21:19 mircea_popescu this sounds shocking and unexpected.
21:20 mircea_popescu anyone recall that great scene where tom green "Saves the day" at the maternity ward ?
21:20 phf asciilifeform: i've been trying to build "mpv", a video player that notoriously relies on a lot of shit packages. i've actually tried homebrew over netbsd's ports, because later fails to build mpv that actually works on mac. now so does homebrew. i'll try macports, but i doubt it'll deliver
21:20 esthlos the quantum path integral is a farce, even dirac said we need to start over
21:20 mircea_popescu "i guess they just DON'T LIKE HEROES AROUND HERE!11"
21:20 asciilifeform esthlos: i tuned out when 'serious' people started talking about 'testability and parsimony aren't mandatory'
21:20 esthlos my thesis is about a rigorous approach...which only works in 3D... sigh
21:21 mircea_popescu what's this mean, "only works in 3d"
21:21 esthlos mircea_popescu: as to quantum computers, I don't know a whole lot about quantum, but i believe that an information-theoretic approach to spacetime is the best bet to quantize it
21:22 mircea_popescu oh i see.
21:23 mircea_popescu "The Chern–Simons theory, named after Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons, is a 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory of Schwarz type, developed by Edward Witten." << wikipedia fucking delivers.
21:24 esthlos mircea_popescu: its almost a joke of the universe that 4d manifolds are almost impossible to classify https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_manifolds#Dimension_4:_exotic
21:24 mircea_popescu "the us economy, named for mccain's father in law, is a piece of marysue fanfic written home by foreigners".
21:24 esthlos but 5+d is easy and 0-3 are workable
21:25 mircea_popescu esthlos myeah. but i mean... how can it "only work in 3d", ie, what, no solutions in 5d ?
21:26 esthlos mircea_popescu: more like infinite solutions, so choosing any single solution is arbitrary. just like the feynman path integral. its thttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_series_theoremhis problem in a larger context:
21:27 esthlos whoops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_series_theorem
21:27 mircea_popescu hm
21:27 asciilifeform esthlos: does it ever bother you that your primary maths link-reference is a spamola farm ?
21:28 mircea_popescu as opposed to what exactly, the experts sex change source of all software ?
21:28 esthlos asciilifeform: you mean wikipedia? i agree its shitty
21:29 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'software' ain't a thing
21:29 mircea_popescu math following it rapidly into the hole.
21:29 asciilifeform entirely possibly already in
21:30 mircea_popescu speaking of all this geometry, did they find the 4d smooth sphere ?
21:30 asciilifeform q is, why maths folx sit and edit pediwikia, which gives them nothing in return, censors/'curates' the work, and leverages it to spray respectability perfume on their politclaptrap ?
21:31 mircea_popescu asciilifeform why do milkmaids sell their milk for 10cents a galon to walmart to be sold to consumer for a buck a bottle ?
21:31 mircea_popescu cuz relative size problem, they perceive themselves as small.
21:31 asciilifeform milkmaid gotta eat. nobody's forced to pediwikiate.
21:31 mircea_popescu publish or perish!
21:32 asciilifeform afaik pediwikism dun count as 'publication'
21:32 asciilifeform for delaying-perishing
21:32 mircea_popescu this is irrelevant. whenever the state manages to enforce some idiocy, it's not the case the state enforced it, it's the case it followed a fashion!
21:32 mircea_popescu they went in for the bologna BECAUSE they felt they DO have to.
21:32 mircea_popescu whether it's for credit or for free makes little practical difference. the problem's in the brain not in the statute.
21:33 * asciilifeform momentarily pictured idiocy having... viscosity.. and following, e.g., bernoulli's law
21:33 mircea_popescu maybe some reformulation.
21:34 asciilifeform but yes, pretty clear that 'felt they had to', not martian hypnosis did it, no.
21:34 mircea_popescu but it's absolutely and eminently NOT the case that smart people were doing smart people things and some bureaucrats came in su style and "henceforth you shall publish or perish". it was rather the case that some smart people sat around doing existential anguish, and some bureaucrats came by, packaged it as "publish or perish" and then proceeded to sell it to them (in exchange of an island of manhattan worth of "scientific" s
21:34 mircea_popescu upport for "policies").
21:34 mircea_popescu they still feel that way with or without "i fucking love science" marketing depts.
21:35 asciilifeform ww2 and after, grantola, explosion of (per kuhn) 'ordinary science' i.e. stamp collecting, is what did it
21:35 asciilifeform actual thinking folx dun have 'existential angst'.
21:36 asciilifeform nor a pressing need to flatten forests printing drivel.
21:37 mircea_popescu this is a dubious point.
21:38 asciilifeform whyssat
21:38 mircea_popescu well, for many different reasons, but let's set on the very convenient tu quoque approach. you yourself think all sorts of insanities about what you can and can not do, which vary according to mood. it's no different for anyone else.
21:39 asciilifeform the problem is not that folx suffer insanities, but the packaging for sale.
21:39 mircea_popescu this is also a dubious point.
21:40 mircea_popescu is the jewish young female sluttery the problem, or merely the pimp's ready marketing of it ?
21:40 asciilifeform i'm not equipped to map this item onto the other
21:40 mircea_popescu where folks suffer insanities a marketing will be found.
21:41 mircea_popescu where there's teenaged runaways, a charlie manson will be found
21:41 mircea_popescu and so following.
21:42 mircea_popescu not "because charlie manson, therefore here's a list of dozen+ teenagers who fucked on the first day" but quite vice-versa : "because oodlebunches of such teenagers, therefore here's weirdo cult nonsense".
21:42 asciilifeform that'd be ye olde 'devil finds work for idle hands' theory
21:42 mircea_popescu and so ipse, not because government grants therefore flatten forests printing drivel.
21:42 mircea_popescu much simpler than that : if your rng is broken someone somewhere will exploit it.
21:43 mircea_popescu insanity === broken rng.
21:44 asciilifeform so i take it mircea_popescu leans to 'physics stuck in a ditch post-ww2 and after that inevitably ceremonial and staffed by priests' ?
21:44 asciilifeform or to 'not stuck at all'
21:45 asciilifeform or entirely none of these ?
21:45 mircea_popescu no. physics stuck in ditch because smart people have fallen into a sort of sartrean hell, very much equal parts Кто ты по жизни? and "how do i know i exist"
21:45 asciilifeform but why fallen ~then~
21:46 mircea_popescu why did you fart when you farted as opposed to at any other time ?
21:46 mircea_popescu this is a specious argument retrospectively.
21:47 asciilifeform recall the 'police detective may not entertain hypothesis of miraculous disappearance when confronted with empty safe' ?
21:47 mircea_popescu yes.
21:47 asciilifeform same applies here. thinking people may not retreat to 'allah farted and therefore.
21:47 mircea_popescu mind that police detective is not liberal profession. this is SPECIFICALLY what it means : that not at liberty to consider all possibilities. that's what makes a technical profession.
21:48 asciilifeform 'allah farted' is not a possibility that merits considering while having the activity still called 'thinking' and the folx engaging therein, 'thinkers'
21:48 mircea_popescu doctor is allowed to assign miraculous cause ; and the curtailing of that allowance exactly mirrors the technicalization (ie, de-liberalization) of medicine.
21:48 mircea_popescu asciilifeform this is a third dubious point.
21:48 asciilifeform it's a surrender. quite analogous to soldier surrendering.
21:49 mircea_popescu consider the problem of mechanics in 1900. physics "complete science" and why can't you 1900 alf explain the mercury precession ?
21:49 mircea_popescu MAYBE YOU ARE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH!
21:49 mircea_popescu good physicist NOT ALLOWED TO THROW OUT COMPLETE SCIENCE!!!
21:49 mircea_popescu people said these exact things, btw.
21:49 mircea_popescu and they were right, except... there's a categorical error.
21:49 asciilifeform 'hard' is irrelevant. it's a 'yer not smart enuff, go sell used horses'
21:50 mircea_popescu the view was wrong -- the complete science was actually neither complete nor even correct
21:50 mircea_popescu which is why we can have color television sets with short tubes. they, smart or not smart, couldn't have.
21:50 asciilifeform drawing, quartering, burning out with hot irons a out defective paradigm is ~the~ work of actual thinker.
21:50 mircea_popescu so then.
21:51 mircea_popescu this "the work" is also, a surrender. in the terms of the item being burned down.
21:51 asciilifeform how the everliving fuck is that a surrender
21:51 asciilifeform it's a victory. the only kind there is.
21:51 mircea_popescu ~in the terms of the item being burned down~.
21:51 asciilifeform to the defeated -- the tears.
21:51 mircea_popescu but before you abandoned it, it wasn't defeated yet.
21:52 mircea_popescu this is how coffin liners are mostly produced. for as long as you still hold it, it still has something going for it.
21:52 mircea_popescu namely -- you.
21:52 asciilifeform observe also that in practice the so-called 'physicists' ~never surrender, and how field 'advances 1 funeral at a time'
21:53 asciilifeform very rarely anyone abandons the dead end crud. the adherents continue to sit in their chairs, and eventually die, and next generation puts the dead end item in rubbish bin where it belongs , instead of picking up.
21:54 mircea_popescu mostly, yeah.
21:54 mircea_popescu there's also the very problematic... consider. the highlight of my entirely negligible theoretical physicist career such as it was, was pariticpating at this "international contest". it was named... "the first step to nobel prize in physics".
21:54 asciilifeform i found interesting that blondlot continued leading 'institute' of his 'n-rays' until he died. lived for ~decades~ after wood raped'im
21:54 mircea_popescu now, i didn't happen to give a shit. but think what they try to sell to these unfortunate kids.
21:55 asciilifeform i know what they sell to them. worked with the asian phd folx who got diploma for washing glass, 'first step to...' various.
21:55 mircea_popescu really ? STEPS ? http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-06#1679600 ?
21:55 a111 Logged on 2017-07-06 15:09 mircea_popescu: which is how every god damned kid that was sexually abused through the process of socialist schooling (which is all of them -- education is education, and socialist school is definitionally sexual abuse of all children involved) ends up with the idea that newton sat down TO discover whatever he did (unimportant, really) and THEREFORE he did.
21:55 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you don't have a full vierw of the problem. allow me to recount a lengthy story that shall make my point for me.
21:55 mircea_popescu so, in the 1990s, after the purge dkscj
21:55 asciilifeform hey bureaucrat sees ~everythign~ as usg org chart, climbable, naturally has steps! itmust!!
21:56 * asciilifeform tunes in..
21:56 mircea_popescu ... the purge discussed in http://trilema.com/2017/when-did-america-end/ the navy and the airforce found themselves in a de facto competition
21:56 mircea_popescu "who will first have female jet pilots???"
21:56 phf asciilifeform: this is what macport presents for installation approval when you try and pull mpv http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/dcDet/?raw=true
21:56 mircea_popescu the airforce won. it won by trickery -- had some girl that did ~6 hours all through 1990s, then did most of her actual hours in 2000s.
21:58 mircea_popescu the navy tried to win honestly ; and it failed. it's not JUST that woman, Hultgreen, crashed her airplane in a manner that a) was taught as incorrect and b) she had been negged for doing in training.
21:58 mircea_popescu it's that there were four women ; which were judged by the (absolutely and entirely fair and utterly unsexist, as a factualmatter beyond dispute) men involved as : hultgreen, marginal, the rest, substandard.
21:58 esthlos this channel is like discovering the last psychiatrist again
21:59 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: contest of strongest horse in glue factory ?
21:59 mircea_popescu now, all this was found out because an engineer involved leaked data. he did so because it was eggregious -- like how the sort of red mark that often ended a male';s career were accumulating in the double digits on these unfortunate souls' files
22:00 mircea_popescu and he deemed it a major securtity risk. which it was. as events proved.
22:00 asciilifeform i'm still surprised it wasn't handled su-style -- i.e. by not marking to begin with
22:00 mircea_popescu now, one of the substandard ones actually SUED. because she deemed that the release of "her private data" as to how bad she sucked is such an important matter, it precludes the public interest.
22:00 asciilifeform 'this comes back to unit commander until all marks green'
22:01 mircea_popescu the courts rebuffed her ; then. the upper court even had to tell her that "calling the first women trying to do this public figure does not constitute a statement of some kind of negative judgement". because yes, she was intimating this.
22:01 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: is this suit on file somewhere ? i'd luvv to read
22:01 mircea_popescu now consider two different problems. one of them is, the damned hardware involved. the piece of shit airplane they flew (f14) is SO BADLY DESIGNED its nose moving left/right can disrupt airflow into compressor intake ACTUALLY STALLING an engine.
22:02 shinohai oglaf, ever relevant http://oglaf.com/old-st-nick/
22:02 mircea_popescu and THEN! with stalled engines, the force vector can actually outrule the damned rudder! you lose the plane for turning! and they flew this, and somehow won a war with the fucking clothes iron.
22:02 asciilifeform this is typical in american machines, they all come with a 'it hurts -- dun do that' , e.g. phantom's irrecoverable spin
22:02 mircea_popescu but this finnicky nonsense aside, point two : these women, not just the dead one ; not just the suing one ; ALL of them, constantly and without fucking respite came in too high and too fast.
22:02 mircea_popescu MUCH too high. much too fast. ALL THE TIME.
22:03 mircea_popescu and the trainers kept telling them and they ignored.
22:03 mircea_popescu to the point they ~actually scareds~ the fucking technical crew on multiple occasions.
22:03 mircea_popescu understand what the crew here is : they're people who pour gasoline out of a large hose straight in the nose of a running jet engine, open air like that. hot refuelling it's called. they're people who get sucked into the damned things doing it, not and again.
22:04 mircea_popescu these guys wouldn't be easily scared. but the girls weren't... easily deterred. you see ?
22:04 mircea_popescu "i ate a lot of shit to come this far" is a fundamental problem. they CAN NOT go slower, and lower. and they CAN NOT hear anyone telling them to. you understrand why ?
22:04 asciilifeform napoleon's syndrome?
22:05 mircea_popescu it's an identity issue. the sort of girl that gets all gung ho about "being first girl to" is going to a) be trying too hard and b) be not listening too well.
22:05 mircea_popescu now then! finally done with that!
22:06 mircea_popescu so... one funeral at a time. yeah. this'd be why. performance can't be a fucking substitute for identity.
22:06 mircea_popescu and now let's read teh backlog lol.
22:07 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-18#1753228 << "how did you become a great physicist ?" "well... first i became a moderately-great physicist, and then an above-moderately-great physicist, and then..."
22:07 a111 Logged on 2017-12-18 02:55 asciilifeform: hey bureaucrat sees ~everythign~ as usg org chart, climbable, naturally has steps! itmust!!
22:08 asciilifeform !#s from:mircea_popescu samovar
22:08 a111 13 results for "from:mircea_popescu samovar", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Amircea_popescu%20samovar
22:08 asciilifeform ^ see also
22:08 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-18#1753236 << he's dearly beloved here, at that. pity he quit.
22:08 a111 Logged on 2017-12-18 02:58 esthlos: this channel is like discovering the last psychiatrist again
22:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform recall that story about the dumbest gilr in my hs that ended up a math assistant prof ?
22:09 asciilifeform aha!
22:09 mircea_popescu this is the catastrophe of ideology, it misplaces people into harms way.
22:10 asciilifeform therw was a similar piece by mircea_popescu re some d00d who tried to lie his way into 'manager' work
22:10 mircea_popescu ah right! lol.
22:11 mircea_popescu see, cuz goat imagines everyone's a goat, and what, ro is a small enough country that x and y would know each other
22:11 asciilifeform it's a recurring thread , 'so you fooled'em into thinking yer a doctor, now they bring you a bleeding wreck , naowat'
22:11 mircea_popescu "i don't know any people in power, why would the guy hiring me"
22:12 asciilifeform there is occasional competent guild impostor , e.g. the fella who was jailed after decade of flying commercial jets with forged license , name presently escapesme
22:13 asciilifeform but ~nobody will ever meet these.
22:13 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-18#1753244 << https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/12/13/court-rejects-suit-woman-who-was-navy-pilot/ pravda even has notice on it.
22:13 a111 Logged on 2017-12-18 03:01 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is this suit on file somewhere ? i'd luvv to read
22:13 asciilifeform eggog !!
22:14 asciilifeform nobody archived it, either
22:14 asciilifeform afaik , it's gone.
22:14 mircea_popescu lessee.
22:14 mircea_popescu http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-dc-circuit/1061879.html << here you go.
22:14 mircea_popescu also, paralegals, man. worth every penny.
22:15 asciilifeform oh hey neato.
22:18 mircea_popescu so, to sum up : this all goes back straight exactly to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-28#1704268
22:18 a111 Logged on 2017-08-28 23:10 mircea_popescu: kanzure " Obviously there is no possiblity of meaning outside of a structure of authority, and the authority can not be predicated on the meaning."
22:18 mircea_popescu except in the formulation here, there is no possibility of performance outside of a structure of identity, and the identity can not be predicated on the performance.
22:19 phf further unrelated to conversation lulz. package formula references fribidi (implementation of fucking bidirectional unicode). the url for it with the site and everything is dead, but there's a shithub page. formula references fribidi-0.19.7.tar.bz2, github has 0.19.7.tar.gz. ~these are apparently different beast, because using later fails the build, while tracking a copy of the first one succeeds~. this is beyond insanity.
22:19 mircea_popescu this is the whole story, both as to why "physics died" and as to why and wherefore etc.
22:19 asciilifeform phf: i gotta ask : 'why'
22:19 asciilifeform phf: why are you doing it
22:19 phf asciilifeform: i want to watch movies! i figured i can do better than a close source vlc package, apparently not
22:19 mircea_popescu he;s preparing self for the new vtrons
22:20 asciilifeform lol
22:20 mircea_popescu phf i use vlc. i prefer to sacrifice a box to it than waste anyone's time thus.
22:21 phf but also mircea_popescu's assessment is correct, i'm tampering myself before i face the insides of difftools
22:21 asciilifeform i have even sadder item , re subj , dedicated chinese pogolike thing for watching film on. it dun even go on the lan. just eats usb drives.
22:21 mircea_popescu "why are you biting out of a turd ?" "fortifying self for trench time, i hear sometimes people there have to drink piss"
22:22 asciilifeform тяжело в учении -- легко в бою (tm)(r)
22:22 phf maresyev flight school
22:23 mircea_popescu shall i also ask what movies you want to watch ?
22:24 asciilifeform matrosov gunnery school !1111
22:28 ben_vulpes phf: nah not particularly interesting to me, i got out of that gox early q2 this year, but sfyl
22:28 asciilifeform no moar crapple in castle ben_vulpestein ?!
22:29 shinohai I use https://mpv.io/now, has API so u can stream from pogo ala asciilifeform
22:29 asciilifeform stream?!
22:29 asciilifeform and that looks like a fork of ye olde mplayer
22:30 asciilifeform i dun have any quarrel with the original
22:30 shinohai fork of mplayer2, ja
22:31 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: macware abounds, none of it is being used for anything other than entertainment anymore
22:31 asciilifeform i like mplayer . 0 idjit windowisms, 'decorations' etc
22:31 mircea_popescu wtf does movie player need unicode for, left as question for wiser men
22:31 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: subtitles
22:31 ben_vulpes well and being a pissoir for the webatlarge
22:31 mircea_popescu i'm sorry, i can't hear you over the sound of my poliglotism.
22:31 asciilifeform who said human lang subtitles
22:31 asciilifeform never watch martian films ?
22:31 mircea_popescu lol. can't say as i ever had.
22:31 asciilifeform jp etc
22:32 mircea_popescu nope.
22:32 asciilifeform then build sans orccode yea
22:32 mircea_popescu i dobn't get it, you READ the orc langs but don't hear them ?
22:32 asciilifeform for students of e.g. jp
22:32 mircea_popescu this is getting pretty tenuous.
22:32 asciilifeform they like to have both tracks running, iirc
22:32 mircea_popescu why can't students of jp import one of them young hussies
22:33 asciilifeform on dirigible.
22:33 * mircea_popescu saw this at airport today, guy with a placard, "mr wong & miss ho"
22:33 mircea_popescu tho ho possibly korean
22:33 asciilifeform land of 'long dong' rocket etc lol
22:33 mircea_popescu aha
22:36 mats i never heard of a kr with the name wong
22:37 mircea_popescu her not him
22:37 mircea_popescu he, pretty sure cn
22:37 mats ah
22:44 phf http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752403 << possibly because of the potbellied bourgeois caricatures, anglo version is called exactly that "pot belly stove".
22:44 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 02:59 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: phunphakt, franklin's stove is even today in ru known as a буржуйка ( why? dunno, because from usa ? hard to say )
22:45 asciilifeform phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752403 << thread
22:45 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 02:59 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: phunphakt, franklin's stove is even today in ru known as a буржуйка ( why? dunno, because from usa ? hard to say )
22:45 asciilifeform oh hah nm
22:45 mircea_popescu lol
22:45 * asciilifeform LL(1) parser!11
22:48 mircea_popescu that;s a new one
22:48 phf well, also misparsing, because i didn't make it clear that franklin stove is not a буржуйка, there's a simpler u.s. item that corresponds though (can be found in e.g. faulkner)
22:49 asciilifeform oh hm
22:52 mircea_popescu did we ever do http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442?pgno=1 btw ?
22:52 asciilifeform pretty sure we did
22:53 mircea_popescu !#s "drdobbs"
22:53 a111 6 results for "\"drdobbs\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22drdobbs%22
22:53 mircea_popescu tis not there.
22:56 phf mircea_popescu: is that by way of esthlos's squeak/croquet links?
22:56 asciilifeform aaah nm it was linked from asciilifeform's www
22:56 asciilifeform but loox like was never formally eaten here.
22:57 mircea_popescu the kay interview ? it's from this large pile of "items of interest" i go through when in the mood.
22:57 * phf nods
22:58 mircea_popescu asciilifeform idiot site does "pages" as iof that's fuycking permissible ; so now we'll end up with an archived first quarter.
22:58 mircea_popescu the ways in which webtards manage to break computers are innumerable.
22:58 asciilifeform let's fix...
22:58 asciilifeform http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442?pgno=1
22:58 asciilifeform http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442?pgno=2
22:58 asciilifeform http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442?pgno=3
22:59 asciilifeform http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442?pgno=4
22:59 mircea_popescu "i know, let me put this resource in four fucking places because that's why it's called ununiform resource locator"
22:59 asciilifeform they broke deliberately, to push ad crapola
22:59 phf the easiest way to fix is of course to link to "print" version, which on sites of certain vintage is usually a single page
22:59 phf http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=240003442&siteSectionName=architecture-and-design
22:59 mircea_popescu phf yes ; and this fix is further breaking
23:00 mircea_popescu now it's ununiform rl in a DIFFERENT WAY
23:00 asciilifeform ^
23:00 mircea_popescu amusingly, kay actually SAY\S THIS in the very piece
23:00 mircea_popescu "The marketing people are not there to teach people, so probably one of the most disastrous interactions with computing was the fact that you could make money selling simulations of old, familiar media, and these apps just swamped most of the ideas of Doug Engelbart, for example. The Web browser, for many, many years, and still, even though it's running on a computer that can do X, Y, and Z, it's now up to about X and 1/2 of
23:00 mircea_popescu Y."
23:00 phf hey i also just wanted to watch my movies
23:04 mircea_popescu in other news, this interview is terrible.
23:06 mircea_popescu but in other heresies, http://notes.esthlos.com/files/2017-11-16-lisp-enlightenment.txt
23:08 asciilifeform this is the kind of pseudo-pithy item that folx cough up the day they first encounter a lisp , and then walk around ashamed of for years
23:08 mircea_popescu i thought it was cute.
23:09 mircea_popescu there is no more fundamental human property than the need to belong ; and since illusions are by their nature sweet, there's no more endearingly common characteristic than misconstrued partisanship.
23:12 mircea_popescu but alf might appreciate http://notes.esthlos.com/files/2017-12-11-all-programming-is-intelligence-programming.txt
23:17 mircea_popescu amusingly, it msises the very obvious failure of the "chinese room" nonsense (yes, searle mc dumbnuts, you don't speak chinese NOW ; but if you followed the recipe you WOULD, by the time you'd stop making errors, actually speak chinese. duh. eternal error of the childish mind, http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Amircea+dynamic+static etc ), but moving on to more interesting things :
23:18 mircea_popescu "understanding" of the "truely" or any other variety, in the "human" sense is simply second order prediction. we would readily identify a computer as "hard ai" or "truly" comprehending what's going on if it a) deployed heuristics and then b) made reasonable (which does not mean correct) predictions about their likelihood of success.
23:19 mircea_popescu which is why towlie of "i have no idea what's going on" southpark fame is very much interpreted as human-like.
23:19 asciilifeform vitalists escape from field to field like roaches in nyc flats
23:19 asciilifeform searle could've been , say, chemist, but wohler happened
23:19 mircea_popescu note that the true problem here isn't that "computers don't understand context" or whatever othjer bl;a bla. people very provably do not either.
23:20 mircea_popescu so the whole "understanding" bullshit is a case of utterly misdefined goals.
23:20 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2014-11-14#922030 << thread
23:20 a111 Logged on 2014-11-14 21:02 asciilifeform: http://home.engineering.iastate.edu/~alexs/classes/2011_Spring_585X/readings/02_Principles/AI_Meets_Natural_Stupidity.pdf
23:21 mircea_popescu "identity as genus" occurs not when op says something extremely shockingly intelligent or w/e, but when you say "do you understand what you jsut said ?!" and they retort "not really".
23:21 mircea_popescu asciilifeform aha
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