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Sun Feb 16 05:43:08 UTC 2014 <cads> mircea_popescu: I will remember that people can make you reject any economic theory simply by saying the word "feminism" 10 minutes before presenting it :D
Sun Feb 16 05:25:38 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> cads you have no modelling, there is no economy and no sentiment. fugeddaboutit.
Sun Feb 16 05:24:41 UTC 2014 <cads> And "click, whirr" the automatic thoughts now prevent us from applying economic modelling to this agent class
Sun Feb 16 05:05:24 UTC 2014 <cads> mircea_popescu: I'm merely saying one work has influenced far more human experience, thoughts, and ultimately economic action.
Sun Feb 16 04:48:49 UTC 2014 <cads> For the agents in an attention economy, those are important metrics.
Sun Feb 16 01:41:44 UTC 2014 <cads> mircea_popescu: some economics and game theory
Sat Feb 15 19:56:28 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> this requires an economy built by people who see more than a year into the future.
Sat Feb 15 18:15:41 UTC 2014 <francis_wolke> The designated occasion for clearing Babylonia's financial slate was the New Year festival, celebrated in the spring. Babylonian rulers oversaw the ritual "breaking of the tablets," that is, the debt records, restoring economic balance as part of the cyclical renewal of society along with the rest of nature. Hammurabi and his fellow rulers signaled
Sat Feb 15 18:15:41 UTC 2014 <francis_wolke> o swell the ranks of nomadic pastoralists, and ultimately, if the breakdown continued, returning to overrun the cities and destroy the existing economic order entirely.
Fri Feb 14 17:52:38 UTC 2014 <pankkake> I wanted to compare the different reward/"economic" systems but never got to it
Fri Feb 14 02:36:23 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> soooo basically, everything fighting entropy in any form whatsoever is now analoguous to obama trying to kickstart the economy
Fri Feb 14 02:35:36 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> herbijudlestoids the us economy is in state S, obama intends to move it to state S'.
Fri Feb 14 02:31:54 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> how is this different from obama trying to "restart the economy" ?
Fri Feb 14 02:07:53 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> meanwhile obama did very poorly trying to "restart the economy" from the top down
Thu Feb 13 05:25:27 UTC 2014 <herbijudlestoids> MisterE: ....2011 total military and economic assitance 50bn
Thu Feb 13 01:06:00 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> decimation: probably. but not economically.
Wed Feb 12 18:47:04 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> course the serious rapists would just start carrying strap-ons, but what's a feminist to know of economy
Wed Feb 12 06:14:15 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> helps the economy anyway
Tue Feb 11 17:50:11 UTC 2014 <ThickAsThieves> “With fixed supply, bitcoin’s deflationary bias should also be clear. That quality serves owners well when exchanging into foreign currency, but it would be onerous for any economy operating with it as legal tender. Indeed Weimar Germany was unpleasant, but so was the Great Depression.”
Mon Feb 10 22:28:21 UTC 2014 <Shakespeare> "Michael Gronager, COO from Kraken, a U.S.-based exchange that currently specializes in trading euros for bitcoin, said attacks that exploit transaction malleability have grown rapidly from being almost non-existent in the bitcoin economy a couple of weeks ago to 4,000 false claims for non-payment on Sunday alone."