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Mon Mar 21 23:51:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> sure.
Mon Mar 21 23:50:53 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> a model mirrored in the itnended design of gossipd.
Mon Mar 21 23:50:45 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the wot is eminently private and so deeply irreducible to public that it doesn't even matter it is publicly visible
Mon Mar 21 23:50:23 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> for the record, and to revisit that old definition of "public" ie the forum vs "private" ie the gynacaeum, something is public when it has what has been here referred to as a "real" part. ie, when it is possible to make a definition for it that is meaningful for everyone.
Mon Mar 21 23:49:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> wot is not supporting of a single notion of identity. what x signature is varies irreconcillably among the users, by design and deliberately.
Mon Mar 21 23:47:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it's stress syndrome already, lifeforms fully aware they live in shit. "i'ma make myself a house!"
Mon Mar 21 23:46:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> FUCK every pissant proggy getting to have its own miniature version of the microshit winblowz 'registry'. << so true this.
Mon Mar 21 23:46:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the wot is not related to this discussion.
Mon Mar 21 23:19:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> terrorists have iphones ? the weird world.
Mon Mar 21 23:11:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in a different restatement, people "willing to take responsibility for their actions" only has an imaginary part, and no real part ; for the necessary reason that responsibility can not be defined coherently in the real space.
Mon Mar 21 23:10:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> mod6 << i think so too. but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. << there is no possible division between "punishment" no matter how defined and trust in any reasonable sense. either what you say matters, in which case the world rapidly evolves towards "too hard for peoeple, who just want to..." or what you say doesn't matter, in which case the world rapidly evolves towards welfare state. it is what in math
Mon Mar 21 23:10:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ematics is known as a pole. attempts to create a netherworld between the sharply divergent f(x) and f(x+e) is what i've recently discovered - through the usual stepping on research process - to be a landmine.
Mon Mar 21 19:58:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not like the actual malibu dwellers are coerced to live in the vinyl sidings abominations. meeting of the minds.
Mon Mar 21 19:57:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the one problematic part is that stilts or no stilts, the product is actually very well adapted to the market it serves.
Mon Mar 21 19:54:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> maybe.
Mon Mar 21 19:51:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> like in that film with the guy who keeps waking up in the same place.
Mon Mar 21 19:50:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and moreover, even with the best of intentions, the defense of the group is expensive and arduous, and everyone's got better shit to do.
Mon Mar 21 19:50:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> much like it is cheaper for universities to universities than to actually teach anyone anything
Mon Mar 21 19:50:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and it is cheaper for this group to put forth an ideology than to do any actual investigative work
Mon Mar 21 19:49:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yeah, sure, not a difficult one for as long as one lives on imaginary half mil a year and theorizes away. in practice, it will not be seen, nor has it.