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Sun Mar 01 04:13:33 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> yep.
Sun Mar 01 04:13:08 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: let's put it this way. the theoretical work gives very specific - numeric - predictions
Sun Mar 01 04:11:44 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> glosses over the whole point of the experiment, which he would know if he has read it)
Sun Mar 01 04:11:43 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> (for the record, I've not run the numbers on Schwartz's experiment yet, don't know for sure yet that it is valid, but can say that yes, everything he says is falsifiable and yes, everyone who say "he is a crank" etc. is a lying scumbag for not pointing out the exact sentence where he missteps. EG: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/7757/weak-equivalence-principle-tests in which a "string theorist" knowingly
Sun Mar 01 04:03:20 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: ditto the roach repellent
Sun Mar 01 04:02:38 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: any more information on the Chinese run << of al's e?tv?s experiment ? just some private correspondence, where he confirms the same story told on usenet
Sun Mar 01 01:57:56 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> kk
Sun Mar 01 01:57:18 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel no i got that.
Sun Mar 01 01:56:33 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> btw, I was using the word "mooc" the other day, and I think you read it as "mook". I meant "MOOC" as in "massively open online course"
Sun Mar 01 01:55:00 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 01-03-2015 01:05:16; gabriel_laddel: Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. when that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. that I belive is our basic function: to develop altenatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.
Sun Mar 01 01:52:22 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> "he refused to stop living"
Sun Mar 01 01:52:08 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> nope. The one where you detailed your relationship with your father
Sun Mar 01 01:50:29 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> /s/grasshopper/dragonfly
Sun Mar 01 01:49:58 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> Incidentally this is what Sean Parker's father did, and Sean is one of the coolest Silly con valley people
Sun Mar 01 01:49:37 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> I've nothing else to say. Your grasshopper article coupled with the rabbits exposition covers it all. Don't try and make things into that which they are not. And if you have a kid, care for /them as an individual/. Your life is over. Make way for the next generation.
Sun Mar 01 01:47:30 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> yeah
Sun Mar 01 01:47:26 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> as to why you killed it and not a wolf?
Sun Mar 01 01:46:56 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel if you got a purpose in mind, you need a tool not a child.
Sun Mar 01 01:46:24 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> The reason these things are interesting is becuase they exist independently of us, they're unavoidable.